I don’t support them or believe they deserve support. I just hate the concept of having to get a “real job”. Implying that YouTube content creation can’t be a “real” job.
I’ve been producing music professionally for 10+ years and my boomer family members didn’t consider it a “real job”. They’d much rather seeing me behind a desk miserable like them. Instead I make my living in the studio producing and writing songs for artists.
now that I make a living and have a family that I support doing what I do, they don’t hit me with that “real job” nonsense.
Producing music and walking around the same place shoving food in your mouth all day while filming it are two VERY different things.
Yes, you can make a legit living by producing content for YouTube, but is there a future in it? What happens when the next big thing comes along and people are no longer interested in your channel? Or what happens when you are a huge lazy
bleep and people start to see you for what you are?
It's not necessarily a career unless you can turn it into something like film and television. Until then, it's just temporary.