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> However, the allure of being a "YouTuber," which had been steadily gaining traction in recent years, saw a decline, slipping from ninth place in last year’s s
by karaterobot 3y ago
> However, the allure of being a "YouTuber," which had been steadily gaining traction in recent years, saw a decline, slipping from ninth place in last year’s survey to the 14th spot.
That's very nice, I hope it stays so as they age.
- renewiltord 3y agoYouTuber is just “movie star” or fame adjusted for era. I bet interest in that has been roughly constant over time.
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- bena 3y agoA fair number of people I grew up with wanted to be some sort of celebrity. Either an athlete or some sort of performance art. "YouTuber" is just another specific type of celebrity to them.
- two_handfuls 3y agoAnd they’re not wrong. One thing that’s cool is there is more variety there, like celebrity playing video games, celebrity doing science, celebrity making cool stories using video game tools, etc.
- api 3y agoIt’s no different from kids in the 80s and 90s wanting to be rock stars or basketball players. Kids often have impractical career ideas based on what they see in pop culture until they are old enough to know themselves and the world more.
- andrewxdiamond 3y ago“YouTuber” is another way of saying “small business owner” and regardless of your perspective on the platforms in general, they have cause an explosion of independent businesses
- IncreasePosts 3y agoNot really, since most people who want to be a YouTuber probably don't want to be the owner/operator of a laundromat. The desire to be a YouTuber is probably wrapped up in the desire to 1) be famous-ish, or at least well known within a community, and 2) To make money doing the things you already like to do - ie a person who likes to play video games might want to be a video game youtuber.
- ang_cire 3y agoYes, and if they incorporate, which many do once they become even just medium-sized, they are a small business owner. Before that, they're self-employed. The whole point is that people have biases against video content creation as a business when it's done by individuals, but not by Hollywood or news media.
- bigtex88 3y agoI'm not exactly sure that we should be encouraging the opening of these types of "small businesses".
- andrewxdiamond 3y agoWhy not? These businesses have made multi millionaires out of regular people. Linus of LTT was offered $100 million for his company. How many ~10 year old companies get valued like that? Started by some regular relatable person with a regular background? Young adults have seen how corporations treat regular people. They’re not very eager to sign up for the pain train that millennials went through. YouTube is a real career path with significantly bigger upside than almost any opportunity young adults have today
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- paulryanrogers 3y agoA few become millionaires. Most hustle for pennies. Some just enjoy the process.
- kebsup 3y agoI have the opposite problem... As a solo bootstrapped founder, I feel like it would be extremely useful to create a few videos to promote the product, however getting in front of a camera feels like a nightmare.
- CharlesW 3y agoGoogle "ideas for making faceless videos". It's common among people who have a "face for audio" (like me).
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- keiferski 3y agoVideo is probably the future of all media. People under 30 don’t read all that much, for better or worse. Being good on camera is probably going to be a general useful life skill, in the way reading and writing are/were.
- 01HNNWZ0MV43FF 3y agoFrightening. I hope auto transcription improves