The “YouTuber” is dying right now

Nah, YouTube is a pretty big empire, I just think that people grow out of or get tired of watching a particular persons show in about 5-10 years. It happens with television too, even if a show is extremely popular the ratings drop and people move on to something new. That's what is happening with this 'first wave' of youtubers who made it a business, people are finding new subjects and or channels that they like better.

It isn't a long term gig. Most businesses aren't long term now anyways. It's sad to watch them struggle to hold on to viewers and get desperate though. The constant harassment on every single video to "like" and "subscribe" is so annoying at this point.

Youtube has been banning, suspending and demonetising plenty of people in the last couple of years so most have them have just moved to other platforms where they can talk freely, question things and have other opinions than the mainstream one.

Youtube seems intent on committing a slow and unnecessary suicide.

Good. They all shout at the camera and have had editing.

I don't think YouTube is going to fade away anytime soon - it'll probably outlive TikTok.
But it's hard for a channel to stay interesting especially if it's based on the personal the appeal of a person. Even content driven ones seem to to drop away though I suspect the wretched algorithms don't help.

I’ve never really consumed YT as a form of Social Media. I’ve never subscribed to anyone’s channel or engaged in discussion there. But I have used youtube a ton to watch music videos, movie trailers, how-to vids, bootleg tv shows, holiday music fireplace, news clips, etc.

In the early days, Mozilla’s ad blocker also blocked ads on yt (it was bliss).

Yt is so much more than content-creators who beg users to subscribe to their channels. It was acquired by Google in 2006 and integrated with their other products. It’s part of G-suite, which is used by thousands of companies and educational institutions. It’s the video-hosting tool in the G-Suite package. The companies that subscribe to G-Suite use youtube to host all their corporate video content, such as training videos, press packages, product trailers for consumers, instructional videos for their customers.

YouTube isn’t going anywhere.

thats cos the biggest stars are just the ones that caught the attention of teenagers and their channels consist of pissing about being a bit of a dick and playing computer games ,
The very nature of that is flash-in-the-pan , they will come and go and maybe have to invent a more solid "schtic"

Those youtubers with channels with some kind of actual content , watched by adults , have a much more solid foundation

TikTok.

LOL

Sheeee

IT

YouTubers now make their money from the back end.. They post their Paypal, Patreon, OnlyFans, Personal Websites, sell Counseling, Merchandise... YouTube pays about $1 per thousand views, and for some odd reason, my channel wasn't able to be monetized, with no explanation. Some of the biggest YouTubers have certain videos de-monetized, and some like Graham Elwood had his entire channel de-monetized, but they also use YouTube to advertise their upcoming comedy shows, movies, whatever.. There's a lot of videos that are clipped onto another site so viewers have to pay a monthly membership to access everything.

I've made some money on my channel that has a little over 2,000 subscribers for those who voluntarily want to pitch in (I got $20) so I can purchase archival video to post on my site. I spent $380 for some audio, but it's something I'd want anyway. I also use it in case someone wants some work (drumming) but it hasn't been successful, but then again, I only have 2k subscribers.