This is exactly the story behind Hot Ones and I disliked it from first view. Commenters like 'OMG how does he get these guests. So glad he's succeeding.' Dude it's literally a corporation.
Just a 'late night show' format for celebrities to sell their latest book/movie in gen Z format.
No one actually succeeds on YouTube. They're all just industry plants.
Don't be jelly bc you can't afford a talent agent
OOP found out his favorite Vtuber is actually a corpo ad platform.
is this real
wow i did not expect mr beast to do that. i thought he was a good guy
It’s kinda expected. Just look at Mr. Beast’s eyes, completely devoid of humanity.
yes
Those dull cow eyes with nothing behind them...
Sometimes I get the impression that social media fame is continuing the narrative of the American dream worldwide: strangely enough, many people assume that it happens regularly that someone steps out of their parent's bedroom, records a few videos, and overnight, without much effort, becomes a multimillionaire – just like that.
This is the absolute exception and has hardly happened at all for a long time. Online, it's long been like the real world economy: without the support of powerful players, it's basically impossible for anyone to become successful. It's a tough business with an endless number of competing content producers, from whom influential financiers can choose the content and the faces to go with it and pocket the lion's share.
And there is yet another misconception underlying the illusion of quick money: you only earn enough to live on once you have a certain reach – something very few people achieve. Most work hard for ridiculously low income, if they earn anything at all.
Consumers, on the other hand, persist in the attitude that the internet has taught them over the last twenty years: they expect high-quality content on a daily basis without having to pay anything for that. They assume that the producers of this content earn good money from it, but in the vast majority of cases - and if there is any money made in the first place - this is not true at all, because it is not the creative people who earn big, but those who exploit them.
Anyone who believes that content producers can finance themselves through voluntary donations is usually completely wrong — Wikipedia's fundraising campaigns, in which only a tiny percentage of users contribute anything, are just one example of many, even though Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites in many countries around the world.
It's like the gold diggers and the shovel sellers, guess who came out on top...
Exactly, it's the American dream that has always been propagated to conceal the true circumstances and thus ensure that everything stays the same.
What is interesting is that when you stream on twitch and you have 25 viewers, you are in the 1% of twitch streamers.
Yes, successful streamers are literally one in a million, if that's even enough.
from whom influential financiers can choose the content and the faces to go with it and pocket the lion’s share.
How? This kind of doesn't make sense to me because it seems like some kind of talent manager wouldn't have a lot to offer in terms of actually increasing someone's chances of making it big on social media, if it's a type of content that doesn't require any special resources to produce and is suited to being made by one person.
There are basically two approaches:
Typically, these companies pursue both approaches simultaneously.
What they offer the actual content producers, i.e., the (sometimes even pseudo-self-employed) employees, is the following:
There are certainly other advantages, but the key point is the contact with advertising customers, i.e., companies that want to engage in social media marketing. These contacts are only accessible to private individuals if they already have one or multiple successful accounts, which unfortunately only very few of those aspiring to a professional career in this field ever achieve.
but the key point is the contact with advertising customers, i.e., companies that want to engage in social media marketing. These contacts are only accessible to private individuals if they already have one or multiple successful accounts, which unfortunately only very few of those aspiring to a professional career in this field ever achieve.
I get the impression that you also generally have to already have a successful account to be considered by agencies, which would defeat the point somewhat of it being a way to get over the initial hurdle. I watch vtubers on Twitch and from what they sometimes say about how sponsorships work, much of it is somewhat automated and gated mainly by account popularity metrics, which makes sense because why would advertisers want to pay a premium to another middleman if they didn't have to? There was a vtuber agency that collapsed recently when it came out that they were insolvent and had been defrauding many people they worked with along with various other corruption and abuse, and given how similar scandals aren't uncommon and the need for creators to be doing the work of building themselves up as a business regardless, makes it seem like a pretty bad deal to have an all inclusive sort of contract with agencies.
Once again, everything revolves around 'Murica
Hopefully that era will finally be coming to a close soon.
Most youtubers are businesses owned by corporate networks. The person on screen is just the talent pretending to be an organic channel.
I don't understand why people are so shocked and horrified when it turns out that people who do entertainment for a living have been professional entertainers the whole time.
It's because YouTube used to be mostly independent creators, even when people first started making money off it. That was the sales pitch.
I really honestly do miss youtube before it got monetised. Yeah the content overall was probably worse, but it was also in it's baby shoes, but only seeing videos because beople wanted to make the video hit so different. Now it's all commercials and talking about possible commercials, don't say the nono words. And don't talk bad about anyone, because maybe they'll sponser them someday.
Oldtube is still there, if you know where to look. Independent creators in the unfiction genre are still putting out gold that beats the hell out of the mass-produced FNAF/mascot horror/Scrimblo Files knock-offs. Kane Parsons, Alex Archives, Alex Kister, Mister Manticore, Remy Abode, Kris Straub, the list goes on. Alex Archives even stated that his entire body of work, both Ted's Caving Journal and Hollow Birds, uses practical effects, free software, and free tutorials.
I dont care if they are a 1 person business or a small team. What im talking about is when a Giant multinational corporation buys up 1000s of youtube channels. I want to watch 1 person or a small team not a big talent corp
Veritasium is partially owned by Vulture Capitalists.
Most?
Yeah, was gonna say this. Like what YTs are y'all watching? My subscriptions and recommendations are randos playing games with their friends, memes, cat vids, and randos talking about interesting topics or the latest shitty Tiktok trend that I can be horrified by. I'm very lost as to everyone only finding these talent/corporate YTs.
I definitely have encountered the corporate YTs in the VTuber community, and I honestly think that's why I hate Agency VTs so much compared to indie VTs. Watching Hololive/Kurosanji is like watching a bunch of coworkers play Mario Kart. Yeah, you "know" them and "get along", but only in the superficial sense, cause you have to pay your bills. The shit always blows up later on anyway. Way more fun to watch some random with a mid setup play some obscure horror game by themselves or with actual friends.
99.9999999% of stats are made up.
Even then, it's probably a fancy word for buying stats from some shady website.
what why would you link to it
I was linking to it to show all sorts of things that can be manipulated, but now that I look back to it, it does look like I'm promoting it. Yeah, I'll remove it.
Currently watching a bunch of videos detailing the fall of PirateSoftware. Such a sad person.
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