Beast explains why YouTube skips a Bronze Play Button at 10K subs: too many channels would qualify, making it costly and easy to game with bots. A Platinum button at 100M is pointless because almost no one reaches it. He also bought a $300 camera that doesn't work for green-screen and is returning it.
What's up guys, Beast here, and yes, I just stole Vsauce's intro. Today we're gonna be talking about the theory of a bronze and platinum play button. We are already aware of the silver, gold, and diamond play button that you achieve at 100,000, 1,000,000, and 10,000,000 subscribers. But what if they added a bronze or even a platinum play button into the mix? You see, not too long ago I made a video titled "How many people will receive a diamond play button?" Something along those lines. And on that video I got dozens upon dozens of comments asking why there's not a Bronze Play Button. Now YouTube's never came out and said, you know, why there's no Bronze Play Button, but I'm gonna try to use common sense and just speculate why is there no Bronze Play Button on YouTube. Obviously if it followed the trends of the Silver, Gold, and Diamond Play Buttons, that means you would receive a Bronze Play Button at 10,000 subscribers. And currently there are 87,000 channels that have over 10,000 subscribers. And obviously if they did announce that they were gonna have a Bronze Play Button, that means they'd have to send every single one of those 87,000 people people a frame with the Bronze Play Button inside of it, which would not be that cheap. Now, bronze itself is not that expensive, it's only $4 a pound, but the frame could range between $30 to $40, and that's the expensive part when you times it by 87,000. Not to count the fact that they actually have to take the time to mail that out to 87,000 people, and they just probably don't want to deal with that. Another problem with the Bronze Play Button is 10,000 subscribers is way too easy to reach. You can go on sub for sub websites and easily hit that within a week. But Beast, YouTube could just determine who subbed and who didn't. Although that is YouTube could kind of see who subbotted and who didn't. It's really difficult to tell. Real subscribers is really controversial at the lower levels of YouTube. I have a lot of legit YouTubers that I know, but they have more subscribers than me, like over 10,000, and they get like half the views I get per video. But it's just, you know, it really depends where your subscribers come from. If you get them from a shoutout, or if you just, you know, went inactive for a long period of time then came back, that could cause you to have a lot of dead subscribers. So it'd be really hard to determine who subbotted and whose subscribers are actually real. But anyways, a Bronze Play Button is never gonna happen because so many people already have 10,000 subscribers that it would just be a huge pain to send it all out to all of them. And then on top of that, 10,000 subscribers is just way too easy to subbot. But what about a Platinum Play Button at 100 million subscribers? "Beast, no one's ever gonna hit 100 million subscribers." Actually, if PewDiePie keeps gaining 8 million subscribers a year, he's gonna hit 100 million subs in the next 7.5 years. So theoretically, within the next decade, obviously if PewDiePie keeps growing at the same rate, he's gonna hit 100 million subscribers, which, that is like, crazy. That's a lot of people. But the problem is YouTube did not release the Diamond Play Button till 27 channels had 10 million subscribers, and the time it would take for 27 channels to hit 100 million subscribers would honestly be close to when I'm about to die. There are currently a couple YouTube channels that if they kept growing at the same rate, they'd hit 100 million subscribers within the next couple of decades. But outside of the top 6 or 7 channels, no one's gonna hit 100 million subscribers within the next 30 years. So a Platinum Play Button realistically is not gonna be a thing. So there you go, I already explained why Bronze Play Button won't be a thing, and that's why Platinum Play Buttons will not be a thing. So that's pretty much the video. Now I'm gonna move on to a different topic. Actually, earlier today I went out and bought this camera. It was like $300. I was gonna use it for what I'm using— what you're— yeah, I'm just gonna Yeah, so the camera wasn't really that good, so I'm actually gonna take it back tomorrow, get my money back. That's pretty cool that Best Buy does give you your money back if you return something within the first 30 days. Maybe every store does that, I don't know. I don't go outside. Yeah, it just, it didn't have the right settings. Like, that webcam you're watching me on now records better than this camera, and I tried every setting. I promise you, I tried everything. I could not get it to record in good quality. So if you saw on Twitter that I bought this thing and then you're wondering why I'm not using it to record, that's why. It's just, it doesn't work good with green screens. I mean, it works really well outside, but with this green screen, maybe it's my lighting or something, I don't know. I currently have zero money, I can't buy better lighting unless I return this and get my money back. So, uh, yeah, that's pretty much the video. Let me know what you guys think. Slowly transitioning away from, you know, gameplay to IRL stuff, so just bear with me, it's gonna be a little awkward at first. And take some— stutter. I'm— yeah, that takes some time to get used to, but I'm gonna try. I don't know. That's the video.
