 freedom. Today I want to talk to you about a forum post by Captain Pete. In this episode of Dear Freedom, I'd like to address this because Captain Pete is not alone. And I feel that by addressing Captain Pete's concerns, I may be addressing some of yours as well. Captain Pete says that there are so many things that he wants to talk about that he'll keep it short. First, I appreciate that. Thank you very much. That makes for a short video and everybody loves those. I'm also not going to read the entire thing because I believe that might drag things out so I'm going to take this section by section. To paraphrase, Captain Pete says that the 6040 split is awful. Let me share something with you for those of you who may have not been around YouTube for as long as I have. Before Freedom came on the scene, a 6040 split was the standard for a small channel. And at the time, a small channel was defined as anything that was a hundred views a day or less or even 500 views a day or less. That was a small channel. I mean, it still is, in the grand scheme of things, a small channel. However, at the time, if you had, you know, under those numbers, you're getting a 6040 split. No bones about it and you're lucky if you got a partnership. Freedom comes on the scene and all of a sudden, networks wanted to be competitive and they started either lowering the number of benefits that they had for these channels or they started slashing their percentages so that they wouldn't have to actually compete with the things that we were offering. Yes, things have changed in the past year and that's exactly why Freedom, as you grow, your your percentage also changes. So if you hit a certain benchmark that I don't have off the top of my head, once you hit a certain benchmark, you can get a 7030 or an 8020 or 9010, a 955. It goes up and up and up and up. That's the way things work. We grow with you. Don't think that you're stuck at a 6040. That's just the way that things go. We start from the standard and then we go up from there based on your size, which is a lot more than other networks would do for you. A lot of other networks will wait for you to live without your one-year contract or two-year contract before they'll even talk to you about changing your revenue split. He goes on to make a comparison with taxes and how if you were paying 40% tax, that would just be completely crazy. As someone who's been on the workforce for years, I can tell you this. I pay somewhere around 30% tax, 29 to 31 to 34 somewhere every single year between Medicare and all that stuff and FICA and other miscellaneous state and federal taxes. Yeah, that kind of sucks. I'll agree, but I get things for it. I have roads to drive on. I have schools to send my children to if I have schools and so on and so forth. It's for the betterment of my life. The cost of goods and services around here is a lot lower because trucks have roads to drive on. That's just the way things work. 40% on your taxes isn't really that crazy. In fact, I know people who are in the 40, 45 and even getting closer to the 50% tax brackets, it happens. But as far as freedom, much like I was saying about roads for you to drive on and whatnot, we also provide benefits for what you're paying in between music and sponsorships and opportunities that you wouldn't have otherwise, like being able to partner your hitbox channel before you're a quote-unquote big streamer, which is something that no other network offers, especially not the way that we do. You're getting a lot for this and you're getting even more coming up. We have so many things in the works that I don't even want to talk about right now because if I talk about them too soon, if they don't happen tomorrow, that's another thing that someone's going to lambastice about because it was a feature we didn't deliver. There are a lot of things that we currently offer that you wouldn't have otherwise in exchange for that percentage. He goes on to say, okay, let's pretend that I'm okay with a 60-40 split. Then what? Where is my money going? He goes on to talk about the school that George was talking about earlier, which we jokingly called the George Venous Institute of International Learning. Of course, that was a joke, it's not going to be called that, but I remind you, because George has already said it, but people don't seem to catch every video or they're just selective in what they want to talk about. I'm not sure which. That is from a completely separate pool of money and has nothing to do with what you or any other freedom partner has paid in. It's a way for us to diversify our investments and our revenue sources, which is very good for you because if YouTube or freedom on the YouTube side has a bad year, we don't hurt nearly as much and we can continue to offer you everything we already offer. It's just a good business decision. Going back into YouTube, it also allows us to do other cool things, possibly even offer a YouTube-based boarding school where you can come to learn to be a creator in an environment full of other people who have similar interests to you. Many sports and other miscellaneous interests have boarding schools like this and honestly, a YouTube-based one isn't necessarily the world's worst idea. George has talked about this and hopefully we'll have more information coming soon, but as of right now, that's really all I can talk about there. So, no, your money's not going to build a school, your money's not going to go to starting a school, but it's something that freedom is looking at doing. He goes on to continuously say that we're building a school with his money again and again. I've already refuted that point so I'm going to leave those. He also goes on to talk about freedom's partnering quality. He thanks us for taking him in at a small size, but he criticizes us for accepting channels who have a default YouTube banner and one video from two years ago featuring their dog. Freedom is not a network who's going to discriminate against you based on your size or your abilities. If you can't do your own artwork, we'll take you in. You can come in and you can go to the forums, you can choose a designer to work with, you can make friends, you can leave your banner exactly the way it is. Why? Because it's your channel, you own it, and if you want to do something like, say, Sir Fedora and just leave it until you get big, more power to you. We are not going to tell you how to run your channel because this is freedom. You should be able to run your channel your way, period. Regardless of what we think, what we think would be the best idea for your channel, we may give you advice, but whether you take it and how you take it and what you do with that advice, that is completely up to you because otherwise you would not be free to do things your own way. Freedom believes in giving everyone the same opportunities. Whether people take them, that's up to them, and we're not going to start discriminating against them. It's plain and simple. If you'd like a network that tells you your art's not good enough to join, or a network that tells you that you're not big enough to join, or a network who's otherwise going to tell you you're just not big enough, good enough, smart enough, that's not freedom. He also says, why would you partner people who are just lazy and who do not want to put in the effort to make videos? Freedom doesn't really do that, but we don't not do that either. If someone wants to release one video per year, that's perfectly fine. Why do we want to do it that way? Because just like I just explained, it's all up to you and how you want to run your channel. If you want to put up a video a decade, that's perfectly fine by us, and we will still offer you the same benefits that we offered anyone. It's plain and it's simple. We do not discriminate based on how often you upload or what you upload. The truth of the matter is that we don't feel that we should be able to tell someone that they're lazy because they don't make a video every day. We don't feel that it's our responsibility or our right to judge people that way. We're not a judgemental network. We never will be. So to all of you creators out there, if you want to make one video a year, one video a month, one video a decade, that's perfectly fine by us because you run your channel your way because this is freedom. I hope that I've shed some light on this for you. If I have, let us know in the comment section down below. If you have anything to talk to us about or a bone to pick, let us know in the comment section down below and I will do my best to answer some of those. Or you can go on the forums, which there should be a link down below to a special section of the forums just for discussions like this. And I might pick yours and do a video just like this one till next time. I'm Anthony. Like, subscribe, comments please. By the way, what do you think of the backdrop here? I don't know, I like it.