Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw

[rabidtictac]

Increasing salaries for the execs while losing profits. Yahtzee is learning from the megacorporations.

[Kugelfisch]

I assume it's the same reason as Doge Walker: They want to just focus on making videos and leave the whole running the business to somebody else instead.

As I've said before, hire a bookkeeper then. Some part-time, one day a week working remotely should be well more than enough.

[McGinnis]

He's like his nakama MovieBlob in that he thinks he has to be attached to some kind of game journo site in order to be considered a professional online sensation.

No, I think Ghost Dog is right. He's just fucking lazy.

He never needed The Escapist and he doesn't need Second Wind. But they were willing to pay him money for content which was a lot easier for him than doing the hard work it would take to build your own YouTube channel and find your own revenue streams.

[Ghost Dog]

A bit late, but Second Wind published the Q4 reports for last year. They lost slightly less from Q3 to Q4, as they lost over $40K to losing less than 36K. They cut the salaries from over 240K to 225K as well as freelancers from 9 thousand to 6 thousand. The Patreon took a hit as they went from 146K to 126K as well as sponsors going from over 42K in Q3 to 25K in Q4. https://www.patreon.com/posts/second-wind-q4-120570683https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1wZGo ... KFhQayeveo

[Kugelfisch]

Imagine turning an easy job that pays unreasonably well, taking out the middleman, into a business operating at a loss.

[rabidtictac]

Imagine even further what happens once Yahtzee realizes he doesn't need to employ a single person other than himself to make the exact same amount of money.

[Kugelfisch]

Imagine even further what happens once Yahtzee realizes he doesn't need to employ a single person other than himself to make the exact same amount of money.

I can't imagine that. He will clearly never realize that or he just sees so much value in playing boss man that he's willing to go under.

[Poonoo]

Imagine even further what happens once Yahtzee realizes he doesn't need to employ a single person other than himself to make the exact same amount of money.

He knows, he's just like AVGN. He's too damn lazy to do all that shit himself, he wants to make his videos like a manchild while the adult handles the business side of things. I'm pretty sure he is at least 40 now but still can't be fucked to put in a little effort into running his channel to make a shit ton more money.

He can do what other YouTubers do and just hire an editor since that is the only work they need to do for videos. They are way cheaper than doing this stupid crap he is doing, but he doesn't want to do "adulting" as millennial faggots like to say.

[rabidtictac]

He could make an obscene amount of money, TBFP style, if he would hire an editor and bring on some other idiots to collab in let's plays and other goyslop content.

Reminder that TBFP were able to support the lifestyles of at least FOUR separate manchildren. I don't remember if Liam was making bank but they had an editor IIRC and also artists like Plague doing work for them.

[Kugelfisch]

At least forty? At least mid 40s. There's no way he's younger than Spoony.