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That link is behind a paywall ;)
I was under the impression that creators get more money from a premium subscriber watch than from ads. The portion of your subscription fees that goes to creators is split proportionally between the videos you actually watch, so at least I feel like it is more directly supporting those creators.
Previously I had been using ad-blocker and using Patreon for a few people but that just got way to laborious to keep track of. -
At his peak he'd have earned a lot more than that
chiroshi
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@hippy
One of YouTube's biggest stars, David Dobrik, said in an interview that he earned about $2,000 a month from YouTube directly, despite his weekly videos gaining an average 10 million views.
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-youtube-pays-for-views-100-thousand-million-150-2020-1?op=1
I'm not going to be feeling sorry for Youtube any time soon.