welcome to the video chances are you just watched an ad before you got here because YouTube serves something called pre-roll ads because guess what every time you click on the video I get paid some money thank you very much for clicking but did you know that AdSense is not the only way that myself and other creators get paid in fact there's another Avenue that creators monetize on that isn't really discuss too much but that is channel memberships so every time you go to somebody's Channel you'll see the Subscribe button and then the join button after you hit subscribe and that basically says join my channel as a member and by becoming a channel member you have access to a whole tier of benefits based on how much money you decide to pay now most people who decide to become channel members access level one which is usually a dollar $2 sometimes $5 and you could access things like emote and maybe some like exclusive drops or whatever it ends up being but what about the top tier the tier that's sometimes 10 15 20 100 bucks I'm interested in what lies in there because nobody really has access to these because it's a bit too expensive but guess what for the sake of research I'll be spending presumably thousands of dollars on this video to figure out what the elite memberships look like is it worth it so without further Ado grab your popcorn and let's do this all right starting off with MrBeast and I'm going to click the join button right here and it looks like there's actually only one tier for his channel membership so it's not super exclusive but still five bucks is five bucks it says you get loyalty badges next year name in the comments and live chat and looks like a bunch of money so that's kind of fun and the benefits are nothing you get nothing I just need money to fund my expensive videos okay MrBeast well I'm about to contribute meaningfully cuz I know your videos are about $5 per month to do so let's join up and there you have it welcome it's great to have you as a member perks unlocked see everything you get all right let's check out my perks and as he had mentioned I get basically nothing but I do have a new member badge which is kind of exciting and it's a dollar bill so let's see if this is actually worth it if I feel better from commenting on a MrBeast video I'm going to pick a random one so let's go ahead and pick world's most dangerous trap all right and I'm going to comment hello Mrbeast period period I don't know why I want to do two right there and ah there you go look now I have a dollar sign next to my name that is very cool hopefully by the way these aren't recurring because otherwise because I'm going to be out a lot of money every single month so remind me please to cancel my memberships after I do this so that was mildly disappointing maybe I show speed's top tier won't be so we're going to go ahead and join speed the world's biggest streamer we have one two here's his top tier $10 a month second tier speed level alien so it looks like what do I have includes access to perks from other levels what that's it oh here we go okay so I get loyalty badges I think that's it what so there's no exclusive perks this is terrible look I'm going to join anyways all right here we go so see my perks oh wait a second oh my gosh I have access to a secret live stream of I show speed hold on this is actually insane I did not expect to see this okay so I have a lot of these Badges and stuff so let me go ahead and comment on maybe a short I'll use like the Ronaldo Emoji I shows speed and disguise so I'm going to comment how do I have access to it what do I do here how do I use it can I not do it on my desktop oh my gosh this is not looking good I got to find somebody else who's a member maybe except nobody's a member of course okay so maybe not shorts let's go to like the co- field video aha here we go I show speed okay so I have Ronaldo so I'm just going to post that okay I feel kind of good about that it's really hard tiny to see I'm a new member and I'm verified that that's cool I think that's a good look right I think that's pretty nice but let's go ahead and watch this little secret live stream and what are these numbers 456 4567 898 989 interesting he's got a lot of members wow he's got at least 1 thousand people up voting it good money for Speed at least 10,000 G's a month so here's the secret live stream I'm actually this is bang for your buck right here so let's see what we have right now it's just a terrible angle of speed's chin which is fine don't tell me this entire stream is him setting up the stream I'm so glad I pay Aisha speed $120 every year for my annual hidden stream of 3 minutes which is just is chin wow there's the chat coming in now coming in fast yo yo yo yo yo yo so this is what it feels like being a rich yo guys let's see if this gets anywhere I'm doing a test stream TCH you feel what I'm saying bro I feel you thanks for the test feed thank bro thank you bro my fa I like kind of wasted your time bro at least he acknowledged he just truly wasted not just my time CU now this is in the video so your time was wasted as well so if you want to go to speed and say you wasted my time that's completely Justified cuz everybody just wasted a ton of time right here this was just an absolute mess and the fact that we including you now because we've all witnessed this are paying members of speed gang I think that's what it's called right a little disappointing not going to lie all right now we're moving on to PewDiePie who was previously the world's most subscribed YouTuber and if you join him over here we have a floor gang tier 3 which is a very exclusive membership $7. 99 a month so you get exclusive tier three floor gang only live stream so a lot of a lot of the streamers what they're doing is giving people exclusive live streams shout outs and videos that's exciting I will be looking forward to that gameplay with you that's fun I get to play with Pewdiepie just for $8 a month it's kind of a steal exclusive merch oh my gosh and only fans wait a second all right you guys are about to see something crazy all right let's do this join up and VOA so wow I've unlocked over 20 members only post okay let's check this out floor gang tier three perk info so I have all this stuff yada yada exclusive access all pass live streams okay wait a second PewDiePie playing Minecraft 13 hours ago this feels like an Easter egg this feels like I shouldn't be seeing this hold on why does he look like uh Zeke Jagger hopefully you guys understand that reference this feels so illegal seeing like 40-year-old PewDiePie playing Minecraft I have to murder a sheep and then I can sleep this is actually insane not going to lie like one of my least favorite game plays is Minecraft so I'm not going to sit here and watch the whole thing so I'm sorry that I'm wasting uh my membership he's just more chilled out you know he's not doing any the bridge incid and stuff at this point in his career so it's just probably him just literally playing Minecraft I wouldn't be surprised if his kid was nearby okay streaming alone in the dark for about 3 hours and 15 minutes all right well let's see what that looks like alone in the dark he is not alone in the dark it looks like it's light in his room unless this game is called alone in the dark so PewDiePie's lying to his members all right El we got member live so there's another member Live finished IB the highest up votes decide what we play next okay so it looks like I can't vote anymore in this little bit of a disappointment but that's fine more live streams yada yada okay here we go hello members sorry this side of my channel has been neglected I think it' be cool to use this more in the future now that I'm getting settled in being a dad in Japan what do you want to see I clicked add option by mistake and YouTube isn't letting me removed okay looks like people want more live streams and he did it I did a thing squid Industries only a th000 units available open to Members First okay don't even have access to the exclusive merch so what's left I need the only fans okay how do I get access to PewDiePie's only fans photos of my legs where I'm trying to search as a tier three member I should have access to these things and it doesn't look like I have access to these things shout outs and videos that's what I'm excited about you're in the outro of PewDiePie's videos so let me go ahead and watch one of his videos and maybe per chance I was in the outro by I wasn't all right I I think it's safe to say that PewDiePie forgot about the perks so I don't think it's worth in this case being an exclusive member to PewDiePie so now we have Mark plier who I think is one of PewDiePie's friends maybe maybe not maybe I'm just making up that friendship and if we join him I was told and it looks to be confirmed that there's a $100 a month membership what mmmmm $100 who is part of this so I get member only videos live stream Discord access Community posts okay from dangerously high levels of M I don't think there's much about there are no perks here only M's okay so he's actually telling us there's no perks so I'm going to go ahead and join this he's a great salesman what can i s say so now I'm officially a 5m membered so I've got 20 member only post but it looks like there's nothing really for mmmmm only oh it's mmm only time okay this is great I love seeing this there is a secret live stream for just the mmmmm hello all right let's see what what are we getting into are you just literally chatting I thought he was gaming he's just yapping for 50 minutes what are you showing off here Sam Yang which many people don't know is the company uh that makes the same lenses called broken on okay there's more Japanese the glitch freaked me out all right let's see this can take the hit of being looked at by as the bad guy wait a second I didn't even see it what happened I don't understand the glitch that people are talking about fun fact the number of this mm is the same number of tracks of the Delux I don't know what that means okay Markiplier so far it's nice that I get like a 50-minute video for Markiplier it's kind of wild and he does a lot of mmm this definitely isn't terrifying okay what's some other cool things I got here I know he said that there's not much for it remember only videos here we go here's a playlist uh what's like a fun one I could look at that nobody's ever seen before Merry Christmas Merry Christmas thank you so much for being a member of the channel I know I haven't done much for the members exclusively but I just wanted to say thank you so much for supporting me throughout this year and I just wanted to let you know that 2021 is going to get a little crazy for members 2021 was supposedly crazy but it looks like Markiplier that all you did was released consecutive mmmm streams so I'm not really convinced let's see what else you got for me okay we got member only Community post live streams videos I've seen all these let's see these Community posts okay the community posts are just the mmm stuff that's not good all right well I think I just wasted $100 but hey for content right for the sake of content now we get to see what the elite like to live like right there's a channel called yogs cast and if you join them there's apparently like a cool tier this is called you are cooltimes 8 and what they do is that they provide to you the warmest fuzziest feelings so as somebody who's a little down in the dumps today no not really but let's say I am for the sake of this bit right here if I were to purchase this apparently you get exactly the same as paying $4. 99 but you feel eight times as cool as them so let's see if I feel way more cooler than you are cool people so let's see does being rich actually make you happy the experiment starts now all right just like that perk has been unlocked see the perks here we go I am here show off all the perks yada yada okay so we have Discord now let's see if we actually have the warmest fuzzy feelings so let me go ahead and interact with one of his members who are likely not going to be the elite ones for instance believer I doubt you're an Elite member so let's look at you now do I feel better about myself in fact eight times more than believer 1980 yeah I think I do I think that was worth every penny I actually feel pretty dang good right now I feel like a million dollars no pun intended I feel like $40 cuz that's what I spent so I don't know who the yog cast is but they did a good job of making me feel good I must say and they were very straightforward with what they were actually giving me let look at their perks again though maybe there's something I'm missing there could be something that's like more Elite so let's check it out here polls I would love to answer a poll but people aren't really using the poll I feel like the poll is a very underutilized Community post thing okay draw my Pokémon I'd love to be in this but it looks like you can all right so for $40 you can feel good about yourself or you could just enrich Rich YouTubers which maybe don't do all right so now we're on Trisha pis blonde Sund doll for MJ again I don't know what that user name is it's kind of insane but let's go ahead and join her top tier Trish sticks for $25 I'm told is a very interesting tier for the elite exclusive billionaires out there you could connect with her on social media that's kind of fun so you could like just send her a DM I guess and exclusive member only live chats which I have a feeling that doesn't happen much but I guess she'll connect with me on social media okay let's see if this is true all right now that I'm Elite what do I do connecting on social media so let me go ahead and send her a DM and I'll say hey I'm a okay all right so here's Trisha pis her main channel is called Trisha pis backup for some reason looks like she just had a baby very cute congratulations to her and her husband or whatever okay great love to see it let's go ahead and send her a message all right so here we go so hello Trisha I am a tier three subscriber on YouTube would be great if we could connect let's see the direct words connect on social media thanks so much and congrats on the beautiful baby ciao what's how do I not be weird here goodbye no am I overthinking this thanks oh I said thanks already I don't know how to would be great if we could connect on social I look like a bot I don't care send let's see if she gets back to me or if this is just a scam it's probably not looking too good because she only follows 894 people to her 1.
2 million followers but hey let's see other than this two years ago it looks like she was doing some get ready with me stuff but yeah overall looks like a lot of YouTubers probably forget about their members which is sad to see so most of the time if you're subscribing to a YouTuber it's just to get emotes and to just support the YouTuber cuz you're really not going to get much back especially these OG YouTubers who didn't grow up with this like why would they remember that they have to provide for you certain perks nonetheless let's keep it moving all right so now we're moving on to lwig who is is a live streamer at heart which means he probably has better perks than everybody else because memberships are more sort of a thing in the streaming community so let's see what he's got now his top tier it's only $6 still Elite because it's more than LBD It's called Power Social Club includes access to perks from previous levels plus book club anime club Movie watchalong and YouTube advice that's kind of goed for $6 a month wow uh last week of every month I make a video about the book yall voted we read the anime y voted we watch wow this is interesting okay let's join $6 only okay and here we go let's see the perks let's see what we got looks like uh let's chat picking book plus movie YouTube channel review so he reviews people's YouTube channels that's kind of cool wow this is actually uh quite cool I think that would be my main advice this is actually very cool so he has 82 people who are members that submit advice then he has a live stream in which he reviews their Channel I did not know he did this this is actually a very cool thing oh I kind of want to do that maybe I'll review people's YouTube channels I don't know if I would make that entire video or not but perhaps if you have a YouTube channel reach out to me not on email last time I got blasted on email so please just send me like an Instagram message and then maybe I'll give some advice I think that's a fun idea so thank you for the inspiration that is very cool what book are we reading this month ooh okay let's go Dune cuz I like Timothy shalam yeah that ended up winning cool and then other than that it's just like a lot of book stuff Minecraft Olympics them for us like by the all right definitely not watching that I think so far this might have been the most value given and was for the least amount of money so you don't even have to be that exclusive $6 a month yes it's 72 bucks a year which could be a bit pricey just to give to somebody but not the worst of value in the world so not bad lwig I like that very good all right now we're moving on to penguin zero which is moist critical AKA Charlie and you'll see he thanks channel members but what do the exclusive members get the elite well if you join up we have big and then huge for $5 a month so quite steep compared to big but we get emotes but then we also get member shout outs which we like early access to new videos which we like and then behind the scenes videos so I like the actually behind the scenes videos it's kind of interesting cuz his videos seem pretty low budget just like sitting in the chair spitting saying some like crazy so let's go ahead and join all right and voila so welcome it's great to have you as a member thank you very much Charlie perks unlocked you've got five member only post let's see okay so he actually posts a good amount tier listing chicken wings taste testing dog treats did he upload that to the main channel oh he did but it's members only interesting so there's actually a lot of members only channels like a Wings tier list okay wait I'm excited to dive into this let's go ahead and watch like uh big things are coming hey here's some fresh members on exclusive content for you I'm let the cat out of the bag here and spill the beans on some secret upcoming projects we've got going on and I also kind of want your input on some other things we could do kind of in the S vein we're opening a magic the Gathering Alpha starter deck okay uh not really interested in Magic the Gathering but that's fine what's another thing we got we have five guys tier list let's see where the tier list is at any point looks like it doesn't put it on the screen which isn't helpful because it's usually nice to kind of track what the things look like so pretty lazy Members Only video but that's fine let's go ahead and see trying to talk to ghosts that's interesting I'll take oh Jesus you got me twice no no no the what let's see if it works little shy a little shy how old are you you know what ghosts actually exist and I have proof right here I know I show this picture a lot but guess what it's a real picture you'll notice that I'm not in the picture okay and you're probably like oh Sam that's you it's not because I'm the one taking the picture and if you examine the picture closely if we Zoom it in a little bit what you see is that there is a group of boys which was my baseball team we were in North Carolina I lied we were in Delaware we were on a beach I know this story looks like I'm lying cuz I'm forgetting the location but please it's okay I'm like 40 years old so I forget things and then I snap the picture we look at the picture and in real time there's a ghost and it's not like anybody's moving cuz sometimes you're like oh that's like the motion blur everybody's just chilling so like why is there a ghost because they're real obviously so that's all I have to say about that let's move on pretty good perks I suppose for moist critical for six bucks you get some exclusive videos like ghost talking all right now it's time to move on to laser beam 22 million subscribers actually massive does he still post a lot okay looks like once a month or so love to see it okay so an Australian man let's join him up so his top tier exclusive tier is called Dram Team Beam Team if you join it the perks are you are number one your parents automatically love you more and so do I I need this okay perks unlocks let's see my perks for being an Elite member yes I'm number one officially take that so I I'm number one I I didn't say it he did he's calling me number one and also what you got is a secret fortnite Stream 5 hours oh my gosh welcome thank you anyone about this stream top secret I feel like the start to streams is always so awkward there has to be a better way to start up stream like while you're waiting for people to come in and stuff like instead of just like sitting there like hey what's up guys hey sh hey we're going to start soon am I is everything good it's just like a little outdated obsolete if you will just like why aren't we just starting off like click live like all right what's going on everybody okay we're going to get right into the content it's too much like waiting and like awkwardness there's always some weird tension going on I feel like I'm not supposed to be there with that being said looks like he's just playing fortnite all right moving on to Cory Kenshin one of the biggest YouTubers and he has perks as well which huh you only get one emote you literally only get a sword this might be the most Bare Bones tearing I've ever seen am I going to buy it though absolutely cool so now that I have it this is his most recent video 11 months ago so I'm going to go ahead and use it slice you know it doesn't really work on dark mode too well but you trust that it's there I promise I'm a member right I got the sword next to my name kind of hype kind of cool good slice right all right now we are on guava juu guava juu uh used to be a massive YouTuber looks like he still posts pretty regularly and if you join up his thing super guava juicers for $25 looks like you get a member shout out which is I will give random member shout outs in the videos I will happily take that I will take a guava juice shout out so let's go ahead and join him right here let's see first off let's see if he's actually true to that oh my gosh he's posting 11-hour videos what 11 hours I didn't know you could even do that on YouTube anyways all right looks like nobody gets a shout out I don't know if I trust it I feel like it's a waste of money to subscribe to my boy guava juice am I going to do it though absolutely because I have to do it for the research I trust that guava juice is going to do the right thing and include me in his next video because I am now officially okay I said that and I ended up getting blocked by my payment provider that's kind of embarrassing cuz it looks like I don't have enough funds but I think it's mainly because I've been doing too much weird activity by purchasing like 10 different channel members at this point so I'm going to go ahead and talk to my bank so I can go ahead and buy some more because that's a a little embarrassing all right looks like we officially good I got the okay from my bank I just told them that no this isn't like some random Russian dude hacking me and trying to ultimately buy guava juice Channel memberships it is me I'm just having some fun so let's go ahead and actually join I every single form of payment is being blocked I don't understand what's going on a few moments later all right so I think we're good now so my actual credit card that I use regularly was declined for whatever reason and I can't get in contact so I thought the video had to be over but then I remembered I have this card called the carrot card it's like this Creator Centric credit card that you could put unlimited spend on so shout out to Eric and the carrot team they're dope so I now have that set up so I think I'll be able to proceed with the video so let's become a super guava juicer and get shout outs in his videos bam there you go welcome it's great to have you as a member thank you so much now you know what I have a I have a lot of respect for Mrguava and I think that this is going to be good sup that's nice well here I am so I I'm going to get a shout out I will give random members shout outs and videos so if you guys notice by the way at any point in this video if I've subscribed to something that gives me a shout out can you tag me in the videos or let me know if I'm ultimately shouted out in a video it'll be hard to keep track of everything and that brings us to arguably the most expensive Channel membership on YouTube and that is for Wasabi Productions which actually also features guava juu and then Alex Wasabi so if you join up here you'll notice that they have Wasabi God for $499 a month 500 USD what do you get a framed photo of you on our set which is kind of cool actually let's see what they have to say about this I need to be convinced $999. 99 yes yes with this tier you will get the Royal Treatment oh yeah as long as you're a Wasabi God member we will proudly print out a picture of you and put it on our set so you can be part of Wasabi Productions history forever okay I'm sold that's that's sick and then you also get undying love and gratitude which would be great for me to have so I need it for my ego I'm joining when I say I've tried to join Wasabi Production 20 times with four different cards that is not an exaggeration that is truthful and I cannot I don't Google just won't verify it's like they don't want me to become a member buy your transaction can't be completed another card buy your transaction can't be completed okay let's go PayPal your transaction can be completed and then lastly I literally hooked up every single payment to my name and it looks like none of it works so I tried my hardest to try to become a $500 member for Wasabi Productions maybe I'll try again later but I have to get on the phone with Google or something cuz this is ridiculous all I want to do is become a massive member for them I try to do it on my phone anything it's just maybe they took it away the same time I'm trying to get it I don't know all right so now we're moving on to the Stokes twins who every time I look at their Channel I can't believe how massive they've become it's just absurd to look at how they have 70 million subscribers like when did this happen and look at their views I don't know it's just it's crazy never mind the fact that this is literally MrBeast Banner but I am going to join their membership and it's only $7 now the reason why I'm considering this Elite is because I think the average age of their member has to be somebody under the age of 13 and $7 a month when you're like 13 if you're 13 or less watching this video let me know how much money you get per month you obviously don't work but maybe you get like an allowance maybe just have some like bonds do people still do that you probably don't have that much money so this is pretty much Elite for their demographic so I'm going to join and let you guys know what's in here all right and there you go it's great to have you as a member so let's check out the perks here so I got loyalty badges photos and Status stuff yada yada okay now is there anything exclusive for members doesn't look like it this might have been the biggest waste yet early access to new videos member shout outs priority reply to comments there is literally nothing here like at all there was never been a member post maybe if I comment on a video let's go to a random video we'll go to busting 200 myths all right all right I at least have the membership badge love to see that okay so I'm officially a Stokes twins elite member all right so now we have Smash and smash has smashy smash tastic and smash royalty which sounds nice and you got Members Only Watch parties watch the newest video along with us that's fun okay and I didn't get blocked on that one so all is good I've unlocked 20 members only post that is cool to see uh this is what the watch party looks like let's check it out no me me being like hey let's spend time talking about this I'm guessing they're watching the video alongside right that makes the most sense video starts at 4:45 okay nothing these cops are stupid they've got nothing on us what do you mean us that's actually kind of fun to do a watch party I would kind of like to do that maybe I'll do that in the future I'll do like a nice watch party but not for members I'll just do it normally but then what's the exclusivity when I just post the video I don't know exactly how it works I'll work out the details but I think that's a cool perk cool that we get to watch smos watch their videos but let's see what else we got all right the making of okay they had a smash royalty live stream hi smash royalty members as we gear up okay what I'm realizing is there's not that much good content for members outside of like exclusive video content which I guess that in of itself is good but there hasn't been anything that's like really Justified spent there's there's been nothing that's just like oh you have to get this this is insane yada yada now whatever you do please do not become a member of the samucha channel there is really nothing going for you there are a couple of emojis and badges but this is a PSA to say that do not do it it's not worth your money in fact I've amended all of the tiers at this point there's tier one which you technically get to get your like emojis and this that and the other and then I eliminated tier two which used to have Early Access to merch and then the last one is do not buy not worth it it's only there literally for the video so if you buy it you're getting absolutely nothing but do not buy it I will be upset if you become a member to this I really this is not the purpose of this I actively am trying to get people away so I can delete memberships entirely I just don't want to take it away from people but do not do it look at me look at me real quick look at me in the eyes Okay me and you it's just me and you all right don't buy a samucha membership I will be so mad that I will come and I will find you maybe that's too much of a threat okay I will look at you in the eyes and I will make you feel uncomfortable for a really long period of time like I'm doing now so don't do it now another exclusive members CL comes in the form of technoblades membership and so you could join him here and his King Pig tier is $20 a month and because I support technoblade always I will be joining this you do get a perk custom name color and the member Discord honestly not the greatest perk but we still love technoblade so I'm going to do this and I'm not going to be a member in the Discord and VOA just like that and we have 12 members only post which is always a nice thing to see so let's see what we got here the Discord has fallen to the pit bulls all right attention rich people that is us because we have bought all the elite membership so I'm assuming he is talking to us only billionaires can see this once again of course only rich people can see this see technoblade got it he understood capitalism at its core and that is what we are right now because we are feeding into uh the elite membership status going to join a golf club after this only cool people can read this message okay well that's cool I'm glad that we have a ton of membership perks now for technoblade lovely all right now we're moving on to jelly 24 million subscribers people forget Jelly's kind of goated honestly and he's still posting too doing he's kind of killing it good for jelly I love seeing that and if you join up jelly has three mini VIP and then Elite jellies and like I said we are Elite today and so we will be purchasing Elite jellies for $7.
