• Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I was one of those that unsubscribed. I feel like the show quality has been dropping for a while now and the excessive advertising always got under my skin a little bit. I almost unsubscribed about a year ago when Linus went on his Twitter rant about how “adblockers are technically piracy” because it’s sickening how many ads we have to look at every day and we have to sit though a sponsor segment every video and his plug to his own merch store.
    But now after seeing his half-assed apology (that is also monetized and sponsored) AND seeing how terrible of an environment it is to work for him and the treatment Madison had to endure working under him was enough to push me over the edge. My views won’t be giving him another dime of revenue.

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      1 year ago

      His apology video has a sponsor?!

      That’s very fucked up.

      Issa joke by them got it.. I don’t watch apology videos usually.

      • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        No, just youtube ads (that were disabled an hour after upload), as well as like 5 tone deaf ‘and now for our sponsor! Jk!’ segments.

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        1 year ago

        No it doesn’t, they make jokes about how they got offered to be sponsored by dbrand but no it itself is not sponsored however it is still monetized

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        1 year ago

        This year has just turned out some incredibly poorly thought out apology videos from various YouTubers.

        I hope people meme the crap out of this like they did for that lady with the ukulele.

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      1 year ago

      Ad-blockers are technically piracy. It doesn’t matter how unfair the ads are, they are what fund the creators (or the creators through YouTube). I don’t seem to recall him berating people for ad-blocking, he just said that people should accept that they are pirating the content. I guess people don’t like self-reflecting when they are labelled.