Typically, youtubers make between roughly $1.25 and $3.50 per 1000 views. As mentioned above, it all depends on ad interactions. It varies wildly, but that's what I understand to be the typical number.

edit: sorry, that's not a source. i get these numbers from websites like socialblade, along with other various websites i've stumbled upon in the past.

That's still a lot, I didn't realize he'd make that much from 100k+ views, I also didn't know he uploaded so frequently.

Could you clarify what ad interactions means, is that like how frequently he runs ads before his vids?

$34k is probably a hell of a lot in lithuania though.

You should have seen the dumb tf2c clip I sent in to him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7PTgt1rNfg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLIWKgxgjKU

I mean what the fuck these were seriously fucking good frag movies. The guy clearly has talent but all he uploads is memes.

would you not upload shitty memes for 34k/year

valid point

Even though he makes shitty videos now, No Name 3 is one of the best frag videos I've ever seen just for pure creativity and fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3UDikYEg-E

This video made me understand that SiN is actually struggling and asks people to not use adblock in his videos...

Is he just a jew?

Isn't that actually against adblock ToS?

i lost my job my wife and my dog, searching clips for you guys.

Just saying this is a bit inaccurate, specially for gaming channels where the target audience is more familiar with technology and as such most have adblock enabled.

For example, as a whole I've made less than $50 in total for the entire comp.tf channel, literally can't even cash out yet because I haven't hit the minimum limit.

But NILST does this for a living and he surely is making bank off youtube, specially for lithuania standards.

I also do think his videos are absolute crap tho, very little effort put into, low quality, appealing to the masses, all "memed" / voiced over, etc, quite a difference from when he used to edit fragmovies. I still get it tho, he had the chance to take that niche in the market to make bank and he went for it even if he distanced himself from the comp community and started editing garbage videos.

Proudly displaying/publishing hacking videos is a whole other story tho.

If you look in the comments section, he says that valve would fix LMAOBOX since he made a video on it because valve patches the exploits after he DelfyTF2 makes a video on it.

BUT IT'S A HACK NOT A SHITTY EXPLOIT WHICH CAN BE FIXED BY TYPING A FEW LINES OF CODE FOR YOU TO MEME ON

TF2: How to Stab Stab Stab F2P team [Epic Taunt Kill/Epic WIN]

Holy shit i forgot about that TLR goomba, fuck what happened to good movies like this????

I was wondering where this video went, since it's one of my all-time favorites. I can't believe it's unlisted now.

I just linked the unlisted one because the public one has the music removed.

Minimum wage in Poland is around $2.81 ($2.06 after taxes) and a lot of people make that.
First year they can pay you as little as $2.24 ($1.64) though.
That means $34,000 is equivalent of 12099 hours of work (with wage of $2.81) around 33 hours a day without a day off.

I'd believe Lithuania to be similar.

With average wage ($4.28) $34,000 would be 7944 hours, 21 hours a day, doable.

EDIT: Actually Lithuania is even poorer with average of $3.73 (23.94 hours a day also doable :D)

The hacking video linked earlier appears to be private, at least when I click on the links. I guess there was something to be learned there.

The last time I had a conversation with someone regarding the question, "are we seeing more hackers in the game", the answer I got then was; "we just do a better job at catching them." I was referring more to the amount of hackers I've encountered through UGC in the past 7 months, which I feel was more than I had seen before. but again, there's not really a way to see if we've done a better job catching them, or there's simply more hackers in the game as a whole.

http://www.proaimpro.com/EBAY/Shoulder%20kit-201/camtree-dslr-kit-201-steady-shoulder-rig.jpg

Am I the only one who exclusively plays on valve pubs when not playing competitive and sees *maybe* 1 hacker per month

i see a lot of hackers, but i think it's more from streaming than just being in a valve pub

i've talked to some other people that stream tf2 and even if they get maybe 4-10 viewers on average, hackers like to join to grief their games/stream

I've never bumped into a hacker when I've been pubbing, only satan.

Maybe it's just a rise in NA hackers?

lets just say siN lives very comfortably

machinima are leeches as soon as he parts from them he'll earn a whole lot more

I did some googling and the average Lithuanian yearly salary is around 9250 usd. So even if his channel made the lowest estimate on socialblade ($34000 yearly), its still 4 times as much as the average salary there. So can you really blame him? Any of you would do what he does if you could.

If I was making 4 times the average salary of w/e country I was living in by uploading easy to produce meme videos I would 100% not give a fuck what anyone has to say

he has a patreon from which he makes $900+ a month obviously he's not struggling lol

Which then makes his video asking people not to use adblock a bit whiny?

No Name 3 was the first video i've watched from siN but this also comes as one of my favourites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpm6pivVI1g

For the whole hacker thing, i'm luckily not seeing them much in EU, fortunately.