don't back into today's video we're gonna be talking about seven awesome
kids ian rile it we're also be talking about special
books for special kids all that and more as the rim reports now if you're
unfamiliar with special books by special kids they're a YouTube channel with over
1 million subscribers and they focus primarily on given a voice to disabled
adults and children that otherwise would not have one they've recently had some
trouble where YouTube has disabled the comments in their videos and taken what
they feel like discriminatory measures let's look into that we weren't planning
on making this video tonight but our hand has been forced and we're making
this video to desperately ask our community everybody who watches our
videos for your support please just rally around us today
YouTube has put into place discriminatory new actions to disable
every single comment section on all of our videos and I say that word I've been
noticing this from a lot of different channels and including myself on the
back end it's obvious that YouTube has been doing a lot of new and experimental
things to appease the advertisers even with the last YouTube rewind you can see
that the whole video was basically an ad to tell advertisers hey we are a good
place a nice friendly place for you to run your ads I do feel like these
attempts that YouTube is making is distancing the very creators that have
helped build the platform into what it is discriminatory knowing the
implications of it and I mean it 100% the reason this is discriminatory is
because they're doing it under the guise under the mask of protecting children
from predators but they're only selecting certain channels features like
it is that right here Randleman and i don't want to push it but it seems like
channels that are larger or that have corporate or advertisers behind them
that they're not being impacted all even if their content is more subjective to
the type of a predation that they're trying to combat and if you know
most of us have been aware just from watching YouTube's actions that they are
making a real attempt to clean the platform they're putting in extreme
measures in an attempt to what seems like not lose advertisers which means
not lose money now a lot of the actions that they have been taking are
questionable like disabling in the comments there are whole channels that
have been demonetised just for certain words I'm told that some bigger creators
have even had to change their name in order to keep their videos from being d
monetized now my experience with this is definitely negative we're 15 days into
the new month and I've only had two videos that have been monetized making
my income for this month very very low earning now I don't do this for money
but it would be nice to get paid for working sometimes 15 20 hours a day but
that's just me know our channel you know that all of the comments are positive
we've been selected to have our comments disabled and they will not communicate
with us what puts us at high risk for predatory comments as they've stated it
we found out our comments were disabled a few hours ago and right away we filmed
a video in this video we're angry and we're open and we're raw we hope you can
appreciate those emotions and we hope that you feel them too and we hope that
you just see that we're putting ourselves out there and what we're
putting ourselves into extremely vulnerable state to advocate for our
community because it means that much to us after you watch this video please
click in the description below we've created a petition for YouTube to
reinstate our comments and end their discriminatory practice thanks for
supporting us everyone now if you guys are interested in watching the video
that they did shoot I'm gonna put this in the description below as well as the
petition because I do feel like it's very important I don't think this is the
last of videos we're gonna see from concerned creators I would like to see
an end to this sort of discriminatory extreme practice that YouTube's put in
and I do feel like is an extreme practice that has just
been put in for a temporary solution I think as all our voices will be heard
they will move to do something that's a little bit more good for the environment
now as mentioned SBS K has reached out to YouTube to get a resolution let's
look at how that went this is the original tweet here also we'll provide
it in the description below it says we need your help YouTube has taken
discriminatory action disabling all SBS K's comments sections we need your
assistance in persuading them to reverse this decision that will be extremely
harmful to our movement towards inclusion they also provide the full
story link there YouTube does reach out and says while we apologized your
content isn't in the wrong we want to do everything in our power to protect
minors in all videos on YouTube as is consistent with this pledge we're
working in the coming months to disable comments on channels with minors as we
go after bad actors one Twitter user saying if you recognize it isn't in the
wrong then turn the comments back on it seems so far at this time YouTube is not
responding to this in the way that seems most fair today just two hours ago this
being tweeted I had a call with YouTube this morning they said our comments will
remain off please continue to sign our petition and feel free to tag Susan in
your tweets we need to get this situation in front of those making the
decisions and I do agree with this and I also want to say on youtubes part I know
that they're in a very stressful situation with advertisers threatening
to leave and I do believe this decision was made very promptly as a quick
solution confident that YouTube will get this resolved in a more in generally
fair way our next story comes from Ian Ryland
founder of popular YouTube brand sevenawesomekids who was recently
arrested in September for lewd and lascivious Melissa and child if you're
not familiar with that let's have Tilly D Phyllis on sevenawesomekids was a
massively popular YouTube channel that had six other channels associated with
it totaling 17 million subscribers and the most popular among them was
sevensupergirls now the story behind this is detectives
had been called out to rile its hotel room near Walt Disney World in August
after Riley allegedly verbally abused a young woman he allegedly demanded that
she undressed in front of him against her will according to the arrest report
and that she practiced wrapping her breasts down to make them appear smaller
for the video shoot the girl who was under 16 at the time claimed Riley
touched her breasts and attempted to forcefully remove her underwear Rylan
was arrested on charges that he had Molloy the girl this arrest was part of
a series of troubling revelations leading YouTube to amp up the security
in disabling comments and other things in order to protect minors on the
platform after public outcry YouTube began cracking down on potentially
exploitative child videos it was hosting though the problem persisted most
recently YouTube has been under fire for disabling content and doing different
things like that and basically targeting people at random now as you can see the
first story of the RIP reports was also directly affected by this happening -
and YouTube's attempt to clean the platform YouTube has since shut down all
channels involved with Ian Riley saying we work closely with leading child
safety organizations and others in our industry to protect young people when we
are made aware of serious allegations of this nature we take action which may
include terminating channels upon conclusion of an investigation YouTube
has shut down all of en riots channels saying rila entered a plea agreement to
avoid public trial and a possible 15-year prison sentence if he were
convicted of molestation Matthew Ferry riots lawyer did not immediately respond
to the request for comment in exchange for pleading guilty to child abuse rila
was sentenced to 90 days in Orange County Jail in Florida - the 29 days he
had already served while awaiting trial now a lot of people were upset
saying that the sentence was to lie and did not match the seriousness of the
crime I'm interested in what you think leave your comments below
I did surprise livestream last night for about two hours it was very successful
we talked about a little bit of the intentions of what we were gonna do with
these live streams raising monies for charities as you know we did this last
year and raised a lot of money towards specific causes and it's something
that's always been a big part of what I do on this channel one of my goals in
life is to be a philanthropist which is basically giving back to the people it's
something that's close to me so we're gonna be doing these types of live
streams every weekend and we're just gonna be having fun maybe go camping
doing different things like that now I've taken a large investment out into
some very good live-streaming gear that will up the quality of the live streams
and I'm very excited about that so if you're interested we do these live
streams every weekend I don't think I'll have the new gear for the next weekends
live stream but if you were part of the live stream last night it was great
hanging out with you and it's always great in a good stress reliever for me
to do these live streams in general I've decided that we're going to start using
the rep Zilla subreddit more I feel like it's a better place to you guys to
submit your ideas topics fan arts and different things like that and people
can upvote them and show me the things that I need to see since the platform
has grown larger it's become increasingly more difficult for me to
just look and direct messages on Twitter and even emails and I feel like this is
a more practical way of handling that situation so I'm gonna put the link to
the subreddit in the description and I want you guys to go over there and
subscribe to that we're at 245 subscribers right now can we make it to
1000 this week I don't know maybe that's pushing it but we'll see so as
interesting as this is there's always something for interest to me that's
right you guessed it I want to know - thanks so much good leave your creative
andrea trisha responses in the comment box always brothers and sisters i will
see you in the next video whoo it's been a good day I will say
this about drama I'm not about drama and I know that when I hit a hundred
thousand subscribers it prompted a lot of smaller channels to make videos on me
and some bigger channels are now making videos on me and I understand that being
in the public eye you're gonna get criticisms you're gonna get people
making things up about you and perpetuating drama and just taking
things out of context in general and I think it's important for me at this
point to not respond to those types of things and to stay focus on the mission
that we have here which is progressing positivity and the overall bigger goals
of just what this channel is about reporting things that matter and raising
awareness to the truth so that being said I know that you're ripping if
you're not ripping your Greg you know how do you do that I'll get your
subscribe notification I'll be in the comment section to every single video
cuz I'm gonna be there Greg the cat's gonna be there and the risks of rat
struck me as but I expect to see that too because this channel loves you
you