@verge: It is very important everyone ignores the army of teenagers working for free

Aaron Rogers :

It’s like gojo and vaulter

SomeoneYouKnow 🇨🇦 :

YouTube pays a fortune for content. They paid out 20 billion dollars for content in 2025.

Jason@Losecoach NASM CPT :

People don’t pay to watch YouTube or TikToks…

Islandgltch :

YouTubers don't get payed?

Alley :

Skydance?? 😨😨 Skynet?? 👍👍

Eric Cartman :

The biggest problem is that they don't see you as a human people, but only like a source of income.

blessed be the fruit :

Just to add to what you're saying Hollywood has another problem of writers regurgitating the same plot line over and over again for decades. I'm tired of seeing oceans 100 or romcoms where she doesn't like him at first but then falls in love in the end. Or movies about writers,actors or directors constant self -grandizing nonsense hollywood keeps turning out

enjoy :

Yeah, you're totally right about the money side of things. TikTok and YouTube don't really pay much for content, but Hollywood pays for art. Movies and TV are our creative art forms, like our modern-day Michelangelo or Monet. YouTube and TikTok, not so much. 😊

Jonkki :

I love these Nilay-takes! keep them coming 👌

hishyummy :

they don't even have a good software experience - hulu, paramount, HBO, etc are all terrible to use

Dr Pepper Potts :

Obsession is the only movie in a while that made me forget about TikTok for 93 minutes. And then I went on it immediately after to yap about my feelings.

Philip Labes is on YT / Insta :

It’s always funny/tragic to me that the answer is always “pay less” and never “regulate this industry to STOP widespread theft as a baseline”

Fieldotter :

literally succession

Namiji :

Didn’t this conversation lead to Quibi?

J.C. D. :

It’s funny because I was working at a certain company that recently went under this umbrella. And listen to their business leaders have this conversation 15 years ago. And at that time they did this math really clearly they were like we spent X money on content and they spend zero money on content. Our valuation is X their valuation is .. I don’t know 5X at least at that point.

Distinguishedgman :

Warner brother and AOL? Again?

JMGT :

How quickly till the Warner and Paramount Go90?

seagull406🇵🇹 :

Monopoly

Iamlegs :

well put, brother

peregrine65 :

Ninja_Notion :

but art!

JMGT :

In order to compete with YouTube and TikTok, they should create their own short form platform. Something you can just quickly bite into.

Sabin Karki :

Exceptionally well said

hersheymilkington :

“We’re an AI company now.”

André Luís 🇵🇹🇪🇺 :

YouTube revolution started with original content, the copyright infringement wasn’t the revolution was what came after that. Right? These platforms just become home for shitposting of the masses… hard to compete with that. Tiktok does pay, not a lot though.