Matt Watson AKA, MattsWhatitis is his youtube channel posted the video that caused the second
adpocalypse.
But there is some pretty shady stuff coming out about matt Watson and his motivations
behind releasing this video.
I’m not saying that this situation isn’t concerning, but Matt Watson might have had
another reason for posting this video.
How do I know this?
Well I’ll tell you in just a second but let me introduce myself.
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So I’ve done a couple of videos on the adpocalypse already this week, If you haven’t watched
our previous coverage on that, click the video that’s currently clickable on your screen
just for a bit of backstory so that you can fully understand what’s going on in this
video because I’m not going to spend any time explaining it, instead I’m going to
serve you an update, and essentially a dark twist in whats happening right now on youtube.
The situation is, many creators have finally been able to recover after the first adpocalypse,
and now they are experiencing it again.
That really sucks especially for smaller creators who are going to see a serious drop in revenue
over something that they had nothing to do with.
What I find really frustrating about this whole thing is that advertisers are pulling
out over their ads being played on videos that are really not that concerning.
They are being played before videos of little girls gymnastics routines.
Its not like the first adpocalypse where advertisers pulled out because their videos that were
being played before extremist content.
This time, they were videos of kids, and unfortunately, the kids were being.
Its not the fault of the children that these are choosing to exploit them.
These videos were completely monetizable, but the community that was gathering in the
comment sections of these videos to share sites to child pornography, exchange information
and time stamp the videos were what the real problem is about.
And also the problem that had to do with the algorithm pushing videos of kids to make them
easier to find by this community of Enter Matt Watson, the supposed robin hood
who brought all of this to light with his video Youtube is facilitating the exploitation
of Children and it’s being monetized.
That was uploaded on February 17th.
But in addition to bringing the issue to light, Matt Watson was essentially doing everything
he can to get advertisers to pull out.
I thought The point of this whole thing was to get youtube to do something about the problem,
not to hurt creators and the platform itself.
All youtube had to do is disable the comments on these types of videos so these paedophiles
can’t congregate.
Boom problem fixed.
But no.
That wasn’t enough for matt Watson.
According to the youtube channel Tipster, Mattwatson was somebody who was trying to
jump on a trend to further his youtube career.
2 of his youtube channels failed.
MattWatson claimed that he didn’t know how to use social media.
Except…he did.
He spammed his video all over reddit.
He used an existing hashtag called youtubewakeup that’s mostly used for the child exploitation
issue on youtube.
Most people thought that Matt Watson was the person who started the hashtag, he used an
existing hashtag.
If you havent subscribed to tipster, I highly recommend you do that.
He makes great content and his video also inspired this video so shout out to tipster.
The thing is, matt Watson didn’t just stop at getting youtube’s attention.
Keemstar refused to cover the story.
He tweeted.
I’m not reporting the story because it negatively effects the whole youtube community.
We don’t need another adpocalypse.
What I have done behind the scenes though is reach out to my youtube contacts showing
them the video and my team is showing them content to take down.
This is not just about me.
This is about all my friends, big and small creators.
Even after keemstar let youtube know and youtube was working on the issue…He kept doing livestreams
on his channel and pushing it to the mainstream media, he did interviews with huge publications.
Of course this was going to result in an adpocalypse.
There are children involved.
But is Matt Watson really concerned about the kids?
Or is he trying to use this media storm to make himself famous at the expense of the
rest of the youtube community?
In response to the fact that this adpocalypse was going to hurt creators, Matt essentially
said that everyone who was concerned about their income and their livelihoods as a result
of this, are defenders or that they don’t care about kids.
Which is bs.
What is youtube supposed to do?
Stop kids from uploading content entirely to youtube?
That’s not a solution.
Kids will be kids.
They are allowed to post videos to the platform as long as they are 12 years of age.
An interesting take on this whole thing was something brought to light by keemstar.
What matt Watson was saying on these livestreams is that youtube was doing nothing about the
problem.
They were.
And on these livestreams, he was asking his subscribers to spam advertisers and tell them
about the problem on youtube.
Essentially keem discovered that matt’s original youtube channel was called totally
uncreative, and the videos were extremely creepy.
Especially one video in particular called A girl ruined my life – huge warning.
At 2:19, theres a school girl walking down the side of the street, and matt pulls up
to her and asks her if he wants to do a film with her.
So does this guy really care about the kids?
I mean, theres a literal video of him asking a school girl to participate in a film
What do you think youtube should do about this problem?
Let me know in the comments.
I personally hope advertisers realize whats really going on and how easily the problem
will be fixed.
For now, I’m going to wrap up this video with some comment replies from my video, Adpocalypse
2.0 has officially begun.
Jr – the only solution is to raise the required age for a youtube channel and delete channels
run by kids.
Yeah but then channels like ryantoysreview cant run.
And those channels are huge money makers.
Not gonna happen in my opinion.
Josiah Matthews – can we all agree that this is the most hated guy on youtube right
now.
Yes I agree.
Cool Akram TV – I like how youtube is worried whent hey lose money.
Of course they would be, it’s a business.
And advertisers are their clients.
Kuk – youtube is not a job.
Everyone can make a video and get paid, its not a job.
It is a job actually for a lot of people including me.