Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

I have nothing against the Fine Bros personally, but the React World thing backfiring was... It was orgasmic~

I guess I'm not that surprised, because I just spent close to 20 months with a client who was deeply embedded in the internet advertising space. The problem boils down to this:

- Internet advertising has been priced too high since the very beginning, the ROI just wasn't there
- Between ubiquitous ad blocking and the populace over time learning to just ignore ads, even what returns companies were getting are getting thinner and thinner.

Obviously, YouTube needs content, but at this point it's big enough that it'll get that content from somewhere; movie/game trailers, etc, etc. All advertiser friendly, and usually high quality. The lower tiers of content creator just don't matter as much in the big picture.

YouTube is phenomenally expensive to run. You make money by either raising prices or reducing expenses. They can't raise prices, so the only thing they can possibly do is reduce expenses, and their clearest path to that is changing who gets paid for what. Also, by limiting the scope of what pays out, they can offer advertisers a clearer picture of where their ads will be seen, which won't let them raise prices, but can at least stabilize them/keep them paying.

This probably doesn't bother me as much because I don't watch a ton of YouTube, but the challenges in the industry are very, very real right now, and this is a completely understandable and predictable response to it. There's a lot of arguments to made as to whether or not it's the correct response, but it's not a knee-jerk sort of thing.

There are a lot of channels dedicated to discussing such things.

Also, I watch Lost Pause who plays dating sims and visual novels and...other stuff censored so this could potentially suck for me...

I've notice an increase in ads recently. YouTube added ads to longer videos too.

Check your privilege, Josi.

Ad revenue is down everywhere, though, which is what started all of this, which means people are going to have to find other sources of funding. Nothing's as easy as ads, though.

I'm sure Patreon is reading this update and making cha-ching noises.

You can't get triggered, you're an able-bodied cis-het white male. You're also Canadian so you also have healthcare privilege. Stop oppressing me!

Goddamn binary genders. I bet you don't even know my girlboy pronouns.

Gross revenue is a mostly meaningless number in this regard. The numbers that matter are impressions, impression rate, cost per impression, and the operating costs of YouTube itself. Also, don't forget that a chunk of that revenue goes back to the content creators.

Google doesn't release numbers on YouTube's operating costs, but most estimates put it at at least $1.5b/year.

DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT FARM TO TABLE MEANS?!

It means you're going to charge me twelve bucks for a grilled cheese.

This, my friend, is a gourmet 100% organic cheese sandwich on gluten free bread, all locally sourced and grilled to perfection using real, locally sourced butter in a skillet hand forged by a local blacksmith.

How dare you, sir.

omg omg omgomgg i neeed this!!

1/1 again. I have now gotten both the jobs I wanted on the first pull. My luck in Mobius is *** awesome compared to other games.

Added to wish list.

march 30th

Do have the last one they made, the Hyrule Historia? It's awesome.

yup

I have that. I'm a sucker for art books.

The FFIX art book is nice too.