Bill Maher: "travel vloggers" and other "content creaters" are unproductive bums

how does an 18 year old hit 100+ wpm on a typewriter back then?How much ambition did people really have in the old days, sheesh

jamin wrote:

I don't think anyone is questioning whether content can have some redeeming value (not just entertainment) for consumers or whether its creators can make serious money.

The thing is that being a content creater is not an "I'll give this a try" type of thing. For example, it's not like the 20k people who move to LA every year to try and become a Hollywood star and all but 1 or 2 succeed. It's something where everyone can succeed to some degree, even if they have only a couple hundred followers. And it's certainly addicting for them and becomes like a part- or full-time job.

That has a tremendous effect on the economy and society when so much time and energy has been redirected in this way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49rcVQ1vFAY&ab_channel=tranquileye

That's the free market! It's never been structured to do anything, it just exists.

Most of the economy and most jobs and industries are essentially pointless. Are the people work at Cartier 'bums' because jewellery and precious metals is meaningless, unproductive nonsense?

I wonder how many "content creators" actually make a decent living?

It's really seems like just being lucky.

Case in point "Ryan's World" and "Blippi". If you have a Toddler you know who these people are.

There are hundreds of "make up" artists on various social media platforms and apparently one em decided to talk about current criminal cases while applying make up and that's a hit....

I'm just too old.

Alan

Maher is a crack pot Nazi Boy!

I don't think that's a bad thing. Moreover, for some time I really wanted to master it myself and start making the content of a traveler who came to study the Russian Federation. It seems to me that this is a cool topic. I have already bought a camera and thought out the places in which I will shoot myself and make content. I started to get a russian visa from russia-travel visa services and now I just have to wait for my visa to go on a wonderful trip and start another life as a vlogger.

jamin wrote:

What a weird economy we're living in. I wasn't aware that 50 million people worldwide consider themselves self-employed as "content creaters."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UPgURkDoY4&ab_channel=RealTimewithBillMaher

If "unproductive bums" is the same as never having had a job and dubyaing through life, well then rojo/wejo.

I detect a very deep sentiment of jealousy on your part, Jamin. You chose the traditional and conservative option: office job, salary, benefits package, and a commute. Maybe this works for you, maybe it doesn't any longer. You always have the option to take a different tack if you wish.

Personally, I think that it is pretty cool that people have this opportunity. They have...FREEDOM. No micro-managing bosses, dumb mission statements, cubicles, 60 hour work weeks, or soul crushing two hour slogs in the car each day. Some are making really great money off of their content creation and I applaud them for doing so. Hopefully, they plan for the day that their content loses viewership because something or someone fresher came along but, more power to them for having fun and doing something creative instead of accepting a dull and uninspiring life provided at the whim Corporate America and her shareholders.

Just like SNL

Lolclowns wrote:

What exactly does Bill think he does that is different from being a content creator?

He’s a boomer. A liberal boomer but still a boomer. They mad cause no one watches cable tv or gets the Sunday morning paper anymore.

It’s the back in my day I walked five miles to school uphill in a foot of snow crowd.

Guys like him just need to focus on their Ben

gay applications.

I can say a lot about Maher. This script made me laugh.

Runningart2004 wrote:

I wonder how many "content creators" actually make a decent living?

It's really seems like just being lucky.

Case in point "Ryan's World" and "Blippi". If you have a Toddler you know who these people are.

There are hundreds of "make up" artists on various social media platforms and apparently one em decided to talk about current criminal cases while applying make up and that's a hit....

I'm just too old.

Alan

I know a content creator who makes ~$350k and year and gets tons of freebies/stuff to review.