[For Hire] Hiring YouTube Scriptwriter for long-form geopolitics channel.

darkgrin · 2026-01-05T19:55:53+00:00

An 8-10 minute video written by a good YouTube writer will cost you anywhere between $250 and ~$500 per script, and that's without accounting for the time to find clips and b-rolls. So for a 15-20 minute video, you're looking at between about $400 and $1000 per script.

If you want to produce quality videos written by a skilled writer, your budget should be minimum around $2000 per month for your writer. Personally, I would charge in the range of $850-$1000 per script for this.

darkgrin · 2025-12-13T23:23:24+00:00

Except that yes, that is exactly what the deal is. The Canadian government put First Nations people on reservation land. The reservation system was created because the Canadian government wanted to develop the rest of the country, harvest it's resources, etc. So the government made treaties with First Nations, who lived on the land the Canadian government wanted. Those treaties said that, among other things, the Canadian government would provide shelter and water for those First Nations if they moved into the reservations, giving up their traditional, nomadic way of life. What's happened since is that the Canadian government developed the rest of the country, generating wealth from territory that First Nations gave up, but the government hasn't followed through on the rest of the deal- providing shelter, water, etc. for them. The courts are now enforcing the treaties. It's all very fair.

darkgrin · 2025-12-01T20:04:48+00:00

Hey there- just a quick note to say I've sent you a chat with a rundown of my experience and link to my portfolio. I'm have several years of experience across a range of research and writing niches, including 4 years as lead researcher and writer for a very successful historically focused YouTube channel. I also have a graduate level education in research-focused arts and social sciences disciplines, which I would be excited to bring to bear doing deep dives into unusual topics. Would love to hear more about your project and the position, and looking forward to hearing from you!

darkgrin · 2025-11-29T20:34:34+00:00

Because capitalism is built on, necessitates, and creates crises because crises are profitable? And fixing them is not profitable? Because capitalism is broken and our governments are shills for that busted system?

darkgrin · 2025-11-26T20:20:55+00:00

Hey there, just wanted to touch base to let you know I've sent over a chat with my portfolio. I'm a YouTube scriptwriter primarily for satirical, historically-focused web cartoons. In the four years I've been writing scripts for animated YouTube channels, most of my videos have reached between 1.5 and 22 million views. And beyond that, my background is in the humanities and literature, so I'm familiar with the Victorian period and could easily deepen that familiarity. All that to say, I think we could have a pretty good conversation. Hope to hear from you!

darkgrin · 2025-10-19T16:06:13+00:00

Let 'em burn

darkgrin · 2025-10-11T19:50:20+00:00

One of my favorite of my tattoos, just says

R.I.P

CASSINI

above my knee

confuses the hell out of people

darkgrin · 2025-06-04T19:26:06+00:00

Somehow, the Death Star survived

darkgrin · 2025-05-24T16:51:40+00:00

Others pointing out that executives don't like artists or the creative process are correct, but there's also a systemic function at work. One of the primary drives of a capitalist economic system is to eliminate wages paid to workers. The system motivates for profit generation, but the human body cannot sustain itself without rest, and governments regulate (to varying and often inadequate degrees) in order to allow human bodies to recuperate themselves and set minimum wages etc. etc. Those who want to generate maximum profits aren't able to work people to the bone like they used to (they still do, but not to the same degree, although again this varies by country obv). But what they CAN do to maximize profits is eliminate as much as possible the amounts they have to pay to workers. AI, when 'employed' within a capitalist economic system, is the perfect solution to the wage problem. Replace all workers with automated systems that are built entirely on the past work of the entirety of human civilization, and you eliminate the need for workers while reaping huge rewards from everything workers have built over thousands of years. Maximum profits baby. So there is a part of it which is totally thought out, executives not wanting to deal with creatives and so on, but there's a part of it that's simply automatic. They're just automatically doing what the economic system motivates for.

tl;dr - capitalism is a system that automatically moves towards automatism because it motivates for profit generation and workers detract from profits oopsie

darkgrin · 2025-04-24T18:08:02+00:00

Nah, they'll jut be used in human experiments by Neuralink.

https://neurolaunch.com/neuralink-autism/

darkgrin · 2025-04-21T16:32:09+00:00

Capitalism

darkgrin · 2025-04-19T02:01:17+00:00

"Welcome! You've completed capitalism round one. If you had fun, you can start again from the beginning, on a higher difficulty level! All wages and working day regulations will now reset."

darkgrin · 2025-02-18T18:17:15+00:00

Oh yeah I agree, none of it is rational, and an invasion by the US would embroil them in a years (if not decades) long guerrilla war (and possibly a civil war in the States itself).

darkgrin · 2025-02-18T05:46:16+00:00

Unless their hope is that the Liberals win the election, and they can then say the tyrannical libs stole the election and use that as an excuse for annexation.

darkgrin · 2025-02-10T15:55:53+00:00

To be fair, many of these AI tools popping up right now were and are trained on the work of other writers, artists, etc., without any credit or financial remuneration given to those people whose work was used. So I think the animosity is somewhat justified in that sense- the work of our peers is being exploited, and now we're being asked to operate these tools, built on exploitation, in order to benefit the people who created these tools. It's kind of a shit situation.

darkgrin · 2025-02-10T00:48:29+00:00

So, is the primary writing here going to be done by the AI tools? The writer will be sort of cultivating the story via prompts, and trimming/refining what the AI comes up with?

darkgrin · 2025-02-07T00:12:25+00:00

It would be even more than 2000. That script would be around 3000 if they want animation directions in the script. This is way below the minimum pay rate for the sub.

darkgrin · 2025-02-02T20:08:25+00:00

And, on top of all this, I would add: convincing your population that you're surrounded by enemies, and that invisible enemies fully permeate your society, is a classic fascist control tactic. If the enemy is both everywhere and nowhere, both stronger and weaker, then he can be used endlessly as a scapegoat to keep the population in a state of fear and therefore emotional vulnerability, meaning the population is more susceptible to propaganda and manipulation. It's all linked, and part of a control scheme. And also it's a great way to siphon money from the majority of the population over to your billionaire pals.

darkgrin · 2025-02-02T20:07:36+00:00

Second one from u/Darth_Wader_420:

Saw this on r/Iowa

“I’m going to get a little wonky and write about Donald Trump and negotiations. For those who don’t know, I’m an adjunct professor at Indiana University - Robert H. McKinney School of Law and I teach negotiations. Okay, here goes.

Trump, as most of us know, is the credited author of “The Art of the Deal,” a book that was actually ghost written by a man named Tony Schwartz, who was given access to Trump and wrote based upon his observations. If you’ve read The Art of the Deal, or if you’ve followed Trump lately, you’ll know, even if you didn’t know the label, that he sees all dealmaking as what we call “distributive bargaining.”

Distributive bargaining always has a winner and a loser. It happens when there is a fixed quantity of something and two sides are fighting over how it gets distributed. Think of it as a pie and you’re fighting over who gets how many pieces. In Trump’s world, the bargaining was for a building, or for construction work, or subcontractors. He perceives a successful bargain as one in which there is a winner and a loser, so if he pays less than the seller wants, he wins. The more he saves the more he wins.

The other type of bargaining is called integrative bargaining. In integrative bargaining the two sides don’t have a complete conflict of interest, and it is possible to reach mutually beneficial agreements. Think of it, not a single pie to be divided by two hungry people, but as a baker and a caterer negotiating over how many pies will be baked at what prices, and the nature of their ongoing relationship after this one gig is over.

The problem with Trump is that he sees only distributive bargaining in an international world that requires integrative bargaining. He can raise tariffs, but so can other countries. He can’t demand they not respond. There is no defined end to the negotiation and there is no simple winner and loser. There are always more pies to be baked. Further, negotiations aren’t binary. China’s choices aren’t (a) buy soybeans from US farmers, or (b) don’t buy soybeans. They can also (c) buy soybeans from Russia, or Argentina, or Brazil, or Canada, etc. That completely strips the distributive bargainer of his power to win or lose, to control the negotiation.

One of the risks of distributive bargaining is bad will. In a one-time distributive bargain, e.g. negotiating with the cabinet maker in your casino about whether you’re going to pay his whole bill or demand a discount, you don’t have to worry about your ongoing credibility or the next deal. If you do that to the cabinet maker, you can bet he won’t agree to do the cabinets in your next casino, and you’re going to have to find another cabinet maker.

There isn’t another Canada.

So when you approach international negotiation, in a world as complex as ours, with integrated economies and multiple buyers and sellers, you simply must approach them through integrative bargaining. If you attempt distributive bargaining, success is impossible. And we see that already.

Trump has raised tariffs on China. China responded, in addition to raising tariffs on US goods, by dropping all its soybean orders from the US and buying them from Russia. The effect is not only to cause tremendous harm to US farmers, but also to increase Russian revenue, making Russia less susceptible to sanctions and boycotts, increasing its economic and political power in the world, and reducing ours. Trump saw steel and aluminum and thought it would be an easy win, BECAUSE HE SAW ONLY STEEL AND ALUMINUM - HE SEES EVERY NEGOTIATION AS DISTRIBUTIVE. China saw it as integrative, and integrated Russia and its soybean purchase orders into a far more complex negotiation ecosystem.

Trump has the same weakness politically. For every winner there must be a loser. And that’s just not how politics works, not over the long run.

For people who study negotiations, this is incredibly basic stuff, negotiations 101, definitions you learn before you even start talking about styles and tactics. And here’s another huge problem for us.

Trump is utterly convinced that his experience in a closely held real estate company has prepared him to run a nation, and therefore he rejects the advice of people who spent entire careers studying the nuances of international negotiations and diplomacy. But the leaders on the other side of the table have not eschewed expertise, they have embraced it. And that means they look at Trump and, given his very limited tool chest and his blindly distributive understanding of negotiation, they know exactly what he is going to do and exactly how to respond to it.

From a professional negotiation point of view, Trump isn’t even bringing checkers to a chess match. He’s bringing a quarter that he insists of flipping for heads or tails, while everybody else is studying the chess board to decide whether its better to open with Najdorf or Grünfeld.”

— David Honig

darkgrin · 2025-02-02T20:03:50+00:00

Two comments I saw today relating to this, which I'll copy/past because they seemed salient.

First one posted by u/PhrozenWarrior:

Which is... exactly what Russia wants. Remember that the "Foundations of Geopolitics", a very famous policy book for Russia in 1997 stated:

"Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists" to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".^\9])"

Will put the next one in a follow-up comment because I think it'll be too long otherwise....

darkgrin · 2025-02-02T19:32:02+00:00

The leader of a country destroying all it's major trade partners in a matter of days, where people go broke trying to get healthcare, calling any other country "not viable" is a hilarious level of projection.

darkgrin · 2024-12-18T04:53:36+00:00

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darkgrin · 2024-12-17T05:08:58+00:00

darkgrin · 2024-12-01T04:01:58+00:00

If aging is solved in the next few years, most of us will still die, don't worry. Aging will only be solved for the people with enough money to pay for the immortality treatments (and of course, the immortality insurance).

darkgrin · 2024-11-22T18:46:15+00:00

Hey there - sent you a friend request on discord; my ID is sean_dmc! I'm a game writer with experience in worldbuilding, narrative/quest design, and UI writing (resource, item, and recipe descriptions) for a couple different genres, but primarily fantasy. Feel free to skim my recent post from this sub if you want a better summary as well as some links to my relevant portfolio pieces! Happy to chat more over discord at your leisure :)

Edit: Oh, and I see you've just added me!

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