 Hi everyone, this is Gio. Welcome to my channel. Now we're going to do another update video, just a quick one this time around. This is a second update video we're doing this month and I hadn't planned on doing this update video, but things are shifting a little bit. Things are in flux, basically, online with technology, with the different platforms that we're sharing all this information. And we sort of have to adjust our behavior accordingly, things are in flux and as Bruce Lee would say, we sort of have to be like water, my friend. And that's exactly what we're going to do. And we're sort of going to change things up a little bit based on a message that was sent to me from a subscriber. And thank you very much for the message. I wasn't aware of this information because it could sort of have caused us some serious problems. And after thinking about it for the last few days, a week or so, I sort of decided to go about deal with it in the way that we're going to discuss. But let me read you this message that was sent to me. Hey, Chicho, hope you're well. Came across this article regarding YouTube terminating accounts of users promoting Twitch streams. Figured you want to read it. And here's the title of the article that he sent me. YouTube creators reportedly losing accounts over Twitch stream promotions. And I followed the link and I read some other links and I watched some videos and went down the rabbit hole a little bit. And basically what's happened is YouTube has a user agreement. And the way they're, what they decided to do is interpret their own user agreement in a way that people didn't expect and people didn't have planned on. Right? Basically what they've done, they've basically stated that anyone that's promoting you know, loading on videos on YouTube, that is getting people on YouTube to go to other platforms, to view their content, their accounts are being terminated. Right? So if you take this to the extreme, the way they're, the way YouTube is interpreting this information, it means all the announcement videos that I put up about the live streams going, you know, happening on Twitch, those could be interpreted as promoting people to go on Twitch instead of YouTube. So YouTube could terminate my account. Right? Terminate the channel. That means the last, you know, 12, 13 years of work that we've done on YouTube would disappear, which would be a disaster. Right? And I've mentioned before that, you know, since loading stuff on you, on YouTube, from Twitch, since going live streaming on Twitch and loading on the videos and, you know, having accounts both on Twitch and YouTube and being fairly active on both channels. Right? I've seen my view counts drop. I've seen the revenue dropping and, you know, just some of the videos that we've had, we've had on YouTube for a number of years, being demonetized, just to give you an example, the first pomegranate video that we put up that people love. It's one of my, you know, it's got 60,000 views and people continuously comment on that. And it was just basically me stating that if you've never eaten pomegranates with a spoon from a bowl, you're missing out. I do a little intro and I eat the pomegranate videos. Right? And that was monetized since basically day one of YouTube monetizing videos. Right? But I just recently checked after I saw that this stuff was happening. I checked, you know, there's a place where you can check on YouTube and see what's going on. I checked that location. I found out that that video was demonetized as well. And the way YouTube behaves, you know, you can question monetization, have it be manually reviewed, but they only manually review any videos that have 1,000 views in the last seven days. And since that video is a few years old, it's not getting 1,000 views in the last seven days. So that is demonetized now. Right? And a number of other videos are demonetized as well. Some of the reading videos are demonetized. Wonder Woman is demonetized. The crow is demonetized. There's a whole bunch of videos that have been demonetized by YouTube. Right? So I do check that area on YouTube to see what the most recent video is that they've demonetized. Right? And I was okay with that to a certain degree. But I'm not okay with YouTube killing the account. Right? Which is something that I really have to think about. It's something that we really have to adjust our behavior on YouTube. Right? And in the last update video I mentioned that the way we're going to do things, because people have been asking me of how I go about creating this content, for these video shoots, you know, I've been live streaming these video shoots and I'm live streaming this video shoot as well. Right? So in the previous update video I mentioned that for these video shoots what we're going to be doing is, you know, live streaming the video shoot, I would go about editing the video, loading on the edited video and then afterwards I would load on the behind the scenes video, the live stream so people have a good idea of how I go about creating this content. Right? Sharing as much information as I can. So that sort of helps people out if they want to start, you know, doing what I'm doing as well because I think that's what's needed really to have more independent content being created and shared online to get away from the corporate mentality, monopoly practices, monopoly control of information. Right? But unfortunately because this has been going on, YouTube is doing this and they've been deleting accounts of, you know, users that have 100,000, 200,000, 300,000 video subscribers. Right? And we're small potatoes compared to them with, you know, right now we're sitting around 26,000 subscribers. Right? So, you know, I'm pretty sure we won't get the same result if we complain to YouTube as those, the people with a few hundred thousand subscribers. Right? So I really want to make sure that we don't jeopardize this channel, the work we've done so far for the last 13 or 14 years. Right? So again, as Bruce Lee would say, we're going to be like water. Right? We're going to change our behavior. We're going to, we're going to try to abide by the YouTube rules, but not just by the YouTube rules, but by the way they're interpreting their own YouTube rules, right? Which could be any which way they want. Okay? So what we're going to do, basically, and by the way, just to, just to connect us up with what we've done in politics, economics, and personal finance, this stuff is really related to automation. As we've talked about before, automation is changing the game. Right? Automation is going to affect all of us politically and economically. And the reason that all this stuff is happening, the reason that videos are being demonetized, the reason that YouTube is killing channels, the reason that things are not being promoted the way they should be promoted, and comments are being censored, and all this jazz is basically because of automation algorithms that YouTube is implementing to catch key phrases and whatnot. And based on the algorithms, they're either deleting videos, demonetizing videos, or killing accounts. So we want to make sure we don't get caught up in this, you know, by these algorithms to have our channel eliminated, right? Taking offline. And this is something that I think it's going to be YouTube's downfall, because anything that's automated to that level, people who can guess what the code is, they can manipulate, you know, that automation, they can control that automation and have their videos, their channels pop up, right? So basically what's happening is automation is taking over YouTube. So if you sit there and let auto play, you know, be active on YouTube, you're going to start off with certain types of videos that you're really interested in. And pretty soon, you're going to, you would have gone down a dark, deep hole where you're going to have videos pop up that you're watching that you have no idea what the stuff is or why the stuff is being shown to you, right? So we're going to try to, you know, I don't want to say bypass the automation, but we're going to try to make sure the automation is not going to eliminate our channel. Okay. And you know, my apologies for this. I don't want to burden you guys with this stuff, but I really want to keep you informed as to why we're doing certain things and where we're going for this, right? And, you know, I mentioned this to the person that sent me the comment and I went online and talked to a few people and really basically don't want to become canon father in the war of the giants. And right now, the two giants being alphabet ink and Amazon alphabet ink being Google, YouTube and Amazon being Twitch, right? And the other platforms are going to be participating in this as well. Okay. So this is what we're going to do. Okay. As far as the content being loaded on YouTube, okay, we've been loading on almost all the live streams on YouTube. That's going to stop from now on. Okay. The behind the scenes playlist that we created where I was showing you how I'm creating this content, that's going to be on hold. So we're no longer going to be uploading all the live stream content on YouTube. We're actually going to stop uploading almost all the live stream contents on YouTube. That means there's no longer going to be any announcement streams of the live stream coming up, the schedule of the live stream being loaded on YouTube. If you want to know when the live streams are going to be happening on Twitch, then unfortunately, I apologize for this. I didn't want to direct people to different platforms, but you're either going to have to be subscribed to Twitch, where the events will be announced. There'll be a notice being sent to you on Twitter. I do an announcement 30 minutes before we go live on Patreon. I post the live stream announcements. I post the schedule on Patreon. There's a blog area where you can join Patreon. And actually, you don't even have to join Patreon. You can just go on my Patreon page and go to the blog post and see the schedule being listed. So Twitch, Twitter, and Twitter, I will do the main announcements as well where we set up the schedule for three or four different schedules at the same time, or Patreon. That's where you'll find the next streams being announced. As far as what live streams will be loaded on YouTube, the only live streams, aside from some random ones where we might upload them to YouTube, aside from those, the only live streams that I can think of right now that we will be loading on YouTube is the stuff we do in the kitchen. All the cooking live streams we will continue to load on YouTube. And the funny thing is, right now, through my Twitch account, they're connected with YouTube. So I can directly transfer, upload those videos to YouTube directly. And it takes a fraction of the time. And I'm no longer going to do that. I'm actually going to be downloading the videos from Twitch and then uploading them to YouTube. That way, hopefully, we'll be bypassing YouTube's algorithm. So we won't run the risk of being caught up with YouTube's automation where we're going to be flagged and possibly lose our channel. Okay. So that's the way we're going to upload the cooking streams on YouTube. And if I, so far, all the live streams, almost all the live streams we've uploaded to YouTube have been just raw live streams being loaded on YouTube. But we might actually, I might actually, once I download them from Twitch, I might take them into my editing software and edit the live streams with the editing software before I load them on YouTube. Right. And that basically what that means is the frequency of the content being loaded on YouTube is going to decrease. Okay. There won't be as much content being shared on YouTube. Okay. That's the update regarding YouTube. Okay. So those of you watching on YouTube, those of you who are only catching my content on YouTube, my apologies for this. But basically, what we're doing is I've really been centralized. The content has been centralized through YouTube and we're decentralizing away from YouTube. And it's not something that I've wanted to do, but it's something that YouTube is forcing us to do. Okay. So this is sort of the decentralization of Chicho from YouTube. And what we're going to do, we're going to start making sure we're more active on some of the other platforms. And as far as the other platform when it comes to sharing video content is concerned, the other platform that we have right now is BitShoot. And BitShoot's philosophy has been no censorship. And their video sharing algorithms are basically going through, they're using, I'm not actually sure on this, but they're using sort of Torrent technology. And since they're not going to be, you know, they mentioned they're not really in the business of censoring the way YouTube is or the way all the main platforms are, then everything we do on Twitch will also be uploaded in raw format on BitShoot as well. So what we're doing on YouTube, we're going to continue to do on BitShoot. Okay. So that's personal censorship. We're not going to do on BitShoot. So on BitShoot, we're going to do the recording sessions and the ones we're doing live as well, live casting as well. Those will be uploaded to BitShoot as behind the scenes. Now on BitShoot, I haven't gone through and created any playlists yet or anything like this, because I don't have all 600 plus videos that we have on YouTube loaded on BitShoot. And at some time, at some point, I am going to take a little bit of break and make sure I organize BitShoot the way, actually in a better way than we have YouTube, you know, creating playlists and stuff like this. And once we do that, I'll create all the playlists we need and organize everything to their appropriate playlists, right? So there won't be any behind the scenes playlist or math playlists or ASMR playlists on BitShoot for now, but everything that we do on Twitch will also be loaded on BitShoot. So if you want to follow that information, if you can, attend the live streams, BitShoot is where you want to be at. They will not be loaded. I'm going to mention this again. They will not be loaded on YouTube. My apologies again, but this isn't something that I had planned on doing. I had actually planned on doing the opposite. This is something that we have to do based on what YouTube is implementing. As far as what we're going to do on Twitch is concerned, we're going to continue doing what we're doing on Twitch. I love the platform. We haven't hit any censorship problems yet on Twitch, which is a good thing. And the community that we have on Twitch is amazing, linked up with Discord as well. And the community we have on Discord is absolutely amazing as well. So we're going to continue to build content on Twitch and we're going to roll out a few things on Discord as well as soon as we stabilize with these changes that we have to deal with based on these giants of industry, based on these corporations that are trying to control the discourse, trying to control everything that's being loaded on their platforms. They're not allowing us to grow organically, which is basically what gave them life to start off with. So on Twitch, we're going to continue doing what we're doing, which all of us who have participated on Twitch are finding out to be pretty fantastic. So if you do want to participate in live streams, by the way, this is not promoting that, I'm not telling people on YouTube to go to Twitch, I'm just mentioning that it's a nice place to be. As far as Twitter is concerned, we're going to behave on Twitter the same way we have in the past. Twitter, I haven't used in the way a lot of people are using where I'm getting into debates and discussions with people on Twitter because in my opinion, I don't want to get into shouting matches with people and the length of the discussion is limited to how many characters you can use. I'm basically using Twitter as a form of announcing what's coming up, what I've uploaded, and whatnot. So I'm going to continue to use Twitter the same way I have previously, which is just basically to make announcements. So if you want to know what I'm up to, what I'm doing, what's coming up, what videos have been uploaded, what live streams we are announcing, what the schedules are, and what live streams I've been uploaded to. BitShoot now. Twitter will get the job done for you. Okay. As far as Patreon is concerned, that is a lifeline for me. That is a revenue stream. That is a way for me to communicate to people who are supporting me on a financial basis. And I appreciate this. I mentioned this before from the bottom of my heart. And as far as Patreon is concerned, I'm going to do stuff on Patreon that I'm most likely not going to be doing anywhere else, which is directly interacting with the people who are supporting this work financially. Thank you very much for that. And I do realize that this isn't an option open to everyone. Everyone doesn't have the means to support this work financially. But I want to seriously thank you for having the ability to do that and for participating in that. And we will be doing a lot of things on Patreon. And I will definitely be keeping those on Patreon who are supporting this work. And you don't, again, nothing is closed. So if you do want to go to the post area, you can definitely read what we're doing there. And I will definitely keep everyone informed as to what we're up to, what we're doing, what we're rolling out, and anything that we're going to be doing where I'm going to be directly interacting with you guys on a personal level and anything that I'm going to be rolling out specifically for the Patreon users. And we're definitely going to be rolling some stuff out as soon as we deal with some of these changes taking place. So thank you very much for that. On Patreon, we're going to continue to do what we're doing and probably a little bit more. Just a heads up. As far as the website is concerned, right now we're on Blogspot. Blogspot is Google. YouTube is Google. Google is Alphabet Inc. So anything being implemented on YouTube, they're not as hardcore on Blogspot, but I've had to censor myself on Blogspot as well. Right? Blogspot, I used to have monetized, but I got a notice from Google saying that one of my articles didn't abide by the terms of user agreement. So I demonetized the whole Blogspot website, right? Because I'm not going to deal with these automated algorithms that are making decisions based on some code that has embedded into millions of lines of code, right? That they don't even know what's being done, right? So right now we're on Blogspot. We will continue to be on there because it's easy for me to do. It's zero cost for me to do. It's just an avenue to do things, right? We're basically going to do the same thing. To a certain degree, the more important stuff, right? On Patreon as well. If I make any major posts on Blogspot, I will from now on also make those major posts on Patreon as well. But I'm not going to upload, you know, any videos that we do live streams that we do on Patreon unless they fit into a bigger scheme of things, right? A bigger picture. Okay. So on Blogspot, we're going to continue to do what we're doing. But if we end up getting a notice or Google changes their behavior, they read their terms of user agreement with the, which they change every now and then. They reinterpret their own terms of agreement. And all of a sudden they are preventing certain types of information from being shared. We're going to reduce the amount of work we're going to be doing on Blogspot as well. Okay. So just to sum things up, basically, Bitshoot is going to have all the videos being loaded on. Live streams, Twitch, we're going to continue to do what we're doing. And most likely, since we're not uploading the stuff on YouTube anymore, the political, economic open discussions, they're going to be more open now. Almost anything goes more so now than before. Okay. Twitter is just basically an announcement platform. If you want to know what's being uploaded or what we're doing on live streams coming on Twitch, you can follow that. Patreon, if you can afford it, very much appreciate the support from there. If you can't afford it, keep your eye on the post section on Patreon because we will be rolling out some additional stuff there that most likely you will not see on Twitch, YouTube or Bitshoot unless we make a video out of it. Okay. And as far as YouTube is concerned, I'm sad to see that it's not being allowed to grow organically anymore, but it's their downfall. They're shooting themselves in the head and they will lose traffic to a certain degree. And we will compensate for that, the censorship being implemented on YouTube and the control mechanisms being implemented on YouTube with other platforms right now, Bitshoot. And most likely I will try to find a tertiary third website where we can host the content. And also, you know, when I get to uploading everything to Bitshoot and organizing everything to playlist, we'll try to have that done as well on another platform as well. That way we have at least three different channels where we're sharing information because I really, I think it would be really sad if we lose all this content. And at some point I plan on sort of getting a fair bit of hardware and dedicating a computer and a lot of bandwidth to sharing all these videos that we've created as torrents as well. Sort of the same way we've done with the torrents we created for the language of mathematics, series one, two, three A and B and series four A and B and whatever else we're going to be sharing as a torrent. Okay. That's about it. My apologies again for what's taking place, but it's beyond my control. And again, this is something that's in flux, changes taking place, control mechanism being put into place by certain organizations. And again, as Bruce Lee would say, we're going to be like water, my friend. We're going to be like water. Thank you for being here. Thank you for the support. Thank you for the love and I'll see you guys in the next video. Bye for now.