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

[Aidan]

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.

I meant the more average successful youtuber, not the top tier. Captainsparklez seemingly did so well up until like 2016(?) that he's never had to really do anything again and famously bought a $15,000,000 mansion. However, he was smart and diversified and clearly understood it wasn't going to last forever. Most people don't even have that opportunity.

One Youtuber I've watched since before he took off has talked about it off and on in a few places. He's had kids since starting his channel and while he's aware he has it good now he has brought up how people don't consider that he has to pay for his family's insurance (not through company plan) and that there's no investment matching or anything like that you'd find in a decent job of comparable pay so his take home is nice but not amazing and he has to plan for when he inevitably falls off. Some of his friends he met over the years as a "content creator" have stopped because they started slipping and it's hard to recover. If they continued, I'd say they would be in "not a real job" territory but I'm being autistic and splitting hairs.

The main thing is it needs to be treated like a job and certain choices have to be made to plan for the future as it isn't a traditional career that tends to have a general expectation of upwards trajectory.

 

[cybertoaster]

Captainsparklez seemingly did so well up until like 2016(?) that he's never had to really do anything again and famously bought a $15,000,000 mansion

The mansion was 4.5mil but still not bad for "just" 11 million subs, the sheer power of minecraft autism...

However, he was smart and diversified

Thought you mean investments but all I could find is merch and a phone game that didn't pan out.

One Youtuber

Who?

The main thing is it needs to be treated like a job and certain choices have to be made to plan for the future as it isn't a traditional career that tends to have a general expectation of upwards trajectory.

Its clearly just like showbiz, actors are also pretty much screwed if they stop being popular no matter how acclaimed they used to be (see Val Kilmer and Cuba Gooding Junior) except actors at least have a union, but at the same time a ytuber doesn't have to suck up, literally or not, a producer to make content, he just goes and does it. So pros and cons but yeah its still showbiz, you get your 15 minutes and what happens later depends and the choices you made during that window.

 

[Aidan]

Thought you mean investments but all I could find is merch and a phone game that didn't pan out.

I meant merch, his merch was all over the place. I don't understand it myself but kids ate it up.

Who?

Don't want to say for personal reasons, it doesn't matter that much, they're a middle of the road popular Youtuber. Hundreds of thousands of views per vid with semi-frequent uploads. He has diversified via investments, though.

 

[Neodanthril]

Is there a term for people's who apply incel philosophy to jobs? Because that's what OP is doing. Jobcel? Retard? Faggot? Nigger faggot? Yeah, op is a nigger faggot that sounds right

 

[cybertoaster]

I don't understand it myself but kids ate it up.

I still don't understand how minecraft itself got that popular but whatever...

Don't want to say for personal reasons

Friend of yours?

they're a middle of the road popular Youtuber. Hundreds of thousands of views per vid with semi-frequent uploads.

That's not middle of the road, that's top 10% believe or not. YT like most of new media its incredibly stratified. By sheer numbers the amount of people actually making a living off it are a minority, and those raking it in aren't even the 0.1%.

 

[Aidan]

That's not middle of the road, that's top 10% believe or not. YT like most of new media its incredibly stratified. By sheer numbers the amount of people actually making a living off it are a minority, and those raking it in aren't even the 0.1%.

I meant as far as youtubers actually making a living off of it. Then again I'm sure people make a "living" off of it with tens of thousands of views a video and they just live poor without any normal amenities in which case it's not a "real job."

 

[Male Idiot]

It is kind of a not real job that you can take as a real job.

But you need to have charisma, good head on your shoulders, and all that for it.

I would put it as a side hustle. Like selling balloons, telling jokes and so at the carnival of old. Maybe you'll become a famous comedian and move to Los Angeles casino. But likely not.

Podcasters, youtubers of all stripes, be it autistic minecraft analyzer, vtuber, political pngtuber, are just modern radio hosts, but who just tape their show and sell it with ads.

You can make it work, but longtime stable success is unlikely. You'll need artists, editors, writers, and the right charisma and luck to be the next Pewdiepie. Skibidi, etc.

 

[BradeRunna]

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.

Much like OF.

Sounds like that could be OP hence the seething.

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.

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.

Ok Boomer.

I'm 40 by the way.