UFO WARNING: WHY I QUIT YOUTUBE

My short-lived attempt to create a sustainable youtube channel is over and here are the three primary reasons why.

Doing youtube is a major hassle!

A major problem with youtube is that they are owned by google. I remember a simpler time before google owned youtube. In those days youtube was not only user friendly it was a snap to use. Even though this was years before the first smartphone loading a youtube video was a breeze compared to the hassle involved today. In those days you could actually do simple editing withing the youtube website. Today youtube is a prickly jumble and a tedious mess to work through. 

If find google a major pain to deal with in general. This very blog I am using is a clunky, prickly hassle to use most of the time and I shortly hope to have everything moved to my website. 

To top it all off as a creator you have to bend to the whims of any random youtube dictator who happens to not like your channel. Recently an extrememely popular channel secureteam10 was demontetized for several weeks reportedly because on of youtube's petty dictators (my opinion) decided their video titles were missleading, i.e. clickbait. I didn't matter that this channel was regulary racking up 200,000 or even way more views per episode. Nope, a woke youtube gatekeeper just didn't like the titles so for weeks the channel was deprived income not only for its creator but for youtube. Talk about cutting off stockholders noses to spite their face!

Show me the money.

For most small channels the money is just not there. Considering you have to amass 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours viewing time that represents a ton of work before a creator even sees a single penny. Unlike podcasting where creators are generally paid a set dollar amount per thousands downloads, youtube has a payout structure that keeps things confusing enough that they exploit creators to the max, (just my opinion) But what more would we expect from google. Don't be evil lol! From everything I have been able to find out, and it's not easy because youtube is super secretive about what they pay, but it looks like a beginnng youtuber, that is someone with the 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours viewing time, might make a couple of bucks per thousand downloads. A more establilshed creator might make as much as $10 per thousand. For podcastors it is far more easy to monetize and a beginner can easily make $10 per thousand while more experienced creators can see $17 to $25 per 1,000 downloads. Considering the work, the hassle, and the arrogant youtube attitude podcasting alone becomes the best choice for me,

 The Feds said what?! 

 The last reason for me not to use youtube as a creator is the legal jepordy involved. Not only are accusations of copyright infringement now a real issue as the creative use doctrine comes under constant fire but while youtube was busy banning Alex Jones and a host of other conservative content providers they were putting all of their creators in jepordy by not respecting the privacy rights of children. Now the Feds are coming down hard and as a creator if you are found to create content that may attract children and not list content as such you are subject to a $42,500 per video fine! If you do list your content as kid freindly then you can pretty much forget about monetizing it as advertisers will no longer be able to drop cookies on the viewers computer in order to track the viewer and personalize the adds. 

There you have my three main reasons why I am finnished with youtube as a creator, it's a hassle, it's a ton of work for little or no money, and I'm not okay with being hit for  a $42,500 fine because some kid watches one of my videos and youtube feels the need to track that kid on their computer!

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