I don’t think you realize this, but I’ll let you in on why some people (myself included) find it annoying. You are literally advertising his channel/video, as in an actual advertisement I see on the side of my screen telling me to click some flash game about anime girls or whatever. I’m not interested in his content, I do not care about his videos, I literally don’t even know who he is, and I don’t care to know. Do you click every advertisement you see? Or do you get annoyed when you see ads?
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He’s made 100k over 10 years rofl… Thats… sub Mcdonalds pay… By alot
Many of those sellers aren’t individuals, they’re groups. It’s not one person taking the entire cut
I hate that this is now so ubiquitous on YouTube. Pretty much every video could easily be summarised into 3-4 minutes, but everyone stretches their content out to maximise ad revenue.
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I suppose this is the joy of open forums. You don’t have to do anything you don’t want.
Title of this thread is very straight forward too. Is it an “ad”? Not an ad perse, but I’m linking his content indeed. I found it to be interesting and insightful. Why do people share anything? Because they find it interesting, funny, insightful and something, perhaps, they’d want others to see.
I like him as a content creator. He does put in quite a bit of effort into his content.
This YT piece specifically did a deep dive into RMT and actually interviewed gold farmers. Not just overview of some wowhead news article like ScottieJay does. Though he does make good content too now and then.
It’s actually YT’s fault. They changed their policy many years back. Vids, to be monetized, have to be at least 11m long. This is why you rarely see short content nowadays. Always over 11m long.
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You realize that your post is identical to if the board was just spammed with threads linking to gold selling websites, right? He doesn’t make videos for free, I assume he gets paid in clicks or patreon. If the entire forum was nothing but links to youtube videos, I’m sure more people would be upset.
No…that’s different. Linking to an illicit website is against ToS. Linking to a somewhat “educational” video is not.
Others, occasionally, also post some links. Some I watch. Some I don’t. If I don’t, I definitely don’t waste my time, out of respect to myself & my time really, posting negative comments. Because I just don’t care enough. Yall clearly do.
But hey, if you don’t like it, that’s okay. That’s just not for you.
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Which is why as a matter of principle I don’t click on these videos. I don’t want to reinforce this toxic cycle Google has orchestrated to maximise how long people spend on their platform, nor support so-called ‘content creators’ who are more interested in chasing dollars than respecting the time of their viewers.
This isn’t against you personally, and I’m sure others have similar feelings about videos such as this.
That’s okay. I often support/donate content creators I like. Lots of them do that as their FT job. Neither one of us right nor wrong.
You work your job, they do theirs. Yours just happened to be office/constructions/medical/LE/army/programming/whatever, theirs happened to be making YT content.
You just go way out of your way to voice that for some reason.
I suppose for a few reasons:
- I remember a day not too long ago, before the internet was so heavily monetized, where people made content and shared information with one another for fun.
- It is morally reprehensible that platforms such as YouTube are more interested in psychologically manipulating users into spending as much time on their platform as possible, rather than delivering quality services.
- People regularly boycott companies due to moral concerns over the way they are run. I don’t see why digital platforms should be regarded any differently.
This really applies to everything today… Look at WoW. Modern WoW is designed around making you log back in.
Starbucks is mad addictive so you keep coming back.
Steam, as a store platform, is also built in the way that you will come back to play any of the games.
you’re lashing out on honest labor. I think it’s a little silly. Especially for smaller content creators. They are nothing like Asmongold who makes half a mil every month and has a full team of editors and mods that are probably earning a living wage off of it .
Youtube is what allows them to make some cash to live off of. Sure, YT gets a bite of it. Nothing is free.
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This !! I clicked through a 6 minute video to show the location of a dungeon on the map once. 6 minutes for him to open his map and show location.
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I agree, I know YouTube isn’t the exception to the rule.
I respectfully disagree. If an enterprise level company was systematically underpaying its workers, you could make the argument that you’re hurting the ‘honest labour’ of the underpaid staff by boycotting the company but that’s a manipulative mischaracterisation of who is at fault.
Agreed. My time is not free. If YouTube and its content creators want to make money off my time, offer a quality product. I’m not morally obliged to support them.
And you don’t have to watch it then. No one will hold it against you.
But telling others what to do and what to do is also not really acceptable.
If you feel like this thread goes against your believes, I’m sorry you feel this way. Best I can suggest is to move past it.
I never liked Vanilla, so I straight up skipped the entire 2019 Classic release and only joined during TBCC release. Didn’t go around telling others how lame it is though.
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Can you quote me where I ever told anyone what to do or not do? I don’t believe I ever did. Your OP was directing me to watch something, and I feel within my right to explain why I didn’t do so.
On that we agree. TBC best expansion
A problem? What problem? It’s profitable, I’m sure the shareholders don’t see it as a problem.
Good video. Metagoblin has turned things around imo. His last video was probably the best I have seen for all of WOTLK.
Blizz can essentially “print” tokens out of thin air. Reminds me of the US, except worse since there is really zero downsides being it’s a fake digital currency.
It depends…
If the system works as they say and it’s only ever a 1-1 buyer to seller then they’re still “losing” a sub when they sell a token, though they’re effectively still getting that sub for $20 vs ~15.
But if they’re eating a certain % of tokens, and I’d be surprised if they aren’t, then those become just pure profit
They are not.
The person who bought a token already paid their sub.
Now someone bought that token for their sub.
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I literally said that like 2 words after what you quoted. Were you in such a hurry to try to correct me that you literally stopped reading there and couldn’t even finsih the sentence? 