so if you haven't heard what's been going on there is something that is
being deemed the vox adpocalypse and it all started with a feud between steven
crowder and carlos maza all right and I'm very conflicted about this situation
but I wanted to make a video to kind of discuss this as a YouTube creator and
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going to briefly explain what this box ad pocalypse is how it started and all
of that alright so you have steven crowder who is a conservative comedian
and commentator all right I use comedian because comedy is subjective I don't
like the guy but anyways but keep that in mind as I go through this video right
then you have Carlos Monza I don't know much about him but he is also a
journalist he works for Vox doing a show called strikethrough and steven crowder has made a bunch of videos
debunking Carlos Mazdas videos now that's not the issue the issue is is
that steven crowder has used racial as well as homophobic slurs directed at
Carlos maza while criticizing him so Carlos monza he has become a very loud
voice on Twitter and pretty much got YouTube's attention to look into this
and he wanted to deep platform steven crowder all right and basically
YouTube's decided with steven crowder and said listen i know what he said
might have been hurtful to you but we are not going to take him off the
platform well since then and thought DeFranco talked about this and it's
actually really just bad timing but youtube actually just sent out a
statement talking about how a lot of channels who are offensive and you know
they go against the anti bullying and harassment policy they are being d
monetized as of right now steven crowder has been
demonetised and i think they also mentioned that there's no longer access
to one of these shirts that is offensive all right so let's talk about this and I
just want to start out by saying two things all right like I mentioned before
I am NOT a fan of steven crowder all right I'm not a fan of steven
crowder so that's that's one thing the second thing is I you know not that it's
any of your damn business but I lean more to the liberal side okay so keep
that in mind all right but as I've seen this go down like it's
a scary situation all right and I guess where I've been
out with this is that I don't like what steven crowder said I don't think
somebody on that kind of a platform should be saying those things I think he
he crossed the line when it goes you know from like comedy into like bullying
and saying these things like it's just not what you do especially when you're a
public figure like that so I don't agree with any of that stuff that he said all
right now that's on a personal level the thing is on this platform and because of
freedom of speech I do respect his right to say that way I think the guy's a dick
for everything that he said directed at Carlos maza but I do not think that he
should be deep platform for saying it all right and the thing is is that when
this was kicking off and YouTube first sighted with steven crowder carlos Mazak
he's been all upon Twitter and he retweeted some stuff and one of the
things that he retweeted I believe it was somebody saying hey YouTube I'm
confused because YouTube was saying what steven crowder said may have been
hurtful and in their anti bullying and harassment policy they have a line that
says content that might be hurtful to somebody else right and here's the thing
like when I look at this when you have that kind of language in any kind of
policy it gets tricky all right because hurtful something deemed as hurtful is
very subjective it is extremely subjective okay
what might be hurtful to one person is not hurtful to another person I'll use
myself as an example all right I have very thick skin all right and not just
because I'm overweight see I can even make fun of myself I have
very fixed yet but there are other people who would be offended by the same
comments that I received so to different people
same experience right but one gets offended one doesn't so it's very
subjective now the other thing is is like when looking at this it is safe to
say that YouTube is trying to get this into their algorithm alright YouTube
does not have the manpower nobody no company on earth has the manpower to
manually review everything and that's what's scary alright because a bunch of
youtubers have come out today I have not checked out their content so I don't
know how offensive it might be but YouTube does not have the manpower to
manually check everything so I would assume that they're teaching their
algorithm to scan for certain words or phrases and things like that and then a
lot of people are being demonetized so some of these emails have gone out and
what it looks like is that people get demonetised then they have to reapply
for the YouTube Partner Program in 30 days all right but again when it comes
to free speech it's like I might not like what you say but I respect your
right to say it so when it comes to bullying and harassment I get I get why
people want steven crowder to be punished even harsher and like carlos
masa has been talking about how YouTube is like promoting bullying and bullying
and all these other things in Psych here's a thing I don't think anybody's
talking about just a couple weeks ago Jay Paul made a video confronting the
cyber bully kotico all right there was a massive massive reaction to that
everybody's saying like no Cody ko is not a bully you're being a hypocrite
Jake Paul Cody COEs comedian he's joking around and everything like that but
when we're looking at what's happening right now think about it the question is
if Jake Paul raised enough of a stink as being one of YouTube's largest creators
and saying no kotico is bullying me this is harassment
Cody Co keeps making videos about me this is harassment would Cody Co get D
monetized because Jake Paul's perception of what was happening was bullying you
see what I mean it is all about perspective and this is scary to a
creator like myself like I am a commentary channel alright just like
many many many other commentary channels so not only people like Cody Co but look
at you know drew gooden danny gonzalez Jarvis Johnson you know Leo mush
Elvis Lee a man behind it hey everybody all right now look at the amount of
times they've talked about different creators on Bionic pay he talks about
musicians and all that like imagine if Lele pons started going after these
commentary channels saying this is bullying this is harassment YouTube I
want you to do something about it you see what I mean like what if what if
five minute crafts went after Jarvis Johnson what if truth room went after
Danny Gonzalez alright I just want you all to follow me right now because again
again I do not agree with what steven crowder did but i'm conflicted about the
situation because when you start to censor based on if somebody's feelings
can't hurt alright no matter what they said like it starts to get very very
tricky because this is a subjective experience so based on how sensitive the
other person is they might get demonetized
they might lose their primary source of income all right now don't get me wrong
when I say sensitive like I think Carlos Massa has every right to be upset with
steven crowder and all the terrible things he said I if I was in his
position like if somebody was calling me you know racial slurs like me just being
african-american and they're on such a large platform and it was like in this
kind of malicious way I'd like yeah that's not cool
you know what I mean so I can definitely empathize with Carlos masa but one of
the issues is and one of the issues that a lot of YouTube creators are are having
is that this is happening right now the Fox ad pocalypse is what they're calling
it because when Carlos masa this one guy there's one guy being upset about his
very specific situation he has no problem affecting the income of
thousands upon thousands if not millions of creators who are part of the YouTube
Partner Program because of his specific situation he wants advertisers to start
pulling their money YouTube is now implementing more policies about their
anti bullying and harassment like I said that just seems like weird timing but
they're also heavily enforcing it already which is today but there's a lot
of people are losing their monetization so this is a very tricky situation but I
did want to share my thoughts just as somebody who not only do I do commentary
but I watch a lot of commentary I wanted to bring up this different angle you see
what I mean especially for a lot of commentary channels or news channels who
follow stories and keep making videos on the same people or the same situations
like somebody on the other end of that could deem that as bullying or
harassment just because they didn't like what you said about them so I would love
to know your thoughts on this entire situation down in the comments below
alright and I will be covering this story as more goes on with it alright
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