It’s a fact that YouTube pays out more to creators per view for a subscriber than for an ad user, and in the words of LinusTechTips (despite the current backlash he had literally no reason to lie), it’s “a lot more.”
It may actually be the case that it’s a pool of money that’s distributed based on what parts of the YouTube service you use. So if you watch 100% Mr. Beast, 55% of your subscription goes to Mr. Beast… I really don’t know how that works, it’s not to my knowledge clearly explained.
If you don’t believe Mr. Beast deserves 7.7/mo or so, then you’re welcome to use ads or see if Mr. Beast will upload his content somewhere else.
The fact of the matter is though, it really isn’t a scam for creators where YouTube just milks them for profits in an unfair exchange. They get an entire professionally hosted platform for free the entire time they grow, they get their old videos hosted indefinitely, and they pay nothing for that service. They could quit tomorrow, start losing YouTube money on heaps of 4k video, and be on the hook $0.
I’m not saying that it’s a scam for creators. I don’t want to support YouTube financially because of their rampant enshittification and algorithm that promotes divisiveness and political polarization. If there were multiple equally viable alternatives, at least some of them would have better policies and less enshittification than YouTube.
It’s a fact that YouTube pays out more to creators per view for a subscriber than for an ad user, and in the words of LinusTechTips (despite the current backlash he had literally no reason to lie), it’s “a lot more.”
It may actually be the case that it’s a pool of money that’s distributed based on what parts of the YouTube service you use. So if you watch 100% Mr. Beast, 55% of your subscription goes to Mr. Beast… I really don’t know how that works, it’s not to my knowledge clearly explained.
If you don’t believe Mr. Beast deserves 7.7/mo or so, then you’re welcome to use ads or see if Mr. Beast will upload his content somewhere else.
The fact of the matter is though, it really isn’t a scam for creators where YouTube just milks them for profits in an unfair exchange. They get an entire professionally hosted platform for free the entire time they grow, they get their old videos hosted indefinitely, and they pay nothing for that service. They could quit tomorrow, start losing YouTube money on heaps of 4k video, and be on the hook $0.
I’m not saying that it’s a scam for creators. I don’t want to support YouTube financially because of their rampant enshittification and algorithm that promotes divisiveness and political polarization. If there were multiple equally viable alternatives, at least some of them would have better policies and less enshittification than YouTube.