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So do you want to have a creative carrier where you are your own boss, and you'll touch the lives of other people directly. Or do you want to train you whole l
by tokai 7y ago
So do you want to have a creative carrier where you are your own boss, and you'll touch the lives of other people directly.
Or do you want to train you whole life to sit in LEO half a summer to push buttons.
Makes sense to me.
- mochomocha 7y agoI'm hoping you have the minority opinion here! "Youtuber" doesn't mean being your own boss at all. It means being a pretense for advertising, and having your sole source of income depends on the whims of a gigantic monopoly.
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- deegles 7y agoA lot of demonetized or otherwise smaller channels use Patreon or similar for revenue, so that doesn't have to be the case. Of course, they still give Youtube ad revenue.
- saltminer 7y agoThere are plenty of people using Patreon that are neither small nor demonetized, as it's more reliable than YouTube ad money and can get people more involved/loyal if you provide some perks for supporting on there.
- ijpoijpoihpiuoh 7y agoI dunno. Being an astronaut doesn't sound much better when you put it reductively. "Astronaut" doesn't mean "space adventurer" at all. Most of the time is spent in training and classes on the ground. Moreover, once you go out to space -- supposing you ever get to go, not likely -- you find that there's nothing there (that's what "space" means), most notably, no bars, movie theaters, or hot young people of your preferred gender. And the whole deal might be scrapped if the wrong political party gains power and slashes NASA's budget by 50%.
- johan_larson 7y agoYeah, if fame/status/respect is what you're looking for, astronaut is not a great deal right now. Way to much effort for what you get. But that's not the only reason to pursue the profession.
- tokai 7y agoPlease don't prescribe values to me I didn't present. I didn't say if I think it is a good thing or bad thing. My point is that I can easily understand why young people rather be youtubers.
- okmokmz 7y agoYou used positive examples and positive language when describing youtubers and negative examples and language when describing astronauts. You are the one that prescribed value to your statement based on the way you described both professions
- dwaltrip 7y agoYou clearly framed one as better than the other.
- someguydave 7y agoAs opposed to a NASA astronaut, who must spend his or her days laboring under the regulations of the US Government, and whose sole income depends on the whims of its gigantic monopoly.
- mochomocha 7y agoSo you're comparing the income stability of a "government type" job to the high-volatility of advertising dollars coming from the quickly moving trends of online platforms?
- someguydave 7y agoIn theory, all government employees could be fired tomorrow, if it pleases Congress, the President, and the Courts.
- imgabe 7y agoIn theory all YouTubers could be "fired" tomorrow if it pleases Google (to shut down, demonitize, or otherwise alter YouTube). I'd put that as significantly more likely, not that either one is very likely at all.
- okmokmz 7y agoIf you are genuinely trying to imply that being an astronaut at NASA has a similar level of financial and professional stability as a social media influencer you are unequivocally incorrect
- johan_larson 7y agoIt's not quite a monopoly. Small-time online personalities can choose at least between YouTube and Twitch right now for video. I expect there are a few less popular platforms, too. Anyone care to comment on which ones?
- crispyporkbites 7y agoIGTV, TikTok, Snap are other platforms for this
- lowdose 7y agoTikTok is blowing up, I wouldn't be surprised when they grow to become a serious yt competitor.
- kevinventullo 7y agoOne big difference is you can make money directly from YouTube and Twitch if you have many followers through ad revenue sharing. On those other platforms, you have to get more creative in monetizing your popularity, e.g. striking a deal with advertisers directly to do sponsored posts.
- coldcode 7y agoSounds like drug dealing to me. You get paid to push products at people and call it a career. 5 years from now there are millions of people earning nothing on Youtube influencing no one and having no real alternative. In the end only a few strike it rich and the rest get nothing vs learning something that might actually be a reasonable career.
- wongarsu 7y ago> You get paid to push products at people and call it a career. Just like a career in sales. And while nobody really likes salespeople it's a generally accepted and potentially very lucrative career choice.
- conjectures 7y agoIt's like every other get rich quick scheme: as soon as you've heard of it chances are it's too late.
- yoz-y 7y ago> You get paid to push products at people and call it a career. While there are definitely a lot of channels whose main purpose is to push products, there are tons of YouTubers that only do so to earn money and the value of the videos is elsewhere. Numberphile does have product placement but calling them a drug dealer would be quite misguided.
- okmokmz 7y ago>where you are your own boss You may not technically have a "boss" per se, but you are 100% beholden to Youtube as a company, their platform, and their advertisers. You absolutely cannot do anything you want, and you have little to no control of the primary means of accessing your content. The fact that people in this thread are trying to compare Youtube "influencers" to astronauts is absurd