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[–] lime@feddit.nu 188 points 2 days ago (1 children)

good work censoring one of the names

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 93 points 2 days ago (1 children)

She's literally a public figure posting for money. You can see her name below. Obviously the person who censored it doesn't understand the topics of her content.

[–] three@lemmy.zip 36 points 2 days ago (1 children)

....you should get your sarcasm detector to the shop....

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[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All you need to know in 1 visual, and yes that's monthly, not yearly :

from https://substack.com/home/post/p-160984454

Compare that to the average teacher in most countries, including countries like Finland or Luxembourg which pay their teachers quite well.

[–] rumschlumpel@feddit.org 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Is that an average/median OnlyFans creator, or one of the ones who are considered successful?

Edit: Oh, that's actually the creator from the post. TBH that seems like really intimate information, in a different way than whatever she's probably doing on OnlyFans.

[–] Underwaterbob@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 day ago

To compare this to music streaming, I have a couple of tracks with ~4 million listens, and they each made ~$20.

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 132 points 2 days ago (11 children)

Doesn't seem like she is doing this but watching a coding tutorial with a topless girl presenting it would be much more fun. I wonder if there is a market for this

[–] SnoringEarthworm@sh.itjust.works 105 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 68 points 2 days ago (1 children)

True story.

A while back I needed to learn how to tie a necktie in a double Windsor knot. Looked for some videos.

Found one with a hot girl in lingerie showing me how.

I watched it twelve times, then found another video with an old man demonstrating.

[–] FartMaster69@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Was the old man in lingerie too?

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Narrator: He was

[–] DagwoodIII@piefed.social 7 points 1 day ago

I walked into that one, didn't I?

Take your upvote, you magnificent swine.

[–] vrek@programming.dev 61 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Decades ago ago there was a series of videos of girls teaching calculus. For example they had a girl lay down on her back and then described how to use integrals to determine the area of her boobs.

[–] Ininewcrow@piefed.ca 33 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Reminds me of a math rhythm my older brother taught me when we were teens

You subtract the clothes
You add the bed
You divide the legs
And then you multiply

[–] vrek@programming.dev 16 points 2 days ago

This was a whole video series, I think like 6 parts. The described Calculus using girls bodies.

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[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago (1 children)

During the inception of image algorithms all the engineers started to use a playboy model.

[–] SolSerkonos@piefed.social 23 points 2 days ago

And then kept using it for an extremely long time until basically forced to stop lol.

There's a BobbyBroccoli video on the topic, and it's pretty interesting.

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[–] pjwestin@lemmy.world 98 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe she'll get flagged for appropriate content.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 32 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hope not, that would be a crushing blow! Since I generally boycott YT, I checked out Zara Dar's What is a Neural Network. It's a good overview, and well presented. Ah, a look there's a part 2. It would be great if she could hit 1M views on ProhNub, as a result of this post. Only 207K over the past year, with 2K updoots.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Since people are probably not going to PH to search for this, I wonder if she gets views from people with some kind of autoplay.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 24 points 2 days ago

Why do you suppose people won't go to PH? Here's the link: https://www.pornhub.com/model/zara-dar

[–] Demdaru@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Also, she's not the only one. At some points, Pornhub crew joked about entering competition with YT and they really don't mind non-porn content.

[–] FireRetardant@lemmy.world 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Theres defintely some guys out there edging to her cleavage while shes talking

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Clothing fetish is a thing

[–] TomMasz@lemmy.world 96 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hey, musicians, Pornhub pays better than Spotify!

[–] TexasDrunk@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago

Wheeler Walker Jr. released music out there.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago

Almost 3x higher pay per million views, but that specific PH video has less than 5% of the total views of YT

[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Her name is crossed out in the post, but not her screenshots….

Weird.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 20 points 1 day ago

Also why we hiding the name of the YouTuber? Presumably they actually want people to find their content otherwise they wouldn't have uploaded it.

This self-censoring epidemic is getting stupid.

[–] kbal@fedia.io 59 points 2 days ago (5 children)

WTF I had no idea the CPM had gotten that low. $1 per thousand views for however many ads are in each video is practically nothing.

[–] HuntressHimbo@lemmy.zip 31 points 2 days ago

The more resistant to clicking ads we get the less each ad is worth to the corporate ad buyer and the more ads the services want to jam in to get their profits.

The part I struggle to understand is why corporate ad buyers are okay with the fraud that the big tech companies seemingly routinely get caught on. Famous example being pivot to video on Facebook where they just cooked the books to sell the concept.

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[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is another sign of how youtube's story of "we've never made a profit" is bogus. More and more organisations are advertising on youtube, youtube is pushing the limits on the amount of advertising that viewers can stand & at the same time they've started paying creators less.

It looks like they've really started abusing their market position in the last few years: more income and less expenditure. And it's probably no coincidence that there are no financial figures for youtube alone.

[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Someone did the math and estimated YouTube would cost $2bn in cloud costs (i.e. no creator payments) if hosted on AWS.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (4 children)

AWS is incredibly expensive, if you're hosting something like GitHub or Netflix on them instead of just owning the servers, you're incredibly dumb

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[–] RunawayFixer@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I found an estimate of annual expenditures of 3.25 billion, without content payouts, but with engineering/legal/moderation costs. As 2024 revenue I found back 36 billion from advertising & 14.5 billion from subscriptions. Forbes had an article where Google claimed to have paid out $70bn in 2021-2023 to content creators, this number probably includes subscriptions. In those 3 years youtube had an ad revenue of 89.5 billion, but I have no number for subscriptions. These are all very opaque numbers. Based on these opaque numbers, I'd guesstimate youtube's profit margin at 42%, which I find excessive.

$36bn ad revenue + $14.5bn subscriptions: https://www.businessofapps.com/data/youtube-statistics/

$3.25bn annual expenditures: https://www.clrn.org/how-much-does-youtube-cost-to-run/

$70bn payed out to creators from 2021 to 2023: https://www.forbes.com.au/news/innovation/youtube-70-billion-creator-payments/

Edit, how I got to my guesstimate of 42%:
36bn ad revenue in 2024. An average of 30bn ad revenue in the 3 years prior. Estimation for the subscription income in those 3 years: 30/36 x 14.5 x 3=36 billion. 73bn expenditures & 126bn income = 53bn profit. 53/126 = 42%.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (7 children)

Hence articles like this bother me:

https://www.axios.com/2025/12/13/joy-reid-leaving-corporate-media

YouTube, Instagram and TikTok…

That’s the trap. These mega platforms feel like “liberating” creative outlets, but they take basically all the ad revenue and hand out scraps; the absolute bare minimum to keep creators around. And that ratio shrinks as the monopoly grows.

Yet creators, even journalists trained to sniff out profiteering, go in blind to that.


And yes, I get it. “Just don’t use them,” is much harder said than done.

…But they could be a little more critical of their platform, like this lady.

[–] nialv7@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

There is a word for it: enshittification

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's just hype. They parade around people that "made it" with their revenue programs. The 99 or so % that never make any, or even lose, money in the process are never shown.
A close friend of mine invested a 4-figure amount into travels, gadgets and all sorts of stuff to show off... while being unemployed. Had a huge, organic crowd of followers, too, on several platforms. Tried everything, but never saw a single cent in return.

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[–] NGC2346@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

She's very suggestive in her choice of dress in most of these videos that are on her pornhub though, so there's that.

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Oh I just checked her channel on yt and apparently she's an onlyfans creator now, so yeah.

Funny video title from her

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[–] Acidbath@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

omfg i remember running into this video like about a year ago. legit good study material :^] (no but fr better than some of my professors). There are also cybersecurity guides but ehh.. they all stopped posting.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You gotta get a million views to earn a thousand bucks?!

[–] tempest@lemmy.ca 39 points 2 days ago (6 children)

That has been true for a while. Ever since "the adpocalypse". I'm surprised you missed it because it felt like every YouTube creator was complaining about it for an entire year ( which I'm not really against, I just don't give a shit about YouTube inside baseball).

That's why every video now has " brought to you by... Whatever" in the middle of it.

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[–] usernameusername@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Just watched the whole video. She explained chemistry so well

[–] FauxPseudo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not available in several states.

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