The moral in the death of Youtube as a career

[clearspira]

All of those people who gave up their actual jobs to take up creating videos full time? They are all in serious trouble right now. Youtube just is not a career choice any more. They are demonetizing pretty much everything, and the lucky ones that are still going have seen a massive drop in what they earn.

Millions of us were warning them at the start of the Youtube career boom that once this whole thing crashes you'll be left with no pension, no severance package, and ''I recorded myself playing videogames for Youtube'' as a job reference - and they continued full steam ahead anyway. This is not an I told you so no matter what it sounds like, this is a warning to others of what can happen if you are not careful.

I think there is a very good moral here and not just for Youtubers: You are not going to be the next Pewdiepie, or JK Rowling, or Tom Cruise, or the next massive sports star unless you have lottery winning luck. Don't give up an actual job for one that has no means to compensate you when it all comes crashing down until you have reached the point where you can and are putting away large volumes of emergency money.

[Madner Kami]

Most intelligent "YouTubers" transfered to Patreon over the course of the last couple years and have stopped on relying YouTube-income long ago. If I were a YouTube-"star", I'd describe it as Entertainer or worker in the entertainment industr on my vita.

[Fuzzy Necromancer]

Also if you do "prank" videos you deserve whatever you've got coming to you.

[pilight]

In the era of "Right to Work", any job can leave you with nothing with no notice. Almost no jobs offer pensions and most don't have severance packages, so why not work for yourself instead of someone else.

[Deledrius]

Now that YouTube has been reconfigured to function like Just Another Television serving those interests, the only way to succeed in competing against television and movie studios is the do the work of a television studio... by yourself.

And people act shocked that suddenly burnout is a thing when it never was before.

This has been happening slowly over the course of many years, and was obvious to anyone watching the lawsuits, the buyouts, and the platform changes to accommodate the demands of media empires.

[ProfessorDetective]

In the era of "Right to Work", any job can leave you with nothing with no notice. Almost no jobs offer pensions and most don't have severance packages, so why not work for yourself instead of someone else.

Less complicated taxes?

[Admiral X]

There's rarely security in any job these days. I can hardly blame them for wanting to get paid to do something they love, and might not even be much like work to them, and riding that horse for as long as it would take them. But like the dot-com boom, this bubble was bound to burst.

[Robovski]

Working hard on yourself, making content you want to make and earning a living doing so should be lauded. It's a shame that this avenue for creativity and independence has been so badly fucked over. But this was never riskier than working the job I do, and if they were smart they started preparing for this by saving, making contacts, getting alternate funding going and being ready for the day when YouTube capriciously decides to fuck you royally - because you'd have to be blind to have not been seeing this coming. I was demonetized for my hobby channel a couple years ago as they decided small subscriber bases were not worth monetizing despite watch time or engagement, and that was after a previous 2 "adpocalypse" events already. Forward thinking channels already have websites and alternate funding (much like this one we're on) and just use YouTube as part of their presence.

[Karha of Honor]

Also if you do "prank" videos you deserve whatever you've got coming to you.

Come on, i like that awkwardness.

[Wargriffin]

Of course it was gonna happen

The moment YT went to the Almighty algorithm to solve their problems of being constantly threatened by Media giants This was the outcome that was bound to happen


Now some of these YTs stars played it smart an got in good with the people that would most likely have them listed and are basically working for them.


The sad truth is people jumped on what they thought was a chance to do something They like and make a living

cause lord knows everybody wants to fight that inevitable fate of where you go do a thing you don't really want to do for the rest of your life but hey you're good at it and it makes money.