[adingus]

It's rich for a TV exec to call YouTube 'slop'. Compared to traditional TV, where 1/3rd or more of your time is spent watching ads for prescription drugs or fake silver coins, the YouTubers I watch put much more thought and artistic energy into what they produce than the laugh track trash on TV.

[throwaway290]

You skipped the part about how much of your time is spent watching ads on Youtube? If zero and you've got UBO on then you are stealing revenue from your favourite YouTubers who put so much thought and artistic energy into what they produce

[tialaramex]

Youtube Premium actually pays the Youtubers similar or possibly slightly better than running Youtube advertising and I don't watch ads to fund that, I pay them money.

I guess you could argue that the stuff where Hank Green is telling me to consider buying a crash course coin is advertising? But by the same token arguably watching Carl Sagan play Blue Prince is advertising how great Carl is? Where are we drawing the line here?

[9x39]

It’s zero but we paid for YT Premium which splits revenue with creators.