Is being able to make money as a YouTuber on borrowed time?

[Lemmingwise]

Everybody is talking about the level of competition, but they ignore the reality that networks wanted a bigger piece of the pie, both for viewership $, but also as influence/propaganda. They are rigged heavily in favour to get trending, get accelerated by being spread more. This has been studied.

There's also the whole demonetisation that's played as making things ad-friendly, but is more likely a politically motivated backroom deal over influence, the same way a lot of political content by non-networks got demonetised.

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

You know, after I saw Ralph's drugged stream, I showed it to my friend and told him "if I ever start using streams or videos as my prime source of income, call me a faggot and cut all ties with me". Just saying.

 

[Pizdec]

This reminds me of this poorly aged Casey Fucboi Neistat video

Basically, he tries to argue that it's a poor mindset to have if you're into YouTube for the money (Cause...you know, he's totally not in for the money.). While yes, you do need to love what you do, there's no point in pursuing something like YouTube full-time unless there's more to be made then working a conventional job.

Then again, this is also the same guy who started daily vlogging to advertise a shitty socializing app that died in a year, and sold the company that developed it to CNN for 25 Million, that is also dead and buried, and kept vlogging because it "helped" pay the bills.

 

[Burning Fanatic]

It really depends I’d argue. You’ll of course have a lot of the scummy channels that break tons of guidelines, yet try to appeal to large audiences, like Jaystation appealing to children with creepypasta clickbait and Suzy Lu appealing to lonely weebs with anime reactions. Those channels somehow manage to fly under the radar for a while as they rake in a decent sum of money without even having to take sponsorships. Though on the flipside, you have many creators that fill a super specific niche, and thus do whatever they can to sorta scrape by.

So yeah, it again ultimately depends on the channel, as some are naturally doing far better than others.