Dex

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...fictional ex-90s platformer mascot, nerd, plural, Ξ˜Ξ”.


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cathoderaydude
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neckspike
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Thanks for just asking us to consider your patreon in your videos, I get so tired of ad reads largely for garbage products. I don't begrudge people who do them for the most part it just sucks they're necessary.

The only take I have on sponsorships that's fit for public consumption is that I'm glad I have the luxury of not needing to take them. It is a position I adopted on moral grounds, but the kind that one only considers if they're privileged. If I didn't have a variety of good fortunes I would be doing these like anyone else, because the youtube audience has overwhelmingly learned to tune out these godforsaken things and treat them as background radiation.

I mean christ, it could be worse. We'd all rather listen to a fucking magic spoon ad read being delivered through gritted teeth by an unwilling presenter than watch broadcast TV, where every eight minutes you get the same block of ads with loud, unignorable music, pitching literal fraud, elder exploitation, mesothelioma ambulance chasing, etc.


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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

Some fields have better sponsorships than others, of course. A lot of the wood working guys get sponsorships from tool companies and the makers of epoxy resin and wood finishes which are downright reasonable products to promote.

For as annoying as sponsorships can be, you only have to watch TV or listen to the radio to realize it can always be so much worse.

....or just turn off adblock, youtube and twitch are doing their damnedest to become as bad as the things we already abandoned. At least in a sponsorship read you can just skip to the end of it and a lot of youtubers make it easy to tell when it stops in the timeline with background or outfit changes. Least obtrusive method possible.