dobnits Posted:

ITT: People complaining for the sake of complaining.

Sheesh, the only videos you have to pay to watch are already corporate shills to begin with, anything made by you, me or anybody out to use YouTube for its true intentions are pretty much the same.

When they start charging for normal stuff that isnt manufactured by the industry, then they will have upset me. But they would be just plain STUPID to do that.

You see that’s where it gets interesting. Now adays the vast majority of the major YouTube ‘celebrities’ are members of the partnership program. From what I can see being a member of the partnership program is all it takes to be able to make your videos ‘rentable’ (I could be wrong on this though, I haven’t read that much into it). So what we end up in is a situation where, say, sxephil will charge to watch his daily vlogs. I mean the majority of them won’t because they’d be idiots to think their user bases would accept it, but at the same time they do have very dedicated followers and some may be willing to take the drop in subscriptions for the boost in profit from the rental fees. That just feels wrong.

But whatever. I doubt this will really happen because, as I said, they’d be losing all international viewers plus the casual views so it just wouldn’t be profitable at the moment since the google ad space they get a cut of is determined by view counts.