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It’s kind of amazing... at 150 hours, even after 900 people have watched your video, you’ve still invested more time than all of your viewers combined. At 9,00
by erikpukinskis 9y ago
It’s kind of amazing... at 150 hours, even after 900 people have watched your video, you’ve still invested more time than all of your viewers combined.
At 9,000 views society is leveraging 10 units of consumption for every 1 unit of work.
So big YouTubers who get on the order of a million views per video and spend an order of magnitude less time on the content are producing entertainment at an approximately 10,000:1 ratio. Ten thousand hours of mindless consumption for each hour of work they put in.
- nindalf 9y ago> mindless consumption I'm uncomfortable with this characterization of consumption. I'm not doubting that most consumption is passive, but I think its a bit unfair to most people. Even creators, including in this case, Tony and Taylor are consumers 99% of the their lives. Nor is consumption a bad thing - watching Every Frame changed the way I think - which is great.
- upvotinglurker 9y agoI think the mindless type of YouTube viewer would quickly get bored and cut short their viewing of Every Frame videos (they're long for YouTube videos and require some attention to get entertainment value from them).
- erikpukinskis 9y agoI thought twice about that word “mindless” but I stand by it. I was explicitly not talking about Tony and Taylor I was talking about creators who put in “an order of magnitude less effort” and get a million views per video. Much of that content is mindless. Not all. And I’m not judging mindless entertainment. Mindfulness is one thing, not everything. But I think it’s a fair characterization of the typical in the segment I described. It’s worth noting that to get to that level of viewership you typically need to be producing very consistent content daily.