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UnicornKitty@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Or you could just become a member of their channel. I look at it this way though. If a youtuber I’m watching has lots of subscribers, one more member in that community probably isn’t going to make a difference. If a youtuber I’m watching doesn’t have the subscriber numbers they deserve, I will become a member. I always choose the highest tiers for them too. And join their patreon and do the same there. If I do that, I will actually listen/watch on patreon then put both YouTube versions in my watch list for when I need background noise and just upvote both videos.

That way they get all the things I can possibly do for them without giving youtube as much as I give the creators. This is my understanding of how that works though. With premium, if they actually give any of that money to the creators (my heart says no, corporations suck), it would be way less than the channel membership would give them. I don’t actually know how much premium costs though.

Please do correct me if I’m wrong. At the moment I don’t have very many people on my memberships. And I know most people these days probably can’t afford to do that, but even a $1 or $2 membership to one or a couple of them can make a difference to the ones you really support and who probably need it more than they’d get from premium.

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HerbalGamer@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Just out of curiosity… how much does that add up to, and if you don’t mind sharing how much all your subscriptions cost you each month in total?

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- UnicornKitty@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  My biggest one is $30 total. That’s also my only patreon currently. I will do more of those soon. I have a list. The youtube memberships probably add up to somewhere around that amount in total. Yes it’s probably way more than premium. I really loved the pay what you want phase of music, but at that time I was broke.
  
  I am a big believer of supporting talent whenever I can. I am grateful that I have the chance to do so now. My current budget for that stuff is low right now because we are working on moving.
  
  Thanks to the state of the US, we would have been considered middle class before, but now it’s back to lower. Your dollars don’t stretch very far. I’m lucky to have a husband who feels the same way I do. We will never be rich in money, but we help as much as we can wherever we go. We also make donations to non-profit organizations we know don’t use that money to line their own pockets. So those are the smaller places that always get overlooked. I foster kittens, and we sponsor each one. That means we pay the fees associated with adopting said kitten.
  
  Apologies for the info dump, but it’s a subject I love. I’ve been dreaming of the day I could do these things since I was in single digits.
  
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