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Completely Out of the Place Blog 01 : Youtube Ads and Perspective Changes
🕑 Added 2017-07-21 18:59:39 +0000 UTCThank you everyone for the supportive comments about this from previous post. I think I'll start writing some random thought or share some interesting daily events here from now on!
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Ello everyone!
Welcome to the new series on my Patreon campaign called Completely Out of the Place Blog or COotPB for short... if that is considered short for you.
Like the name suggested, this is a random blog without any routine or schedule which I will be writing and posting exclusively on Patreon for patrons containing utterly random thoughts or stuffs and things I've seen on my daily life and want to share with you to make you getting to know me better by reading nonsense that came into my mind.
So if you don't want to know me better in any sort of way, please don't waste your time reading these bullcraps, but still I will try my best to at least keep this somewhat decently valuable to read so it wouldn't just shorten your life span.
Anyway, please enjoy your first episode of COotPB below!
Youtube Ads and How My Perspective Changed as a Creator
So I don't think that I have mentioned this anywhere on Patreon, but I am a Youtube addicted or so I consider myself as one...
I have to watch a video minimized on a corner of my screen or at least have the sound on, listening to my favorite Youtuber while I'm working, mostly gaming Youtubers. It's like listening to a podcast, but better since as soon as you heard something interesting going on, you could just scroll your eyes to that little minimized screen and see what's going on. If I don't do that while I draw or paint, I'll start losing grips and the will to keep drawing and eventually turn into a bear and fly to the moon.
If someone were to raise a question like "How does watching someone else plays the game better than playing the game yourself?" Well, I don't watch anyone for the sake of "pro gameplays" or "perfect walkthrough" or anything like that. I watch them for the sake of their commentating. It's fun to see your favorite guys react to a certain part of what's going on in the game. Hell, I even watched 5 different youtubers playing Undertale over and over again because all of them reacted differently each scenes.
I followed a crap load of Minecraft and other gaming Youtubers and other stuffs or inspirational channels. My main Youtuber that basically made me addicted to the whole Youtube thing was VintageBeef. He's just super enjoyable for anything he plays, at least for me.
And that small thing (by small I mean 3-4 huge paragraphs) lead me to this random thought, the Youtube Ads.
Before I started my whole Patreon, I really couldn't stand Youtube ads, or any ads in general. As soon as I saw an advertisement popping up, I'd even close the whole video sometimes because my mind thought it wasn't worth my time waiting for the ads to finish in order to get to watch that video.
I know I was a freak. I used to work as a kind of mercenary artist like I mentioned on my main Patreon profile page. I don't appreciate ads placements as they are nothing but annoyance. Pay me money and I get things done. That's how I rolled. There was no way how the concept of admiring ads would come to my mind.
But ever since I started my campaign and studied a lot of how crowdfunding works in general, I learned to appreciate the ads. I mean, not the products themselves but the idea of how having the ads in a place would benefit the creator, even though Patreon itself doesn't run on ads.
Looking at Youtubers, they don't gain any direct payment or support (not counting some of them Patreon campaigns) from anything aside the ads, and I have been watching Youtube for free for more than a decade. I don't have to pay a single penny for it, and if watching 10-20 seconds ads occasionally would help supporting the Youtubers that you see how they spent so much effort on making their contents, then why not?
I think this idea also goes with other kinds of platform. You share posts you like on Facebook, you retweet tweets you like on twitter, you reblog arts you like on tumblr, etc. instead of reposting them and claim them as your own to support the creators of those contents you favor, and it doesn't hurt you one bit. Youtube ads is completely free.
So as I make arts on Patreon, though it's quite different mechanically, I learned a lot to appreciate what makes the creators that you care about supported. Basically that's the idea I wanted to share. Nothing much, but I managed to write a whole essay about it... Well I'm sorry.
Didn't mean to tell you guys to start watching Youtube ads. Everyone has their own business and some can't afford to waste a valuable time, but I hope this reminds you that there are numerous way to support your favorite content creators on any platform that doesn't require you to cut your arm off for them.
I think I could come up with something more philosophical with this subject, but I'll leave it as that. You guys have read too much of my completely out of the place thoughts.
Anyway, ya'll have a good day. Feel free to share your thoughts on this. I know some of you could make this deeper. English is not my first language anyway, heh!
Comments
Frank Leo
I try to manage my own Youtube channel ... if I remember I have a Youtube channel
Setsunai Seken
Hi Fuya, I think ads are a necessary evil required to enjoy things like YouTube the way we currently do. But don’t forget that if you don’t pay for it “YOU” are the product in most cases or more specific your information. With that said I generally avoid advertisements of all kind and have add-blocker on but I white list the ones that are on/for sites/people that I want to support. Most ads that get thrown in my face don’t affect me in the slightest but some can be quite annoying/obnoxious. I’m mostly a research first buy later person so I disregard most advertisements and build my own opinions on research. Though admittedly advertisements I particularly dislike make me more inclined to NOT buy from the advertiser, though if the product is actually good I can forgive something like that. That you listen to commentators during work is something I do myself during certain tasks, though the mention that you can’t keep drawing without something like that is a bit worrying to me, especially how you described it.
Fuya
Getting a double monitor is a great deal. I wish I could do that but I have a very limited space on my table. Yeah, I have to at least listen to something and music always come to a conclusion when I can't really find anything to watch. Basically I think the ads thing depends on how much you care for that certain creator. I don't mind watching a whole minute of ads for creators I like, but if I clicked on random vines and there's a 30 second ads, I'd just skip it or click away.
Fuya
Oh yeah I have seen that happened quite a lot and it's sad. Can't help it though. Patreon or any crowdfunding platform in general is considered a scam for some people. Some just would never grasp the concept of "supporting" content creators online. Every on the internet must be free otherwise they are evil. It's sad.
Inquisitor
I don't have the space on my screen to watch a video while working in photoshop or 3Ds Max, so instead when I go on youtube I just get distracted in another window instead of continuing to work. I don't have much space so when I use my graphics tablet I have to turn away from my main monitor as I sit it on my lap, so never watch a video then either. I do however hate working without music on. Always have music on when working. The more I'm totally into the music the more focused I'll be on my work. Moving soon and will have a much better setup (dual monitors, more desk space etc) so might end up adding videos into the mix. As for ads, if they're giving someone I like money then they are fine. If there's a minute long ad for a short video, I probably wont watch that video. If there's a popup ad then it's likely blocked. Some ads are too much, but others are just fine.
Exhorbiiii
Thank you ｡(*^▽^*)ゞ And as you just mentioned, some creators/YouTubers, I've subscribed to and even followed for a long time, now have to face accusations of being a sellout. Apart from the negative examples, there are also good creators (on YouTube!), who actually solved their financial needs by setting up a Patreon page, so followers/fans/subscribers can actively support them on projects they'd like to do!
Fuya
What you said is exactly right. WE all are living on the edge of having ads into your faces every second unless you literally live in a cave. There's a limit to the amount of ads placements and I think good creators know their limits of the audiences. Too much ads will write sellout on your forehead and that will just automatically make the contents unenjoyable. Usually they will know if they are being annoying or not, otherwise well, they are not good creators and your English is great!
Exhorbiiii
Talking about ads in general, I usually don't really mind getting them at all, as long as they fit to me and are interesting to watch. Additionally, it also depends on how ads would appear in front of the 'consumer'. On platforms like YouTube, you often get to choose between watching the whole ad or just skip it after 5 seconds (at this point it's cleverly solved in my opinion, compared to the time you HAD to watch 3 mins long ads before you can even start watching the actual video itself. which might be only 1 min long LOL). In fact, advertisements already became part of us in our everydays lives, we already got used to most ads and I'm pretty confident most of us just automatically choose to ignore them. As a result, some people would deliberately place more and more annoying ads in a single video. Don't get me wrong, I really want to support the creators and their YT channels etc. but if they put ads every 3-5 mins in a 30 min long video/podcast etc., I'm not sure if I can ever do that at all. (Sorry for my bad english! (。-`ω´-))
