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There's something ironic about the criticism of Facebook internally as a popularity contest, then making $500,000/year from advertising on your popular YouTube
by zbuf 7y ago
There's something ironic about the criticism of Facebook internally as a popularity contest, then making $500,000/year from advertising on your popular YouTube channel.
- dominicr 7y agoI heard it as a criticism of deciding work decisions based on popularity, with product choices, technical implementations, etc... based on facebook likes, not real deciding factors. Which is very different from growing a YouTube audience.
- gorzynsk 7y agoWhat works for gaining viewers on YouTube will not work when you have to decide on highly technical manners in software development. For one purpose likes are useful, for other purposes they are absurd.
- creato 7y agoTrying to be a celebrity is a very different career path than working at a big company. They shouldn't be similar.
- Traster 7y agoOr to put it another way, if you work hard get a good degree, get a job at a top tech company and then find out your success boils down to the same skills you need as a youtuber, you may as well just quit and go be a youtuber - especially since being a youtuber could pay better and you don't have to pretend to add features to facebook.