What is your favorite YouTube RV channel?
I used to love Gone with the Wynns until they became full-time sailors. Now I watch 2012Escapee1 with her Class A and toad. I also like Simply RVing with Lydia who lives in a truck camper with h...
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hotbyte wrote:Farmboy666 wrote:hotbyte wrote:
I understand how they make money. I’ve been watching these channels for a while and I just don’t see what they do as begging. Anyone that thinks they are begging should not walk through downtown of big city near homeless folks.
Well thats the difference between begging and Ebegging, instead of holding their cup out they give you their Elinks so you can give them money.
Someone holding a cup out on the street is asking for something (money) in exchange for nothing. YouTubers are creating content that is either entertaining or informative and expending time, effort, and other resources to create that content. They provide a link for viewers, that are so compelled, to reward them for that. I’m sure at times the poor pitiful me stories are to get more viewers to contribute but it is not begging unless that is the only content in the videos.
What’s your view of street performers? Are they beggars when they play/sing/etc. and accept money?
I guess technically it comes down to the difference between asking and begging. I had and old man walk up as we were getting off the motorcycle, he asked me if he could play his harmonica for me, he was clearly homeless or close to it, I said sure and he played for 2 min and I gave him $5. Was he a street performer or a guy who needed some money? He gave it some effort and I gave him some money. The ones who ask me if I have spare change get nothing. Youtubers put time into their channel but at the end of the day they are looking to get payed for what they do, I realize I have no obligation to pay in any way. They ask us to go through Amazon or pay through Patreon to get extra content, Asking me to send them money so I can get a news letter about what they do on their permanent vacation and me paying for it rubs me the wrong way. If you want to journal your travels and put it on Youtube because thats what you enjoy, and you get something in return just for doing that, thats great, when you ask me to reward you for it thats different. Maybe ebegger is to harsh but at best it's somewhere in between.
