Back on topic (sorta) I'm seeing a lot of dramatuber hate in this thread. As a somewhat reluctant member of that despicable demographic it's given me something to think about. Might talk about it on stream tomorrow since Niji is not really letting me plan for streams anymore. I get the whole "profiting off of people's misery," I do (though I'm not monetized). But if It's not me it'd be someone else - it already is lots of someone elses. So at least I can try to do a slightly better job of it than the others.
I figured I'd move this here to avoid further derailing the All Out War thread any more, but I don't think the dramatuber question is quite as clear cut.
On a base level, drama content is gossip. We are social animals and we like knowing what everyone is up to, and it's not much different to what we do on the forum so I find it hard to shoot down the genre as a whole - however, not all drama content is made equal and my distaste to some of it is the value (or lack thereof) it adds, rather than the incredibly subjective ethical concerns surrounding it. There is value to well-organised coverage that can explain a situation to someone who hasn't been closely following it, because realistically most people have better things to do than scroll through a hundred pages of a forum thread to piece together why some cartoon people on the internet are beefing. I don't care for new users showing up here and asking for a spoonfeed in their first post, but if push comes to shove I'd rather randos watch a YouTuber's tl;dr on the situation and at least be on the right track than to misunderstand everything and spread false rumours because of it.
The problem is that a lot of drama content is incredibly vapid. People who are two or three steps removed from the community will also skim-read a few tweets and maybe an article, then hop on camera for ten minutes and one second to give their uninformed interpretation and opinions, usually lacking proper context. Normie streamers muddy the water further because they just sit there for nine hours a day reacting to whatever their stream chat brings up at a given moment, so their take on any situation boils down to them putting the general sentiment from their chat into their own words, since they're just taking any information they're being fed at face value. Any time they talk about something topical, like drama, it gets clipped, and that's how you end up with out-of-touch people like Asmongold etc.'s dumb "all corpos bad" takes presented with some kind of authority, rather than just being a guy thinking out loud about a situation he learnt of five minutes ago.
The monetisation element strictly comes down to your own personal ethical priorities. I don't think it is inherently wrong to earn revenue from covering unpleasant situations as this is how news outlets have operated since day one; if your audience are interested in your coverage and you have the means to earn from it, you are entitled to that money. This is obviously a simplification since there are tasteful and less-tasteful ways of monetising a story which could cause you to get more or less backlash, but I feel like "never monetise others' misery" is an extreme, emotionally-driven opinion from people who wouldn't engage with your content regardless, rather than one deserving of earnest consideration.
Overall if we're comparing this to the press, there is a spectrum ranging from hard-hitting reporting to tabloid gossip - you could argue covering topics like abuse in corpos or gross misconduct by public figures is in the public interest, but the more tabloid-y you get, the harder you'll have to reach for the public interest defence.
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