SuspiciousFish
WKR
- Joined
- May 26, 2022
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I think your suspicions will be upheld. There are only a handful of content creators that are actually making enough to actually earn a living and even then many get burned out after a few years anyway. A lot of people in the game are miserable and end up quitting. The problem too is you are making money on a platform from the ads they sell so if your content does not align with advertisements you can take a hit. It usually ends up with actual creators just making least common denominator garbage to appease the platform. I remember when The Great War channel got hit but the advertisement rework and they lost a bunch of money because YouTube could not figure out what ads to run on a WWI historical channel. That and if you say anything remotely political the leftists trolls will hit you with a 'copyright strike' or crap like that and you end up spending a week fighting it.I'd love to see a graph with earnings from across the spectrum. I have no trouble with the idea that some are making a lot of money, but I'd like to see the stats, as I bet there are a lot of aspiring performers who are not making much.
Who knows though, maybe I'd be surprised.