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Pain is inevitable, suffering is mostly inevitable but complaining is optional. I get that no one in the world has absolute 0 sufferings. Everyone regardless of where they are, feel relative sufferings. But they can choose not to complain. And it's hard to choose that when you're a YouTuber. Because the main thing about being a YouTuber is talking. And when you're so used to talking all the time, you'll eventually lose all ability to think about what you're saying. That's why all these internet celebrities eventually say something little too spicy and get cancelled. They have no ability to stop and think whether they should say or not.
The thing is that they DONT have stable bank accounts. They could not get paid for a whole week for absolutely no reason. That's why they complain. >

They should be a bit self aware of their position compared to most but, yeah the lifestyle can get taken away from them at any minute. And its even more terrifying if you have no prior work experience. Plus advocating for workers rights is something everyone should be able to do, its also a privilege for them to have a platform to do so but its definitely a right. Their job would just get worse if they didn’t bring awareness to any issues. >

When I was like a teenager I was making money from YouTube and I was growing pretty decently for someone who had just started and was doing basic tier level videos. Anyways, I had shit friends that led me to stopping, but also I got really burnt out because it took almost a whole day of doing a video, editing, etc. >

Curious what you do for a living now… are you pissed that you didn’t keep it going or are you happy with your current career? >

Happy with what I currently do, but people keep telling me to go give it another shot, so I might try it again as a hobby thing and not a competitive thing. When you focus on money, and are competitive all while taking it seriously it’s exhausting. >

focus on making content you enjoy. It's not fun to watch someone just go to work everyday. >

Everyone has struggles and complaints about everything that's life. >

Creating video content is actually really difficult to do on your own in a quality manner. Sure, if you’re a millionaire and can pay people to do most of the work for you you have no right to complain but even if you have say 100k subscribers you’re probably not in that position. It requires years of regularly coming up with ideas for videos, often writing scripts, doing research and editing a 10 minute video can literally take 8 hours, then you gotta craft a thumbnail in photoshop, research keywords for SEO, write descriptions, respond to feedback etc. That’s a single person often doing the work of 10 professionals! And most of them are self taught too, and do it as a hobby on top of schoolwork + work and everything else a typical person has going on.
So if a person can have this much dedication to do all of this regularly for YEARS I applaud them. I tried doing it myself once and I didn’t last more than 3 months. >

I hate the "people have it worse than you" pity Olympics like this. Everyone has it worse than someone else. Doesn't invalidate their own problems. >

And you missed mine entirely. :) >

It's not a stable bank account if YouTube can with no warning demonetize their videos for breaking a new rule they decided to apply retroactively. So kind of a contradiction
If you are going to complain about "big youtubers" should go after the late night channels that conveniently don't get demonetized for...swearing and reporting on the news. >

not to mention just saying something in the tune of a song can get you copyright struck >

Sometimes even if it's your own damn music or is public domain >

What I don't understand is that some of the big ones who have money and a big team behind them still feel the need to scam people for money. Logan I'm looking at you. >

Watch the video from RTgames, it sums up everything I would say (changing policy, time and effort, difficulty to monetize, etc.) These people have jobs, and unless you are pulling in 1m+ views a video you won’t be rich >

Not a huge fan of any YouTubers , but I appreciate some of the stuff I’ve seen. They are normal people with a different job. They work harder than most of us to cut their video, edit, fight for advertising… the pressure is on them to remain relevant or that job dries up. >

How do you know they have a stable bank account? >

He probably means the bigger YouTubers lol, obviously someone with 35 subscribers wont be making tons of cash anytime soon >

Indeed, I'm talking about the ones that have over 1 million >

That's not nearly as big as you think. >

op still thinks its 2015 when having half a million subs meant you were rolling in dough >

A youtuber I used to watch religiously recently came back to the platform with an hour and a half long video about why he left, and it basically boiled down to "YouTube wouldn't fund my passion project for me so I quit" and the level of entitlement there chased me away from him forever. >

If they don't like their job, they should find a new one. I've changed jobs a few times over the course of my career when I was no longer satisfied with the job that I had. >

Simple problem to solve, stop watching it. >

They are contractors in a constantly changing feild where a CEOs whim could ruin them. I have a lot of sympathy for them even if a bunch are rich. >

Might get hate but I feel this way about pewdiepie. Maybe it was because I was young and immature when I first started watching him but as soon as he drifted away from gaming and started doing reactions videos I feel like his whole character/personality went downhill. I get it, it made him unhappy by playing a character for the internet which sucks but now I can see that he genuinely sucks as a person and is very stuck up. Being a fake person is shitty but I digress, you make a fuck ton of money for being on the internet all day and have whatever you want, god forbid not everything is to your liking. I don’t feel bad for them. >

Come on dude, there are plenty out there that put in the time and effort. I just don't understand how people can consume this type of content. >

Why would you watch that shit in the first place? >

But... Nobody is forcing you to listen to the content where they complain about their lifestyle. Find other content creators that don't gripe in this manner? What's tiring about something you aren't forced to do? >

I think people are becoming disgruntled because YouTube used to be so much better. You were allowed to curse, you could play games with mild nsfw, and it was much easier to gain and keep a platform. Nowadays, you can barely do anything without being demonetized, and cancel culture is too strong to stop. >

not really cancel culture tho, its youtube being shit scared of angering advertisers so they change everything and bend over backwards to make them happy. >

They don't have jobs, lmao >

You have no idea what goes into having YouTube be your source of income, do you? >

Yea some youtubers don't make much of a profit from youtube. However, Raid shadow legends. Ridge wallet. Nord VPN etc... >

Hmmm I wonder why YouTubers are now relying on sponsors, could it be because YouTube treats its creators like disposable trash? Nah that can’t be it >

With the way YouTube keeps on pushing the snowflake rules on them, I would be complaining as well, it is perfectly reasonable to do so. With the latest update to the YouTube policies they can get demonetized for even a couple of seconds of any soft gore content, for example sharing a page of a comic book that shows blood. Or any curse words.
It's like being employed and having no idea what is it you are expected to do. >

Well that depends on the YouTuber, if they make 30 second TikTok edits then yeah it’s annoying, but if their making videos that take time and effort then there is a little solid ground to complain subs don’t always mean paychecks >

I think we shouldn’t criticise people who complain about jobs that we ourselves don’t have. Little bit juvenile >

I agree OP, though even the complaining from smaller Youtubers gets to me. If your income from Youtube isn't reliable, then it shouldn't be your primary source of income. Have a fulltime job and make videos on the side if you want to do Youtube so badly. I cringe any time a Youtuber begs me to like/subscribe/watch more of their videos or complains about their videos not getting as many views as they want. Like chill. If I like your content I'll watch it. It's not my job to keep your channel afloat. >

I agree with you. It's tone deaf. >

I’m tired of this from streamers as well.  They all say they are overworked and under-appreciated.  They are so entitled and have no sense of reality.  They wouldn’t be complaining if they had ever had to work a 50-60 hour a week job.
Here’s a recent example of the entitlement: My friend sent me this clip of a streamer named Sweeet Tails complaining about how she didn’t get recognized publicly by David Guetta for playing that “I’m Good” song on her stream before it got big.  She believes she deserves the respect and recognition from him for helping make that song big.  I looked up her analytics and just from Twitch subscribers, she earns over $10k a month and, on average, streams like 10-15 hours a week.  And what makes it worse is that her chat was telling her she was wronged and deserves better. >

xQc isn’t really one that complains but that guy streams like 84 hours a week or something like that. He misses like 1 day a month and streams 12 hours a day, a lot of these streamers are streaming in that 50 hour range honestly >

As someone who has been a content creator for over 5 years. It's a different kind of stress only those in the industry can understand.
You have to be CONSTANTLY thinking of new ideas 24/7. You have to always be working on the next piece of content. There are no breaks. If you take a break then someone will overtake you and you will become irrelevant. Platforms like facebook, tik tok etc promote creators to post frequently and reward them for it.
When i was in the Facebook Partner Program, they literally told us for optimal algorithm results we had to post up to 18 fucking videos A WEEK! Thats a mixture of streams, short form, long form, clips etc. Utter insanity.
Yes Content creators make big money if they are successful but with that money comes a shit ton of stress. You can't take breaks willy nilly, you have to plan shit months in advance. Sometimes years in advance. I have respect for those who make it work because its not easy at all by any means.
It's probably one of the only careers where you have to constantly be "on" 24/7 and where your effort put in does not determine what you get out of it. >

Maybe on YouTube but on all the other services all you gotta do is be reasonably attractive chick and shake your ass and the money comes rolling in by the truckload . >

I wonder why most streamers are male if its that easy for a woman. >

Check out onlyfans 
Chicks there are making $50k-100k  a month easy . >

No they do not, you are delusional if you think this. Somewhere around 0.5% of people make more than 50k on onlyfans. >

I mean a lot of youtubers work very long hours. The idea that youtubers just play games and make money is not accurate. They have to come up with ideas, think through commentary, edit videos, etc. It's absolutely a 40+ hour a week job. Yes, even for youtubers who have over 1 million subs.
I'm almost positive this is in response to RTGame's video. What they did to him is absolute bullshit. Changing policies retroactively with no explanation is awful. It's also important to note that big youtubers like him are the only way these issues get brought to light. No one is gonna care that Joe Schmo with 10k subs is getting screwed. 
At the end of the day, yes these "big" youtubers make good money outside of youtube, but the demonetization prevents them from getting exposure through the youtube algorithm, lowers their income, and does certainly threaten their livelihoods, even youtubers with more than a million subs. >

I mean, they're jobs revolve around pumping out content possibly pretending to be a character that aren't in real life and potentially being incredibly isolated from friends/family due to how much time they need to put into making videos/streaming. Sure, while it may not be the hardest job, it's certainly not an easy job.
I'd love to see all the people who say it's easy to take over one of these channels for a month and at minimum keep it at the same amount of viewers with the same (probably daily) uploads + streaming time. >

Idk man, I once had to edit a video on premiere pro, it was just over 9 minutes and took literally all day and my brain felt like mashed potatoes afterwards…the thought of doing that by myself for years (before eventually making it big enough to hire people to do it for me) makes me want to scream lol. And that was just the EDITING part. >

most big youtubers have editors that don't get paid nearly as much as the "star youtuber" >

Depends on what theyre complaining about. If for example it were a female youtuber who receives insults and death threats from misogynistic incels that's probably valid >

Yeah, fuck em. Some of these assholes live in mansions. >

I was running a real business that had an income of like half a million.
I had 2 people helping me by doing little things, but I was working 18 hours a day and had no time to do anything for myself.
I wish I'd have had that success, but with youtube, pay an editor and play video games... done.
I'm normally the life of my friend groups, so it wouldn't be hard to entertain people at least as good as modern youtubers.
I'd also have more free time and more ways to expand my old business using youtube so I could start that up again too, although i mostly quit to just have a normal life but I got it if I ever need to fall back on it. >

You need to learn to be an actual boss. My boss neglects the dying business and manages to extract millions every year still. >

I could have got employees to do it, but I didn't see that working.
When I quit, I gave everything to my number 2, and it died so it seems it was just my unique skills keeping it afloat. >

What fairytale land are you in and how do i join it? >

I can’t blame them with how often YouTube treats their creators and how they seemingly change the rules every few months while explaining them in the most vague manner possible. >

Is this unpopular? I am always baffled that more of them aren’t living more below their means, a few I’ve heard complain about their cost of living which really gets under my skin >

People complain about their jobs all the time >

Sure, that’s not really my nitpick, I am more bothered when they complain about their car payment when they chose to buy something worth $80,000. >

How many of these youtubers are you so intimately aware of their finances? >

And you did that any time you complained about your job? >

It really just depends honestly. Im a beginner youtuber myself. Only 13 followers. Its hard to come up with content to come up with and keep to a consistant schedule. Dont get me wrong though, even though I dont profit from it still something I love to do. It makes me feel I have a way to interact with society. >

Who is Susan? >

Current head of youtube >

What jobs? >

In general, anyone complaining about a career they chose is annoying. >

So no one should complain about a job they aren't forced at gunpoint to do? >

If it's a "be your own boss, working from home, full control over everything" job that you can stop at anytime, basically. Can you complain? Sure, but it just rings hollow since you are in control of everything. Most people complain about their job because they find out the company sucks or their boss is a douche or their co-workers are incompetent or they are being forced to work overtime or on holidays or they aren't getting paid or raises they deserve. Most of this is either eliminated completely or is controlled to some degree in this specific scenario. >

In what way do they have full control over everything?
YouTube still sets the rules and applies them retroactively. They can demonetize a video and delete channels on a whim with no explanation.
Imagine your work cancels your next paycheck because two weeks ago you broke a rule they just created this week.
Not saying it's the worst job in the world just no where near as free as people suggest.