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A two-hour Oya video costs roughly the same to produce as a low-budget independent feature film. He cannot recoup that cost via YouTube’s $0.002 per view ad rate. He would need 17.5 million views per video just to break even. By keeping his work behind a paywall (his website), he ensures that the people who watch his cats are the people who value the craft.
: In 2017, the Tokyo District Court sentenced him to one year and ten months in prison , which was suspended for four years. Makoto Oya Cat Videos Free