If you had asked about replacing the machine vs fixing it, then fix it. However in this case the fix is buying the part. DIY repairs are for when you can’t get the part or they don’t sell them.
I have the perfect place for you to make a pilgrimage to. In Sicily near the coastal beach resort town of Taormina there is a town atop of the nearby mountain called Castelmola. The trek up the mountain is amazing and the views are incredible. Your reward for the journey is in that town there is a bar called Bar Turrisi, this is your new bucket list destination.
“Generating” $117m, or allocating ad revenue and watch hours to these videos? Because it sounds like businesses will pay for advertisements to see numbers go up, and if numbers go up then people think ads are working. This whole economy is stupid because unless the money is coming from a consumer then it’s false. If the only thing being consumed is content, the ads are simply a hurdle that people love to keep throwing in the way and propping up this shit content. At some point market economics needs to win and balance things out and advertisers need to check their ROI, but that will never happen because new metrics will be made to justify the marketing teams or 3rd party consultants these companies are paying to put out these ads.
If there was a filter for “unmonetised” this house of cards would fall on its ass. Real people uploading real content to share for real consumers to enjoy and view.
Before monthly subscriptions there were yearly ones of several thousands of dollars, and before that it was a huge lump sum in the tens of thousands for most software with one off costs which in some cases included purchasing proprietary hardware to actually use the software. Subscriptions and start up entry costs have always been bad.
The legal way is to be affiliated with an educational institution as they take on those costs and you can use the software they purchase. Or in some cases you get access to educational licenses to learn a software that you can then credit to your portfolio and CV so you can be employable.
Though these days free open source and piracy are easier than ever, so it’s more about finding a workflow with a set of tools that you can do what you need to do, to create what only you can create which in the end is what will set you out from the rest.
It’s rare these days that someone is going to ask for files in a proprietary format, so it’s actually easier to produce a result that someone is able to consume, technically speaking.
For print and digital images both bitmap and vector
Like all the other content grifters and their tutorials or get rich quick scams.