Talk:Epic Rap Battles of History 58/@comment-26966462-20151029093753/@comment-4490782-20151029171701

It's nothing to do with 1000 views = 1 dollar. Money is made when advertisers put videos on YouTube. They can choose one of two plans. The first one is Pay-Per-Click. Every time somebody clicks on the advert, the advertiser pays YouTube money. The second is Pay-Per-View. Every time someone watches an entire advert or 30 seconds (whichever comes first), the advertiser much pay YouTube. This second one is the one used on the Skip Ad ones.

Also, YouTube Red won't eliminate ads for everyone, only those who sign up to it at its subscription rate. The only benefits are a loss of ads and access to exclusive content by some big name YouTubers. It won't change the normal YouTube at all. Plus, the money for subscriptions goes to providers as well as YouTube themselves so it won't matter that much.

Finally, the last wave of battles was released much more recently than the other ones so you can't expect as many views. Plus, every time a new wave of battles comes out, more people discover ERB and see the suggested videos and explore their channel and watch the other ones, so new battles fuel old ones too. And 16,000,000 views on RoboCop vs Terminator is incredible, you can't say that ERB are 'dying' when they're one of the most subscribed channels on YouTube and amass millions of views within weeks of upload.