Sup you beautiful bastards!
Hope you having a fantastic Tuesday
and welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show
and let's just jump into it.
And the first thing I want to talk about today
it was the most requested story of the day
that can be summarized with
"Youtube's kicking people off the site?"
No, not really.
But, some creators are being pushed away
and the door is closing on future creators of certain genres.
And the reason we're talking about this
the reason it is so highly requested is
that Ethan and Hila from the massive
Youtube channel, h3h3Productions, put out a video
called "We're at an Important Crossroads in our Lives"
and the thumbnail says "Goodbye Youtube"
and in the video he explains that
one of the massive changes from Youtube
that Hank Green has called the Ad-pocalypse
it's effectively shut down advertising on their main channel
whether it's because Youtube is directly demonetizing
their video because they're saying that doesn't fit our guidelines
or, and this is what we're seeing more and more,
the videos are being categorized as either having
profane language,
or one of several different things it can be tagged as
that many advertisers are going to opt out of
on an across the board level.
And Youtube changing their backend in this way for
advertisers, is very obviously because advertisers started to boycott.
So Youtube changed a lot of things in an attempt to put out that fire.
Now something I've stated in the past
and I still believe, is that we are not automatically deserving of advertiser money.
But, once again, a big part of this problem
is Youtube's lack of transparency and lack of reaching
out to creators, and showing them what's changing.
Youtube did throw it out into the world that
videos could now be categorized as
"sexually suggestive" "sensational and shocking"
point out that there's "profanity and rough language"
and they would allow advertisers to opt out of certain
tiers of that content. But, they do not provide in our dashboard an area where we
can see which videos got labeled what.
For example, today's video which goes a little more sexual
last week when we had to show a lot of
video evidence
that was really rough to watch
I can understand that, but if there's no information
put in front of my face or other creator's face
there's no way that we can really learn. There's
really no way where we know where the lines exist,
it's very much a grey area. In my other videos, when everything is pretty much PG or PG-13
am I still gonna get dinged
because I call you "beautiful bastard"?
I don't know, instead I have to wake up to WIRED.com
articles.
Where I have to find out that Google is
working with agencies to hire outside workers
who are rendering judgement on our videos.
And whenever judgement they come to
accept the videos completely fine
or the video is demonized, we don't know.
And this is disappointing to me because there was
other YouTube news that had me hopeful
You might have seen the headlines,
"YouTube fix brings 12 million videos back to Restricted Mode"
This is important. The Adpocolypse and Restricted Mode
they're two separate things
but also somewhat connected.
YouTube advertises Restricted Mode
as a way for schools and libraries to filter out mature content.
And you might remember this, there were a lot of people
that were complaining, but it didn't really gain main-stream attention
until the LGBT community said "We're also being blocked."
And we're getting blocked on videos where we're just
discussing being gay or being bi.
So then YouTube acknowledged that this wasn't working as intended
and vowed to fix it.
and then we recently got the news from Johanna Wright,
the VP of product management, who said
for this feature and now 12 million
additional videos of all types including
hundreds of thousands featuring lgbtq+
content are available in restricted I
and I rejoiced!
I put YouTube in Restricted Mode
I went to my channel and found that uh,
four videos in from the past year and a half
those uh, those are still the only ones available on my channel.
which even if we said it wasn't a year and a half,
it was just a year
and I only post four videos a week,
which I actually posted more,
that means that 98.1% of my archive
minimum. 98.1% of my archive is mature and not view-able in Restricted Mode.
Which I know then a lot of people ask,
"Well, why are you being so blanketly blocked
but CNN, Fox News, The Young Turks
they have, what seems to be a massive archive in Restricted Mode?"
And to that I would respond, "I'd have to dedicate a lot of time."
I'm imagine some of their videos are being blocked
but of course it does make me ask the question,
"Why almost almost all of my videos, but that's not the case elsewhere?"
and I don't know. Although I will say that Johanna Wright
does try to provide some transparency here in the post writing,
right here are some clear guidelines
graders should think about if they want
their videos to appear and restricted
modis kusha and depiction of what your
topic drugs and alcohol you're talking
about drug use or abuse or if you're
drinking alcohol on your videos you will
likely not be available in restricted
mode sack well some educational
straightforward conversations about
sexual education may be included in
restricted mode overly detailed
conversations about sex or sexual
activity will likely be removed noting
that this is one of the more difficult
topics to train our systems on and
context is key violence if your videos
include graphic descriptions of violence
violent acts natural disasters and
tragedies or even violence in the news
the tourist subject videos are covered
specific details about events related to
terrorism war crime and political
conflicts are resulted in death or
serious injury may not be available on
restricted mode even if no graphic
imagery is shown inappropriate language
including profanity like f-bombs will
also likely result in your video not
being a
So, essentially treat yourself like a Disney star on a Disney show
and not a Disney star in the real world.
And one again, I don't want it to come off like I'm whining.
If you really wanna watch a show just don't use that library
or that school's internet.
It's annoying, it doesn't feel like they're treatment is equal
but, I'm in YouTube's home.
It's disappointing that is seems that YouTube thinks that I'm inappropriate for
both advertisers and just general
consumption. This kind of treatment will
drive more and more creators to
different platforms as we saw with Ethan
and Hila from h3h3, they're saying
goodbye to YouTube, *as much.
Saying they're going to stop posting as
much on YouTube instead of like the
three videos a week they're going down
to one making a smart move of moving
their podcast over to Twitch where they
can live stream, get tips and really I
think we're just seeing the beginning of
this they're going to push more and more
creators away. And what sucks is while it
does suck for me it does suck for many
big creators out there right now who it
really trashes is the small creator. A
large creator's in a position where we can
diversify, we have different tactics of
ways that we can try and keep things
afloat and still grow. But the little guy
doesn't get the benefit of that size
does not get the benefit of the really
good month where they got excess money
that they could put in like in a safe
place and it does make me really worried
about not only the future of the
platform but the future creator. They're
coming in at one of the hardest times
ever to be who you want to be without
having to censor yourself. And the question I
want to pass off to you with the story
is, "Do you think that we're going to see
more creators jump ship?" Either fully or
just making YouTube not their primary
focus. I mean I'm not personally going to
leave but I'm even tinkering with my
business model that's based off of not
trusting YouTube to do their job. Or you
have the mindset of people need to quit
their bitchin'. Whether you agree or disagree with
me I'd love know your thoughts are in
the comments down below. From that I want
to share some stuff I love today in
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you who have not seen Kingsman: The
Secret Service, fix that. I'm not saying it's
like the best movie ever but it's so fun
and the scene at the church, oh the scene
at the church! That's all I'll say I
don't want to ruin it
for those who haven't experienced. The
main point: I am pumped for this movie!
Then if you ever watched a nature
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theorists video on Rick and Morty. Also
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down below. Then in the world is a
horrifying place and I'm so glad I live
in the global equivalent of Disneyland
news. That's because according to India
Express, a leopard wandered into a
village and part of this was caught on
video specifically the standoff between
the park ranger and the leopard. Video
shows the park ranger on a roof slowly
backing away we don't see from what
until holy crap the Ranger has to jump
off the roof to avoid the leopard
strike. Also I want to point out the
scariest thing from this video other
than obviously a leopard jumping at a
man - that leopard lands and then just keeps
going like nothing happened. Now the good
news and the reason I'm showing you this
video is that no one was killed after 12
hours of leopard was captured, it did
injure three people but there were no
life-threatening injuries. They are reportedly
not going to kill the leopard they are
going to relocate it to a zoo. And there's
really no main point to the story except
maybe DAMN NATURE YOU SCARY. Or I'm so
glad I live when and where I currently
live. If I lived in hunter-gatherer times I
would be murdered in three seconds. It's
done. Then one of the most requested
ridiculous stories that, ughhhh
One of the most requested stories was about the Almond
Robotic Service Droid 1.0
AKA that dick sucking robot that everyone's
been talking about this week. If you didn't
know a company by the name of Arlan
Robotics has launched an Indiegogo along
with their campaign video. They advertise it
as the first robotic droid capable of
recreating intimate human oral
interaction and they go on to explain
And I will say yes most male toys look creepy as
all hell in the video they show what
powers the core of the apparatus a show
what it can do to a popsicle and then
later a banana and I will also say
personally there's stuff said in the
video that just, it just creeps me out.
*Monotone voice* "Soft scented hair brushing and flowing
over the waist and thighs
as you are slowly drawn to fulfillment."
but here's my ultimate take away. If this is
something you want, hey I'll even a link
to the IndieGoGo. I'll link to it down
below. They're looking for 12,500£ of
funding, they are fifty percent on their
way, power to you. I still stand by the
fact that yes, men do need toys, but I
will never be interested in something I
need closet space for. Also anything that
requires more than 20 second of prep is
too long not just because I'm impatient
but because that amount of time I'm just
going to be thinking about what a weirdo
I am. You ever heat up something horrible
for yourself in the microwave and the
entire time you're just thinking like, this
is this is not a good choice for my life.
It's like that but with something that
looks like a motorized car jack that you
put your penis into. Well maybe I'm alone
on that. Then what is it with today?! Let's
talk about 18 year old Jonna Hines from
Central Florida. She has made national
news with a video that has received over
6.7 million views and that's just the
original. It stemmed from a Twitter poll
where she wrote, "Y'all dare me to post a
video amusing Damon's nuts as a beauty
blender?" and after 100,000 people voted
yes won both the popular vote and the
electoral college and then yes she posts
a video to Twitter of her using her 20
year old boyfriends bald as a beauty
blender on her forehead and the internet
rejoiced while also saying, "Girl you nasty!"
I think some people send me the story
because I thought I was going to slam
this girl and this couple but I am very
much of the mindset of, if you're not
hurting anyone that's fine. But, what I will
do is use this story as a reminder that
if you are going to put something out on
the internet whether it is balls on your
forehead or just a stupid statement, that
is something that is going to live on
the Internet forever. When you're
applying for jobs, when you're you're-maybe
that relationship didn't work out and
you're dating. It's at a first or third
date topic of keywords to avoid on Google.
Your future kids, friends, family, whatever.
Treat the things that you put out
publicly on the internet like it was a
tattoo on your body or in this case or
in some cases your face. What seems like
a great idea in a moment, uh, maybe will not
be long term. And then we need to talk
about the story of that man who had his
face slammed, he was dragged off of that
United Flight and no, this is not a
repeat from two weeks ago. By now you've
seen that ridiculous, horrible footage.
You initially saw a United's CEO standing
by his people all the way to him back
peddling, apologizing, saying this should
never happen, we're going to change
things. Well the massive update to this
story we have is thanks to the Freedom
of Information Act, The Los Angeles Times and
other outlets asked for incident
reports from this incident and for the first
time reveals the names of the officers
involved in the incident and how they
described what transpired. And just a big
note: this is how they reported this
incident despite the fact that it
contradicts most video evidence. They
described this moment as Officer Long
attempted to assist the subject off his
seat with two hands. What a colorful,
loose way to describe what was happening.
They also wrote the subject responded
repeatedly in an aggressive manner and
just to remind you this is how
aggressive Dr. Dao got, "No I'm not going,
I'm not going." and they actually blamed
him for his own face injury saying the
subject then started flailing his arms
and started to fight with Officer Long
due to this incident the subject was
able to knock officers right hand off
the arm causing Officer Long to lose
control of Mr. Dao. Consequently the
subject fell and hit his mouth on the
armrest across from him which caused an
injury to his mouth and Officer Long
regained control of the incident. What a
beautiful way to describe a situation
where you violently pulled on a man with
such disregard that you ended up tossing
his ass like he was a sack of soil at
Home Depot into the back of your truck
I have to say part of me is blown away and
disgusted by this report and then the
other part of me is almost just in awe
of the balls you must have to write a
report like this knowing full well that
you were filmed. That a camera, not even
camera, cameras filmed this incident to a
way that I can cut between clips. Show the
reality of the situation before, during,
and after and you're like, nah, that's not
how went down. Fake news! What? This is why one: we should always be able to film
police doing what they're doing and two:
while it's not a fix-all solution this
is a fantastic situation to argue that
all police and anyone in this sort of
position should have a body camera. I'm
blown away by this and it makes you
wonder how often do they write reports
like this that contradict reality. That's
actually where I'm going to end today's
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