Here's Vivian Strange pretending his 5k channel is supposedly big enough to attract sponsors:
I bet none of these companies have ever contacted him seeking to offer him a sponsorship (if I am wrong and he was contacted with a sponsorship offer, I'd like to see receipts of that). He merely fantasizes about his channel getting big enough to where he gets to turn down sponsors, while in reality actively sabotaging his own channel with his PDS that almost none of his subscribers are actually interested in.
Furthermore, his fantasy about Youtubers making most of their money from sponsorships is flat-out wrong.
To give an example, Russia Youtuber Nikita Proshin, until recently, ran a Youtube channel with controversial political content (he's an anti-war Russian who fled his country to avoid conscription). In the name of transparency - something AFAICT no BreadTuber has ever done - Nikita posted a video with a breakdown of his Youtube income streams. Again, this is something no one in Vivian Strange's milieu has ever had the balls to do. Despite the left always demanding financial transparency from everyone else, they refuse to practice financial transparency themselves. I remember back when I was on KF, there was a user there called Calculus who would occasionally come into the ContraPoints thread to reverse-engineer Nyk's income on Patreon by counting his Patron listings at the end of his videos. That was the only way we got an estimate of how much money Nyk was actually making on Patreon, and how we figured out he had become a Youtube multi-millionaire buying property in the midst of the Covid pandemic while other people were losing their houses.
As you can see in this part of Nikita Proshin's video, sponsorships are only a small part of a Youtuber's income:
So Vivian's fantasy of all these Youtube sponsors showing up at his door begging him to endorse their products and services will never actually materialize as long as he remains a tiny far-left extremist Youtube channel telling students to get guns to shoot cops and Zionists (pretty sure no sponsor wants to be associated with that).
I think Vivian just gets off on being able to alienate everyone around him with his OCD extremism and somehow still manage to get paid for it, so the fantasy of turning down sponsors is purely about the powertrip of saying "no". Hence he "This Is Not For You" tattoo on his arm. A lot of what Vivian does is fantasizing and LARPing, like his fantasy about coming a famous filmmaker, his fantasy about JK Rowling browsing his OF porn account, his fantasy about collabing with immensely bigger Youtubers that don't even know he exists, or his fantasy about his endless, tiresome "Gaza Diaries" casualty gore compilations being some kind of urgent historical archival project - when the Gaza Diaries are literally useless to actual internet archivists, because Vivian never actually resources any of his pilfered content, probably for fear of being found out and struck with copyright notices - silly troon, the people whose content you're stealing are literally dodging bombs, they don't have the time or even the internet access to copystrike you. They might do it later though, once the war is over and they realize just how much Instagram content you pilfered from them while they were busy surviving. Bisan will NOT be happy when she realizes that some Amerimutt durg addicted porno-troon trying to re-brand himself as a curator of her life (and potential death) was stealing her Instagram updates behind her back so he could LARP as a documentary maker:
Nothing Vivian Strange does is ever meant to improve his lot in life, it's only meant to reinforce and feed into these various LARPs and fantasies he's completely obsessed with, all at the expense of his actual life. When you life has been reduced to an endless social media stream of either the most degenerate porn footage or the most gruesome war gore, you just stop being a functioning human being. Vivian Strange wants everyone to praise him for doing this to himself, when most people just shake their heads at his self-destructiveness and refuse to engage with it. The people in Vivian Strange's far left hugbox are too politically correct to tell him that his Palestine Derangement Syndrome is destroying his channel and his life, but his view-count numbers speak for themselves - which is why Vivian did a three hour Livestream ranting about how much he hates being confronted with his dwindling views:
I warned Vivian that trannie chasers - which is anyone willing to entertain a troon online - do not follow troons because they give a fuck about their political takes, they follow troons for the bussy. How else do you explain someone like Blaire White having over a million subscribers, supposedly all right-wing conservatives making an exception on their anti-LGBT politics just for Blaire? If that doesn't tell you how little trannie chasers online give a shit about your political opinions, you're in denial. Nyk got cancelled by the trans community for his takes on non-binary troons, and yet he's still a Youtube multi-millionaire with 36k Patrons. That's how little online trannie chasers give a shit about a troon's political takes or what the trans community itself thinks about them. You could be the most reactionary far-right troon or the most politically correct far-left troon, it doesn't matter either way. The moment you became a troon and dedicated your life and body to the coom, your political views became superfluous to your attractiveness and sexual innuendo. You can't change this now, you cannot change the kind of audience that follow troons online, just because you've developed a sudden obsession with the war in Ghaza and the hoarding of every video that comes out of that conflict. Your audience will not and does not follow you in this, and hating Youtube for reminding you of the fact that they won't is just more denial of the obvious.
Literally the only place I have seen this kind of obsessive hoarding behaviour with videos was... KiwiFarms. Kiwis sometimes got on my back because I wouldn't archive every single video I was commenting on, and my response was that I didn't give a fuck about archiving every single thing, I just wanted to post a reaction to it. I just wasn't gonna archive 3 hour Livestreams because I didn't have the time or the bandwidth or the need to do so. This obsessive hoarding of every single video is truly some fucked up OCD behaviour, whether it's on KiwiFarms or on Vivian Strange's channel.
I bet none of these companies have ever contacted him seeking to offer him a sponsorship (if I am wrong and he was contacted with a sponsorship offer, I'd like to see receipts of that). He merely fantasizes about his channel getting big enough to where he gets to turn down sponsors, while in reality actively sabotaging his own channel with his PDS that almost none of his subscribers are actually interested in.
Furthermore, his fantasy about Youtubers making most of their money from sponsorships is flat-out wrong.
To give an example, Russia Youtuber Nikita Proshin, until recently, ran a Youtube channel with controversial political content (he's an anti-war Russian who fled his country to avoid conscription). In the name of transparency - something AFAICT no BreadTuber has ever done - Nikita posted a video with a breakdown of his Youtube income streams. Again, this is something no one in Vivian Strange's milieu has ever had the balls to do. Despite the left always demanding financial transparency from everyone else, they refuse to practice financial transparency themselves. I remember back when I was on KF, there was a user there called Calculus who would occasionally come into the ContraPoints thread to reverse-engineer Nyk's income on Patreon by counting his Patron listings at the end of his videos. That was the only way we got an estimate of how much money Nyk was actually making on Patreon, and how we figured out he had become a Youtube multi-millionaire buying property in the midst of the Covid pandemic while other people were losing their houses.
As you can see in this part of Nikita Proshin's video, sponsorships are only a small part of a Youtuber's income:
So Vivian's fantasy of all these Youtube sponsors showing up at his door begging him to endorse their products and services will never actually materialize as long as he remains a tiny far-left extremist Youtube channel telling students to get guns to shoot cops and Zionists (pretty sure no sponsor wants to be associated with that).
I think Vivian just gets off on being able to alienate everyone around him with his OCD extremism and somehow still manage to get paid for it, so the fantasy of turning down sponsors is purely about the powertrip of saying "no". Hence he "This Is Not For You" tattoo on his arm. A lot of what Vivian does is fantasizing and LARPing, like his fantasy about coming a famous filmmaker, his fantasy about JK Rowling browsing his OF porn account, his fantasy about collabing with immensely bigger Youtubers that don't even know he exists, or his fantasy about his endless, tiresome "Gaza Diaries" casualty gore compilations being some kind of urgent historical archival project - when the Gaza Diaries are literally useless to actual internet archivists, because Vivian never actually resources any of his pilfered content, probably for fear of being found out and struck with copyright notices - silly troon, the people whose content you're stealing are literally dodging bombs, they don't have the time or even the internet access to copystrike you. They might do it later though, once the war is over and they realize just how much Instagram content you pilfered from them while they were busy surviving. Bisan will NOT be happy when she realizes that some Amerimutt durg addicted porno-troon trying to re-brand himself as a curator of her life (and potential death) was stealing her Instagram updates behind her back so he could LARP as a documentary maker:
Nothing Vivian Strange does is ever meant to improve his lot in life, it's only meant to reinforce and feed into these various LARPs and fantasies he's completely obsessed with, all at the expense of his actual life. When you life has been reduced to an endless social media stream of either the most degenerate porn footage or the most gruesome war gore, you just stop being a functioning human being. Vivian Strange wants everyone to praise him for doing this to himself, when most people just shake their heads at his self-destructiveness and refuse to engage with it. The people in Vivian Strange's far left hugbox are too politically correct to tell him that his Palestine Derangement Syndrome is destroying his channel and his life, but his view-count numbers speak for themselves - which is why Vivian did a three hour Livestream ranting about how much he hates being confronted with his dwindling views:
But my fatigue from being a content creator is only the tip of the iceberg. Because, looking at this as a job - and what I do is the work of a professional - there is so much about being a Youtuber that I absolutely fucking despise.
So I hate having to commodity myself, I hate having to promote myself across as much of the internet as possible, I hate the pressure of needing to keep perpetually engaged on social media, I hate having to constantly find new and creative to phrase my sincerity and explain, like, my financial situation in order to ask for money and pimp my Patreon in every video I make, cos if I didn't I wouldn't be able to make any money off of this work at all.
I hate having to stifle... (laughs) Does everybody have their teacups ready?
I hate having to stifle and suppress my most pointed criticisms of other Youtubers, because, like all sectors of the entertainment industry, you only get work if you know how to play nice with everyone. Even and especially the fuckers who need to be challenged and taken down several notches. And, let's face it, I'm already not a very likeable person, that I rub over half the people who know me the wrong way. So... I hate the resentment and envy that I feel when one of my peers gets more subscribers than me. When their videos do better than mine. When they are recruited for collaborations by creators I want to work with while I am ignored and forgotten. I hate that there are several Youtubers whose videos I have loved in the past, that I simply can't watch anymore because they make me feel too insecure about my own. I hate that I'm too insecure to even give y'all examples of that. I hate that I've come to measure my value in terms of how many subscribers I have and I hate even more that that's an accurate way to measure a content creator's value in this game. Because, it doesn't matter what anyone says. On Youtube, your worth to both other creators and the entities who support and promote them is directly dependent on things like your subscriber count. Most of all, most of fucking all, I hate this fucking Youtube studio app, so fucking much. For those of you who don't know, this is an app that all of us, all content creators, we all have it and we're all fucking addicted to it. Like, it's unbelievable how much data and analytics this app has on all of you. It has all these numbers and graphs and shit that are designed specifically for someone with addictive brain chemistry, like mine - and, honestly, anyone who makes videos on the internet - it's made specifically to get us hooked on. Having this app on your phone is like having a little vial of coke in your pocket that you're able to bust out and take a bump from whenever you want, cos that's what happens when we watch our numbers go up. We get a fix. Social attention is converted into numbers, into measurable dosages of dopamine from watching the numbers go up. It really is like a drug. It's barely a metaphor. Stimuli maybe different, but the brain chemicals that react to them are all the same. (...) I hate that I have to care about this shit like this. I hate that I care so much about these numbers. I hate that to be succesful at what I do here, I have to care about this shit. I hate my well-conditioned compulsion to check out how many subscribers I have every day, how well my videos are doing and how close I am to getting my next $100 paycheck from AdSense - which is, about, every 4 or 5 months. I don't make much off of AdSense.
But this isn't just Youtube. Youtube is just one more element of a much more massive and encompassing media machine. The engine that powers the spectacle of celebrity culture. The stimuli economy of the entertainment industrial complex. You may have heard this from one or two famous people now and again, but fame is a bad thing actually. [Wow, I really pissed him off by pointing out he has Almost Famous Syndrome, it's true though.] It is toxic to our mental health, it's corrosive to our empathy, it's a cancer of the human soul. The mass media myth making machine of neoliberal capitalist culture has conditioned generations of us for over a century to lust for fame, success, renown, brilliance, whatever you want to call it, we were all raised to want to be the center of attention. To be the star standing on the stage with millions of mesmerized eyes staring down/up at us. But the thing is, human being are not built to be subjected to that kind of level of attention. We aren't an individualistic species, and it's deeply deeply unnatural for a single human being to be under the heat of so many spotlights at once. It's just the way we're built. We cannot function, let alone thrive, under spotlights. They burn us alive. The psychosocial relationship between the individuals and their idolizing masses that we call "fame", it consumes us. It uses up everything beautiful and meaningful and human about us, and leaves us as soulless, empty-headed homunculi with no conviction or principles, beyond a bottomless appetite for more and more attention, and the social influence that comes with it. I've learned that being a public figure, coming a celebrity, no matter how micro or niche I may be, it's dehumanizing. It strips people of their humanity, it fundamentally alienates one from other human beings, it stunts one's emotional and cognitive growth. It fundamentally and unavoidably traumatizes and damages all of us. No exceptions. Not even you, whatever clever creator happens to be watching this and thinking, "Oh, I know all this already, but it doesn't apply to me cos I'm above that". Especially not y'all, specifically.
The past two and a half years, I met a lot of famous people, and I've heard the stories of 100s more, because the cult of celebrity is literally just an exclusive (at least on paper) social club where everyone is connected to everyone else by, at most, 4 or 5 degrees of separation. So let me assure you, fame and celebrity and worship have never made anyone a better person. You get famous, the best one can possibly hope for is to escape from the spotlight with as little harm and damage done to them as possible. Yes, all of the Youtubers, streamers, content creators, filmmakers, writers, musicians, artists, critics, comedians, influencers, celebrities, all performers and entertainers you've ever loved, known or heard of, all of them are fucked up. None of us are good people. I don't want to look at the page, I want to look at the camera when I say this: None of us are good people.
Could I spill tea by talking about how psychologically fucked up, developmentally stunted, narcissistic, stupid, cruel, callous and creepy some of your favourite famouses on Youtube are? Well, I could, because drama sells very well, and it is algorithmically guaranteed to materially benefit me but I'm not going to do that. Yes, hate to break it to you, all your favourites suck, and I'm refraining from spilling tea and making drama not because I'm 'better than all that', but because I'm not better than all that.
The thing I hate most about being a content creator on Youtube is that it's been making me a worse person. It turned me into the kind of person I am disgusted by, and desperately do not want to be.
I warned Vivian that trannie chasers - which is anyone willing to entertain a troon online - do not follow troons because they give a fuck about their political takes, they follow troons for the bussy. How else do you explain someone like Blaire White having over a million subscribers, supposedly all right-wing conservatives making an exception on their anti-LGBT politics just for Blaire? If that doesn't tell you how little trannie chasers online give a shit about your political opinions, you're in denial. Nyk got cancelled by the trans community for his takes on non-binary troons, and yet he's still a Youtube multi-millionaire with 36k Patrons. That's how little online trannie chasers give a shit about a troon's political takes or what the trans community itself thinks about them. You could be the most reactionary far-right troon or the most politically correct far-left troon, it doesn't matter either way. The moment you became a troon and dedicated your life and body to the coom, your political views became superfluous to your attractiveness and sexual innuendo. You can't change this now, you cannot change the kind of audience that follow troons online, just because you've developed a sudden obsession with the war in Ghaza and the hoarding of every video that comes out of that conflict. Your audience will not and does not follow you in this, and hating Youtube for reminding you of the fact that they won't is just more denial of the obvious.
Literally the only place I have seen this kind of obsessive hoarding behaviour with videos was... KiwiFarms. Kiwis sometimes got on my back because I wouldn't archive every single video I was commenting on, and my response was that I didn't give a fuck about archiving every single thing, I just wanted to post a reaction to it. I just wasn't gonna archive 3 hour Livestreams because I didn't have the time or the bandwidth or the need to do so. This obsessive hoarding of every single video is truly some fucked up OCD behaviour, whether it's on KiwiFarms or on Vivian Strange's channel.