CONFIRMED: Pay to subscribe channels

Here's the promo video....it's getting a ton of dislikes. Personally, I don't care if they do this or not. No one is forcing us to buy a subscribtion to it! I love TYT...but I'm not going to pay $5.00 a month for this. At the same time, I also don't think it deserves all the hate. I wish them the best, and I hope they do well with it.
 
Well now that audience will become consumers paying for a product/service, I will be interested to know what power the Audience will have over the content providers.
Also that 5 dollars is simply not just 5 dollars. Its 5 dollars added onto the growing stack of luxury expenses people spend on non essential things.
 
Enzo said:
I hate this so much. The point of YouTube is to upload and watch videos and to subscribe-for FREE. This is just ruining the site.
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You do know YouTube Rentals have been around since January 2010 where you have to rent a video for a certain amount to watch it... In a way this is a new addition to rentals.
 
As it is right now, I can't see this really succeeding in a major way. Youtube's popularity is based on the fact that it's fast, reliable, and free. Movie rentals are one thing. But taking the biggest aspect of Youtube and attempting to charge for it will only turn most people off.

The Young Turk's paid channel is a good example of doing this wrong, I think. It's basically them throwing up a bunch of footage of them screwing around before and after shooting.

And it seems like each Youtuber can pick their price? So people could potentially find themselves subscribed to a dozen pay channels at varying prices? It sounds like a recipe for disaster to me. I think this is destined to unravel for Google or never pick up ground at all.
 
I don't see why people make such a big fuss out of this... Yes, you have to pay to be subscribed to some of the Exclusive content on the site, so what? A lot of the people whining about it happily pay more than that for their television connection...
 
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