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It's heartbreaking that so many people miss out on free cruises. Where's the trust gone?

Wasn't there a Mitchell and Webb sketch to the same effect years ago?

I learned of Transformers Kiss Players a couple of weeks ago (thanks to a Tweet by Chris / Comic Tropes) and yet I am still having a hard time believing it's real...

Transformers is a fun franchise. But it's also been around long enough to have some low points. This week, we take a look at the misguided idea to add kissing to the mythology. In 2006, there were 3 comics made in Japan to promote a small toy release by Takara Tomy, the creators of Transformers. It added the concept that Transformers could get powered up by getting a kiss from pretty girls. And then they jammed the story in between the animated movie and season 3 of the cartoon. It's a delightfully weird comic so let's have some fun.

I saw something this morning about how 1 in every 3 children in the UK wants to be a 'professional YouTuber' when they grow up. Now coincidentally this thread seems to have reared its head.

I didn't think children were allowed on GRcade .

The problem is of course, is that a lot of them think doing youtube will be super easy and success will be immediate.

There's actually a hell of a lot of work involved, and even then, there are no guarantees, I have 17.4k subs yet i still only make around £100 a month in revenue.

Hardly the kind of money someone make a career out of, for me it's just a bit of extra pocket money.

To be fair, that's just from ad revenue, though. Think what you could get were you to push a subscription on YouTube with extra content, a Patreon/Buy Me a Coffee (or one of the other creator portals that are springing up these days), get on Twitch for three streams a week (getting to affiliate to take advantage of the subscription service of Twitch), and advertise all that on Twitter using the relevant hashtags. Even if you knock Twitch on the head and use the YouTube streaming service, it's still possible to increase the earnings you make.

But, as you say, those that say they want to be a content creator (or YouTuber...) possibly don't realise that it's a lot of work to get yourself noticed and make it big to start raking in the cash that'll get them a career from it. Either they will learn once they start and decide whether it is for them, or give up after a few months because they wanted that instant success and it hasn't come - especially if they think they can just jump into the gaming scene and see thousands flock to them.

I can't speak for other kids obviously, but my nephew has a youtube channel (overseen by his dad obviously) and he mainly uses it as a creative outlet. He does book, game and film reviews, lego builds and some minecraft stuff (mostly building giant pokemon). His dad does the editing and uploading. He just seems happy to be on youtube and I think being in front of the camera has helped helped his confidence, especially over this last year.

I've got just shy of 4k subs and get between 70 and 100 or so each month off ad revenue. However, I have been earning a genuine wage for the past few months off the back of my channel because I use it to funnel people through to my business where I supply digital goods.

The only people living off ad revenue alone will be the ones with stupid amounts of views and, even then, the amount that they earn will fluctuate month to month due to a bunch of factors completely outside of their control. I imagine it'll be great for them while it's lasting but it can disappear pretty much as quickly as it came so using the other avenues to support it is the only way to make a lasting "career" from it. You just can't guarantee how long the YouTube platform will remain popular so you have to put in a lot of work to cultivate an actual audience that might follow you once YouTube stops being as profitable for you.

Chocolate-Milk wrote:Wasn't there a Mitchell and Webb sketch to the same effect years ago?

One of their best.

Apologies if this channel has already been recommended on here before. (And if it has, thank you for recommending it! It's probably why I am into it )



Toy Galaxy covers all sorts of pop culture like toys, cartoons, shows and games. And best of all, there's tonnes of content to get into. Worth checking out for the title music alone.

YouTube voice is so much worse than YouTube Face...



I initially found his videos really watchable; they covered a wide variety of interesting subjects, were well presented and quite informative. (I mean, I'm not versed on the subjects and so I am assuming he's not just making gooseberry fool up ) So, naturally, I binged on quite a few of them over a number of days. But then one of his videos from another of his channels showed up on my feed, and while I had zero interest in the subject matter, I found his voice in that to be much more breezy and natural. Unfortunately it's made watching his YouTube voice channels almost impossible now

My new favourite channel:

Virtually zero interest in cars. Can't stop watching this channel.



They cover the subject matter well, but I stay for the accents, the warm atmosphere and Annie.

edit: that's a hell of a thumbnail

<]:^D wrote:Kotaku - Tim Rogers. basically a marmite character, Tim Rogers does these insane video essays where he talks about nonsense and insightful stuff for 30mins to an hour. he has a great turn of phrase. he annoys a lot of people but i and many others love him.

I've only just discovered Tim Rogers (now gone from Kotaku and has his own "Action Button" youtube channel) and I definitely fall into the LOVE category. Currently 3/4 of the way through his Doom review and it's hilarious, touching and insightful:



He's also got a multi-hour (think it's about 8 hours total ) review series for Cyberpunk 2077 which I'm slowly working through.

Highly recommend

mate i laugh out loud at some of his phrases and oddities - he's a gem. i was genuinely pleased when i saw how much hes making off Patreon.

Is anyone else getting really weird recommendations at the moment? For years my recommended videos have been pretty consistent and appropriate and usually recommends stuff like John Oliver, Redlettermedia, breadtube type stuff and creepypasta/ghost videos which is pretty on point. But these last few weeks the algorithm seems to have had a stroke because none of my recommendations seem even faintly related to my usual watching habits. It keeps trying to get me to watch anti-SJW bollocks about 'how wokeness is ruining Hollywood' and shitty 'Try not to laugh challenge!' crap.

Every six months or so the algorithm blesses me with a slew of far right anti-SJW videos that I have to manually scrub out of my recommendation feed.

It is inevitable at this point.

I've been enjoying Dr Grande's work lately. Here's his take on the Kyle Rittenhouse case:

Brer's latest video goes live tonight:



It's part 3 of 3. Watch the other ones here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSDN0H ... iaT3Pbjv3Q

If you post a comment maybe don't name him by his old GR moniker?

I assumed he didn't want to communicate with people here anymore hence why he left and had his account nuked.

Was there more to it?