I can confirm he does that. He’s also been known for his weird obsession for ketchup.

What?

This is your brain on drugs.

America has lots of issues, no need to make things up.

You have a problem with profits, mate, not with ads.

I’m not disagreeing with you there, but also, I like the things I like to exist without waiting for the revolution.

My brother in Christ, being watched is the goal of any content creator, that’s unrelated to advertisements. Now Youtube ads are paid (lets simplify a bit) blindly once you click the video, it’s a metric, you see those if you want access to the video.

If the content of the video has the guy saying “thanks xyz for sponsoring this raid shadow legends” that’s a contract between the guy doing the video and the sponsor, following metrics agreed between themselves, it has no ties with “the purpose of youtube” simply because… it’s not youtube.

Will there be people doing cheap content to get “easy” sponsor money? Sure but if the content suck you won’t watch it. It’s a loss just like if the motetization was following any other driver (as long as the driver is… watching the thing rather than not).

Well, fuck you as well :)

I wish there was a way to pay for just a single video

There totally is, just send them a low amount of money or do the hwole Youtube Premium thing.

https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/newpipe-and-online-advertising/

Imagine your biggest realization as an adult being a wrong opinion.

No you don’t.

It does matter and most people obviously give you ways to directly support them.

That’s not your opinion. Ads are, indeed, ads.

Not all ads are invasive soul seeking tracking nightmares and no, there are not “many ways” for content creators to do that full-time.

Daily reminder that SponsorBlock, unlike adiacent solutions (Like AdBlocks for example) is not necessarily “good”.

Explicit sponsorship inside a video is considered to be one of a few good solution to the issue of content creators being naturally subjected to death by starvation.

I’ve never experienced it but the somewhat obvious trick is that it turns into a race to the bottom, where if you want to outperform your peers (or even meet the expectations of the company), the number of days off you freely decided to take turns into a KPI.

So, people take even less days off when they are made free to take any amount.

It’s why in Italy, for example, you can not refuse to go to holiday.

if I thought it was that shit why don’t I go out and make said shit and become a millionaire?

Because the key ingredient is not the music but the amount of luck.

“Don’t you guys have phones?”

Also, I htought 99% of tablets connect to the mobile network using a SIMcard, but even if you rely only on wifi, see my previous quote.

Tablets can’t run mobile apps?

It’s also been referenced in the Fallout series and, supposedly, contributed to inspiring the franchise back in the day.

I didn’t give it access to my contacts and navigate it by familiarity with profile pictures and using “Open in WhatsApp”, an app that let’s you… open WhatsApp conversation from your contacts manually (I need it only for a new contact)

An App is basically a website. You just have a login with them as [email protected] instead of [email protected]. Whatever data they have is tied to that, they will send you notification and stuff on your protonmail, you’d recover the password through that accont…