Making money

[idkhowihadsex]

Haha, yeah I know I am probably talking crazy here but has anyone ever started a youtube channel to read erotica stories to make money? I imagine that most videos will be demonetized because of some words being spoken but I don't know, I just had this thought and figured I'd get other peoples' opinion.

 

[Enchantment_of_Nyx]

Haha, yeah I know I am probably talking crazy here but has anyone ever started a youtube channel to read erotica stories to make money? I imagine that most videos will be demonetized because of some words being spoken but I don't know, I just had this thought and figured I'd get other peoples' opinion.

You can't use other people's stories without permission to make money without breaking copyright laws, unless you know of something in the public domain. You'd have to write your own stories to read. Several people have posted here about reading erotic stories on various platforms, although I can't say for sure that video was involved in all of them. They weren't monetized, though, and they got permission from the authors.

 

[idkhowihadsex]

Yeah I am aware of copyright laws. I found someone on youtube recently who reads stories from reddit and it seems to get decent views, which prompted this line of thought in my head.

 

[Salacious_Scribe]

Haha, yeah I know I am probably talking crazy here but has anyone ever started a youtube channel to read erotica stories to make money? I imagine that most videos will be demonetized because of some words being spoken but I don't know, I just had this thought and figured I'd get other peoples' opinion.

I don't know about makeing money, butI know there are several you tube channels dedicated to Lit stories. If they have persmission or not I have no idea.

If you find a way to make money and want to use my stories, let me know. I'm willing to discuss.

 

[KeithD]

So, who suckered into clicking on the spammer's bait?

 

[Aerolineas]

So, who suckered into clicking on the spammer's bait?

Sorry, I was too busy sending all of my bank account information to a Kenyan Prince.

 

[Blind_Justice]

Making money playing games? Only idiots think that.

*shakes head* gaming youtubers are a dying breed. They're not extinct just yet, but getting there quick. Ad revenue on YT has dropped significantly over the past two and change years, there's all the insanity with demonitization bots and constantly shifting policies; let alone petty drama and DMCA strikes for spurious reasons. Everyone who can has migrated to Twitch for those sweet, sweet uncapped donations. Too bad the air is getting awfully thin there too.

But the thing most "influencers" starting out don't realize: Making anything worthwhile IS work. Simply capturing your gameplay isn't enough anymore. You need charisma, knowledge, gaming skills and your own little niche, because playing the shit everyone else plays won't get you views. And then there's the hours and hours of begging for clicks, likes, subscriptions and all that. Because no following = no cash.

Nah, I'll stick to writing smut. Isn't paying the bills just yet, but I can whore myself out at my own pace.

 

[jehoram]

Sorry, I was too busy sending all of my bank account information to a Kenyan Prince.

That was obviously a scam. Everybody knows that it's only Nigerian princes that need help.

 

[RejectReality]

Putting anything on Youtube with the intention of making money is pointless. They've milked the independent creators long enough to build the platform, so they're now expendable.

All they want ( and promote ) now is that sweet corporate content.

 

[Hypoxia]

Who makes money promulgating *anything*, smut included? Creators receive a vanishingly small piece of the pie. Publishers, agents, and similar leeches make a better living. OP could charge incautious pr0n-writers to read their stories on OP's uTube channel. See how well that works.

 

[AvroAnson]

Making Money

First you need the right paper, which is sort of a misnomer. Because it's really a cotton fiber. That's why the lines from those iodine pencils turn brown when they are used on amateurish wood fiber "paper" bills. Then there is the ink, its a special ultraviolet ...

 

[Hypoxia]

@AvroAnson: Hacking credit card accounts is much easier and cleaner. Or just start a for-profit university after your reality show tanks. That works for some.

 

[KeithD]

Who makes money promulgating *anything*, smut included? Creators receive a vanishingly small piece of the pie. Publishers, agents, and similar leeches make a better living. OP could charge incautious pr0n-writers to read their stories on OP's uTube channel. See how well that works.

It, of course, is a gross exaggeration and myopic to state that the publisher and agents (agents do little in porn publishing, incidentally) are just leeches doing nothing in the process. I'm surprised you didn't include editors, which usually go with this uninformed mantra.

I invite you to interview authors who do manage to use editors, agents, and publishers concerning how they do financially as opposed to doing everything themselves, using the "it's all about the author" approach to publishing and marketing.

 

[MColton84]

Who makes money promulgating *anything*, smut included? Creators receive a vanishingly small piece of the pie. Publishers, agents, and similar leeches make a better living. OP could charge incautious pr0n-writers to read their stories on OP's uTube channel. See how well that works.

I have a few published works. Albeit, none of them are Erotica, and wouldn't consider anyone listed as a leech. I costs money to promote an published work, to edit it flawlessly, to print it, all can be expensive. With my first book, I handled the promotion, proofreading, and pitching on my own and I regret it to this day. Let me know if you find someone who will do everything but write the book for free. I

 

[TxRad]

I don't have an agent but i do have a publisher and an editor, not to mention her staff of proofreaders and others. Well worth the money across the board. All I do is write.

 

[Hypoxia]

I did not say leeches were useless, and I omitted editors for Pilot's sake. But how much of any work's retail sales filter down to the creator? My point is that entities higher up the food chain gain more benefit than do lowly creators. Who gets rich, the miner or the mine-owner?

 

[Blind_Justice]

I did not say leeches were useless, and I omitted editors for Pilot's sake. But how much of any work's retail sales filter down to the creator? My point is that entities higher up the food chain gain more benefit than do lowly creators. Who gets rich, the miner or the mine-owner?

The suits, no argument. Bobby Kotick is CEO of Activision Blizzard and valued at $600m. There are ground-floor programmers and QA testers who don't make enough money to afford meals at the Activision Blizzard cafeteria. Isn't capitalism great?

 

[JaxRhapsody]

It's practically a fools errand to make money from youtube... and you want to read erotica on there? *laughs in puritan Google* Look at some videos on how monetezation works and Googles bullshit tyranny, DMCA strikes, getting demonetized. It's even happened to youtubers you wouldn't think it would, like Shadiversity and ZNA Productions. I don't believe a lot of these youtubers are doing it full time willingly, like they say, but "willingly". You need at least 100k subs before you are even considered.

 

[KeithD]

I did not say leeches were useless, and I omitted editors for Pilot's sake. But how much of any work's retail sales filter down to the creator? My point is that entities higher up the food chain gain more benefit than do lowly creators. Who gets rich, the miner or the mine-owner?

There isn't just one creator in getting a work to market with a successful result (reward for everyone in the project). Identifying a marketable work and producing a finished book requires creativity, as does cover design and marketing--even distribution requires creativity in a competitive field. Writing something doesn't get it connected with a buyer at a profitable level for the author any more than for anyone else who as applied their expertise and creativity to producing a finished work in the marketplace. There's creative art involved in preparing, packaging, and marketing a work so that it has visibility in the market and is sold.

You have no idea who gets what in the process, do you? You're just operating from knee-jerk inexperienced opinion.

Sorry to break it to you, but a good writer is a whole lot easier to find than a successful marketer is in terms of producing income. Authors are a dime a dozen and good manuscripts pile up into mountains of offerings. A marketer who can sell a book to profitability and make even a dime for an author is worth her weight in gold.

Novice writers are famous for falsely thinking it's all about the author. They are the easiest segment of the chain needed to achieve profitability with a work to obtain.

 

[8letters]

Write for this site because you want to write. If you're looking for a chance to make it rich, I suggest spend the time you would have spent writing in a minimum wage job and use your proceeds to buy lottery tickets. You'd have a better chance of making big money.

 

[KeithD]

I make money from writing. I just don't rely on whatever I make for my living. It's on top of what my careers have brought me in annuities and assets. I don't bite on trying the lottery, though. So, no, I don't agree that you have more of a chance of profiting from the lottery than from publishing your written works. And, from experience in publishing, I am quite certain I make more by using publishers than I would from doing it all myself. I've been in this business from the publishing as well as the writing angle; I know, from experience, who is doing what in the process. I don't knee-jerk speculate and exaggerate on this; I do it.

 

[gordo12]

There isn't just one creator in getting a work to market with a successful result (reward for everyone in the project). Identifying a marketable work and producing a finished book requires creativity, as does cover design and marketing--even distribution requires creativity in a competitive field. Writing something doesn't get it connected with a buyer at a profitable level for the author any more than for anyone else who as applied their expertise and creativity to producing a finished work in the marketplace. There's creative art involved in preparing, packaging, and marketing a work so that it has visibility in the market and is sold.

You have no idea who gets what in the process, do you? You're just operating from knee-jerk inexperienced opinion.

Sorry to break it to you, but a good writer is a whole lot easier to find than a successful marketer is in terms of producing income. Authors are a dime a dozen and good manuscripts pile up into mountains of offerings. A marketer who can sell a book to profitability and make even a dime for an author is worth her weight in gold.

Novice writers are famous for falsely thinking it's all about the author. They are the easiest segment of the chain needed to achieve profitability with a work to obtain.

I don't disagree with anything you said here, Keith.

But if you want to make money, there isn't a lineup of slavering agents waiting on our doorsteps to publish our creations. Either you wait for that magic moment, or you get out and DIY.

 

[KeithD]

I don't disagree with anything you said here, Keith.

But if you want to make money, there isn't a lineup of slavering agents waiting on our doorsteps to publish our creations. Either you wait for that magic moment, or you get out and DIY.

Not really. There are erotica publishers and you can approach them directly. They just don't use agents as the mainstream publishing industry does. That makes it easier for the author. It's a lot easier for me to get my erotica published than my mainstream work, and I'm writing and publishing in those separate worlds simultaneously. (I make more money out of the erotica than the mainstream books.)

The major point of using publishers for erotica even though the profit is cut in more slices is that I can mainly just write--and I can get three works to the marketplace to the one of self-publishers even if they are working full bore. In the end, my profit works out better even if others are also taking a cut of the profits.

 

[OliveFox]

I think that YouTube will ban most of the videos if you read erotic books on camera.

 

[Handley_Page]

Sorry, I was too busy sending all of my bank account information to a Kenyan Prince.

I thought it was Nigeria