Can't speak to Hbomberguy, but Contrapoints is a professional paralegal and copywriter, doing the YouTube shit in her spare time. And the bulk of that time on YouTube was spent in anonymity.
Also, the production values have scaled up considerably even just in the last year or two. I can't blame someone who puts on ten tons of makeup and engages in an elaborate choreography on a professionally assembled set to produce content at the rate of Stephen "Screaming at You Under My Bedsheet" Molyneux or Ben "Koch Bux To Do Low Rent Crossfire" Shapiro.
Both of those would count, yes.
The big unboxing channels, or unwrapping pokemon card type channels are really amazing. millionaires.
I feel like they're just some kind of a money laundering front.
I have a stupid amount of Pokémon cards. If I started a channel would I not be a wage slave?! Fuck.
Can't speak to Hbomberguy, but Contrapoints is a professional paralegal and copywriter, doing the YouTube shit in her spare time. And the bulk of that time on YouTube was spent in anonymity.
Also, the production values have scaled up considerably even just in the last year or two. I can't blame someone who puts on ten tons of makeup and engages in an elaborate choreography on a professionally assembled set to produce content at the rate of Stephen "Screaming at You Under My Bedsheet" Molyneux or Ben "Koch Bux To Do Low Rent Crossfire" Shapiro.
Nope.