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[–] Auth@lemmy.world 85 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Most youtubers are businesses owned by corporate networks. The person on screen is just the talent pretending to be an organic channel.

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 64 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I don't understand why people are so shocked and horrified when it turns out that people who do entertainment for a living have been professional entertainers the whole time.

[–] angstylittlecatboy@reddthat.com 58 points 5 days ago

It's because YouTube used to be mostly independent creators, even when people first started making money off it. That was the sales pitch.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Most of them are pretending that they aren't corporate. YouTubers are generally trying to keep up the illusion of authenticity, which on YouTube usually includes pretending that you're on your own.

[–] DJDarren@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I mean, the vast, vast majority of entertainment media is an act. Do you watch Top Gear and assume that everything they did happened organically?

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

No, but the point is that tv shows or movies generally don't pretend like that.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Its the same reason I hate "reality shows". Give me reality or give me fiction. Dont try pretending its real when its not

[–] Auth@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

I dont care if they are a 1 person business or a small team. What im talking about is when a Giant multinational corporation buys up 1000s of youtube channels. I want to watch 1 person or a small team not a big talent corp

[–] breakingcups@lemmy.world 33 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] victorz@lemmy.world 25 points 5 days ago

99.9999999% of stats are made up.

[–] Dreaming_Novaling@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 days ago

Yeah, was gonna say this. Like what YTs are y'all watching? My subscriptions and recommendations are randos playing games with their friends, memes, cat vids, and randos talking about interesting topics or the latest shitty Tiktok trend that I can be horrified by. I'm very lost as to everyone only finding these talent/corporate YTs.

I definitely have encountered the corporate YTs in the VTuber community, and I honestly think that's why I hate Agency VTs so much compared to indie VTs. Watching Hololive/Kurosanji is like watching a bunch of coworkers play Mario Kart. Yeah, you "know" them and "get along", but only in the superficial sense, cause you have to pay your bills. The shit always blows up later on anyway. Way more fun to watch some random with a mid setup play some obscure horror game by themselves or with actual friends.