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Our Channel Could Be Deleted - Gamers Nexus (www.youtube.com)
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[–] 30 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Ive also only seen a few videos of his over the last few years but it seems like he's recently had some wildly successful videos based off exposing corruption in the PC/tech industry and has morphed his channel from tech reviews to some sort of investigative journalism chasing that high he got from said viral videos.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago

    He goes into detail on some of the videos, but to summarize the "controversial" videos due less well when it comes to recouping the money it takes to film them (if at all). They (often):

    • have to account for more travel expenses to interview people
    • can't be sponsored since no one wants to sign up for those kinds of pieces and depend on ad revenue alone
    • can include additional legal costs (have lawyers review things, etc. )
    • for things that are time sensitive, they can also mess with the work life balance of the team and the regularly scheduled content they've been working on
    • stress from dealing with mega corps with the money to ruin you as a side quest
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  • [+] -8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Chasing the high? You think that is why he does that? Sit down and think ..THINK what you just said .. according to you his motivation is some junky high chase?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    At the end of the day he's running a business and has had lots of financial success with this type of "product," so it makes sense to focus your efforts on said product going forward.

    I like that he's exposing corruption, but question his motivations and use of clickbait. I'm not really passing judgement on him either way and things don't always have to be black and white, "good" or "bad."

    Do you have something to add? Asking if my stated opinion is "what I think" in three different ways isn't really contributing much to the conversation.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No offense, but Questioning the use of clickbait on youtube is such an idiotic take, clickbait thumbnails and titles make double percentage difference in terms of viewership and thus income for the video. These people employ others, not using clickbait would be a disservice to the employees who depend on this job for their livelihood as a business owner you have a fiduciary duty to the best you can and take care of your employees.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    How is that an idiotic take? I watch a ton of YouTube and none of the channels I regularly watch rely on clickbait to push their videos. You could use this same argument to justify it anywhere including 'regular' journalism meaning there is no example where clickbait is unacceptable using this logic.

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