Colage:

djyman15:

And as for the "Naruto montage thing" well, that is a different story. I'm more referring to the "Christian the Lion" and "chocolate rain" type of content.

Right, but the people in both of those examples benefited from the exposure they gained because of Youtube. Same goes for most of the 10,000,000+ views club. In those cases, there is a mutually beneficial relationship: Youtube gets the traffic driven by these personalities, and the personalities in turn get a platform for self-promotion.

If they expect any compensation from Youtube (and as far as I know, none of the significant 'celebrities' have come forward demanding as much), then they should also consider cutting Youtube in on the revenues made from their book/advertisement deals.

Haha! I get what you're saying, and it seems like a fair deal to me. I doubt we'll be seeing a lot of book/ad deals though.