everybody we did it i was actually going to take the day off
from making a youtube video so i decided to just hop
on real quick because this is such exciting news uh so it's not scripted
you get to see my beautiful face for the entirety of
this video but we did it and i just wanted to take
a moment to just send out a massive thank you
to everybody for those of you who aren't caught up to speed on what's going on
i'm gonna make it very brief because i've made
videos about this already that you can check out
but anyways i made a video debunking a q a on covid conspiracy theorist who was
telling people to not wear masks and youtube took my video down my
channel got a warning which leads to a strike and the actual
warning said it was for impersonation and i've just been so
like the word is just frustrated like you know when you feel like you're just
screaming into a void and nobody's hearing you
like i don't know like this is one of the issues that i had growing up i just
felt like i was never heard so when it happens again i like
freak out and it was just crazy because i reached out to youtube
so many times so many times and they kept saying
oh no you know we reviewed this and we were upholding our position
they were saying that either a my video was me
impersonating myself or b that it was going against the world health
organization even though my video was telling people to wear masks
and i was debunking a video that was telling people
not to wear masks and you know thanks to everybody out there
for you know getting this message out like i i was i
was so frustrated and like i was getting upset
i'm like does nobody care about this issue like
this is a big deal like personally like i feel that it is so important that
we're able to have videos that debunk conspiracy theories about the pandemic
that we have videos that are able to discuss
the dangers of not wearing masks in a pandemic and i was afraid to make more
videos about the subject in fear that youtube was going to take
them down right but thanks to a bunch of
creators coming together and a bunch of you know all of you coming together
like we got youtube's attention so i just want to thank
um some creators out there uh this isn't like an award speech or anything but
sorry if i forget anybody but huge things first and
foremost um uh shannon from uh creep show art like
uh she actually made a video dedicated to talking about this it has
over 100 000 views and we got a lot of support from that so
huge huge thank you to shannon last night which might have been the
tipping point was um a big creator on this platform
roberto blake he tweeted about this he saw that some
other creators were dealing with this where youtube was saying that they
reviewed things and it didn't really look like they did
so he tweeted about it last night um but yeah i forgot to mention like how
did how did this happen like i want to make it clear like youtube
didn't email me they didn't reach out to me they didn't
let me know what happened i just hopped on this morning i went in to go
uh reply to some comments i was like huh my youtube studio looks a little
different and the warning was gone and i was like
okay and i looked and the video was back up so my original q and on video was
back up and and yeah like i don't know like i
said roberto retweeted it yesterday but we also got
some more traction yesterday but it started a couple weeks ago first
um the channel some ordinary gamers he retweeted about it and then it just kind
of caught fire a twitter account um comment
cop if any of you follow him he tweeted it out uh on his team youtube
they tweeted it out and by the way i'm gonna link all the
creators uh youtube channels like if you want to go check them out show them some
love but we also have big creators like uh
destiny um huge thanks to donna from psychial
she's retweeted about this a couple times
uh and then other creators in the commentary community like
nicholas diorio and john swann and um uh tommy uh
he he tweeted out too and like i just really appreciate it but
huge thank you to all of you who saw this and you realize that it was messed
up it's wrong and youtube needs to have better
conversations with us about what's going on
and actually look into things instead of sending these copy and paste replies
so huge thank you to all of you who have you know left comments
or tweeted about this or tweeted at youtube
or anything all right and the last thing i'll say
and i don't i don't want to be extra about this i don't want to be
extra but it's not over all right there's like that old saying like you
won the battle but you didn't win the war
like this isn't over so just to let you know
the channel thunderfoot i just checked out his channel he has almost a million
subscribers and he had this exact same thing happen
he was debunking coveted conspiracies his video was taken down it was flagged
for impersonation just like mine i just checked his video
is not up all right so we're not done yet i'm
still going to try to help him get the word out and see what's
going on but this works so go follow him on twitter
and tweet out about this um and also like q anon
is going to continue making videos and listen
i mentioned this in a video the other day like
i know how nuanced and complicated the topic of free speech
is um i don't think uh i i wouldn't necessarily say that q and
on channels should just be d platform i would never say that but we
need to ensure that this platform allows for people to debunk the
misinformation that they're giving all right because it seemed really
sketchy that you know youtube is supposed to be like you know
adhering to what the world health organization
is saying and punishing creators for putting out the wrong information and
you know that is a a tricky line and i wouldn't want to have to like you know
make those decisions at youtube but we need to make sure
that youtube lets creators like myself and thunderfoot and anybody else who is
going to debunk q anon kovic conspiracies
or anybody who's anti-mass they need to allow our videos
on the platform like i would argue that the algorithm should boost those videos
up to get the right information out there
but anyways they're going to still keep making videos so we
need to keep getting people to understand the truth
about uh kovid the pandemic what's going on my goal with this channel
uh thank you for all you loyal rewired soldiers who have been here for a while
like you've noticed that i've kind of pivoted i just believe that we all
need to become better critical thinkers we need to
stop just reading headlines or hearing things and you know i just made a video
the other day about how our intuition can get us into trouble
you know what i mean so like we need to work on looking at what people are
saying like the reason i made that original video
that was taken down was like i've been seeing people saying that they're not
going to get the covet vaccine based on stuff that like people like q
anon is saying and that that is nuts to me so we need to keep
getting the right information out there and keep having these conversations
but what i talk about on this channel and critical thinking
and skepticism and psychology and philosophy and all those things
like it it spans out into all aspects of our lives and the decisions that we make
on a daily basis to hopefully make our lives just a little bit better but
anyways this video is way longer than i thought it was going to be
so again thank you thank you all of the creators who helped me i'm going to link
their channels down below go check them out go
subscribe follow them on social media and a huge thank you to all of you out
there in the audience um a lot of you have
been dming me with video topics that you want me to cover and ideas and
everything like that feel free to reach out to me on social
media anytime my inbox isn't like blowing up so i'm
pretty good at replying to people so feel free to shoot me
a dm um and yeah i hope you all have an amazing
rest of your day and i'll see you real soon with another video essay