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X appears to be juicing MrBeast’s views to woo the YouTuber to the platform, pushing video upload into users’ feeds as an unlabeled ad (mashable.com)

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X appears to be juicing MrBeast’s views to woo the YouTuber to the platform, pushing video upload into users’ feeds as an unlabeled ad::undefined

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Yes. In fact, it got me a lot of attention. I got into a bunch of newspapers, interviewed on NPR, etc. Then my audience started drifting away and on to the next thing... and then YouTube decided to monetize. My account was monetized for a while. I made a grand total of $100 before it was demonetized again.

[-] tsonfeir@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

May I ask what kind of stuff you created?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

My big hit was "The Skeletor Show." It's still on YouTube. But I did many other things on the account before deciding I didn't feel like making comedy videos anymore a few years ago. Occasionally people post asking me to please come back, but I don't know that I ever will.

I will say that it did get me some jobs when I needed work, which was the original goal of the show anyway.

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago

Oh I remember this! A buddy of mine was making a similar style show during roughly the same period using the classic Star Trek cartoon. Similarly Sealab 2021 influenced.

Very nice and thanks for the reminder.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I actually did that too..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-DYY9mdme4

[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 11 months ago

Wish I could share my friends work, but he always kept his videos private. He would occassionally open one up so I could check it out, but he would always make them private again. I should have been using yt-dl to download them all.

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