Whatsup you beautiful bastards, hope you're having a fantastic monday
Welcome back to the Philip Defranco show and let's just jump into it.
And the first thing I want to talk about today is big entertainment and internet news
thanks to YouTube. There are events companies
have each year called new fronts. And it's essentially those companies
announcing and showing the new slate of shows that
advertisers can get involved in. And Youtube has one called Brandcast, and two notable things happened.
And the first thing is that the CEO of Youtube apologized to advertisers,
saying the last several weeks have been challenging for some of you,
and you've told us to do better when it comes to ad placement.
I want you to know that we have taken your feedback to heart we work hard every day to earn our advertisers and agencies trust,
and we apologize for letting some of you down. I'm here to say that we can and we will do better.
I feel like it could be very easy to hate on those statements
There are a lot of creators right now that are panicking because their adsense is screwed.
I mean, one of the several reasons started DeFranco Elite was because I saw my ad sense decimated.
You also have other massive creators like H3H3 productions and PewDiePie embracing Twitch.
Something they could have done on YouTube, but because of the situation, they're embracing other places and other methods.
So you could look at Susan's statement and go, "Oh my God, things are going to get worse."
I, while very critical of YouTube
am also going to just kind of watch for a month, month and a half. The sense I've gotten from talking with YouTube is that they
have something in place that is a program that learns.
The idea being that what is not advertiser friendly will initially be strict while the program learns
What is actually okay. That said, don't take my words as everything's okay, guys. If it still is too strict
If it is hitting people that it's not supposed to hit you do need to be vocal about it
One, it's a very large company and a lot of the times they do not know things are happening.
And two, sometimes they need to know that a problem is not small, it is affecting a large number of users.
Right now I'm waiting, I'm watching.
I did want to highlight something else Susan said. I like this, it was a reminder to advertisers.
She said "Youtube is not TV. And we never will be. A platform that you all helped create represent something bigger.
Our users don't come to youtube for polish they come to youtube for texture
They come to see the world as it truly is, filled with people just like themselves.
They come to witness our shared humanity"
And I will say, leaders of Youtube past and present, that is probably the most accurate statement I've ever heard out of one of their mouths.
It's not polish over texture.
It is substance over everything. We are not a passive viewing experience,
we are more connected and thus will be more raw, but and this is kind of connected,
the other notable thing that YouTube did is they announced a new slate of shows! These aren't YouTube Red series these are Youtube ad
backed program you got serious Ryan
Seacrest, Ellen Degeneres, Demi Lovato, Katy Perry
Kevin hart, also some YouTubers well [know] guys are launching the super slow show Rhett and Link of Good Mythical Morning
Or producing some content and I will say I'm a little torn on
This side is a youtubers thrust up and given the ability to make something bigger than something they've done before more than mainstream
Coming to YouTube. This is also youTube's way to show advertisers. Hey look we have this premium content
You can put your money here
Maybe you advertise heavily on Kevin Hart's show
And then maybe you do also a big overall deal then once Kevin hart [show] is done
Maybe they spread it around even more so I'm also arguing that the inclusion of mainstream talent on Youtube with these premium shows it also
Legitimizes YouTubers although others are worried that maybe this is telling of what youtube is going to do in the future
They're going to go more family-Friendly
They're going to go mainstream famous rather than allowing a platform which really has allowed
no bodies to become
Somebody's because I say youtube's done similar things to this in the past where they gave money to people to produce content [what] we saw
Over the period of them doing that pretty much everyone that
survived where youtubers before they got the money and that's because as the ceo of youtube said it's not so much about
Polish it's about texture. Let's see
It's all going to come down to execution the execution of the people actually making this and the way youtube handles it
How you do promotes these shows when they launch that could be the thing that makes people?
Embrace them or leaves a bad taste in everyone's mouth especially if the promotion of this premium content in any way seems like they're pushing
Down everyday YouTubers, but I'm rooting for it all to be successful. But the question I want to pass off to you
What is your takeaway from this? Do you think that youtube's doing the right thing the smart thing or no you think they're prioritizing
others? Is it a bad move that's going to hurt youtube or youtubers? I'd love to know your thoughts here. But from there
I want to share some stuff I loved today in Today in Awesome. And the first bit of awesome today is
you! I-I- oh, the amount of support and belief you showed in me after the Monday announcement video last week of me going solo, me wanting to build
out a news network.
DEFRANCOELITE.COM I..I was shaking and getting choked up watching the initial reaction. Your support,
DEFRANCOELITE.COM and I don't just mean the 14,000 of you who have signed up for Defranco Elite and you are supporting that way,
DEFRANCOELITE.COM I mean everyone's just excited. People sharing with their friends,
DEFRANCOELITE.COM family, whoever's interested in news. Thanks to you
DEFRANCOELITE.COM I can run independent, I can build something independent, we can thrive
DEFRANCOELITE.COM Independent. If YouTube decides to shake our tree more, they put us in more advertiser unfriendly categories
DEFRANCOELITE.COM It doesn't matter because we have roots. So whether you supported me through DeFranco Elite,
DEFRANCOELITE.COM you just watch, thank you for being on this ride.
DEFRANCOELITE.COM This is the beginning of a long road that will be riddled with success and failures. We're going to be building and
DEFRANCOELITE.COM experimenting in public. There will be things that you do not like but that's also part of the process especially if we're making things with
DEFRANCOELITE.COM you. But all I know is I'm just so excited! Then we got to talk movies and trailers. We got a brand new trailer for
House of Cards season 5 and yes
Please this will be the longest 22 day wait ever. One of my favorite series even though it has that one season that
was kinda "meh" but then it came back strong
And that's why I'm excited for season 5. Then we got a trailer for the movie dunkirk
And I have to say Christopher Nolan is just.. he is a master at making me feel anxious
Then we got a trailer for The Dark Tower which looks amazing. I'm going to lose some nerd cred here
I have not read the novels by Stephen King, but I am so pumped to watch this movie
And I think I'll read it afterwards. There's part of me
that's starting to hate more and more when I've read the books and then I watch something, cus the entire time
I'm like 'oh, well it's interesting they didn't include THAT.'
'Oh, so they completely changed the end to the Martian where that thing
he jokingly said he wished he could do he actually did? Interesting.'
I still like the movie, but I'm just going to be a judgmental prick about it.
Then, we got the final Wonder Woman trailer and it looks fantastic!
I think this is going to be the first DC Superhero movie
I've watched in a movie theater since the Dark Knight Trilogy. Like, I've seen them
but I just don't want to pay movie theater prices.
I watched suicide squad on a plane... Then we got a first look at 'It',
and I have to be honest it actually does look good and if a trailer is any indication looks like the child acting is going
To be good which is a make or break for a lot of movies like this. And remember if you want to see the full?
Versions everything I just share the secret link of the day
Anything at all links as always are in the description down below. Then let's talk about pepe the frog
In the news because he has gone the way of Harambee. His dad, his creator,
Matt Fury killed him off. For those you who have an internet connection,
but have not somehow come across the pepe the frog meme,
he was a cartoon... people started memeing with him...
but then it took a very weird turn... some people started using the meme for anti-semitic comments, white
Supremacists comments, so much so and you may remember this we talked about it during the election
Hillary Clinton's website included a whole article about pepe the frog, saying it was an alt-right hate symbol the anti-defamation league even
Included pepe the frog as a hate symbol. Now in response to this at the time Fury said that this was just a phase
Saying it's completely insane that pepe has been labeled a symbol of hate
But in the end pepe is whatever you say he is and I, the creator, say pepe is love.
But I guess given enough time he decided to kill the frog. Now what I will say is I still believe in what Fury originally
Said when it comes to memes when it comes out to what you're putting out on the internet
you make it whatever you want it to be. You can take that meme of kermit sipping his tea and then turn that into a
911 Post
But that doesn't mean that Kermit supports
911. And I also believe, to some degree, that Fury knows that this is not going to stop people using pepe the frog as a meme.
Hell, most everyone
I talked to about this didn't even know the original source of the image. And also, the moment people realize that maybe you don't want
them to use something, they're going to use it. We see examples of this every single week, including I mentioned him earlier,
Harambe. People are posting Harambe meme after Harambe meme the zoo said 'hey could you not?' and what do you think happened?
Everyone calmed down? Stopped posting? No! That's not how the internet works and so with that, I say 'RIP pepe' even though
I'm pretty sure I'm going to see more of you than ever now. Then let's talk about our
Douchebag of the day the garbage pile of a person and that is 57 year old Steven Chase. According to the FBI,
Steven had created the world's largest child pornography website. He was arrested in early 2015 after police searched his home and
Reportedly found thousands of images depicting the sexual abuse of children many of whom were said to be barely
Kindergarten age. In September Chase was found guilty of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise and for the possession
advertisement and transportation of child pornography
And so now the big update is after being found guilty he has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. And I say good
He's 58 hopefully he has to serve out the entire sentence and hey, if old age takes him and he never sets a foot outside of prison
I think the world may be a slightly safer place.
Now if you haven't heard of this story before, there is also a bit of controversy around it... And the reason for that was after Stevens was
arrested the FBI took over control of his website. A website that is...it's just disgusting... allegedly had between
150 to 250 thousand members.
The reports on it vary. Instead of just killing the website, cutting off the access, the FBI allowed the website to run for
two more weeks.
so they could give a malware to the people on the website so they could find out who they were.
This has led to the prosecution of 25 US producers of child pornography.
The prosecution of 51 us-based hands-on abusers. 55 us children who have successfully been identified or rescued
296 sexually abused children identified or rescued internationally. 350 US arrests and
548 international arrests.
So, obviously a much bigger takedown because they allowed for those two weeks, and they were able to track people
So the FBI was getting praise
But there are also people angry that the FBI, through just one warrant, were able to track so many people.
Although I will say I personally side with the FBI here.
And that's because the way that I think of it is I think of this website as a physical location.
The FBI got a warrant, they kicked down the door to a child porn dungeon. They arrested the owner of the establishment,
they put someone in his place, and then when people -- criminals did something illegal in this establishment,
they were then tracked. And, in fact, the only thing I'm disappointed by is
the thought that there were about a quarter of a million people using this website,
and we have hundreds of arrests. But in the grand scheme of things they're still just a drop in the bucket and that
depresses me.
It just makes me wish we could figure out a way to pied piper all of these people hurting children and sharing footage of children being
Hurt and do a trash compactor. Then let's talk about fake news! *asterisk* And the reason I put an asterisk on it
is, it is what it is, but some people believe something is happening
that is not happening. And so much of this is stemming from a five-second clip on Twitter that has over
150,000 retweets
Now seeing that clip you saw one of two things
One, Donald Trump torn down by a little girl. Or Two, a man who is very obviously not Donald Trump
Impersonating Donald trump getting torn down by a little girl.
Now, for those of you that saw number One, white people don't look the same, you racists!
He said sarcastically
But seemingly from the response on Twitter there were a lot of people who thought it was really Donald Trump
There were also those that were aware that it was not Donald trump
but knew that the little girl probably
didn't and loved her for it still. And there were people that claimed that the whole thing was fake and not only did you have the
Donald Trump impersonator
But the little girl was an actress. Now in response to that final theory, the Donald trump
Impersonator said 'no that was just a little girl that was out there on the street. It was not a fed line,
It wasn't scripted.' Adding that the little girl was brave funny and smart...she said that of her own volition
So that's why I say fake news *asterisk*
and I arm you with the information to make your friends who shared it thinking it was 100% real... you get to make them
feel stupid for a second, and really isn't that like 30% of the reason you watch this show? And let's talk about a story I need
Much of this update happened last week. Of course, I didn't post last week,
but I feel like it's important to bring you up to speed. And that update is around the Daddy of Five YouTube scandal. Everything happening
with Michael Martin and his family. Where we last left this story, after all the outrage, the police were investigating... The
biological mother was trying to get her kids back... also because Michael Martin privated every video except one on the channel, hiding all of that
disturbing content, police were reportedly having a hard time finding
videos so that they could review them, so myself and many others then provided them the entire
archive which people had downloaded before all the videos went private. And the big update to this story is that Mike and Heather Martin have
temporarily lost custody of Kody and Emma. The biological mother, Rose Hall, saying in a video that she had been granted
emergency custody. And in the video the biological mother said, you know the kids they didn't really know how to
understand this change at first.
Rose saying Kody told her that Mike said that his mom didn't want him. Adding that the kids were being deprogrammed
They were adjusting. We do also know that there was a hearing last Friday, but that was subject to a gag order
So there's really not much information out about that. And a final note
I have on this story today, is I am just... I'm just happy to see that -something- is happening.
Because, really like I've said multiple times while covering this story, this story is about just kids being safe
I've also seen in this past week that the story has blown up to an
International level. I see a lot of people crediting me as the person who broke the story and what I will say is my videos they
they got out to millions of people and they informed people of what was happening. But the real heroes of this story you have
Independent journalists like Nick Monroe
And so many other people that saw
Something and decide to do something about it. And as far as what will ultimately happen with the kids
We'll have to wait and see. And that's actually where I'm going to end today's show. Remember, if you like this video like what I
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can click or tap right there to watch that. But, that said of course, as always, my name is Philip Defranco
You've just been phill'd in. I love yo faces, and I'll see you tomorrow.