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What's wrong with serving table and being "Youtube famous", as long as people recognizing you doesn't disturb the service ? Should a channel with videos of rou
by conradfr 11y ago
What's wrong with serving table and being "Youtube famous", as long as people recognizing you doesn't disturb the service ?
Should a channel with videos of roughly 250k views (with bad directing and average acting) allows its creator to live a rich or middle-class live ? I don't know, maybe but a TV show with these ratings in the US alone would get canceled quickly I guess.
I liked the candid honesty but the focus on subscribers numbers or Instragram likes felt delusional or disconnected from real life, (but I didn't know you could live of Instragram sponsored content so I'm clearly not an export in the field).
Also I think if you rely on the general public and especially the youths to live you should have a plan B because it's a fickle group, ask any celebrities of reality TV.
- HaloZero 11y agoI think as others have mentioned that people have an expectation that these "Youtube celebrities" are doing well when in reality they aren't. I think the explanations about their attempts to monetize but the problems with monetization are also discussed. I didn't get the impression she was complaining about it as much as the expectation that they are doing incredibly well when they aren't.
- lagadu 11y agoI think it's not as much "people expect her to be doing incredibly well" but more "I expected to be doing incredibly well based on my youtube status". At least that's the vibe I get from her post. It's like that "I have to succeed" line in the article. You have a fairly steady income and spend a lot of time doing something you love; you're already succeeding. You don't want to "succeed", you want to be rich. I'm sorry you feel that being a barista is beneath you, aren't you the special one. edit: to be clear I don't mean you, I mean the person who said that :)