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Anon watches youtube (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 88 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Most youtubers are businesses owned by corporate networks. The person on screen is just the talent pretending to be an organic channel.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Veritasium is partially owned by Vulture Capitalists.

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

    Most?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Yeah, was gonna say this. Like what YTs are y'all watching? My subscriptions and recommendations are randos playing games with their friends, memes, cat vids, and randos talking about interesting topics or the latest shitty Tiktok trend that I can be horrified by. I'm very lost as to everyone only finding these talent/corporate YTs.

    I definitely have encountered the corporate YTs in the VTuber community, and I honestly think that's why I hate Agency VTs so much compared to indie VTs. Watching Hololive/Kurosanji is like watching a bunch of coworkers play Mario Kart. Yeah, you "know" them and "get along", but only in the superficial sense, cause you have to pay your bills. The shit always blows up later on anyway. Way more fun to watch some random with a mid setup play some obscure horror game by themselves or with actual friends.

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  • [–] 64 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I don't understand why people are so shocked and horrified when it turns out that people who do entertainment for a living have been professional entertainers the whole time.

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

    It's because YouTube used to be mostly independent creators, even when people first started making money off it. That was the sales pitch.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I really honestly do miss youtube before it got monetised. Yeah the content overall was probably worse, but it was also in it's baby shoes, but only seeing videos because beople wanted to make the video hit so different. Now it's all commercials and talking about possible commercials, don't say the nono words. And don't talk bad about anyone, because maybe they'll sponser them someday.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Oldtube is still there, if you know where to look. Independent creators in the unfiction genre are still putting out gold that beats the hell out of the mass-produced FNAF/mascot horror/Scrimblo Files knock-offs. Kane Parsons, Alex Archives, Alex Kister, Mister Manticore, Remy Abode, Kris Straub, the list goes on. Alex Archives even stated that his entire body of work, both Ted's Caving Journal and Hollow Birds, uses practical effects, free software, and free tutorials.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I dont care if they are a 1 person business or a small team. What im talking about is when a Giant multinational corporation buys up 1000s of youtube channels. I want to watch 1 person or a small team not a big talent corp

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