They have approximately now lost over 5000 subscribers which equates to about $25000 per month or $300000 per year in lost revenue.

  • Cheesycrackers@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    As a bystander just here for the popcorn and drama, would someone mind explaining what Floatplane is and how it pertains to LTT and LMG?

    • TheOneCurly@lemmy.theonecurly.pageEnglish
      10·
      2 years ago

      Floatplane is the video hosting service that they created and own. Instead of being ad supported it requires a monthly fee for each content creator on it (in the vein of only fans or patreon). So a loss of subs is a direct loss of monthly income for LTT.

        • DaGeek247@kbin.social
          2·
          2 years ago

          It is not. It also has a lot of the not political gun youtubers on it, as wrll as various other hobby interests.

            • DaGeek247@kbin.social
              2·
              2 years ago

              Youtube is being an ass about guns specifically. They had vague rules about assembly instructions including not being allowed to show someone screwing in a suppressor. Then they did the typical google thing and offerred no discussion or recourse options for talking about the rules to any of the youtubers. Essentially, fuck you, you do what you’re told type of deal. It was enough that all the gun youtubers had legitimate worries about their job security in the short and longterm future. They’ve since walked back that specific rule, but there are still a lot of other rules restricting what kind of gun related content is actually allowed. And all the channel owners know that google can and will cut their gun content on a whim without forewarning or talking about it.

              You also see this with their rules about swearing in videos. Whatever makes the advertisors happiest apparently.

              • Dubious_Fart@lemmy.mlEnglish
                2·
                2 years ago

                I think Gun Jesus over at Forgotten Weapons has spoken about this on a couple of his Q&A videos.

              • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                2·
                2 years ago

                That’s hilarious and complete shit.

                Screwing on a suppressor?!

                YouTube: NO OPENING A BOTTLE ON VIJIA

                Being a creator would be so difficult nowadays with how careful you have to be to avoid their shitty unwritten rules.