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Just removed all my videos from YouTube, I can't be bothered with nonsense like this. Sorry friends.
by prettyStandard 5y ago
Just removed all my videos from YouTube, I can't be bothered with nonsense like this. Sorry friends.
- ratww 5y agoYep. I just use social network or disposable/temporary video hosts for anything now.
- Johnyma22 5y agoI began this painful process just recently deleting the vast majority of my old videos. :(
- winternett 5y agoWhy do that? Just leave them there and don't check on them. There is no benefit to dropping out of a game that you don't really need to do anything to play. You don't have to follow the stupid and time-wasting script they promote for being a creator.... It's a phony script. There are several other ways to skin the cat of promotion in getting people to listen.
- et-al 5y agoIdeally, it's a way to get Google to actually address these complaints. However, until professional YouTubers start leaving and cause Google's ad revenue to dip by 2-3%, we won't see any action. Most of us with a handful of random videos deleting our content from YouTube won't change anything. And even if the top 50 YouTubers quit en masse, there's still the queue of bright hopefuls more than willing to fill those spots.
- winternett 5y agoWe often forget the people desperate for money in the world, many people working on 5 year old cell phones that would be happy to make even a dollar to feed their family for 1 month. These are also the people we're pitted in competition with on these platforms that are too far-reaching to really be helpful. This is why protests don't work. Those struggling people would be happy to replace any of us with (even those of us with very minor levels of success) in a scam-riddled creator economy. The platforms have a responsibility to create better economies of scale so that each community can be more effectively managed and integrated. One single "front page" or "For you page" (or even a handful of them) is a terribly short sighted idea from a terribly greedy mind... And it's probably the main reason why most content uploaded never finds an audience on most modern platforms. Reddit had that right at first, but they began to let moderators control each subreddit like it's own single front page, which then also introduced the usual corruption and pay-for-play into the mix.
- pvarangot 5y agoProfessional YouTubers get human support. I know even some kinda of the kinda bespoke music production channels with like 25k/30k subs get human support.
- winternett 5y agoIf you make money for YT, they support you... It's a pretty reasonable thing, but the truth is that under the table YT is also deeply involved in supporting big industry and even manufactured celebrities, and that's exactly what corrupts the "vibrant creator community" model. YT (and many other platforms) end up needing to make sure that their sponsored artists always trend first no matter what, and consequently that also means they need to take steps to hold other (non-affiliated) artists down once they begin to trend and gain support through organic means. It's kind of like the friend that invites you over to play a video game, but when they only have one game controller... They really just want you to watch them play games... The best thing to do in that situation is to ignore them and create your own footprint elsewhere until they get bored of putting on a terribly inconsiderate and selfish party.
- ratww 5y agoI'm not the GP but I also removed the sole video I had in my account and deleted the channel. The video just had birds in it. If Google bans the account for any reason, it might spill over to other accounts that are easy to associate with it. I can't afford to lose those.
- prettyStandard 5y agoExactly. I don't need my whole Google account being locked for some dumb strike/claim/whatever for some stuff I don't care about.