You may not be aware, but YouTube is now changing its monetization system and putting more stringent requirements on accounts that can make money off the platform. Creators are now required to have at least 1,000 subscribers and have had viewers watch your videos for at least 4,000 hours in the last 12 months. This means that small YouTube accounts, including ones that cater to us Pokémon fans, will probably face demonetization and be unable to make a small amount of money off of their hobby. But everyone gets 30 more days to hit the goal before this goes into effect!
I think it’s important that we encourage fans to create content and support each other as Pokémon fans. My own website is the result of many volunteers helping me, knowledge shared by more experienced webmasters and the encouragement of my readers. That’s why I feel it’s important to pass on this community spirit and try to support others who may just need exposure to find success.
Please CHECK OUT THIS TWEET for many great YouTube channels in the replies—I hope you can find something worth subscribing to and many videos worth watching. If you have time try to tweet a Creator and let them know you subscribed! Thank to all those who DM’d me their channels. I actually received many more than I was expecting but have tried to check out all of them. Here are some of my recommendations (but again, few of many so check out the tweet!):
POKÉMON ART & MUSIC
CoolShallow (almost to 1,000 subscribers!) often publishes art videos, both of existing Pokémon and “fakemon”, as well as occasional gameplay videos! It’s hard not to find how they create 3D models off of Ken Sugimori artwork fascinating!
Honorable Mentions: Dialga22239 (music remixes)
COMPETITIVE BATTLERS
PokeStrikes (almost 1,000 subscribers!) makes videos about his climb up the ranking ladder on a regular basis with lots of different strategies!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHc6uWawoxA
Honorable Mentions: King Bub, Dubious, DarkDevil26, TheUzigunner, WarmConal007, THATSAplusONE
POKÉMON GAMING
TotemRotom produces a lot of Pokémon gaming videos and also occasionally makes helpful how-to videos!
Honorable Mentions: PikaVolt SS9, PokeSirena (regular rumor videos!)
POKÉMON TCG
Robert Kinzel (almost at 1,000 subscribers!) does TCG openings as well as other collectible videos!
Braysh Gaming covers lots of Japanese TCG content which is always a treat!
Honorable Mentions: Pokemonfanfam, Manon _pokemon, Cmacpride1, Retro & New, Mouse & Mewnu
POKÉMON, ETC
FalseProof (almost 1,000 subscribers!) does fan-game Nuzlocke runs, but also focuses on other games across different platforms. Great production values and and lots of variety!
Thanks to everyone who takes part in this team effort to push Pokémon content creators to be the very best they can! Subscribe and share on social media so we can have the biggest impact possible!
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This is retarded. Do they think they can make more money out of this? Because they won’t. I just… I don’t even know what to say
They do. They get money from advertising regardless of whether creators do or not as I understand, so they’ll basically make the same but have to pay out less. At least I think that’s how it works.
Good to see the community getting together in order to fight this injustice. As someone hwo is a struggling YouTuber it really does hurt. It’s already hard enough to become popular on YT and make money. What they’re doing now is basically telling anyone new that wants to try their hand at it that it’s a waste of time and they shouldn’t even try. Unless you’re already an established tuber it’s an incredibly tough climb. It’s clear that YT only values those that already make it money and anyone else can go suck a big fat d!ck. This is why YT needs a serious competitor. There aren’t any other video services out there that are popular enough to stand with it thus YT doesn’t need to give a sh!t about it’s base users. It’s really crappy all around. This is why you see many YuouTubers moving over to Twitch where at least for the most part they’ll be given somewhat of a fair shake. It might not be an easy business, but at least on Twitch it seems they care enough to allow everyone equal access and room to grow.
I’ll help you get your maximum
(All I gotta do is watch all your videos repeatedly to get the hours :D)
Hahaha thanks friend I’ll do the same for you lol
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4000 hours equates to 24000 total views of 10 minute videos. I don’t think it’s right, but isn’t actually that bad.
The problem is that those smaller channels aren’t getting those views. The YT algorithm favors channels and videos that make money and already get the views. So anyone who doesn’t get views already won’t likely be shown on the front page or in the recommendations. Thus they’ll never get new viewer. It’s a contradiction onto itself
Welp, there goes my plans to be a YouTuber.
And there’s the problem! You shouldn’t have to think that way. Yes starting up should be difficult because any work can and should be worth working hard for if you truly value it. This however is damaging. People shouldn’t be discouraged from trying to become content creators just because YT is being and asshole.
Or mine of being a decent user
Don’t stop trying to make content. If it’s really something you’re interested in keep trying. Even if your YT career doesn’t go anywhere it can lead you to other things. It’s good practice if content creation is where you want to go in life.
Will this effect people who don’t pay? If so then I also am affected (I don’t even have 100 views collectively through my videos lol)
But I shall subscribe to help them out
Why wasn’t Wii U called Wii DS?
im gonna hit you
get in line
Because DS was originally “Developer’s System”
No it wasn’t……was it? I mean now it’s known as “duel Screen” I think which makes sense.
It actually stands for both of those
I thought it was dual screen too?
And yet it apparently as 3 meanings according to Google
https://www.google.com/search?q=what+does+ds+stand+for&oq=what+does+ds+s&aqs=chrome.0.0j69i57j0l2.5532j1j7&client=ms-android-verizon&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
Why wasn’t the Switch called the Wii U DS
This is like a world with no Net Neutrality for YouTube. They’re giving priority to their big corporations and creators and throttling smaller channels. This is so unfair!
Welcome to the world of rich and successful people oppressing those under them. I hope you’ll enjoy your stay
It’s not like if you had under 1000 subs you are living off that
Scribblenauts showdown will come out March 9th. Huh. Can’t wait.
Have y’all heard that Nintendo USA just announced that at 4 pm CT, 2 pm PT, an announcement for the switch featuring “an interactive experience for kids and adults who are kids at heart” is coming? I think I saw on reddit that the animal crossing devs or someone retweeted the original tweet (Nintendo USA just added what time it will be here in the states). HYYYYYPPPEEE! (Or is all this old news for everyone?)
Hmm… I don’t see any tweet from Nintendo of America about the announcement.
I know that Nintendo of Japan and Nintendo of Europe tweeted about it though.
It’s on their Facebook page.
Oh, okay. Thanks. I see it now.
You got the times wrong. It’s 5 pm ET and 2 PT
And 5 pm ET would be 4 pm CT like I said. So no I didn’t lol
Crap…..you’e right….my bad….idk what I was thinking. My brain must have gone for lunch or something……..*sigh*…..
Lol we’re all just too excited for AC to be announced! No worries!
That’s not what it’ll be hahaha….I imagine whatever it is it’ll be something new and not something from a current ip. Otherwise it’d just have been announced as a regular direct. they’re specifically saying it’s for kids so it makes sense that it’d be a new project of some kind.
Lol the retweet from the AC developers or whoever it was is definitely stoking the flames though.
Teams retweet stuff all the time tho. Remember what happened with the mini direct? That had a bunch of game developers retweeting and replying to the hints (I guess?) and yet nothing came of that. The AC team may have just had a hand in creating whatever it is. Also if it was a new AC game why wouldn’t they just say “Hey there’s a AC direct today!” Why would they specifically state it was for kids and not call it a direct if it was something we already knew was coming?
Who knows? I see some people on reddit even think it will be a Pokémon switch announcement. SMH
It’s NOT gonna be Pokemon….Those people need to get their heads out of the clouds. If it was Pokemon then they would specifically state it’s about Pokemon. They wouldn’t dance around it. They know people want to see what the game looks like so they’d immediately say whether it was coming. Also it’d be part of a direct (regular or otherwise) I don’t think this will be a normal direct if they even call it that.
I don’t think it’s considered a direct (and I agree that Pokémon will get its own announcement loud and clear) but someone at Ubisoft apparently said this will blow up the internet (whatever that means… plus they’re probably just full of it).
I imagine they’re just posturing. Building hype is what reps do for their games.
Maybe it’s an assassins creed port lol
Yeah because that’s for kids right? lolz
Totally is! Kids love camels!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANd-mKGoCX4
On the topic at hand, I think it’s a pretty shitty measure from Youtube, in that it’s nowhere actually needed to keep the platform healthy. But on the other hand, with an average income of $3/K views, it means you’d need around 30K views over a year to get money, which is like $100 for a full year. Doing the dishes at the local restaurant earns you almost as much as this on a whole day, and takes less effort.
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You heard of Yuri on Ice
Now get ready for Yur boi on ice
Does that mean Guzma is Viktor?
It means its winning everything at the anime awards
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Best villain right here
W O
R K E D
RIP Plumeria
Wow thanks YT for allowing new content creators to join the website more easily, this really beneficiates small Youtubers who are struggling to get past 7000 views. So I hope Yt keeps doing this amazing job.
/s
What am I not seeing here?
This isn’t really going to hurt anyone’s income is it? It’s not like they were making enough to live off it.
If it helps deal with the people who are the root of the adpocolypse problem, the ones posting extreme violence and sh*t and they can focus on the big picture
And just lost my entire NU rating in less than 20 minutes ALL THE TEAMS LOOK THE SAME
STEELIX, QWILFISH SNEASAL AND VIRIZION
I was just looking around reddit, and I got to wondering, with the revolutionary hanged made to the zelda and Mario franchises with their switch games, how long are Pokémon fans going to be content with minor tweaks to the exact formula and when will they demand a bigger leap taken by the developers? Some people are very loud in this fandom and want change, while the sales numbers for USUM and Even gen 6/7 in general say otherwise making it seem like the demand for drastic change lies in the minority.
I wouldn’t really say that sales numbers matter much in determining whether people want change or not, because we haven’t had any huge mechanics changes that obviously affected sales and as long as they add new collectible critters they’re gonna sell decently well.
That’s exactly what I’m saying. They haven’t made any drastic changes to the formula and still see money flowing into their pockets. So why fix what isn’t broken?
The overwhelmingly positive response BOTW and LoZ got?
Well right. What I’m saying is, they’ve been barely changing anything to the Pokémon formula and still sell tons of copies. The fandom seems to be wanting changes (such as what happened for BOTW), but with them selling so many copies, it seems like it’s only a loud minority of the fandom. BotW and Mario from what I can tell didn’t have people asking for open (ish) style worlds yet got them anyways, because those two franchises have very different games within their own lineups whereas Pokémon just releases new critters, new moves, a new region, and minor tweaks (like kahunas, totems, and no more HMs) and still sells a bunch.
Also, I’m getting really nostalgic for R/S And gen 3 in general. Ruby was the first Pokémon game I played (I bought it with my game boy advance and it was the first video game I EVER owned).
There were just so many fun surprises along the way. That invisible kecleon in the rainforest, getting a Pokémon that changed based on the weather (yes I know castform is useless but for a fourth grader this was a cool concept), having a hell of a time catching an absol which has such a cool design, the extreme weather, diving, needing a relicanth to get the Regis, seeing Wally blossom into an amazing trainer, the bike routes, sooo much fun. Ugh someone geek out with me!
Also, and sorry to just spam the comments (I have four different ideas going at once), but since the wii Pokémon games (can’t remeber if it was stadium, colosseum, or both) had awesome graphics, what do you think are the chances of Pokémon switch adopting those graphics? I haven’t heard many people reference those games when talking about the future of this franchise….
Since the stadium style games were made by a completely different company I’d say it’s a pretty low possibility that they’d adopt that style of graphics. That said there are rumors floating around that the battle system may be being changed in a very big way. Some insiders supposedly say it’s disruptive (generally good) and others say it’s damaging. It’s hard to say without actually seeing the game in action tho. I’d say GF will likely stick it the anime looking style and maybe even continue to go deeper into that art style.
That’s a real shame, because those battles were some of the most memorable I’ve had. (My math teacher had a whole unit on Pokémon and we could choose any of the Pokémon we wanted and formed teams with partners and then battled each other in a tournament during the last week.
Your math teacher set up a Pokemon tournament? What the hell I wish my teachers did that for me when I was in school. haha
Yeah we had a whole unit where we learned how to use math to calculate how much damage a Pokémon would take and who would win a battle and such. And he had all 400 + Pokémon at the time at level 100 due to cheats so some of us who knew what we were doing chose good teams, the people who never played Pokémon chose them merely aesthetically. It was a blast.
I’d still like to think that with the ability to go all out graphically, GF won’t stick with exactly the same style that they have been.
Awesome graphics? Ehhh… https://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/original/1/17172/1280083-wii_pokemon.jpg
It’s Battle Revolution btw, Stadium and Coloseum were N64/GCN.
Oh sweet thanks. And yeah maybe my nostalgia glasses are clouding my memory of the graphics, but seeing it projected on the screen was a real treat.
Switch power is miles above Wii, I think just in raw performance it’s like 30 times as powerful and it has modern ways of creating graphics so it’s even better for less power than the Wii needs.
Hopefully that means good things are to come!
I think I agree with GameXplain on this one. I think the new project will involve building things and possibly building a world similar to Disney infinity/Sims/Minecraft/etc. Kids are really into that kind of stuff these days and it makes sense. Plus then they can incorporate the Amiibos by allowing you to scan them to get items or characters or whatever in the world. Which would be cool.
What is this in reference to?
The new announcement today that’s for kids
Oh gotcha. Yeah that would be cool!
Can’t wait to see Bayonetta in my world
She’ll be the sexiest thing in that world hahaha
Would be cool if it wasn’t Mario or anything themed, just allowing you to use any Amiibo you want
I think it’ll be an all new ip. Maybe they’d have other Nintendo characters that you could bring in or reference, but in general it’ll be new
whatever i is I hope it won’t be much more childish from usual nintendo stuff
Well hold onto your butt because it seems likely lol
This makes me think that they game could be a Disney Infinity but with Amiibos instead. Well the idea doesn’t sound too bad imo
Marina amiibo when
Never, they’ll release two Pearls in two diffrent poses.
Her fans are gonna be excited
The whole two of them
Nintendo is releasing an amiibo specifically catered to two fans? How thoughtful
Can’t wait until they release products that’ll catter to one person or less
Like Wii Music for Switch for example
Or that sea green ds stylus
Nah guys, they’ll just release another Pearl Amiibo, this time cosplaying as Garnet from Steven Universe
This should be interesting…
I’m going to start a Yt channel. I though about it for a while, but now I’m sure about it. It’ll be in Polish, you don’t have to pretend that you’ll watch me. I’ll make editorials about diffrent parts of popculture and somehing like reviews for Movies, Tv shows, games and maybe sometimes books/comic books. I’m kinda excited for it, I’m curious how many people are interested in this kinda stuff on Polish Youtube.
I started one like a year ago. It mainly consists of clips from Eyes of Heaven I recorded directly from my PS4
What’s it like to actually feel pride in your country? It’s been a long while since I’ve had it
Lucky you had pride in your country atleast once in your lifetime :p
Where do you live? France?
Lol France but no, I live in Spain but I was born in Brazil but that country is welp… less than ideal as far as my experiences go
We don’t have Pride in Poland, we’re full of Homophobes
Ayyy pride jokes at the same time
You can feel pride all over your country, just follow the rainbow flags
Shitt you right tho
Honest Anwser:
Idk, I am somewhat patriotic, but in Poland “real Patriots” are racist, homophobic thugs. And Rn the Polish Goverment is terrible, Trump/Putin levels, they’re trying to replace current judges with ones that won’t let them lose elections. I really wanna move out to Canada or somewhere
I would try it if it was in English but the only Polish words I know are words you’re unlikely to say in a Pokémon YouTube
Who needs a pg pokemon channel? ;3
I can teach you more if you want lol
Let’s keep this place PG
Wish you actual luck but I suggest you to add english subtitles to maybe expand your audience a little bit
I could, but there are a lot of English Ytbers doing the same thing I’ll do, so I don’t know if anyone wold watch that
Gotta be entirely honest, the majority of the Pokemon community from what I’ve seen either find most poketubers as cringy or just decide not to watch them. I support them so I hope they do well… if they have something about them that actually sets them apart from the others
Can’t wait for this to be an educational Pokemon app
Gonna be
G R E A T
Inb4 it’s a Pokémon spin off where you build a zoo or something
Basically
Sounds fun
Imagine the best players’ Zoo with cages containing Aliens from other Dimensions and the literal God to see for 5 bucks
I would absolutely adore that. I’ve talked about zoo tycoon before and it remains one of the best pc games I’ve ever played.
What if it’s a Lego Nintendo Game? Like Lego Marvel or DC, but for diffrent Nintendo IPs?
Eh I don’t think so, like I don’t see why would their first game for a new add on be a Lego game and the fact that it’s more likely for it to be a new IP
Lego Kirby for life! >:D
It will be an educational game tailored to small children, that I can be sure off. It won’t be an actual ‘game’ in the traditional sense.
Okay, I’m kinda sad and pissed. It turns out EA was making PvZ: Garden Warfare 3, but it was deleted so they could take Vg’s project. That really sucks, I was really excited for more Garden Warfare…
I looked into it and there may be some hope for it, but it may take some more time
What’s Popcap even doing right now? Feel like they’re going to close the studio soon, but they really can’t because of bad press and support for the little that is left of the mobile games.
I don’t care how Popcap is doing, I just want more GW
That’s like saying you don’t care how Gamefreak is doing as long as you get more Pokémon lol. Can’t have one without the other.
F*ck, now it’s even worse, I reminded myself why I love GW2 so much and now I want 3 even more
So the reason I asked for a vote is because FINALLY I’m rechallenging the nuzlocke that kicked my ass and made me lose to the last trainer on victory road who’s last mon killed me an themselves with a recoil so I had to resort to clauseses
Volt White 2
Y’all picked Snivy
And I guarantee I’m going to lose considering what Roxie’s gym is like in this game