@jerzone @lfisk I had memberships on my helicopter channel for a while but all that really did for me was turn video creation into a JOB. All of a sudden, I had to produce because they were people paying me to produce. It took all the fun out of it.

For a while, the channel was making really good money and I still get new subscribers on it. But despite the effort I put into it, revenue dropped off dramatically. I basically quit it.

@mlanger esrly 2000’s I was making decent money off a couple blogs: a few ads and some affiliate links. But it kept getting worse, less money and weird ads, and me losing interest in trying to figure it out when I had a real job.