YouTube sees itself equiped with a new monetary feature called “Super Chat”. This feature allows fans, to pin their comment at the top of the comment section of a live session on YouTube against a sum of money.
This allows fans to make themselves more visible for their favorites contents creators. Majority of the donations will go to the youtuber
However, this feature has it own issues. It favours trolls a practice well know on the platform. This means anybody can pin a comment that can be very offending against a sum of money. No real moderation tools are actually available. However the comment can still be deleted with a refund. Also, we don’t know what will happen if at least 2 persons pay to pin their comments. Will the person that donated more see his/her comment at the top, or will it be in other of who paid first ?
This new service puts an end to “Fan Funding”, the previous monetary feature on YouTube that directly allowed us to donate to our favorites youtubers
The service is for now only available to some youtubers. Very soon it’ll be available in 20 countries for some youtubers and in 40 countries for fans.
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