YouTubers suspect private equity bought out channels
11 posts across 5 communities in the last 60 days; 64% from r/youtube.
“Personally I still it's still ''real'', he just omitted the part that it's his own company. And while they're well off, I know a bunch of people with million $ houses living pay cheque to pay cheque or super tight. Most people can't spit out 100k all of a sudden, and even if…”
“if you dont enjoy making the videos why would you do it? also $100k on youtube is like, virtually impossible for 99% of channels lol”
“Basically the title. Keep hearing people say Private equity is to blame, but not naming names. Who are the companies? What are the names? What is the specific gameplay technique they use?”
Several YouTube users believe popular science and engineering channels, like Real Engineering and Veritasium, have been acquired by private equity firms. This implies a concern about potential changes in content or channel direction due to outside ownership.
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“Basically the title. Keep hearing people say Private equity is to blame, but not naming names. Who are the companies? What are the names? What is the specific gameplay technique they use? submitted by /u/HelpMeLoseMyFat [link] [comments]”
“Personally I still it's still ''real'', he just omitted the part that it's his own company. And while they're well off, I know a bunch of people with million $ houses living pay cheque to pay cheque or super tight. Most people can't spit out 100k all of a sudden, and even if you're part owner of a company you still have to answer to your collaborators, co-owners etc as well as your share holders if you are a publicly traded company. People hating are just kids”
“Private equity made the company im working at a powerhouse in the industry. They've since sold the company to a new owner. I make a lot of money now too. Just wann drop my exp”
“Almost every time I see "colab's" I just assume they were both bought by the same private equity firm.”
“Just a reminder that Kurzgesagt is funded by famous Epstein island visitor Bill Gates as well as nuclear energy companies, all of which pay this team to talk and promote certain ideas while discrediting ideas that clash with these funders.”
“I didnt think youtube would, i thought the attention gained from it could help me sell something”
What were you doing this for? You thought you’d get rich?
“if you dont enjoy making the videos why would you do it? also $100k on youtube is like, virtually impossible for 99% of channels lol”
“What a convinience. I'm currently watching that video right now. 'The Dutch Gas Scam' is not really a sentence that implies one thing over another. It could just aswell imply that the citizens are getting scammed or lied to. My first thought was that it about gas to use for energy subscriptions are higher then fair. It wasn't until 30 secs in that it became clear to me that its even about the Groningen specific scandal From minute 2 to 4, I agree. It does lean towards critising c”
“I feel like it’s two sides of a blade, private equity is beneficial to, in this case Fern regarding their production, until the company buying them out begins to impose changes which will inevitably happen and potentially effect viewers. While AI is beneficial to the creator regarding the pipeline of content production, but is harmful to the overall site: spreading potential misinformation, and / or blatantly stealing content from other creators, ect..”
“Fern has only gotten better and they just recently made a video about Israel so it looks like they got acquired by one of the better private equity firms”
“For what it’s worth channels like 3b1b are actually good and get to the point in a reasonable amount of time Veritasium invites 1000 experts per video to say nothing useful”
True for many science channels, and history channels are even worse.
“They are bad. But the creators are also at fault for selling out man. I really appreciate the YouTubers who stayed true.”
“Blackstone and other firms are buying yt channels ,influencers and manipulating media which most don't know of.Just think this shit is horrifying!Maybe be this is an ad too.F*ck them! submitted by /u/Admirable_Mango7180 [link] [comments]”
“Yeah, with government subsidies. I still don't know why people defend the poor billionaires.”
“This feels ridiculous to me. I know why they did this. They see a flood of AI generated channels and get rich quick schemes on their platform, and want to crack down on it. They don't want thousands of people reposting half of TikTok with auto-generated videos and thumbnails. And AI itself has probably inspired Google to find ways to cut costs in general, given how much money it's been sucking up there and how poorly Gemini has done compared to competitors. But regardless of the reason,”
“I don't understand, are you saying they do or do not favor decoupling carbon emissions from growth? I do not know what the tenets of neoliberalism are but Kurzgesagt overall takes a hopeful but pragmatic approach to most problems they investigate. I'd expect they would favor decreasing carbon emissions while recognizing that capitalism and economic growth are necessary to improve the lives of human beings.”
“Prior to leaving YouTube full time, there was a situation where Lindsay Ellis got to talk to YouTube direction with her 1.5 million subs but that is definitely a fluke.”
“Y'all act like these channels like Veritasium, Kurzgesagt etc. didn't make biased, inaccurate videos before they became a company. Every video should be judged based on its own merit, and treated with scrutiny.”
“Veritasium itself didn't have that kind of pull, virtually no one did. Its promotion and association with another big channel.”
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