I'm Quitting YouTube, too.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 มิ.ย. 2024
- Ex-Google TechLead on quitting TH-cam.
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[NOTE: The corrected TH-camr wage calculation at 3:25 is 4 videos per *month*, not week. The rest is correct, so (assuming 100k views per video), it is $500/video * 4 videos/month * 12 months/yr = $24k annual salary]
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[NOTE: The corrected TH-camr wage calculation at 3:25 is 4 videos per *month*, not week. The rest is correct, so (assuming 100k views per video), it is $500/video * 4 videos/month * 12 months/yr = $24k annual salary]
we have high inflation its like gravy has stopped flowing it may come back after a 2008 collapse in 2024
See you next week.
I heard from a TH-camr that this doesn’t work and you can’t have a successful TH-cam channel
@@eric3434 🤣
@@LC12345 actually you can’t trust someone who is quitting and in the same time giving advice about being successful on TH-cam . It’s not coherent at all 😅
4 months later you are still here as i can see... your last video was just 2 hours ago...
why quit when it brings money money money?
Next week: “why I returned to TH-cam”
Can’t wait!
😅😅😅😅
different title, but you weren't wrong! 😂
Totally. He's the most infamous baiter
LOL so true
next week, probably
genius! He just earned a new title (As an ex-Google, ex-Facebook, ex-TH-cam TechLead)
And ex-millionaire.
BTW he can find a real job !
I think he worked in YT before so the new title would be ....ex-TH-cam TL, ex-TH-cam creator.
What does millionaire even mean (practically speaking) when the overall pace of inflation causes cash to sublime/turn to vapor (figuratively speaking)? /rhetorical @@ktb1381
Hahaha 😂
People don't care about you, as much as you imagine. -TechLead
Truer words, have never been spoken.
Life just goes on
Yup.@@Toyota4Life
This is pretty true on TH-cam. So often content creators will start a video by apologizing for not uploading lately but did we really notice they were gone?
@@AndrewCortesi haha True. That just left a window open to see a video from my 500 other subscriptions I forgot about.
People only pretend to care about you if you have lots of money or social status.
If you don’t make lots of money or prioritize making money you will be largely invisible to society and I personally don’t see any issue with that, as long as I have a few friends or acquaintances I can go out with and have a good time with on the weekend I’m happy.
I’m the guy living in the middle of nowhere in Kansas playing video games all day.
People need to learn to come to terms with the fact that not everyone can be a big shot in society, there always has to be people like me that are completely invisible to balance things out. 😊
True that, homes. I hope that you're exercising and eating well.
@@shiptj01 yeah im perfectly fine as far as all that goes. I’m just an introvert and prefer to stay home rather than go out.
@@DoritosBurger I hear that, cuz. I'm done with trying to be popular and changing the world.
Bruh even being at home and playing video games gets old. Life has a lot more to offer than that.
U will be fine dude😢
I'm quiting TH-cam, too (As a Billionare) 😘
Prove you have that much money
an Iranian Billionaire?
I've got a trillion nigerian dollars.@@adorabledev
yeah, me too (as a quadrillionaire) gotta get on the train
Billionaire maybe not, but a ytber with around 120 milions a year in USD, is easily a millionaire after those few years. A young man in my country of poland who does 315 mln views in 2023 earned around 1.5 mln pln which is around 250k usd.
I hate to see him leave, but I love to watch him go
he needs to find a new home for his channel i agree
@@gasdorficmuncher9943lol you didn’t get his comment
Fine wordplay lol
Good to see you, Patrick!
You mean Kim
Do what your heart tells you to do. But at least dont delete the previous videos. The Information still stays.
MILLION TOKEN! become one of the millions club by buying it. huuge potential. social experiment guys, #nfa.
He already deleted some of them 😢 I hope somebody has backup
@@yingyinoudeleting what?
He deleted most of them lol
I believe his main point here is if there is a feel for retirement (as a TH-camr), you have to make sure that you don't bore yourself to death despite all the money you got. It's all about planning for the end that will still carry and maintain the status you had built and solidified. Tough luck to say the least.
Better to divest yourself of "status". Who needs it? Why does one need it? Freedom can be a scary place.
What do you guys think about the ergonomic version? This Keychron has it also, but I am again used to classic straight keyboards.
3:22 $500/video, 4 videos/week = $2000/week, not /month. Either that and your final figure are incorrect or you meant to type 4 videos/month, right?
Please don’t leave😘
Good riddance
It's time for people to work to get paid now. The field has now been leveled by Ai
Where can we get more techlead now?
Let's see how long this last...
This is why I do youtube as a hobby. In that way, I don't have to worry about some of these pressures. And by the way, it's how I get to post genuine content free of trying to please the algorithm and free of pressure to get views.
Same. TH-cam for me is a way to share my personality in a much more effective way than I could on Facebook Insta or Twitter.
How did I quit TH-cam (As a Millionaire)
"Ex-Google, Ex-Facebook Engineer"
Did you mean 4 videos a month at $500/video? That is $2k/month. If it’s 4 videos a week then that is $104k a year which is decent.
I hope it's a click bait and you won't quit youtube, your videos have been charging me with positive energy and kinda healed me from depression, this video in particular "a day in the life of a Google software engineer"
you will be missed, The TechLead 😔
He already quit, he made this video simply because quitting yt is trending
I thought he was in prison. When did he get out?
r/whoosh
Just keep hustling
This is - hand's down - the best informative show on illicit shyt such as weed, paranoia, etc., Heck I know ... how am I going to get my corpus of 'dark' info now????
as a adblocker user, I am partially to blame for this.😅
Am I dumb or how does $500 per video and 4 videos per week translate to $2000 per month? Wouldn't it $500x4 per week?
It's ok, he corrected his mistake, see his pinned comment.
What a great keyboard, but if I am quitting youtube before I get started even is it still a tool I will need?
I better start watching my favourite TH-camrs videos so that they don't lose motivation and quite.
TH-cam *has* changed, only the last few months, I started rage quitting TH-cam because it keeps on serving me ads every few minutes. It basically makes it impossible to watch a video on tv on the background.. I guess it's a channel/video setting, but it's a lot more prominent than it used to be
It is the 5th time or so that TechLead has left youtube! He'll be back as well.
WHY I QUIT TH-cam (as a millionaire)
TechLead
157K views
1 year ago
I really appreciate TechLead's wisdom more than anything. For a while I started forgetting the value of work/personal endeavors in favor of slacking, comfort zone and easy money. Thank you TechLead as always.
Right now there seems to be a lot of opportunities for people who want to put in the effort. If there's ever been a time to see the results from work, it's now
@@iyasugamesTH-cam definitely shows that reward when it comes to content creation.
Many peopl are switching to other site that, also, has the same original spirit of TH-cam at its initial conception 10 years ago - no hidden direction and algorithms.
After half Year of posting videos I have 20 subscribers on my TH-cam channel. I am not quiting. After 5 years I expect to have 200 subscribers. Please don't quit too. Thanks.
Damn this talked about some of my issues very well. I will definitely come back to this over and over till i make peace with my innerself
Called it 2 years ago: Only the real enthusiasts will remain as the money is gone!
Which is good. I like the TH-camrs that are in it for the fun of it.
Which is good. Why should content creators work hard to generate youtube more money while they steal the proceeds?
Good. Tired of these whiny entitled algorithm slaves making trash.
He's always so logical, to the point, wasting the least amount of time humanly possible to explain everything and then there's me -__-;
Wait, at the end you said "see you in the next one"? I thought you were quitting :)
I've been watching TechLead videos for a while now, and I really hope this isn't the final end. Overall, I believe there will be a significant restructuring of the internet medium in the future. Many things that were authentic in the beginning have evolved into mass media today, and TH-cam is no exception.
yeah censorship of comments/videos and algorithm tuning for profit/company agendas is very real.
but this is where a lot of these larger companies wil fail longer term imo. They essentially forget about the desires of the people who make the platform what it is, and the users. Over a long enough period of time, if there are better alternatives which catch on, plus the perception/trust/financial incentives have been destroyed, they will die a slow death as a company. A lot of large tech think they are infallible/invincible at this point which is very far from the truth
If history is any guide, I believe it will be a race to the bottom. YT will squeeze its creators for a bigger slice of the revenues and the talented creators will just give up and go to a new platform, leaving only the untalented creators on the channel who are willing to work hard for low pay.
I absolutely agree with that! What started with joy in 2010 is slowly but surely developing in a completely wrong direction!@@tzc9309
Unfortunately, the decline of TH-cam can no longer be stopped; something good turns into something bad over time!@@user-di4bt7qu2i
Part of the problem is that EVERYONE wants to be a TH-camr now for a living. Any field that gets too saturated is going to see wages or profits drop. Being a TH-camr or TikTok star is basically like 20 years ago when everyone wanted to be a movie star or play in the NFL….everyone wants to do it.
It certainly becomes a more competitive space, but bottom line revenues affected by higher fees/lower payouts for example, or algorithm tuning for specific content as mentioned, is purely at youtubes discretion - unrelated to how many people want to be a youtube star. Just a negative structural change for most if not all creators.
50 years later going back to the IBM keyboard that were so great
can you have an update to this vid where you have a nobody walk around with a bank statement to see what happens?
I stand with you. Milk the hell out of this channel.
Since you're not motivated by money, keep doing those bits that you love to do most. You know how to keep it simple, so please continue to upload your salient observations and wry wit when you have something to share. We may seem invisible, but we're out here welcoming your perspective. Really!
He's motivated by boredom, he is lost, disconnected from God, and living in sin. Who cares?
He actually did it, the madlad
Too many ads, simple as that. People have moved to twitch, rumble and TT.
TH-cam is such a mess with the algorithm right now and I find it totally unpredictable so I decided on my channel just to do whatever the hell I wanted and whatever I found interesting and the chips will fall where they may. I grew 300% last year.
Actually I like your channel even more since you're trolling
you're probably the only one here talking about this very specific thing. i wonder how many of us are out there. keep it up
Podcast soon Mr. TL 🙏
They programmed TH-cam streams for streamers where if I watch this 3 times a day TH-cam will only count this video for 1 stream for a day not 3 . Before spring 2022 it would count as 3 streams watching this video 3 times a day .
He quits TH-cam each year 😂
I'm sure without watching that he'll make a video next week "I have returned"
This was NOT on my 2024 Bingo card. One of the greatest internet personalities to ever pick up a camera.
What? How? This guy sucks man.
i did not knew your channel before but now i do and i will support whatever youre up to.
More chances for viewers to find new channels
Dude, dont quit! I just found your channel last week. You're very entertaining, I love your humor and straight-forward no bs talk. :)
The quitting part was sarcasm. He does this in alot of his videos. Some of it's geniune, some is sarcasm. It's up to the viewer to discern his meaning, which is what keeps his channel interesting.
He's clearly not quitting. He's commenting on all the other TH-camrs who are making quitting videos. Literally said "see you in the next one" at the end. He had that bit about burning his channel to the ground with sponsored products and everything, then at the end gives the product a plug.
These days TH-cam is a short term gig for the best and an extra lunch for the rest.
"I'm Quitting TH-cam, as a millionaire"
If you quit youtube, I’m quitting too. You are my only subscription.
No he’s not
Good
Hurry up and quit
Nooooo, you were my only smart asian friend.
@@MarquisDeSang he was never your friend. Prove you guys were friends
The irony here is that, if you have to purchase things to create the content the return is lower than what the people whom just vlog are complaining about…
but what if it was just a local maxima?
If you quit YT , I quit YT and instagram and FB all together
Dont stop. This level is sarcasm is needed for burnt out low value engineers
I enjoy your videos, I'd miss you a bit if you stop but you do what you must do. One thing I think is it matters if people watch all the way through the video or not. The more of the video people watch the more you'll be recommended. The length of the vid is not so important to the algorithm, a 4 minute vid and a 10 minute vid matters little, what matters is the viewers watch it all. Just do shorter 3-4-5 minute vids. It's probably less work and viewers might watch all the vid and not fast forward missing most of it. Then you have more time to do other your stuff. 500 is not a lot for all the work that goes into making vids.
i like how many times he has done this
How would I become a millionaire if you quit? we need you're helpful insights
people underestimate how much meaning the right work can bring into your life
And people underestimate the importance of money in life.
There's no way TechLead is leaving youtube anytime soon.
economy is at a standstill gravy has left i really think techled should take a long break
He unironically has no life. It must suck
The others can leave, you NO. WE NEED YOU. PLEASE
Hi there!!! we as human go on passing some phases of creativity, of lonenlyness, of sadness, of joy, of seeking the adventure, of meeting a love partner, of enthousiasm or hate of that ex - love partner. Each time the struggle is there and we have a different motive to DO and PRODUCE or DO NOTHING and just act lazy. We have to live it all in order to understand life. From the busyness/crazyness of a center of a large city to a quietness of living in a semi forgotten village somewhere in the country hundrends and hundrend miles away from the crowds... That's life. We can always find the beauty in it as we ... roll around. Heraclitus, the great philosopher (another Greek) was saying once "Everything is in flux"
YT is now a hostile environment for both creators and viewers. I think both groups of people are quitting this platform. View counts for many of my favourite creators are well down. I don't think it's just the algorithm, I think its the aggressive approach to tackling ad blocking and making the experience as bad as possible for people who can't afford YT Premium.
Truth is harsh. You were precise, honest and direct.
More people must see this. This is the reality. It’s a lesson for youtube content creators in the future.
I'm just extremely proud of your success. I don't mean your finances or material possessions.
I'm really happy that I can come here and find as genuine and straight-forward of a person that I can think of. Man.
You're just cool beans.
Keep on keeping on.
Great video. Since the first adpocalypse it was clear that yt is not a "career", just a temporary gig. Slaves at the whim of the algorithm.
Last year, TH-cam decided to go up against TikTok by promoting TH-cam#Shorts, that was basically the end of content creators who upload long video's.
Shorts are so annoying, though. :(
Why? I can show teaser of my music in shorts, which is good.@@PS-qn4oz
@@PS-qn4oz they're horrible, very annoying.
anything to back that up? can't agree on this one.
@@TrudleR it's not true, if it was then they would demonetize long form.
Sounds good. See you next video.
Finally, my main demotivator is quitting 😅
Now I can learn peacefully learn to code
Relax boys, he just uploaded another video an hour ago 😂
now an ex-TH-camr as well 🤣 jokes aside, you pointed out important topics over the years.
I heard TH-cam is pushing shorts a lot now. 😓
People make even less money from shorts.
Appreciate Patrick’s hot takes. Yes all of this rings true.
Video should have been called "Why I'm Quitting TH-cam As a Techlead"
What a brilliant human being
TechLead is a rare personality on TH-cam, which is why I always come back to watch his content.
You are an explorer.
Go find yourself out there! 😊
I was buying a chair and found you today, watched your keyboard vid, & now I see you quit. Bummer, I liked you and subscribed. Gl and best wishes secdev.
wtf is going on
The TH-cam algorithm has definitely gone odd, with videos from channels that I used to follow disappearing from search results unless I know their channel name.
It was prime around 2018-19 just after the adpocalypse. It’s gone down hill from there. People were bigging up YT to completely kill off TV by now. They dropped the ball
the value of your worth is not what is left in the plasma. Remember your intelligence, ethics and abilities will always be most important.
This is like the 3rd time you’re quitting TH-cam in the last year.
i appricate your honesty man, your sacrasm dosn't get past me. love the humor
I'm never retiring early from youtube. TH-cam and computer programming is my passion.
Check back in 20 years
Get in line behind Ai
now you can use the "im an ex youtuber" line.
Are you going to focus on MM token?
No.
This guy is so weird. I've been watching him for a few years, and he's quit TH-cam several times already. He keeps saying that money doesn't make you happy and that coding is dead, but he still makes these videos on how to make money today. What is wrong with you?
he is few missing in head
Thank you for everything you have brought so far. Whatever you do after it, enjoy it!
@TechLead TH-cam somehow sold you a dream. Be careful what you buy.
Will you be going back to the shed?
… as a millionaire.
I'm not leaving TH-cam as a consumer of videos. I like putting youtube on in the background while I work and knit.
so, do you return back to coding? if FIRE and youtube is not that good, it would be logical
Could not agree more my views have dropped by 1/2 after last year algo change that's after 10 years of running the channel
@3:22 $500 per video x 4 videos a week = $2000 / week (in a 52 weeks per year calendar) this is equal = $104,000/year
Can you make 4 quality videos per week for the whole 52 weeks, that's the question
It comes with practice and passion but that depends on if you also working full-time or TH-cam is your only job and source of income so you have enough time to make these many videos, but definitely it's not easy like no other work.
did he do the math wrong as a joke? im pretty surprised if he didnt considering his credentials
@@yungkonnekt it's an engagement strategy. Put something incorrect in your video to get people to comment on it, thus helping to rank higher in the algorithm.
Good catch!