Nomadic Fanatic

patrickl11435 wrote:

After you take money from someone via crowdfunding you have an obligation to continue creating or at least tell people why you're not going to create anymore.

patrickl11435: For the benefit of RV dwellers who currently are or may be considering drawing their primary or supplemental income through crowd-funding and/or Youtube revenue, would you be willing to share what sources you're referencing on the subject of being "obligated to continue creating" the related content or requirement to explain why they might want to close their channel?

There are lots of other questions that arise to which you might also know the answer. For example:

Does it matter whether the income is derived through a wholly separate crowd-funding site? What if the income is derived from ads or product endorsements on one's Youtube channel? Is this "obligation" only tied to videos where the ads or product endorsements are closely related to travel or RV living or would this obligation also apply to videos where you recommend or advertise products or services that aren't really specific to people who live in RVs like home landscaping services or guitar amplifiers?

How does one determine why people are viewing one's channel? Do you have to take periodic polls of your viewers to know whether they're watching because they have the same or similar type of RV as yours, whether it's because they live in the same or similar climate as the one where you live most often or whether they're just interested in how a female deals with full time RV living versus how a male deals with it? What if something changes? Let's say you get a new or different type of RV? Do you have to include a link to the channel belonging to the guy who bought your old RV so people can continue to see how well that old RV holds up? Or, what if you get a sex change operation? Are you allowed to take down the videos relating to the "old you"?

What explanations are acceptable for closing down a channel entirely? For example, let's say you won the lottery and don't really need the income from the channel any longer. Would you have to tell the world that you just won the lottery (experts generally advise against this)? Or would you just keep creating content, pretending to live out of a 1983 Class C, even though you ~really~ live in a villa on the Sicilian coast?

How do the major media/content creator conglomerates handle this? If I want to see old re-runs of a TV show (assuming I bought at least some of the products that were advertised at the time it originally aired) then why aren't TV networks obligated to keep making the shows that *I* want to see still available, indefinitely, for free? I mean, it's not *my* fault that I didn't think to make copies of all those old shows when they were originally available, right?

I'm just glad we have an expert resource like yourself available to help me understand all this, especially since I'm planning on winning the lottery soon and wouldn't want to shirk any of my "obligations" when that happens.