So he should have just let some dude keep making money off his content? When he offered $50K+ and the guy told him to fuck off, he should have just kept taking it in the ass? It's not like he's some multi-millionaire gouging for a few more pennies, he has been fucked off every major platform and the YouTube income probably makes an actual difference to him.
That’s the thing though. They’re not “freely sharing it” out of the kindness of their hearts.
Yeah, I don’t see the controversy here.
God i wish, id pay good money to see that. I usually dont get angry at cows but there is somthing about boog1488 that triggers a primal violent disgust within my munke brain.
You have 8 videos on your Gumroad, 3 of them are reviews. Sam Hyde has over 100 videos available for the same money. Some of the videos are over 2 hours long, others are heavily edited like KSTV2 and are really funny. He has more than enough content to justify the money.
Yeah and his videos suck and mine are funny. I'm sorry, but three fucking losers hanging out on the sofa talking about nothing while some stupid wigger chimes in and says literally fuck all over and over again is not content. I never really liked his edited stuff.
I support your podcast too on Gumroad, but to say it’s not worth it because you don’t like the podcast is dumb. The episodes with the wiggers suck, but the ones with Rochefort are better imo
No one can be sure unless Sam publishes his numbers. Which he'll never do probably. We know his team got a lot bigger when he was raking in money during COVID/Cyrpto boom. And Sam is a bit too prideful to not pay his guys. So I'm gonna estimate that he needs to keep growing, and if that video game thing isn't bullshit, he's finally started to consolidate his company. As far as nickle and diming, Sam isn't anywhere near as bad as a lot of people. And the big thing that puts me on Sam's side is that he already is publishing free content, I would've recommended Sam go the Wingsofredemption route and just extort the clip channels for at least 50%, but he chose to do it this way instead.
It's the 20% offer that made him say no, I guarantee it. That probably feels like a low ball offer if you consider yourself the person who made the thing successful in the first place, but 20% would be a fantastic offer if you're like a marketing agency.
The most promising part of MDE on something like Adult Swim was the possibility of using AS' name to fuck with higher profile retards, like some sort of anti-Sasha Baron Cohen. You can already see them doing some of that in the first season (although I'd argue going after your own executives is a career-limiting move).
yeah and they should probably just set up a regular fucking podcast together and do merch instead of trying to paywall it and whining when clip channels do what they should have done to begin with. I'm sorry but his strategy sucks. They censor themselves on Gumroad too so it's not like an artistic integrity decision.
Well there is no one ultimate judge of what any person’s work is worth it is all subjective. I don’t really get Hyde’s content so it may be a hundred videos but it’s nothing I’d want to watch. Meanwhile I would and plan to support others including Nupl who may not have the same volume of content but need money for endeavors they do because they’ve been canceled for wrongthink and I enjoy what they do have.
I have never seen him tell a joke, and his TV show was weird and off-putting
That's an option, not a solution. I call that the Brendan Schaub path. Release everything for free, on multiple platforms and infest it with Ads, sponsored content, and merch. Sam's doing the premium route. Probably based more on his belief that his guys are more loyal, as opposed to someone like Schaub; who's viewers will leave him if they can't get it for free.
So he went the more based and wholesome big chungus principled route and then saw that other people were going to do what he could have / should have done and got jealous they were making money off of it and is now trying to claim ownership of their work for a quick buck. Ok.
I've heard similar amounts from Asmongold re: the clip channels that reupload his twitch highlights. It's a believable figure imo.
Asmongold had an opposite opinion of his clip channels and let them run for the longest time because he considered it free advertising and goodwill; he was making so much on twitch that it was chump change to try and claim the clip channels. He did eventually make his own however due to some fuckery with how Youtube and DMCA claims work. Something along the lines of "I'm going to make my own official channel for clips now because Youtube is picking up, and even though it's ME in the video, other people can use the algorithm to claim MY videos if I don't assert ownership over my own content." Basically its possible for the anonymous nobodies to upload your shit, you then start uploading personally, and they can claim your revenue right out from under your nose and strike you.
Obviously it cuts the growth of any podcast at its heels. No point in getting big names on your podcast to drive up interest if you're paywalling them. But if driving up gumroad subs (if that is his main source income) seem to be the priority. There is always an option to do a largely free podcast, and have like an exclusive 10-20 minute one just for his subs. I think with this and the NFT thing, it's only gonna get worse
To light the cigarettes dummy, any accidental damage kills the cancer before it can get to me first
That's one data point though. I wonder how many of these clip channels weren't getting anything in ads and were just fans, who are now accused of benefiting from YouTube's own policy of slapping ads on everything with, without, or even against the creator's consent.
