Creators who want to start earning on the platform will need at least 8,000 qualified watch hours over the past year or 20 million qualified Shorts views in the last 90 days.
Like…we can’t just write off everyone else’s misery and suffering because you personally found a way to avoid it.
The degree of privilege required to even entertain making a living as a YouTube starlet is astronomical.
And, again, free video hosting and distribution! That’s why 99% of people put videos in YouTube. You can host something and pass it around without needing a self-hosted solution to manage it.
It’s honestly insane and kinda selfish and self-defeating to say that the response to a bad situation is to just take your business elsewhere.
Like…we can’t just write off everyone else’s misery and suffering because you personally found a way to avoid it.
That is literally 99% of the world’s problems and thank you for providing a brilliant example at the lowest moral stakes possible.
The degree of privilege required to even entertain making a living as a YouTube starlet is astronomical.
And, again, free video hosting and distribution! That’s why 99% of people put videos in YouTube. You can host something and pass it around without needing a self-hosted solution to manage it.
That’s the business model. It’s not Netflix