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Posted: 21:46 - 21 Jan 2019 Post subject: Re: Get a job! |
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Kawasaki Jimbo wrote: | YouTube snowflakes running out of ideas for what to say. It's a mental health problem, apparently. |
Sadly I think you've yet to grasp the gravity of the problem.
Take LGR for example. He does game reviews of old PC games, and he reviews old weird hardware (oddware) and so on. He does two vids a week, and works ten hours a day 7 days a week. He said in the summer he was going to take a week off, and a bunch of people threw some very nasty comments at him despite his massive effort, and him providing what amounts to free content. These people do it for the love of it, and barely scrape a living and yet their audience is often ungrateful and pedantically critical.
I totally see the problem when the effort that goes into each video is at that level. When you just do talking head videos about how bad your orange mocha latte was this morning it's hard to feel any sympathy, but for people such as LGR, Kim Justice, Techmoan, Regular Car reviews etc etc it's a hard task. Their audience demand they spend full time hours on it, and yet get bent out of shape if they stop providing content. It's quite sad in a lot of ways. ____________________ British beauty: Triumph Street Triple R; Loony stroker: KR1S; Track fun: GSXR750 L1; Commuter Missile: GSX-S1000F
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I can see how that sort of burn-out would be "a thing".
Many of them "do" see it as a job, providing media content is a real requirement and there is some sort of money to be made out of it. Problem is, in the same way as you have a job, you have to set hours and limits for yourself.
But it is very addictive.
You look at the stats, you see them going up, you think "Crikey, people are listening/looking at what I post" - so you get to checking the stats several times a day/week and you give yourself pressure to improve them, or at least to increase them. You get a bit of interaction from people, it flows a bit, and you think "Oh, its going to be alright."
But, a bit like the brooms in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, with the viral thing, they get this HUGE response and suddenly they are not really equipped to cope with it. A constant online media presence, or even just the semblance of one, must be hell to keep up. 24 hours a day, some cunt somewhere in the world might be wanting you to be performing like a trained seal. And if you don't, they'll go away and look at some other cunt performing like one, instead.
I can imagine just how much of a treadmill that could really get to be.
I'm sure there must be a Black Mirror episode about it ____________________ Not nearly as interesting in real life. |
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MarJay But it's British!
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Kawasaki Jimbo wrote: |
When you say, "works," you mean he's a full-time gamer and Youtuber. Ok, maybe that's a service people want, and he's not bitching about it. Why would he? |
It's ruined gaming for fun for him. He spends all his time gaming just purely to get footage for reviews. He never games for fun any more, and yes, he spends all his time making videos. He lives on his own in a house in a small town in America. Has no family or friends nearby, and literally does nothing except things he needs to do to release videos. I'm not surprised it's affecting his mental health to be honest. Now he's quit his full time profession, he basically doesn't have a choice but to do it and carry on. Imagine going for an interview and telling them you've been a professional youtuber for the last 5 years?
Youtube also randomly de-monetise content, cut down the royalties paid (something like 1cent per 1000 watches or something) and block content for non existent copyright strikes. When that's your only source of income, it's a pretty serious deal and he's had to spend a lot of money on legal representation on a number of times. The worst part is the copyright claims aren't even by the real copyright owner in so many cases. ____________________ British beauty: Triumph Street Triple R; Loony stroker: KR1S; Track fun: GSXR750 L1; Commuter Missile: GSX-S1000F
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It's a bit like professional sport.
For the majority unknown, unwashed masses it's a tough living.
But if you get to that 0.01% at the top - ka ching!! |
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Can't see anything entertaining about Corrie or Enders never have.
But I did used to watch Neighbours for years (though maybe that was for some other reason) |
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 5 years, 86 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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