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0 pointsnotatoad8y ago0 comments

From their blog post, the majority of the smaller creators that are affected by this change are earning less than $100 per year. There's three types of creators that are impacted by this:

- people who will never earn more than this off youtube, but aren't motivated by earning money.

- people who are currently earning less than this, and are motivated by money but are on a trajectory to quickly exceed 1000 subscribers. they'll be minimally affected.

- people who are currently earning less than $100/yr, but are motivated by money and are unlikely to exceed 1000 subscribers anytime soon. If they're actively working to grow their channel but can't break 1000 subscribers, losing them is probably for the best.

I don't see how this is going to really harm youtube's content pool.

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xster8y ago

YouTube is like Walmart.

- There are people who just need to do some work and get out of their house and aren't motivated by earning money.

- There are those who make it their career and want to work up the chain. They will be minimally affected.

- There are those who are part time and but can't make it into full time any time soon. Let's hypothesize that they're not actively trying to be the best workers so let's just get rid of them. No harm done.

That sounds like a pretty scary world.

reader50008y ago

I wonder what the data is on hitting 1000 subs from scratch. I can see it taking 6+ months and if you're putting out daily or weekly content thats a lot of unpaid labor till you get some of that sweet ~$1 per 1000 views. But yeah I think most tubers monetize through patreon/merchandise/non-yt ads so this might not affect things too much.

notatoadOP8y ago

I suspect your patreon, merch, or other ad revenue is also going to be pretty inconsequential if you're under 1000 subscribers

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