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I mean, if the headline was "6 year old's Parents Made $11m in One Year", I feel like you could post the comment: "The parents did not make $11m. The kid did.

I mean, if the headline was "6 year old's Parents Made $11m in One Year", I feel like you could post the comment: "The parents did not make $11m. The kid did. The kid is on the screen, the kid plays with the toys, and is willing to continue appearing on camera."

betenoire 9y ago
Kids will play with toys all day long, whether or not anyone is paying attention. The effort, and thus the payoff, was on the parts of the parents, no?
- archildress 9y ago
  I don't mean to over-intellectualize, but here's an interesting question: Which is more of a commodity, a specific child that other kids would enjoy watching play, or someone to edit videos and plan content? I would say that you can hire out editing in a lot of cases or even video planning, but some people are just more magnetic than others. It's a somewhat uncomfortable truth but some kids are more... endearing than others? That is to say, there are some channels with kids that other kids would quickly bore with.
  - anigbrowl 9y ago
    This sort of assumes there were a bunch of peers who all started out even and he was the winner. In reality it's more a case of fortunate timing.
  - user5994461 9y ago
    >>> Which is more of a commodity, a specific child that other kids would enjoy watching play, or someone to edit videos and plan content? The parents are much more important for the business. They are true sales people, they do a ton of marketing, they optimized the revenues perfectly and they edit the videos accordingly.
  - em3rgent0rdr 9y ago
    Maybe both are right: Both the kid AND the parents deserve the money.
    - betenoire 9y ago
      I didn't mean to suggest anyone did or did not deserve anything. It was a question of who was making or is the product. Clearly they all deserve the benefit from their success.
  - betenoire 9y ago
    I think I get what you are saying, but one is quantifiable and the other is taste. And there are awesome personalities all around me, but without the hard work of planning, editing, etc., it's not worth much. potential is the easy part
dpweb 9y ago
Nah, parents did. Kid didnt hatch a scheme to make money from it. He is an employee at best.

betenoire 9y ago

Kids will play with toys all day long, whether or not anyone is paying attention. The effort, and thus the payoff, was on the parts of the parents, no?

archildress 9y ago
I don't mean to over-intellectualize, but here's an interesting question: Which is more of a commodity, a specific child that other kids would enjoy watching play, or someone to edit videos and plan content? I would say that you can hire out editing in a lot of cases or even video planning, but some people are just more magnetic than others. It's a somewhat uncomfortable truth but some kids are more... endearing than others? That is to say, there are some channels with kids that other kids would quickly bore with.
- anigbrowl 9y ago
  This sort of assumes there were a bunch of peers who all started out even and he was the winner. In reality it's more a case of fortunate timing.
- user5994461 9y ago
  >>> Which is more of a commodity, a specific child that other kids would enjoy watching play, or someone to edit videos and plan content? The parents are much more important for the business. They are true sales people, they do a ton of marketing, they optimized the revenues perfectly and they edit the videos accordingly.
- em3rgent0rdr 9y ago
  Maybe both are right: Both the kid AND the parents deserve the money.
  - betenoire 9y ago
    I didn't mean to suggest anyone did or did not deserve anything. It was a question of who was making or is the product. Clearly they all deserve the benefit from their success.
- betenoire 9y ago
  I think I get what you are saying, but one is quantifiable and the other is taste. And there are awesome personalities all around me, but without the hard work of planning, editing, etc., it's not worth much. potential is the easy part

dpweb 9y ago

Nah, parents did. Kid didnt hatch a scheme to make money from it. He is an employee at best.