Artist exposes YouTuber for charging \u201cpromotion fee\u201d for job offer A digital artist put a YouTuber on blast after being approached for a hefty animating job \u2014 one they would have to pay to undertake. For the self-employed, being \u201cpaid in exposure\u201d is a gruelingly tiresome phrase often thrown around by potential clients who don\u2019t have the cash \u2014 or manners \u2014 to pay up for the hard work they require. Subreddits like \u201cChoosingBeggars\u201d often relay such horror stories, including screencaps of tone-deaf clients claiming that their prices are \u201ctoo high\u201d or that they should feel \u201chonored\u201d by being allowed to work for them. One digital artist by the name of \u201cSmooGoo\u201d told a similar tale in late December, just as the holiday season came to a close after they were approached by a YouTuber asking for a boatload of work for a comparatively modest price point. The client (whose name was blacked out for privacy\u2019s sake) required SmooGoo to create a banner, intro and outro cards, a minimum of five reaction images, three animations, and three badges, making sure to state that their character MUST be correctly referenced in each of the artworks. The amount they were willing to pay? A whopping $50, for a slew of work, they required to be completed in a mere two-week time frame. \u201cThis would be a great opportunity for you,\u201d the YouTuber wrote. \u201cI have many followers, and you\u2019d get a lot of fresh eyes on your work!\u201d SmooGoo politely declined their request, claiming that $50 was far too low a payment for such a list and admitting that they were already swamped with other commissions. However, it turns out that this $50 fee wasn\u2019t a payment for the artist\u2019s time: instead, it was a fee that SmooGoo themselves would have to pay for the honor of animating the YouTuber\u2019s character. \u201cI wasn\u2019t offering to pay you,\u201d the YouTuber replied. \u201cI was giving you the offer of paying me to be your promoter. It\u2019s a very reasonable fee, given how big my channel is going to get. \u2026you\u2019ll be sorry if you don\u2019t take up this offer, though!\u201d Despite the ridiculousness of the YouTuber\u2019s request, SmooGoo managed to find the humor in such a wacky scenario, claiming they \u201ccried\u201d from laughter over the ordeal \u2014 an all too familiar situation for artists across the net.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Artist exposes YouTuber for charging \u201cpromotion fee\u201d for job offer A digital artist put a YouTuber on blast after being approached for a hefty animating job \u2014 one they would have to pay to undertake. For the self-employed, being \u201cpaid in exposure\u201d is a gruelingly tiresome phrase often thrown around by potential clients who don\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}