Seriously though, what is this shit?
uhhhh, ive never seen that before but ill be damned if they ruin every youtube video with that shit
Up in arms over nothing? I'm all for youtube trying to provide more ways for creators to make money. they do have other things like fan funding, and similar. If that particular one is a good idea? Why not. I can see places where it would be appropriate.
Of course all the self entitles youtube 5 year olds will scream about it, which is obvious wih the thumbs down it has despite the fact that they guy said it was accident when he was playing with settings and didnt mean to make it live.
Youtube to this day does not make a profit I think.
Its inevitable they pursue more resource streams.
And yes everything is dying feel free to make the next youtube to replace it.
if only there were free youtube alternative......oh wait!
let the economy take it's natural course. survival of the fittest. youtube wants to implement this, let em. use something else and watch youtube die.
This is all about companies and they want money or control or both. I can't fault them on their evil scheme. We are sucked in by what should be free by what is given to us as free.
Someone will pay. The companies plan on it being us. They are probably right it's rigged.
Not with a bang, but with a wimper....
anyway, that's just a rental fee. That's existed on youtube for quite some time. Granted, it's generally been used for actual movies and whatnot, but the feature has been there for years.
Outside of feature length films, in depth training videos or scripted series, I doubt many content creators would see much benefit to putting their videos behind a rental pay wall. If anything, their revenue would probably go down. Most viewers would just pass it by unless they already had a large and loyal following.
I don't think just anybody will be able to get away with charging for their content. Maybe movies and tv series. And maybe linda.com level of detailed leaning videos. I would be willing to pay for a ad free version of youtube.(within a certain price)
If bad content is being monitised it will fail. Fair models will rise to the top.
Hey! Welcome to the part of the internet that a content creator asks for money to watch the video.
This has been around for ages... just not on the millions of cat videos and idiot videos. Many of the technical videos or the videos that cover a project that needs to be funded will have this. It's just one source of revenue for the content creator. If someone is truly interested they will pay, or ask the creator to see it for free if the viewer can not afford it (some creators offer that privately).
So, no, not the death of youtube.