Originally Posted by Jel

No, they made SOME small operations less money because those small operations didn't adapt, and who thought they could keep the same bottom line without putting in the work needed to adapt (ie me, circa 2010).

I made great money before the tubes came along, but I was doing an absolute maximum of 4 hours a day, and that was a looooooong day for me. An hour or less was my usual working day. These days I put in 8 - 14 hour days but make a lot more than I did in 2006/7/8/9 and that is because I adapted to 'life after tubes'. 2010 - 2013 or so I couldn't see the wood for the trees and was a 'click snob'.. I wanted 300 SE clicks to my site as opposed to 300,000 views of a video. I was a fucking idiot