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[Senor_Taylor]

Side note but I have zero sympathy for Youtubers and the plights of their careers.  I was having this conversation with a friend of mine the other night who has been building up his Youtube base and was complaining about the big media companies coming in and changing the ways that "the small guys" are making their living on Youtube.  There are people who have been riding the system for years making a couple hundred grand off of stupid ass videos people watch on a website.  You had to know that bubble was going to pop eventually.

Except they're not making a couple hundred grand, at least, not a year, off of youtube.

There are plenty of YouTube stars making 6 figures. Plenty of live streamers making the same or more. I made decent money back in 2008-2011when I had my Justin TV channel and that was before the formalized ad revenue system.( I got an invite to the beta of that right before I stopped) Quite a few people I know from those days quit their jobs and do that full time. It's not just the ad revenue. You'd be surprised at how many bored rich guys are on the internet willing to donate for no reason. I had one guy donate me money to buy a Wii and some other stuff, gave me money for Christmas, Etc.

I don't think he makes all the money directly from ads, but it's all indirectly related to the YouTube videos.

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Yep exactly, you are seeing a lot of that coming from the video gaming space as more and more people are watching gaming / streamers online.  Many of them are migrating off of the YT platform to places like Twitch and Patreon because of the declining ad revenue for people who aren't big corps.

I met a guy the other day that had a friend that worked in the corporate world as a developer or something and then started a streamer channel for some PC game like League of Legends or one of the other ones.  He clears like $380k now with ad revenue and donations from random people

Yup. I quit because of having a job, slow internet, and going to college, but I'm certain I would be making multiple times more money than I do now if I stick with it. Probably the biggest "what if" I'll have for the rest of my life.

That's also a rough life to live entertaining people every day at terrible hours. It's really turned into pathetic pandering for most people nowadays to get followers and subscribers. It's a lot more aggressive of a space than it used to be and I'm not sure if I would have stuck with it. Plus the people that you interact with are not the kind most people would enjoy. There is more awkward drama there than anywhere. I was one the top 20 or so broadcasters on JTV (now twitch) back in the day. Maybe I'd be a millionaire now :/

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