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Robert Shepherd Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 09 August 2018 at 7:26pm | IP Logged | 1
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I am so amazed at how our world has changed due to the internet - and more specifically YouTube and now Twitch.
I've just started hanging around Twitch and there is one (good looking, gotta admit) gal there who entertains by dancing to some console dance game and/or doing cosplay ASMR (which is something I've never heard of before but have found it's a whole sub-culture). It's not my thing, to be honest, and I'm not knocking it, but she has over 500K followers and is probably making (by my estimate) over $150K per MONTH doing what she does, and she works 12 hours a day doing it. I'm both baffled by what the internet will sponsor and impressed that every-day people are inventing news ways to make a living doing what they love to do.
There are a bazillion gamers on Twitch, of course, and many make far more than the dancing gal.
There are Musicians and DJs, and Artists, and Table-Top Gamers, etc. who have invested money in to their own personal TV studios, with lighting, effects, multiple camera views...what ever they can think of. One chap puts on concerts each night, and for his genre he's damn good.
Once you get over the absurdity of it all, you might come to appreciate, as I finally have, how cool this really is.
So the point of this topic is really to open up a discussion about the power of Social Media and how it has changed the world, for better or for worse.
Talk about what amazes/baffles/inspires/sickens you about Social Media.
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Bill Collins Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 10 August 2018 at 12:02am | IP Logged | 2
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Until you mentioned it, i had never heard of Twitch, i must keep up! It does amaze me that Youtube bloggers can earn a living basically talking about stuff!
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Robert Shepherd Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 10 August 2018 at 12:17am | IP Logged | 3
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I'm brand new to it. I had heard of it as a tool to allow gamers to record their game play, but I never knew it was going beyond that and allowing to what equates to your own TV broadcasting channel. Very......different.
So the YouTubers that are making money off their game videos are making more additional money while on Twitch.
It's madness I say.
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Bill Collins Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 10 August 2018 at 12:39am | IP Logged | 4
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Sounds like easy money!
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Stephen Churay Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 10 August 2018 at 4:06am | IP Logged | 5
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I follow several folks on YouTube. I have Twitch but dont really used it-YET. Then there is Twitter which is an identity politics dumpster fire. You are either a Social Justice Warrior demanding people identify you by your preferred pronoun or you are an Alt-Right Facist Nazi. If you were either of these before you started to Tweet, you will soon pick a side. Yuck.
Edited by Stephen Churay on 10 August 2018 at 4:08am
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Andrew Saxon Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 10 August 2018 at 4:28am | IP Logged | 6
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Going of at a slight tangent (sorry) but seeing Social Justice Warrior written out in full rather than abbreviated to SJW suddenly made me think how odd it is that the term is used pejoratively. You'd think fighting for justice in society would be a good thing - isn't that what Superman does after all?
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Trevor Smith Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 10 August 2018 at 5:08am | IP Logged | 7
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I'm not criticizing, because more power to someone that can figure out a way to monetize something seemingly ridiculous, but my head-shake moment was discovering that people make a living opening things on Youtube - "unboxing" videos. Just, wow.
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Thomas Woods Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 10 August 2018 at 5:33am | IP Logged | 8
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Imagine making a few hundred dollars in just an hour, just for starting a live stream and talking to your viewers and let them ask you questions.
I bet doctors are mad for all the hell they had to go through to make that much.
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Robin Taylor Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 10 August 2018 at 8:18am | IP Logged | 9
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Full Youtubers and Twitch streamers with an audience of hundreds of thousands suffer enormous mental health issues at a very young age.
Here is an article on the impact of living your life completely online, performing for 12 hours a day 7 days a week. When they take a vacation, their income can drop instantly for each day they are off. Unlike other professions they are completely at the whim of their audiences as they are audience paid, and if the platforms they are on capriciously change their terms of service constantly without consultation. It sounds like it is ridiculously easy, and I understand why kids want to enter this and become a personality but I can't imagine a more stressful way to make money, because it can literally disappear overnight.
Comparing Doctors to streamers is a false equivalency of stunning proportion. RT
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Bill Collins Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 10 August 2018 at 10:19am | IP Logged | 10
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Andrew, i agree, but i think SJW refers to the types who take it to the limit,and as Stephen said, if you don`t share their opinion you`re a Facist Nazi. I stay off Twitter!
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Robert Shepherd Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 10 August 2018 at 11:25am | IP Logged | 11
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Comparing Doctors to streamers is a false equivalency of stunning proportion.
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The Money Nation estimates give PewDiePie an average salary of $12 million per year, which equates to an hourly rate for a 40-hour week of $3.400 per hour. Not bad for a university dropout whose parents wanted him to get a safe job. Safe jobs like doctors, who received $94 per hour on average, teachers, $28, and software engineers on $37 per hour, somehow just don’t compare.
Just saying.
Edited by Robert Shepherd on 10 August 2018 at 11:34am
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Robin Taylor Byrne Robotics Member
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Posted: 10 August 2018 at 11:43am | IP Logged | 12
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Robert,
I don't make the same amount of money as Jeff Bezos, which what you are comparing here. The average successful youtuber makes less than $80k a year. Pewdiepie (I hate this guy) and others like scumbag Logan Paul are not the norm, they are the exception.
Imagine living your life 12 hours a day performing for an audience that if you deny them their desires for an instant, can destroy your income. It's a nightmare.
RT
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