[unprepare]

Maybe these people do get offers but prefer to work on their own schedules and without cumbersome contracts.

If you were making really good money making youtube videos, why would you want to sign on with food network (who probably demands things like good behavior clauses and stuff in their contracts), have to shoot a real tv show on the networks schedule, doing reshoots and promotional events, etc at the beck and call of some executive?

I absolutely agree that these youtubers are underpaid for the value that they create/the audiences they have accumulated; im just not as surprised that we arent seeing them convert into tv and movie personalities

[hayd]

> If you were making really good money making youtube videos, why would you want to sign on with food network

because they'd pay you even better money!

[josephb]

> because they'd pay you even better money!

That's assuming money matters :-)

Often people who are running their own world and in control of their own destiny are happy to stay that way regardless of better money.