ceebee posted:

The business plan was mainly to move away from advertiser dependent monetization schemes that the large streaming services employ, that I think are particularly predatory on streamers and content creators in general. And there's not much competition to sway the industry away from it. It was essentially taking Netflix's subscription style service and applying it to a site like Twitch, basically charging a subscription fee to access the site entirely (not just subscribing to individual channels which is what Twitch does). From that monthly subscription cost I wanted to give 50% of the subscription fees back to the users to spend on independent creators and streamers on the platform. The other 50% going towards upkeep costs of running the service and hosting/transcoding of the content, as well as a team of lawyers that care about Fair Use and Copyright laws to help protect the users in case they (fairly) utilized copyrighted content in their streams for their protection.

This all mainly stemmed from me wanting to quit my career of making video game art that I had been doing for 12 years to pursue streaming and entertaining/educating full time. As I was doing my research on how I could possibly make the transition I realized just how lovely content creators and streamers get shafted by YouTube and Twitch's monetization strategies. And also, the stuff I wanted to stream would probably get me demonetized pretty quickly since the art that I make occasionally has nudity and I didn't agree with the selective censorship and demonetization that both of those big corps do.

I realize now (well, maybe about 2 years ago) it was obviously a bad idea for one person to try to take on two massive monopolies, but in my manic state I convinced myself that what I was doing was for the greater good of creators like me who just wanted to share their knowledge and entertainment with people... and be able to financially support themselves while doing it, which is what a lot of smaller YouTubers and Twitch streamers really struggle to do.

That's a brief summary of why I did it all... Everyone I talked to IRL about the idea thought it was awesome and kept me motivated, but I don't think even they were aware of what I was trying to accomplish. I had a friend help me out who was amazing, she did some awesome work and we actually got streaming up and running off of a webserver, I was trying to figure out a way to get in contact with someone at Microsoft under the Azure team since that's the tech that Mixer previously used for low-latency streaming, but that's when my money started running out. I ended up dissolving the corporation and going into a massive depressive episode and wanted to kill myself for a while, but luckily I made it out alive.

Leperflesh posted:

there are already thousands of subscription-based streaming services that return a big chunk of their subscriber money to their content creators and also offer opportunities for members to give extra money to the talented creatives in live sessions etc., and they also offer content that youtube and twitch won't

there's even software providers offering turnkey tech solutions for them

what you were trying to make was a rated R porn site

ceebee posted:

shut the gently caress up lepercunt you bitchass

BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:

Finally, a proper loving banme

Peggy Edson posted:

every. loving. time.

ceebee posted:

like "this one time i was delivering presents and i pulled so hard on the reigns i poo poo myself. sliding down the chimney was unbearable and i had poo poo all up my back by the end of the night"

gently caress your christmas



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Nooner posted:

SLICK GOKU BABY posted:

The legal questions thread claims another victim.

Icochet posted:

Well now i wish i hadn't given op that handjob

I always fall for bad boys

EorayMel posted:

I like how the OP made this thread 20 minutes after the penultimate post of "gently caress you leperflesh", meaning the OP took at least 20 minutes after yelling at a mod contemplating the next move on the forums

Vampire Panties posted:

duder is ragequitting an online forum because of his bad business idea

Frank Frank posted:

Is anyone on SA honestly offended by the goatman in 2022?

Ehud posted:

i clicked the link knowing it was goatse because it's been a while since i saw it and i was bored

BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:

Finally, a proper loving banme

That DICK! posted:

here's my idea for a streaming app, itd be an algorithmic "playlist" that would create an "e-channel" for you to watch, catered to your interests. everyone misses those days of popping on the tv and lazing about with your favorite channel. the success of pluto tv and etc support this. so this app would connect with your other apps and you could tell it, i want to watch simpsons seasons 2-8, i want to watch king of the hill, i want to watch star trek and the wire. and then you get all those. and maybe it throws a 'recommended' show in there occasionally but you could turn it off if you want. now here is where this idea really starts to grill its chicken: holidays. we all love holidays and watching tv show episodes about the holidays around that holiday time. well what if you can tell an app, i want all the king of the hill thanksgiving eps, i want planes trains and automobiles, i want any classic nicktoons about thanksgiving. and then you could just watch it all

BAGS FLY AT NOON posted:

I saw it live before a cowardly mod changed it to a link and therefore

EorayMel posted:

What if someone made a QCS thread saying goatse isn't funny or shocking in 2022

Smugworth posted:

I was sharing my screen at a zoom meeting and clicked on the link and my whole organization saw the goatmans rear end in a top hat and now I'm fired thanks for nothing mods

William Henry Hairytaint posted:

I don't want you to be homeless in the cold so you can come stay with me until you get back on your feet. You can even come to Thanksgiving at my parents.

Just don't tell anyone where you're going or who you're going to be staying with.

Smugworth posted:

ceebee posted:

but thnx 4 the memories

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