Ragnar's Video is Live! And my new video is gone!
Added 2020-09-05 16:35:24 +0000 UTCHey team!
Thing 1
Ragnar's new Games from the Underground video is live, complete with my four-minute segment on Peak Bleak Blues. It's mostly the same as when I showed you the preview, but Ragnar put music under it at my request (he's better at sound mixing than I am). Do check it out, the other contributors all did great work and there's some good stuff in there. :D
Thing 2
I mentioned just the other day that YouTube had age-restricted the semiotics of "cuck." At first I was like "oh well," but then learned that age restriction means people can't watch the video if they're not logged in, so I figured I'd at least try contesting it. I argued that it's impossible to discuss the racist subtext of "cuck" without unpacking its relationship to porn, and stressed that the pornographic imagery is heavily censored, and said it's mostly people under 18 using the term so it's important they have access to the context.
In response, YouTube deleted the video and gave me a community strike, saying the video was pornographic.
(also, hilariously, here's what showed up here on Patreon after I typed the above)
I can't get the video reinstated because it is gone, so I'm going to have to re-edit and re-upload. That will be a bit of trial-and-error because YouTube never tells you the specific segments they take issue with, so I'ma have to guess. That'll take a few days, I'm prioritizing my next video for now, but you can still watch the mirrored version on Vimeo.
Weird morning.
-I
Comments
I'd say it's 'guilty until proven innocent', but you don't even get the chance to prove anything or even hear out the theoretical complaint. :-(
JinxedJoker
2020-09-09 08:17:24 +0000 UTCPhilosophy Tube's video about Lolita and Ada had really creative and funny ways to censor words and topics from yt's wack algorithms
Alex J
2020-09-07 21:57:25 +0000 UTCSucks, dude :( I understand the need to protect children from actual pornography. But implying that someone was using your video to reach climax is off the charts stupid.
Eric Hula
2020-09-07 21:19:41 +0000 UTCautomatic content censoring is chilling to free speech and creativity. 😒
matt
2020-09-07 06:47:30 +0000 UTCGotta love those algorithms. I watched the video, and after the algorithms flagged your video for potential porn the images, well, didn't leave enough to the imagination.
2020-09-06 21:53:06 +0000 UTCThat's awful, I liked that video and the fact that it got such good engagement (in both senses of the world). I hope we'll be able to hype up the recut version to the same degree if you make one. At least we can watch the original (and Lady Eboshi is Wrong) on Vimeo.
Anonymous Unknown
2020-09-06 12:13:29 +0000 UTCThat sucks. Another reminder that Youtube give zero fucks about treating creators fairly. It really makes me wonder what (if any) human review actually happens when you contest a strike on a video.
Sam Douglas
2020-09-06 02:32:33 +0000 UTCVideo of a dude laughing at a dead body that's hanging in the forest... It's fine until massive numbers of people complain. Video doing a deep dive to help deal with problematic hatred that ruins lives? That's not okay apparently lol.
Soi Born
2020-09-05 22:15:33 +0000 UTCDamn, that sucks, sorry you have to deal with YouTube’s bullshit.
RebekahSolWest
2020-09-05 19:27:17 +0000 UTCAnother reminder that we live in a company town. (Also applies to Vimeo)
Avid Stan
2020-09-05 18:01:54 +0000 UTCHearing your voice with music underneath is such a treat!
2020-09-05 17:35:03 +0000 UTCoh no! i’m sorry ian. hoping you can figure out something that yt likes and it isn’t too much of a pain
Will Bower
2020-09-05 17:30:12 +0000 UTCYoutube's (and by extension Patreon's) bullshit about continually shifting their community standards and rules such that a given work is both simultaneously within the confines of whats acceptable and likewise outside of it is infuriating and I think could serve as an interesting topic if you ever need more topics. :)
Sid
2020-09-05 17:06:05 +0000 UTCThats a helluva thing. Considering how censored the segments that needed to be were, its not hard to just do a very minor amount of digging to find some full on nudity existing just fine on youtube. =/ Best of luck with the guessing-game-whack-a-mole
Keifru
2020-09-05 16:50:08 +0000 UTC
