WHY I AM NO LONGER A YOU TUBE PARTNER

This was my second email from youtube letting me know I was accepted into the partner program:

Dear therealweeklynews,

(I will paraphrase this email to avoid any copyright issues since every email has a copyright on it.)

They thanked me for my interest in the partner program and let me know for the second time that my application was approved and they are awaiting me to complete my second and 3rd steps in the application process. They sent this second email to check in because I did not complete the other steps to begin in the revenue sharing process. They went on to say that if I was no longer interested in being in the partner program they would like to hear my feedback. So they let me know to feel free to reply with any concerns.

If they give me permission I will be more then happy to post their email to me in its complete form.

Sincerely,
The YouTube Team


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Hello,

I hope you take the time to read this and possibly forward this off to someone who handles some decisions regarding youtube and the direction it is headed. I came to this site originally because it was the best way to broadcast myself. I hope that if you actually take the time to read this and know that I just want the best for this site, the users and the partners. Maybe if the right person reads this we can get somewhere.

I just noticed this partner accepted email recently. I am still interested in the possibility of becoming a youtube partner.

I want a few things addressed before I continue with this process.

I want these two videos that were unjustly flagged by your staff to be reviewed an unflagged as soon as possible:

OLYMPICS OPENING CEREMONY SINGING SCANDAL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rMzPLaadEQ&feature=channel

SEX ON YOUTUBE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwrRDQQZT1U&feature=channel_page

Judging by the thousands of comments the community themselves feel that you messed up on allowing those videos to be flagged. I suggest you read 50 to 100 comments and you will find that your decision was a very poor one to allow them to be flagged when the rest of the community feels they should not have been.

Here is one of the best ones to give you an example of how mad people were that YOU allowed this to happen.

"This is the video that prompted me to join youtube and say something. I am so sick of the hypocrisy of show business and the people in it, especially against women and girls as young as these two. Both of them will grow up believing there was something "just not good enough" about them, and they will always carry it with them. Not to mention the stupidity of flagging this video. BTW, Janis Joplin was beautiful.

MiaJacobs1"

This was posted on my OLYMPICS OPENING CEREMONY SINGING SCANDAL video if you want to find it.

As you know I will be giving all my money that I would make off of my videos to charity and I want the money to go directly to them, not me as I stated in this video almost a year ago.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smgNJPhRuz0

So I would like you to get back to me on this and let me know how you would like to proceed.

I am sure that many people at youtube know that I have not been real happy with the way that the users have been treated here including myself. I have spent a lof time here on youtube and I have really enjoyed meeting people through your site that I would never have met without being here. The first year I was on this site I had almost nothing bad to say about it. Being here was a very enjoyable experience.

When you look at a video like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GtNyGXKnOU

Then you see the hulu tube video. You may ask yourself how did we get here? The reason why we got here was because I tried to reach out to you tube on multiple occasions and never heard back from you. The reason why I have consistently had to air things out in public on videos was because no one ever bothered returning my emails. Maybe if someone wants to help people feel a LOT better about youtube and reach out to the community it would go a long way to building a better relationship with the users that feel very alienated by the way some things have been handled here.

I hope that this gets forwarded on to someone that really makes some decisions at youtube and they do care enough to get back to me. We all want to like this site. We all want to support this site, but it seems like you are doing your best to drive your own customers away from the site. This may or may not be intentional, but I have plenty of things from my time here to show otherwise. If you wonder why the hulu tube video went viral, it is because many people felt that video spoke for them too. This could have all been avoided had someone just taken the time to listen to us. you created a community counsel once in the effort to build the community, but look what happened, nothing. This shows that people dont feel that they are wanted here and that their opinion and feedback doesn’t matter.

Remember, we are the customers on this website. We are the ones that both provide content AND click on the advertisements. We should not be neglected. Yahoo was once the king of free email and search engines and now it is being dominated by you, "google". It is one thing to be on top, it is another to stay on top. I am sure youtube does not want to be the next yahoo. If you keep this up, you might find this to be an inevitability.

I hope this is not the case. I hope that someone who has some control over decisions regarding the community actually reads this and gets back to me so that this site can become what we all want it to be. What many people once called their favorite website.

Best Regards,

The Real Weekly News

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Reply from youtube:
Hi Realweeklynews,

(I will paraphrase this to avoid any copyright issues since every email has a copyright in it.)

They thanked me for my understanding, but they would not be able to support specific video inquiries. They said they will pass my email along to their policy manager. But they also let me know ahead of time that as a policy youtube does not comment on individual emails. They went on to send me a few links to their policy page.
Sincerely,

The YouTube Team

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I want to move forward on this partner process with you, but I want those videos reviewed and I want a person to actually LOOK at the videos again. Children to mothers and fathers all agree that you dropped the ball on this one and these 2 videos NEED to be unflagged.

The responses are over 99% in favor of unflagging the videos. It is painfully clear to everyone that you made a mistake and not fixing it when you can is not going to help things. Have someone look at them again and READ some of the comments.

OLYMPICS OPENING CEREMONY SINGING SCANDAL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rMzPLaadEQ&feature=channel
SEX ON YOUTUBE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwrRDQQZT1U&feature=channel_page

If you can take the time to review the videos (incorrectly as the community themselves say) then someone can take the time to review the video again and actually watch it this time. I am not trying to be rude, but when you have over 1000 comments by all people of both genders and all ages saying that these videos should NOT be flagged, you should have the professionalism to take the time to listen to what the community (your own customers) has to say on a subject and FIX the problem.

Since someone may not actually go to the video and look at the comments. I will paste the most recent 10 comments for each video. I could hand pick them, but I will just show the most recent 10 from each and it is still unanimous from the last 20 comments. It is pretty much unanimous with thousands of comments that there was a mistake on these two videos. Make this situation right. It is clear to everyone that this was a mistake and it only makes youtube look bad to not fix this problem.

Maybe you should have someone from public relations take a CLOSE look at this. Maybe they will get the point. Since there are close to a million views combined and more and more people see every day that you cant listen to the very community that your website provides content to. I keep my videos clean and to be honest I am insulted to think that anyone would find any video I make to be offensive to anyone. I make sure not to use cursing and foul language to get my points across.

I hope that you will seriously take the time to fix this obvious problem that everyone can clearly see.

READ BELOW.
KaiiNeko (7 hours ago)
This video may not be suitable for minors?
OMG theres nothing bad! stupid youtube from flaggiingg
lovekrittaya (13 hours ago)
Remove
Comment removed by author
ITrainOnCowsI (17 hours ago)
omfg flagged????
RandomDawgz (17 hours ago)
WTF was wis flagged, stupid idiots.
sum41fatguy (20 hours ago)
why da f%#k is this flagged
DeadHand1992 (1 day ago)
why is this flagged
fori222 (1 day ago)
probably for the models
scottytissue789 (1 day ago)
f%#k youtube for flagging
MasterChief702 (1 day ago)
flgged?
coreymon78 (1 day ago)
why was this flagged? this is true! we do it too and its wrong both ways. Why the hell was this flagged? Remove the flag!
setherz (12 hours ago)
Youtube flaged this video to prevent its number of views thats why because it revealed the truth about them
kizwit (21 hours ago)
Youtube flaged this video to prevent its number of views thats why because it revealed the truth about them
hoverbike (21 hours ago)
the irony... xD
imTKA (1 day ago)
I agree with you on the hulu, and this
But im sorry
The sxephil reference is really wrong
I cant describe everything with one comment, i have a lot to say-imTKA
rentrofmij (1 day ago)
agree with you
MasterChief702 (1 day ago)
Flagged? How? Why?
halowatch117 (1 day ago)
try to change the name cus if you didn't know what it was some 1 might think that it is x rated.
DOWN WITH HULUTUBE! I support old youtube.
jude360n (1 day ago)
have you seen the related vids on the side.
just proves even further this guy is right.
therhythmicmenace (2 days ago)
why do we need softporn on youtube when the ful mccoy is all over the rest of the net!!
its a distraction
ghudner (2 days ago)
FLAGGED??? haha! Just goes to show how rediculous their content teams are...

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I have no advertisements on my videos yet‏
Second follow up:
Hello,

I have no advertisements on my videos yet because no one has bothered to re-review my 2 flagged videos. I hope you will take the time to READ this below and re-evaluate those 2 videos that were UNJUSTLY flagged by your staff. The community virtually unanimously agrees about 99 to 1 saying these videos NEED to be unflagged. I sent this email below and I have heard nothing back from anyone so I have not moved forward with putting advertisements on any of my videos. I hope to hear back from someone soon.

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(I posted the previous email below in case for some reason it was received. I like to give people the benefit of the doubt. That is why it is here again.)

I want to move forward on this partner process with you, but I want those videos reviewed and I want a person to actually LOOK at the videos again. Children to mothers and fathers all agree that you dropped the ball on this one and these 2 videos NEED to be unflagged.

The responses are over 99% in favor of unflagging the videos. It is painfully clear to everyone that you made a mistake and not fixing it when you can is not going to help things. Have someone look at them again and READ some of the comments.

OLYMPICS OPENING CEREMONY SINGING SCANDAL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rMzPLaadEQ&feature=channel
SEX ON YOUTUBE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwrRDQQZT1U&feature=channel_page

If you can take the time to review the videos (incorrectly as the community themselves say) then someone can take the time to review the video again and actually watch it this time. I am not trying to be rude, but when you have over 1000 comments by all people of both genders and all ages saying that these videos should NOT be flagged, you should have the professionalism to take the time to listen to what the community (your own customers) has to say on a subject and FIX the problem.

Since someone may not actually go to the video and look at the comments. I will paste the most recent 10 comments for each video. I could hand pick them, but I will just show the most recent 10 from each and it is still unanimous from the last 20 comments. It is pretty much unanimous with thousands of comments that there was a mistake on these two videos. Make this situation right. It is clear to everyone that this was a mistake and it only makes youtube look bad to not fix this problem.

Maybe you should have someone from public relations take a CLOSE look at this. Maybe they will get the point. Since there are close to a million views combined and more and more people see every day that you cant listen to the very community that your website provides content to. I keep my videos clean and to be honest I am insulted to think that anyone would find any video I make to be offensive to anyone. I make sure not to use cursing and foul language to get my points across.

I hope that you will seriously take the time to fix this obvious problem that everyone can clearly see.

READ BELOW.
KaiiNeko (7 hours ago)
This video may not be suitable for minors?
OMG theres nothing bad! stupid youtube from flaggiingg
lovekrittaya (13 hours ago)
Remove
Comment removed by author
ITrainOnCowsI (17 hours ago)
omfg flagged????
RandomDawgz (17 hours ago)
WTF was wis flagged, stupid idiots.
sum41fatguy (20 hours ago)
why da f%#k is this flagged
DeadHand1992 (1 day ago)
why is this flagged
fori222 (1 day ago)
probably for the models
scottytissue789 (1 day ago)
f%#k youtube for flagging
MasterChief702 (1 day ago)
flgged?
coreymon78 (1 day ago)
why was this flagged? this is true! we do it too and its wrong both ways. Why the hell was this flagged? Remove the flag!
setherz (12 hours ago)
Youtube flaged this video to prevent its number of views thats why because it revealed the truth about them
kizwit (21 hours ago)
Youtube flaged this video to prevent its number of views thats why because it revealed the truth about them
hoverbike (21 hours ago)
the irony... xD
imTKA (1 day ago)
I agree with you on the hulu, and this
But im sorry
The sxephil reference is really wrong
I cant describe everything with one comment, i have a lot to say-imTKA
rentrofmij (1 day ago)
agree with you
MasterChief702 (1 day ago)
Flagged? How? Why?
halowatch117 (1 day ago)
try to change the name cus if you didn't know what it was some 1 might think that it is x rated.
DOWN WITH HULUTUBE! I support old youtube.
jude360n (1 day ago)
have you seen the related vids on the side.
just proves even further this guy is right.
therhythmicmenace (2 days ago)
why do we need softporn on youtube when the ful mccoy is all over the rest of the net!!
its a distraction
ghudner (2 days ago)
FLAGGED??? haha! Just goes to show how rediculous their content teams are...

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(This was my final email to youtube)

REMOVE ME FROM THE PARTNER PROGRAM ASAP!!!‏ (Email Title)

Hello,

I have sent 3 emails to you about my account since I was made a partner with no one replying to me about my concerns with my channel or my videos. I went in detail about the 2 flagged videos that the 99% of the community felt were unjustly flagged among other things. I thought that being a partner would possibly improve relations with your company and that maybe you would actually show some consideration for my requests. I was wrong. I initially did not accept the partner program and complete the process to be in the system, but I finally decided after over a week to put some of the issues with your company and how it handled its business into the past and give it a shot. Only to find out that there was virtually no improvement in working with youtube even with being included into the partner program.

So effective immediately, remove me from the youtube partner program. I will not participate in revenue sharing with your company and allow advertisements to be placed on my videos. I will just promote the charities on my own and hope people will support them on their own.

I tried over and over again for over 2 years now to deal with your company in a fair and reasonable manner, only to have my emails repeatedly ignored and my requests or concerns brushed aside. My channel on youtube has always been in good standing and I have tried to help this site in any way that I could. My revenue sharing video, my youtube changes video and the sex tube video were all constructive and resulted in a positive outcome on more than one occasion. After my changes video along with many others you listened to the community and revamped the site to be much more user friendly. Also within months of the sex tube video you got rid of many of those sleazy videos that were cluttering the front pages of the day. Ironically you allowed that video to be flagged even though you agreed with it enough to make some of the changes listed in that video.

My later videos over the past month or so were a little more pointed because I really felt that it was going to hurt the smaller channels on here way to much and I needed to speak up for them. If only you ever listened and showed some respect to your very own users this could, and should have been avoided. We don’t ask for much. All most of us ask for is the opportunity to have our channels succeed, or fail, depending on the quality of our videos. Instead of letting this happen, you have tried to consistently tell us what is popular instead of the community itself deciding that automatically. You have chosen the business model based on the rich get richer as opposed to trying to find ways to grow the new and up and coming channels. You in essence have created a barrier to entry system that only serves to hinder the newer channels and grow the already successful channels by actively promoting them ad nauseam.

The simple fact that you have virtually removed the ratings from the top videos of the day sections like most viewed and most discussed so that people cant see the quality of the videos on the list just goes to show that quality is not the main concern at youtube. The ratings system is the best way for users to let other users know what is good and what is garbage or misleading. Yet you have buried that category at the very bottom of the pull down menu as if it had no value to your users in any way. This just goes to show that quality is not a chief concern here and your double standards here between the chosen channels and the ones you deem expendable is clearly apparent to everyone in the community.

Is it really that hard to return emails to your own customers, or even your new “partners”?

So again, please remove my partner status immediately!

The Real Weekly News

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(This was my entire communication history with youtube after I became a partner with the site)

So what does this tell you?

This proves to all of you what I have known all along. Even when it came to making money on my videos that have been seen millions of times, they found it easier to remove me from the partner program than to simply return my emails or address my concerns. In a nutshell, this is why youtube loses money. They are, quite honestly, some of the worst business managers I have ever seen.

I often hear some pathetic youtube sympathizers going on and on about how youtube needs to make money they need to change this or that. What they are so clueless on is how poorly they work with individuals as well as businesses. They have to have one of the worst records of conducting business that I have ever seen. There is a reason they are loosing so much money. They are flat out incompetent. All I am waiting for is them to ask Obama for a bailout and they would most likely get it the way he gives away money to big business.

I have heard people say that “if it were not for youtube, you would not know who I am. So I want to thank youtube for allowing me to post my videos and for free.” I would say that following. “Whatever success I have had online making videos, I would like to thank all the people in my life for making me who I am today. I would like to thank all of you that supported my channel and my videos. Whatever success I have had on youtube is not because of youtube, it was in spite of youtube.

Thanking youtube for success would be like the New York Giants to thank the television network for them winning the super bowl against the New England Patriots. You would never hear an athlete thank the network for their success. The network had nothing to do with it. They simply broadcast the performance. People need to wake up and not be thankful to people that had nothing to do with your success. There are some exceptions to this rule. Some channels owe everything to youtube for being popular. They are always getting promoted. So in some cases, they NEED to be VERY thankful because without youtubes promotion and protection they would be no where near their views and subscribers.

I hope you found this post helpful and see why I demanded they remove me from the partner program. I simply cant work with a company that shows absolute disdain for their own customers. This was one of the biggest reasons why I have not made more videos. The fact that they created a site called “YOU tube” with the words “broadcast YOURSELF” only to hinder so many potentially successful channels makes it very difficult to want to make more original content for the youtube web site.

The Real Weekly News.

THANK YOU & CLARIFICATION ON SOME POINTS

First, I just want to personally thank everyone that helped spread the word and share the video with the youtube community. Some people may see that video and the support as a negative thing, but I completely disagree. That video brought out the REAL youtube community and the community came together to try to help keep something that we all enjoyed around for a while.

Many of us have spent years on the site and never made a dime off of it. We make videos because we enjoy it. That is what came out this last week, the passion for people to still share their work with the youtube community. Some people never get why I do what I do and why I make videos like this. I do it so that the next guy can have a shot at success. I have already had some decent success at building an audience. There is nothing like it.

I remember when the very first person subscribed to my channel, I felt like “ok at least one person thinks my video was not horrible.” I think most people are a little bit nervous when they start making videos wondering if people will like them or not. The thing that frustrates me the most is the simple fact that I know that if I were to start a channel today and make the very same videos, no one would ever see them and I would be thinking that there was something wrong with my work and that they really were not any good.

I was lucky to have started when I did. I was part of the last wave of users that actually had their fate decided by the users. Now I see that the way things are changing here on youtube, that you no longer will have your fate determined by the community. If you have any shot at all, it will be because you have insane talent or they just happen to like you. That is pretty much it.

I need to clarify a few things from my last video, for the record. Some things may have been taken out of context or simply misunderstood.

#1: Yes, I think we all understand that youtube is a business; they need to make money, but keep in mind that many sites like facebook, myspace, blip and revver all provide services for free and don’t treat their own users like they are a burden. So to act like youtube, is doing the world a favor for having this site, is flat out ignorant. Do you have any idea how many sites, right now, would give anything to be in youtube’s position? All of them! They might actually know how to make it profitable. So quit telling me these sob stories, about how they are losing money. Other companies are providing free services, to their customers, and they actually show their customers respect, unlike youtube.

Youtube has some big partners they take care of, but not once in 2 years and over 250 videos, have they ever tried to even get back to me on any issue. THIS WHOLE MESS RIGHT NOW COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED HAD THEY SHOWN SOME RESPECT FOR THEIR OWN CUSTOMERS! It is that simple! I think most of us can be pretty understanding if we are treated with a little respect.

If you notice, those 2 videos are still flagged as well. It is almost like a war of wills with them and they just can’t admit when they are wrong. Just go to both of those videos and read the comments, virtually every one of them is bitching at youtube for allowing them to be flagged, yet they are still flagged.

I am one of the lucky ones. Many people have lost their videos completely and youtube could have embraced the community a lot more than they have. Is it really that hard to reply to an email? Not once have I ever heard back from them when I contacted them regarding any real issue. I even sent an email to youtube, after the Viacom vs You video went viral, but never heard back from them. I really hope you check out this video “Who is to blame” and “DMCA Reform” after you read this, to put this all into perspective.

#2: This is very important, I don’t care if every corporation on the planet has a channel on youtube. The only thing I ask is that they are not plastered all over the site, giving them an unfair advantage over the other video makers. That is why youtube has advertisements, in the first place.

If they make it to the top of any lists, because their videos are good, more power to them. There is nothing wrong with that, but just shoving them on the popular page 24/7 is what bothers most of us. My point, all along, is that the community should be the ones to decide: what rises on youtube and what falls off of its lists. Is that so hard to understand? I am not against business. I am against having a race with someone, and giving me running shoes, and giving these businesses a Ferrari. Who do you think will win with that type of advantage? They have all the content in the world, and they should be able to rise to the top, without all these features and popular plants, on the youtube’s most viewed front page.


#3: This last video had nothing to do with Hulu being a bad thing. There is nothing wrong, with hulu as a website, and I congratulate them on having a site that is working, and is entertaining people. This was NEVER, meant to be an attack, on Hulu in any way, so please, STOP sending them, any kind of hate mail.

And No, they did not ask me to say this, or contact me in any way. This is about youtube, not hulu. Had it not been for this article, putting the two together, I would never have thought to associate the two. I really don’t watch, that much TV programming or go to hulu.com. Also, if some people thought that youtube was going to self destruct and the world was going to end when the changes took place, that is not what I said at all.

I said they were phasing us out of youtube, Phasing definition “phase out - To bring or come to an end, one stage at a time,” not pressing a delete button. I have watched, first hand, many channels, video views, go way down in the last 6 months. If you look at most of the non-partner channels, you will see that is true. I also never said youtube was going anywhere, I said “you” were.

#4: Finally, please do not mirror my video hulu tube on youtube anymore. At this point it is becoming spam and none of us want that. So please tell everyone that the point has been made, and the video gained attention for an issue that was obviously very important to may users.

Also again, no youtube did not contact me, and ask me to say this. The sad thing is, youtube has still never ever contacted me about any of these discretions about the site.

I do want to take a moment to thank all the people that help spread the word again, and let people know that you care about this site, and the direction it was headed. I will do a full proper video on this later.

The Face of Ignorance:

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Normally I don’t bother getting involved with the bottom feeders, but this one time I will make an exception, because this guy has been begging for it for years. His ignorance has been infecting his viewer’s monitors for way to long.

The main reason why I never bothered with this imbecile before was because he is just that, an imbecile. It wouldn’t even be a fair to go after someone like this. This is like kicking over little kids and taking their lunch money. In a way, knowing he is on the other side of an issue is much like a badge of honor. You would never want him on the same side as you in a debate. If he were to agree with me the first thing I would do is re-evaluate things to make sure I thought it through to make sure I didn’t miss something.

As you all know I made a video illustrating point by point how youtube has systematically slowed down the growth of non-partners while enhancing their chosen mega partners like Fred. I have links to all this on my website. This is all documented and it was done step by step to illustrate how this is happening and how a channel like Fred grew so fast. There is a reason why it took Smosh almost 2 years to reach 100,000 subscribers and it only took Fred only 26 days to reach that mark. It is not because of talent and everyone knows it. That is why so many people hate that character and that channel. I personally don’t care about another channel being successful, I only care that we ALL have the chance to succeed or fail on youtube.

Speaking of fail, that brings me back to this youtuber. So in the video I made I clearly stated that they were phasing you out of youtube. I never said this was the death of youtube. I said they were “taking the you out of youtube”. Yet Einstein goes on and on throwing a tantrum for around 8 minutes or so, almost wetting himself, getting all worked up because he has the attention span of a housefly. It is not his fault some people only have the mind of a small child. His main problem is that he actually thinks he has some sort of intelligence. That is the scary thing. He hears 3 or 4 words from a paragraph and he thinks he is smart enough to fill in all the blanks. He was probably on his third pizza of the day sitting there like all the other lame haters looking for a way to feel important. So he stumbles across my video and then proceeds to miss the whole point of the video and then act like some sort of expert on the subject. This is the very same person that was sniffing around Oprah when she came on the site trying to get her attention somehow. Needless to say she could see that he was a loser and didn’t have anything to do with him. Yeah, what a shock! She had on Esmee Denters and some other people on the whole youtube show. Not him. Sucking up doesn’t work unless you have talent. That is why he has been on the downhill slide for so long. Sure it is fun for others to watch, but I am just as sure it is not as fun being the one going down hill in front of the whole community while you try your best to appear relevant. Like a boxer that just wont quit, not knowing all they will ever be is the guy that gets knocked out to give the contender another win.

So lets get back to this whole Oprah thing for a minute. What Einstein failed to comprehend for the umpteenth time back then was that people were not mad that Oprah was on youtube, they were mad that she basically took over the front page and booted everyone else off! Just tying to get logic through this guys head is damn near an impossibility.

Just in case my own views were never stated clearly, and I have to do this because people like this roam the world and we have to spoon feed them information or they will just miss the point again and again. I don’t care if every corporation that ever existed gets a youtube channel. That is perfectly fine by me. What I have a problem with, and most people have a problem with, is that we all have a problem when youtube shoves them down our throat. They have saturated the youtube website with the popular page having Fred on there nonstop and all over the rest of the site. So is it that hard to figure out that some channels are clearly getting preferential treatment and others are getting buried? This has been painfully obvious to so many users, yet some people can’t figure it out.

Then we go to his channel and see what types of videos he has. Lets take a look at some of these titles. First we have “Boobs are fantastic” and “war of the thumbnail cheats” Keep in mind this is coming from an expert on that subject. This person is worse than some 14 year old that just hit puberty except this comes off incredibly creepy since he looks over 40. I am seriously surprised he doesn’t have a dozen restraining orders on him right now after seeing these videos.

This is what happens when a “never should have been” accidentally becomes “a has been” because of the lack of sheer competition. The only reason why anyone knows of him is because he was around long before youtube became popular and now look at him. Fading away into oblivion. No one really cares what he has to say. The only way he ever received any real views was to use thumbnail cheats in his videos. When people saw “the face of ignorance” himself in the video, they quickly tuned out. The view discrepancy is undeniable. Some of his videos are sitting at one fifth of his subscribers or less.

He also bashed people for asking their subscribers to rate and comment on their videos because that is how the community supports the channels they are subscribed to, yet he himself used thumbnail cheats to gain views from people who wanted nothing to do with him. So by this logic, he finds it much worse to ask people that enjoy the video to subscribe, rate and comment, than to bait and switch viewers. Imagine you see an image of a pretty girl and you click on the video and there is a fat slob rambling about boobs. I assure you that this never crossed his feeble mind. The irony of his stupidly is actually quite amazing. Most people who are actually this dumb don’t go flapping their mouths about how dumb and hypocritical they actually are. This one is a rare one. He wants to scream from the highest mountain top as loud as he can that “I am a moron damn it, LISTEN TO ME!!!!” Meanwhile it is all we can do to try and ignore him as best we can as to not pollute ourselves with this type of idiocy. There is an old saying “it is better to close your mouth and appear a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.” Clearly this person is the best living example I have ever seen in real life. Normally this is a sorry character in a “B rate” movie, but thanks to the Internet we can see that a person like this does exist and his home is on youtube trying to beg for any scraps he can from youtube’s kitchen table.

The small mindedness is only compounded because people actually think this imbecile makes some sense. I don’t know how, but clearly they say that the education system has not been that effective and hence many of those people actually think he has some insight into almost any subject.

He leeches off of one of the great characters in the 90’s and tries to associate himself with that because he thinks he will be cool by people having people associating himself with that character. Except for one thing, that character never talks unless he actually has something important to say. This sorry excuse for a bad copy of a copy of a copy of a copy of that person literally never shuts up and at this point I don’t think I have ever heard him say anything of importance.

This person’s character has also been seriously in question. I will not go into all the details on it, but I am actually surprised he has the nerve to show his face around the Internet after what he has been accused of. I have all the videos on it archived as well so it is not something that I have not seen, or that I do not have in my possession. I never initiate an argument. That is for the small-minded people. I also find nothing better than a good discussion amongst people who have something to offer. Unfortunately this person has nothing to offer accept his own ignorance and hypocrisy. Who needs to absorb anymore of that than is necessary.

I won’t mention this person by name because there is no need to subject people to this kind of ignorance. This kind of ignorance is all over the world. Now we can just put a face on that ignorance and this image here, is the new “face of ignorance”. He is carrying that torch proudly for all to see.

The best part about typing all this is so that someone will have to read all this to him. That is another reason not to do a video on it. Why pollute youtube with any more of his ignorance than it already has. This post was not for him, for he is hopeless. This is for all the people that listen to his ignorance and for the people that can actually form their own thoughts. If after reading this you agree with him, that is fine with me. This is just the other side of the story for clarification.

Why such a long response, well this is two years in the making and I have minded my own business that whole time never once starting an argument with him or any other youtuber. So this was LONG overdue for this guy. I figure “say it once and say it right.” This is something that this person has never experienced in his life.

YouTube View Counts Frozen (Posted on YouTubes OWN blog)

Youtube has been self destructing or at least destroying channels that produce content for their website for the last year or so. They froze a ton of videos and sometimes for almost a week. If you had not even noticed that top rated is their least promoted part of youtube now. It used to be positioned very prominently on the site now it is way at the bottom of the pull down mouse over menu. Also they dont even have the ratings on the videos on the most viewed, most discussed etc... It is not about quality now it is all about who can somehow get the most views. Once the top rated gets dropped from the menu, it is all over for the new starter channels.

I know that my videos used to get 10,000 to 50,000 views with no problem at all. Now they are sitting at about 6,000 to 10,000. I don't know if it is how people get their subscriptions now or what, but when I had only 2,000 subscribers my videos could go viral and maybe even hit 200,000 to 500,000 views if people really supported them. Now with 5 to 6 times the subscribers and support, they are at a fraction of the views they had before.

I know that Youtube said it would be demoting video views and I have seen it happen on 2 videos and I saved the info on those to show everyone later in a video. This is getting out of control and unless some of the larger Youtube channels speak up nothing will ever change. All the larger youtube channels think that they would never be suspended, but they have another thing coming if they think that. Youtube has pissed off everyone from Viacom to Warner Music Group and even the Entire UK. Here is the link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7933565.stm

They dont seem to care who they piss off and it shows. So if someone who thinks that they are a youtube star and they wont get suspended, demoted or deleted, they have another thing coming.

Below is their revised statement regarding their handling of this situation:

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An Update On Our View Counts

Video view counts reflect the YouTube community's interests and the grassroots popularity of videos. We periodically make changes that allow us to display consistent view counts and accurately reflect a "real" view based on video consumption, video streaming and spam filtering. Unfortunately, a few people still try to artificially manipulate their video's view counts. Some people game third-party view counts as well. That can make things unfair for everyone.

Recently, we found spamming issues associated with the view counts on a small number of videos. The inflated view count number on these videos will be frozen until actual views catch up to the published, artificial, view count. Also, a few people have commented that their view counts are updating more slowly. Occasionally the speed with which views update changes -- sometimes it’s faster and sometimes it’s slower. But we are always working to make sure that the final view count numbers are an accurate reflection of the community's interest.

Michelle Schlachta
Community Manager
The YouTube Team

COPYRIGHT FAIL - FAIL BLOG

COPYRIGHT FAIL

Most of you have seen the channel fail blog on youtube. They used to upload very funny videos of well… People failing. I really liked their channel and watched most of their videos. As some of you know they had well over 100,000 subscribers and tens of millions of video views. I am not 100% sure, but I think they were also a youtube partner as well.

So I watched the failblog videos and could not figure out how they lasted so long and how they became a partner. So needless to say that I was not surprised at all when I heard the failblog channel got suspended recently.

Some people have no idea what constitutes copyright infringement and what constitutes fair use. The main reason for the post on this topic is because most people have no clue why failblog was suspended. The reality is I cant believe they lasted as long as they did.

That channel was basically taking videos from around the internet and uploading them to their own youtube channel. I am pretty sure that at least 95% of the videos on their channel were not their original content (if not 100% of them).

I know some of you are not going to like that I am saying this, but it is the truth. They were 100% guilty of copyright infringement, In my personal opinion. It simply was not their original videos and they were adding nothing to the content like commentary or something else to even have a chance at being in the fair use realm of this discussion.

Sure it sucks. They had great videos, but they did not get screwed like thunderf00t did. I will talk more about this later.

People just need to know the difference between copyright infringement and fair use.

So for all you failblog fans out there, I am a fan too. I have enjoyed watching their videos from time to time, but just because I like their idea for a channel and a website doesn’t change the fact that they violated someones copyright with their uploading of other peoples content onto their youtube channel.

Did I like their channel? yes.

Did I want to see them suspended? Of course not!

But the way things are going here on youtube you have to be very careful of what you put on your channel.

I figure that since failblog have made a name for sharing other peoples failure with the world in that spirit I had to discuss theirs here. The irony of it all. I hope that they continue to find a way to post videos and do it in a manner that is ok with all the people that actually own the content. It is a great idea for a youtube channel.

Keep in mind, I am one of the biggest proponent against censorship on the net and elsewhere, but this is one time that I had to point out the obvious. People need to learn how this subject of copyright vs fair use works and until they do channels will keep getting suspended. This confuses the issue between censorship and real copyright infringement.

Right now people think that just because they put a disclaimer in the videos information saying "I do not own this content it is the property of X company" this makes it ok. This is like closing your eyes when someone is shooting a 9mm at you thinking that will protect you from getting shot. This technique is worthless and will not protect you and your videos from being removed from youtube.

I hope this helps shed some light on this topic for you.