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Content creators need to eat. Platforms need to pay bills and employees. This is, and always has been, central to the issue but nobody will examine it. When presented with two options, one for 1 penny per year with no ads or a free version with ads, people will take the free one.
So there's a push pull happening. People won't pay. Creators need money. Platforms structure to meet the market conditions.
Leeches never stop to think about how content would ever get created if their 🧚magical utopia🧚 of decentralized, on-demand, ad-free video became real. They'll also never pay a motherfucking cent to anybody ever, they'd rather have laborious semantics debates about the meaning of the words "steal" and "theft".
I don't think the outrage is so much about the existence of the ads, but rather the intentionally obnoxious placement of such, but go off in defense of billion dollar companies king.
most of them are well off or rich, and some turn out to be POS down the line anyways, by turnign into magats to draw in more views for themselves. a group of asian ones i used to follow always discuss and joke about news, but they started to ingratiate more and more of thier low info right wing bs to the point it got too obnoxious watch,
but content creators got fucked by google at some point adwise, they had to use patreon, promotions, sponsers, brand deals thats where thier money comes from, not ads.
Yeah, that will certainly increase pay for creators instead of buying-out the next company /s
Creators, afaik, make money mostly from merchandises, patreons, memberships, superchats,... not ads.
Ads are how Google makes money, which is fine in principle, except that Youtube is supposedly a "hosting platform" with all privileges associated, eg not being subjected to broadcast regulations, but acts like a broadcaster by promoting some content over another according to what'll make them more money. If the internet worked like Youtube, you'd type wikipedia's url in your browser, and instead it'll redirect to some ad-ridden clone.
It depends on what they're creating. There are definitely people that make good money from ads. The biggest problem is usually it's an unstable income and you never know when the god of algorithm will just decide to nuke your channel for no reason.