Why Are So Many People Quitting YouTube? - A video
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AquaCityBoy
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Podcasts, Twitch and even TikTok are going through the same issue.
It's some combination of demonitization, lack of ad revenue, channels getting striked or deleted, and these platforms taking more money off the top. All these things contribute to these creators not making enough money to be sustainable, and certainly not making the money they would have been making a decade ago.
Plus, even if your favorite creator is only onscreen by themselves they still have a staff of editors and writers to pay, meaning the shrinking pot of revenue has to be split multiple ways.
Sadly, Twitter is going to become the best place to gain revenue, since you don't have to actually make or edit content. You can just troll and post memes for engagement.
It's some combination of demonitization, lack of ad revenue, channels getting striked or deleted, and these platforms taking more money off the top. All these things contribute to these creators not making enough money to be sustainable, and certainly not making the money they would have been making a decade ago.
Plus, even if your favorite creator is only onscreen by themselves they still have a staff of editors and writers to pay, meaning the shrinking pot of revenue has to be split multiple ways.
Sadly, Twitter is going to become the best place to gain revenue, since you don't have to actually make or edit content. You can just troll and post memes for engagement.
oversaturation too
too much samey stuff...I follow a lot of gaming channels, and they all stick to the same headline titles...palworld, switch 2 rumors, etc. etc.
too much samey stuff...I follow a lot of gaming channels, and they all stick to the same headline titles...palworld, switch 2 rumors, etc. etc.
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It's been said a million times in here, but it's really all about the monetization.
YouTube has gone through something like three or four shifts in how it not just decides to not monetize, but also what actually gets promoted to users' feeds via algorithms. And the shytty part is, whenever these changes get made, they're applied to EVERYTHING, even old videos.
At some point, for those people that have been doing this for a while, there's going to come some new algorithm or monetization change that makes them realize that they stopped making the content they wanted to make in the first place, and have been essentially making the type of content YouTube asks them to for for a while. Sucks, but it is what it is. Those that want to stay in that line of work will continue to focus on stuff like Patreon and Nebula until that stream eventually dries up, too.
In the late 2000s/early 2010s, when content creation was churning out millionaires, and people were asking about how sustainable this all is, THIS is what they were talking about. People got called old and out of touch, but it looks like they were right. New Media, ultimately, is still Media, and every single form of it has its day when it eventually exhausts its supply of creators and contributors and needs to change. Sounds like we're just about there with this avenue of media.
YouTube has gone through something like three or four shifts in how it not just decides to not monetize, but also what actually gets promoted to users' feeds via algorithms. And the shytty part is, whenever these changes get made, they're applied to EVERYTHING, even old videos.
At some point, for those people that have been doing this for a while, there's going to come some new algorithm or monetization change that makes them realize that they stopped making the content they wanted to make in the first place, and have been essentially making the type of content YouTube asks them to for for a while. Sucks, but it is what it is. Those that want to stay in that line of work will continue to focus on stuff like Patreon and Nebula until that stream eventually dries up, too.
In the late 2000s/early 2010s, when content creation was churning out millionaires, and people were asking about how sustainable this all is, THIS is what they were talking about. People got called old and out of touch, but it looks like they were right. New Media, ultimately, is still Media, and every single form of it has its day when it eventually exhausts its supply of creators and contributors and needs to change. Sounds like we're just about there with this avenue of media.
Had this conversation with my wife the other day. Folks confuse a lick (quick come up) with a career. That it is not.
Metal Face
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most people quitting have already made a shyt ton of money on the platform 
YouTube spent a decade sending out the exact opposite message to an entire generation
Now that they have the content creators by the balls they censor them whenever they say anything that offends Zionists
This is why a lot of channels are being demonetized
Devilinurear
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Everyone eventually succumbs to will of the advertisers
They just need a steady stream of content makers on their platform. A few fall off and new ones take their spot.
I hope they YouTubers were stacking their chips.
Uber and those rideshare services pulled a similar bait and switch with the "be your own boss" messaging to sign on and now the payments are way down.
IIVI
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Like anything creative really.
You come up with a good idea and get a lot of fans: great!
Now you have to maintain that output and compete with other people copying your lane: draining.
The best way to maintain it is you have to really love what you're doing and/or genuinely care about helping people learn something. If you're in it for the money, even if it's a lot, I'm guessing you'll get burnt out competing year-after-year unless you really love money.
At the end of the day people will tune into channels to either be entertained or to learn something. People who stick around make youtube content just based on the fact they love what their content is about and don't care if it's 5k viewers or 50 million viewers and I can't really see them quitting. MathTutorDVD and Kahn Academy have been doing their things for about 20 years now and no slowing down for example. You look at someone like JT O'Sullivan who does NFL QB breakdowns and Justin Wong who does Fighting Game content - I don't see them getting worn down because they're doing what they love and recording it. shyt, they'll do that stuff for free.
Those are people who know their stuff at the highest levels and are teaching it to you. Those are numbers basically every time.
Most of these other people doing it purely for clout and glory hounding, they'll eventually get tired.
You come up with a good idea and get a lot of fans: great!
Now you have to maintain that output and compete with other people copying your lane: draining.
The best way to maintain it is you have to really love what you're doing and/or genuinely care about helping people learn something. If you're in it for the money, even if it's a lot, I'm guessing you'll get burnt out competing year-after-year unless you really love money.
At the end of the day people will tune into channels to either be entertained or to learn something. People who stick around make youtube content just based on the fact they love what their content is about and don't care if it's 5k viewers or 50 million viewers and I can't really see them quitting. MathTutorDVD and Kahn Academy have been doing their things for about 20 years now and no slowing down for example. You look at someone like JT O'Sullivan who does NFL QB breakdowns and Justin Wong who does Fighting Game content - I don't see them getting worn down because they're doing what they love and recording it. shyt, they'll do that stuff for free.
Those are people who know their stuff at the highest levels and are teaching it to you. Those are numbers basically every time.
Most of these other people doing it purely for clout and glory hounding, they'll eventually get tired.
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Born2BKing
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You can find whatever you are looking for on Youtube. So not sure why you are narrowing the whole site down to c00ns and trust fund babies.