Hey guys. We live in dystopian times. Youtube is a 'Pay to Play'-Platform. I got a message from them today, asking me to pay money to promote my content. These features might have ben around for a while, but why message me about this now, if they're not trying to turn up that dial?
I will elaborate on this development a little more in this post. However, I also wanted you to know that I started talking to NEBULA (as an alternative to Youtube) about a year ago. I was invited by them, because some major channels on their platform are fans of my content. After a year of preparation, my videos are now also on Nebula! go.nebula.tv/postapocalypticinventor
It took me so long to actually upload my videos on their platform, because I didn't know what additional service a second video platform would offer to my viewers. However, there is actually tons of reasons to diversify and they grow all the time:
1.) Even after 11 years on Youtube I have zero leverage to re-instate my channel if it would ever be highjacked by scammers, or disable by YouTube's 'AI' controlled censorship mechanism. Nebula has a strong network for powerful creators and a direct link to people who actually work at Google. They could help me get my channel back.
2.) Youtube creators get bombarded with scam-emails and supposed collaboration requests from scammers of all stripes who pose a legitimate companies only to steel my identity and highjack the channel. Nebula will act as a buffer between me and the scammers.
3.) Youtube has embraced a culture of quantity over quanlity which is now exaggerated by the AI-Slop Tsunami. Quality content is buried under piles of garbage. Nebula curates its content. There is no AI-Slop on that platform either.
4.) While Youtube is flooded with ads, nebula is ad-free and sponsorship messages must be cut out of the videos before uploading.
5.) Youtube started as a platform where you got rewarded for content that people wanted to see. They rewarded people like me to 'catch' them and bind them to YouTube as a platform. This worked well for a number of years until they started to encourage third-party sponsorships. I fact I was personally invited to a google business event in 2017, where they encourage me and other up and coming creators to seek out sponsorships ourselves, rather than relying on Youtube's built-in Ad-Sense system. Back then I wondered why, and was too naive to read the message clearly. Youtube knew 8 years ago, that they wouldn't be able to pay full-time creators enough money to keep them around, so they spent money to make us look for alternative income streams ourselves, without ever speaking the truth about it. For some time now they have reversed the logic and people have been paying money to promote their content on the platform and get an upper hand over other creators who don't. This is 'Pay to Play'. They have now baked it directly into the creator-tools used for uploading videos and messaged me about that today. Other creators might have had that feature for a long time. These features are always 'rolled out' gradually. Probably to soften the blow/ outrage. This might sound like a conspiracy theory: But while Youtube got big PAYING people, the future is that they will be instead CHARGING people to act as a distributor for their content. This has always been the case, since Youtube has taken 45 percent of all ad-earnigs that I ever made in these 11 (or so) years. But it is not enough. They want me to put my cut back into their machine to promote my content over other channels. Like many others I will stay here on Youtube, because this is where I built this channel in the first place. It cannot be replaced. But I still believe that we have to give alternative platforms a chance and Nebula is a real alternative, ESPECIALLY because it takes a 'Quality over Quantity' approach.
PS: A few years ago nobody at Google/Youtube would ever have known about negative posts like these, because they don't employ enough people to even care about creators like me. In the great future we live in now, 'AI' tools could read and flag stuff like this in a heartbeat. After all, I'm using Youtube to send people to another platform. Some might laugh at this, as I would have some years ago. But I think it's only a matter of time until it won't be possible anymore to even advertise other platforms here, without getting into problems.
The Post Apocalyptic Inventor
Hey guys. We live in dystopian times. Youtube is a 'Pay to Play'-Platform. I got a message from them today, asking me to pay money to promote my content. These features might have ben around for a while, but why message me about this now, if they're not trying to turn up that dial?
I will elaborate on this development a little more in this post. However, I also wanted you to know that I started talking to NEBULA (as an alternative to Youtube) about a year ago. I was invited by them, because some major channels on their platform are fans of my content. After a year of preparation, my videos are now also on Nebula!
go.nebula.tv/postapocalypticinventor
It took me so long to actually upload my videos on their platform, because I didn't know what additional service a second video platform would offer to my viewers. However, there is actually tons of reasons to diversify and they grow all the time:
1.) Even after 11 years on Youtube I have zero leverage to re-instate my channel if it would ever be highjacked by scammers, or disable by YouTube's 'AI' controlled censorship mechanism. Nebula has a strong network for powerful creators and a direct link to people who actually work at Google. They could help me get my channel back.
2.) Youtube creators get bombarded with scam-emails and supposed collaboration requests from scammers of all stripes who pose a legitimate companies only to steel my identity and highjack the channel. Nebula will act as a buffer between me and the scammers.
3.) Youtube has embraced a culture of quantity over quanlity which is now exaggerated by the AI-Slop Tsunami. Quality content is buried under piles of garbage. Nebula curates its content. There is no AI-Slop on that platform either.
4.) While Youtube is flooded with ads, nebula is ad-free and sponsorship messages must be cut out of the videos before uploading.
5.) Youtube started as a platform where you got rewarded for content that people wanted to see. They rewarded people like me to 'catch' them and bind them to YouTube as a platform. This worked well for a number of years until they started to encourage third-party sponsorships. I fact I was personally invited to a google business event in 2017, where they encourage me and other up and coming creators to seek out sponsorships ourselves, rather than relying on Youtube's built-in Ad-Sense system. Back then I wondered why, and was too naive to read the message clearly. Youtube knew 8 years ago, that they wouldn't be able to pay full-time creators enough money to keep them around, so they spent money to make us look for alternative income streams ourselves, without ever speaking the truth about it. For some time now they have reversed the logic and people have been paying money to promote their content on the platform and get an upper hand over other creators who don't. This is 'Pay to Play'. They have now baked it directly into the creator-tools used for uploading videos and messaged me about that today. Other creators might have had that feature for a long time. These features are always 'rolled out' gradually. Probably to soften the blow/ outrage. This might sound like a conspiracy theory: But while Youtube got big PAYING people, the future is that they will be instead CHARGING people to act as a distributor for their content. This has always been the case, since Youtube has taken 45 percent of all ad-earnigs that I ever made in these 11 (or so) years. But it is not enough. They want me to put my cut back into their machine to promote my content over other channels. Like many others I will stay here on Youtube, because this is where I built this channel in the first place. It cannot be replaced. But I still believe that we have to give alternative platforms a chance and Nebula is a real alternative, ESPECIALLY because it takes a 'Quality over Quantity' approach.
go.nebula.tv/postapocalypticinventor
PS: A few years ago nobody at Google/Youtube would ever have known about negative posts like these, because they don't employ enough people to even care about creators like me. In the great future we live in now, 'AI' tools could read and flag stuff like this in a heartbeat. After all, I'm using Youtube to send people to another platform. Some might laugh at this, as I would have some years ago. But I think it's only a matter of time until it won't be possible anymore to even advertise other platforms here, without getting into problems.
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