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- lordthor, on 10/12/2007, -14/+167Are you ***** kidding me? That lying little bitch wants to get paid for pretending to be someone she's not, when that person isn't even interesting... or intelligent? Someone who pretends to be someone who has nothing to offer the world aside from boring-ass made up "how my day was" banter with herself wants MY hard-earned money simply because she was able to lie to enough people and trick them into thinking she was a real person when she was little more than farse?
No thanks. I'll stick with (anything else here.) if that ***** goes down. - RadiantBeing, on 10/12/2007, -2/+75If you're good enough to attract hundreds of thousands of viewers, then it is time to get your own hosting solution and make money off advertising, sponsors, merchandising, etc. I don't understand why Youtube artists, who are demonstrably self-starters, don't take the next step and go independent. Stop thinking like an employee and become your own boss.
- canewediggit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+62ladies and gents- you are NOT famous, you are NOT a celebrity, you are NOT as important as you think, you are NOT required to post to youtube, you are NOT your ***** khakis, and you do NOT understand the tos you agreed to when you submitted.
bunch o' babies. go get jobs and quit waiting for mtv to come calling. - LR2_, on 10/12/2007, -1/+59AskANinja.com is a good example of what these guys should do.
Ask A Ninja started out hosting their videos on youtube, once they became popular they moved to revver and opened their own site. Now they make money off of merchandise and sponsors. - devindotcom, on 10/12/2007, -4/+59Yeah, trying to get money through youtube like this is like tripping and falling on your ass on the street, then trying to charge people a nickel for seeing you do it.
- sentanta, on 10/12/2007, -5/+39Does it surprise anyone that this article is in the NY POST, owned by Fox which also owns MySpace which is trying to build a rival to You Tube?
- Geekazoid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31If you read the article she said the following
"There are really two kinds of YouTubers out there - those who want to profit and those who are just having a good time. I pretty much fall into the second camp.That being said, I would just love it if Chad [Hurley] and the other guy sent me some money. Come on, fellas! You're making billions! What's a couple thousand to you?"
she was obviously joking.
The article is about people like P Diddy who are getting deals made for their content and special sections made, when the "average joe" people are getting ignored. - bigfkncee, on 10/12/2007, -5/+32the "Post" is considered a tabloid here in new york.....treat it as such.
- IvanB, on 10/12/2007, -3/+29NYPost is owned by Fox?!
Woah.
/goes back to his hole - HardSide, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26By this logic I should get paid by:
Digg - for posting and submitting links
Slashdot - Read above
Every single forum im registered too...and thats a lot.
Every site that has a ad, since they get money for hosting the ad, i should get money for looking at it.
And while we on it, I geuss the city might as well start charging me for walking on their sidewalks.
Christ, people are greedy. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+27I totally agree. It was her decision to upload them to YouTube in the first place, and YouTube is not obliged to pay anyone. If she wants money, she needs to get a ***** job.
- matts0344, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21Youtube is providing them a service to upload and view videos free of charge.
They want some money? Get a job and stop uploading stupid videos to the internet. - terrya64, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19You want money? Get a freakin job!
- masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+18Actually, I ran under the impression that there are lots of complete idiots that make obscene amounts of money for trying to be someone they're not. They're usually found in Hollywood.
- unibomber999, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10wrong, people need youtube. They need it so they can be the attention whores that they always wanted to be. They need the bandwidth so a large audience can watch them set themselves on fire while dancing on top of a moving car.
It doesn't matter how many lonelygirls complain, they can all dissapear and new attention whore jackasses will spring up to take their place.
youtube needs you, just like digg needs you, just like slashdot... - xpaladin, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13I am Jack's ***** khakis.
- LiveFastDieOld, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Don't waste these people's time with accuracy. They're busy bitching.
- appetite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8YouTube will go down the toilet as soon as another site gets some momentum with the illegal copyrighted videos which were the whole reason most of us ever went to YouTube in the first place. Now that they have money and have to pull it all down, they are eliminating about 80% of the reason I ever went to that site.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10masamunecyrus amen to that. Hollywood has the market cornered on overpaid morons. The really sad part is that their audience is even more stupid than they are.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8"At the same time, Paris Hilton and Diddy are among the celebrities that have dedicated channels on the site."
I don't think I can use youtube anymore. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8AMEN
- zacmccormick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6tell her to get "a job" if she wants to see "some money"
- neszis, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7READ THE ARTICLE, FOLKS.
She's not being greedy. She's saying that she wouldn't object to some money if it were offered. Which no one would. - tastypastry, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6If she wants money so bad she should do porn.
- theone3, on 10/12/2007, -8/+13This may be stating the obvious but NYPost != NYTimes. NYPost == P.O.S
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9'The YouTube phenom known as "lonelygirl15" says she wants to see "some money."'
Sorry honey, you ain't all that. If you are worth "some money", don't you think some one would have offered by now? Just because Google bought the YouTube site doesn't mean you're entitled to jack *****.
Get into the porn industry if you want to get paid.
Maybe Google should send you an invoice for all the bandwidth you've wasted? How about hard drive space?
Feed my golden pussy. - sophiaperennis, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Next thing you know, the Top Digg users are going to demand money from Kevin Rose. Oh, the horror! :)
- anachronaut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Carapi, you're either trolling, or you're a complete jackass. Although, judging by how frequently I end up digging you down, you're probably both.
from wikipedia:
"The New York Post is the 13th-oldest newspaper published in the United States and the oldest to have been published continually as a daily. Since 1976, it has been owned by Australian-born billionaire Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation"
from the New York Post itself:
"This is a great and historic day for The Post," said Rupert Murdoch, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of News Corporation, which owns The Post."
News Corp is pretty much equated with Fox. I realize you're playing with semantics here, but you're also trying to be disingenuous. - datagod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3When the youtubers demand money for their videos, I go elsewhere.
I give them my eyballs, they give me a laugh. End of story. - sirzed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3If you actually READ THE ARTICLE, they're not asking for money -- they're worried that the "regular joe" will be lost in the content being put on the site as a result of corporate deals. The "give me money" comment was in fun.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5I dont think she is hot : but thats just me
snotty girls like her are a REAL turn off
you know, the kind that ***** around with their cell phone every 5 minutes, gossip about every little detail about someone else, wear those big sunglasses because they think its fashion-able....etc - NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"The YouTube phenom known as "lonelygirl15" says she wants to see "some money"
Here's a new concept, get a job. - dkm201, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3His analogy was right -- News Corp owns Fox and the NY Post. Fox does not own anything.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4They should send her a check for exactly $0.01, then ban her from the site.
- modiggs1976, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I want money for my video on YouTube of myself playing the world's smallest ***** violin.
- HaxAttaX, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5why do people watch her ***** anyway? this is why america is going down the toilet...
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Bwahahah sounds like a bunch of bitter hebephiles are angry that their imaginary gf is not underage. The lg15 hate is very amusing.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4RAmen!
...or they can ask for pocket change on the streets like the other bums. - estvir, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Aside from all the comments above these 'user revolts' generally only seem to be a couple of 'popular' people who think they're all that and have a couple of morons who blindly follow them and never pan out to anything.
I've seen similar 'revolts' on Digg (The no avatar thing and so on), DeviantART and elsewhere and nothing ever happens of it besides the people leading the revolts look like losers. - HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I want to mention in the hours since I first saw this article, there have been at least two items that are direct links to youtube on the front page of Digg each time I looked.
YouTube seems to be doing okay. - Daunting, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2For a while I thought everyone was kidding when they took Lonely Girl's videos seriously. I mean, I wasn't even trying to convince myself, it's blatant. "Me and Daniel just had sex," "Daniel didn't like the Dance". Oh my God it was painful.
- yuriko, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3This is a really interesting point. Billions of dollars are exchanged when companies like youtube make a fortune (or myspace) but the users who spend the time and energy in making art (or crap) get nothing.
It's an evolution of the times when the contributors deserve a little back -- distribute and share the wealth...
check out this site -- it's really new -- but should make the way for people like lonelygirl - or anyone else - musicians, filmmakers, bloggers to get a share (a fair share for their work)... it's not greed - it's about giving credit where it's due. YouTube and other sites would be nowhere without their users and they earn millions every month through advertising and give nothing back.
check out www.si-mi.com
it's youtube crossed with ebay and itunes... users can upload anything digital, set their own price (blog at 5c?) get 90% of the profits. if the site ever does well - then all the money won't be going to them - that's for sure... unlike what this story is really hinting at --- youtube has sold out! - Daunting, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Blind Digging seems to be in affect. The article wasn't referring to any one youtuber demanding money. From the article's point of view I absolutely agree with the position of the youtubers. From the interpretation in this thread I would be burning them at the stake also.
The corporate interests on youtube is choking a viable power player in the future of the internet. Of course the internet is largely owned by private corporate interests, but no where else is there a public social interests as there is now. And youtube brought that to the mainstream. Now it IS becoming the "mainstream" in the wrong way.
I agree with the poster that suggested having TRUE "You"tubing through torrents and other aggregative protocols and technology. However, these technologies are not as accessible as going to youtube and clicking on a picture and being dumbly entertained for a few minutes.
I have (had) hope in youtube in bringing some sort of democratic prospects. But it is slowly becoming nonsense. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Revver kinda sucks, sorry to state that point. The content is crap and the noise to content ratio is out of this world.
- davids1, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If there is no free user generated content to create customers for corporate advertisements then there will be no YouTube. Corporations do not care about YouTube social life. Money is all that matters try to understand the world from a realistic point of view not a view you really want to exist.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Exactly :D
She can make her money that way - LiveFastDieOld, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6@ lordthor: "That lying little bitch wants to get paid for pretending to be someone she's not..."
Man, someone's crush on lonelygirl15 is getting a little out of control. Also, what you call "lying" is what other people call "acting." I don't blame you, though -- people have been pissed off at actors for reasons like that since acting was inventing.
Anyway, this is "Bree's" quote: "There are really two kinds of YouTubers out there - those who want to profit and those who are just having a good time. I pretty much fall into the second camp. That being said, I would just love it if Chad [Hurley] and the other guy sent me some money. Come on, fellas! You're making billions! What's a couple thousand to you?"
So cool off. - jo42, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Welcome to The Corporatization of YouTube...
- jfossboss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1davids1, There is no shortage of video sharing sites, or sites which host user generated content. The market must compete for user generated content. Eventually that competition will move toward compensation. It has already started. Look at metacafe's producer reward program. What is important here is not the website, or the corporations, it is the users.
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