I watched maybe four dozen of the Matt’s Offroad Recovery videos.
Given the fact that they’re running a successful business in Hurricane, Utah, and given the fact that there are many tight familial and extra-familial ties in evidence, I would guess that there’s like a seventy or eighty percent chance that they’re both Mormon, and Trump voters.
But … no mention of religion or politics ever makes it into the final edit of their videos. I’m reasonably certain that that’s purely by design.
They have just under a million subscribers, roughly the same as the single most successful hyperprogressive politics channel (not counting the unusual case of Russell Brand), the one belonging to Jimmy Dore.
Taking a look far below these lofty subscriber counts, there’s quite a drop-off on the politics side.
The insanely good Bad Faith channel, captained by Briahna Joy Gray, has less than 60 thousand subs.
In spite of the fact that she’s young, black, pretty, smart, unfailingly respectful, and rarely fire-breathing, the YouTube algorithms screw her over hard, because her views offend the corporate hivemind and support everything they hate.
Primo Radical, who is who is none of those things (except smart, and with a few exceptions, respectful) has half as many, but in addition, the overlords are actively going out of their way to censor his voice, as seen in two of his most recent videos.
There’s no logical or moral reason for this. His interviews are amazing, and often with big names, like multiple visits with Chomsky. I value his work highly. But the System wants him dead because they don’t like what he says, and eventually they’ll succeed. He knows it, and is in the process of transitioning to Rumble or Odysee or some other place that is, for now, more free–but also less profitable, counting perhaps on Patreon donations and the like to make up the difference and at least get him back to the poverty line.
At thirty thousand subs. and throttled in his view counts, PR brings the receipts to show that he’s making under $300 a month from his channel, which doubtless works out to half the current federal minimum wage per hour.
YouTube is listening to every word. I’ve heard many different creators call the Covid-19 vaccine “the jab” or refer to “the Rona”, or use nicknames for Julian Assange, because they know quite well that even saying the original proper words will bring them added scrutiny and set them on the road to demonetization or worse.
So as someone just starting out, with ambitions of eventually generating revenue in the $1000 range, I’m totally comfortable with self-censoring to a point, on the GoogleTubes only, in order to get there. I have at least this place, and the SubStack in my pocket, to say whatever I want to free and loud and clear.
Free Julian Assange. Free Edward Snowden. Free Stephen Donziger. Fuck capitalism, even my little capitalism. Please rest comfortably in the moral light even if you choose to run an adblocker on my vids, or use a proxy site like yew.tube … I do it myself, and I’m not going to be one of those hypocrites that run around whining about how you’re stealing from me by doing so.
There never have been and there never will be ads on vairtere.com anyway.
I’m looking hard at gaming the system. Maybe it’s true that the house always wins, but I’m going to try to drive the fine line between monetization and loss of soul regardless.
Enough for now. I’m totally comfortable with self-censoring to a point, on the GoogleTubes only, in order to get there. I have at least this place, and the SubStack in my pocket, to say whatever I want to free and loud and clear.
Free Julian Assange. Free Edward Snowden. Free Stephen Donziger. Fuck capitalism, even my little capitalism. Please rest comfortably in the moral light even if you choose to run an adblocker on my vids, or use a proxy site like yew.tube … I do it myself, and I’m not going to be one of those hypocrites that run around whining about how you’re stealing from me by doing so.
There never have been and there never will be ads on vairtere.com anyway.
I’m looking hard at gaming the system. Maybe it’s true that the house always wins, but I’m going to try to drive the fine line between monetization and loss of soul regardless.
Enough for now. I’m totally comfortable with self-censoring to a point, on the GoogleTubes only, in order to get there. I have at least this place, and the SubStack in my pocket, to say whatever I want to free and loud and clear.
Free Julian Assange. Free Edward Snowden. Free Stephen Donziger. Fuck capitalism, even my little capitalism. Please rest comfortably in the moral light even if you choose to run an adblocker on my vids, or use a proxy site like yew.tube … I do it myself, and I’m not going to be one of those hypocrites that run around whining about how you’re stealing from me by doing so.
There never have been and there never will be ads on vairtere.com anyway.
I’m looking hard at gaming the system. Maybe it’s true that the house always wins, but I’m going to try to drive the fine line between monetization and loss of soul regardless.
Enough for now. a month range, and therefore eyeing a modest target of, say, 125K subs over time, there are lessons here.
I’m totally comfortable with self-censoring to a point, on the GoogleTubes only, in order to get there. I have at least this place, and the SubStack in my pocket, to say whatever I want to free and loud and clear.
Free Julian Assange. Free Edward Snowden. Free Stephen Donziger. Fuck capitalism, even my little capitalism. Please rest comfortably in the moral light even if you choose to run an adblocker on my vids, or use a proxy site like yew.tube … I do it myself, and I’m not going to be one of those hypocrites that run around whining about how you’re stealing from me by doing so.
There never have been and there never will be ads on vairtere.com anyway.
I’m looking hard at gaming the system. Maybe it’s true that the house always wins, but I’m going to try to drive the fine line between monetization and loss of soul regardless.
Enough for now.