Is clickbating the only way to make a living out of youtube ?

Is clickbating the only way to make a living out of youtube ?

yes, and there's no shame if you're making millions from it

>stupid youtube expression faces

best way to filter garbage

Youtube's only purpose is clickbaiting.

Notice how Youtube has become more prolific with "recommended videos" and automatically loading "sponsored videos" once the one you're watching has ended?

They know that they're just running a pyramid scheme. They know that the only way anyone would watch even a quarter of the videos by their sponsors is if they put it absolutely-fucking-everywhere and make it where youtube will mostly gravitate users toward it.

This is true from angry joe to pewdiepie. They cannot thrive in an environment where all content is equal, so they let youtube have a cut of their profit to gravitate views toward them.

This is my youtube front page right now. I'm not logged in, and I have every privacy addon in the world enabled. This was in a sandboxed instance.

I can't think of a single person who would willingly click even half of those videos.

Youtube is a shithole and I can't wait until the next big thing overtakes it.

This isn't video games

>MOST OFFENSIVE GAME?
>qt 3D loli
What gaem

Youtube literally punishes creativity and effort. Why bother when you can just make unfunny news reactions and rake in the dough?

Yes it is, and finding actual quality content is near impossible. If Twitch had a better VOD service and allowed more than video games they could easily compete with YouTube.

I was talking with a friend of mine who has a 12 yo daughter and she told me she found the kid masturbating to one of those PewDiePie videos.

So, is this man selling porn to kids?

Even better than that

>Take someone else's video
>Put your face in a tiny corner of it

>I'M RICH MA

>Using Youtube anymore to watch videos instead of just using it as a glorified walkman

I don't understand how the most viewed videos are just some normie screaming things at the camera and making funny faces

the trending gaming videos I mean. It's shit

Once you understand that their userbase is either moronic or underage, thing become clearer

Thank the Angry Video Game Nerd.

That was the first time people realized that they didn't want to see content, they wanted to see a manchild over-react at things.

yes, because your average person has a 3 second attention span and won't watch a video unless the title is in ALL CAPS, it's 10 minutes long or shorter, and there's some image of tits and ass

But the AVGN is a character quite different from James Rolfe. These guys are trying to sell their own shitty personalities as funny characters. The worst of all? They are succeding.

Love Death

I hate how they just advertise the same channels over and over again

They either blatantly advertise the videos of some massive corporation, media conglomerate, or business, or the same 5 people that have millions and millions of subscribers and probably sponsor the former

Their characters are different from them, the person.

Their characters are 'them' pretending to be a spastic retard who could not function in day-to-day life under normal circumstances.

But if you go look at someone like Egoraptor or PDP in real life, they're complete normies. You would not be able to tell them apart from any other person IRL, because the way they act on the internet is leagues different from the way they act with other people.

They wouldn't have any friends, otherwise. They would be such assholes to other people and be so awkward in public that no one would want to be around them. Their only skill is acting personable in front of a camera, that's it. IRL they're just as inward and nerdy as anyone else on Veeky Forums.

The model of Youtube led to a gigantic race to the bottom.

Firstly, the age range of youtube tended younger than any other form of media. Teens and small stupid children had a great deal of influence in what became the most popular videos, namely dumb faces and screaming.

The ideal length of a youtube video is ~10 minutes. Even a 20 minute tv show has room for plot and substance, but a youtube video knows it is nothing more than a timewaster. Nobody wanted interesting timewasters, they wanted a cheap distraction whilst they were bored ie dumb faces and screaming.

As these similar channels became the stars of youtube, the format of a Quality Youtube Video tm took form. All videos became a homogenous mess, shot in the same way, filled with the same content with almost identical clickbait thumbnails. This is the product that soared to the top of youtube's market because youtube is designed to cater to retards

Maybe if you'd sign in it wouldn't look like that

Reading comprehension.

honestly I didn't bother reading more than a couple of sentences from your wall of text along with your image, maybe you shouldn't write so much redundancy next time

Not my post, nigger.

>moved
Oh, okay. I kind of like putting that in biz.

It was my post, and the tl;dr for that image is that someone who has never been to youtube before would get that as their starting page. No normal, well-adjusted person would click any of that shit.

Worst thing about AVNG is James Rolfe clearly wants to retire the character but the fans won't let him. It's a shame too because he, as a person, is more interesting with his other shows.

>moved to Veeky Forums
Well.

I love how people are blaming Youtube on *biz* of all boards.

Of course Youtube promotes the garbage. The garbage makes them money. Blame the neanderthals who are consuming the content, not Youtube.

>I love how people are blaming Youtube on *biz* of all boards.

Nigga this thread was started on /v/. Mod decided to move it here instead of /trash/.