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I’m sick of people treating YouTubers like bums. I decided to speak out.

I appreciate it :) we’re more than just the money we earn

Except none of that is actually work.

Realistically they have to produce an hours content a day

Now the bigger youtubers have more edited stuff. So an hours content could be 3 hours of footage recorded. Maybe more.

So 3 hours of recording
4 hours editing
That’s 7 hours
A day
7 days a week.

49 hours a week
2,548 hours a year
461 hours more than the average amount of hours worked in a year.

That’s before you account for fan correspondence and other social media stuff.

That’s how they make money.
It’s a job
Therefore it’s work.

Screaming into a camera and playing and is not work

By that logic.
Acting
Music
Anything to do with television
Stand up comedy

None of those things would be work because they’re doing something they enjoy.

They’re doing it to entertain others.

Ah yes, it’s not work, that means anyone should be able to do it with equal success.

Good luck, your time begins now.

Respect YouTubers 2k17

Wow holy shit

ENJOYING WHAT YOU DO DOES NOT NEGATE THE EFFORT PUT INTO YOUR CAREER

When I got my first internship at a tv production company my mother gave me a talk about how I’d have to work very very hard at it. I was like yes? Obviously? But then my mother said “I don’t think you’ve ever worked hard a day in your life.”

Insulted, I asked how all of the art/theatre/film stuff I’d been doing over the years didn’t count as hard work. My mother shrank back and said that she guessed that stuff counted.

When I talked to my therapist about this, she said that my parents associated “work” with suffering. That if the act brings you joy and not pain, than it must not be work, even if it’s difficult and takes significant amounts of time. I think a lot of people also have this sort of block, that work = suffering. It’s a sort of mentality that causes one to look down on certain careers, particularly those in the art and entertainment industries, even though they require just as much time and effort as anything else.

I know “destroy the idea” has become a bit of a cliche on tumblr, but seriously. Let’s distroy the idea that something isn’t work if it doesn’t bring you pain.

(reblogging for that last comment)

Making actually decent content on a regular basis is a shit ton of work. I’ve tried my hand at making YouTube videos and it’s 100% not as easy as people make it out to be. Recording and editing is a pain in the ass, and keeping your content interesting at the same time isn’t something a lot of people can do.

And the schedules these people hold themselves to in order to stay relevant and gaining fans is nothing short of grueling. The internet moves too fast for breaks.

(via takashi0)