The Archive and Youtube - An Unfortunate Development

will founders on the substack website get access to the discord eventually?

superb site concept. I thoroughly enjoy it. I will try to send feedback in relation to this. Just so they may have some better internal notifications for produced content. I was initially trying to get to the merch shop about the new posters. They look great, seem a fair value. Not sure why you couldn't have opted for page size at least. If 1-2 dollars would make the difference behind the scenes, that make it worth it for me. $21 for a mounted notebook print seems costly. For $19 having all four comparatively, whereas $25 for the 4 and 24.99 and 'shipping' and a slightly larger print and mount. Making a much better impact, a 6x8 goes along side another presentation piece. You have to stand on it to resolve the details. A stand sheet is it's own center piece and you could have sold 6x8's of them. And optionally in conjunction a fifth print if bought in the bundle. Creates exclusivity. Not available individually then some one would have a reason to own the central piece and buy 6x8 follow up if you present and ship your product accordingly. The maths could have mathed, all I'm sayin' 6x8 is small minor impact.

That's a shame. I agree with YT's crackdown on AI slop, but your content is anything but. If there is any way that YT will hear our opinions, please let us know so we can tell them what we think of how they apply their policy.

I still don't get why so much of the archive content feels so familiar and real to me. I can get a human instantly identifying AI elements, but not another AI.

When will my membership allow me to view members only videos on YouTube??

Huh I was wondering why my youtube membership was just gone all if a sudden

Hey it looks like those nudniks at YouTube finally fixed it! That's great. I'm a subscriber there again.

Hey I see those ding-dongs still haven't fixed the YouTube membership. Did you have any traction with them? I subscribed to the Patreon, as I love your stuff and want to support you. Should I unsubscribe the YouTube membership?

I would like to invest in your vision if you'll have me

Man that sucks. I had a similar idea to the archives in mind but this makes me not want to do it.

I need my hunter updates from the Pale Lodge! Membership activated!

There is also some new ca laws coming into play to regulate AI content

Are the Youtube posts longer than the Tiktok ones? (TT is where I found you). TT and FB seem to be the same content.

went ahead and increased my support tier. Don’t want to see your project suffer.

I love the easy access to your content through YouTube, but Patreon is the obvious choice for support. Count me in.

Made me a Patron member also.

YouTube just got you a new patron. Keep going!

It also made me a patron

Well, it made me a patrion

Sorry to hear about the kerrfluffle with You Tube. I really like your stories and content. I did first see your work on YouTube. I hope they allow you to continue there. I also upgraded my membership to help support The Archive. Thanks for the stories!

I'm sorry to hear that. YouTube and everything Google is run in such a high automation fashion it actively discourages creativity. I have had many many long appeals processes trying to ship Android apps to the Google Play store. I wish I had a solution for you but at least know a lot of people empathize with you.

Easy enough to swap my membership from youtube to here. Sorry you folks are having to deal with this though, and thank you for the continued great stories!!

Giving new/young storytellers a way to showcase their creativity and imagination is an irreplaceable aspect of using these models we’re using. For a pittance (compared to huge 3d animation budgets) someone can create emotional and powerful universes. This is awful and I hope it gets corrected. The Archive is no slop bucket. Let us know if theres any way we can make our voices heard.

Good thing i am a member here

Generative AI allows anyone to make slop. But for art tools specifically, i think it removes specific physical and neurological barriers to artistic expression that enables many more people to express themselves than ever before. It seems like we want to celebrate the rare dyslexic becoming an award winning creative writer while we ignore every other neurodivergent person who struggled and failed to express themselves. There is also a huge double standard where using coding tools has much less blowback, despite all of that code also being derivative of prior human authors who also expressed an equitable value of creativity in their work. However, more people than ever can create prototypes and minimum viable products of bespoke software. For me, i was always great with pencil and paper as a medium, but not so great at coloring or ink work. I also never got into animation as it was a set of software I just didn't have time to learn. But now I can scan my pencil drawings and prompt them into inked, colored, moving images. Or turn them into sprites to make a python game, or anything. All of that is to say, keep up the creative work. People can see the imagination in it, and as someone who has tinkered with their own stories using Gen AI video and voice, I know you simply cannot ask an AI to create an entire short form video. There is editing, there is working within constraints of the model, engineering the prompt which takes vision and vernacular to make coherent, laying out the lore, the environment, etc.

Oh man, that sucks. I’m sorry to hear that what you do is so special important.

I instantly recognized the creativity and imagination that went into your videos, hopefully YouTube will too. I joined Patreon just to support The Archive.

Wishing the best for you. It's your writing and imagination that made me want to join and support you and see this grow. I hope YouTube does undo this!

I am sorry to hear that. What is ironic is that YouTube uses AI to flag the videos that it thinks go against its policy of containing AI content. It's like using monkeys to police the "no shit throwing" rule at the zoo. YouTube is one of the worst platforms now.

terrible news! but we're still here for whatever we can get. Is there a form we can submit to YouTube to maybe overturn this dicision they made?

That's awful. I hope they sort that out for you guys.

Glad another AI channel is getting banned

I'm sorry but was your content. Not almost entirely AI derivative? This is exactly what you deserve for not using humans.

Hope the appeal gets sorted out in your favor! Glad we can help out here to keep the Archive alive and going!! ❤️

I hope the appeal goes well and they pull their heads out of their asses. Really excited for whats to come from the Archive in the future!

I was one of the many who strode via the You Tube Causeway. I'm just glad to keep supporting the content and watching the Patchwork City Guides flourish

Best of luck sorting this all out!

YT= 👺

I’ve always hated the punish everybody for the sins of a few ethic that seems to permeate our society.