• devils_advocate@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    On the other hand, YouTube is also supporting some content creators you hate…

    … But at least you don’t have to watch them.

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      YouTube is a business with a clearly-defined business model, precisely-tracked direct metrics, and automation up the wazoo. Not a government taking taxes and dealing with human elements for which there are very few direct metrics. They can pay creators based on watch hours or some other usage metric.

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        1 year ago

        What I mean is that paying for YouTube premium is a very indirect and inefficient way to support your preferred content creator.

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          But my preferred content creator could not exist without YouTube and YouTube shoulders the enormous expense of hosting videos. I don’t get why they should not get compensated for that as well.

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            1 year ago

            That’s an ok justification, but I thought you were buying YouTube premium to support your content creator, not to support YouTube. YouTube premium doesn’t support your content creator.

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                1 year ago

                “The YouTubers” not your YouTuber.

                Better just to split $7 a month between your favourite patreon accounts and put up with some advertising.

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                  1 year ago

                  What’s the difference? Most stuff I watch comes from a longer list of channels I’m subscribed to. I could go and figure out which Channel I want to donate how much to and then split 12€ between them and keep my donations updated if my viewing habits change and then deal with ads, or I could just not do any of that and support the video platform as well because honestly, I’m very happy with the distribution quality and selection YouTube gives me.

                  I have a subscription to nebula/curiosity stream as well but compared to YouTube, every other platform just suuuucks at content Delivery 🤷

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                    1 year ago

                    The difference is 45% of $12 and your original goal at the top of this thread was to support your content creators, not YouTube.