I Had to Take Down My Last Video. Here's Why

Well, since you've edited and uploaded this, I'm gonna assume the tornado didn't send you to Oz. Does the replace tool not work on Youtube? Could you have blurred the number in your editor, then replaced the video? (I haven't uploaded a YT video in oh, shit. 7 years. 🤣

Man, that sucks and really weird people would start calling a random number they see in an unrelated video.

Responsible-minded and honest people are harder and harder to find. Took this as an occasion to upgrade my patreon level.

This is such a wild story! I noticed the phone number a couple of times in the original video and I also totally assumed it belonged to the company. It sucks that youtube's terrible tools forced you into a re-upload but it sounds like you're making it into an opportunity. Can't wait for the new version!

Can you place anything else after the fact like text or something? It won’t look as good as blur but you could put a bunch of text over the bad spots. If you wanted to save the original video

Have you tried using safari?

It's just ONE of the issues you showed, but you keep talking about 'frames' where the blur should end but the editor start/stop time only has 'seconds' resolution and not 'frame' resolution. So I was wondering if this might be a part of the problem, that when your blur ends at 18:15 and your playhead is at 18:15.22 that you don't see the blur where you expect it. Or even that the blur end only displays the seconds value, but internally can also store a higher resolution, depending on where you clicked in the video. I heard other creators also complain about the blur tool. You'd think that Google employs enough smart engineers to be able to fix this :-)

Thanks for including direct links in posts. Patreon videos don't work well in the app and they took away/broke opening videos externally, again.

Hate you had to deal with this - but kudos to you for your commitment to doing the right thing for the guy who owns the phone number, and thank you for going above and beyond for us. As much as they need creators for their, y'know, business model ... you'd expect YouTube to do a little more to make your work w/ their tools less frustrating.

I'll watch you microwave a Factor meal. A re-upload with new jokes? Count me in.

If you open Chrome’s dev tools and go to the Console tab, does any thing show up when you try to save and it errors?

The biggest tech companies all write the worst software. Nobody cares about quality or if they do they can't actually do it because some PM tells them that they have to do something else instead so someone can get a promotion for a "big customer win" on a dumb new feature

This is good information in case I ever upload a video that's too hot for YouTube

Damn. But anxiety would have kept me up too. You did the right thing. I will try to generate some extra views for the new video :)

Okay but how did you like Dune 2?

I saw it but didn't think to Google it. I also thought it was a business phone number. Oh well! Good on you for wanting to do right by a stranger. Hopefully the tornado sirens were nothing too exciting.

🤣 You had me hooked at "blur"

I'm not sure if you maybe tried it, and I know you showed the example of the editor not processing with two blurs added, but I'm curious if doing each blur one at a time would be successful.

Wait there was a phone number? Apparently I have no perception skills