Comment on YouTube Is Monetizing Human Suffering at an Open Air Drug Market
Fisk400@feddit.nu 1 year ago
The $500 donations must be money laundering. I can’t see a normal user on YouTube donating to a unmanned livestream and definitely not that amount of money.
I think it’s just the journalist being silly, there is a tier on YouTube for a $500 donation because that’s part of the YouTube system but has anyone ever used it for this stream? Incredibly doubtful.
I imagine like most webcam streams it makes very little money.
figaro@lemdro.id 1 year ago
Ever watch a vtuber stream? There’s apparently people out there with cash to just burn.
Fisk400@feddit.nu 1 year ago
Vtubers do things. They talk to the audience, play games, draw, cook and a bunch of other things. A lot of it is para-social which explains why some people donate a lot. This is a generic livestream of a street.
mPony@kbin.social 1 year ago
Okay, maybe there are thousands of people out there who just like watching Vtube streams, with cash to burn, in this day and age. Or, maybe someone's using livestream donations to launder money.
Does either one make more sense? I think both are true, and the latter is far more probable.
SCB@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Was in a WoW guild with a dude obsessed with a vtuber.
Nerdy professions male lots of money for dudes who don’t get out a lot.