Hank Green slams TikTok\u2019s Creator Fund as platform is on track to make $12b YouTube: HanksChannelHank Green has taken to Twitter to slam TikTok\u2019s Creator Fund after it was revealed the company is on track to generate 12 billion dollars in revenue throughout 2022. Throughout the years, Hank Green has dipped his toes in quite a variety of careers. He is a vlogger, science communicator, entrepreneur, author, musician, and most recently \u2014 TikToker. Since beginning his account on the short-form video platform, he\u2019s amassed almost seven million followers and has received hundreds of thousands of views on each video. On June 29, he took to Twitter to slam TikTok\u2019s Creator Fund, which it uses to pay creators, after it was revealed that the company is on track to generate 12 billion dollars of revenue through 2022. Hank Green slams TikTok\u2019s Creator Fund The TikTok Creator Fund is a set amount of money split between everyone participating \u2014 meaning that the more people join, the less money everyone makes overall. Hank quote retweeted a post from Commonstock on Twitter that detailed the platform\u2019s revenue for 2022, sparking debate about how much they pay creators. \u201cSure would be nice if creators got a cut of revenue, rather than a cut of a flat pool of money that does not change size,\u201d he explained. \u201cEvery TikToker is watching their income drop while TikTok\u2019s revenue triples\u2026a real \u2018f*ck you\u2019 to the people who built your platform with you.\u201d Sure would be nice if creators got a cut of revenue, rather than a cut of a flat pool of money that does not change size. Every tiktoker is watching their income drop while TikTok\u2019s revenue triples\u2026a real \u201cfuck you\u201d to the people who built your platform with you. https:\/\/t.co\/dkvyz7kqLZ \u2014 Hank Green (@hankgreen) June 29, 2022 On January 20, Hank posted a video on YouTube titled \u2018So\u2026 TikTok Sucks\u2019 lamming the platform for its low creator pay that now has almost a million views. TikTok\u2019s favorite educator isn\u2019t the first person to speak out about the low pay on the platform either. Shortly after Green\u2019s YouTube video went viral, MrBeast revealed that despite having over a billion views on TikTok \u2014 he\u2019s made less than $15,000. It\u2019s unknown whether or not the company will make any changes to the program, but it\u2019s only a matter of time before creators start demanding more for their effort.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hank Green slams TikTok\u2019s Creator Fund as platform is on track to make $12b YouTube: HanksChannelHank Green has taken to Twitter to slam TikTok\u2019s Creator Fund after it was revealed the company is on track to generate 12 billion dollars in revenue throughout 2022. Throughout the years, Hank Green has dipped his toes in quite […]<\/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-49428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49428","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=49428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}