# Do you have sympathy for YouTubers?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-sympathy-for-youtubers/804986>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 21, 2017, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-sympathy-for-youtubers/804986 "2017-12-21T11:24:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2017, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-sympathy-for-youtubers/804986/41 "2017-12-26T17:53:25Z")

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> [@VinylTurnip](#):
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> I have yet to see a “YouTube personality” whom I didn’t want to strangle within the first 60 seconds of their blabber, but if I ever do, and they end up failing, I may feel some sympathy. No promises.

There are quite a few channels that have no talking at all. Admittedly, most of those include background music, but you can turn that down or off.

[Primitive Technology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive_Technology) uses only ambient sounds. There are occasional subtitles to explain bits.

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**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2017, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-sympathy-for-youtubers/804986/42 "2017-12-26T19:30:42Z")

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> [@Mavic\_Chen](#):
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> So what I’m basically getting at is - do you think being a YouTuber is a legitimate career choice today and should uploaders be getting sympathy for trouble caused when they either run out of ideas or YouTube move the goalposts?

Do you think being an author is a legitimate career choice today and should authors be getting sympathy for trouble caused when they either run out of ideas or publishers/Amazon move the goalposts?

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> It seems to me that getting “money for nothing” by just filming yourself at no cost apart from your own time is a pretty lousy way to plan a future, but what do I know apparently there are YouTube millionaires.

It seems to be that getting “money for nothing” by just stringing words at no cost apart from your own time is a pretty lousy way to plan a future, but what do I know apparently there are author millionaires.

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