Just in case anyone was confused
PTXofficial (official pentatonix youtube channel): 18.3 million subscribers. Professional musicians, recording/producing fully realized a capella covers as well as original music that’s free to watch on youtube and stream on spotiy and other platforms, as well as music videos and a free vlog channel. Have a patreon.
Good Mythical Morning: 16.6 million subscribers (just on their main channel!). Three channels with hundreds and hundreds of free videos, plus a free podcast. Has the Mythical Society, which if you look at it is literally just a patreon system, that they’re running on their own platform.
ERB (Epic Rap Battles of History): 14.6 million subscribers. Produces fully realized free comedy rap battle music videos, with free behind the scenes videos. Have a Patreon.
The Try Guys: 7.34 million subscribers. Run nearly a dozen different shows of nearly TV quality on youtube all for free, as well as three free podcasts. Have a Patreon.
Gabbie Hanna: 6.07 million subscribers. Produces professional quality music/music videos to watch/stream for free, a free podcast, and still makes typical youtube content on occasion. Has a patreon.
Jonathan Young: 1.78 million subscribers, produces free, fully realized punk/metal covers of disney and popular songs as well as original music. Has a patreon.
Overly Sarcastic Productions: 1.37 million subscribers. Produce free, short animated tellings of literature, myths, history, and story structure. Have a patreon.
RedLetterMedia: 1.22 million subscribers. Produces free multiple film and TV reviews of varying formats, with at least two dedicated set spaces. Have a patreon.
Translator Fails (aka Malinda Kathleen Reese, creator of Google Translate Sings): 1.18 million subscribers. Two youtube channels, creates free, fully produced comedy music, original songs/albums, and comedy videos and vlog-style content. Has a patreon.
Girfriend Reviews: 1.08 million subscribers. Produce free video game reviews as well as streams on twitch. Have a patreon.
Lindsay Ellis: 1.03 million subscribers. Mutliple free series on film analysis and theory, as well as a free podcast. Has a patreon.
The fact of the matter is that youtube is a garbage place to make money, especially if you can’t release videos at a fast pace. Gamers, daily vloggers, and other content that’s easy to make quickly? It’s still somewhat sustainable….somewhat. But long scripted content, music videos, animation, or anything that can’t be released quickly on a regular basis? It’s not a sustainable source of revenue. That’s why so many of these creators also stream on twitch, have membership programs, or, yes, patreons. So can we dstroy the idea that a youtuber with more than 1 million subscribers doesn’t “need” a patreon and that it’s just a grubby, underhanded attempt to make more money? Especially when Youtube is becoming more of a cesspool of demonitization and poor creator support. AND when said channel is run by a team of several people who all have bills to pay and mouths to feed.
All the main content is still free. Content isn’t going behind a paywall. But content creators need to eat, and pay bills, and pay staff, and rent office space, and they ask those of us who are able if we could perhaps contribute to that end a bit. And as a thank you for that generosity, patrons get a few extra perks. A few extra minutes of video. One extra livestream. Five minutes of bloopers. The occasional exclusive merch content. I know it’s frustrating to not be able to afford the things you want, but guess what…that’s just as much a part of life as having bills to pay and mouths to feed is. It’s something we all have to learn to live with at some point or another. But blaming other people who need to eat for our inability to dine on the finest desserts is….just a tad juvenile, don’t you think?
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