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> The most impressive part is the creator gets to have a probably comfortable living from a channel that grew organically and still 100% depends on youtube’s algorithm.

That's scary. After all this time and effort, the creator is totally dependent on YouTube's whims. If the platform chooses to stop promoting his videos, the earnings will drop to nearly 0. And the creator has no recourse.

It's an insane imbalance of power.




Isn't that basically any job? I'd you're a software engineer and your company decides to outsource or otherwise contract out development work...


Then you can presumably go to another company. There isn't another YouTube.

More generally, unlikely as it is to hit even this comfortable but modest in the grand scheme of things success, it almost certainly won't last indefinitely. Whether because YouTube changes something or because audience tastes change.


Rumble, Patreon, Twitch, Facebook, and more exist. I agree it won't last indefinitely, which is why investment advice is always to diversify.


None of those are really substitutes for YouTube. But I agree that if someone has stumbled into a somewhat sustainable business that they decide they want to do full-time as long as they can, they should diversify both their content and their channels.




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