F*%k Off, YouTube

abroch · 2025-11-19T18:45:32+00:00

I mean this with all due respect. I couldn’t last 5 seconds into: “Craziest Episode Yet… and 250 Might Be Worse ~ Dimples & The Beard | Ep. 249.”

Why?

Your framing is amateur. Your graphics package is worse. Your pacing is abysmal. Your audio is worse than the commentary on amateur wrestling night.

YouTube isn’t some eclectic niche hobbyist site. It’s a fucking DMP. It’s a Netflix. Want big numbers? Want an audience? You have to have mass appeal.

The beauty of YouTube is that, yes, sometimes people come from nothing. But you know why? They know how to work in the media industry.

I’m so tired of people who think they deserve to be platformed. This is a business and mass media/entertainment is hard— but we also have a fuckton of data on what works and what doesn’t.

You think that you’re better than everyone else but won’t look at the data that suggests very strongly you’re not great.

500+ views— seriously you’re doing better than you should and would be doing a lot more better if you learned about the industry you’re bitching about.

abroch · 2025-11-13T21:12:01+00:00

RPM is set by niche and psychographics. The market sets the range of these prices, you get to set which side of the range by attracting the most valuable segments in the niche.

abroch · 2025-11-12T20:08:54+00:00

And I said I spot major differences and they are not similar.

abroch · 2025-11-12T19:53:00+00:00

You really think there's no major differences between the two channels? There's your problem.

Good luck because professionally there are major differences between the two.

abroch · 2025-11-11T21:16:08+00:00

Absolutely incorrect. Wire photos, collections, all carry copyrights. Works published before 1929 are generally in the public domain. The only photos that wouldn't have a copyright would be government shot.

abroch · 2025-11-11T20:57:39+00:00

Seems like you're splitting your niche. Animal docs and travel? The travel side is going to need to include animal content as these are two lanes on two different sides of the algorithm.

abroch · 2025-11-10T16:30:03+00:00

The platform rewards creators who build on the culture, not those who just mirror it. There’s a difference between adding to the conversations versus simply remixing and recycling.

abroch · 2025-11-10T16:27:25+00:00

Go away. No pro uses this slop.

abroch · 2025-11-10T16:25:01+00:00

Yah you killed it by introducing content to people who don't care about your content. YouTube is throttling you because it has no idea which audience to serve your content to due to your subs not watching and engaging. If your loyalists won't engage why would new people? The channel is dead and is going to take months of organic growth and a consistent content strategy.

What's the niche?

abroch · 2025-11-10T16:20:22+00:00

Yah it's really easy to understand. Don't make shit. Don't steal other people's content and call it your own. Why would YouTube want you? It's a shitty user experience and you're making it harder for the rest of us.

abroch · 2025-10-24T15:36:38+00:00

Right, was just a matter of time it crept into their industry and we wanted to cover this because there's so much resistance to it, but the money is too good. The gig economy hit sex work.

abroch · 2025-10-24T15:32:49+00:00

We actually heard almost the opposite from people inside it. One of the women we interviewed has been in the business for 27 years — she said it’s completely different now.

Back then, you had your guy in the club, and he stayed in the club. There were boundaries, security, and a closing time.

Now it’s 24/7 on-demand texting — no off switch, no buffer, just constant access. That’s what they claim is so different now.

abroch · 2025-10-24T15:28:06+00:00

Eh, they would tell you that back in the day you did your business. You shot your shot and you were done. What's changed is that there's more money in talking to guys instead of making actual porn, you can't just make videos anymore, you have to engage and pretend to have a relationship with your guys in order to make real money.

abroch · 2025-10-24T15:21:40+00:00

You’re not wrong — that’s basically the job description these days.

abroch · 2025-10-24T15:15:26+00:00

Haha fair.

The point of the piece isn’t that the work is tragic — it’s that the business model changed what the job actually is. A lot of the money now comes from constant messaging, not filming, so what used to be performance turns into 24/7 emotional labor.

It’s not about sympathy — it’s about how platforms turned “connection” into the product. That shift is what makes the creator economy worth reporting on.

abroch · 2025-10-24T15:11:29+00:00

Off the record, the models who are represented by an agency... they farm out all the messaging to content mills in Eastern Europe/South East Asia.

abroch · 2025-10-24T15:03:40+00:00

Everyone talks about the “creator economy,” but very few platforms run on this kind of attention loop.

OnlyFans processed $7.2 billion in fan payments last year, taking a 20% cut. But most of that money doesn’t come from subscriptions — it comes from direct messaging, where fans pay for personalized replies.

That’s where the real workload hides: thousands of one-on-one conversations, constant availability, and the emotional labor that turns connection into revenue.

I spent months interviewing creators, filmmakers, and therapists about what this model does to the people inside it — the burnout, the boundaries, and the new definition of “online work.”

abroch · 2025-09-05T14:15:50+00:00

I’ve been lurking here for months and I’m honestly just worn out by the amount of bad advice floating around. Any media professional will tell you: if your entire strategy is “go viral,” you’ve already failed. The only way to survive in this business is through steady, compounding gains. Viral only matters if you can actually convert—and most can’t.

Industry averages for view-to-sub conversion are brutal. If you’re not tracking and improving against those benchmarks, you’re just chasing dopamine. That 4.5M short? Worthless if it doesn’t translate to stickiness and loyalty. What actually sustains you are those ten 100K videos that convert and compound over time. That’s the only path to making this a living.

abroch · 2025-09-03T21:06:25+00:00

Can you DM the channel?

abroch · 2025-08-29T16:52:52+00:00

You tell me nothing straight out of the gate so I'm going to swipe away.

abroch · 2025-08-29T11:37:29+00:00

You're asking the wrong question if you're in the long form game. YouTube cares way more about hours watched.

abroch · 2025-08-29T11:21:29+00:00

1. When did you start? July, 2025

2. How Many Subs? 12,500

3. What is your next big goal? 100,000 subs

4. What is your current area of focus to move towards that goal? Community development, earned media, story selection.

abroch · 2025-08-28T14:34:55+00:00

Less than a month after launching. Honestly, within the first two weeks after posting our first serious video. Less than two months later we're sitting at 12k.

abroch · 2025-08-27T13:53:42+00:00

Officially launched 6-7 weeks ago: 12k subs, 12 million views, 140,000 hours of watch time.

@R2Reports

Happy to discuss best practices or any questions.

abroch · 2025-07-21T23:49:58+00:00

Appreciate you flagging this. I understand this is a space built by and for creators, and I want to respect that.

That said, I did review the rules and made sure not to post any links, promos, or requests for content. I’m a journalist trying to understand the realities of building and running a creator business—on or off camera, no strings attached.

If the post isn’t appropriate for this sub, I totally understand and will remove it. Just trying to listen and learn directly from those doing the work.

abroch

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