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It's not productive to say that 99% of the people contributing content are making garbage. Even if that were true, the 1% of good creators are equally affected
by Reubend 3y ago
It's not productive to say that 99% of the people contributing content are making garbage. Even if that were true, the 1% of good creators are equally affected by a lack of ad revenue as the bad ones.
The parent comment is basically pointing out that you're depriving the creators you watch of ad revenue. If you sponsor the creators you watch directly, that's great! But most people don't, and even for the people on HN I suspect that they watch a lot more different channels than just the ones they sponsor.
- throwaway5959 3y agoThese people are willing to contort themselves into a pretzel to justify getting something for nothing. They’re no different than people that show up to a restaurant, get an hours worth of good service from a waiter then tip them nothing (in the US) and claim they believe tipping is morally wrong and the system should be brought down. “No dude, you’re just a cheap bastard.”
- ChrisArchitect 3y agoWeird obsession around here with avoiding ads. We're talking what, 5-20 seconds every few videos? You barely have to "watch" them. If it's inconveniencing your life too much maybe you're consuming too much YouTube. It's all passive consume consume consume. Think we should be talking about YouTube addiction more.