Zacian

Next time, don’t try rage-bait or engagement-farm on us. We’ve been here for a long time. If needed, we can do reverse rage-bait and pull in more eyeballs than you ever have. Just wanted to share something. - The videos you watch, the sheets you use, and the platform that may allow unlimited submissions in the next few days may look free to you, but they are not free. Someone is paying that cost so you can use them without paying anything. - The monthly salary I gave up at Google (YouTube AdSense is not even half of it, FYI) - AWS bills (way, way more than my Google salary, FYI) - Employee costs (~35 people as of today) - Office Rentals - Laptops, Insurance etc for people who work for us Do you know who pays for it? The TUF+ users. Because of them, millions of people are able to use TUF for free today. YT pays peanuts, till data I have not even made 1 crore from ad-sense despite having ~180M views. I don't want to sell myself for betting apps, I will prefer running a paid model to run this. Obviously I make more in this, and I get a lot more mental peace, which is why I chose this path. So when you promote theft, defend piracy, or support reselling, you are not just hurting us - you are hurting yourself, or someone you know, who benefits from the free content because they cannot afford paid options elsewhere. Who hasn’t pirated at some point? Fair point. But I can assure you, most of us did not turn that into a business and make ₹2L out of it. It is ₹2L today. Tomorrow it can be ₹20L. Eventually, it starts damaging the funnel that keeps all of this running - and that leads to the exact problem you see below. Cheers. This is not going anywhere. It was just a one-time post to remind you that the “free” things you see are not actually free. Someone, somewhere, is paying for them.

Next time, don’t try rage-bait or engagement-farm on us. We’ve been here for a long time. If needed, we can do reverse rage-bait and pull in more eyeballs than you ever have. Just wanted to share something. - The videos you watch, the sheets you use, and the platform that may allow unlimited submissions in the next few days may look free to you, but they are not free. Someone is paying that cost so you can use them without paying anything. - The monthly salary I gave up at Google (YouTube AdSense is not even half of it, FYI) - AWS bills (way, way more than my Google salary, FYI) - Employee costs (~35 people as of today) - Office Rentals - Laptops, Insurance etc for people who work for us Do you know who pays for it? The TUF+ users. Because of them, millions of people are able to use TUF for free today. YT pays peanuts, till data I have not even made 1 crore from ad-sense despite having ~180M views. I don't want to sell myself for betting apps, I will prefer running a paid model to run this. Obviously I make more in this, and I get a lot more mental peace, which is why I chose this path. So when you promote theft, defend piracy, or support reselling, you are not just hurting us - you are hurting yourself, or someone you know, who benefits from the free content because they cannot afford paid options elsewhere. Who hasn’t pirated at some point? Fair point. But I can assure you, most of us did not turn that into a business and make ₹2L out of it. It is ₹2L today. Tomorrow it can be ₹20L. Eventually, it starts damaging the funnel that keeps all of this running - and that leads to the exact problem you see below. Cheers. This is not going anywhere. It was just a one-time post to remind you that the “free” things you see are not actually free. Someone, somewhere, is paying for them.

No longer unemployed 🥳 Although it's 4LPA, but this is what I could get with my current skills. This is atleast better than being unemployed. The journey to upskill will begin once I relocate and settle.