I suspect that if you add up all the money Youtubers make, and you divide it by all of the man hours people spent trying to make a living off of Youtube, "poverty stricken PhD candidate" would start to seem like a good financial decision.
Yeah becoming popular enough on YouTube to be able to have it be your full time job is like winning the lottery in terms of how many people have tried vs how many have succeeded.
It seems to rise to the top of YouTube, you have to be a crazed sociopath or just plain idiotic to engage enough people to be able to afford a house. I think college is overrated but still think those that try are better off. Youtubers are not in anyway contributing to the betterment of our world. It's sad how crap content is the driving force for getting monetized.
Yep, a close friend of mine managed to be an established content creator with brand deals. I won't go into specifics as it's quite easy to extrapolate who the person are, but many people that are our mutual friends already started to think that “If [redacted] can manage to be a content creator then I must too” and started to clout chase.
Welcome to the academic precariat.
Read this paper the other day which is basically this meme and your comment combined.
Ha. Wait until you are the unpaid reviewer struggling to pay mortgage on first house and still paying off student debt. You'll start to understand why reviewers can be such dicks.
