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They way I uderstand your comment, LTT is big enought so as to negotiate contracts with sponsor without being forced to share the metric related to the performance of the sponsored segment.
I doubt that’s true for many creators.
I’m pretty sure it does, they do see how many people play the segment.
You have a problem with profits, mate, not with ads.
I’m not disagreeing with you there, but also, I like the things I like to exist without waiting for the revolution.
My brother in Christ, being watched is the goal of any content creator, that’s unrelated to advertisements. Now Youtube ads are paid (lets simplify a bit) blindly once you click the video, it’s a metric, you see those if you want access to the video.
If the content of the video has the guy saying “thanks xyz for sponsoring this raid shadow legends” that’s a contract between the guy doing the video and the sponsor, following metrics agreed between themselves, it has no ties with “the purpose of youtube” simply because… it’s not youtube.
Will there be people doing cheap content to get “easy” sponsor money? Sure but if the content suck you won’t watch it. It’s a loss just like if the motetization was following any other driver (as long as the driver is… watching the thing rather than not).
I wish there was a way to pay for just a single video
There totally is, just send them a low amount of money or do the hwole Youtube Premium thing.
Extra petty? The question mark goes at the end of the sentence.
It does matter and most people obviously give you ways to directly support them.
That’s not your opinion. Ads are, indeed, ads.
Not all ads are invasive soul seeking tracking nightmares and no, there are not “many ways” for content creators to do that full-time.
Daily reminder that SponsorBlock, unlike adiacent solutions (Like AdBlocks for example) is not necessarily “good”.
Explicit sponsorship inside a video is considered to be one of a few good solution to the issue of content creators being naturally subjected to death by starvation.
My previous point is that League, DOTA 2 and Dota All-Stars (which is where Icefrog comes from, and not from DOTA 2 as the guy maybe believe) are basically the same thing and they all stem from his legacy.
So saying this game is “basically DOTA 2” is, well, a much bigger deal than he seem to realyze.
My point about baseball and polo, was about his distinguishing between the number of watchers and the number of players, which is not relevant because MOBAs are huge no matter how you look at them (like baseball in comparison to polo).
Yes but baseball is bigger than polo no matter how you look at it.
It’s arguably the game that brought e-sports into a new era. Unless you think League would have ever been a thing without dota being invented.
Cool stuff, I’ll start using “ecocide” in the wild. Or rather, on concrete.