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Monday, January 22, 2024
Proud to be amateur
I have been creating content on this blog for over two decades now. But I am an amateur, which comes from the latin verb "amare", to love, because I do this content creation for the love of it. My blog has minimal monetization, just the buy Tobold a coffee Paypal button. Thank you to both of the two people who used that button in 2023! If I ran this blog for the money, I would have been out of business after the first year. But if I had switched platform to Youtube back in 2005 and somehow leveraged the larger number of readers I had back then into a successful video channel, I probably would have made a good amount of money. Instead I stuck with my day job, which worked out fine for me. But I do notice how much more monetized the Youtube content creation is compared to the blogosphere.
Now in many other activities, people use "amateur" for somebody who does the job badly, and "professional" for somebody who does a much better job. In internet content creation I sometimes wonder whether the opposite isn't true. Of course there are good Youtube channels. But there are also Youtube content creators who simply take popular Reddit posts and read them as a script over some images. There are Youtube videos of the "... reacts to ..." variety, where the content creator simply rips off another popular video, with a small thumbnail of him watching the video and nodding his head as his only creative contribution. And since last year the number of AI-created Youtube content has been growing too.
There are now over 100 million active Youtube channels, so of course not all of them can be good. But to me it seems that the easy monetization leads to "professional" Youtubers just taking the path of least resistance, or in this case least creativity, to try to get some easy money. And the pile of garbage sometimes makes it hard to find the good stuff.
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I don't like when people correlate amateur with bad and professional with good.
I'd say all of us have known professionals in our lines of work who do terrible quality work due to laziness or incompetence.
YouTube is the exact same. You have competent folks who put out quality content and lazy folks who put out trash content. Like anything else doing good work is often difficult and people look for shortcuts. Look at the recent drama of the hhbomberguy video where he calls out some huge channels for essentially plagiarizing their videos.
I'd say all of us have known professionals in our lines of work who do terrible quality work due to laziness or incompetence.
YouTube is the exact same. You have competent folks who put out quality content and lazy folks who put out trash content. Like anything else doing good work is often difficult and people look for shortcuts. Look at the recent drama of the hhbomberguy video where he calls out some huge channels for essentially plagiarizing their videos.
Tobold: "... amateur, which comes from the latin verb "amare", to love, because I do this content creation for the love of it."
Interesting, I didn't know that is where the word amateur comes from. As you say, it paints the word in a very different light.
Nowadays in the USA I think we use the word passion to describe what we love to do.
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Interesting, I didn't know that is where the word amateur comes from. As you say, it paints the word in a very different light.
Nowadays in the USA I think we use the word passion to describe what we love to do.
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