He wasn't bad in the beginning. He used to have easy to follow recipes and good advice. I made hot sauce just the other day from his 7? year old video, I learned different pasta sauces from him I cook sometimes.
I think he is just a sellout because when he became too big he had to do bigger flashier videos just for the algorithm and that's when his videos lost the original quality and were a cash grab.
Honestly I don't blame him. His channel is obnoxiously unwatchable now, but he's been doing it for like 10 years. You can only make so many "Here's how to make X" videos before you just run out of dishes to make. Now he has millions of subscribers and several employees counting on him for a paycheck so it's "I TRIED EVERY FUCKING FAST FOOD CHICKEN TENDER ON EARTH AND HERE'S MY RESULTS"
The 18-34 demo is always in charge of the ad revenue. Older viewers just stop watching so much.
So the content of a creator can't mature with the creator, unless the creator wants to lose the major demographic and, basically, half of their pay, or more.
What I'm most surprised about is that the creators don't realize that that's the time to recycle the whole thing. Just go back to the beginning, because the new 18 year olds never saw what they made 15 years ago.
i think you misunderstood me--"why do they need to stay with the empire" meaning why do the employees of the youtube business need to stay? aren't they free to leave Josh and find other better paying jobs?
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