Update Regarding Youtube
Youtube has been taking down ASMR channels aggressively since this morning.
As you all probably know I had an issue with a strike on an end card last week and had already made the call to be cautious with any sort of asmr youtube uploads for the time being and it seems that I may actually have been one of the lucky ones ( assuming I don't get hit past this post ) We've seen over 30 different channels get instantly deleted for a nudity guidelines breach. All of those channels have claimed it to be false, but with the content all deleted outside of archives and backups from fans and the creators themselves, it's hard to prove left from right. While I've been safe from takedowns before, the recent instance doesn't fill me with much hope so I've made a post about this on youtube directing fans of the asmr to discord instead of to other places.
UNFORTUNATELY linking to patreon, a custom website or anything that could then direct to a platform that ALLOWS NSFW ( regardless of if its posted / paywalled ) would be enough to trigger the chance of getting a channel deletion. I'm running on the guess that a discord link won't flag the AI and get my channel deleted... but I guess we'll find out. I know this is really scary for all of us, both as ASMR enjoyers who fear losing their favorite creators overnight and for us creators who have poured our heart and souls into making this content only for it to be falsely ripped away, but we can take some steps now to ensure a little bit of security going forward.
Assuming my channel doesn't magically get yoinked over the next 48 hours, I will be continuing to post here and make uploads, but ASMR is my primary form of content so as long as youtube is this aggressive and only moderated by AI support, I don't have much hope
If you aren't already in the community discord, here is the link : https://discord.gg/angelsteps
Comments (4)
Its like at this point what are we even doing on YT at this point. Rplay and Picarto seams to be the only places were this stuff can survive these days. YT has become such a AI driven narrow veiw platfrom thats trying to be kids friendly. YT is a teenage platform in the ground scheeme of things, they learn about NSFW stuff around that time in school, if they cant handle a link in someones description to a NSFW platforms, especialy thats paywalled? Then we as creators are not the problem lol. I dont mean to rant but im so darn tired of todays YT like give me back 2016's YT where u could actualy do even NSFW RPs age restircted and it be fine, and if u got flagged or reported u could actuay get a human to look at it. So yea, tbh, YT, if ur an ASMRtist heck a lot of the time even if ur a Vtuber, its just not a fitting platform anymore. If i had the money and capacity i would have allready made a better platform for ASMRtists and vtubers etc but sadly thats a far away dream lol. Non the less all le pats Angel and lets hope that this burst of takedowns are just a fluke and people return but i dont have much hope...
Thanks for the heads up!
YouTube better not take you away from us I love angels content on there I've been on there as a member for almost 4 years I never got a chance to join your discord yet but if I have to I will
Will keep following Angel no matter where you end up, you can count on it