videos for thousands of hours is a big team and then putting them on the internet for free is a weird business model over the years we've relied on a number of different things to stay afloat commercial work for NGOs startups all corporations sponsorships and grants by companies or organizations we struck a deal with funk from German public broadcasting to revive the German channel and with Wix to start a Spanish channel but the reality is we can only do what we do because of you our two most important sources of income by far come from your direct support merchandise and patreon so if you want to help us stay afloat and keep making more videos you can directly support courtesans by getting something beautiful from our store or by becoming a patreon and joining the bird army don't feel obligated though watching engaging or sharing our videos is already helping us a lot but if you want to support us directly thank you so much you're making our videos free for everyone you are enabling us to practice and improve to stay independent and to work on ambitious projects that would be too scary or too big otherwise courtesans did not start with an end goal in mind it began as a personal project because it felt good to make something with time and love and this is still true today making these videos is our goal doing the work every day and getting better to make science beautiful and interesting thank you so much for sticking with us for seven years and from our first subscriber to the ten millionth this journey has been so wild and so much fun and we can't wait to share the stuff we're working on right now with you in a year or maybe two we want to make matter videos like this from time to time now if you want to ask us questions that you want us to answer you can do so on reddit linked in the description
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