Hank Green

And it sounds to me like what you're saying is we should find other ways to make YouTube videos that aren't so commercial.

Because everyone else on YouTube runs into the requirements of being that commercial.

And as you're saying, the incentives then start to warp the business.

And that's where you get freemium and that's where you get to sell the stuff from.

Yeah.

And I think also, you know, it's not hard to make good money if you have a YouTube channel that is reaching a lot of people, as long as you're not spending a lot of money on the videos.

And, you know, I know that.

I have my own personal channel that's just me and I can make enough money to fund my life with that.

But if I wanted to be making educational content that was right all the time...

You know, if I needed that infrastructure and if I wanted it to be like classroom quality, it's just impossible.

It's there's just not a way to do that and like have brand deals in the middle of it.

You can't do that if you're making educational videos for classrooms and you can't like cut every corner.

You have to have them be scripted.

Like mostly what people are looking at is like, how do you do low budget, long form content?

How do you spend less money?

Like less time making stuff that's longer.

And that's like podcasts.

It's like, here we are.

Yeah, here we are.

And that's not really what we want to do.