Guys I think we're onto smth with this type of idea- different plaques for different types of content- maybe a controller for gaming channels for example
The whole "these two celebrities don't exist in the same universe" rant is EXACTLY how I felt when Timothee Chalamet and Kylie Jenner started dating. THOSE TWO SIMPLY DON’T EXIST ON THE SAME TIMELINE IN THE SAME UNIVERSE
They could've at least framed it as, "more creators are winning so, we want to deliver them faster and also be more sustainable about material production for these plaques". There, fixed it.
The mention of losing the dislike counter got me nostalgic for the 5-star rating system on RUclips. That was perhaps the first big change to their format that surprised me.
companies should just be straight up about stuff. i'd respect it if youtube just came out and said "look we have to make a lot of these now, and its cheaper to make them smaller"
My reaction to the change was "oh okay" until I read the statement they made and I knew they were bs-ing in our faces- like just be honest because we already know how much the company makes- we know you can afford better material and ur just picking to crap out, but don't treat us like we're dumb and are gonna mindlessly nod and take your excuses.
Absolutely people would still care and complain bc RUclips, the giant huge corporation, makes an ass load of money and continues to make more and more each year so why tf would we be okay with them cheapening their awards to the people who make them their money? Lol
THIS! They are free right? Like RUclips gives them to you for free? If not my bad but they could be like “ hey these are free and we hand out so many thefore we simply cannot continue to make them so big !” Maybe then can even have a “ free smaller one OR pay x amount and upgrade to the bigger one” Still seems like a money grab but at least it would make more sense and if you can’t buy one you still get your award
I think I’m more disappointed that they just shrunk it and didn’t give it a new design. I think the plaques would look really nice with a black frame or something.
Okay but as a weird home decor enthusiast I cannot imagine having to incorporate the gold play button into a room design. It's so big. I would want room for other sillier stuff on my maximalist filming backdrop.
im really loving see dangelo make lighthearted, and fun content. his personality really gets to shine through when the topic isnt overwhelming (of course i adore those videos too, but i also enjoy the atmosphere he brings to these more casual videos)
This is exactly how I feel 😂 It just feels a little "my diamonds aren't as big as my neighbor's diamonds, therefore they suck". I don't underestimate how much work it takes to get 100k subs. But complaining about the size of your award seems a bit tacky.
The boxed to the plaque youtube play button is a practical improvement because I remember watching RUclipsrs have their boxed ones broken after sometime and the button just bounced around in the box
@@jonnnnniej yup and it will keep getting easier think about it someone can get viral with one video on TikTok and make a RUclips the next day and get 100k subs on youtube if you do it right!
Literally every company cuts corners like this. They’re businesses. There are times to yell at companies when they skimp out on things that actually matter, like paying their employees what they deserve or anything to do with the environment or anything that actually matters. This doesn’t matter. Who cares.
Controversial opinion: play buttons are very consumerist in a sense when the true reward for posting on RUclips “successfully” is getting paid MASSIVE amounts of money.
@@highland42 that’s not true tho lol. Many ppls work is only getting successful after they get an award. They dont get an award for reaching a big audience, but for their work. The playbutton on the other hand is just a reward for the number of ppl they have reached, not at all about their work.
@@positivevibesveda how are subscribers telling if the content is actually good? 💀 Jeffree Star, Shane Dawson, family channels exploiting their children, so many channels have millions of subscribers and they are absolutely horrible. Subscribers are not an indicator of good content. Just like marvel movies aren’t good because many ppl watch them.
I remembered D'Angelo and Jenny Nicholson's videos where they both had trouble lifting the gold play button and I definitely understand why they'd resize for practicality. I personally don't mind it being the same size as the silver because I like consistency and if I theoretically ever got that many subs, it'd drive me bonkers if they didn't line up perfectly, but I can understand how someone would be disappointed if they were expecting a bigger award for a bigger milestone.
*I am not a youtuber* but I always thought it looked so weird seeing a gold play button next to a smaller silver button. Gold medals aren’t bigger than silver medals, the gold makes it more significant. And I agree with the wasted space. But unfortunately you’re going to have a crop of RUclipsrs who always feel like they missed out on the better version now.
I get that there are so many more people creating and consuming content now, but doesn’t that also mean RUclips is making more money? This scaling down of such a sentimental object seems so unnecessary and is kind of a bummer for newer creators on the rise.
and also, how much are they even saving on this? Is it really that important to minimize the expense of the player button to the creators? This is just dumb corporate people disconnected from the real world in a room taking decisions for everyone, crazy
youtube is extremely expensive to upkeep. i doubt this saves them significant amount of money, but corporations will do anything and everything to cut expenses.
Honestly. I like the smaller one. Being able to put it on a desk instead of a wall sounds cool to me, BUT. I think it should be optional. Let people decide if they want a big or small play button.
while true, dont forget more content means more infrastructure to host the content, which is the entire reason RUclips is NOT profitable in the classical sense. Infrastructure, specially in the "AI bubble" has almost TRIPLED in cost. With how many youtube shorts there are now, I can only imagine the money Google has been literally infusing just to keep this alive in this capitalist hellscape where line must go up or else
TBH I cannot imagine dedicating so much wall space to an award - even one that means a lot. Something the size of an award certificate/degree makes sense for a plaque. Eventually people will learn to tolerate the change, like we're struggling to do with shorts, but right now they've bungled this transition in every possible way. I think this would go over better with a less tangible addition, like every 100,000 subscribers, you get to pick one predator or nazi to get voted off of youtube.
seeing these daily uploads and how happy d'angelo seems now is honestly so nice. the "things got pretty bad" video is pretty much my mental state right now, and this gives me hope things are going to get better :,) thank you d'angelo
Yeah i was literally on the verge of ending it all the day before my birthday a few weeks ago. I feel this comment. We got this babes. It’s hard but we got it.
the most frustrating part is that if i hit 1M just a week before i would’ve received the OG gold playbutton😭 now my gold playbutton is lighter than my silver
I never realised, seeing them in videos, how massive the gold play buttons actually were. But like, 100%, just give the creators a choice!! If RUclips is really trying to save costs, I'm sure they can figure some marketing magic out to make the smaller option seem better, and I'm sure when people have a choice there might be a bunch of people choosing the smaller option anyway, for the ease of use it has.
Yeah they’ve definitely had at least a few hits with design changes these past couple of years. If only the people making choices about everything else has as much sense as the design people
I feel like maybe some etched border on the gold could make them feel more special while still making them smaller, but I'm not sure how much more difficult that would be on a large scale.
"lighter sized" literally means they weigh less and there is probably a specific weight where shipping costs change dramatically. With the increase in awards being shipped, this change will cut costs enough for them to think it's worth the chance. They could have said this explicitly, but theyre counting on the backlash not being so bad it offsets the cut costs on shipping and manufacturing
They really could have just made the silver and gold play buttons the same size. It seems like that would look the best on the wall. The gold medal at the Olympics isn't a flava flav clock. It's just a different color/gold-plated silver
Maybe it's just because I'm not a RUclipsr, but the smaller size would be more desirable to me. I always thought the old ones were obnoxiously large. I get the distress if you have a large silver and then a small gold...like I'd want the "set" too, so I understand that. But overall this controversy seems really vapid.
RUclips also partnered a few more countries. Mostly not in Africa, but I remember seeing Acholi Pride opening her silver play button on her old channel and thinking 'Wow! They actually posted that to a Ugandan village,' knowing how much that would have cost. We're still not monetised in Rwanda (which is a damn crime - I have a friend getting over 100k views on videos and earning nothing from them) but I could see it being problematic to ship large, heavy awards to creators in many countries.
Im not tryna stir nothing, but less material waste for an object that only serves to reflect the vanity of a small number of successful creators is a-okay by me.
i'm ok with this, youtubers have big egos, the smaller awards might humble them a bit, honestly do away with the trophy all together, you guys get a certificate now
I feel like having the shadowbox design kinda cements you as RUclips royalty (for better or for worse) And there is a flexing quality to that. Thats not to say the design is better, just more exclusive
Honestly.. for a purely cosmetic lil celebration plaque... I really don't think it's that bad. Less waste in the world with these - because as much as it is a nice prize, it is not worth the extra pollution in the world. I personally loved the original awards far more because they were smaller. I would have rather they kept those back then and made the display case smaller. These new ones, even the new smaller sized ones, are honestly just.. such hulking masses of metal. Really ugly and wasteful. So I am happy they are smaller no matter the reason - even if I am unhappy with RUclips itself for... an unbearably long list of reasons.
Man, I gotta say, I really appreciate the amount of content from you lately. I've been having a rough time trying to get back into college, and it makes my day when I relax for the evening and see that you uploaded. I'm glad that uploading this much has been enjoyable for you to do. But please don't overwork yourself! I can always rewatch old videos haha
Loving how high-energy you are in this, D'Angelo! The least they could've done is give people the option to choose between the bigger one or smaller one. With how much RUclips is worth thanks to its creators that work their asses off, for them to shrink what many see as a huge accomplishment without giving those creators their own choice about it is just a bit sh*tty.
@@XError40404 but a playbutton isn’t a product, it’s a reward. Most ppl don’t grt a reward for their regular 9/5, so I think complaining about this seems a little rich and privileged to me….
@@idkwho9785 People who do well at their 9-5s DO get rewards - it’s called a bonus. If you excel at something at a job, you tend to get rewarded. We don’t call people privileged for complaining about reduced bonuses now do we?
@@beyondredemption8179 💀 idk in what world you live but no, many ppl don’t even get a bonus. And beyond that a comparison like that is honestly so insulting to working class ppl. A playbutton isn’t a bonus, it is just a reward for the subscribers. I hope ur not comparing working a 9/5 with being a youtuber with 1 million subscribers. That is just ridiculous. Rich youtubers complaining about a playbutton is not the same as working class ppl complaining about their bonus (which is part of their salary), WE ARE NOT THE SAME. Stop being ignorant lol
@@idkwho9785 Yes, most people don’t get a bonus because most people aren’t exceptional at their jobs. That’s why the word exceptional has meaning. Similarly, less than 0.7% of all RUclips channels get more than 100K subscribers, and a lesser 0.028% reach a million because it actually takes intelligence to farm the algorithm. Making a living off RUclips is actually hard, despite what influencers want you to believe. Not only is it a struggle to get monetised in the first place because RUclips will use any excuse not to pay its creators, you also need a consistent stream of viewers. Very few RUclipsrs are the filthy rich bourgeoisie you are imagining and even less of them are making a living off RUclips at only 100K. Furthermore, what do working class people have to do with this conversation? People working 9-5s are primarily middle class and therefore have enough purchasing power to demand a bonus or higher salary. The vast majority of working class people work in retail, manual labour or factories - which all have irregular schedules that very easily exceed 8 hours a day. I recognise a play button isn’t a bonus, but they are comparable in the way that they both serve the same purpose - to act as proof of being good at job, stroking the workers ego, and therefore motivating them to increase their productivity.
I can't believe people are even talking about this. I like the new plaque more. It's more elegant. Who cares if the plaque RUclips sends you is a little smaller? As a RUclips Creator, I didn't know we were doing it for the plaques. Where did my memo get lost? This is the true definition of first world problems. Complaining that your 1M subscriber plaque is too small.
they made the reward commensurate with the difficulty to achieve the task. As youtube and social media has changed, so has the difficulty to reach certain milestones. Makes sense to me
Idk as someone who will never have a youtube play button this feels like a complete nothing of a story to me but I get it, if I got a special little trophy I'd want it to be bigger too. Maybe if they kept the fucking AI generated content off the site they could spend the money they'd be using on bandwidth towards rewarding the people who actually create for them.
My reaction to this: Oh no, an award is just physically smaller for reasons that aren't immediately obvious. (probably a cost saving measure.) Like... youtube does a lot of dumb things, but the size of the play buttons really isn't worth getting angry over.
@@Peewee-c4bYou’ll get over it. It doesn’t matter. Can we get mad at companies for doing things that are actually bad? So many people who claim to be anti-consumerist are getting mad at companies for not wasting as much material to make a plaque as big and shiny as it used to be. Seriously guys. There are things to yell at RUclips about. This is not one of the things.
@@Rosa-885Companies try to make as much money as possible. It’s not exactly an interesting revelation. This isn’t something worth yelling at them over when there are actual things to get mad at companies about.
Thanks for the explicit encouragement to get some rest, I needed that. I'm going to sleep the _hell_ out of this nap, and at the rate things have been going, when I wake up it'll probably be to a new upload. I love it here 😌
Solution: if your videos are majority Shorts content at the point you hit 100K subs, then you get the SHORT plaque
Guys I think we're onto smth with this type of idea- different plaques for different types of content- maybe a controller for gaming channels for example
Genius
@@goingferalluvssuch a good idea but we know RUclips is too lazy for that 😂
Boom! Look at you making sense.
@@goingferalluvsyeah but a lot of channels do more than one thing
The whole "these two celebrities don't exist in the same universe" rant is EXACTLY how I felt when Timothee Chalamet and Kylie Jenner started dating. THOSE TWO SIMPLY DON’T EXIST ON THE SAME TIMELINE IN THE SAME UNIVERSE
Absolutely! I still cannot think of them as a couple, my brain just does not comprehend
timothee chalamet is dating kylie jenner?
what o_o
I didn't know and yeah, my brain can't put those two people in the same room let alone dating o_o
LITERALLY exactly what I saiiddd 😭😭
I deadass though timothee was younger than kylie too 😭
They could've at least framed it as, "more creators are winning so, we want to deliver them faster and also be more sustainable about material production for these plaques". There, fixed it.
💯💯💯💯💯
Realistically, people would say that they're bulshiting and still be mad about it 🤷🏽♀️
Don't forget us when you're on RUclips's PR team
fr, this approach would have been so much better and less provoking... @youtube, you got yourselves a new marketing director
@@Noah-yz7yxat least they said they play buttons are going to be smaller. The bare minimum is an improvement from whatever RUclips’s statement was
I mean this with love. I care 0% about this which is why its a perfect video to watch.
I love it, no stress just vibes.
same it's chill
LMAOO
honestly this seems like such an non issue 😂
@@theredqveen Brotha how, the entire video literally describes why people believe it's an issue, what did you not get
“It’s getting too easy to get to 100k subscribers” -the company whose algorithm indiscriminately awards nonsense 😐
Exactly😭
*cough* mrbeast *cough*
Stuck at 3 for years
The mention of losing the dislike counter got me nostalgic for the 5-star rating system on RUclips. That was perhaps the first big change to their format that surprised me.
Basically what I'm trying to say is that RUclips's dead 5-star rating system is my Roman Empire
The hyper activity on this account is insane😭😭thank u D’Angelo
@CovenantoftheFatherland-e1wu don't even have a single video
@@kyle1493 I'm so weak
@@kyle1493it’s a bot.
frrr all my problems are solved now
@@kyle1493 not you replying to a bot 💀
I liked that the original play buttons were actually their own physical button in a case, I remember it made it seem so cool as a kid
Eventually, the plaque is going to be a pin. Calling it right now.
Why make a pin when it could be a free email?
@@meghill1446 i was literally thinking this lmao
Eventually the 100,000 subscriber play button is going away, or will be a virtual award
@@XError40404 They should have just increased the initial reward level or let people buy it once they earn it
noted, I'll be back when it happens
19:12 D'Angelo singing "WAKE ME UP INSIDE!" was NOT on my 2024 bingo card!
It has me in tears 😂
companies should just be straight up about stuff. i'd respect it if youtube just came out and said "look we have to make a lot of these now, and its cheaper to make them smaller"
My reaction to the change was "oh okay" until I read the statement they made and I knew they were bs-ing in our faces- like just be honest because we already know how much the company makes- we know you can afford better material and ur just picking to crap out, but don't treat us like we're dumb and are gonna mindlessly nod and take your excuses.
Exactly. These corps don’t realize how much honesty will get them. No one wd care if they were straight up
Absolutely people would still care and complain bc RUclips, the giant huge corporation, makes an ass load of money and continues to make more and more each year so why tf would we be okay with them cheapening their awards to the people who make them their money? Lol
Even though that still wouldnt be a good excuse
THIS! They are free right? Like RUclips gives them to you for free? If not my bad but they could be like “ hey these are free and we hand out so many thefore we simply cannot continue to make them so big !”
Maybe then can even have a “ free smaller one OR pay x amount and upgrade to the bigger one”
Still seems like a money grab but at least it would make more sense and if you can’t buy one you still get your award
I think I’m more disappointed that they just shrunk it and didn’t give it a new design. I think the plaques would look really nice with a black frame or something.
RUclips woke up and said "Today, I will cause problems for myself" a LONG time ago.
Since late 2019-2020 they did that
hahah its all one long day the internet never sleeps 😂😂😂😂😂
Yall before anyone replies the the bots DONT RESPOND TO THEM.
@@B1gF1shSplatoon the bots are an example of why RUclips sucks nowadays. Let’s report them
@@kerisaltchannel3817😂 more like 2016
It's RUclips obviously trying to save $ on production costs. Meanwhile this is the premium example of a first world problem. lol
I bet the new ones fall into a cheaper to ship category as well.
honey I shrunk the play button
bars
Okay but as a weird home decor enthusiast I cannot imagine having to incorporate the gold play button into a room design. It's so big. I would want room for other sillier stuff on my maximalist filming backdrop.
I'd put stickers on it like a boring water bottle
I make awards for a living, and I think about that for most of them. Where are you putting this damn thing? Its larger than my arm 😂
WAKE UP STUDENT BODY IT'S TIME TO EVALUATE
@CovenantoftheFatherland-e1wI know you eat road rubber as a snack bro
AAAAAAIMAWAKE
@CovenantoftheFatherland-e1wyou literally don't have any content
i read this as time to evacuate 😭
evaluate how little we care about this topic?
im really loving see dangelo make lighthearted, and fun content. his personality really gets to shine through when the topic isnt overwhelming (of course i adore those videos too, but i also enjoy the atmosphere he brings to these more casual videos)
Remember D’angelo is 6’2 (183cm) the Gold Play button being bigger than his torso makes it RIDICULOUSLY huge
He’s so tall
Lmao
Hmm let's ask the Asian guy to check D'Angelo height.
@@mykek8000who’s that?
@@VintageToilet Shane Fan
It's like a rich person complaing about their free gift from work. Most the play buttons I see are sitting on the floor.
This is exactly how I feel 😂 It just feels a little "my diamonds aren't as big as my neighbor's diamonds, therefore they suck". I don't underestimate how much work it takes to get 100k subs. But complaining about the size of your award seems a bit tacky.
was looking for this comment
Im just cackling at the flex of pulling out all of his play buttons. Go off king you deserve it.
Let him cook
"then i got my OTHER gold play button" - you're damn right you did, king 👑
Sneak flex
“Lighter sized” is crazy. It kinda sounds like it could maybe be a thinner plaque, but not 2 times smaller!
No, no, not lighter sized, LIGHTER sized... Like a Zippo. 😂
@@JuJuAndPennyLMFAO
@@JuJuAndPenny good idea
The boxed to the plaque youtube play button is a practical improvement because I remember watching RUclipsrs have their boxed ones broken after sometime and the button just bounced around in the box
Smaller one is cheaper to make, and RUclips is the kind of company that would cut corners like this.
In this case, with the amount of people now getting one.... I must say that for once, I do kinda understand 🙈
@@jonnnnniej yup and it will keep getting easier think about it someone can get viral with one video on TikTok and make a RUclips the next day and get 100k subs on youtube if you do it right!
Except they added corners to the triangle!
... I'll see myself out
Literally every company cuts corners like this. They’re businesses. There are times to yell at companies when they skimp out on things that actually matter, like paying their employees what they deserve or anything to do with the environment or anything that actually matters. This doesn’t matter. Who cares.
i dont get why people care about the size, it saves resources and its not like the smaller size makes it less of an achievement 😂
Size MATTERS 😭
I’m just imagining D’angelo invested in 500 different copies of this outfit to put in his closet for this channel.
Wardrobe supplies by Hanna Barbera.
Controversial opinion: play buttons are very consumerist in a sense when the true reward for posting on RUclips “successfully” is getting paid MASSIVE amounts of money.
you can say this about any reward. the real prize is the work you've already done. the award is just recognizing your effort.
@@highland42 that’s not true tho lol. Many ppls work is only getting successful after they get an award. They dont get an award for reaching a big audience, but for their work. The playbutton on the other hand is just a reward for the number of ppl they have reached, not at all about their work.
@@idkwho9785 some people get a large audience because of their work
@@idkwho9785That would be true if play buttons were awarded based on views instead of subscribers.
@@positivevibesveda how are subscribers telling if the content is actually good? 💀 Jeffree Star, Shane Dawson, family channels exploiting their children, so many channels have millions of subscribers and they are absolutely horrible. Subscribers are not an indicator of good content. Just like marvel movies aren’t good because many ppl watch them.
Unpopular opinion but them big ass gold play buttons were ugly as hell 😭 sorry!! He’s right him comparing it to his torso is sending me
YUP. every time i saw one i cringed. and they're a waste of materials
I remembered D'Angelo and Jenny Nicholson's videos where they both had trouble lifting the gold play button and I definitely understand why they'd resize for practicality. I personally don't mind it being the same size as the silver because I like consistency and if I theoretically ever got that many subs, it'd drive me bonkers if they didn't line up perfectly, but I can understand how someone would be disappointed if they were expecting a bigger award for a bigger milestone.
Lighter size = cheaper to produce and ship
Always comes down to money
D'Angelo keeps us so well fed
Yeeeeees
@CovenantoftheFatherland-e1wkiss me covenant of the father land 😚
I came here to say this exact thing
@CovenantoftheFatherland-e1wyou’re not even a real person! 😂
The Jake Doolittlification of D'Angelo.... I hope not 🤐
*I am not a youtuber* but I always thought it looked so weird seeing a gold play button next to a smaller silver button. Gold medals aren’t bigger than silver medals, the gold makes it more significant. And I agree with the wasted space. But unfortunately you’re going to have a crop of RUclipsrs who always feel like they missed out on the better version now.
I get that there are so many more people creating and consuming content now, but doesn’t that also mean RUclips is making more money? This scaling down of such a sentimental object seems so unnecessary and is kind of a bummer for newer creators on the rise.
and also, how much are they even saving on this? Is it really that important to minimize the expense of the player button to the creators? This is just dumb corporate people disconnected from the real world in a room taking decisions for everyone, crazy
youtube is extremely expensive to upkeep. i doubt this saves them significant amount of money, but corporations will do anything and everything to cut expenses.
Whatever they save, they *passively* made many, many more times that literally from the single person they're nickle and diming over a plaque...
Honestly. I like the smaller one. Being able to put it on a desk instead of a wall sounds cool to me, BUT. I think it should be optional. Let people decide if they want a big or small play button.
while true, dont forget more content means more infrastructure to host the content, which is the entire reason RUclips is NOT profitable in the classical sense. Infrastructure, specially in the "AI bubble" has almost TRIPLED in cost. With how many youtube shorts there are now, I can only imagine the money Google has been literally infusing just to keep this alive in this capitalist hellscape where line must go up or else
TBH I cannot imagine dedicating so much wall space to an award - even one that means a lot. Something the size of an award certificate/degree makes sense for a plaque. Eventually people will learn to tolerate the change, like we're struggling to do with shorts, but right now they've bungled this transition in every possible way.
I think this would go over better with a less tangible addition, like every 100,000 subscribers, you get to pick one predator or nazi to get voted off of youtube.
You've been spinning the block a lot and I'm here for it.
Already successful creators complaining about a free shiny thing feels like a major first world problem ngl
No literally like why is this news
5:13 I have been summoned
HAHAHHAHA
LMFAOOO
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
LMAOO
Lol
I suspected this video would be just an opportunity to show off all of D’Angelo’s awards…and he didn’t disappoint.
I really wanna know what group of CEO's got together and thought "Americans are having a really rough go at it... How can we profit off that!!?"
So we can ban them from the country.
That is every single group of CEOs lmao
@@MagnanimousDongus fair enough
@@MagnanimousDongus of course all CEO's jobs are to make sure they have a successful company. But some are especially malicious with how they profit
ALL OF THEM DID THAT.
2:55 they lost their personality but kind of got hotter 😆😆😆
seeing these daily uploads and how happy d'angelo seems now is honestly so nice. the "things got pretty bad" video is pretty much my mental state right now, and this gives me hope things are going to get better :,) thank you d'angelo
It will get better ❤ trust
Hope it gets better soon!
Yeah i was literally on the verge of ending it all the day before my birthday a few weeks ago. I feel this comment. We got this babes. It’s hard but we got it.
❤
@@certified_mandy🧡
17:46 what a silly question
the most frustrating part is that if i hit 1M just a week before i would’ve received the OG gold playbutton😭
now my gold playbutton is lighter than my silver
damn congratulations brother, this is shitty 😭
that's gotta hurt.
This is the most disconnected from reality crybaby BS. The only people who care about this are ego driven “influencers” like you
Wow that must really suck for you 🙄 🥱
@@AshiwiZunifr you are such a looser dude imagine saying that he's a crybaby while you are fr balling your eyes out
Love that a platform made up entirely of other people’s content is like ‘we owe our creators nothing’
Not D’Angelo having an excuse to high key flex
Lighter weight, smaller size. I'm guessing someone was like 'costs less to make and ship'.
Not only is D’Angelo here to stay, he’s here to slay✨
@CovenantoftheFatherland-e1w
you dont have anything posted?
Shhhhh, you're gonna jinx it
@@louis2879it’s a spam bot, ignore it.
I never realised, seeing them in videos, how massive the gold play buttons actually were. But like, 100%, just give the creators a choice!! If RUclips is really trying to save costs, I'm sure they can figure some marketing magic out to make the smaller option seem better, and I'm sure when people have a choice there might be a bunch of people choosing the smaller option anyway, for the ease of use it has.
Literally the only good change that they've ever made is putting the comment section directly below the video so you don't have to scroll down
That change was a (pun intended) game changer
Yeah they’ve definitely had at least a few hits with design changes these past couple of years. If only the people making choices about everything else has as much sense as the design people
I don't know man. Complaining about the size of an award/trophy is very first world youtuber problems...
Shrinkflation has finally come to the RUclips play button lol
Shrinkflation is such a perfect word for it.
D'Angelo is definitely in his flex era and I'm here for it 😂
the amount of detail put into this set is so amazing, the mic wrap? iconic
I feel like maybe some etched border on the gold could make them feel more special while still making them smaller, but I'm not sure how much more difficult that would be on a large scale.
''Lost their personality but got hotter over the years just like me'' gonna be using this one from now on
"lighter sized" literally means they weigh less and there is probably a specific weight where shipping costs change dramatically. With the increase in awards being shipped, this change will cut costs enough for them to think it's worth the chance. They could have said this explicitly, but theyre counting on the backlash not being so bad it offsets the cut costs on shipping and manufacturing
They really could have just made the silver and gold play buttons the same size. It seems like that would look the best on the wall. The gold medal at the Olympics isn't a flava flav clock. It's just a different color/gold-plated silver
Maybe it's just because I'm not a RUclipsr, but the smaller size would be more desirable to me. I always thought the old ones were obnoxiously large. I get the distress if you have a large silver and then a small gold...like I'd want the "set" too, so I understand that. But overall this controversy seems really vapid.
1:43 just doing hood rat things w my friends😭😭😭
D'Angelo, this is simply not a problem. Good on them for saving resources.
RUclips also partnered a few more countries. Mostly not in Africa, but I remember seeing Acholi Pride opening her silver play button on her old channel and thinking 'Wow! They actually posted that to a Ugandan village,' knowing how much that would have cost. We're still not monetised in Rwanda (which is a damn crime - I have a friend getting over 100k views on videos and earning nothing from them) but I could see it being problematic to ship large, heavy awards to creators in many countries.
“This is a murder weapon” 😂
Im not tryna stir nothing, but less material waste for an object that only serves to reflect the vanity of a small number of successful creators is a-okay by me.
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Wanting a show for your efforts and accomplishments isn’t vanity. Only ppl bitter about other’s accomplishments think that.
@@The_only_subiwanting a physical item in exchange for something you’re passionate about IS vanity.
@@The_only_subiThat is almost quite literally the exact definition of vanity.
Absolutely
Tbh, they should have gone back to the shadowbox type and made the shadowbox smaller and thinner
16:51 That virgo season glow
i'm ok with this, youtubers have big egos, the smaller awards might humble them a bit, honestly do away with the trophy all together, you guys get a certificate now
D'Angelo cooks. We all eat. He's in his Ohio era flex. My brains gone skibbity.
I feel like having the shadowbox design kinda cements you as RUclips royalty (for better or for worse) And there is a flexing quality to that. Thats not to say the design is better, just more exclusive
Honestly.. for a purely cosmetic lil celebration plaque... I really don't think it's that bad. Less waste in the world with these - because as much as it is a nice prize, it is not worth the extra pollution in the world.
I personally loved the original awards far more because they were smaller. I would have rather they kept those back then and made the display case smaller. These new ones, even the new smaller sized ones, are honestly just.. such hulking masses of metal. Really ugly and wasteful.
So I am happy they are smaller no matter the reason - even if I am unhappy with RUclips itself for... an unbearably long list of reasons.
Man, I gotta say, I really appreciate the amount of content from you lately. I've been having a rough time trying to get back into college, and it makes my day when I relax for the evening and see that you uploaded. I'm glad that uploading this much has been enjoyable for you to do. But please don't overwork yourself! I can always rewatch old videos haha
14:37 ok now your just flexing 😂 we get it
I’m so so sorry but wrong your
@@Ohmygod_neilciccerega ahhhhh
Seeing D'Angelo whip out all his play buttons is exactly what I signed up for.
3:54 the least subtle flex
Until 14:09. 😂
This is essentially people griping over a participation party favor....How is the value reduced on a technically free piece of merch?
Real “I dropped my diamonds earring in the ocean” vibes with this video.
People are starving
I absolutely love having your videos every day but i really do hope you are not burning yourself out
Oh damn. D’Angelo uploaded. Everyone say “Thank you, D’Angelo”!
Thank you D'Angelo 🙏
Thank you, D'Angelo! 😁😋
Thank you, D'Angelo
Un-thank you D'Angelo 😈😈
Thank you D'Angelo 🐺🐺
give the small plaque to shorts creators!!!
I blame shorts… i make shorts but I also blame em
Love the sneak peak at your desk via the refelction on the playbutton
Loving how high-energy you are in this, D'Angelo!
The least they could've done is give people the option to choose between the bigger one or smaller one. With how much RUclips is worth thanks to its creators that work their asses off, for them to shrink what many see as a huge accomplishment without giving those creators their own choice about it is just a bit sh*tty.
D’Angelo knew we couldn’t watch a certain somebody while we ate lunch anymore, so he decided to step up and FEED US
yesss
Wow, you are honestly spot on lmfao
omg you should watch the shits n gigs podcast episode with noel!! it’s really funny (and obv doesn’t have the certain somebody)
Which certain somebody?
@@girlgreenivy Cody ko
I agree with youtube on this one. Shrinking the playbutton creates less polution for the environment and wastes less material
In this case it's fine, but we can't let corporations keep using this as an excuse to shrink everything.
@@XError40404 but a playbutton isn’t a product, it’s a reward. Most ppl don’t grt a reward for their regular 9/5, so I think complaining about this seems a little rich and privileged to me….
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People who do well at their 9-5s DO get rewards - it’s called a bonus. If you excel at something at a job, you tend to get rewarded. We don’t call people privileged for complaining about reduced bonuses now do we?
@@beyondredemption8179 💀 idk in what world you live but no, many ppl don’t even get a bonus. And beyond that a comparison like that is honestly so insulting to working class ppl. A playbutton isn’t a bonus, it is just a reward for the subscribers. I hope ur not comparing working a 9/5 with being a youtuber with 1 million subscribers. That is just ridiculous. Rich youtubers complaining about a playbutton is not the same as working class ppl complaining about their bonus (which is part of their salary), WE ARE NOT THE SAME. Stop being ignorant lol
@@idkwho9785
Yes, most people don’t get a bonus because most people aren’t exceptional at their jobs. That’s why the word exceptional has meaning. Similarly, less than 0.7% of all RUclips channels get more than 100K subscribers, and a lesser 0.028% reach a million because it actually takes intelligence to farm the algorithm. Making a living off RUclips is actually hard, despite what influencers want you to believe. Not only is it a struggle to get monetised in the first place because RUclips will use any excuse not to pay its creators, you also need a consistent stream of viewers. Very few RUclipsrs are the filthy rich bourgeoisie you are imagining and even less of them are making a living off RUclips at only 100K.
Furthermore, what do working class people have to do with this conversation? People working 9-5s are primarily middle class and therefore have enough purchasing power to demand a bonus or higher salary. The vast majority of working class people work in retail, manual labour or factories - which all have irregular schedules that very easily exceed 8 hours a day.
I recognise a play button isn’t a bonus, but they are comparable in the way that they both serve the same purpose - to act as proof of being good at job, stroking the workers ego, and therefore motivating them to increase their productivity.
I like the gold change. I always hated that they were different sizes.
I can't believe people are even talking about this. I like the new plaque more. It's more elegant. Who cares if the plaque RUclips sends you is a little smaller? As a RUclips Creator, I didn't know we were doing it for the plaques. Where did my memo get lost? This is the true definition of first world problems. Complaining that your 1M subscriber plaque is too small.
they made the reward commensurate with the difficulty to achieve the task. As youtube and social media has changed, so has the difficulty to reach certain milestones. Makes sense to me
What a coincidence I too wake up every morning and say "Today, I will cause problems for myself". RUclips is just like me frfr.
Idk as someone who will never have a youtube play button this feels like a complete nothing of a story to me but I get it, if I got a special little trophy I'd want it to be bigger too. Maybe if they kept the fucking AI generated content off the site they could spend the money they'd be using on bandwidth towards rewarding the people who actually create for them.
OMG I CAUGHT U SO FAST
Ikr! I never get here this fast
16:14 Return the slab! Anybody else or am I just old?
No, that is actually a very prominent memory for me😂
I can hear it
15:20 [points at screen] i know what that means now!
Probably also saves them a lot on shipping costs being both smaller and lighter.
My reaction to this: Oh no, an award is just physically smaller for reasons that aren't immediately obvious. (probably a cost saving measure.) Like... youtube does a lot of dumb things, but the size of the play buttons really isn't worth getting angry over.
Honestly if i reached 100k/1mil and my award is baby sized because of most likely cost saving measures, id be pissy.
@@Peewee-c4b but they aren't baby sized, they're just smaller
@@Peewee-c4bI feel like the views and getting the $ for it is the award.
@@Peewee-c4bYou’ll get over it. It doesn’t matter. Can we get mad at companies for doing things that are actually bad? So many people who claim to be anti-consumerist are getting mad at companies for not wasting as much material to make a plaque as big and shiny as it used to be. Seriously guys. There are things to yell at RUclips about. This is not one of the things.
So you’re telling me I can get +60 second ads with no skipping but they don’t have money to make the normal play button? Lol
Pretty sure it's about both manufacturing costs and shipping costs. Google sucks but this is kinda a reasonable change, thing is people hate change
They make billions though. 😭 By the time a person gets 1m they’ve pretty much already paid for the button themselves.
Google isn't really a struggling company , and they get paid for the ads so it's just them being greedy
@THEYuYama omg that's crazy , like legit they're profiting off your content without giving you a dime. RUclips has gone so downhill.
@@Rosa-885Companies try to make as much money as possible. It’s not exactly an interesting revelation. This isn’t something worth yelling at them over when there are actual things to get mad at companies about.
This Is my favorite D’Angelo era I love the daily uploads 💗
I think the smaller one is really cute and wouldn't take as much space.
Thanks for the explicit encouragement to get some rest, I needed that. I'm going to sleep the _hell_ out of this nap, and at the rate things have been going, when I wake up it'll probably be to a new upload. I love it here 😌
this account is my fav we missed you D’Angelo… love your “secret” channel (348k after a week and a half is wild as hell)
this whole video was just to allow D'Angelo to flex his play buttons on us, and I'm not mad about it :)