 Boom! What's up fam? Anthony Johnston here again today, founder of 21 studios and the 21 convention. I appreciate tuning into today's video As well as a previous video about being suspended from the YouTube partner program this recently in December So appreciate your time and attention got some more big news to share today both good news and bad news both pretty important And before we dive into that before we jump in I got some other announcements I want to talk about here a little notes and going through So first of all I read through every single comment on the video itself on our channel 21 studios about this whole issue And I appreciate you guys feedback and engagement and support and all your thoughts on what happened I read through all the comments there as well as the community tab shout out to the community tab my favorite thing on the internet If I can love that thing. So I read through all the comments there There was a couple hundred there too about the posts corresponding to this video And then I also posted the video to my personal Twitter and went viral there I got gonna 30,000 views which is pretty cool. So I appreciate all the feedback retweets and engagement there too As well as on YouTube and the community tab means a lot to me to get feedback from you guys and the signal for what you guys think about This big issue going on has been pretty wild on a personal note, you know, the whole experience from the get-go I didn't say this last time I'll say it now probably getting kicked in the balls by someone running like full speed I really sucked waking up in the summer 29th and then seeing that like midday You know a pretty bad way to end the year and start off the new year So it was not cool and I think a lot of you guys felt that too the passion and the anger I saw in the comments. I don't blame you. I was big mad to you and it all went down back in summer just recently But I will say that it was a big gut check for why I started my channel and my company like 15 years ago I've been through a lot of you know personal and professional ups and downs since then just in life You know, we all go through that growing up from your teens and 20s and your 30s Family and friends die things happen divorces all kinds of crazy shit And the channel and the company been with me throughout that time and a lot of you guys too That have been subscribed not just for a couple months or a couple years But somebody been around for five ten years even longer than that So I appreciate you being around being engaged staying involved and tell me what you think about this whole experience What happened the whole situation I? Want to mention too that I had a good talk on my good friend Jesse Lee Peterson Reverend JLP Check him out on YouTube go search shout out to him So meet him at a good talk about this issue privately in the phone a couple days ago And he said something to me that I want to share with you guys because I saw a little bit of it in the comments But I want to make it known even wider So basically when you're making a real impact in the world and you're reaching millions of men and women even and impacting How people live their lives like this and a really positive productive kind of way you're gonna generate haters number one Okay, it is what it is. It's the internet, but on top of that you make real enemies, right? Not just you know insults and you know, even death threats and crap like that Which I've gotten some people went after my family over the past couple years Which is like way too far by this is story for another day But you make real enemies like big corporations big tech stuff like that because you're making real impact And if you weren't if you were not they just wouldn't care they wouldn't give a shit So in a way like some of you mentioned is kind of a mark of honor this even happening with the YouTube partner program suspension and all that and It's a it's a reflection that we're making a real impact in the world and the lives of men Last year alone on YouTube just one year 2021 We reached over 30 million people just on YouTube and then even more in other platforms like 21 University Twitter accounts stuff like that So it's this part of growing up as part of maturing as a company and as a man as an entrepreneur You make an impact you're gonna make enemies Particularly when you're in the man is fear like we are man is for a content creator this whole channel all the men we kind of gather this big platform and We're you know in the man is fear where you unified against as unified front and away against feminism and in my view I'll talk about this a little bit later, but feminism is the biggest establishment in the world and particularly in America Right they control everything all the schools all the governments all the military the state government the federal government You know schools colleges universities Hollywood entertainment media the news Everything's feminist 99% of the time It's all feminist all this crap and the man is fear Universally just kind of rejects feminism right on a good day. We call it stupid feminisms toxic and stupid So that puts our channel 21 studios and really any man is for content creator And the eye sights and the radar of a lot of you know very powerful people organizations That all very much promote feminism and they're very unnerved by anything that you know even dares to criticize feminism at all Which we do quite openly and quite aggressively So it's just part of what we do it's part of being an organization that makes real impact and things like this are bound to happen Even again in the future more than that in a minute So I will jump right into the good news now. Let's knock it out. We won our appeal 100% Now there are some downsides that are pretty serious that we'll get into in a minute still So it's not perfect But fundamentally the most important battle is winning the appeal and we won they actually got back to us really fast They promised a response in 14 days and actually got back in less than 24 hours once we sent the video in So I think the video is really good. I'm really proud of it. A lot of you agreed to share your thoughts on that There's a few you know critical comments. It's not perfect. I know that but I gave him my best I gave him my heart and soul and we fucking won so for whatever reason people YouTube the employees that reviewed it I think about 10 did there was about 10 views in the special like video we sent in So it went around and they accepted it really fast Now also want to mention just very briefly I don't want to get into it too much because I think it needs to be private But I can share a little bit when this all went down and involved so much money that I lowered up immediately Contact her attorney. I told him about what happened with YouTube and we immediately within a few days We sent YouTube a six page letter pretty fat pretty meaty. I love our attorney is an awesome dude He's actually a family and marriage therapist like Dr. Robert Glover You know one of our speakers can curry kind of like Sean Smith if you guys know him too So he's not only attorney, but he's a therapist and he cares about what we do So he jumped in on this immediately send him a big letter It was not threatening so we have never threatened to sue YouTube or anything like that But it was firm professional and pretty stern for trying to get information about what happened You know transparency and then also asking them to just reverse it So they know they got that letter. They didn't actually respond to it officially about it to confirm that they received it I don't know if they influenced their decision or not I don't know but I think given the nature of how much money was involved You know $11,000 at minimum Plus even last year we made over $90,000 almost a hundred grand in 2021 on YouTube It's an important pillar at 21 studios as a business even beyond YouTube So it's one of the pillars of use for finance finances financially So I'm happy we did that and maybe it had a positive impact on the decisions I don't know but it was very similar to the video itself You guys saw professional firm polite and kind of communicating the important points of what we do and why we think it was unfair For example, or you know 14 year history in the platform with zero strikes and all that a bottom line as we won And for the haters that were on reddit and Twitter and other channels on YouTube They can eat shit and suck my balls we won now. That's not a permanent win Of course, you too could do this at any point again. We don't know But we'll see we'll get into some of the comments about that in just a minute So I appreciate you guys turn it in though. Stay tuned as a second and we'll keep going here Onto the bad news part two here So I want to make a comment real quick that a lot of you put in the comments too And I felt it personally as well and I was really mad when this happened And some of you even wanted me to be much more aggressive with YouTube They'd be threatened to sue them or something like that and take even also legal action Some other channels on YouTube have done that and tried a good friend DDJ from Miss Andrew today tried that He fought a lawsuit against YouTube back about a year and a half ago And then a Prager University you guys might be familiar with that the news They tried as well They have like millions of fans and millions of dollars to work with and probably the biggest pop profile one of Stephen Crowder who works at the blaze He's got like five million subscribers in YouTube is that kind of a comedian political commentator and he's actually currently threatening to see YouTube I don't know if he followed three or not and he's had issues with the partner program to talk about that later But you know, I didn't want to go there. I decided that was not I decided that being aggressive with YouTube was not the right Tone to take it was not the right move at all And we chose a much different tone as you guys saw in that video the appeal video and even with the attorney It was professional polite firm and kind of reiterating and stating like the case that we've been on channel on YouTube for a long time We've had no issues So I do want to say that but I get the anger I get the frustration a lot of you felt I felt that myself very much early on But again, I chose I chose a different path And I think it was the right one and we won the appeal So obviously I think that kind of proves that at least demonstrates that that was probably the right move to make I Will agree though with you guys some of you put it really well in the comments The best way I think to you know explain the anger that I felt and even you guys is that this move by YouTube as a big tech company One of the big four or five will Google obviously that owns them Facebook or made a whatever the fuck they call it now Instagram Twitter all that stuff This kind of move by a huge company and multi-billionaire corporation Against a small business like 21 studios. It just looks bad because it's a bad business practice, right? It's not fair It's unjust and there's no transparency and for example, there was zero videos cited We had over 2,000 available to cite as an example What they found objectionable or had a problem with and they gave us no examples So there's a lot of unfairness to it And I think you guys see that as a third party or a fan of what we do and you love YouTube as well probably and you're Frustrated to how they act so I don't think they're the I don't agree You know with what they did in the first place, but they did come around and make the right move They took them took the right action and the total context of it. They reversed the decision We won the appeal were reinstated the partner program and all that So it's frustrating. I know I don't like what they did I think it's bad business practice to put it mildly But at least in this case that came back around so that's good And other channel I want to make a comment too that other big tech platforms, you know, Facebook Instagram Twitter They wouldn't do this right there even more heavy-handed than YouTube So I'll stick up for YouTube a little bit in this case because they did the right thing At least they were willing to consider an appeal and had an appeal process And then they took the right action. They actually reversed their decision and undid it So there's still some bad news we'll get into here But at least they did the right thing and frankly Twitter Facebook Instagram, they would never do that They don't give a crap So at least in this case YouTube is still a company that I think has a much better history on the internet and maybe a better future But we'll see So onto the bad news Even though we want to appeal there's about a $16,000 cashflow hit to my company 20-minute studios That's 16,000 so it's a lot of money It's not crazy like a hundred grand or a million obviously, but it's still like a $16,000 interruption to what we do And explain that more detail as you guys saw in the last video. There's about $11,000 $10,900 and change That was missing from December it got zeroed out when we were suspended from the program But I did talk with YouTube through the creators support emails and stuff and they verify that we will see that money It is coming back at the end of February. So it's a little bit about a month delayed So it's not the end of the world, but it's $11,000. It's missing now until the end of February it's kind of sucks and Ultimately they reversed their decision, you know we found we believed that what they did was a mistake and in some capacity they agreed and Reversed their decision from December 29th. Still we're missing about 11,000 in the meantime. It's kind of sucks On top of that we lost five thousand in my estimation You guys will see it on the screen now somewhere between four and a half and five and a half thousand So what was called five? During the suspension window we made zero dollars or like a couple cents per day because technically YouTube can still run ads in your channel Even when you're not in the partner program. They added this a couple years ago and it pissed off like a lot of creators Anyway, I don't want to get too in the weeds on that But basically during this window we lost five thousand dollars and that money doesn't exist So we're never gonna see it and have the channel been operating normally during that time We would have seen that money in our January payment. That's also sent at the end of February So that just kind of sucks, you know, basically a big oopsie by YouTube cost is five thousand dollars hard on top of like missing $11,000 temporarily, so just sucks. It's a mistake by YouTube to them. It's not a lot of money Obviously they deal with billions of dollars to my company five thousand dollars is a substantial amount of money That's like buying a used car, right? It's not pocket change the most people So it sucks and also I want to mention to you that December has super high ad rates And January tends to be a lot lower So December tends to be the best month of the year and then January the worst for like every channel on YouTube That's because the holidays and then January is kind of like a dead season So it's part of what you're seeing, but even considering that it's about five thousand dollars So it just sucks when you combine it all together On top of that for bad news so they turned back the ads on we had a button to turn on all the ads on the channel and they actually They enabled all of them, but it did not restore the settings We had that we've been working on for like 10 11 years since we joined the channel or the partner program like in 2011 So basically like a TV channel when I place ads in a video or one of my assistants I try to place them about every 15 20 minutes on like a speech, you know an interview That's pretty long I think it's pretty fair kind like TV and I typically disable to the non skippable ads because I hate those and if I hate them I'm sure you guys did too. It's paying the ass the skippable ones are not so bad And they still make good money So then it's kind of a fair practice for our channel. It's what I like to do I want to be good experience for you guys too as a viewer and a fan and Basically all the ads that we placed any speeches are gone So and if you hit automatically to it screws it up, it'll put you guys by seeing this like a watch a video They'll be ads like every two minutes. It's just crazy like it doesn't make sense And so you can't do it automatically you got to do it manually Which is what we've been doing forever and that's all gone now So we have like hundreds and hundreds of videos that are just fucked up They're not short. They're long videos or an hour long two hours long and for years. They generate good ad money So basically the bottom line is these settings and our videos across hundreds and hundreds of videos even thousands Has messed up and they basically reduced the ads by like, you know four or five and a long video to two On the beginning of the end. So it's just one more pain in the ass thing That's gonna take a while to fix and the meantime is kind of like knee-capped or undercut The typical earnings would get on YouTube through advertising so this sucks. It's not fun It's one more thing stuck on top of the 5,000 that we're never gonna see and the 11,000 it's missing till the end of February On top of that, there's one more thing right doesn't even stop there We still have hundreds and hundreds of videos that have a yellow limited monetization Icon on them it started in I think like late 2015 early 2016. It was called the YouTube adpocalypse There's actually a couple waves of the adpocalypse It's called you can search it in the news and this basically affected all since then so if it's been happening for years to Us all the manuscript channels and really any channel that talks about anything controversial at all Anything that tries to promote the truth and this woke shipstorm feminist utopia we live in and so all manuscript channels get it You know everything on YouTube. It's not like CNN Fox news TV show like a late-night show or you know some stupid channel talking about like makeup Tutorials like that kind of bullshit. So if you talk about anything controversial They give you a bunch of limited monetization things and it sucks. So for example what that does to a video If we put a video out and it gets 100,000 views in a month, it's pretty good It'll make you know, maybe 200 bucks or something like that 250, right? That's a green approved sign if it has the yellow sign which a bunch of videos do Instead of making 250 bucks to make like a dollar or $2. That's like literally a 99% drop in revenue Just goes through the floor and it sucks I've not done enough to bitch about that I guess over the years maybe I should have but as an entrepreneur I try to take responsibility of the things happening to my company as a default and I don't try to throw that at you guys So basically it's my job to figure out how to navigate monetizing the videos not you guys It was just spoken up sooner But that's been an ongoing problem that is still in place for a lot of our videos and it's kind of is what it is It's been happening to all managed for channels like I said for a long time And just one more thing stacked on top of all these other problems that we get now from the partner program suspension Even though we won the appeal So just sucks and it's been going on for us and a lot of your favorite channels independent ones for a long time If you're in that top tier club, you know PewDiePie who's a good dude I got no problem with him, but you know top tier PewDiePie or these huge channels like CNN and the TV shows they don't deal with that shit and YouTube back in the day had these had none of these problems, right? Everybody was treated equally kind of fairly and then a couple years ago start changing So it sucks and it's just one more fucking problem stacked on top of all these other problems We're getting now with all the money and stuff So bottom line there's a lot of problems on YouTube and the latest actions were a new escalation in my view It has happened to a couple of the guys. I mentioned Jesse Peterson earlier And he actually got demonetized as well similar circumstances about a year ago and he did not get it back So that sucks. He's a good dude. He's got a big channel, you know, 300 some thousand. He has a fallen state channel too Coach Greg as well. So I'd you guys know him. Good buddy. Good dude one of our best speakers for sure And he got demonetized as well similar like very shady circumstances. No transparency a couple months ago I think like four or five months ago And he's reapplied for the program the letting him reapply not appeal. It's different and he's still waiting, of course I talked to him the day so and they're probably never letting back in. I don't know another guy Tony Bruno He applied for the use a smaller channel a couple thousand, you know followers He applied applied for the partner program like a year ago, and he's still fucking waiting So coach Greg is playing with waiting forever and Jesse Lee is not even I didn't go back in at all so there's a lot of those weird stuff that they do and Demonetizing these channels is a new thing. I think before like a year ago. I didn't really see this on YouTube I never heard of it. You do see it sometimes it like Steven Crowder There's big-ass channels that fight with YouTube and lawsuits and all this stuff But even there there's a history of community strikes they kind of trump up these hate speech charges and shit like that and They'll kick him out of the partner program and then let him back in and then kick him out and then let him back in And it's his constant, you know back and forth kind of cat fight they have But he's lowered up and he's threatened to sue them and all that stuff That's different and there's a pattern of them having problems with him, right? We didn't have any of that I don't know about coach Greg. I kind of doubt he any problems either We didn't have any like I showed you guys and talk to you about way no community strikes on the copyright strikes and poof They took it all with no warning So even giving it back it's still like a bad business practice. It's not fair and it's not fun And it's just a zero transparency kind of thing, which is not good You know if they want to be this big video company and you know have this amazing amazing platform, right? It's been like a printing press for the average person in America to make videos since the 2000s now, right? Reaching millions and millions of people never before in history is impossible Even with the advent of the internet. There wasn't really good video component yet So it sucks that they do this. I think YouTube should do better. I think they're capable of better I think they did better in the past before like 2015 2016 and hopefully in the better They in the future they do better as well All right, man So in this part you guys were asking me in the video in the comments and stuff and on the community tab and even on Twitter and through the newsletter and all the stuff that went out you guys are asking that he can help how can you help how can you help How can you help so I could describe to you the problems even though we won We still have some pretty negative damage from this and bad news 11,000 missing 5,000 we just completely lost and there's still like a bunch of videos that have yellow sign and our ads kind of Got like screwed up and when they got Renabled so it's all kinds like stupid little problems and above all I want to share with you the comment from better bachelor Basically like this happening. We won our appeal right better vouchers written for a shot up to him I appreciate that but even though we won our appeal like he said in this comment You know, it's probably gonna happen again, and we don't know when it might happen in six months might happen in six years I don't fucking know nobody knows except people work on YouTube, right and one of the issues too is not just it happening again Probably with no warning all over again. I mean if they did better I appreciate that but really I don't expect that and I think a lot of you watch and you'll expect that either They probably just do it again whenever they feel like it or someone gets mad or someone who knows right how they do it because they Don't tell you But the biggest issue is we don't know like when it will happen. There'll be no warning right and what that means is our for My company we have kind of three pillars, right most channels don't most channels are like 99% dependent on YouTube for money For us, it's an important pillar of three. We also have 21 universities since 2015 That's our premium video service like a Netflix that we built like a Netflix for men for our own content It's pretty cool even that apps on the app stores like Google and Apple App Store Anyway, though, we got 21 studios YouTube partner money We have 21 University and then we have 21 summit 21 convention a lot of events that we build in every year in Orlando And even around the world like Poland stuff Europe Australia and all that that you guys saw So we have that most channels don't so if they lost you to they'd be like ultra fucked for us It's still like sucks. It's a big hit to the company and it's it's a pain in the ass to put it nicely But at least we have these other things Even so we don't know when now that that pillar basically of financial finances to monetize the video It's unstable. I don't know when it's gonna go away again and YouTube is demonstrated through their actions, right? Not promises not nice words not some you know We care about the creators independence and free speech or free expression, right all that stuff The realities or actions are much different than what they say and I don't know when they're gonna do it again I hope they don't I like YouTube. I want to be on it for a long time I've been honest since I was like 18 years old making videos all the time every day So the issue there are those we don't know when that's gonna happen again. That's a big problem, right? I can't depend on that anymore not even a little bit, right? It would be stupid to depend on that in terms of a reliability thing right going forward a dependency thing or a stability issue That I put it that way so while this has been, you know, major impact to our channel It's not life-threatening like would be for other channels, but still it sucks I don't like it so basically what we need to do is increase our independence from YouTube and the number one thing you Guys can do to help out the easiest thing you can do It's fast easy free and simple as go to 21 studios calm and join the newsletter Just go to 21 studios calm right at the top put in your email and join our newsletter The reason for that is if we ever lose, you know our YouTube in general like the whole thing That is terminate the channel which can happen right my friends to find Molly new let you guys know him He had a big channel almost a million and with no strikes at all right He had a history of strikes a little bit So I guess there's that but he had zero strikes at the time because they they go away every 90 days He had no strikes in the middle of 2020 poof took his whole channel man terminated the whole thing deleted all thousands of videos He had like 3000 4000 videos or something all gone poof So that can happen anytime Like kind of like the monetization they don't really have to give you a warning They should and that would be the right thing to do even by their own kind of program But the reality is they can just kind of do what they want and even if you have millions of dollars like you know Prager University and the blaze and Steven Crowder You really can't sue them and win everybody that Susan loses. So it's just totally fucked Anyway, the best thing to do is join our newsletter at 20 on studios calm that way if anything like that ever happens Which is like nuclear right they just terminate use toast your ass We can still contact you and tell you where we're gonna rebuild and import our videos to new platform, you know stuff like that So it's free easy fast join the newsletter But again, the biggest thing we got to do is increase our independence from YouTube because that pillar of finances to monetize the videos and make them Free to the world. I don't I don't depend on that anymore on account on it, right? They've shown through action that we can't rely on that I'll take it whenever they feel like it not only from us, but from coach Greg. This is Lee Peterson Anybody on YouTube right man is fear man is fear Jason other independent creators. They don't give a fuck There's gonna do what they want I want to say to though a lot of you know about patreon a lot of channels use patreon to kind of fan fun What they do? I think the concepts cool But I think patreon is a trap and I trust patreon at all because patreon in my view my opinion is basically the big tech wing of like fan funding for it compared to like YouTube and Facebook and Twitter and all that and I say that because patreon is a history of banning people kind of like big tech platforms, right? That are much more bigger than patreon is for example They banned Sargon of the cod a couple years ago and that pissed off Jordan Peterson Dave Rubin and Sam Harris They had three of the biggest patreon channels on there and all of them said fuck it and they left they deleted the patrons They were making like I think Jordan Peterson was making like $60,000 a month on patreon They just threw it away because they as a opposition to cancel culture right to promote free speech Patron was not supposed to do that and it was stupid and you know frivolous what they've been Sargon of the cod for totally stupid nonsense So I don't trust patreon at all and I think anybody on patreon should get off of it and shift You know the platform a competitor, which is what we're going to do So I'm all about fan funding now. I think it's a good thing. It's been on for a couple years But again, I don't trust patreon at all locals is the way to go I'm not gonna problem a subscribe star and you guys can talk about them the comments Maybe we'll start one someday, but I do think locals which is co-founded by Dave Rubin is the way to go So we're launching locals and we're gonna have our videos there exclusive videos Exclusive live streams exclusive content you guys can engage with me other speakers And we're actually gonna put speeches there that are not on YouTube and before they hit YouTube too We do that with 21 University like I said for a couple years now and the speeches still go there first The issues at 21 University is a video service not like a fan funding service So it's never designed to be like standalone be like a fan thing for you guys to like fund what we do it's more like a little Netflix like I said and Alongside YouTube for so many years now since 2015. It's worked really well like a premium video thing and then free videos on YouTube But since we can't count on YouTube anymore, we got to do like a fan funding thing So we'll stop 20 University if you guys are members there. I appreciate that hundred percent 21 University is the number one way to support we do but locals now is a new thing you guys can join to and for example 21 University, I didn't want to like You know kind of force fit a square peg and a round hole as the same goes for like customized, you know Donations and stuff like that. It's not for that. It's a video service apps like Netflix and Hulu and stuff like that So this way on local as you guys can join it and you can pay whatever you want If you pay at least five bucks a month, you actually become a member You can make your own posts engage with other fans stuff like that get access to exclusive videos all that stuff But the point is you can pay whatever you want. So if you want to pay five bucks, it's fine You want to pay 20 bucks kind of like 21 University? That's fine. You want to pay 50 bucks? That's fine or a hundred bucks a month. That's fine. Whatever you want. You can even give like a one-time donation on locals Locals are super cool. They give us 90% of the money you guys donate. They take a 10% fee, which I think is fine YouTube by comparison takes 45% of advertising revenue 45% and then we keep 55 like all of the channels So it's pretty intense and locals are thinks a much better way to do that and you guys could defend the fun What we do directly, right? we don't got to count on all the advertisers and YouTube partner program and Frivolously taking it away and then giving it back and like all this stuff I want to say too that it's important to fund like the the content creators that you really support and do directly They're a couple bucks a month something like that Basically, it's a kneecap when they can you know really kneecap a creator when they take away their money, right? You can get banned from any platform for all kinds of stupid reasons today But if you have fan funding through an independent platform like locals or even subscribe star and unreliably I think patreon but even something like that you can rebuild your platform anywhere you want, right? You can move you can find a new place There's competitors to youtube other platforms and stuff alt-tech new tech all kinds of stuff like that But if they kill off your money, you're you're fucked, right? Again, like these youtube channels, they don't have other sources of revenue like we do like 21 university and 21 summit live events So it's really important to fund the creators you care about what you guys value But moving on I want to say that Easiest thing you guys can do is go to 21 studios comm slash donate and it explains all the stuff with youtube and how to help out Join 21 university join locals our new locals were launching You can send a direct donation there too. You can find out how to get tickets the other way is to support us For example, 21 university is lifetime option and you guys say you can that way just pay once never pay again It's a lifetime option all kind of cool stuff like that again with locals shot out the better bachelor He was the pioneer moving to locals Maybe like a year ago not even so he was the first guy to do that from the manuscript that I know of I have seen other people on in the manuscript tried to do crowdfunding and stuff through like patreon But again, I think patreon's a trap on a trust it at all. They don't support free speech locals does Dave Rubin's a cool dude. I met him in person great dude solid dude Just moved to florida And I don't know if he's going to like fight a war for free speech literally But I think he really does care about it He does support it 100 and the company he built locals. I think it's really good really solid And I'm throwing my eggs in that basket I think it's worthwhile I think it's gonna work And I chose locals to over subscribe star because I think long-term locals is going to win out Again, I don't think any kind of problem with subscribe star But locals my gut says is a long-term victor and it's kind of competitive free speech race To push out, you know patreon is a bunch of frauds On top of this moving to locals I'm going to encourage all my friends in the hemisphere all the speakers I know that have a youtube channel and I'll stop any kind of platform like that You start a locals because of what youtube's done being so unfair and not transparent I really want to push all my friends to be financially independent of youtube and anything like that Build a thing up on locals And you should do that as a fan too If you know someone youtube you like Manusphere or not You should tell them and ask them like hey, why don't you have a locals? 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Goodest time has ever is coming out It's not the 20 year anniversary, but that'll be a couple years, right? And finally on the page. You'll see the crypto thing see if I'm doing a crypto you're more than welcome to do that Those are bitcoin addresses and other crypto addresses you can donate crypto to Later this year too, we'll accept tickets and crypto as well for the first time in a while So we're happy to do that. I got a problem with crypto. I think it's pretty cool All right, man this closing segment got a few more tidbits and ideas to put out So first of all make a few follow videos to this video kind of more on this whole youtube suspension issue The first one's going to be a video about alternatives competitors to youtube. They're kind of springing up past couple years even recently There are some viable options. I don't think it's time to abandon ship you up youtube Like I said, they are the best at the big tech options. I don't think they're that I don't agree that they did obviously like at all and I was pretty mad about like a lot of you guys But there's still like a lot better than twitter and facebook and instagram and crap like that For responding to an appeal and doing the right thing when push came to shove, right? But I will do a video on you know competitors to youtube alternatives what I think about them the best option and stuff like that I'm gonna do another video as well on why I think this happened actually diving into some theories on it Opinions that I have Some opinions that friend sent to me privately leading up to it and then also your guys theories as fans in the comments What do you guys thought what was kind of popular and I'll give you my thoughts on what you guys think too And you know, there's no smoking gun. There's I'm not going to tease you guys with that kind of bullshit You know, we don't know why this happened is at the bottom line and that's a problem in and of itself But I got some opinions on what happened. So you guys and we'll dive into that in a future video pretty soon And I'm probably make fun of the haters in that one too. So stay tuned I'm also going to do a follow-up video after that on my opinions legally for big tech and kind of what they do with free speech I'm not a obviously an attorney or like a legal philosopher. I'd be amateur as an entrepreneur, right? I care about the law. I care about these platforms do I care about how they enforce policy and contracts and stuff like that I care a lot about free speech as an american and as an entrepreneur that and I run a media company So I have some opinions on that again. I'm not like some super duper I'm not an attorney or a legal philosopher an expert of any kind But I have opinions particularly after this all happened, right? It's really kind of made me think and chew on like all this stuff going on In america with censorship and cancel culture and free speech So we're going to go over that Not only in general for america, but also specific to florida. There's some florida laws that might help out with some of this stuff And other ideas too like supreme court weighing in you know stuff like that to stay tuned for that video The one thing youtube didn't see my appeal video was the american flag 13 star original flag that flies over my desk every day Right here at 21 studios headquarters in the land of florida And to me that reflects not only america what I love about it most are founding But also the manuscript itself in terms of its spirit in terms of its attitude The manisphere in my view is a state of recently in my state of the manisphere address at 21 summit To the manisphere itself is basically it has it's the real counterculture, right? I don't think political conservatism is and also a crap that people talk about it's not the manisphere is for example You know conservatives and politics They'll bend the need of feminism and the kind of Female centric social order we live in all this stuff, right? The manisphere doesn't and that puts us very squarely against this whole woke establishment This feminist woke establishment And no other part of culture is doing that right just the manisphere is particularly in america, but even throughout the west other western nations So you guys didn't see that in the appeal video But that's something I see every day in my office right here and I keep that in mind I think about the manisphere and fighting for it I found out when I was very young at 18 years old as a kid early 17 I found it actually in 2005 technically But I've been fighting for it ever since to build it to help it go stronger and grow bigger To you know, unify a lot of the speakers and the ideas bring them together Even when we don't agree on everything we agree on a lot of fundamentals And by getting together and talking to each other we can amplify that message That's the real spirit of the manisphere and the spirit of 21 studios and the 21 convention Is bringing all this together and amplifying it for a real revolution a revolution and a renaissance of masculinity and of men And a traditional common sense values like masculinity and femininity and family and stuff So this community has changed my life for the better And I've done everything I can to give back to it and to protect it and I'm going to fight harder now harder than I ever have Um, I've been fighting for 15 years, you know I'm going to keep fighting fighting fighting and this whole experience at youtube has been like a major gut check Like getting kicked in the balls, right? But ultimately I love it. I'm going to keep fighting for it. I appreciate your guys engagement your support Everything you guys do as fans and subscribers from liking videos to comments the donations means a lot to me So I'll see you in the next video peace out and I appreciate everything you guys do as fans peace