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Because people get real mad if YouTube tries to collect the patron money themselves and obviously takes a cut. Aka memberships.
by grogenaut 3y ago
Because people get real mad if YouTube tries to collect the patron money themselves and obviously takes a cut. Aka memberships.
- LukeShu 3y agoSo? Patreon's taking a cut (but YouTube takes a bigger cut; a quick search indicates 30% vs 8%-12%). I'm fine with YouTube memberships in principle; if a creator that I support said "consider switching your support from Patreon to YouTube", I would. But there's no way I'm signing up for YouTube Premium.
- grogenaut 3y agoThe parent said youtube should be able to take money directly... and I pointed out they can. That's what's So. And I didn't say youtube premium, I said memberships. Tho if you have enough memberships premium makes more sense fiscally even tho it doesn't give the money to the creators as much.
- LukeShu 3y agoI was responding to your assertion that people get mad because YouTube takes a cut. The alternative (Patreon) also takes a cut.
- grogenaut 3y agoPeople are also mad at that but sometimes less so. It seems those indirections launder the grumpy since there's not one focused place to complain. YouTube takes more because they're doing more work. It's funny cause no one seems to think YouTube deserves any munny for their technological marve of long tail content sometimes.