Technology

More adds and less money for creators.... Where is money going? We all know.

I had a video of a newsworthy event a while back that went viral, and I made over 5 grand on it over the course of about 2-3 years when YouTube changed its monetization policy to require like 10k subscribers or something before the creator could monetize.

The video didn't stop getting views. It had a spike in views just a few weeks ago when something similar happened in the same area. But I haven't made any money from it in like 8 years.

I know nothing about how YT works. How is 20 million shorts views in 90 days a viable number? That seems ridiculous.

I guess they'll keep pushing it till the line starts going down.

You can make money on YouTube without having a monetized account. But you can also make money on PeerTube in exactly the same way.

Pichai you fucking banchode.

Good luck creating content, shittube

Keep moving the goalposts so YT can just keep more of the ad money for themselves and the line moving up. More enshittification, nothing new is created but the service gets worse in the name of profitability.

Don't worry, guys. After creators eat THIS shit sandwich it'll stop getting worse and everything will be great.

I used to display Google ad links on my site, they accumulated value - slowly, but Google would only cut a check when you reach $100 worth of ads shown. My earnings approached $100 like an asymptote, halfway there in the first 6 months, 3/4 in the first year, 7/8 in the second year, 15/16 in the third... never did quite reach $100, and so my payout for all my effort and showing of their ads remains to this day $0.

And they will continue to bleed talent for every ounce of value they can, just like the record industry, the movie and tv industry, the book industry, the video game industry, enshitification is an emergent property of a degree of value extraction.

For a second, I thought this required creators to watch 8000 hours of videos, and felt relief.

It would at least throw up an obstacle for bot/spam accounts. They’d have to make the effort of watching a bunch of videos.

…But no.

Then they removed their ads from all channels below 8,000 hours, right?... Right?!

I watch less YouTube than ever thanks to the sheerly ridiculous amount if ads.

Today I went on shorts and the first video was tucker carlson dropping antisemtic slurs while he cried about ben shapiro. I'm a lib. I don't watch that garbage. straight up shithole company.

Reminds me of that woman who made science videos on both YouTube and Pornhub and she makes more money on Pornhub.

Big corp squeezing more money from people “because share holders want progress”. BS

YouTube became evil the moment we all dislike-bombed their year in review video and they never made another one.