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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rs50matt" data-source="post: 170040" data-attributes="member: 27872">I can only assume your part of the right now crowd?  Your correct that not all you tubers make a ton of money from their channels and your also correct that YouTube changed algorithms to suit bigger channels for their own income.  If someone has a less successful channel then yes they earn next to nothing but once you start hitting bigger views and subscriber numbers the money in it is life changing. I've been watching youtube for long enough now on many different genres of content to see the change in small channels lifestyle to how they live now. You can even google YouTube earnings per 1k views and work out for yourself just how much is in it.Do you think the dark den wants to be just like exotics lair? Or do you think he tries to impersonate some actions to put his name in the title for clickbait in the hopes of going viral? It isn't just YouTube either.  Watch a twitch stream of someone with a few thousand viewers and just see how much money is donated and how many "bits" (twitch currency) is donated over the course of just 1 hour. It will open your eyes a little</blockquote>