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Often put on various Cat TV channels from YouTube on before leaving for work. They are usually like 8 hour long shots of birds and squirrels eating nuts someone

Often put on various Cat TV channels from YouTube on before leaving for work. They are usually like 8 hour long shots of birds and squirrels eating nuts someone left on log, the cats love it and will watch diligently. They are monetized channels often enough, and its just funny to me knowing that every once in a while the cats, who are otherwise alone in the house, are being treated to a commercial for some sports betting service, or for profit college experience. This entire edifice of targeted ads being directed to two cats who suddenly experience a very human moment in this absurd context. Can't help but feel like they sense it, that they are suddenly interpolated into this thing, subjects to the streams of money and incentived attention. brought down into our inferior world of commodities and money. Have been close to getting the premium YouTube just for their sake, and of course for the sake of the nice people making the videos.

mastax 5y ago
Last I checked YouTube premium doesn't pay out for your views like ads do. It goes into a single pot that is split amongst creators based on their views or ad revenue (can't remember).
- sfe22 5y ago
  Cant be ad revenue, it would be stupid. But going into a pot Spotify style is also evil and not fair.
  - thrownblown 5y ago
    Your monthly subscription fee minus a little off the top is split by your watch time amongst those you watch.
    - mastax 5y ago
      > Currently, new revenue from YouTube Premium membership fees is distributed to video creators based on how much members watch your content. As with our advertising business, most of the revenue will go to creators https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6306276?hl=en#zippy=%2Cwill-creators-still-be-paid-with-youtube-premium%2Chow-can-i-cross-check-whether-my-payment-amount-is-correct%2Chow-is-revenue-figured-out https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6306276?hl=en#zipp... It's pretty vague, but my reading of this is that it's paid out of a single pool based on the watch time of all YouTube Premium Members. So e.g. if you only watch one video a month, that creator doesn't get all of your money.
    - JeremyNT 5y ago
      I subscribe to YouTube premium solely for the music service, which I listen to for hours a day. I watch maybe 15 minutes of YouTube a month. How do they split this up? Do they pay out more to the music copyright holders since I listen to music so much more? Or does each side of the house have its own "bucket" to draw down? If so, maybe I should seek out worthy YouTubers to donate to be leaving it running in the background.
- andrewxdiamond 5y ago
  Premium views pay out part of your subscription to the creator you watched. A normal ad view is worth fractions of a fraction of a penny, but YouTube premium views pay out much more.
  - srg0 5y ago
    That’s interesting. Do you have an idea what fraction of the YouTube premium fee goes to the content creators?
sixstringtheory 5y ago
Turns out Scrooged was visionary in more ways than I thought! https://youtu.be/0Oa5yEq2qvM?t=30s https://youtu.be/0Oa5yEq2qvM?t=30s
rvba 5y ago
As much as I like cats, this is incredibly wasteful for the whole world - lots of carbon footprint. Cant you just buy some other toys for your cats?
- capableweb 5y ago
  I didn't do the math, but can't imagine that leaving a TV on/off for ~9 hours (guessing that's how long time OP works + transit) has a huge impact on the total carbon footprint from that household, but I might be wrong. Care to show how it's actually "incredibly wasteful for the whole world"?
  - rvba 5y ago
    BCC claims that if everyone was as wasteful as people from USA (carbon footprint), then we would need 4.1 Earths. For Saudis 5.1 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33133712 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33133712
    - capableweb 5y ago
      Yeah, that makes sense. Americans are incredibly wasteful. My claim wasn't that they aren't. My claim is that if some of them leave the TV on VS leaving it on for ~7 hours some days doesn't have a huge impact on the carbon footprint, even less is "incredibly wasteful for the whole world".

mastax 5y ago

Last I checked YouTube premium doesn't pay out for your views like ads do. It goes into a single pot that is split amongst creators based on their views or ad revenue (can't remember).

sfe22 5y ago
Cant be ad revenue, it would be stupid. But going into a pot Spotify style is also evil and not fair.
- thrownblown 5y ago
  Your monthly subscription fee minus a little off the top is split by your watch time amongst those you watch.
  - mastax 5y ago
    > Currently, new revenue from YouTube Premium membership fees is distributed to video creators based on how much members watch your content. As with our advertising business, most of the revenue will go to creators https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6306276?hl=en#zippy=%2Cwill-creators-still-be-paid-with-youtube-premium%2Chow-can-i-cross-check-whether-my-payment-amount-is-correct%2Chow-is-revenue-figured-out https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6306276?hl=en#zipp... It's pretty vague, but my reading of this is that it's paid out of a single pool based on the watch time of all YouTube Premium Members. So e.g. if you only watch one video a month, that creator doesn't get all of your money.
  - JeremyNT 5y ago
    I subscribe to YouTube premium solely for the music service, which I listen to for hours a day. I watch maybe 15 minutes of YouTube a month. How do they split this up? Do they pay out more to the music copyright holders since I listen to music so much more? Or does each side of the house have its own "bucket" to draw down? If so, maybe I should seek out worthy YouTubers to donate to be leaving it running in the background.
andrewxdiamond 5y ago
Premium views pay out part of your subscription to the creator you watched. A normal ad view is worth fractions of a fraction of a penny, but YouTube premium views pay out much more.
- srg0 5y ago
  That’s interesting. Do you have an idea what fraction of the YouTube premium fee goes to the content creators?

sixstringtheory 5y ago

Turns out Scrooged was visionary in more ways than I thought! https://youtu.be/0Oa5yEq2qvM?t=30s https://youtu.be/0Oa5yEq2qvM?t=30s

rvba 5y ago

As much as I like cats, this is incredibly wasteful for the whole world - lots of carbon footprint. Cant you just buy some other toys for your cats?

capableweb 5y ago
I didn't do the math, but can't imagine that leaving a TV on/off for ~9 hours (guessing that's how long time OP works + transit) has a huge impact on the total carbon footprint from that household, but I might be wrong. Care to show how it's actually "incredibly wasteful for the whole world"?
- rvba 5y ago
  BCC claims that if everyone was as wasteful as people from USA (carbon footprint), then we would need 4.1 Earths. For Saudis 5.1 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33133712 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-33133712
  - capableweb 5y ago
    Yeah, that makes sense. Americans are incredibly wasteful. My claim wasn't that they aren't. My claim is that if some of them leave the TV on VS leaving it on for ~7 hours some days doesn't have a huge impact on the carbon footprint, even less is "incredibly wasteful for the whole world".