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  • Omg. "Money, its the root off all evil today. Atleast thats what the song says."

    OMG. PINK FLOYD!? DARK SIDE OF THE MOON REFERENCE. YES. I officially love you. Best old man i've ever seen in my life. If you were referring to pink floyd that is, hehe.

    Either way you still are. Awesome that you're your age and you're living in todays world and todays technology. Keep makin them videos!

  • Very insightful. I've never heard more truer words in my whole life. Thank you for your truthful words of wisdom.

  • You said no thank you here but you have changed your mind on this as well. I love you videos I you sometimes surprise me when you change your position on such things as adverts on videos, visiting America, talking to the press and going on Live Video as 4 major examples.

  • Most of the people which wrote those comments are Americans. I'm sure :D

  • You are a man of great intellect and wisedom - traits many users of this website seem to lack.

  • heheh great!

  • he was one of the 40 greatest internet superstars! (:

  • i respect all the people who r about to die

    but i have respect for u even more u r wise

  • i m funny

  • sound

  • Lol!

  • You have my respect and love, sir.

  • I don't think that Youtube itself shouldn't be for making money or advertising, but it is a great showcase for interesting people such as yourself, or the children you mentioned. And those who wish to make a profit should be contacted via their youtube channel and do stuff away from youtube. All the best to you, and respect for not selling out. I hope you are not being used by anyone.

  • hey u need to respect ur elders!

  • thiss is so cool, thanks for your honest views on things =]

  • so wsup with da anger jad594, ur comment is uncalled for

  • You have so many viewers. Youtube should reward you with a freen of charge I MAC computer.

  • So, jad594, I see you like video games and don't read books. Why am I not surprised? Your random attack is pathetic. Get a life.

  • payment for postings will turn youtube into a silly/funny clip site. nobody ever started posting for cash reward did they?

  • remember peter, some people might hate you, but you still have your youtubers(friends), and of course ET there in the background.

  • You could help, you could link to all your favourite videos, they'd get a few thousand views because your wonderful and we hang on your every word.

  • Yay for saying know to advertising on your videos, thank you for sparing us!

  • we love you! wish you all the best =)

  • This is a very cute video!

  • hahahaha money is evil

    hey old guy ur cute :)

  • it was nice to see your face properly when you took off your glasses, and you are right about everything you said i agree !!! love from kazb25 xxxxx

  • hello, what did you think of the rocky horror show

  • Its one thing to have an opinion and quite another to express it in an abrasive and disrespectful manner. Grow up.

  • Hi geriatric1927. Thank you for sharing. I'm new to your videos but enjoying them very much. I live in a small town but a sometimes difficult body to get moving so finding someone like you here is pure joy.

  • To Pika, no, it is easy to hide behind a name and I don't think this very young mind would say it to this old man. We also see the reason Geriatric 1927 is so popular: He is moderate; he isn't screaming at the top of his lungs or being vulgar.  He is. That takes a long time to learn; some people never do.

  • Its boring ramblings of a 90 year old man. It isnt interesting or the 10 minutes to watch this vid. I wouldnt tell him listing to him is like watching a corpse rot. But this isnt worth the bandwith used to host it.

  • that is why he is one of the most supscribed ppl on youtube ever so unless u can beat that shut up

  • A lot of advertisers pay youtube by the number of clicks there ads receive. You could pay a portion of that money to people when ads are clicked while on their video pages.

  • ok u repeat urself a bit, but mostly gd points. btw gd vids should mostly get featured, so that will equal views and therefore profits.

  • hahahah

  • i wonder if you'd ever say something like that to an elderly person if you were face to face with them.

  • No I'm afraid you're mommy's not in the video.

  • And another problem with doing it on number of views is that people write bots and browser plugins to cheat the view count. :( Looking forward to more stories. :)

  • I think they should give you a ton of money that way you can take over youtube.

  • I missed you grandpa! I love you very much, again very insightful and heartfelt, it's rather tricky business and I don't think it's fair all the time either however you deserve all the good things in life you can get

  • i saw you on the news :)

  • I viewed this video again this morning Peter, and I still think that what you say here is more sensible than any others I've seen on the subject. Thank you again for your well spoken and thoughtful observations.

  • This man is a brilliant , i wish he could be my grandad!

  • what a great gentleman. He speaks with truth

  • This guy is really nice

    He says it as it is and thats somehow new to youtube

    Plus he seems a really nice guy

  • I too think its a good idea to put it in! But I get little views, I spend a hell of a lot of money on my videos too. But Peter has a good point

  • Peter, why dont you add google ads to your homepage?

    You could make some money apart from youtube, sorta..

    I am not a google guy/rep either....

  • You rock peter ! Loving ET in the background too x

  • n9ce

  • Hate mail to this guy? No way!

    He is speaking the truth and has a lot of valid points.

    He deserves a lot of riches but is really polite to decline them.

  • LISTEN TO THE PINK FLOYD SONG-MONEY

  • The number of views is an after the fact thing. Companies pay more to have their adds on people with alot of subscribers because they will probably get alot of views as well. I'd put my money on that. So paying on number of subscribers makes totally sense.

  • we see enough commercials.. adding them here will be the begining of the end. i may not actually endorse certain companies. i think you tube should be copied with many choices for us to post on and allow us to remain artists and not whores.

  • peter.. your comments and/or fears of how ads will effect our homemade clips are valid concerns. it's a horrible idea if you ask me. it takes the home-made aspect away. look, if they're getting rich off these clips, and we can post for free then i say leave it alone. pocket change as you call it will help no one. ads will stain this channel.

  • Peter rules

  • Adverts in these things will be awful. I won;t watch for one. Winamp does it with their music videos and its awful. It detracts from the artistic individual material. It obviously will happen because Google is a slave to the money. Putting a small Google logo under where it says 'YouTube'. As far as the 'performer' goes I think it is upto a compnay to show interest i the performer and approach them outside of Youtube.

    M

  • whoever says hate mail to peter shame on you

  • My point is that if they base who gets rewarded on their videos based on who gets the most views then they are advertising after the initial rush of some odd 26,000 views. menaing they wont get their advertisements on until the video isnt getting that many views anymore. they kind of have to guess who is going to put out a video with a lot of hits.

  • lol! sometimes he sounds like the Gman off Half-life :)

  • i thought i was the only one who think like that..

    wow,very well said..

  • haha yea true.

  • I would love to think that others will take your lead, and some will, but we should bear in mind that many people on youtube are young and/or have very little money, and will have a very hard time not accepting it, which is understandable.

  • I think that "revenue sharing" is going to ruin youtube. Consciously or unconsciously, the videos will change, and sooner or later, YouTube will become the cyber equivalent of the Jerry Springer show. Money changes everything.

  • Hi Peter, Take their money! Im sure there is a charity close to your heart, if you dont need the cash they do.

  • you're a very sad person...

  • DONT TAlk to our grampa like that :O

  • Yes you are, Blitz.

  • i was commeting jad594's comment, i did not mean peter with that, i think he's great!

  • strange how people leave pathetic and very pointless comments. makes me wonder where such thoughts stem from and why.

  • Troll elsewhere. pls.

    He speaks with sense.

    Theres no need to be Jealous of his Maturity and Intelligence, cos of your lacking.

  • And we were all up in arms about paid subscriptions. This is worse.

  • if you get lots of views, you do have a slim chance of producing something good again, and if you are consistant 

    with your product it will eventually sell.... but i like your ideology of profit sharing...

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  • Youtube will not and should not hand out money for views. Why should they give money to people who are willing to produce videos to post for free? Second, this will encourage cheaters and all sorts of bad stuff. Bad news, bad news.

  • Your concerns are more than legitimate...I have the same questions!

  • Hi Peter, thank you for sharing your thoughts on this matter. I enjoy your videos a lot as you're a very bright, even wise guy.

  • a class act!!!

  • you're just so wonderful. =)

  • Well we should all hope for the best.

  • What they should do is give an option that the money those of us who don't need it is concerned is given to their nominated charities. Those who nominate a charity to receive their income instead of them who have a badge placed by their account, under "director account" another badge saying "charity funding account". That would be a guarantee that the channel concerned's money was going direct to charity. What would you say to that idea, Peter?

  • You are a wisdom machine! I hope you keep sharing it with the world through your videos.

    P.S.: Sorry for my English, i'm a spanish-speaker. ;)

  • did yoiu sell out to live video/video live ?

  • I just wish I bought up all that google stock when they went public ah ha money is the root of all evil true but you said it we need it

  • ilove ur videos, so interesting thanks for being my friend hope to see more!

  • you are an inspiration to millions of old folks in the world.

  • always a pleasure to watch :)

  • Oh that's alright then. I just saw your intro video and I thought that someone had started reposting all your stuff there for dubious reasons. There's not much on that site yet and most of the vids lock up most of the time anyway... totally unlike YouTube... ;o)

  • when you are singing?

  • you're sweet

  • ist he

  • And there is nothing wrong with a "little pocket money" as you put it as long as the advert's are not longer than the posted vids! :)

  • Peter, do you have a livevideo account or has someone been stealing your vlogs and posting them there because I've just seen you over there too and I'm sure you said that you weren't going to join it a few weeks ago.

  • Well really enjoy your vids and you have a soothing voice im not really worried about the adverts myself..as long as they dont over do it.

  • awesome speach pops.. keep up the good fight

  • thanks for the video .. goodbye indeed :) <hopes im in your circle of friends> :)

  • dear friend, Im 17 yrs old, a young girl at college, preparing myself for leaving this country. leaving my family in ireland and moving to england to set up a home and a business, your video stories have inspired me to create my own personal diary or blog, which ive called "one small voice" i hope you dont mind! its basically about my journey through music and my future journey, ive only started it this evening, but you are my true inspiration!!!

  • you are an inspiration, and your words are heart warming, thanks so much

  • ...the only people who say money isnt important are those that have so much that they dont have to worry about it. However, its hard not to worry about the latent functions that this is bound to have on the community, and the shamelessness and money-grubbing that seems to be in our future since google took over

  • As always, beautiful opinions from my idol!

    *kisses&hugs*

    Therese

  • 100% with you on your point about having ads on videos.

    Carl Sagan, through a character in one of his novels said, 'adverts teach you to be stupid.'

    All the best, jimmy

  • Anybody else get the impression that this guy sounds like the guy in the suit in Half Life 1 and 2? Without the accent.

  • lol

  • Cool vid

  • AWESOME

  • Good comments. Hello friend.

  • I agree with everything you said! But I had wished that youtube somehow could have stayed advertisement free. We're bombarded with so much of it already everyday, but thats the way the world is now so..

  • I mean, ad free videos of course :)

  • Everyone knows this. Doesnt even have to be repeated. Lol. Plus, arnt love and pleasure are in this too? Of course not, im canadian what was i thinking >:|.

  • To me, the value in you and your movies is simply you! It embodies so much of what pulls my heart strings about humanity. I love that each video appears as a stream of consciousness mixed with recollection about a topic. So the topic becomes money, and the way you carefully toss it around but end with a strong sense of family makes me admire you more.

  • Surely, I am as worried about recent developments as you are. I also agree with the minefield assessment. It is one thing already to have these "mystery people" that feature and ultimately decide if videos are go or no-go. But quite another to toss money into that equation and... BOOM. I have to believe that suddenly more people will care just how videos are "featured".

  • A mine field indeed!

  • squishgoesbelly is an immature guyyy

  • I agree with the comments about donating to charity, please consider this and let us know your views in your next video

  • Your such a legend, it makes me feel ashamed to have people my age (late teens) flame you so much, you are very wise and I enjoy watching your videos!

  • can anyone speak more truth?

  • Very nice, and well put. Hopefully the person making the Video could pick and choose what they can advertise, such as, will they beable to pick some product that they use and love, Or will it be some random item that they have no clue about.. either way I guess it's the Vid. Bloggers choice. ran outa max words...

  • i couldnt agree more

  • love you!

  • You integrity has been a shining light since the burst of media attention and I respect it greatly. For my part, though, if I ever manage to post a video myself I'd probably accept the advertising option purely for the momentary thrill at receiving a little money. It's not a thought I'm proud of.

  • Still I enjoy your videos. Of course, I'm still waiting to see that keyboard! :-)

  • I think u are awesome sir,and a great influence to people sir.Thank you for your time

  • Kewlios

  • Hi Peter! Money makes the world go 'round...a mark, a yen, a buck, or a pound...it's all that makes the world go 'round. Lol.

    However, I'm saddened by the rude comments on here.

    It's so disrespectful.

    If anyone has anything worth saying it's the elderly because they've seen and done more than anyone else.

    We love you, Peter. :)

  • You go boy. Go for the gold man. You don't need that paltry offer. Hold out, man.

  • Very good views. I agree with you. I started out on YouTube to meet new people, express myself and have become rich in friends which is enough. Fame has it's problems even on YouTube. The more views you get, the more chance of having hater comments, the harder it is to connect with everyone that subscribes to you, reply to every comment and email, etc. It's enough trying to keep up with 2 sites as well.

  • One of the greatest advantages of the New World over England is that we do have dental care here.

  • Maybe you should mention it to Zen Archer & Zipster08

  • Coward

  • As you point out - and as the Bible originally stated - it is the love of money that is the root of all kinds of evil.

    (The Bible also points out that money answers everything!)

  • I think you are simply wonderful/amazing. There is truly no single adjective that can describe how great you are. I wish you the best from the bottom of my heart. =)

  • I dissagree that "subscibers have no realtion to the ammount of views people get on their videos." I think subscribers and video views do have a good relation, but not strong enough to pay people based on subscribers.

  • The profit sharing has to do with a site called cashsurfers(DOT)com All of your videos are over there right now and YouTube didn't tell us. There are also sites online such as podzinger that allow people to watch our DISABLED videos and videos the you have marked as PRIVATE.

    Please Sir, Spread The Word.

  • Keep doing what you are doing. You are an inspiration to so many young and old.

  • Hey... wow. I am so very impressed with your reflections. Independent of politial thought, I do have one very heartfelt question, as follows: What do you think of Katers17 wrok, given the context and age? Any reply is appreciated. Be well, sir.

  • I type poorly, but shant say that I am sorry for that. As one who is of your country and culture, I value your thoughts in this regard, as to Katers17 and her efforts among the mix of u2b.

  • Have you ever been in any kind of War, WW2, korean? Because i think many people would like to hear about it like a documentery, it would be a nice topic. itll be very interesting.

  • thanks for the reference to that guitar video, it really was great! I completely agree with you on the money sharing idea as well. It just seems like it'll decrease the quality of content on youtube, well atleast if youtube doesn't take the proper measures to make sure that doesn't happen, seems hard though...

  • hahah look closely behind the background a 50cents rapper doll

  • You will be sent an email from YouTube notifying you of this update, you then log into your account, punch in your bank details and after each month you will be paid money depending on the clicks you have received.

    I hope that answered your question. :)

  • Well geriatric1927 YouTube is owned by Google and Google has their own technology called Google Ads. As you probably know. You could customize these links to be associated with your videos to get maximum 'clickage' if you must. You will be able to watch the stats on how many times they have been clicked, what has been clicked and when.

  • I feel that regular people and popular vloggers' will not get paid in the long run. These are deals being made for the major markets and companies that own the rights to the information being shared. So CBS will get paid for their videos and the cute new born baby video for all the family to see will become obsolete. I hope that doesn't come true.

  • Aww, you look very nice, LOL

  • look at this video, then look at the vids renetto has been posting

    =P

  • beutiful.

  • u are so amazing. You make such great videos from an elders point of veiw. its pretty cool. Ive sent u some of my videos also from a young person's point of view

  • Paying people on YouTube will only end in disaster.

  • Sir, you are the father I never had!

  • I enjoy you so much. And I agree with your approach to this whole issue.

  • hell ya another great video!

  • lovely man lovely thoughts

  • Well said, Peter. You are a man of fine principles and I am honored to know you through your videos.

  • Thank you!

  • of course you feel this way. you get most viewed. it would be retarded for you to be against it.

  • good point well made

  • Only a couple of people on YouTube are good enough to get paid.

  • good point

  • someone's probably already said this.. but did you know you were shown on BBC news?

  • You are so darn cool, Peter.

  • You should re-consider 100% to charity. There won't be a pot of money so to speak. YT will probably sell ads based on views + the demographics of the videographer's audience so some vid producers (You) will draw higher CPM rates. This equates to more $ that you may give to charity. People look up to you so please lead the way...make the world a better place. In the states actor Paul Newman gives away the profits of his food company to charity.

  • Wow. great point....

  • You just know Renneto will bitch and moan and grip and complain and cry and moan and complain and then make a goofy video at 3am and bitch and moan and complain...

  • I agree with you.. the profit sharing definitely seems like a mine field! There is already so much cheating on youtube.. I can only imagine.

  • Youtube will need to improve it's detection software if to make this work. Currently people can set up hundrds of dummy subscibers and spam their video to the top of the honors lists (eg Mia Rose). If advertisers pay per numbers of views then more and more people will do this.

  • I remember seeing your 1st try when it was featured. I forgot how much enjoyed your videos. thanks!

  • An old man+ sense of laughter= awsome