Completely Out of the Place Blog 01 : Youtube Ads and Perspective Changes (Patreon)

Thank you everyone for the supportive comments about this from previous post. I think I'll start writing some random thought or share some interesting daily events here from now on!----------------------Ello everyone!Welcome to the new series on my Patreon campaign called Completely Out of the Place Blog or COotPB for short... if that is considered short for you.Like the name suggested, this is a random blog without any routine or schedule which I will be writing and posting exclusively on Patreon for patrons containing utterly random thoughts or stuffs and things I've seen on my daily life and want to share with you to make you getting to know me better by reading nonsense that came into my mind.So if you don't want to know me better in any sort of way, please don't waste your time reading these bullcraps, but still I will try my best to at least keep this somewhat decently valuable to read so it wouldn't just shorten your life span.Anyway, please enjoy your first episode of COotPB below!

Youtube Ads and How My Perspective Changed as a Creator

So I don't think that I have mentioned this anywhere on Patreon, but I am a Youtube addicted or so I consider myself as one...I have to watch a video minimized on a corner of my screen or at least have the sound on, listening to my favorite Youtuber while I'm working, mostly gaming Youtubers. It's like listening to a podcast, but better since as soon as you heard something interesting going on, you could just scroll your eyes to that little minimized screen and see what's going on. If I don't do that while I draw or paint, I'll start losing grips and the will to keep drawing and eventually turn into a bear and fly to the moon.If someone were to raise a question like "How does watching someone else plays the game better than playing the game yourself?" Well, I don't watch anyone for the sake of "pro gameplays" or "perfect walkthrough" or anything like that. I watch them for the sake of their commentating. It's fun to see your favorite guys react to a certain part of what's going on in the game. Hell, I even watched 5 different youtubers playing Undertale over and over again because all of them reacted differently each scenes.I followed a crap load of Minecraft and other gaming Youtubers and other stuffs or inspirational channels. My main Youtuber that basically made me addicted to the whole Youtube thing was VintageBeef. He's just super enjoyable for anything he plays, at least for me.And that small thing (by small I mean 3-4 huge paragraphs) lead me to this random thought, the Youtube Ads.Before I started my whole Patreon, I really couldn't stand Youtube ads, or any ads in general. As soon as I saw an advertisement popping up, I'd even close the whole video sometimes because my mind thought it wasn't worth my time waiting for the ads to finish in order to get to watch that video.I know I was a freak. I used to work as a kind of mercenary artist like I mentioned on my main Patreon profile page. I don't appreciate ads placements as they are nothing but annoyance. Pay me money and I get things done. That's how I rolled. There was no way how the concept of admiring ads would come to my mind.But ever since I started my campaign and studied a lot of how crowdfunding works in general, I learned to appreciate the ads. I mean, not the products themselves but the idea of how having the ads in a place would benefit the creator, even though Patreon itself doesn't run on ads.Looking at Youtubers, they don't gain any direct payment or support (not counting some of them Patreon campaigns) from anything aside the ads, and I have been watching Youtube for free for more than a decade. I don't have to pay a single penny for it, and if watching 10-20 seconds ads occasionally would help supporting the Youtubers that you see how they spent so much effort on making their contents, then why not?I think this idea also goes with other kinds of platform. You share posts you like on Facebook, you retweet tweets you like on twitter, you reblog arts you like on tumblr, etc. instead of reposting them and claim them as your own to support the creators of those contents you favor, and it doesn't hurt you one bit. Youtube ads is completely free.So as I make arts on Patreon, though it's quite different mechanically, I learned a lot to appreciate what makes the creators that you care about supported. Basically that's the idea I wanted to share. Nothing much, but I managed to write a whole essay about it... Well I'm sorry.Didn't mean to tell you guys to start watching Youtube ads. Everyone has their own business and some can't afford to waste a valuable time, but I hope this reminds you that there are numerous way to support your favorite content creators on any platform that doesn't require you to cut your arm off for them.I think I could come up with something more philosophical with this subject, but I'll leave it as that. You guys have read too much of my completely out of the place thoughts.Anyway, ya'll have a good day. Feel free to share your thoughts on this. I know some of you could make this deeper. English is not my first language anyway, heh!