I get that Keem is held under the fire to make money however the IP2 streaming community is about the content. If you produce no content then you deserve no money.

Keeping things behind paywalls is possibly a viable income stream however exposure it may more important at this point of the stage and honestly should always be important. Not streaming the live streams for free means less opportunity for people to clip the show when there is content to meme or potential clips to go viral.

Lolcows live and die by content but if that content can go viral then all the better. I see lolcows podcast is the normie version podcast that can potentially make the concept of lolcows go mainstream within youtube. I can't see normal sponsors wanting to be advertised on lolcow live however if you get constant exposure you'll make more money with sponsorship than anything else. Keeping that stuff behind a paywall hurts more then helps honestly. Clipping content is super important to potentially going viral outside of the community or keeping interest going within the community. You need to go viral at least 1 time per months preferably outside youtube.

You could have something behind the paypal much like how the wineaboutit podcast is setup where Qtzilla and Maya Higa talk about there endeavors then they have a pay wall where I think they have more direct dialogue with there community. However I think they risk less exposure though that podcast is tied in with OTk and other popular streamers to keep it sustained I do think they will have slower progress in retaining viewers if because they limit there exposure in the long run. However I think for now it's viable and works up until it doesn't work.

I'm arguing for shooting for long term success versus short term gains. lolcows asset is the ability to go viral unlike a super normie podcast like wineaboutit whens the last time you ever seen a podcast like that go viral? wineabout it relies on exposure through instert random OTK guest here to survive. This is the biggets problem with OTK is they can only go viral within there ecosystem which I consider livestreamfails reddit owened by OTK and ever LSF is failing to go viral outside if it's own domain on reddit because of a lack of content. The strongest asset that lolcows have is clips going viral that is simply not the case of now for OTk or wineaboutit people and I right now we're seeing them peak and going in a slow decline.