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> They have to make money somehow.

- multiple ads on the video itself

- multiple links to their merchandise in the description

- link promoting a paid YouTube membership in the description (which links to a sponsored video with a referral link to an unrelated financial product)

- 26 referral links in the description

- referral link to a completely unrelated mobile game in the description

- referral link to a completely unrelated mobile game as a pinned comment

- promotion of Patreon in the video itself

It's a bit disingenuous to suggest that without early content access they have no way of monetising their content.

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They're also a LOT higher budget than the vast majority of other YouTube channels, necessitating all the additional funding streams. I don't know what the final cost for that Protosaber was, but including all the R&D and Man Hours along with the materials, I'm sure its pretty crazy.

Not quite the same since it's a much larger team but Linus Tech Tips actually just released a video[1] on how they make money and it shows that diversifying your revenue stream as much as possible is key to be successful on YouTube.

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zt57TWkTF4

Or you could just sign up for the Patreon and get their videos without all that. I don’t see how giving people the option to pay for stuff is a bad thing?

Oh you want to get a base salary as well?

- already have RSUs

- annual bonus

- health care benefits

- paid vision

- paid time off

- snacks in office

It's a bit disingenuous to suggest that without a base salary software engineers have no way of monetising their skills.

But who cares if they do use early access content as a way to pay the bills?

You seem like you expect people to work for you for free to create content to entertain you?

I'm not sure what you're getting at here. They should willingly be making less money?

Give them money to bypass it

It seems I've missed the window to edit my comment, so to address all the negative sibling comments: I am not moralising - I don't care what they do.

Grandparent complained the good content is paywalled. Parent suggested that's because they can't monetise any other way. I provided examples of how they are monetising already.

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