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What are people's thoughts on this?

More and more people doing this for a living, I think its quite sad myself, please hit the like and describe button, buy me a coffee if you like, almost like legalised begging.

One good thing I suppose is this pursuit has given people who in a lot of instances, previously had issues, socially inadequate, oddballs, weirdo's something to get their teeth into, giving their lives some meaning, rather than spending day after day watching porn or playing games on the play station, or been sent to the stockroom at work to count staples and drawing pins.

I watch a lot of You Tube, and there are some talented people showing me some interesting things, about the things I have an interest in such as pubs, politics, football grounds, hiking, allotments etc. People like Tweedys pubs, By the Curb, Wandering Turnip, Martin Zero, Trekking Exploration. There are others though who are higher grade knobheads, such as Charles Veitch and other right wing orientated people who just seem to thrive on confrontation and agitation, click bait to get views.

I am a live and let live person, but I worry about a world, where in future the lack of jobs, will see many more people resorting to this for a living. Luckily I probably won't be around to witness going down the pub and having a Go Pro thrust in my face or some little scroats harassing me with a drone when I'm out walking, but this folks could be the future.
 
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Darlo1973 said:
I'm sure the people who make a decent living out of YouTube are very much in the minority. What you don't get to see are the people with a handful of viewers and subscribers who never break though.
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This.

I suppose in that respect it is no different to trying to break into any other entertainment industry where you need to make a name to be a success.
 
It's very hard to break into. You need to build up an audience of subscribers, and it snowballs. The more subscribers, the more views, the more the algorithm feeds your content to other people. This is why they are always telling people to subscribe, like and share their videos on social media. To get started you need something that people will want to watch, maybe avoid being another fitness channel, there are already millions of them. You need to be half decent at editing the content to keep peoples attention.
 
It's an incredibly useful tool if you want advice on how to do something.
The 'influencers', controversialists and people who manufacture confrontation are knob heads but easily avoided.
You could argue that these people have a negative impact on the youth of today but I think the young 'uns have more about them than they are given credit for.
 
RestlessNatives said:
It's an incredibly useful tool if you want advice on how to do something.
The 'influencers', controversialists and people who manufacture confrontation are knob heads but easily avoided.
You could argue that these people have a negative impact on the youth of today but I think the young 'uns have more about them than they are given credit for.
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Away with this common sense approach and positivity man! This is for people like me who are well past their sell by date and want to rant about the youth of today ;)
 
RestlessNatives said:
It's an incredibly useful tool if you want advice on how to do something.
The 'influencers', controversialists and people who manufacture confrontation are knob heads but easily avoided.
You could argue that these people have a negative impact on the youth of today but I think the young 'uns have more about them than they are given credit for.
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Loads of tremendous content around hobbies, pastimes or just general interests...
Miles better in most cases than mainstream TV...
 
PTID said:
What are people's thoughts on this?

More and more people doing this for a living, I think its quite sad myself, please hit the like and describe button, buy me a coffee if you like, almost like legalised begging.

One good thing I suppose is this pursuit has given people who in a lot of instances, previously had issues, socially inadequate, oddballs, weirdo's something to get their teeth into, giving their lives some meaning, rather than spending day after day watching porn or playing games on the play station, or been sent to the stockroom at work to count staples and drawing pins.

I watch a lot of You Tube, and there are some talented people showing me some interesting things, about the things I have an interest in such as pubs, politics, football grounds, hiking, allotments etc. People like Tweedys pubs, By the Curb, Wandering Turnip, Martin Zero, Trekking Exploration. There are others though who are higher grade knobheads, such as Charles Veitch and other right wing orientated people who just seem to thrive on confrontation and agitation, click bait to get views.

I am a live and let live person, but I worry about a world, where in future the lack of jobs, will see many more people resorting to this for a living. Luckily I probably won't be around to witness going down the pub and having a Go Pro thrust in my face or some little scroats harassing me with a drone when I'm out walking, but this folks could be the future.
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One pre-match I took my son to the Fans Museum, we had a photo taken with Bobby Kerr but my son was more impressed that he met a YouTuber (Shaun Middleton/FansReact).

We also bumped into these 2 at Bristol city, they are nice lads.

 
It depends what you want to do on there.

I have a mate that streams GTA online every day to 20+ viewers. His videos rarely get 300 views. He has no ads or monetisation on the channel so he never makes a penny, and he never gets on the recommended lists because he has no ads. It costs him money for equipment, internet and upgrades, so he's actually losing money doing it every day. He just does it to chill with his mates.

On the other hand... If you record yourself playing Minecraft, turn monetisation to maximum and ads on unskippable, make the thumbnail your face doing a sucking dick face and upload it with the caption, "Wow kids look what I did!" you'll get a million views in a week and earn 20 grand.
 
anth said:
It's very hard to break into. You need to build up an audience of subscribers, and it snowballs. The more subscribers, the more views, the more the algorithm feeds your content to other people. This is why they are always telling people to subscribe, like and share their videos on social media. To get started you need something that people will want to watch, maybe avoid being another fitness channel, there are already millions of them. You need to be half decent at editing the content to keep peoples attention.
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I subscribe to Rick Shiels Golf and he started small and gradually grew. He was a golf coach and was putting tutorials online to drum up business and then it snowballed from there. 20 or so years later he has 2.7m subscribers and is probably pulling 7 figures in YouTube income looking at his stats.

Rick Shiels: How I went from a range pro to YouTube’s biggest golf star… and what the future holds!

Rick Shiels: How I went from a range pro to YouTube’s biggest golf star… and what the future holds!
www.todays-golfer.com
 
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PTID said:
please hit the like and describe button, buy me a coffee if you like, almost like legalised begging.
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It's like when you walk through Covent Garden and there's a bloke doing a magic show and you can choose to give money if you like... It's not begging
 
PTID said:
What are people's thoughts on this?

More and more people doing this for a living, I think its quite sad myself, please hit the like and describe button, buy me a coffee if you like, almost like legalised begging.

One good thing I suppose is this pursuit has given people who in a lot of instances, previously had issues, socially inadequate, oddballs, weirdo's something to get their teeth into, giving their lives some meaning, rather than spending day after day watching porn or playing games on the play station, or been sent to the stockroom at work to count staples and drawing pins.

I watch a lot of You Tube, and there are some talented people showing me some interesting things, about the things I have an interest in such as pubs, politics, football grounds, hiking, allotments etc. People like Tweedys pubs, By the Curb, Wandering Turnip, Martin Zero, Trekking Exploration. There are others though who are higher grade knobheads, such as Charles Veitch and other right wing orientated people who just seem to thrive on confrontation and agitation, click bait to get views.

I am a live and let live person, but I worry about a world, where in future the lack of jobs, will see many more people resorting to this for a living. Luckily I probably won't be around to witness going down the pub and having a Go Pro thrust in my face or some little scroats harassing me with a drone when I'm out walking, but this folks could be the future.
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I looked for a review of the Galaxy s23 and found a video review by Marques Brownlee. I realised had seen him many years before reviewing the S3 so I looked him up and he started doing tech reviews 15 years ago at 14 years old. Now 29 he is worth 45 million and makes about 2 million a year.
It might not be a "job" in the strictest sense but I think as a source of income it's worth considering.
 
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I watch a guy called Robert Willis, he restores Dinky and Corgi cars, no adds and I doubt he makes any money out if it, but it’s helped me out a few times and has loads of stuff on there.
 

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