Re: For the best
"Then it all comes to a head when the new content is crap/hate speech/child porn and people realize that no, you can't really make money that way"
Except that the YouTubers that are getting hurt aren't producing stuff like that at all. They're producing inoffensive and uncontroversial stuff.
Aside from that, you're right that underlying all of this is that people began to shift to producing videos expecting to make a living off of ad revenues, thus giving advertisers essentially total control over their content. This is part of why advertising is such a corrosive thing.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
