Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
Kinda surprised he is giving up on YouTube. Now it's been a bit, and he has had time to get over the frustration of the loss of the channel. I was sure he'd start another, but he hasn't.
I have to imagine that these terminations are bothering him more than we realize.
It's not just that it kills a lot of his income stream (which it does, in several ways), but I think there's a "torn up work factor" to it. Let me explain.
There was an old Dilbert cartoon, where the devil appeared to Dilbert, and told him he had two choices:
1) Get your salary cut in half
-or-
2) Keep your salary as-is, but get your work destroyed at the end of the day, which you'll have to redo
Instead of being angry, Dilbert responded, "Both of those sound better than what I have going on right now!", and then another employee remarked, "Yeah, how do I get in on this?"
I found it funny, but if you ignore the joke of the whole thing, it's an interesting question. If your work is destroyed every day and you're doomed to repeat it day after day, will you go insane?
I think this is how Chrissy sees the termination of his channels. He feels like he's building up a big library of videos which can draw in the suckers, and puts a varying amount of work into them. This helps him slowly build up a following. Then, after getting it all established for awhile, BOOM... the channel is terminated, and it's all gone. He loses his entire following, and cannot re-upload the same videos without YouTube possibly auto-terminating any new channel he creates. All of his work is destroyed, and just like in the Dilbert cartoon, he's doomed to repeat it if he wants to build up the channel again.
This must be beyond frustrating for him, and it goes way past just money.
So I think he's legit given up on YouTube, and is trying to use Facebook as a (lousy) substitute.
He might give YouTube another shot, but for the moment he is a broken man.
Beautiful.
