• Brownian Motion@lemmy.worldEnglish
      101·
      il y a 1 an

      Don’t worry Zuck will follow suit. And if you make content and it does bring in revenue to you, why not leach extra money out of the 3 biggest tax dodgers!

    • GatoB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      il y a 1 an

      He is getting exactly what he wants everyone is talking about him, why do I want to be reminded everyday about how he is?

    • FinnFooted@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      il y a 1 an

      Its not so embarrassing if you need it. But when you’re one of the wealthiest people on the planet and literally begging, that’s seriously embarrassing.

  • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1902·
    il y a 1 an

    I didn’t realize anyone earned anything on Twitter ever. Is this just video views? Is this new?

    Also, fuck Musk, etc.

    • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
      6015·
      il y a 1 an

      I think it’s new, he decided to add it to attract Tucker Carlson. I don’t know who would watch a whole 20 minute video on their phone though.

        • Cheese@lemmy.worldEnglish
          335·
          il y a 1 an

          I just don’t see the reason to do it.

          If I have time to watch a 20min video it’s because I’m at home doing nothing and home is where my TV and computers are. If the only thing I have is my phone that means I’m out doing something, so I don’t have time to watch a 20min video.

          • Reborn Ash@lemdit.comEnglish
            42·
            il y a 1 an

            It’s just how you use your phone. Seems like a work phone. Tho, most people don’t use their phones for work, at least exclusively.

          • ritswd@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            il y a 1 an

            I sometimes watch long YouTube videos on my phone while in my living room, where my huge screen also is. Don’t ask me why, but I like it.

          • 100_kg_90_de_belin @feddit.itEnglish
            1·
            il y a 1 an

            Either that or you’re commuting in a country with good signal coverage, for instance. I live in a hilly region in Europe, so streaming while commuting is difficult because of tunnels, but it can be done.

          • QHC@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            il y a 1 an

            Good thing your personal experiences are the only possible way to live. For a second there we were dangerously close to self awareness!

            • Cheese@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              il y a 1 an

              Good thing I said “”“I”“” don’t see the reason to do it, as in this is my use case for me personally . For a second there I were dangerously far from saying “No one should ever”

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        il y a 1 an

        My wife will binge watch TV shows on her phone. Ones with epic views like The Expanse. I don’t get it but she’s fine with it.

      • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        132·
        il y a 1 an

        Will i watch videos on my phone rather than my computer? no

        will i watch videos on my phone rather than staring into the distance and feeling the state of the world slowly and agonizingly send me into a spiral of depression and anxiety?

        Yeah.

          • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            il y a 1 an

            Meh, I’ve got a 4k phone with Dolby atmos. I’m fine watching a movie on it. As a technophile and audiophile, it’s hitting everything it needs to hit for me. I do prefer to watch in my VR headset overall, but VR headsets are still only up to the equivalent of 1080p at a comfortable field of view. Still pretty good, but the main upside for VR is perfect 3D, I’m one of the weirdos that likes 3D.

            But, I do get that at the time of this recording, he had a 4-6 inch diagonal phone with a single tinny speaker and 576p screen in mind, and that would indeed not be a great way to watch a movie. Though if people like it, no real reason to be snobby to them about it, they just don’t care about the same thing he does/we do.

      • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        il y a 1 an

        I don’t know who would watch a whole 20 minute video on their phone though.

        In some countries, a phone as a daily computer for everything is much more popular than actual computers.

  • Fisk400@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1791·
    il y a 1 an

    How is he going to be able to handle more videos when he has to ration text views because it’s melting his servers.

  • Margot Robbie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1602·
    il y a 1 an

    He’s always been desperate for attention, but now the public sentiment has finally turned against him everything he does just looks sad.

    Oh and his memes were always stale AF.

    • Toribor@corndog.ukEnglish
      56·
      il y a 1 an

      Elon just wants everyone to think he’s funny and smart.

      Unfortunately he’s so determined to be constantly visibly online it’s completely shattered that illusion.

      • Margot Robbie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        37·
        il y a 1 an

        He’s just not funny.

        A lot of comedy comes from situational absurdity of unexpected actions, and there is nothing that kills the joke faster than to realize that they are not pretending. It was funny at first when a boomer (Ok, elder Gen X) billionaire started posting bad middle school humor on Twitter, it immediately stopped being funny when it turns out his real maturity level never got past middle school.

        Which is also why Trump is such a black hole for comedy, you just can’t make fun of him, because any absurd and ridiculous thing you can think of him doing, you would expect him to actually do it.

        • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          101·
          il y a 1 an

          Which is also why Trump is such a black hole for comedy, you just can’t make fun of him, because any absurd and ridiculous thing you can think of him doing, you would expect him to actually do it.

          If a sketch comedy group ever does another Trump sketch, I think the best one would be to make him seem like Sherlock Holmes behind closed doors. I mean a posh English accent, a big and sophisticated vocabulary, and an obviously sharp mind. Then have him leave the room to do a press conference and put on the idiot persona, then come back and back to his “true” self.

          I think that’s the only thing that would be absurd and ridiculous: he’s actually very smart and sophisticated, not just a buffoon.

  • popemichael@lemmy.worldEnglish
    143·
    il y a 1 an

    Two people in this world that you should never get an IOU from: Trump and Musk.

    They just don’t pay their bills. It’s not worth the effort.

  • CrunchyBoy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1401·
    il y a 1 an

    With what money, Elon? You can’t afford to pay Google or office rent but you’re going to pay Mr. Beast?

    • mriguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      414·
      il y a 1 an

      He’s perfectly capable of paying both. He doesn’t want to, and because he’s rich, he doesn’t have to. There is a reason billionaires end up with so much money, and fairly compensating other parties isn’t it.

      • zeppo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        61·
        il y a 1 an

        They don’t have to rip other people off, they just choose to. I had a girlfriend whose family was quite wealthy… she loved shopping at the dollar store, and her mother acted overwhelmed with glee when she found a dozen past-date eggs for .65 at the grocery store. Is that how they became wealthy? Fuck no, they inherited a hotel.

    • db2@lemmy.oneEnglish
      13·
      il y a 1 an

      Mr Beast will always have money if he does it though, even if he loses all his other money he’ll still have an unpaid debt from Pissbaby Musk.

    • Altima NEOEnglish
      634·
      il y a 1 an

      Except he doesn’t seem to be begging for money here. He’s looking to give more away

        • Altima NEOEnglish
          312·
          il y a 1 an

          I mean he would be paying Mr beast

          • DigitalPortkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            il y a 1 an

            You understand that what content creators get paid by the platform is never anywhere near what the platform gets paid by the advertisers…right?

            Using completely made up numbers, if Mr Beast is paid $1 by Youtube for every thousand views, YouTube may be getting paid $6 or $7 by advertisers.

            Otherwise the monetization would never work.

            Musk doesn’t have the funds or the revenue from Twitter to be able to compete with that.

  • dns@lemmy.worldEnglish
    130·
    il y a 1 an

    A company notorious for revenue problems and missing bill payments is definitely who I would want to enter a business relationship with. Where do I sign up?

      • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
        271·
        il y a 1 an

        Not even. He’s offering similar compensation per view. There’s no way Twitter is getting the number of views YouTube is. Especially with all the games he’s playing lately, like putting the whole site behind a registration wall

    • existential_crisis@lemmy.worldEnglish
      93·
      il y a 1 an

      I don’t get why Twitter didn’t try to make a Youtube-like video platform before? I wonder if it’s because venture capital has caused brain rot in the executive teams at these tech companies? It seems obvious to launch something like that, and they 100% have (had) the talent and infrastructure to build and support it. Even if it isn’t massively successful on day one, it could be successful in the future with a strong marketing effort.

      If I didn’t know that these companies were run by incompetent idiots, my first suspicion would be some kind of collusion. Trying to do it now that Twitter is a sinking ship is laughable.

      • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
        14·
        il y a 1 an

        They didn’t have anywhere close to the infrastructure to compete with YouTube

        Based off earnings from before Twitter was purchased, they were making less money than Snapchat - and Snapchat is having to close down gfycat due to the cost of serving gifs - much less having the main focus be long form videos

        • merc@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          il y a 1 an

          If he just brought over a few really big creators, he wouldn’t need all of YouTube’s infrastructure.

          OTOH, even just a tiny fraction of YouTube’s infrastructure is massive compared to what Twitter does with video. It’s like someone suggest that a newspaper start using his home printer instead of their printing presses.

        • existential_crisis@lemmy.worldEnglish
          12·
          il y a 1 an

          That doesn’t really matter, unless you expect the video feature to be unprofitable. With ~300m or whatever active users, it would not be hard to raise money if they need it to launch a major product like that.

          • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
            7·
            il y a 1 an

            There’s 0 chance it would be profitable. They probably could have built it with a lot of external funding, but it would probably never have become profitable

            Google is still trying to figure out how to make YouTube profitable

            • existential_crisis@lemmy.worldEnglish
              13·
              il y a 1 an

              I completely disagree. If anything, Google having difficulties with profitability is an opportunity for a competitor to beat them (although I don’t think youtube is unprofitable).

              Can something like this under Twitter management (current or previous) succeed? Probably not. But could a team of smart people with access to 300 million users build a video streaming platform that’s profitable? Hell yes, and the only major concern would be anti-competitive bs from Google, but the FTC has been paying more attention to that kind of stuff recently.

              • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
                51·
                il y a 1 an

                But could a team of smart people with access to 300 million users build a video streaming platform that’s profitable?

                How big of a team are we talking about?

                A small team, no.

                First there’s compliance with copyright laws to consider, All the false accusations that go along with it. You gonna need some lawyers and support people to handle these issues.

                Moderation is significantly more challenging too. It’s significantly harder to detect things like copy right violations, child porn, etc, when it’s in video forma than in text form.

                Then you need staff to manage the clients. And by clients I mean the advertisers. So there’s going to have weird demands like “no swearing in the first 15 seconds of the video” or whatever. And so you have to manage the rollout of weird features like that. Which ideally would include tools so the content creators can remain in compliance with the weird demands of the advertisers.

                Then there’s the bandwidth considerations. It takes way more resources to serve up video to 300 million users than it is to serve up text.

                Sure many times Youtube sucks at these things right but these are things that need to be done and doing them right is going to require a larger staff than YouTube has.

              • ozymandias117@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                il y a 1 an

                If they start with a subscription only model, yeah, they could make one that’s profitable.

                Will 300 million people agree to paying a monthly subscription…. Questionable

  • foggy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    79·
    il y a 1 an

    Pretty sure Mr Beast is a company, not a person. I mean, we know who he is, but like, he isn’t the guy managing millions of dollars.

    Pretty sure they are a well oiled machine, still making ridiculous amount of money.

    Asking them to come to your platform publicly like that would be like BC college asking the Red Sox to play a few games on their turf for funzies.

    They wouldn’t show up without a down payment equal to what they pull down on an average night at home.

    • weedazz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      il y a 1 an

      Are you bill Simmons? This is a great analogy to Boston sports and the only person I know who can do that is Bill Simmons. But I guess that’s because I live in Florida lol

      • demonhockey@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        il y a 1 an

        I mean, the Sox do play a double header with BC and Northeastern every spring training, so you could see the theoretical game in Florida if you wanted

  • tartan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    795·
    il y a 1 an

    Fuck Musk. He should do us all a favour and go suck on the tail end of one of “his” rockets.

  • emax_gomax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    652·
    il y a 1 an

    All the jokes aside, it’s still amazing the CEO over a year in doesn’t even know how profitable being an user that drives engagement on the site is compared to a (I guess) competitor like youtube. He’s just like we’re as profitable as youtube for you, or if not we can be, like the guy knows nothing and is just throwing claims out there with no basis in reality or plan to follow through on them.

    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      152·
      il y a 1 an

      over a year in

      The deal closed at the end of October. He’s also appointed a new CEO, so while he owns, the title isn’t with him. He’s still in charge, though. Still an asshole, too.