Don't you love it when the media shills for a big company like YOUTUBE or FIVERR?
It makes you wonder if they've been paid off. It happens, believe me. A publicist gets you on the phone, and calmly tells you you'll get favors, free dinner, maybe a dream interview with somebody GOOD if only you do an article on somebody BAD.
Somebody BAD could be the rancid website FIVERR. Or the Fascist scumsite GooTube.
Lookee lookee everybody, EASY MONEY! Too good to be true? Oh, suspend disbelief!
Huh? What IS this shit?
As with GooTube, where .0000005% make an actual living while working 20 hour days, and everyone else gets chump change, FIVERR has made successes out of...VERY FEW PEOPLE.
But don't let that stop you, from working hard and burning out while FIVERR actually make EASY money by doing nothing except keeping a website up and running. They do NOTHING while YOU spend all day working on a fucking voiceover or a song for a lousy five bucks.
OK let's hear a typical one-in-a-million success story.
It begins like this:
"There are a small handful of Fiverr super-sellers who are raking in the big bucks and making Fiverr into a comfortable freelance living. "I've made six figures for the last two years," Linnea Sage told the Daily News.
She has been a Fiverr seller since October 2011, when she put up a voiceover listing on the then-new website. The company keeps $1 out of every $5 gig, but for Sage that still left enough to be worthwhile.
"At that point, the site was still pretty small — the Tel Aviv-based company was only founded in 2010. Sage was available to build up a good name for herself early on. Now, she spends about 20 hours a week fulfilling the 40 to 60 gig orders she gets every day, and Fiverr has become a major source of her income."
Oh goodie. (PS, don't tell Roger Waters that the people behind this are JEWS!)
The article seems fixated on voiceover bitches. The report on Sage segues into one for another happy slit:
Just lovely. So if you post that you're available, and can beat the ever-growing bunch of scabs on the site, and maybe charge WELL OVER the "FIVER" con-job come-on, you can make a living. For a while.
And gee, who wouldn't want to sit in front of a microphone saying inane stupid things, e-mailing the files, and hoping the jerk on the other end is satisfied with it?
Somehow this doesn't sound too enticing to ME. Let's say I'm as good as Mel Blanc was. I'm going to sit around and knock off idiot WMV or MP3 files that would take me an hour to do properly, transfer to the right format, and then e-mail? That sounds like, at best, $5 an hour. Maybe $10. That's minimum wage. Even if I pull a come-on, and say that anything over a minute costs another FIVE, I'm not exactly looking at a huge fucking payday. Especially now that the piece has run and every asshole in the world is going to scab me and compete with me for this chump change.
Everybody points to the lottery winner and says "There, see, so you should waste your money every day on lottery tickets." Everybody points to Spotify as a great idea and shrugs when big stars claim they literally get PENNIES. People insist Kindle is a great idea but once again, the authors get a shitty royalty and depend on Amazon to give them an honest accounting. The big money always goes to the websites that do NOTHING. Ebay is another example. They're bigger than all the gambling casinos combined. They and their bitch sister Paypal take a big chomp out of everything sold. Yeah, SOME people make a living on eBay as they work themselves into exhaustion and an early grave; meanwhile eBay employees can take breaks and play ping pong. Google employees have elaborate gyms and decadent cafeterias, and generous dental plans all on money they skim from Gootube ads.
Oooh, everyone, the INTERNET is your FRIEND. While stores close, and terrorists make you afraid to go out to a concert, and you even buy your fucking food via Amazon, you can hole up in the basement and make a FORTUNE doing GOOTUBE videos and FIVERR songs and voiceovers.
"It's a wonderful world."
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