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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
During the inception of image algorithms all the engineers started to use a playboy model.
Naked News
Problem with them was the bolt ons were way too common. Otherwise, they are the best objective news in Canada!
I watched that years ago and I’ve never been less turned on watching someone strip. It was just so incredibly dry and lifeless.
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The channel is real:
pornhub.com/zara-dar(And I don’t want that other site in my history, so I’m not looking it up.)
oh yeah, only way Im browsing youtube is with a vpn and incognito on
lol
Maybe she’ll get flagged for appropriate content.
Hey, musicians, Pornhub pays better than Spotify!
Wheeler Walker Jr. released music out there.
This is between stages 3 and 4:
wiki/Enshittification
The fourth stage is to run away with the money, leaving stockholders and investors with a failed company in their hands which they can’t bring back from the dead because both users and business partners hate it.
stage 5: revolution - overthrow the oppressive corporate system; nationalize all monopolies, split them into different smaller companies, give those companies to the workers who will collectivize them. seriously!
I know there are gamer girls on sites like Fansly and OnlyFans that stream their gaming sessions in the same way they would on Twitch. I wonder what the engagement and income is for them on those sites versus Twitch or YouTube.
EDIT: I just watched Zara Dar’s PornHub video on Loss Functions. Her delivery is a tad robotic but the content is informative.
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.
There is a word for it: enshittification
“Just don’t use them,” is much harder said than done.
I agree… but somehow I don’t think you meant to say this
They are liberating creative outlets in the sense that they offer a platform and tools for creative expression (barring some ToS rules) for free. You can post a creative video that may be seen by thousands without needing to sell ownership to some company. They play ads to pay for its associated costs and yes, to turn a profit, while giving a small portion to the creators as an additional incentive. But they are not intended to replace regular income in a meaningful way. I have never heard of anyone suggesting that trying to do so is a good idea, including the big name content creators that by exception do manage to earn a living from it.
If you think it should be a reliable way to make money, I would say you have the unfair expectation for it. I would compare it to complaining that a service that teaches you how to knit is only sufficient for hobbyists and rarely allows one to build a successful company selling clothes. That’s just beyond the scope of what it’s there for.
See, this is technically true. But that is not how (say) YouTube presents itself.
They market professional creators, and algorithmically prioritize them. They set up extensive systems for them. They divert away from external linking, and create systems to explicity keep people withing their ad ecosystem. To regulators, YouTube argues that it’s still that same site to post “creative videos” to, like the cat video site it was a long time ago. Yet in the same breath, they turn around and do everything they can to crowd out professional journalism and media, to promite it across services, even viewing it as their “attention competition.”
They’re having their cake and eating it.
Discord’s the same. They depict it as private chat for gamers and friend groups, when it’s really host to larger interest communities, and eating similar sources alive.
Hence I disagree.
YouTube is setting the expectation for creators to make money, while arguing exactly what you’re arguing in court. And this:
I would compare it to complaining that a service that teaches you how to knit is only sufficient for hobbyists and rarely allows one to build a successful company selling clothes.
This is true! Yet YouTube wouldn’t be caught dead saying it, as it would cost them attention.
And that’s not okay.
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.
Someone did the math and estimated YouTube would cost $2bn in cloud costs (i.e. no creator payments) if hosted on AWS.
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
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%.
If they’ve never paid taxes then they must never have turned a profit.
Checkmate.
To compare this to music streaming, I have a couple of tracks with ~4 million listens, and they each made ~$20.
You gotta get a million views to earn a thousand bucks?!
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.
YouTube creator was complaining
Yeah I don’t invest much time into addressing youtuber complaints. But I’ll take what you said at face value.
They’re working class in the entertainment industry, their complaints are as valid as any other laborer.
It’s also a machine that thrives on manufacturing drama for clicks. And I just won’t engage in the ‘meta drama’ around any community.
Working conditions and payment disputes are not “meta drama” and more than a “community” it’s an industry of freelancers. You may not care for it but independent entertainment is a huge part of our culture right now, in terms of hours watched per day and revenue generation. It’s a parallel arm of the gig economy, uncontracted workers entirely at the mercy of huge media companies and the fickle public.
I thought being a creator on youtube was about tricking people into doing massive amounts of video editing for very little pay.
Absolutely true. There isn’t a single content creator that knows how to edit their videos. This demanding task can only be done by people who don’t create content. For every successful content creator, there are three broke editors adding JL cuts in iMovie.
A $1 CPM (per thousand impressions) is actually pretty good for a platform like Pornhub where I assume most people are logged out/incognito etc. on an adult content.
If YouTube is really only paying out $0.34 CPM to that creator, that is atrocious. They must be getting like 20% rev share.
you’re gonna have to verify on ph though
if only someone makes a great youtube alternative that pays $1-5 cpm, but DOESN’T shut down like blip or vidme. seriously!
She’s very suggestive in her choice of dress in most of these videos that are on her pornhub though, so there’s that.
Oh I just checked her channel on yt and apparently she’s an onlyfans creator now, so yeah.
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.
Her name is crossed out in the post, but not her screenshots….
Weird.
i really wish someone would makes a great youtube alternative that pays $1-5 cpm, but DOESN’T shut down like blip or vidme. it DOESN’T have to be a cooprative, but it should. seriously!
Storing videos, and streaming them without latency is a huge problem. Specifically if you also have to process for different resolutions and such for different devices.
Edit: I don’t know how true it is now, but in the past YouTube would have local servers and specific agreements with ISPs for higher bandwidth for them in many countries.
It’s also quite expensive. YouTube only broke even for over a decade after Google got their hands on it, and Google can afford to host the servers, and manage distribution themselves.
A new player would find it much harder in today’s landscape. When YouTube was made, it had the advantage that of not having that many viable competitors. That’s no longer the case today.
Are there any video essays on PornHub? Bonus if they’re actual port with actual information.
I’m just imagining a world where YouTube is so shit and pays so poorly that most content creators move to pornhub, and it becomes a respectable place to go to learn stuff and watch video essays, more than porn
