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And now, here's Gene Steinberg.

So our good friend Chris O'Brien is in New York, getting things set up.

But this is something I wanted to mention before we go on,

because Chris has talked about the San Luis Valley Camera Project for so long

that he's finally started a fundraising program.

And there's a thread on it in the Paragraphs forum called You Can Help

Make the San Luis Valley Camera Project become a reality. And he has something called, what's it

called, Patreon, Gogs? Yeah, Patreon sound, it's like you can be like a subscriber financially

to somebody you follow on YouTube or whatever

and Patreon's just like a donation system.

Because you know YouTube had that huge thing where they started demonetizing videos

so they wouldn't run ads on certain videos with certain content.

However, they use algorithms mostly to do this. And there are so many mistakes that this algorithm makes. Like, you know, it'll demonetize one video because of something that's silly, saying, oh, it's not family friendly, it's this and that, when it's not actually that. And, you know, you can complain to YouTube and get a human to look at it, but they've

got so many accounts that it's, you know, it's very difficult.

And some of the popular people on YouTube are making decent living from their advertising.

And then there was just this huge crackdown wrong, in my opinion.

So that's what's happened. But people are getting money instead from things like Patreon. Well, we have an official

powercast YouTube channel, but it took us a while just to be approved for monetization.

And even then, we're really at the low ebb. It's going to take quite a while before we see much money from it.

And of course, you see on YouTube, we have people who say, why do you have commercials?

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