 Hey everyone, before I get into the rest of this video, because we'll be talking about SwitchStop, another YouTube channel. Don't talk about other YouTube channels very often, but there's an interesting thing happening with them that I want to get into, and yes, they are a bigger YouTube channel than mine, so there is that as well. But before I get into that, I want to remind you to enter our giveaway. We are giving away a copy of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles remastered this month. To enter all you have to do is comment on this video, like the video, subscribe to the channel, hit that bell icon, set it to all notifications. That gets you one entry into the contest. If you do this on every single video in this month, that's an additional entry. You can even do it on our live streams. However, you have to wait till they go to video on demand. You can't enter while it's live, unfortunately. That's just the way the program works. Beyond that though, we are on our road to 50,000 subscribers. And if we can hit 50,000 subscribers before the month of November, November's giveaway will end up being for a PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. Or a Nintendo Switch, choice of the winner. Anyways, let's get into this news. And this is actually an interesting situation, more so because this is just kind of a harsh reminder of how quickly things can kind of spiral out of control and you could just lose everything here on YouTube when you're not diversified. Now, I used to diversify a little bit on my channel. I would be here, I'd have live streams here as well, but then I'd also be over on Twitch a little bit. And then on Mixer for a little bit as well. And I also technically have a second YouTube channel. However, I kind of stopped pushing the Mixer. Now that's closed now, Twitch as well. I don't do anything on Twitch now. And I don't really push my second YouTube channel much either because I kind of put all of my time and energy right here on Nintendo Prime, on this channel. Everything is so focused in on this channel. The podcast is here. All the videos are here, the news is all here. If I talk about other platforms like Xbox and PlayStation, I do it here, I don't do it on separate channels. But as much as that's great to have everything focused on the one channel and I think it helps keep this channel active and alive and all that, there is kind of a alternative reality that could exist where this is actually a negative thing. And SwitchStop is another popular YouTube channel. Fairly popular. They have about 76, 77,000 subscribers. Their videos always got a ton of views. Anything from 15,000 to 100,000, et cetera. They were a quickly rising channel over the last couple of years. Maybe not rising as fast as someone like Spawn Wave or Bob Wolf from Wolf Then and all that. But still, they were a channel that was on the rise and ran by two people. I don't remember these two people's names, so I apologize for this, even though I'm literally staring at their faces right now on the screen. But what happened is their YouTube account, as you saw in the title, is terminated. Not just banned, not just locked down, terminated. And you might be like, what exactly do you have to do to get your account terminated by YouTube? It must be pretty bad. When the Jake Pauls of the world knows other people can do some crazy things. You have Logan Paul out in a suicide forest. How the hell can these guys have their account terminated? Well, simply put, there was a series of two livestreams that appeared on their channel that were for Bitcoin scams. Now, this isn't me saying that they were doing that themselves, the account got hacked. Well, when the account got hacked, there was a lot of reports of the channel during these livestreams for the Bitcoin scam. And they apologize, of course, if anyone fell for the Bitcoin scams. I think it's unfortunate that it happened. They didn't go into the exact details of how they got hacked. Maybe they don't know, but all they know is that their account was hacked, and then those streams appeared, and then YouTube quickly terminated their account because you can't be doing Bitcoin scams. It's against YouTube's policy. So, the interesting thing about the account being terminated is that there's no guarantee they're ever gonna get that account back. Now, we have the full story. If you wanna know their explanation, they don't really say much other than, we don't know if we're getting the channel back. They've contacted everyone they can on YouTube support. They actually have somebody on the support team that was actually subscribed to their channel say, hey, I'm gonna try to escalate this up the chain, but no promises were made that they would get their channel back. There are instances of other YouTube channels that have been terminated that have gotten their channel back, but in the quick Google search I could do on this, it looked like about 90% of cases of terminated channels stay terminated even if it was due to a hacking. So, they might never get their channel back. There's no guarantee. If they get it back, it takes about three weeks. They won't have it back till September sometime if it does come back, but they might not get the channel back. Maybe because of how it was hacked, maybe they were just being too flimsy with their passwords or whatever the case might be. So, YouTube might not give them their account back and they don't have any control over that. And that obviously sucks for a channel that was really successful, making decent money, all that jazz. So, they do have another channel. They've had this channel for a little bit. It's called Nintendo Tonight. And it's where they put up a 17 minute video explaining that basically they don't know if they're ever getting their channel back. They might get it back and until they know what's going on they're gonna keep putting their two to three videos they make a week up on that channel. They have one video up already called Changed and it's how Pikmin 3 Deluxe changes the Super Mario 2020 remaster rumors. And they post a bunch of videos. They had a lot of discussion and speculation around a lot of rumors and around a lot of other stuff like that. And that one's got about 18,000 views right now which is really good for their channel because Nintendo Tonight only has 2,540 subscribers. So, they're really tiny compared to the 77,000 or even really tiny compared to us. But clearly their audience is a bit wider. They have a following on Twitter and all this jazz. So, word's getting out but they're not gaining massive subscribers back. So, it'll be interesting to see how this translates for them. It looks like they just published their sixth episode of Nintendo Tonight which is a podcast. So, they separated their podcast from the channel and I am hoping beyond hope that they can get their channel back because it's pretty devastating when you work on something like this and you really get successful at it and you lose it. I kept thinking, my channel, as small as it is, my 45,000 subscribers and my 500, 2,000 average views per video, my 500 average on streams. It would be pretty devastating for all the work I've done on this channel, especially the last three years for it to get hacked or terminated and have the complete fate of everything I've worked towards out of my hands. Obviously, I would just start making content on my second channel or whatever they're doing but right now they can't make money on this channel. They got 18,000 views on that video, they can't make any money and these are people that we're likely close to partially, at least partially doing this for a living. So, yeah, they got 18,000 views but until they're over 10,000 subscribers they can't even run ads and beyond that they gotta go like a full month of data collecting to reach certain thresholds to qualify for the ad program. So, they're pretty far behind and this happened a couple days ago and Nintendo tonight was at 1,000 subs. Now it's at 2,540 but that's still really far off and it doesn't look like a lot of their audience is transitioning over. It feels like most of their audience was centered on the SwitchStop channel. Just like for me, I have 7,000 plus people following me on Twitter, probably 5,000 dead accounts or so, I don't know. My tweets don't get a lot of likes and retweets usually so I would say that if my channel would just vanished, most of my audience wouldn't be able to find me again because my audience is so centered here and it makes me wonder myself too about diversity. I'm like, I'm doing this giveaway. Should I be promoting my Twitter more? Should I be promoting my Discord in these giveaways as well as like extra entries because I wanna get my audience onto multiple platforms even though my videos are all centered and streams are all centered in one spot. If something ever did happen to Nintendo Prime, it would be awesome if a majority of my audience could just be told and then they could follow wherever my content goes after that and right now, that's just not possible for me. I don't have a big following anywhere else but on my channel. And so this is kind of almost an internal warning for me and maybe a warning to other YouTubers that we really should be necessarily needed to diversify your audience in terms of streaming on Twitch or Twitter like that, that's a healthy way to diversify as well but I mean in terms of making sure your followers don't just follow you on YouTube, they follow you on other social media platforms so it's easier for them to find you if something does happen that is maybe through no fault of your own, maybe YouTube's policies change one day and they don't allow these gaming commentary channels and stuff. So I don't know, are you guys letting me know? Have any of you guys ever heard of Switch Stop? Or Switch Stop, I should say not stopped. And are you hoping that they get their stuff back? I've only seen a couple of their videos and so I know that their videos are pretty decently edited and they seem to have pretty good commentary from what I can tell but you know, a lot of opinions, like how Pikmin 3 Deluxe changes to Super Mario. I'll put a link to their latest video they put up down below. Like that's a great, it's a great video. I've watched it but it's more so opinions and that's fine. What do I do with this channel? I spew my mouth off and give opinions all the time so who am I to judge? All I know is that this sucks and I hope they get their stuff back and honestly it doesn't seem like anyone else is even talking about it. I think that they might have existed on an island. Like an animal crossing an island but like nobody knows they're there. What I mean to say is people are aware of me because like they see me on Sponkast. They know Player Essence and I have had debates and stuff in the past. Super Metal Dave and I have had content with each other. U.S.A. has mentioned me before like, so there has been interactions with me and other YouTubers. I feel like Switchedop doesn't interact with anybody so nobody really is aware of them in the normal Nintendo circles on YouTube. So that's why nobody seems to be talking about it. And I typed Switchedop into the Google search. The only thing that pops up is their Nintendo Tonight video on it. So yeah, it's very, very curious how no one's talking about it. So I wanted to draw attention to it because hey, if you guys were wondering what the hell happened to them, there are someone that you follow because I think I did have one person on Twitter and mentioned to me, hey, what the hell happened to them? Like here they are. You find them again. Enjoy their content again. They're good people. All right, folks. I'm Nintendo RoboJax from Nintendo Prime. Thank you so much for tuning in. Be sure to enter our giveaway. Plus on our road to 50,000 subscribers. And I'll catch you guys later. My stream later, something like that. I don't know. It is the weekend. You guys have a lovely day.