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What absolute nonsense, over half of YouTube's ad revenue goes to creators. The site itself is also phenomenally expensive to run.

I don't care what it costs to run YouTube. All I hear from the creators is "Support us on Patreon because YouTube doesn't pay" and they sure ain't asking us to buy YouTube premium.

I have literally seen 2 creators ever bring up youtube red, saying that yes subscribers do make up a more significant percentage of their revenue and did help a little bit when videos got demonetized. Every creator is saying some sort of the "I don't want all my eggs in one basket, I can't trust these platforms" argument.

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Even if YT gave all the money to the creators, ads are so cheap nowadays that it would need them approx 20.000 ad views just to pay a month of premium (and that's assuming every cent goes to them) big creators and publishers sure make money out of ads, in the end they get millions of views. But a smaller creator thst works hours upon hours on a video is making probs less than minimum wage through ads. Ergo If they want to make money they need to rely on generous people.

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