Hello everybody, it is me chasey poo
Today I want to talk to you about my channel and what's going on because a lot of people have been asking
um, in
May I think I posted a video
saying that my channels gonna be deleted because I got a strike on my account and it really freaked me out because ty had gotten
a strike on his account and
Aaron had gone a strike on his account for things that we shouldn't be getting strikes on our account for like literally the strike on
My video was so random. It just it wasn't happy. So people wanted updates. They don't really know what happened
Right, and I didn't really update anyone about it. So so obviously my channel is still here
So thank you for you know watching me still and being here with me. There's stuff that's still happening
and it's almost like it's...it's all the stuff that was happening in May and
You know before that too, but it's just I'm done talking about it because I'm so tired
Are there still anti-gay ads on my videos? Yes, there are and
YouTube said that they removed it and they removed some of them. The Dr. Brown or whatever that one that was really bad
That one's gone, but people have been saying that on the videos that are monetized. They're getting some weird videos about conversion therapy and
Not something that I really want on my videos if you know what I'm saying
Other than that my channel is still getting flagged a lot. I'm getting a lot of videos that are age restricted
there was a time though where there was like none that were age restricted and I was like
Oh look at this and then for some reason I'm not even joking in the span of three days three days
like 14 videos when age restricted and I was like
but
it's almost like somebody pressed the button so many times and they didn't pay attention and they were like one day like oh
Hold on. Let me just check these messages on Chase's account. They're like, oh age restricted. I'm kidding
I know that that's not how it works some algorithm whatever. It doesn't really matter, but
my videos just got mass age restricted again and my videos are doing this like really cute thing now where when I post them so
I put them on
private first so that they can get
captioned and so that I can like fix some stuff up before I schedule the video to go up because I'm away from home a
Lot, so I just have to make the video before and the cute thing is that you'll see the green and icon
I'm like, oh
yeah a video what I'm talking about my body and like how I feel about my body and how
You know dysphoria and like is gone when I think about these things and I was so empowered
I was like yo, they changed the algorithm. It's green
And then what happens the second I press publish two weeks later. It goes yellow the second
I press publish and I was like what the fu-- and look I get it
It's not somebody at YouTube sitting there saying Demonetize and there's no you know thing in the algorithm
It's saying D monetize all trans content and it has gotten better. Absolutely since May absolutely
Okay, I'm not gonna say it hasn't it has gotten better
However, I feel like I am still
getting censored a lot and it has
made me feel like I shouldn't make videos anymore or make videos about the things that I want to talk about and I
Really want to reiterate that this is not about money
And I know that I complain a lot about my videos being D monetized and that equals money and no money
the thing is that if you're telling me that a video is not suitable for
Advertisers and then it's D monetized or it has limited ads
so really like I don't know one tenth of the ads you would get normally you're telling me that my content is not acceptable and
when I talk about something like this, the cis body is not my ideal body or I talked about something like
How I've dealt with alcoholism and all of these other things in my life that are part of me
You know and part of who I am and you know talking about being trans and talking about
you know my five-year post off all of these things are me and they're part of who I am my identity and
completely disregarding that and is just d monetizing that right away is really
like
It feels like shit
Okay
It really really makes you feel like you don't belong on a platform that you helped create in a safer space
The LGBT community is huge on YouTube. Okay
No one can deny that we helped create this safe space between us and in our communities and it's beautiful
And I just feel like we're not
We're not listen to look okay
Listen, I didn't really talk about this on my channel
But I went to YouTube headquarters after my video was posted and all these news people talked about it on the news
Online media stuff YouTube called me and invited me to go to the headquarters. I went to the headquarters after VidCon and
We talked about algorithms and stuff like that
Here's the thing
I do believe that they to change in that there are some things that they would love to do in order to change
But they're slow at it and I get it
There's like a million people that they need to talk to to make sure everything is good blah blah
but I feel like there are still so many things that could be done that could help because I feel like
the meetings that we had were just very rushed and we talked to a lot of people and it was just
Here's our feedback, but that was it. And I feel like nothing has happened yet, and that was in June
So it's a little disheartening
I know it takes some time
And I know that after seeing this video they're probably gonna call me again because oh my lord like last month two months ago
I was walking to the pharmacy and they called me and they're like hi
Because I was part of that like pilot program where they were trying out you self rating your videos to see if they're monetizable
So, of course I said yes, they're monetizable
But then someone would review it and D monetize it and I didn't like that at least give me like a couple minutes before
Somebody like great like reports my video that I get a little bit of ads on my videos
I get a little bit of revenue because it is a struggle huntys
It is a struggle
so they took me off of that program because I didn't want to be part of it and but they called me and I was
Like tricked into a meeting with like six people. Oh my god
But I feel good that I had kind of this relationship with YouTube
but I'm still not gonna stand here and say that I'm happy because I'm not and I think that that's okay that I'm
Explaining my frustrations with this platform. I don't want to move platforms and unfortunately
It's something that I have been thinking about I've gotten offers from like three different websites to move to their platform
But the thing is that this is YouTube
I worked so hard to be on here and I want to work to make it better
I just don't think that it's on us the creators to
Keep making content queer content LGBT content in order to make some algorithm
Relearn that those words are not hate words because I can guarantee you that there are more positive
LGBT videos out there than bad videos right like come on
there are so many LGBT people and if there are that many hate videos online like I mean
I'm getting some weird ones that my suggested but I still think that there are more like positive ones
So I just don't like that. It's put on us to kind of reteach the algorithm
I think that the algorithm can be retaught. This is YouTube. They're like a billion dollar company. I'm sure you can hire like
a hundred more engineers to like software engineers to like switch off the algorithm change something a little bit because
From where I'm sending it just sounds like no matter what we talk about if it's trans related. It just feels like we're being censored
Quietly and no one's really talking about it anymore because that's what happens
We talk about something then we stop we're talking me, but I'm just you know
You just sometimes you're just tired of fighting and sometimes it's okay to just sit down
Even if you're like a public figure online and a trans activist, sometimes you need to take the mental health break
That's what I've been doing. So we'll see what happens. And if YouTube calls me after this video, I'll let you know what happens and
Hopefully this can get resolved. It is getting better though. I will say that it is getting better. I just needed to be way better
Yeah. All right. Let me know what you think. Have a great day. Bye