• schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I had the vague recollection of him having a small-business-owner-brain moment and going on about how it’s theft, and it’s taking money out of his pockets, or something along those lines.

    Looks like I may have been either thinking of someone else, or misinterpreted a snippet of video of him ranting about something.

    I will admit to not watching his stuff for a good number of years now, and could be totally conflating things.

    • HarriPotero@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      14 days ago

      That was probably his stance when YouTube ad revenue was his stream of income.

      In 2024 they pay pennies, and his real income is from sponsorships like those d-brand skins and manscaping utilities. And their own merch, of course.

      They’ve been pushing their own media platform (floatplane), so I’m willing to bet this was a bit of a game of chicken with YouTube. YouTube wouldn’t ban one of their biggest channels, and if they did it’d turn into great PR for floatplane.

    • SolOrion@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      14 days ago

      In 2022 he tweeted this.

      That might be what you’re remembering, but he’s definitely addressed his views on piracy during the WAN show several times as well.

      Edit: someone else posted the full context elsewhere in the thread. I’d link to that comment, but idk how on lemmy so here: https://archive.ph/VavFc

    • Cataphract@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      14 days ago

      You’re not misremembering. I remember seeing it on there “podcast” or whatever it is where they talked about it extensively and I believe louis chimed in with a video going over it.