4 ms·
Are youtubers employees? Surely they can't be.
by bifrost 7y ago
Are youtubers employees?
Surely they can't be.
- Crontab 7y agoThey're not and I predict this will not get them what they want.
- bifrost 7y agoThis reeks of the non-employee uber driver issue. I guess we'll see what happens in a month.
- Latty 7y agoDoes that matter? The concept of collective bargaining still applies. Obviously anyone replaceable has a bad position to bargain, so it becomes a question of how replaceable YouTubers are. Clearly there are plenty of people who want to fill that role, but I don't know how the average user interacts with YouTube. For me, if the creators I watch were striking and trying to force change, I'm not going to bother going on YouTube. I have no idea if "watching a specific set of creators" is a significant enough part of the user-base to really hurt YouTube enough to comply, or if most people would just watch other videos.
- Konnstann 7y agoYoutube I'm not sure about, but Twitch is pretty controversial about selectively enforcing their TOS with regards to big streamers. Youtube has become more corporate-focused lately so I don't know how much they depend on let's say the top 10% of creators vs TV/Sports networks, but striking might work.
- deleted 7y ago[deleted]