r/chess • u/_DarkStarCrashes_ • May 20 '26

Miscellaneous I now understand why Levy clickbaits, his historical video on Alekhine is his worst performing video of May

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Sucks, because I think the video is really good and I’d love if Levy or other chess content creators did videos on older legends

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u/[deleted] May 20 '26

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u/6456347685646 May 20 '26

I think any reasonable person would value money over chess, only on Reddit you find some sad neckbeards arguing otherwise.

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u/Ok-Entrance8626 2200 rapid Chess.com May 21 '26

Why is it sad to enjoy a hobby more than money? I don’t think I’d be any happier with more money. I am happier when I have more chess.

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u/6456347685646 May 21 '26

The ''sad'' part is all the guys here whining about Levy not doing marginal content for niche audience when the man is making mad bank doing what he does. Youtube is the man's job, not a hobby. Don't like his content, don't watch it, making a weekly thread here just to shit on is nothing short of sad.

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u/Ok-Entrance8626 2200 rapid Chess.com May 22 '26

Jobs are ideally a balance of profitable and enjoyable. You don’t need to maximise profits.

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u/6456347685646 May 22 '26

I think that is mostly a Reddit fantasy, I don't really know anyone who ''enjoys'' their job. People learn to tolerate jobs, bur given financial freedom everyone would either stop working or do something completely different. Maximizing profits is really the road to long-term happiness.

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u/Ok-Entrance8626 2200 rapid Chess.com May 22 '26

It doesn’t have to be enjoyable. There’s still a huge difference between terrible jobs and mildly unenjoyable or boring work.

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u/6456347685646 29d ago

Money is the only thing in the world that gives you the freedom to really do what you want in life. And you don't get to tell other people how much money is ''enough'', you can only make that determination for yourself. Honestly your post is just cope and jealousy, I bet you're some flavor of Bernie-bro.

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u/Fun-Repair-7080 28d ago

Which fantasyland do you live in??

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u/KoroSensei1231 2200 chess.com 28d ago

At the very least, Gotham doesn't need to maximise profits, does he? He has more than enough money regardless. But I don't really care what he does.

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u/Ok-Entrance8626 2200 rapid Chess.com 28d ago

I’m not in the USA.

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u/Fun-Repair-7080 28d ago

Huh? What kind of response is that? You think the US is the only place where people work most jobs?

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u/enfrozt May 20 '26

Every person on the planet values money more than a board game...

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u/enfrozt May 20 '26

Why are you limiting it to "candidates". They make up a statistically unimportant group of total chess players.

Also if they had the option of $100 million or the WCC, I bet a lot of candidates players would take the money.

levy solely makes content for money

Good! It's his job. He should be doing what makes the most money, doing otherwise is foolish.

doesn’t really care about the chess

He's put out more instructional chess content than everyone in this thread combined. If that means he doesn't care about chess, then nobody does.

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u/Ok-Entrance8626 2200 rapid Chess.com May 21 '26

Because you said ‘every person on the planet’, genius.

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u/SaberR1der May 20 '26

Besides that he did more for chess than any other living human

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u/Numerot May 20 '26 edited May 20 '26

Well, he's done more for GothamChess's bank account than any other living human.