welcome back in in today's video we need to talk about Coppa these new
regulations that are rolling out that threaten to upset the YouTube creator
ecosystem that's right Greg they're basically saying that no more
family-friendly content and if you do you're not gonna get paid for it oh and
you might also possibly be fined up to 40,000 dollars per video needless to say
this is scary but there is something that we can do to prevent this why is
this happening well I'm glad you asked Google LLC in the subsidiary YouTube LLC
had to pay a record 170 million to settle allegations by the Federal Trade
Commission and the New York Attorney General that say YouTube illegally
collected personal information from children without their parents consent
hmm so basically the YouTube creators being punished for something that
YouTube itself did but wait there's more starting in January YouTube will not
allow any Content that is made for children to include targeted advertising
which is how we creators make the majority of our money in the way they
decided to go about this is by having us label each video and upload with a new
menu option it's not Google and YouTube who will bear the bulk of the
responsibility for labeling videos Google will use machine learning to auto
flag videos that they think are kid's content but where it doesn't video
uploaders themselves will be required to determine what the FTC considers for
kids videos designated as kids content will no longer serve personalized ads
will have no likes or dislikes no comments and none of the other features
that involve data collection which also help videos spread so this is going to
affect the algorithm is going to suppress many videos and it's gonna turn
off the comments section which is the community interaction literally whole
channels are gonna lose the bill lose the community aspect which is just
terrible videos can still serve non-personalized ads but this may result
in a decrease in revenue for some creators says Google so this is going to
significantly reduce all the revenue and it's just I hate to hear this so again
we find out that YouTube is going to be implementing
more robots and is it's already caused a lot of problems as a lot of things are
being demonetized just from the word and I don't know if you know but nearly
every single one of my videos are demonetised when I upload in it's
because of the robots that just flag videos and that it's it's really
frustrating and to know that they're going to be implementing more of this
it's you know it's gonna stack and it's gonna be even more frustrating and it's
just I recently found out that the word rep is a word that will de monetize your
video so a robot comes along and if I say at the end of my videos because
you're repping or if you're not ripping your Greg and then it's gonna it's going
to monetize that video which is prompted me to thank try to think of a new outro
altogether which is sad because I don't even I don't I don't want to change my
outro I like my outro in many cases it's obvious when a video is targeted at kids
and google lists a few examples including child protagonists engaging in
common neutral play patterns such as play-acting or imaginative play in
popular children's songs stories and poems like like baby shark do doop doop
doop baby shark doo-doo but it even goes to talk about
retrospective video games like fort and i and different things like that and
this is gonna reach far and wide because the guidelines on this are so vague
could be left to include anything that they wanted like for example if I was
gonna make a video about Justin Bieber or Jeffrey star even PewDiePie just
because their fan bases include some children it could fall under that
category and do monetize my video so this kid this is gonna affect everyone
on youtube so video games that contain children or children's characters and
kit in anything that kids might be drawn to but could also be intended for
teenagers and adults google can't help much there we provide some guidance on
what is considered made for kids below but we cannot provide legal advice the
company rights if you are unsure whether your video meets this standard we
suggest you seek legal counsel in other words sorry your beef is with the FTC
and this is very crazy because it's dates that you can be fined up to
$40,000 per video creators of kid targeted videos are obviously unhappy
about the FTC's decision but other video creators are also worried and irritated
by the blanket rule which might apply to their channels even if they don't think
their videos are targeted at kids if they flag their video as kids content
they'll lose revenue and promotion if they don't and YouTube or the FTC
disagrees with their judgment they could lose their channels and even be fined in
September seen that reported that creators who fail to mark vids for kids
will be subject to aggressive FTC fines this is good this is something that we
cannot let happen as a community we need to rally behind this and do whatever we
can to stop this because the whole channels are gonna lose their ability to
create this is most definitely probably gonna affect even my channel the new
regulation will destroy the general and family-friendly content on YouTube and
make children no safer on the internet wrote youtuber and disability activist
good times with scar who makes Minecraft videos he added that the people will
lose their livelihoods are not the large corporations it seems clear that the FTC
is primarily talking about specific kind of YouTube video the videos that
five-year-olds watch on repeat with singing cartoon characters such as
Johnny Johnny yes Papa Google drew that these videos are directly targeting
children under 13 and knew that it was collecting their viewing history to
target advertisements that's what the FTC takes issue with like I said the
worst part about this is that this is not gonna make this no safer for
children on YouTube but actually it's going to change the whole infrastructure
and it's gonna push people away from making family-friendly content to the
point where they're probably gonna have to make more edgy or content which is
crazy because the current robots with the monetization words already are de
monetizing channels off the bat I think even the word the monetization is
something that will get you demonetised that should check to that but the
problem that it is more content that is going to make it less safe it's going to
be produced YouTube as you know it will be changed
forever this is not good and it feels real bad as entire channels that are
based on family-friendly content and even channels that are video games
related are going to be shut down but there is something that you can do about
this to help the FCC is actually accepting public comments until about
December 9th of 2019 they want to hear what the public has to say and this is
our opportunity there's also a petition I'm gonna put it in a link in the
description so all you got to do is go through sign that petition and there's a
easy link to click through to contact the FTC and leave a really positive
constructive comment because it's really going to help and if you're unsure what
that looks like I am gonna put some examples in the description below as
well as a whole lot of other content that's gonna help you out and guide you
very easily through that process but as interesting as this is there's always
sometimes more interest in me that's right you guessed I wanted a few thanks
once you go ahead and leave your credit for an interesting responses of comment
box B load them some of those like there's always brothers and sisters I
will see you in the next video man I just feel like day after day time
after time YouTube is becoming like this thing that's just against its creators
and it makes me really sad it's really not a good time for us right now and I'm
definitely worried myself as what the future holds and just I just don't like
where it's going but like I said we do have an ability to step up and have our
voice be heard other than that on a more positive note
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do that that are joining the patreon if that's something that you feel like
doing because ads and this de monetization thing and these robots man
they're destroying the ability to do what we're supposed to do here and
create but yeah I know that you're repping if
you're not ripping your dragon I do that I got a subscriber of catch Trump in the
conversation to every single video cuz I'm gonna be there Greg the cat's gonna
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