[adingus]

It's rich for a TV exec to call YouTube 'slop'. Compared to traditional TV, where 1/3rd or more of your time is spent watching ads for prescription drugs or fake silver coins, the YouTubers I watch put much more thought and artistic energy into what they produce than the laugh track trash on TV.

[throwaway290]

You skipped the part about how much of your time is spent watching ads on Youtube? If zero and you've got UBO on then you are stealing revenue from your favourite YouTubers who put so much thought and artistic energy into what they produce

[tialaramex]

Youtube Premium actually pays the Youtubers similar or possibly slightly better than running Youtube advertising and I don't watch ads to fund that, I pay them money.

I guess you could argue that the stuff where Hank Green is telling me to consider buying a crash course coin is advertising? But by the same token arguably watching Carl Sagan play Blue Prince is advertising how great Carl is? Where are we drawing the line here?

[throwaway290]

No I wouldn't argue that, it's fair. Promotions or product placement and that stuff are everywhere and no place is special in that.

But I bet the guy I replied to doesn't actually pay for premium. Most people who say "TV sucks because ads and YT is great because no ads and creators braining" mean that they can block ads on YT and those brainy creators can deliver stuff to them for free, so it's totally better than TV yeah. like it's "better" if you can steal stuff than if you have to pay for it)

[9x39]

It’s zero but we paid for YT Premium which splits revenue with creators.