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Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Article: YouTubers and BJs... only the 1% shine, what's reality like for the other 99%?

Source: Yonhap News via Nate

1. [+613, -20] It's the same for celebrities and singers though. Only the top 1% shine and make all the money while the rest of the 90% make an average salary. Isn't that the same for any industry? It's not specific to YouTubers and BJs ㅋ

2. [+573, -20] I think it needs to be regulated... so many chodings are copying BJs and all kids have cellphones these days. It's so easy to copy what the BJs are doing.

3. [+536, -274] It's so easy for women to show a bit of skin and dance or sing a song and make over $5,000 a month ㅋㅋㅋ

4. [+56, -5] It's about the time where we need to start regulating it. There are streamers who swear after every word and purposely put out provocative content to bring in viewers and donations. It's hard for chodings and younger kids to filter all this, and they end up copying whatever the BJs are doing...

5. [+20, -0] I honestly think this is a serious issue. The most popular career that chodings dream of nowadays is to become a BJ or YouTuber. They all have this fantasy that they can play computer games and make easy money. I hear co-workers talk about their kids and how when they go home, they're all sitting in front of the computer playing games or doing mukbangs...

6. [+14, -1] Regulate it by restricting the amount of donations every single person can give in a single day to $10

7. [+11, -3] There do need to be some laws for it. There's just too much provocative content out there.

8. [+6, -0] A compromise does need to be reached. I don't think it's fair to argue that you should be free to put out whatever content you want as long as it doesn't affect others or as long as it's fun. There are young kids who watch these streams and are exposed to all sorts of offensive content. I've seen some argue that streams are no different from movies or dramas but at least kids go into movies knowing that it's fiction whereas live streams are totally real life. I agree that you should be free to put out the content that you want but there needs to be limits.

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