YouTube burnout is real. Creators are struggling to cope

So what? most of us are "under pressure" to go to work every day, earn a fraction of what these people make, and sometimes we need a break and feel burned out. I don't understand why I should feel sorry for millionaires "working so much, they have more money than they can spend". Then work less..

I’m struggling to sympathize. The most popular creators (using the word loosely here) earn millions. They have an option to hire a production team, work less or simply go do something different. The model used to gain popularity - high frequency of new content produced with minimal resources - doesn’t scale against the expectations they themselves set with their audiences. And the algorithm just perpetuates it.

YouTubers are put under an extreme amount of stress from consumers in order to constantly be creating new and different content for its audience. I am glad there is starting to be a discussion surrounding this.

The <i>only</i> way to fix the crux of the YouTube &quot;problem&quot; is to force Google to disclose how their subscription and recommendation algorithms work. The reaction from YouTube top brass to previous demands of transparency have been to treat the AI as some sort of deity instead of a computer program. In the USA, I&#x27;m afraid it will take a constitutional amendment to fix this.