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Microblog Memes

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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

RULES:

  1. Your post must be a screen capture of a microblog-type post that includes the UI of the site it came from, preferably also including the avatar and username of the original poster. Including relevant comments made to the original post is encouraged.
  2. Your post, included comments, or your title/comment should include some kind of commentary or remark on the subject of the screen capture. Your title must include at least one word relevant to your post.
  3. You are encouraged to provide a link back to the source of your screen capture in the body of your post.
  4. Current politics and news are allowed, but discouraged. There MUST be some kind of human commentary/reaction included (either by the original poster or you). Just news articles or headlines will be deleted.
  5. Doctored posts/images and AI are allowed, but discouraged. You MUST indicate this in your post (even if you didn't originally know). If an image is found to be fabricated or edited in any way and it is not properly labeled, it will be deleted.
  6. Absolutely no NSFL content.
  7. Be nice. Don't take anything personally. Take political debates to the appropriate communities. Take personal disagreements & arguments to private messages.
  8. No advertising, brand promotion, or guerrilla marketing.

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[–] Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 89 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The moral of the story is: Watch PornHub videos instead of YouTube videos to do your part to support content creators.

[–] Gnugit@aussie.zone 8 points 1 month ago (15 children)

How to fake age verification without VPN? Asking for a friend.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 13 points 1 month ago

Firefox has a built-in VPN. Presumably for this exact situation.

[–] Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Proton free tier works for bypassing uk age verification. ...So i am told by a friend....

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[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 80 points 1 month ago (13 children)

How the heck do the YouTubers I watch sustain themselves on $330 / million? That seems really unsustainable when they only very rarely break 5 million.

[–] DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 107 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Many, many videos, patreon, streaming, sponsors, etc.

[–] inari@piefed.zip 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 24 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My very uneducated understanding is merch is the most profitable avenue for many Youtubers.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Youtubers are the new touring musician, it seems.

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago

That and sponsorships

[–] Gork@sopuli.xyz 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's why they always tell you to SMASH that like and subscribe button

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)
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[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Sponsorship can easily get you a good 4 digit deal per video. Even for small-ish creators. 5 digits if you regularly get million plus views

Patreon is the other big one

Fun fact: yt premium views pay orders of magnitude more per view. In a world where a large percentage of viewers have premium, there would be almost no incentive for most small and medium sized channels to have sponsors in videos

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[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

In addition to what others have said, the value per million views changes depending on how profitable your audience is. Education is notoriously low, something like makeup is much higher.

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[–] isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

For a lot of creators it may not even be about the money they earn directly from it. I have a small educational YouTube channel. It brings in about 20 bucks per month in ad revenue, more in the past when I was more active. But really it's a nice feather in my cap and something neat on my resume. A modest YouTube channel won't pay enough by itself to make the effort worthwhile. But if that channel gets you over the top on a new high paying job? Then it's worth it. In this context, a YouTube channel functions as a kind of personal brand/promotional material.

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[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

they have brand deals, promotions, sponsors and patreon. a asian ones i used to followed had to use these to stay alive they barely make 2million views per video. youtube does all sorts of stuff to your algorithim which can exclude you from reach other peoples feeds or not all. the big ones certain are using these+ they are already wealthy and expands to have thier own company which contributes more.

some are quite small and only upload and dont sustain themselves on youtube at all, mostly the ones about sciences as many of them are burgeoning scientists, going to school,,,etc.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

A lot of content creators post on multiple platforms as well, other than PH that is.

[–] BigBenis@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Sponsors will pay 5 figures for a 30-second promotional segment of the video.

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[–] EndOfLine@lemmy.world 64 points 1 month ago (4 children)

They censor her name from the post, but not the screenshots?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 26 points 1 month ago

I have never understood this impulse to censor content which is publicly available. Like she wrote that and put it on the internet under her name, presumably she's all right about people knowing about it.

[–] BurnedDonutHole@ani.social 15 points 1 month ago

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 month ago

It's LinkedIn, they aren't the sharpest tools in the shed

[–] BruisedMoose@piefed.social 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Tries to obfuscate the name of the content creator who would literally profit from more people being able to find her. Nice.

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[–] BlameTheAntifa@piefed.social 47 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Does anyone think there is a PornHub market for a fully dressed old lady who paints Warhammer?

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

Just get a banger microphone and whisper while you paint. Throw in some sexual ennuendos here and there.

"Oh stay still like a good little boy while I get you ready."

"Hmm you're all wet here (with paint). Not sure if it's ready for more."

👀🤣

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

Might need to take your socks off

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[–] malloc@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I’m not jorking it. I’m studying, bro

[–] mr_account@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

You can do both! Learn how to dual-weild

[–] sudo@programming.dev 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Still making 10x more on youtube, $32.81 vs $333.54

[–] turdas@suppo.fi 25 points 1 month ago

With one simple trick she could make 10x more on PornHub, but this would reduce the YouTube income to $0.

[–] Zephorah@discuss.online 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Wait. STEM vids on PornHub?

[–] Carnelian@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Semen, titties, erections and mathematics!

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[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Honestly, if anyone were to compete with YouTube and not be trying to rub their fanny all over the government for good boy points...

I'm pretty sure that's why it's illegal in red states.

Shit maybe that's what all these data centers are actually for. Make a billion fake ai Instagram people and flood the US Internet to help shape the narrative. You'd obviously want to funnel views toward your buddies and away from anything unpredictable.

[–] maturelemontree@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I really think the data centers are to power the already installed surveillence tools like Flock and web trackers/personal device telemetry, but that certainly could be a part of it.

[–] BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

True that. Also, all metadata on all Americans for the past twenty years.

Honestly, a year of ice leading up to the elections with full AI™️

[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 15 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I mean, yes YouTube is greedy, but a big part of that is pronhub allowing very predatory ads, from scams and chatbots and straight up malware companies, who are willing to pay more

[–] DillDough@lemmy.zip 27 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

YouTube absolutely shows ads that are predatory, scams, malware, and chatbot adjacent... literally the only difference is whether an erect dick is visible and tbh I'm not fully convinced YT hasn't let porn ads through.

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[–] potustheplant@feddit.nl 14 points 1 month ago

I've seen this reposted for years now.

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Good thing they covered her name at the top, wouldn't want to have it in too many places on the image...

[–] velma@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Comfort to me, what does that even mean?

One reason, do we persevere?

Existing for the sake of existing, meaning disappears

Meanwhile, I only just started learning basic politics

Meanwhile, they sexualize my body and get mad when I exploit it

It's just for capital

Am I an animal?

It's just for capital, capital, capital

But do I care at all?

Amyl and The Sniffers - Capital immediately came to mind.

It's hard to survive in late stage capitalism. Might as well exploit it.

[–] TheJesusaurus@piefed.ca 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This. Don't ever fuck over a person. But fuck over corporations and institutions as much as you desire. For the purposes of these instructions I don't consider billionaires to be people

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

pornhub.com is probably on every ban list since it has been in existence. She’s missing a lot of her intended audience.

[–] bus_factor@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

She's on YouTube, too.

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[–] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I don't know about PH but youtube is around 2000$ per million

[–] LwL@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yt adrev highly varies based on type of content

[–] trem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 weeks ago

Thought you switched to a Slavic language for a moment there...

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