Youtube situation

Yeah. I can understand not wanting to whore out for sponsors but I'm glad that some of your videos have gotten remonetized at least.

David Firth

The situation currently is: many of my demonetized vids were remonetized but there is still no budging on stuff like Dog Of Man and Valentines Day Special. The ad revenue itself is pretty low but stable. I haven't actually posted for a while so I hope that the "demonetized by default" problem is no longer a thing. Aside from that Youtube is still not a reliable source of income. Which is why people either don't bother uploading there any more or fill their stuff with ads and sponsored content. I intend my stuff to be watched years from now, rather than 1 million hits in a day like a lot of popular stuff so I couldn't stand to have any sponsored shit in there - plus it's fucking awful to see "now let's talk about dollar shave club".

Any update on your situation? :/

I think you have quite a large fan base and we true loyal fans won't mind paying to watch your next creation.

David Firth

Well they'd probably have to sign me up if there were doing that. I mean who else is even making non-children's, narrative based weird animations in the UK? There really is not much of an animation scene here.

Kendra

Ah, I see. That makes sense. I’m sorry there’s not a better option for you, you work hard to put out content & you deserve to be paid for it. Totally not shitting myself that you replied or anything, by the way, everything’s cool.

David Firth

There are many great platforms, but only Youtube really offers a fairly predictable, reliable ad revenue stream. Vidme had a donation system that showed me exactly how unlikely people are to make one-off donators when the content is already free (I made about $25 in total).

Kendra

Would you consider ever posting on a different platform? This is purely a hypothetical as I don’t even know what other platform opportunities are available & worthwhile monetarily.

Unanimous D

Oh god I heard that password in your voice.

Hawk Vercetti

Ugh, YouTube needs a hard reset. I'm so sorry that happened. For something that wouldn't exist without people like you, they sure make it hard for content creators to do their thing. Thank you for letting us know~

Cynic Snacks

Hypothetically, if Adult Swim were in the process of establishing their UK regional offering, and were looking to acquire/commission new shows, would you be interested?

David Firth

Adult Swim don't really like me. They have a very specific type of American weird that they like and they just can't slot me into. I had a meeting with them in LA about a Salad Fingers series. They didn't go for it.

Plushine

It definitely leaves a bitter feeling, as youtube is where I first found you. But I guess it's time to move on. It's changed too much during the years and became bland, greedy and disgusting. Not a fitting platform for your art anymore.

Nimrod Yonatan Ben-Nes

Fully support your descision

Sorry to hear about the YT situation.

Cynic Snacks

Would you consider cutting a deal for your existing content with an actual channel, like Adult Swim?

Marcus Cross

It's entirely possible that the decision wasn't event made by a human. Tom Scott has a great video where he talks about how nobody at YouTube now understands how the algorithm works because it is has improved itself through machine learning: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSpAWkQLlgM" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSpAWkQLlgM</a>