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YouTube Terminates Popular Retro Gaming Channel Without Warning
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- jamiek88 2y agoHere we go. It’s groundhog unfair ban day again.
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- AlexeyBrin 2y agoHopefully someone from Google reads HN and can do something or talk to someone.
- tivert 2y ago> Hopefully someone from Google reads HN and can do something or talk to someone. IIRC, that's pretty much the only way you can get real help from them: have your problem goes viral on social media, and hope one of the elect sees it and has pity. As they say: you're not their customer, you're their product.
- gnu8 2y agoReading the tweets from “Team you tube” — these companies should be prohibited from saying things that are obviously not true. “These decisions are made very carefully” or “our community guidelines exist to make You tube a safer community for everyone” are flat lies, naked falsehoods that should bring about meaningful sanctions against Google’s management and shareholders. Rich people should suffer for this.
- apgwoz 2y agoHa! Yes, that should be the case, but new supreme leader wants to deregulate. “It means, Buckle your seatbelt, Dorothy, cause Kansas is going bye-bye.”
- kolanos 2y ago> Ha! Yes, that should be the case, but new supreme leader wants to deregulate. Isn't he looking to strip the YouTubes of the world of their 230 protections?
- apgwoz 2y agoElon is a major beneficiary of Section 230. That’s not going away.
- krapp 2y agoElon Musk was willing to spend 44 billion dollars just to burn down a social media platform for being too "woke." I don't think he cares, and I don't think Trump cares.
- apgwoz 2y agoElon didn’t burn down Twitter. It still has 100m+ users. He turned it into a politically far right echo chamber, gas lighting its users about “free speech absolutism,” and then outright banning, demoting, or drowning out commentary he doesn’t agree with. Unless you meant “burn down” in the sense of “turned it into the ashes of a trash fire…” but it was always a trash fire. People still go for it, and advertising still happens there.
- krapp 2y agoTwitter is hemorrhaging users and advertisers and is worth a fraction of what it was when Elon let the sink in. It used to be a primary source for media, politics and culture, now it's just a Nazi bar. I'd consider that burning the platform down, but we may just disagree on semantics.
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- mysterydip 2y ago"We know it wasn’t the outcome you were hoping for, but there’s nothing more we can do" Nothing more, when they haven't done anything in the first place. What are they there for?
- numewhodis 2y agoTelling you there's nothing to be done. It's like when a surgeon outsources communicating that the variance of the margin of error wasn't in his or the patients favour today.
- healsdata 2y agoThe whole policy of "we can't tell you what you did wrong because that'll help spammers" is so dumb. Yeah, that's a good idea for an account that was created last week or had no views. But if a channel has been with you for a good while and generated you money, you owe them an explanation.
- pablok2 2y agoProbably trained on Nintendo datasets, "decisions are made very carefully"
- Terr_ 2y agoIt's almost like a bunch of YouTube channels ought to "unionize", to defend themselves against capricious and extreme (im-)moderation.
- rssoconnor 2y agoIs that what Nebula is?
- the_snooze 2y agoTech companies love scale, but not the responsibility that comes with it.
- josefritzishere 2y agoIf there was ad revenue lost there is an option to sue. There is some precedent there and platforms are more responsive to that because they have to be.
- wruza 2y agoAn interesting fragment from the article’s comments: - GlamorousAlpaca Dude monetizes copyrighted TV programs, uploads the same stuff over and over, sells merchandise of said copyrighted material and posts a note on youtube 24 hours earlier about how he's gaming youtube. Clearly youtube is to blame. - ThisIsPete @GlamorousAlpaca I'm going to be charitable and assume that you're simply not familiar with the following: He provides commentary over edited excerpts of TV shows, not full episodes, making his work clearly transformative and thus covered under YouTube's fair use provisions. He has collected older work from multiple videos into single compilations that people can "binge". This is standard practice for moderately sized channels, because YouTube doesn't push old videos to new subscribers. YouTube doesn't allow you to upload identical videos, it detects that at the upload stage. He does not sell any merch, and monetises entirely through YouTube and Patreon. Again, standard practice. He has never claimed to have "created GamesMaster". Any other accusations you want to make up, or are you done? - GlamorousAlpaca @ThisIsPete Vomiting Up Old Videos Works, Regurgitated Old Flob are you for real? He posts a guide on how to game youtube via posting the same old crap over and over 24 hours before this happens. I guess the title-cased part of the last comment is the title of the last video in this channel, not GlamorousAlpaca’s judgement. If that’s true, it creates a slightly different perspective, imho.
- wruza 2y agoSeems yt restored the channel.
- rasz 2y agoWTF its Rose Tinted Spectrum. He has a fantastic series on British gaming TV program Bad Influence called Breaking Bad Influence. aaand its back! https://www.youtube.com/@RoseTintedSpectrum https://www.youtube.com/@RoseTintedSpectrum works
- Melchizedek 2y agoTrump has at least claimed that he will put a stop to things like this. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xJfUXVOoFBo https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xJfUXVOoFBo
- brutecat 2y agoI can't imagine the number of times they falsely terminated creators who don't have a big enough audience to get the attention of actual humans. This is one of the issues w/ relying on a specific platform as your source of income. They can kick you out any time they wish, and there's nothing you can do about it.