If you think Youtube isn't a real job, you're a boomer retard nigger

[Spooky Dogwood]

Any job can rugpull you at any time, the company you work for could collapse at any time, HR could just lie about you and fire you. There are ways to make you lose your job and prevent you from getting another one. If some faggot calls your employer to bitch about you often enough you'll get fired, which is what happened to Cobes. Null's entire family were harassed at work either by Vordrak or by trannies. Job security is a myth.

They also get unemployment. Being self-employed is inherently more risky to begin with. Having years of experience at X company is still a better look for future employment too, while a lot of youtubers have no contingency even after they've been making good money on the platform for years, thinking the gravy train was going to keep on chugging forever.

 

[Just Some Other Guy]

most likely you'll end up wasting years of your life on trying to launch a youtube "career" only to barely make enough money to cover your grocery bills while still living in your moms basement.

Then when you do try to get a normal job they ask "so, what exactly have you been doing all this time" and your answer is failed youtuber? Oh boy.

 

[Spooky Dogwood]

Then when you do try to get a normal job they ask "so, what exactly have you been doing all this time" and your answer is failed youtuber? Oh boy.

Then the interviewer sees all your soyface minecraft videos.

 

[Dynamite Bean]

Internet entertainment jobs in general are bad but being a youtuber is probably the worst one as you have virtually no skills to translate elsewhere since most of it is luck more than aything
An internet artist can likely find work in the art industry with some company, same with an animator, maybe a video editor but if you're the type that just makes slop(which is almost all yt content these days) of bullshit like tier lists, e-drama, gameplay, dumb challenges, reactions, and the like, you have nothing that can give you a foot anywhere

 

[Celso Bin Portiolli]

Realistically, anything that let's you pay your bills consistently is a real job.
Now, YouTube may not be forever, but that never stopped people from finding temporary workers, for example.

 

[Angry Alt Right Nerd]

I only hate it because this field generally encourages you to create drama and damage the social fabric of society to succeed, maybe like 1% of the successful ones actually do just record themselves playing video games without destroying society or being sex predators.

 

[Summer of George]

Video platforms could help matters by promoting bona fide instructional/ informative content. Video demonstrations done by people who have real skills in real areas that they acquired offline. When somebody meets all three of the following criteria, they are truly someone special and deserve exposure.

1: They are good at doing a useful thing.
2: They are good at teaching others to do the thing.
3: They are good at video production (personality, camera work, technical know-how, all of it)

optional bonus #4: they don't have the constant urge to inject their personal politics into everything they present

Sure, there is plenty of this content out there, but it hardly gets monetized to the extent that popustreamers do. There isn't a lot of intrinsic value in just talking or playing vidya on camera with no soul and no goal.

Anyone who has a high school diploma and paid attention probably has at least one thing they're skilled/passionate enough at. If not then that's their own problem.

 

[BradeRunna]

While I talk shit about the e-beggars and say shit like hipster welfare. I don't think they should have to go out and get real jobs. real jobs fucking suck. Working is for the birds. Being a wage cuck isn't fun. Spending 8+ hours or your life working so that that Mr. Shekelbergsteinblatt can get a new yacht or sportscar isn't great. Matter of fact it fucking blows.

If they can manage to make money through YouTube or people are willing to give them money then great for them. I won't be giving them any money and I use an ad blocker.

I don't like pan handlers but I don't care if people give them money. I just know I won't be. Just like I would never pay any internet whore money for their OnlyFans sloptent. But I don't care if other people do. But I will call them dumb fucks for doing it.

Your average normie wagie has a misery loves company mentality. They are wage cucks, and they are unhappy, so they want you to be just as miserable as they are. It's also jealousy as well. They are jealous of the e-beggar living on hipster welfare. They wish they could do it. But they never will or even try. They will continue seething and wanting to tear other people down.

I remember years ago seeing this post made by some guy who said there are people out there making more money than he does by selling junk they found in thrift stores than he does working. He also said it wasn't right, and the government should stop it. Instead of doing the same thing he wants them stopped by the government. This is the mentality of normie wage cucks.

 

[FeatherPlucker]

I was under the impression that YouTube no longer pays well.... although the AI faggots who flood the platform with repetitive content probably make money... but it's just ruining the platform so much that it's almost become total trash.

 

[THE SUPREME ONION]

thats cool and all but

 

[grump]

it's as real as any other 'entertainer' type job. actor, comedian, singer, etc.

i think the big thing about it is that a lot of kids wanting to go into that space have unrealistic expectations. they think "wow i can get paid for playing video games all day" but they're actually entering into a hyper competitive field where 99% of people earn below minimum wage. most likely you'll end up wasting years of your life on trying to launch a youtube "career" only to barely make enough money to cover your grocery bills while still living in your moms basement.

basically "i want to be a youtuber" today is what "i want to be a rock star" used to be a few decades ago. plenty of kids back then thought they were going to be the next mick jagger, but just ended up stuck in a band with their stoner friends playing shitty local gigs for chump change. that's why parents tell their kids that it's not a real job.

Its the new Holyweird. Sure Holyweird celebs make the big bucks but chances are when someone tells you they're an actor they're usually scraping by bussing tables or delivering packages.

 

[Niggernerd]

Its only a job if you're successful.
Its a pipedream when you're a failing loser who failed!

 

[Soup Sammiches]

Boomer retarded nigger here. Youtube is not a job. Also go fuck your hat.

 

[Tetopettenson]

yeah but your parents will never tell you to move out and start making youtube videos

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

It's not a real job no social media influencer is I got pretty moderately successful at it and then delete my channel 'cause I hate every single person who is interacting with me I prefer being a Carpenter it's honest work.

Social media should be banned there's a cancer on society and it turns people into sociopaths and drawing morons

 

[Aidan]

Youtube can be a real job. Youtube often isn't a real job. It's been long enough now we've seen what happens to most people who go all in on Youtube. They can make bank for years and then suddenly nothing. Now what? If they have actual professional skills then it's a non-issue but let's be real, most of them don't. Plenty of people have threads on this site who have since fallen off yet have nowhere else to turn and refuse to learn anything else.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

Youtube can be a real job. Youtube often isn't a real job. It's been long enough now we've seen what happens to most people who go all in on Youtube. They can make bank for years and then suddenly nothing. Now what? If they have actual professional skills then it's a non-issue but let's be real, most of them don't. Plenty of people have threads on this site who have since fallen off yet have nowhere else to turn and refuse to learn anything else.

They're also all terrible with money if I ever started up doing YouTube again and I made some of the money these people make I would literally retire and go fishing or something but then I'd probably get bored and go back to work because anytime I have too much free time I just start doing sinful things idle hands really are the devil's playthings

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

have you ever hired a repairman to your house and the first thing he did was whine on how he isn't picked because THE ALGORITHM screws him rather than do his fucking job? Did he tell you multiple time to follow him on Instagram and Facebook so you'd remember he exists? Did he start talking on his mental health and that he tries losing weight but IT'S SO DAMN HARD?

YouTubers are rightfully mocked because they are seemingly completely incapable of separating their personal lives from their work. This extends to how they live in a crab bucket mentality where they let YouTube fuck them over because actually trying to unite and make themselves less prone to be fucked over will help the competition.

I wouldn't laugh at a person having a YouTube channel as a side gig, but if he has it as his main gig he is absolutely insane and will probably fuck himself economically sooner or later unless he saves money to invest (and then it's the former).

 

[Historical Strelkov]

If you can make a living off it, and you're not hurting anyone who cares what people think..
If you can't make a living off it, its a hobby.

 

[cybertoaster]

I'm guessing OP is just a dumb teen who call anyone over 20 a boomer and hasn't seen any real boomers. The boomers I know think youtube is serious business, they still have that mentality that if you are on TV you are "somebody" and many didn't understand when I explained to them anyone can go and make a youtube channel, that its just like facebook you just create and account and that's all, same with podcasts.

but they're actually entering into a hyper competitive field where 99% of people earn below minimum wage

Much like OF.

most likely you'll end up wasting years of your life on trying to launch a youtube "career" only to barely make enough money to cover your grocery bills while still living in your moms basement.

Sounds like that could be OP hence the seething.

basically "i want to be a youtuber" today is what "i want to be a rock star" used to be a few decades ago

Worse, back then the bar was much higher, you at least needed money for instruments and recording equipment since nobody was going to even bother to listen to your demo tape if you recorded it off a walkman with a mic attachment. Also the odds that a record producer was going to discover your band in some dive bar in Nebraska was close to zero so you had to move to LA or NYC, it wasn't easy. Nowadays all you need is a phone which practically everybody already has.

They can make bank for years and then suddenly nothing. Now what?

If we're talking top youtube money you have to be a complete retard burning money on a stove to end up broke with no savings whatsoever after that but I'm sure there's a few of those.