My revenue dropped 90% and at the time I had just under one million subscribers, so you can imagine how much the smaller channels were hurt by this. The mass-demonetization just kept coming as YouTube implemented new algorithms to search through older videos and demonetizing them. As Patreon co-founder and CEO Jack Conte said, “It sucks that it’s 2017 and you’ve got creators with millions of fans getting paid a few hundred bucks a month. That sucks.” 573
Patreon is a new website where viewers can support their favorite YouTubers by chipping in a dollar a month or whatever they want in order to supplement the loss of revenue from the issues with demonetization, so if you enjoy watching my videos, I hope you’ll look me up there or visit my page at Patreon.com/MarkDice.
Videos that talk about certain subjects are now automatically demonetized the moment they’re uploaded since the autogenerated transcripts allow YouTube to know exactly what is being said in the videos themselves, so if people avoid certain titles, descriptions, or tags hoping to slip past their system, that will no longer work.
And while I’ve had tons of videos demonetized for “not being advertiser friendly,” videos on big liberal channels like The Young Turks or CNN and MSNBC which cover the same story are often still allowed to be monetized. Not to mention trash channels BuzzFeed and Feminist Frequency.
YouTube Removing Videos
Aside from just demonetizing videos and not letting them earn any revenue for the person who posts them, YouTube often just removes videos completely, claiming they violate their terms of service or places them in a “limited state” so you can only watch them if you have the exact URL because they don’t show up in searches. 574
The Colin Flaherty channel has had multiple videos removed which show anti-white hate crimes being committed by blacks. 575Another channel had a video removed which showed a compilation of women violently assaulting men to show that domestic violence isn’t just a one way street and that women do in fact attack men. 576A University of Toronto professor, Jordan Peterson, who refuses to acknowledge transgender people by their “preferred pronouns” had his entire channel removed without explanation. 577Prager University’s videos were age restricted, meaning only people 18 or older could watch them, even though they just talk about politics, economics, and science from a conservative perspective. 578
YouTube locked one of my videos on private so nobody could watch it, saying that it was “deceptive.” The video was actually me exposing how deceptive CNN is, so the censorship couldn’t be more ironic.” 579I’ve also had videos placed on age-restricted status, and the channel is under a constant threat of receiving “community guideline” strikes and being shut down (again) completely. My entire channel and all of my videos were deleted in 2014. 580At the time I had 265,000 subscribers, and only after a wave of public pressure and me luckily being able to reach one of the heads of their news division did they restore everything.
Videos showing black teens attacking random white people, a viral trend known as ‘polar-bear hunting’ to the thugs, are often removed for what the site claims are violations of their policy against posting violent content. Author Colin Flaherty has documented black on white violence for years to raise awareness of the problem and YouTube regularly removes his videos despite them being posted not to glorify violence, but to show people one of the problems plaguing many communities. If people aren’t able to see what kind of anti-white hate crimes are happening on the streets in cities like Baltimore, St. Louis, Milwaukee, and others, how will people know to take precautions?
YouTube even deleted a video of mine about an anti-white hate crime, in which a black man shot up a predominantly white church in Tennessee to get ‘revenge’ for when white supremacist Dylann Roof did the same thing to a black church two years earlier in Charleston, South Carolina. 581Not only was mainstream media ignoring the story, but then my video on it (which got over 300,000 views in 48 hours) was censored and a penalty placed on my channel in the form of a Community Guidelines strike. I appealed the removal, and after it was further reviewed, the video was restored, but the fact that the moderators took it down in the first place shows how vulnerable YouTube videos are to political censorship. YouTube has also deleted viral videos from black conservatives who criticized the Black Lives Matter movement, claiming they violate their terms of service. 582
Many videos are also automatically deleted without issuing the channels which post them a “community guidelines violation” by identifying them through the Content ID system, which scours through all videos to find specific clips using visual and audio printing technology and removes them without warning and with no recourse to have them restored. Hollywood studios use the Content ID feature to have clips of TV shows and movies automatically blocked, sometimes even if they’re used in accordance with fair use laws. 583
Liberals love to claim YouTube is a “private business” and say they can decide what to allow on their site and what not to, but when a Christian bakery refuses to use their artistic talent to make a special gay wedding cake with two men painted in frosting or saying “Congratulations Adam and Steve,” then liberals want that business sued and shut down for ‘discrimination.’ 584
Gays cried ‘censorship’ after they noticed many LGBT videos didn’t show up on restricted mode which is meant to filter out adult content for parents, schools, and public libraries. 585They posted videos about strange gay sex practices and then complained when YouTube didn’t allow them to be seen by children, and so YouTube apologized and ‘fixed’ their algorithm so that the adult content filter would ignore most LGBT videos so kids can now watch them. 586
Transgender activist Riley Dennis, who argues that women can have penises and says people are ‘transphobic’ if they don’t want to have sex with trannies, 587made a Facebook post on March 5th 2017 saying ‘she’ “Spent the entire day watching videos of people calling me a stupid regressive snowflake tranny faggot retarded SJW, so that I could compile a list of channels that harass me, so I can make the argument to YouTube that we have to do something about it.” 588
‘She’ then proceeded to report the videos to YouTube alleging they were ‘bullying her’ and there were reports that the videos were then removed. 589So just criticizing a radical transgender activist on YouTube is now considered to be ‘hate speech’ or ‘bullying.’ Of course, liberals can post videos saying the most hateful things one can imagine about Christians, and that’s celebrated as ‘free speech’ (which it is), but that same protection does not exist the other way around.
In 2015, a Christian singer named Joyce Bartholomew sued YouTube after they removed one of her music videos of her singing a song with a pro-life theme. The video, titled What Was Your Name , was uploaded to YouTube in April of 2014 and quickly gained over 50,000 views but then YouTube removed it claiming it violated their terms of service. She sued them for defamation, arguing that by YouTube saying she violated their terms of service when she did not, they had damaged her reputation by making false statements about her. 590The video was later re-uploaded, and at the time I’m writing this, has over 500,000 views. 591
Singer Elton John and his ‘husband’ were involved in a sex scandal in the UK when it came to light that their ‘marriage’ was really just a sham and that they had engaged in threesomes with other men. 592And after news of this broke in the British tabloids, Elton John got a court order to block every news outlet in England from reporting on the story. 593
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