YouTube Demonetization Screenshot Leaks + Secret YouTube Meeting

[Maxxtraxx]

Net neutrality was hard at work protecting freedom of speech and opinion I see...

 

Oh wait, I forgot...

Diamond and Silk, (demonetized)

PragerU, (restricted and demonetized certain videos)

The Polish government(restricted)

 

 

 

 

Oh... And James Damore... They just straight fired him for his views and having a research based discussion on his thoughts.

[matrix07012]

This was quite obvious from the start.

SJWs destroy everything they touch, even entire countries.

[Uzume]

The one constant in "tech diversity" is that any deviations from their world view are not tolerated. This is a side effect of Silicon Valley being both the tech hub and the hub of a particularly virulent political ideology.

 

But, it is getting harder and harder to do business in Silicon Valley, so this will give advantages to new startups who base themselves elsewhere. Geographic diversity will occur and ideological diversity in tech will follow.

[abazigal]

On 14/12/2017 at 11:47 PM, Matt_Lefebvre said:

Youtube is a real job man....

 

Its creating a product - that thousands if not millions of people consume.

Its like saying producing a TV show isn't a real job. YouTubers, successful ones, put in just as much work, time and energy as people in broadcast, but at a smaller scale and frankly larger audiences.

 

-IMO-

Alphabet/Google/Youtube is just responding to advertiser demands here - because they obviously do not want to fix their adsense and reserve media (the nonskip 15sec spots) allocation setup - because they make like 70% margin on those products, they would rather work to censor content - which is completely lazy but ensures that there is a negligible impact to the bottom line.

 

This all stems from YT's decision to do something called YT premium for advertisers - where basically they decided to charge brands like Coke, Pepsi, etc, that wanted to spend on the network a significant premium to air their spots on the top 5% of YouTubes content based on 30 day views, subs etc - and filtered them into categories (tech, lifestyle). The kicker here is that advertisers never got to hand select the content they aired in, and boom they're in content about Nazi's or Child exploitation = Adpocolypse.

 

So instead of fixing the revenue model, they decided to fix the content.

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Backup for above - I was a Digital media buyer in ad agencies for 6 years and a Youtuber for 5 years....

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I think the greater takeaway from all this is that Youtube can be very fickle. What is acceptable today could be deemed unsuitable tomorrow, and there is no guarantee of long-term sustainability. 

 

That said, I have always wondered about the long-term career prospects of a youtuber. When you are young, the money looks good and the job seems glamorous. What happens years down the road as you get older and your audience is no longer interested in you, or you no longer have the energy and passion to sustain this? Do you just pack up and look for a job elsewhere? What can you put in your resume to make you marketable? 

[TheOriginalHero]

GradeA: The english alphabet is stupid

Youtube: omg inappropriate content demonotize.

 

Glad to see youtube taking a stand against this offensive content