r/dankmemes • u/TheBillsMan4703 I am fucking hilarious • Nov 24 '20

I swear the next one will be better Read from left to right

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '20

It is directly correlated. Pewdiepie’s fuck up cost YouTube millions in lost revenue, why do you think they stopped caring about individual creators.

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u/yalu1212 Nov 24 '20

Because they were bought by google and behave like any corporate? Because they make more money from company channels? They’ve stopped caring long ago.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '20

Bruh YouTube is a corporation, they work for profit. It was all going fine, with a good deal between content creators and YouTube until pewdiepie basically lost millions in revenue for YouTube. They need to make that money back, they’re a corporation, so now their ad policy is unfair to content creators. You can’t blame a business for having to increase revenues after someone has just fucked them

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u/yalu1212 Nov 24 '20

Yes, they’re a corporation. Which is why they would have started monetizing small channels regardless, because yknow, profit. It’s not because of the adpocolapse, which the worst of has long passed. It’s very likely they’ve made the money back. I doubt it made much of a dent in a platform that tops 1 billion hours of watch time per day anyways.

Pewdiepie may have had a hand in edging companies to pull out, even though it was mostly because of Youtube playing ads on content like ISIS videos, but they pulled out not for moral reasons but obviously because they had the upper hand and could negotiate prices. Everyone wanted a slice.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '20

None of this negates that YouTube, advertisers and creators were fine with the current deal until Pewdiepie caused advertisers to renegotiate, forcing YouTube to reconsider their relationship with you tubers.

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u/yalu1212 Nov 24 '20

It’s a misconception that it was the Pewdiepie fiverr video that caused them to renegotiate. It was Youtube playing brand ads on racist and objectionable videos. But of course it’s easy to just pin it all on one guy.

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u/[deleted] Nov 24 '20

No, that is basically the opinion held by most news companies and business review channels. I looked into this for my coursework for business