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I can actually make money on #scoopz and it is feasible for me!

In less than a week I have acquired 128 followers and 85000 views.

If I keep up that pace, which I will if I stay consistent and keep posting interesting stuff, in theory I could be monetized in a month or two.

You require 1000 followers, 3 videos and 100,000 total views for their creator fund.

I am going a bit viral so that may be sooner!

I need more equipment and ideas! :D

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there's an idle game festival going on #Steam right now and i've found myself sticking to a rule that has made my life a lot easier:

if an idle game has in app purchases, i avoid it. i don't trust game developers who make their game free without an option to just purchase the game outright and disable ads or something similar because it means they don't respect me as a consumer. i would happily pay for a lot of idle games up front but won't play a free to play game that constantly nags you to spend money on it. it isn't a healthy relationship between you and the software, it's just "give me money to make this built in inconvenience go away" half the time. so i don't even bother anymore.

I'm actually kind of frustrated.

Once more we see a #socialmedia exodus and not a single one of the fun content creators I love from say #Instagram make their way over to #Mastodon, #Pixelfeed or #Loops. Why?

BECAUSE NO DIRECT #MONETIZATION!

Do you understand what weeks or months of labor looks like? If no #ad revenue, if no #superchat, if no #donate button, then why even make the effort?!

The #fediverse needs to grow up and carve out direct paths to monetization.

#Decentralize the bag!

Over time I have noticed a steep decline in my #youtube channel #monetization , yet I see people with inferior channels and even video and acting quality make serious money. For me, knowledge and presentation of knowledge in a digestible is key to videos I want to watch which means I'm in a small bubble of a wider world of human raw vulnerability channels.
One of the big reasons I grew at all in my #atheist days was that I gave direct raw vulnerable first hand accounts of my negative (and a few positive) experiences with #religion and how I grew out of that into a better person. I also was showing my face, my awkwardness and my rough edge with minimal edits.
As videos got more professional over time and trying to keep up with that got more difficult, I shifted over to image based videos fully and haven't had my face on cam for probably 3-4 years now.
I feel like if I want to go forward at all, especially if it comes to making money, I will need to go back on camera and dilute the amount of information I put into one video to make it more digestible from a trusted vulnerable face that a video I want to watch which is a information dense video with as much knowledge and nuance packed in as possible, but then again I'm on the #autism #spectrum and most normies don't enjoy that at all. I play almost all videos at 2x speed, unless the accent gets in the way.
I'm going to have to commit or not, but I will make that decision after I'm done with the majority of my solarpunkusa channel topics.
I have a feeling that these vulnerable videos are much more of a draw because people are so #lonely and don't know how to make friends, so they rely on parasocial relationships to get that same fix. Sustainable #communities have knowledgeable seniors you know how to interact with without effort, most don't know how to have those kinds of relationships. Just going to have to figure out how to blend leftish politics and personal vulnerability together.