Before this video begins, I just want to make two important announcements
for the people who are subscribed to this channel.
One, I took a break for the past week which is why there's been no content,
there's no big video in the works or anything I just haven't taken a break in the past seven
years of doing YouTube so I thought it would be important for me to take a break so that I could
cool off for a bit and so that I wouldn't get too burnt out so I can continue making content
for you on a frequent basis, because as you've probably noticed my content has become more and
more infrequent across the past few months. I'm gonna try and bring it back, that's why I
took a break and I think it was important and I feel really rejuvenated coming back into making
content. The second announcement, though, is way more interesting than that one, because
I'm going to be going to VidCon in a few weeks. So if you're going on any of the four days that
VidCon's running, you might be able to see me. So if you want to run up to me- and don't stab me,
please don't stab me- if you want to come up and give me a hug or something, totally fine.
Just expect me to be ridiculously short okay, please don't get your hopes up. I'm like- I'm-
I'm a child-sized human. Please understand. Before I go to LA, I'm going to try and make some content
in preparation so there'll still be videos on the channel while I'm in America. And also I'm going
to make some form of documentary while I'm in America because I would have to be insane to take
a several thousand-dollar flight and do not make some form of content so that I can completely pass
it off as a business expense and get a tax return from it. I mean, come on, you think I'm gonna
survive otherwise in this economy? With that being said though, on to the subject of today's video,
which is The Act Man being punished by YouTube, with YouTube seemingly taking Quantum TV's side,
despite him being a severe c*pyright ab*ser using hate speech in various different scenarios and
more. Going into this video I'm gonna presume you've seen The Act Man's second video about
Quantum TV, if you haven't I will link it in the description so you can watch it, and I'm gonna
be very careful when discussing this situation, because if The Act Man, a channel with millions
of subscribers, can get demonetized over this topic and get a strike over it, who knows what
could happen to me. So *wheezes* I really don't want to lose this channel so I'm gonna be very,
very, very careful about what I say. Though, I do think I should quickly set the stage for
those who aren't completely caught up in this situation, so you actually know what's going on.
Quantum TV is a YouTuber with 60,000 subscribers who reviews TV hardware.
He made a video on Elden Ring, where he said the game was one of the worst games he's ever played,
that no one should play it, people should refund it, that it looked
terrible, and really made some bad arguments that got a lot of people mad at him. Then,
when people like Mischief, a smaller YouTube at the time who only had around 3k subscribers,
made a video about his video, Quantum TV would respond by saying the people who
were defending this game sounded like ab*se victims and that they should k*ll themselves.
Quantum TV would then threaten to strike down people like mischief and as such mischief would
take down his video and the act man would hop in and make a video about the situation which would
lead Quantum TV to try and strike his video but YouTube would reject that strike because they said
they didn't believe it was a valid strike. After The Act Man got that first email about how Quantum
TV tried to strike him, he was obviously pissed and so he made a second video, where he detailed
everything about Quantum TV, from c*pyright ab*se to his rampant hate speech, going over social
media posts that The Act Man believes Quantum TV made on old social media accounts where he
said several homophobic and otherwise bigoted statements, even going so far in these alleged
real screenshots to say LGBTQ people should have been victims of a serious tragic shooting that
took place in America back in 2016, which is probably not something you'd want associated
with your brand and is something YouTube can punish you for if you've linked the account to
your channel. Though, Quantum TV would say his account was hacked at this time and these posts
weren't really him, most people don't believe him though. At this point, The Act Man would try and
reach out to YouTube and communicate all of these issues in hopes that he could get Quantum TV's
channel terminated for routinely violating the guidelines on c*pyright ab*se, external links,
child safety, and more, with all of these being points he detailed provided evidence
for an elaborated on within his second video. Obviously, pretty much everyone thought YouTube
was just gonna bang Quantum TV here, looking at these posts and looking at
his c*pyright history, it's undeniable that this dude has committed perjury.
The Act Man has detailed exact reasons why and I think most people agree with him. It seemed like
an open and shut case. Which is why everyone was dumbfounded when The Act Man posted a video the
other day, saying YouTube had taken Quantum TV's side, saying they'd done three investigations
and they'd said they'd found NOTHING that would imply he'd violated YouTube's terms of service,
despite The Act Man's work to detail every single thing he'd done wrong and why YouTube
should act to punish him for this behavior. Obviously, that was a very shocking realization,
that YouTube had failed completely to enforce their guidelines and that you can practically
get away with c*pyright ab*se on youtube because of how bad they are at clearly enforcing their
p*nishments against people who ab*se the system. In Act Man's third video, he makes more efforts
to detail why Quantum TV has violated their terms of service for, hopefully, YouTube to understand and
for more people in the audience to become aware and spread word in hopes YouTube does something
to actually resolve the issue and stop Quantum TV from ab*sing the c*pyright system to punish
channels that are smaller than him and channels who otherwise cover and criticize him in ways that
are completely fair use. Back in present day though, up until now YouTube hadn't really done anything
majorly wrong in this situation other than saying they hadn't found Quantum TV guilty
of what The Act Man had accused and hadn't taken any action to punish Quantum TV. That was until
recent, when on June 7th, YouTube decided to strike down The Act Man- not Quantum TV, let's make this
clear- The Act Man's video calling out Quantum TV, and highlighting the fact YouTube hadn't punished
him. The video titled, "The Dark Age of Youtube" the video where The Act Man explained that YouTube
said Quantum TV hadn't violated the guidelines. YouTube TOOK DOWN this video for violating the
guidelines on n*dity and s*xual content. To which The Act Man would tweet that screenshot with
the caption, "The Dark Age of Youtube was just taken down from YouTube. I'm f*cking rattled." And
most people were concerned about this, because though this video had some kind of s*xual jokes
in it, like there was a crudely edited cucumber put in Quantum TV's mouth, and The Act Man made
a joke that because YouTube wasn't punishing Quantum TV for the external links, he could just
link his new p*rn career in the description. There was nothing that genuinely violated the guidelines
in this video to the point where it should have been taken down from YouTube or deserve
any punishment other than an age restriction or limited ads. But YouTube punished The Act Man for
violating the guidelines OVER Quantum TV. Which is insane. Absolutely, unequivocally, one of the WORST
decisions YouTube has ever made, and highlighted so clearly a weird inconsistency between whether
YouTube is willing to act on their policies against Quantum TV, and whether they're willing to
act on their policies against The Act Man. Nobody understood why they did this, but let's be fair,
this was a warning strike, okay? It doesn't really matter, other than some of the short-term loss of
profit for The Act Man on this video, he could still post videos like usual on the channel, so
he could re-upload it, edit it a little bit, add more content to it if you wish, because he did
eventually add more footage that he didn't get to include in this video. I've had warning strikes,
most YouTubers get warning strikes, they aren't really the end of the world. However, The Act Man
would tweet eight hours ago, as of recording this video, that his YouTube partner had reached out to
him to inform him that at some point he will be removed from the YouTube Partner Program, and his
channel will be completely demonetized, meaning, for the next few months until he's added back to the
Partner Program- if he's ever added back to it- The Act Man would no longer be allowed to make money
off of his content, and for someone who's working full-time as a YouTuber that's really bad news.
This would start off the trend to tweet #JusticeForActMan, a hashtag that is currently trending
because YouTube went through with removing The Act Man from the Partner Program and demonetizing
his entire channel. As five hours ago, The Act Man posted, "The channel is officially demonetized."
Showing that his channel currently shows itself as 'currently ineligible for monetization'
the day before his birthday. I don't understand why YouTube punished The Act Man over Quantum
TV in this situation, to the point where they did something almost equivalent to terminating his
channel. Because being a full-time YouTuber and getting cut off from your revenue is really bad.
If you live off of the money you make from this channel, getting demonetised is one of the WORST
things that could possibly happen. And it makes no sense. The Act Man hasn't violated any kind
of guideline to the extent where he should be punished this way, Quantum TV has violated so
many guidelines in this situation, and yet he hasn't been punished in any way. And it's got
to the point where I feel like this is a slippery slope. If YouTube could get away with punishing The
Act Man for making a video exposing someone for violating the TOS, I feel like this could happen
to practically anyone. Practically any commentary YouTuber who covers practically any situation
like this. Which is concerning. And if you get punished for very light-hearted jokes like the
cucumber crudely edited in his mouth, that's a bad sign for the progression of YouTube. And I
simply don't get it, nobody does. And it's why so many people are tweeting in complete disbelief
that this is something that's actually happening. This is a decision YouTube's decided to make and
it's why it's trending worldwide number one right now, with people like Mischief tweeting,
"Don't forget why this all happened, YouTube decided to protect a homophobic creator
during pride month and remove The Act Man from the YouTube Partner Program for calling it out." That is
insane. And I believe we should not allow YouTube to get away with this, so if you would like to
support The Act Man, keep pushing the hashtag #JusticeForActMan, and I and many other creators
will continue making videos supporting The Act Man, in hopes YouTube learns what they've done
wrong, or takes back the decision they've made in hopes of supporting The Act Man and allowing him
to continue making content. I feel it's completely unfair for someone's revenue stream to be cut out
the day before their birthday. It seems completely unjustified in this situation especially, and I
have no idea why YouTube hasn't acted against Quantum TV. I feel anyone would be upset if this
happened to them and I don't believe we should allow YouTube to be able to punish creators like
this, but there's not really much we can do other than continue pushing the hashtag in hopes it has
some sort of effect and YouTube buckles under the pressure. With that being said though, if you are
new to the channel, please do consider subscribing. I know this video was ridiculously sad. There's no
happy ending here. We're kind of just left hanging out to dry in hopes something happens, in hopes
someone pokes the YouTube bear enough that they finally respond and acknowledge what they've
done wrong. Please do subscribe to help me reach 100k, I'm really close and I would appreciate any
support to help me reach that goal, especially before I go to LA. You can also check out my
Twitter so you can get live updates on this situation whenever I see anything that I think
is important to discuss. I'll see you next time, give your mother a nice kiss from me, and peace!
*Harley's outro music playing*