paid subscription, rewards through DMs, bad service, that even piracy might be dead to me soon.

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Lott's Live Forum 2023.6
last time explaining the reasons of piracy: https://youtube.com/v/SVNNbvsfQvU

this has been a thing lately, and it is more like paying another form of taxes than supporting business at all. indeed, you do need to pay for a better service and creators do need to eat, but look at what is going on right now. if people aren't paying, pirating your content, or worse, just no one wanting yours, this is why.

1440p VOD: https://odysee.com/@lottery248:1/llf2023.6:e

i have been talking about this issue before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqUG8c8nSIg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQjs6PoP85E
https://youtube.com/live/NbZqMrdXMYc

0:00 - intermission
0:31 - prenotes
0:51 - the context
2:47 - YouTube Membership
3:12 - Twitter & Twitch Subscription
5:10 - rewards via DMs == technically creators can refuse to deliver what you *HAVE* paid for
8:29 - what happens if they block you?
11:02 - subscription service are worsening, and our minimum expenditure continue to be diversified, and has become a duty and moral blackmail
12:54 - Twitter Blue, the details, and paid spammers are now a thing
18:38 - beware of details, including the terms of service
20:08 - followup of an earlier video i made slamming Hololive
21:52 - piracy is a service problem and not a pricing problem
23:25 - just because consumers don't want to pay, doesn't mean they would want to pirate it

further reading:
https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-gb/articles/115004484326 (it's not a violation of TOS for creators to not deliver the rewards)