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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.
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