>DSP's views are plummeting, he's burned through all the money he had saved up from when he was single and had a good 9-5, and is in severe risk of filing for bankruptcy in the next 6 months >AngryJoe is rapidly ballooning up and is in danger of potentially losing his eyesight >TotalBiscuit is terminally ill >Spoony's pickled his liver and has gradually pissed away 4/5 of his Patreon money after his backers got fed up with him refusing to do anything >Boogie has somehow gotten even fatter >MadThad isn't going to be released until 2 years after The Last Guardian >LOW... TIER... GOD is literally drinking his own urine on stream for money >InuitInua has been forced to out herself as a transwoman and has been doing webcam pornography since "her" YouTube career never took off >The Irate Gamer thinks he's a ghost hunter >CGR Mark was forced to take the Patreon route and his video quality has dropped dramatically as a result >MetalJesus is still a socially awkward manchild >AlphaOmegaSin and ManletTears are both still shrinking >Dobson had to move back in with his parents and is quite literally living off food stamps after his girlfriend got sick of his shit and left him
>Why do people say YouTube's worth doing again?- 1 post shown.
Take a look at your pic? Free money from lonely mouth breathers that are stupid enough to donate to subhumans.
Colton Edwards
>cgr mark >"man people who make a million videos a day sure is stupid" >"SORRY GUYS I GOTTA DO IT ITS THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE ANY MONEY"
>clickbait titles sure are stupid >SORRY GUYS I GOTTA DO IT ITS THE ONLY WAY TO MAKE ANY MONEY
they expanded far too fast, cant believe they leased an office for a youtube show.
shits retarded and he deserved to have his wings burn up
Adrian Barnes
>pewdiepie is at this point one of the best people on YT to cover games
Thomas Davis
>People think the YouTube life is profitable and carefree
There is so much bullshit you need to keep up with, tactics you need to employ outside of recording/uploading, and time you need to dedicate to even see a small return (like, MAYBE $100/month) from YouTube that it is easier to get hired at McDonalds and flip burgers for more money.
It isn't an easy life, and is an even shakier lifestyle than living paycheck to paycheck. Don't get into it and expect to make money (and if you do, expect it to be extremely short lived).
DSP has ZERO (0) ( / ) (1 - 1) chance of being able to pay for anything or to even get a job anywhere when he hits 60. His best bet is to sell his channel to anyone willing to buy it for the algorithms before he does any more damage to it, and start rebuilding a resume NOW, or face being a homeless old man.
Liam Gutierrez
Source on the Dobson stuff? Shits sounds hilarious.
I have 0 personal presence, all i do is take existing footage and mix it together with some neat effects via after effects/premier and dump it on yt, seems to be working fine for now.
John Myers
I'll agree its better to get a job than to do youtube.
The issue I have is with the people on top of youtube.
You've got all these faggots just going with trends trying to stay relevant while they have 2 million subs.
I always thought the point was you use the trends to get popular, then you can make whatever you wanted. That's what pewdiepie did.
Youtube sucks for new creators but everyone is willing to do it because it's a "dream" job.
A dream job that doesn't pay as much as people think it does, but it does give you a lot of freedom. Obviously daily uploads are incredibly hard for any kind of reasonable content.
I think what happens with youtube is people start getting too big for their britches. They hire editors and other staff to improve their production, but then they stagnate or their views go down and they fucking panic.
If you do it yourself, and see it as a solo endeavor, it'd be better.
Ian White
Because he garnered an audience back when this thing first started blowing up, and because YouTube prioritiezes total channel watch time on what channels are LITERALLY pushed to the front of the page, it assures any search results instantly defaults to the channels with the most views, feeding those channels MORE views, and keeping them relevant ad nauseam.
It doesn't matter how hard you work on your videos, because the second you post it on YouTube, you are automatically put on page 100 on the search result. And guess what? No one's sifting through a 100 pages of videos to just happen upon YOURS, and the only way to beat this system is to shill your videos and build view time.
Christopher Smith
Comb his Twitter, he talks about it occasionally.
Isaac Roberts
Twitch has this issue too
Chase Myers
Spoony used to be top tier background noise. I don't think I've seen someone fall quite as far as he did
Sebastian Miller
>Dunkey is still great
Welp
Gavin Peterson
Crowbcat leave
Benjamin Morales
DSP is making bank on Twitch donations now. Hes playing Dark Souls 1 right now for teh monies.
Joshua Martin
Never ever
Cameron Smith
I think Twitch is even less reliable than youtube honestly.
Twitch is like 100% reliant on donations. It also requires you to stream consistently 8 hours a day. It's not even fun to do that, since you're not really playing the game, you're sitting there and interacting with retards and spewing the same bullshit "hey X thanks for watching, welcome to the Y club" and jerking off your fanbase.
Youtube is a lot more appealing for the aspect of you can still make money on old videos.
Camden Reyes
>>LOW... TIER... GOD is literally drinking his own urine on stream for money What? Video?
Lucas Gray
muh business
Grayson Russell
Boogie got BIGGER? that guy, come on. He doesn't even have a real job to use as an excuse.
Kayden Wilson
>Great Job
Jaxson Russell
uhhhhhh
he has over 500 subscribers on twitch noob
Jordan Hughes
>Dobson had to move back in with his parents and is quite literally living off food stamps after his girlfriend got sick of his shit and left him
i am in desperate need of a source
i could use a hearty laugh
Kayden Lee
Meanwhile, OP is wanking tramps for pennies and shoving oranges up his arse on Chaterbate.
Matthew Hernandez
Some nicknames are familiar.
Samuel Brown
Fake show a real source
Jack Evans
>LOW... TIER... GOD is literally drinking his own urine on stream for money
bullshit
Asher Powell
Nah, it's real. Though he made the video private the next day, sadly.
Honestly, the best thing a new channel can do is cater to the interest of what teenage gamers love, but make sure it is hokey enough for Sup Forums to hate. View counts don't care if the person watches hates the content or not, and people like who posts videos (even to haze the person behind it) actively helps make the video/channel more relevant, and has a ripple effect on putting money in that person's pocket.
But if that wasn't enough, sometimes these people will actively try to build manageable controversy for themselves to garner views. Hell, PissedoffTaco did a string of overly dramatic rants just to make news stories, baiting people to watch his original video. The brilliancy of it is that the content he rants about is already the general opinion held by the internet, but doing it in a flamboyant fashion assures his channel thrives from it, when really all he is doing is parroting what people ALREADY know, but want to hear their opinions told at them.
Sort of like how I know Sup Forums loves anime waifus, and I used this image to get you to read this comment. It doesn't make my statement any more true, I didn't actually make the picture myself, but it sure didn't stop me from using it as a means to get you to read my comment over the others around me.
Asher Rogers
Because it´s a saturated medium where EVERYBODY want money of youtube. There are a lot of youtubers about a lot of topics (videogames, make-ups, tech unboxings, etc) just people are saturated because how many youtubers exists? A million?
Dylan Morris
I never understand why some people turned to youtubing, as a profession. Its not future-proof and in all likelihood leads to a destructive road, due to how much work and time you'll have to invest into it.
Logan Price
What's happening with angry Joe's eyesight?
Asher Hall
>even if you are trying to haze someone, youre still giving them more views go cry about it
Asher Garcia
>son of dob had a girlfriend FUCK
Alexander Wilson
Add a custom thumbnail totally unrelated with the video content, YT prioritizes this, you see how front page channels are full of custom thumbnails of rainbow colors.
Ayden Nelson
I hate all you fucks that watch YT. It sickens me that I might just live in a world where people can't think for themselves and idolize bums over actually skilled and successful people. What is so wrong with your pathetic fucking brains that you can't grow the hell up and stop funding no-talent assholes. seriously fuck you all. Sup Forums e-celeb shit needs a goddamn containment board.
Daniel Hill
He couldn't manage to see it through to the end.
Ryan Ortiz
Post favorite streamers.
Joseph Lewis
Why would I? I don't care about these people at all, I'm just stating the facts here. Sorry this easily triggers you to know that you are probably part of the reason GameGrumps and PewDiePie are as big as they are now.
The reason DSP is tanking is because the TIHYDP videos have become more popular than his own channel. You get to see him acting like an idiot firsthand, but without giving his channel the view count to stay afloat. Anytime the GameGrumps does something similar and Sup Forums wants to see first hand to harass them, it's always a direct link to their channel. You took the bait.
Grayson Carter
They're all shit maybe with the exception of spoony, so I don't care
Lucas Walker
Will Dark Souls fags ever recover?
Elijah Sanchez
>trying to make YouTube a job They deserved it, nothing wrong with doing it as a hobby but trying to monetize videos about fucking video games is both scummy and unsustainable in the long run.
Nathan Morris
Daily reminder.
Carson Rodriguez
What are "skilled and successful people" in your opinion?
You can start by not defining them by what they aren't.
Samuel Jones
Will Arcanum fags ever recover?
Ethan Moore
Dark Souls has a pretty neat plot ignoring all the lore shit though
Nicholas Walker
>Its not future-proof and in all likelihood leads to a destructive road, due to how much work and time you'll have to invest into it. Which is funny, because the same could be said for fucking ANY other profession out there. I've known people who got jobs in IT or management and were pretty much let go out of the blue thanks to downsizing or mergers. These people often have to either find a new job in the same field (often for less pay) or flat out go back to school for a new degree in something else.
Is Youtubing secure? Absolutely not, but few jobs are. The animosity Sup Forums has for YT has more to do with jealousy and spite than anything else, and I've seen this sort of bitterness towards a ton of other "creative" professions as well. The irony being, of course, that this board is full of people who rely on entertainment and instant gratification to get through the day, and yet apparently trying to make a living off of something you love is wrong.
Gavin Lee
People who studied years to develop cures for ever changing viruses. People who can land a fucking probe on a meteor rocketing through space. People who, GASP, actually have talent! Hell, even video game development teams have way more skills and talents than even the best YTer by a long shot.
Ryan Butler
Dark Souls has a plot and it's a pretty basic one.
I hate fags like this who talk like they know shit and pretend to be an authority when they're actually completely wrong.
Easton Wright
I get a few thousand views per video, I upload maybe 3 to 4 videos per month. Manly old games from my youth with some voice over about the game. Never joined add sense though because I make the videos for fun. How much money am I missing out on?
Juan Phillips
People like, who?
Tyler Wilson
2k a month. Assuming not a single one has ad block+
Ethan Turner
How can I go about becoming this much of a colossal faggot? I expect this to take some work, but what are the first steps?
Brody Martinez
>MadThad
The self proclaimed weaboo pedophile who got made fun of by ED? How is he relevant?
Nathaniel Adams
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Connor Brooks
all of them are worthless they are all piles of sjw shit who are on a chris chan level.
look for all of them to start being arrested for being sjws in the next few weeks now that we are maga
Camden Russell
That's Ada Lovelace if you're a fucking ape.
Gabriel Nelson
Anyone who wants ad revenue to be their main income is a fucking moron.
Even people who actually put in work like JonTron have to suck dick for sponsor ships just to pull of a foggy version of their vision.
>Hey guys welcome to my video >PLEASE like this video I can't afford food >MAKE SURE you subscribe so I can pay rent >IF YOU WOULD SPARE ME THE TIME PLEASE just look at my Patreon >THIS MONTHS LOOTCRATE AND FREE AUDIO BOOK YOU GET TO KEEP is the only thing keeping my internet bill paid
Or you can just smudge the line between Vape and Weed culture and everyone will think you're the god of comedy.
Gabriel Morgan
>Thought about making YT videos back in the day >PC was never good enough, didn't have a camera >Now have good PC, good graphics card >Just got laid off due to budget cuts, low seniority in the union dictated I would be one of the guys let go >So now have the time >Would only want to do it on games that I love >Would never show my face, maybe my beautiful man voice
Wat do?
Tyler Wood
Pretty sure a lot of people would rather do youtube for a living than work at a fastfood. There are a lot of "unstable" jobs with uncertain futures out there what makes youtube any different? Your bias against ecelebs? You get to work at home, be your own boss, do your own hours, and make income based on past content.
This is assuming your channel is popular enough to making something livable. But DSP has been doing this for 10 years, got his own house and car, and is able to support his daughter. He's not doing well now of course, but nothing lasts forever, not even that mcdonalds job you're coasting til you're 60.
Jaxon Morgan
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Evan Brown
Motherfucker plays tabletop RPGs and reads players handbooks for FUN how is he of all people going to complain about a crpg manual
Carson Price
>explain pls All I can say is that the change worked surprisingly well for her.
Brandon Rogers
jealousy lolololololol
bro lets go over a few things. 1 is that Sup Forums is always right we dont need some fat fuck yter telling us how fun a game is due to ea giving them a paycheck. 2 most of them are aspie lolcows. 3 all of them need to grow the fuck up i'm 22 and in 2 years i'll be done with school and after that? i'm done with the vidya i'll be 24 and its time to get a job
ppl need to start acting more like adults the yt aspies the other aspies like the retards who make shit videos like red vs blue or those stupid abridged shows.
Henry Lopez
Stream in your spare time and look for a new job. If you think you can get by on streaming or youtube without taking the time to build an audience first then you're a fucking retard.
Jeremiah Williams
So what, Perturbed Pablo has diabetes?
Nolan Miller
Does he even play games anymore? Looks like he's reached critical wealth and just fucks around insulting his childish audience. Kind of like Notch.
Hunter Stewart
Tell me why managing a bunch of hot female streamers wouldn't be an easy way to make money.
Cooper Bell
I'm surprised Spoony doesn't like Arcanum. I'm also surprised he hasn't killed himself either.
Isaac Scott
Does no one watch Jerma? He's amazing.
Joseph Hughes
That's about 1/3rd of what anyone with an even reasonably low paying job makes a month, and it has to be reported as income which means they lose roughly 20-30% of it depending on their status. Most of them actually have to work all month long at roughly a part-full time job set of hours with the combination of a few hours a day of games, a few hours a day of cuts and editing, and a few hours a day of streaming or doing patreon shit, etc. They have grown no marketable skills that people who work shitty jobs do so they can't get anything outside of entry level garbage and have 0 resume for any real employer to turn their shit around. They typically have bills to pay and live outside of their parents' homes.
To a high schooler or early college kid that probably seems like a bunch of money for being "free money". It's not, most of them have fucked themselves.
Joshua Clark
>tfw they make more in a month than you do
Connor Turner
But dark souls has a story
You're an undead who woke up in an asylum, got freed by a knight, told to ring the bells of awakening and get to anor london where you're instructed to link the first flame and prevent the world from succumbing to darkness
The lore stuff is the background world building, irrelevant to the main story of the game but neat to read to some, like Havel being an occultist rebel, Solaire probably being gwyn's son.
Joshua Cooper
When you're talking about Job Security, IT and Youtube could not be FURTHER apart on the fucking spectrum.
Asher Nguyen
>goes to college for a shit degree or doesn't even go to college >it's everyone but my own fault that I am an unsuccessful slob booo hooooo fund me!!!! just please stop
Ryder Stewart
boobie streamers don't really make that much as male personalities.
Ryder Kelly
you gotta add
>Super Best Friends crumbled, with Liam leaving and Matt taking an extended vacation
I don't know if it's actually bad, but it's destabilizing at least
Eli Nelson
He was. Now he is just another faceless twitch whore.
Angel Flores
Jerma stopped YouTube, and I'm not a live streamer cuck
Nicholas Bennett
Yeah, resumes already out. Also have my schedule full, have 3 months to do my continuing education for some of my professional licenses. Not too bad, just a pain in the ass that I have to fork out $400 for a 20 hour class to maintain a license that I barely use.
Leo Gray
Do you live in a third world country?
Easton Phillips
making quality videos like that will get you 30k subscribers max
you have to play shit games and act like a meme to actually make a living of video game videos or streaming
Colton Johnson
I agree, DSP is a retard so it makes sense he pissed he pissed his youtube money away. I'd rather beg for money on youtube then have to put up with a shitty boss and coworkers all day. Im so fucking glad im a freelancer now.
Jonathan Rogers
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Nathaniel Clark
Stream in your spare time then. It doesn't hurt to try, but you kinda missed the window to actually gain an audience.
>wanted to make vidya videos since before it was profitable (around 2007) >mainly from Armake21 and Jedite1 >thought about it all the time but poor and lazy >finally buy an Elgato like five years later >upload three videos >realize I'm shit at commentary and that playing games for an eventual audience kinda sucks the fun out of it >never do it again >still think about going back to it sometimes
William Miller
Let DSP burn I say. I am only sad for TB from that whole list, maybe also for AJ.
Easton Perez
damn, she got srs but didn't finish lasering the beard away yet? Is that LauraKbuzz?
Kevin Ramirez
Even if they sell their panties as well?
Juan Torres
I mean, yes, that's what I was implying about Youtubers. I don't know if you're retarded and agreeing with me thinking you're making a different point or something.
Michael Williams
vocaroo your voice now.
I used my shitty laptop mic, so I set the bar low for you.
the glory days are long over and you know it. When it was him & star_ playing either TF2, GTA IV or some random shitty game was the peak. Rat Movie 3 Never
Jack Wood
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Austin Cox
>check spoonys website out of interest to see just how lazy he is
He's uploaded a total of 6 videos during all of 2016.
A total of 6.
His latest video came out in fucking November 2016.