Comments by "Craxin01" (@Craxin01) on "BYE: Major Sponsor Drops Tucker Carlson u0026 Laura Ingraham" video.

  1. I get what you're saying... However, if every piece of entertainment needed people to reach into their pockets and drag out a few coins (which a $5 a month subscription essentially does), it won't make the entertainment better or more immune to the next adpocaplypse. No, it'd make people far more hesitant to watch different shows or channels. Sure, they'd support a few they like. Maybe many in your audience will be willing to dish out. But, if everybody else does the same, eventually people start making those financial calculations, and then limit their choices. They'd split off from this show or that, eventually narrowing it to a few, maybe a dozen. That's really bad for "the marketplace of ideas" everyone seems so keen on having. While the YouTube situation isn't ideal, it DOES give people a much more open forum and exposes people to new ideas. I started watching one video, which brought me to people attacking that one. I thought they made sense, started watching them. Some of them went over the top, dropped them, but found others, eventually found this channel. That wouldn't happen if I had to spend my money for each channel I viewed. I think YouTube being funded 90% through ad revenue and not subscription fees has made this platform extremely subject to the whims of corporate interests, which is bad, but more open for people to just post whatever they're thinking, which is good. There isn't a single solution to be found here, no panacea for what is ailing this platform. There's a lot of small tweaks here and there, but most of us don't want to do. It is what it is.
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