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[–] rocketpoweredredneck@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

If i paid money to every the patreon of every content creator that I want to support, it'd be a lot more money than youtube premium. Better believe ill be cancelling premium the very first ad I see though.

[–] Mojave@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You throwing $12 a month or whatever towards patreons is strictly better than throwing $12 a month towards premium if what you care about is the creators getting paid

[–] drake@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They’re lying to themselves. Probably some small part of them cares about supporting creators, but it’s not their main motivation.

[–] illi@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I used to be in the same boat as OP, but since trying to degoogle I (obvioisly) stopped buying Premium and instead buy into Patreon of select creators. If there was some sort of degoogled Youtube Premium that would go towards support of people I watch, I'd much rather opt for that (obviously a very theoretical proposition) - I can support only so many via Patreon, even if all would have a 1$ tier.

Of course, when buying Premium part of my motivation was my comfort. It was comfortable support via Premium or uncomfortable support via ads. Patreon is fine but you can't feasibly pay for one for every creator who's video you watched

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

You've just invented something I would use.