Sad news for kids...? A dream of YouTube

You can have a million YouTube viewers a month and still live in poverty (Feb. 27th, 2018) https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-02-27/-success-on-youtube-still-means-a-life-of-poverty

This article says YouTuber cannot expect enough profit as before. Also, you may have to work at a coffee shop, even if you have half a million followers...

It seems to be difficult for many people, including kids who really want to be a YouTuber, to earn a living only by Youtube.
By the way, what comes to your mind when you heard of the word, "YouTuber"?
It may be about those who do something strange and make movie clips with flashy effects?
In fact, I can say it is far from an easy job. Recoading and editing a movie clip takes a really long time.
Even so, there is no guarantee that a certain amount of people watch that movie...
Even half a million visitors come to... Well, is it enough?
Obviously, keep doing that is not a easy task.

Then YouTuber is not attractive any more?

If you think of it as the international communication tool, you will gain a different perspective.
Imagine that you can present your works or can communicate with people internationally.
(Actually, you can do that much easily via Instagram thought. What you have to do is uploading a photo.)

My point is, even if it were difficult to earn enough money for living, it is still the great tool to share your creativity with people.

As for me, I'm not a YouTuber. However, I create some YouTube movies to tell our products in details to customers all over the world.
In fact, I believe it is quite useful to inform how our customers can handle our products.
Well, I'm not saying my English is not good enough for business. A movie clip gives our customers a clearer image of our products.
In conclusion, it's still an amazing tool.

How do you use it?

It's up to you.