Youtubing is such an impossible job for people who rely on the adsense every single month like, because disney tried and failed to copyright claim the star wars hotel video I just have no idea how much money it's made or when I'll get it (in my experience usually 2 or 3 months)
I basically just expect it to happen to all my videos at this point and I have patreon so it's nbd! I will get it eventually! But idk it's such a rough system for newer or smaller channels
For people asking followup questions, when you dispute a claim the money sometimes goes into escrow (other times the video is demonetized completely) til the claim is settled. Money in escrow doesn't show on analytics so if you win you just get mystery dollars at a mystery time
One thing I kind of think is interesting is a specific phrase starcruiser guests use a lot, which is that starcruiser had the "highest guest satisfaction ratings in the history of the company."
I've seen this repeated a lot, usually as a handwaving final word on it. Which ignores that we don't know what number "highest" is (80%? 50%?) and obviously the selection bias of what kinds of people get off a whirlwind experience like this and decide to do the emailed survey.
It also ignores that, you'll recall, there was an internal glitch preventing many customers from receiving starcruiser emails at all, and you'd think getting those emails might be at least a little positively correlated with higher satisfaction.
I thought Wish the movie was like a B-/C+ but here's my thread of thoughts:
The weird shading looked good on the big screen, and in general I liked the directing/storyboarding, it was extremely pretty to look at, especially in all the musical sequences which had a lot of momentum
I thought the story had a cool and original premise and also really liked the setting/vibes. The bad guy was basically capitalism which I know everyone is going to point out is ironic but not really, people make products, it's not like the ceo wrote it
Listen I'm not happy that disneyland's giant animatronic dragon exploded but it is kind of funny that there's so much video coverage of it on tiktok from literally every possible hypothetical perspective
Like you see the video of the dragon on fire and you're like, "how did that start"
Then you scroll and the next video is someone else's angle on the fire starting
This mean profile of a fantasy author is really interesting on a meta level because the writer tries so hard to make Sanderson a villain that he becomes the villain of the piece himself, but ironically doesn't have enough awareness of his own writing to see it happen
Idk why he couldn't find a story from his trip, because the ways in which nothing met his expectations IS a story, you know? The books are crazy popular but written in a utilitarian way that entry-level and casual readers like.
You expect an author who makes tens of millions a year to be egotistical or a weird recluse, but Sanderson agrees they're not the good, hangs out with his family, still friends with his pre-fame writing buddies, just a gregarious and uncomplicated seeming guy.
You can tell that near the end of production for Fantastic Beasts 3 they did a bunch of reshoots where within ~10 minutes of screentime they perfunctorily wrap up every single dangling plot thread because they don't intend to make more films
I obviously read the article about how the next 2 aren't greenlit "yet," but it goes beyond that. They literally tacked everything onto the end of this one and have nothing left. Duels are fought, family disputes are resolved, characters get married. It's extremely done
The effects are so cheap and every time an actor has to hold a cgi Fantastic Beast there's like an extra 3 inches of clearance space where their arms are wrapped around an empty void. Like all the animators were on reduced hours and didn't have time to get it right