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grahar64today at 11:26 AM1 replyview on HN

So you won't support the creator, but support a person who summarizes the creator. You could have just pasted the link into Claude and asked for a summary of the blog post.


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pino83today at 1:24 PM

Maybe that's even the same guy?! But I don't know...

A thing that I completely don't care about: Supporting some YouTube guys.

YouTube "creators", even if they are not basically "influencers" (a.k.a. advertizing), even in the best case, a YouTube guy is for me the same as someone at RTL, DMAX, Fox, or any other random TV station. It might even be that I watch their show every now and then... But I'm not constantly thinking about how I can support these guys. And IF they actually disappear tomorrow, there will be other ones coming up.

There is DEFINITELY no scarcity in YouTube guys...

PS: The narration inside the community is fundamentally more romantic. But guess what, I don't care. ;)

PPS: With all my browser addons (incl. "Sponsor Block" - every YouTube consumer should have it!!!), I'd not be so much of a support anyways.

PPPS: The first thing when someone would ask me to consume a YouTube clip would be to ask Claude or whatever service to generate a summary/transcript for me. I reject to constantly burn multiple minutes in order to consume random/funny/pointless content that could be a matter of 10 seconds if provided as text together with four of five images.