DJ Vlad

And the membership thing is always a sort of ebb and a flow.

Yeah, the idea that he was going to make more doing his own interview to me.

I'm way more of a fan of the membership thing.

I watch people's members-only content on YouTube all the time, where I was like...

I've been a member of Traveler Ross's Patreon for the last few years, but even when it's a video where I would like to see the uncensored version of it, I don't usually like bother to go over to Patreon because I'm watching YouTube on my TV most of the time.

And it's just kind of a pain in the ass to the functionality of the Patreon app is not going to be as good as the YouTube one.

Yeah.

They have no reason to exist.

It's just the fact that certain places like Joe Budden's Patreon, people are used to that.

Yeah.

I've seen you talk about it.

I think they know they're f***ed.

They had a huge valuation during COVID, and then they've just been trickling off ever since.

right because it's like every other platform has the same functionality on twitch youtube twitter spot instagram yeah every different platform has a tier in which you can pay five bucks a month ten bucks a month and get bonus content yeah there you have it so so why go to this platform

doesn't push you that doesn't do anything else doesn't do anything else on youtube it's like listen i i will be scrolling through youtube watching a video and it'll be suggesting a members only vlad tv piece of content from three years ago do i click it not that much but it's like reminding people that like hey there's members only content out there whereas with patreon you got to go there nobody's going there unless they already know what they want there

If he's going to do anything, he needs to do more like your business model, which is leak the clips out bit by bit and then have the paid version on Patreon.

Yeah, yeah.

And even if I drop that tomorrow, it's like, well, there's still going to be this company that uploads our content to Snapchat, Facebook, maybe start just doing like flashback type content on YouTube and Twitter and Instagram and whatever.

It's like even if we were to just completely cease making content, there would still be value to be derived from.

Oh, okay.