TheDarksteel94

She did, it's in the article

"Free speech for me, but not for thee" lol

I do want one of those new flip phones. Since normal phones aren't getting any more portable, I'd rather have that than carrying around a brick. For me, the biggest problems with these at the moment are repairability, durability and price. Once those are solved, I will probably get one.

But what about muh brainrot?

Wear Matrix cosplay and jump off a skyscraper. Just believe, Neo!

... something about that image is terrifying and funny to me at the same time. 😅

After googling and reading some articles, that doesn't seem to be true. According to Webtoon, they make contracts with creators, which seems to be between 48.000 and 50.000 dollars a year on average. For example, the contract would state that the creator is to deliver 50 episodes per year, with a 1000 bucks per episode. If the series incurs any losses and makes, for example, only 45.000 in revenue, then the creator still gets paid the full 50.000. That's including fast pass. So, in this example, Webtoon would make no money on the series in that year.

Again, 50k is only an example, it depends on the contract. The numbers in other articles are all over the place, I've seen reports of as low as 38k.

This doesn't include "international (non-local) paid content revenue, advertising revenue, or merchandising revenue." Which means that creators can make more than their contract states, even if the episodes themselves don't meet the contractual revenue.

Webtoon also has an ad revenue sharing program for creators that hit a view minimum requirements. Through this program, creators get 50% of all ads displayed on their series.

Please keep in mind that this information may not be 100% accurate, but it is the most reliable info I could find in a few minutes, since it's mostly from Webtoon's own homepage and a few third party sites.

In any way, it's better than not getting paid for your work at all.

Could just commission someone on Fiverr for an original artwork

Oh, please don't misunderstand: I personally don't really care about leaving Youtube myself, but it's good to have alternatives/competition. And as I said, there's no direct competition to Youtube, which does everything they do. Low barrier to entry, a huge amount of money behind it, a self contained eco system with decent tools, barely any political affiliation (afaik), etc.

So, I was more talking about why the majority of people won't leave for other platforms.

Pretty much everything Youtube does is driven by making the platform profitable. Which, ironically, makes me trust them more with certain things. Not a huge fan of their parent company tho.

Youtube is my main source of entertainment. I don't watch regular TV, and I barely watch any movies or series. Doesn't have anything to do with an addiction, it's personal preference lmao

I know about Nebula, but you have to admit, the barrier to entrance is a lot higher for most people because of the subscription fee, so it's not necessarily a direct comparison. Some of my favourite content creators are on there.

Didn't know about Odysee. As far as I can see, that platform uses crypto for payments, which could also act as a deterrent to some people.

As for Rumble: Personally, I wouldn't touch anything related to JD Vance with a ten foot pole (he's a pretty big investor). And one of their biggest channels seems to be by Andrew Tate (ew). To be fair, I couldn't tell you for sure that Youtube doesn't take money from any of them in some form. But they seem to be more of an equal opportunity offender lol.

The problem is, there's just no (good) direct competition. The audience will follow creators once enough of them switch to the same alternative platform. But as long as there's no platform with a comparable amount of money behind it, most people will continue to use Youtube.