YouTube: The Online Predator's Best Friend
YouTube claims it will protect you from bad actors and harmful people by removing anything that explicitly criticizes bad actors and harmful people. This is quite literally the policy at play, as I learned when I had a bunch of videos taken down for being pro-gambling despite the fact they spoke out against betting sites. There is a good chance this video will be removed as well, because while YouTube claims to be against various forms of predatory exploitation, its behavior demonstrates whose side they're really on.
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This is not a solution to youtube being a pile of turds, but have you considered getting on nebula? I watch everything i can there because at least my interests and the platform and creators have more aligned interests.
Comparable to Roblox Schlep situation. Schlep was hunting down bad people, David bans and C&D'ed the user for doing that, and the situation blows up. Youtube is showing signs of enshittification in recent times. Starting with the increase of ads, the more-intrusive formats of ads on TV and even on the mobile app, and of course, many people reporting inappropriate (pornographic) ads and some even got the report rejected. Youtube better not have sliding ads covering content on the desktop site, in a similar way the mobile and TV version has, when you have all the f*cking space on the screen.
My liege, hearing of your noble works being utterly erased gives this wretched supplicant great worry. Oft, whilst toiling, I fancy a return to days past and binge the fuck out of your videos chronologically. Knowing the collection of scriptures are incomplete would shattered mine completionist mind.
Hey Steph, good video. If you got the time Alex Aleksic (aka etymologynerd on the internet) book Algospeak goes into the evolution of words online, like “unalive”. I found it interesting.
This video brought to you by FanDuel. /s Fucking YouTube. I'm sorry, Steph. You are right: what a gross mess. But still, thank God for you. And if you do continue to post content, wherever that happens to be, I'll be there. 🙂
Fantastic work as always and worth the wait! Keep that cauldron bubblin! ❤️🔥💀
Honestly, I do second the notion of another platform. Maybe Peertube? For archiving sake if nothing else, especially since you said yourself that you don't get as much revenue from YouTube anymore.
Would a class action lawsuit work?
Doubtable. As a private coorporation they have the right to bn from their platform whatever they so choose. If they where showing stuff that is against the law it would be a different matter. At best a Lawsuit about freedom of speech in public online forums could be frakensteined together but that's a real longshot. I my opinion anyway.
I'm glad you're still railing against this BS and are still pushing the data driven undeniable fact that gambling is bad. Always knew gambling was bad but your older videos made me realize just how truly awful and addictive it is. Keep up the good fight, can't wait for the essays on topics you're excited to talk about as those have been really amazing thus far!
I still check youtube at noon every Monday out of habit/hope that this week there will be a Jimquisition and behold! Also 6x9=42 Thank god for You.
I didn't get a chance to save anything, my life has been to unstable.... it makes me sad that your videos are being taken out :( do you have plans to post them somewhere else?
came here to ask the same! I scrolled back a bit but couldn't see if it had been cross posted to Patreon and preserved here in some fashion. i somehow missed the video when it came out and i'm gutted i didn't get a chance to see it
Enshitification in action. It's hard to talk about serious topics when the words of the topic are censored.
Maybe I should start making YT vids in which I just read out the words coprpos and ad-twats don’t like. No bugger follows me so I can’t get demonetised…
Have you thought of spelling it G@MBLING? Would that help? Too picayune? This is the world of the golden calf. Just move to Nebula and cross post on Patreon. 90% of new videos are artificial. Time to jump ship.
Ugh that sucks. Everything sucks. On another note of everything sucking; Can you spread the word that Grime 2 is made in Israel?
I get so mad at ,,Internet archivist'' new speech (he was using game over himself insteand of suicide) that i blocked him. Speaking like this is not intuitive - its forced. On the other side - you all can read https://www.amazon.com/Technofeudalism-Killed-Capitalism-Yanis-Varoufakis/dp/1685891241 .
Fuck everything about Youtube.
I'm sorry that you consistently have to deal with the utter BS that is youtube. Giving you a view from Patreon and Youtube to try and fight the alogrithm.