Uploaded January 2011 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
View all of my responses to Thunderf00t here youtube.com/playlist?list=PL61288C7E5B1DB99C
This is a video response to Thunderf00t Time to Quit?youtube.com/watch?v=Ut8XsEDyyzo
Thunderf00t also just today released a new video on this subject
Thunderf00t 2012 youtube.com/watch?v=Q6SFueTD_is
Thunderf00t's video to HowTheWorldWorks appears to have been flagged down. Here is a copy
youtube.com/watch?v=2HHloGxctgE
Thunderf00t's video from 2009 about becoming a partner
youtube.com/watch?v=8z9dIJRqBN4
My video response to him about the benefits of the Partner Program
youtube.com/watch?v=3qMxECfEf08
To quote from Thunderf00t's video description
"Gotta be honest I do kinda enjoy making youtube videos.... and evidently people like watching them.
Only problem is though it takes up a lot of time. Most of the videos I put out have far more thought, planning and production in them than the 'entertainingly angry man rants at camera about opinions' type thing.
Initially all I wanted to do was put out some reasonably well thought out media on the basis that eventually people would find it and put it to good use. The channel on average now pulls in some 12 mn hits per year. I figure its worth keeping up.... For the time that's put into it... I reckon it does a lot of good. But increasingly it feels like an unappreciated venture getting swamped in a sea of media... and the only way to avoid sinking is to create more and better material (a treadmill just to keep the head above water). For me this has been heading to a crunch for some time now, probably about a year. Even as it stands this channel significantly impacts on my job, and that really does limit my options for putting more time into this.
-Is it possible that this channel could produce a living wage? Not a rich mans living wage you understand, something along a teacher's salary. Well having seen all sorts of people go down this route before, it seems they pick up chump change... a few thousand bucks. Teachers salary is about 40-50k a year. Turns out the advertising currently on the channel brings in about 10% of this, but this is mostly due to 'science and education for the win' is neither sexy, nor something that's good for selling stuff. From a personal - career point of view of course even entertaining youtube as a 'job' is suicidal. I have a perfectly respectable and stable future.... who in their right mind would trade that in for the chump change and volatility of youtube? -- truth is though that youtube offers the potential to influence the future on civilization... and in that sense the risk of an individual is maybe an acceptable gambling token.... but Im not about to do anything stupid or suicidal like not testing the ground before making such a bold move.
So this is mostly about testing the waters, to gauge what sort of support this channel could garner.
My personal reckoning is that this is unlikely to go anywhere, and that only modest support, maybe 10% of a teachers salary will be brought in. In that event, I'll just blow the cash on making some entertaining science media..... a few thousand bux can give quite a lot of latitude in disposable resources to someone who has a reasonable idea of what they are doing."
Straightd0pe's video on ebegging
youtube.com/watch?v=uAdc131dy7E
My ebegging video from 2008
youtube.com/watch?v=aMjRNlXV_fg&feature=fvsr
myu2b.com/users/Thunderf00t
myu2b.com/users/happycabbie
MyU2B has since been taken down. According to Renetto, the sites owners it was costing to much money to keep up. Now we have SocialBlade
socialblade.com/youtube/user/happycabbie
socialblade.com/youtube/user/Thunderf00t
While socialblade is no where even close to how accurate MYU2B was it is the best we currently have.
Do remember these are estimates of earning potential and do not reflect what a channel actually earns. Just what they could earn if all the videos were monetized.
My tutorial on how to use MyU2B
youtube.com/watch?v=jykq7UplBAE
How to block certain ads from appearing on your videos
google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=93462
Dlandoncole's video
youtube.com/watch?v=DBAYvfddelI&feature=watch_response
View all of my responses to Thunderf00t here youtube.com/playlist?list=PL61288C7E5B1DB99C
This is a video response to Thunderf00t Time to Quit?youtube.com/watch?v=Ut8XsEDyyzo
Thunderf00t also just today released a new video on this subject
Thunderf00t 2012 youtube.com/watch?v=Q6SFueTD_is
Thunderf00t's video to HowTheWorldWorks appears to have been flagged down. Here is a copy
youtube.com/watch?v=2HHloGxctgE
Thunderf00t's video from 2009 about becoming a partner
youtube.com/watch?v=8z9dIJRqBN4
My video response to him about the benefits of the Partner Program
youtube.com/watch?v=3qMxECfEf08
To quote from Thunderf00t's video description
"Gotta be honest I do kinda enjoy making youtube videos.... and evidently people like watching them.
Only problem is though it takes up a lot of time. Most of the videos I put out have far more thought, planning and production in them than the 'entertainingly angry man rants at camera about opinions' type thing.
Initially all I wanted to do was put out some reasonably well thought out media on the basis that eventually people would find it and put it to good use. The channel on average now pulls in some 12 mn hits per year. I figure its worth keeping up.... For the time that's put into it... I reckon it does a lot of good. But increasingly it feels like an unappreciated venture getting swamped in a sea of media... and the only way to avoid sinking is to create more and better material (a treadmill just to keep the head above water). For me this has been heading to a crunch for some time now, probably about a year. Even as it stands this channel significantly impacts on my job, and that really does limit my options for putting more time into this.
-Is it possible that this channel could produce a living wage? Not a rich mans living wage you understand, something along a teacher's salary. Well having seen all sorts of people go down this route before, it seems they pick up chump change... a few thousand bucks. Teachers salary is about 40-50k a year. Turns out the advertising currently on the channel brings in about 10% of this, but this is mostly due to 'science and education for the win' is neither sexy, nor something that's good for selling stuff. From a personal - career point of view of course even entertaining youtube as a 'job' is suicidal. I have a perfectly respectable and stable future.... who in their right mind would trade that in for the chump change and volatility of youtube? -- truth is though that youtube offers the potential to influence the future on civilization... and in that sense the risk of an individual is maybe an acceptable gambling token.... but Im not about to do anything stupid or suicidal like not testing the ground before making such a bold move.
So this is mostly about testing the waters, to gauge what sort of support this channel could garner.
My personal reckoning is that this is unlikely to go anywhere, and that only modest support, maybe 10% of a teachers salary will be brought in. In that event, I'll just blow the cash on making some entertaining science media..... a few thousand bux can give quite a lot of latitude in disposable resources to someone who has a reasonable idea of what they are doing."
Straightd0pe's video on ebegging
youtube.com/watch?v=uAdc131dy7E
My ebegging video from 2008
youtube.com/watch?v=aMjRNlXV_fg&feature=fvsr
myu2b.com/users/Thunderf00t
myu2b.com/users/happycabbie
MyU2B has since been taken down. According to Renetto, the sites owners it was costing to much money to keep up. Now we have SocialBlade
socialblade.com/youtube/user/happycabbie
socialblade.com/youtube/user/Thunderf00t
While socialblade is no where even close to how accurate MYU2B was it is the best we currently have.
Do remember these are estimates of earning potential and do not reflect what a channel actually earns. Just what they could earn if all the videos were monetized.
My tutorial on how to use MyU2B
youtube.com/watch?v=jykq7UplBAE
How to block certain ads from appearing on your videos
google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=93462
Dlandoncole's video
youtube.com/watch?v=DBAYvfddelI&feature=watch_response
