 even sure what to say thank you for the $20 super chat I suppose YouTube stop touching super chats so I guess there's a bonus all super chat revenue last month is as it was supposed to be so thank you co-cola I will receive you know that that 20 bucks minus 30% should use the donation link but doesn't really matter people are probably wonder what's going on if you haven't followed the situation back at the beginning of October YouTube decided that for half of September my views were my my views were invalid they were invalid views that were either bot views paid for views fake views creating fake interactions on ads causing a new policy change with their bot that's automated to decide that my channel is full of people that aren't actual people and as such the views on ads aren't actual people so they zeroed out my ad revenue for half a month costing me $3,000 in September all right whatever it's now November and they zeroed out 100% of October there's not a single day in October that I made ad revenue of course the funny thing is I make premium revenue during this time so clearly I have some valid views because I have people that are YouTube red or whatever they call that now subscribers watching my content but doesn't matter all ad revenue for for October has been wiped it's as if I didn't make a single video last month according to YouTube the funny thing is they now have a new article out there about invalid traffic they have put up over the last week that article talks about what all of the different stats on the back end mean and the thing is the number one stat they talk about is the overall view stat and what do they say about the overall view stat on YouTube they say views are your lit legitimate views that your videos received so the view stat the number one stat on the back end that has shown to us is stated to be 100% legit views that your channel received from those views a percentage of them see ads how can I have 100% valid views but 0% valid ad views I have yet to have YouTube explaining this to me I have been on the phone with them I have been in the creator chat with them I've been in a non-stop email back and forth chain for over a month with them with already something like 50 plus different emails exchanged I have talked to creator support behind the scenes we've been in DMs I have done everything that I can do without simply just outright suing YouTube which would just go to small claims court because I don't know how I can sue them over anything more than that the issue here is that YouTube is telling me all of my views are valid but all of my ad views are invalid even though my ad views come from my views it doesn't make sense it doesn't add up and YouTube doesn't give a shit they zeroed out the ad revenue for an entire month after already doing it for most of September looks like they're already starting to do it in November my channel is black ball by YouTube and it's only black ball in a very specific way I'm still gaining subscribers I'll be it slowly but I'm still gaining subscribers they're still sharing my videos and I still get decent click-through rates when when it's put into people's recommended it's still performing while my videos are performing as expected so they're not hiding my content they're not disqualifying my content from being shared they are just saying that all those people watching my content aren't real and taking away all the revenue I can't understand why they're doing this what what the logic mismatch on their back end and their explanations doesn't add up I don't understand why they can't just admit this is a bug and get it fixed why are they constantly trying to tell me I have invalid traffic while saying my traffic is valid at the same time why are they fighting against themselves and costing themselves money as well because the whole reason I'm not getting ad revenue is because they are refunding the advertisers for all the ads shown on my channel it's not that you guys aren't seeing the ads it's that once the end of the month comes they decide to give the money back to the advertisers essentially giving them free advertising and then just YouTube doesn't get any money either so there's something clearly wrong with the new implementation they have decided to do with invalid traffic that is falsely identifying my channel and sweeping it up and YouTube's not going to do a damn thing about it I am just personally blackballed I am a YouTube channel that basically can't run ads anymore and that's okay on its surface I don't necessarily do YouTube for the money the money is nice obviously it affords me more time but I'm not a YouTuber specifically to make money but to see my hard work that has been earning money for three years be completely wiped out heading into a next-gen launch it's pretty frustrating you know yeah it's only sometimes you know three four hundred bucks extra in my pocket but you know what it's been more than that lately well at least it should have been lost another thousand just keep adding it up why not why not just keep adding it up YouTube does not give a shit they have blackballed my channel leaving me with very few options to do anything about it I can either sue them or leave the platform which I don't want to do I enjoy YouTube as a platform I can you know start a new channel I guess and hope they don't blackball me there but they probably will because I don't know why is my channel specifically swept up in this while other channels that are of similar size covering similar content are not swept up in this there's no explanation for why they're saying all my views are valid but my ad views are not valid but my ad views come from my views and none of my views are being invalidated they won't provide me an invalidation report I have requested one on several occasions since in the AdSense policy it says I am 100% responsible for every single view of the ads but what they don't tell you is that AdSense what when you sign up doesn't accurately track your ad traffic in the first place only YouTube metrics accurately track your ad traffic okay great that's fine and dandy but there's no breakdown of ad metrics on the YouTube back end which means I cannot track invalid ad activity so how can I know what's causing it at least YouTube give me the invalid traffic report that you see that you have confirmed manually let me see where is this traffic coming from what are they doing and how are they interacting with the ads wrong what is triggering it why can I not be shown that if it's my responsibility for these views my responsibility for these ads why can't I be shown this because YouTube doesn't have to show this YouTube is just an ass nice Israel soda so I'm left with so few options you know you guys can obviously you know I see some of my community pushing out there pushing patreon and all that that's great I mean I do have a patreon obviously if the patreon blew up whatever I could just not care I could just turn off ads on my channel my turn off ads anyways what's the point of having ads be present on my channel if all it's going to do is show you ads but then nobody makes any money and it's just literally free advertising for the advertiser you know who's benefiting from this the advertisers the advertisers are just getting everything for free this it's so infuriating you know I've worked three years on this channel three years on this channel specifically and I've never had this issue happen ever didn't care if I made 50 bucks didn't care if I made you know three thousand dollars I still always got the ad revenue ironed so I'm kind of left out the pasture I don't really know I mean I'm reaching out to you guys because I don't really know what to do or what to say about it anymore at this point I've said all I could say to all the YouTube context in the back I've attempted to talk to a lawyer who's unwilling to take on the case because again YouTube's got so many of the best lawyers in the world that they're gonna find every loophole imaginable to just not screw to screw me and have me pay all these lawyer fees for nothing I'm not a big enough youtuber that other big youtubers are going to care so like fire soul says you know start a movement wherever youtuber turns their ads off who's gonna turn their ads off that aren't being affected by this you think player essence is gonna turn his ads off you think Wolf Den's gonna turn his ads off you think any of these channels that are bigger than me are going to turn their ads off when they're not being affected like this hell no hell to the know they're gonna turn their ads off and they shouldn't I don't want people to just not make the revenue that they should be making on their content that's stupid so there's been some suggestion you're calling PewDiePie on the phone yeah like you really have PewDiePie's number there's been some suggestions that I should just make a full-on move to twitch just full out twitch it up where I just all my content is now live streamed you know I do like maybe I don't know what I do like a daily news show or something I don't even know I don't even know how I would would replace that we're not we're not here to talk about the politics I know it's a big election night I'm not dumb I realize that there's a lot of stuff going on with that but I'm not here to talk politics so let's keep the political chat out of here all right you guys can go talk in a billion other places right now about politics if you care to not talking about that here tonight I know it's election night I get it it's like a huge night huge huge night got ten thousand dollars what are you talking about honk I've tried story fire story fire won't like I've asked for approval of a video series you can't even upload there without approval there story fires extremely restrictive it's it's never gonna truly compete with YouTube because it's too restrictive that shoot has been actually giving some issues as well Philip the quarterings not gonna turn his ads off he's not gonna turn his ads off as much as he bitches about YouTube just like as an example the quartering said he was gonna be done with Twitter so he handed his Twitter over to a social media manager and what is he doing he's back on Twitter responding and tweeting at people all day long the quartering is not going to quit YouTube he's not going to turn his ads off he is a channel that is close to a million he gets hundreds of thousands of views a day he's not going to turn his ads off nobody that isn't impacted by this is gonna turn their ads off why would why would a creator willfully just give up their money if you got 10k don't know him dude honk's not gonna don't know me he's no way I have a donation link down in the description but no way I don't I don't honestly sorry honk maybe you're legit and I'm about to have my mind blown but it doesn't like thinking that you won the lottery and that you know PewDiePie seems pretty far-fetched guys keep the political stuff out of it out of the chat please keep the political stuff out of the chat I know it's election night tensions are high I get it we're not we're not here to talk about politics alright again there's a lot of other places you can go right now to talk about politics is your channel completely demonetized no I can receive super chats I can receive super chats you know super chats are are not are not our monetization method that YouTube is not touching now they did mess with it a bit in September but they didn't mess with any of the super chats in October so as far as the more super chat revenue is fine that I mean I could go if I go to Twitch most my audience isn't following me there I'm already on Twitch I do game streams on Twitch I think I mean one thing I could do that really is not ad relevant is I could just live stream on YouTube I literally could live stream on YouTube in the just do live streams and you know they can't they won't touch donations or super chats so I could just become a live streamer I guess but I don't I like making standalone videos that's what sucks I enjoy making standalone videos and like I even did a recent poll on the community section asking a question about my about the channel and like 72% of respondents out of 5,300 plus votes said that they enjoy my news videos the most live streams 1% 1% it is the lowest voted for thing so like live streams aren't even what a majority of my audience is here or carers or cares about so I even if I do a little mini live stream for every single news thing there's already a channel that does that man in Obi-Wan like am I that now is that what my channel is I just do like quick 15 20 minute live streams for every single piece of news that comes out how do you donate on patreon you click you tap join or I don't even remember it's been a long time since I've been yeah you could do patreon or you could use the stream labs donation link that goes to my PayPal account I think anyways on patreon if you want to become a member on patreon let me log in it's been a while let me just I'm gonna go find a random creator here let's see here find a creator who do I know is on patreon that I stopped that I don't support at the moment I think this guy's up yeah no clip is and I don't support them right now I used to support them so when you go to my page and there should be a join button on patreon and then you could select the different tiers or you can enter a custom amount I think when you join to anyways I like to stand a little videos they are nice to watch because I watch live streams after the fat mostly I wish YouTube didn't mess you up yeah I mean it I don't know man I'm not gonna cry about it I've already had a reaction to this one happened in September where I got I raged there's no point in raging like it happened in September am I really surprised it happened again in October I guess there's part of me that hoped it was fixed but it's not now technically I have ad revenue for the last four days of October so is it fixed now no the revenue is not finalized yet those four days are probably gonna vanish tomorrow because it's been working forward to back so like on November 1st I lost the ad revenue in the first week on November 2nd I lost the ad revenue in the second week on now November 3rd I lost the ad revenue in the third week so I presumed tomorrow those last four days are gonna get wiped out too I've taught to so many people at YouTube about this it's a ridiculous list of people it's clear nothing's going to happen and there's nothing I can do about it so I have decisions to make you know do I just push live streams where all the money comes from you guys and they don't really touch that I want to become a live streamer though man like I like live streams don't be wrong I enjoy them you know time to time but I don't want to like do it for a living not really a living I guess not a living I have a job but I don't really want to like yeah dude YouTube is just I don't even know like this is just baffling to me I'm completely I there's a lot of silence I don't know what to say like there's nothing I can say at this point YouTube is doing what they're doing I can't stop them they will not give me the information I need to see what they're seeing they're refusing to fix it they're saying it's all my fault they provide no evidence no proof they say my views are valid overall but my ad views are invalid even though my ad views come from my valid views I it's complete and like they're even there's even a notification on the back end now that says yeah what does it say I think it's gone now it appeared yesterday oh you have a high volume of invalid views so everything's going to be adjusted and I'm like oh lovely what the hell that I do to deserve this again another month in a row can't even say I caught up in the YouTube algorithm last month I lost subscribers last month I didn't even gain I had a net negative subscriber growth last month I had viewership that was significantly lower I had 1.6 million views in September only 400,000 last month and I still got hit by it they still took all my ad money so I don't know I don't know I don't there really isn't anything I can do at this point I either I mean I can quit you know already only doing this as a hobby anyways I don't know do you just push through and keep up the daily production knowing that YouTube is not gonna allow you to monetize anything anymore I don't know the real people that talked to me they told me and originally that they agreed that this isn't right things aren't adding up then they said well our internal team is saying your traffic is invalid but we don't think that's right we'll ask for clarification they re-clarified your traffic is invalid but they're saying your traffic's valid but your ad traffic's invalid again that doesn't make any sense can I get some clarification can I get some access can I get some this and I get some that and it was literally a been a month long back and forth of YouTube just coming up with a new excuse every single day that they're not gonna give you the information you need they're not gonna prove to you or prove to me anyways that your ad views are invalid it's just they're valid believe me we made a change your channel screwed have a good day so here we are here we are I don't have an MCN Michael now now this is a case where maybe having an MCN could help you know I've I used to have an MCN I left them in October of 2019 maybe this is where an MCM would have helped because an MCM basically never helped me in the past but maybe in a case like this an MCN could intervene and could stop it and maybe if I was part of an MCN this would have never happened in the first place because they want to dare mess with a bigger MCN I don't know I don't know I could talk to other MCNs and see if this is something because I've had offers from MCNs I get offers all the time that you know from all the channel networks that you know but are they actually gonna do anything are they just gonna take my money an MCN for those of you know it's a multi-channel network so an MCN is like a go-between between you and YouTube and they basically get paid they get the money first and they pay you they take a cut out of that money you know whatever the agreement is for some youtubers it's really bad like 50-50 really really bad for others it's only like 10% but whatever they take a cut out of the revenue and then in exchange they give you services I never really got any services I was part of BBTV I never really got a benefit out of it so I left them but maybe this is the one time that having an MCM would have mattered maybe this is why you have an MCN that is one thing I never considered maybe my next step is signing on with an MCN obviously that the conversation starter can you fix this can you stop this because there's you know a partnership can be had here but MCMs aren't exactly kosher either you know they're not always perfect they have their own issues as it were so yeah I don't know it is what it is I've heard of LB ROI library they're just really tiny you can't when you join an MCN when you join an MCM you can't just leave them like oh if it doesn't go good then leave you can't leave them they lock you into like a year contract like oh my card declined well I mean cards declined when the money is not actually there buddy throw that out there yes you can't join an MCM without signing a contract but I mean I get I get contacted by multi-channel networks all the time I guess it wouldn't hurt to talk to them and I know I know for sure I'm not gonna go back to broadband TV BBTV even though they're like the one of the biggest ones left out there even just looking up multi-channel networks makes me feel dirty my keeping track of the election not really we don't talk politics on this channel so like I have a thing on my phone where like I refresh it every now and then but I don't really know exactly what's going on you know there's a bunch of states not finalized I don't know depends on which site you look at so I'm not really going to go into it so we're not bots I mean you guys are about people 100 plus people watching you guys are bots now the pitch shoot waiting for content creators country for advertisers what twitch giveaway are you talking about Israel so I really looks at I mean it's not like I'm happy right now about this I'm happy with my life so I have to I have to decide what's next if I if I want to not deal with YouTube ad bullshit then I should just stream call it a day because then I could just hope you guys super chat hope you guys join patreon hope you guys do whatever and then that's how I'm supported and then who cares what ad revenue I don't know I wish like here's the here's the response I got today I'll put on my email right now so I brought up October so there's a whole bunch of stuff we've been talking about so I said more than that as numbers are being updated and finalized for October I now have had all ad revenue zeroed out for October 1st through the 26th and likely for the last handful of days tomorrow as every day more and more days have been zeroed out things aren't finalized yet but that makes it more than a month straight where my channel has made zero ad revenue despite being approved for ads because my traffic is supposedly invalid this isn't a oh crap I need an explanation move zero revenue for a whole month is a we want to kill your channel type of move I was never a channel that consistently made big money anyways but to make none at all how does that make sense something is going on and it isn't adding up you guys keep saying my ad traffic can valid but my traffic's valid ad traffic comes from that traffic so again this is one of those situations were one plus one equals two but it doesn't equal to in this case if you're YouTube it equals four I realize it's just going to be the same you had a high volume of invalid views excuse with absolutely nothing showing as much of my end but I sincerely need to know what I'm supposed to do moving forward as it stands my channel is being killed and I haven't done anything wrong YouTube response hi there hope all as well this is blank again I'm not going to give their names taking over this case I would like to let you know that our internal team is in the middle of things and has yet to respond to our our query we know that it can be tough waiting for a long and tedious process to conclude when I assure you that every step we take is aimed at addressing your concerns and as usual you'll be updated accordingly once I hear back from them what does that do for me it's the same they've they've curied them before the carry came back your traffic's invalid have a good day I asked them to carry them again why can't I get access to it they're still like any match I'm there's nothing we're not going to get anything nothing's coming out of this so I just have to accept that's the way it is it's just the way it is YouTube is no longer a platform that I can make revenue on so whatever I kind of at this point I'm accepting defeat it's been over a month I'm just kind of accepting defeat at this point I can't fix it I can't get YouTube to fix it I can get YouTube to acknowledge it but they won't fix it so hey we get a new subscriber LT idle thank you so much oh ads are being served ads are being served on my content no no issue there don't serve you ads they just won't pay me for those ads so I have some decisions to make I don't know I gotta consult my fiance I gotta consult with some other people and figure out what's the next step is do I just go the live stream route I already decided my series X content I'm live streaming pretty much all my series X content coming up next week because I can't risk relying just on ad revenue and not getting it so I have to hope that people show up to streams and show some support in the streams and the reason that I like the ad revenue is it doesn't rely on me having to get people to donate right or super chat like people can just watch yes the MCM drops you after after being monetized I have PayPal donations happen through stream labs stream labs donation link down in the description takes PayPal donations hashtag we are bots if only that could get trending it's it I'm watching you guys in the chat here we are about your thoughts YouTube's gonna dice and YouTube's not gonna dice YouTube is the number two most popular website in the world the number one website is the company that owns them google.com it's not going anywhere I have a patreon excelsior studios patreon is linked in the description I've had a patreon for a long time patreon.com slash Nintendo Prime it's down in the description of this livestream it's also in the description of every video I do I don't advertise it maybe I should advertise it more but I feel I feel kind of like a dick pushing crowdfunding during my videos like a go give me money have a good day like I feel so douchey I feel so douchey I have Twitter and a Facebook page Arkaneum adventure it's okay you're new I'm not I'm not upset that you didn't know I had a patreon I I realized for a lot of people you know any video can be their first video seeing me and I hate that like for some people this is their first experience with me this is not like dude I'm usually happy my kind I don't know me it's such a bad first experience I'm gonna link it in the chat my patreon that's my patreon big word $9 donation thanks man we aren't we aren't bots everyone say it we have to get a trending yeah I can't say it because I can't I'm not supposed to interact with ads on my channel but other people can say I can retweet it as someone like I can retweet and people can try to get a trending but I can't it wouldn't make sense for me to do it because I can't click on my own ads so I can't say we are bots thank you for subscribing kyo gaming YT seems like you're complaining I mean I am complaining but there's nothing I can do about it at this point YouTube it YouTube is done what it's done I am black bald it is what it is it is what it is I don't have the means I don't have the means to do anything about it so yeah no I believe you Zane Mario man it life isn't fair though you know that's something you learn a lot as an adult yeah you learn as a kid life isn't fair I don't expect things to be fair I have a patreon MK again I'll link it again I have a patreon it's not a question of patreon I have a patreon I have a twitch as well if you guys have like a twitch prime account you can go you know toss me a prime sub or something if you feel like it I do stream on twitch I do gameplay streams on twitch so it's not like I don't use twitch I think it's been like a week since my last stream there but I'll be hopefully streaming there tomorrow knock on wood oh everything on YouTube is controlled by algorithms and bots you sub with three accounts with still YouTube thinks they're fake I mean that could trigger YouTube to think they're fake too I have no clue are you sad actually you look really down I learned life is not fair it already when my parent ran away during turn back showed me laughing what I am sad but like I'm not I'll move on you know once I'm done with the stream and I move on with my day it is what it is don't be sad they do not give up at all you know better than this there are other methods again I will try contacting an MCM but I don't know if they're gonna do anything so we'll see what happens I'm gonna be happy once I'm done with the stream for sure cuz then I can go back to my fiance and yeah I've had some tough conversations about the channel but we'll see what happens bring back mr. pumpkin yeah I know I'm not really a fan of MCM's myself didn't really have the greatest experience with MCM's but I also never had this happen would I get back revenue if they admit they're wrong nope cuz they refunded advertisers they literally don't have the money if they're telling the truth they literally don't have the money to give me anyways they read they refunded it they refunded the advertisers so even if they admit they made a mistake and they and they fix it all it would do is make it so the channel is in black bald anymore moving forward but they haven't done that my channel continues to be black bald I try to read everyone's comments try Zane Mario I don't always succeed at it but there really isn't anything you can do other than you know anything about besides donations or patreon there really isn't anything you guys can do other than just watch the content like the content share the content I can't think of anything you guys can do YouTube support has responded several times on Twitter already it they just don't give a shit the the options before me are basically I just quit and I'm done with all this that's it that's a legitimate option you know I can make a second YouTube channel and try to push everyone to go to that channel for content and then grow that channel and hope that channel doesn't get dinged which of course it could get dinged I could put push a new platform everyone go follow a twitch everyone go follow a bit shoot and just leave YouTube all together I could stop making standalone videos and instead just do all live streams and deliver news and everything through live streams where all super chat and donation revenue isn't affected by this or I can just continue to make videos like I have been and just deal with the disappointment that they're gonna show you ads that I don't make anything from and nor do they obviously you know other idealistic world I could be 100% crowdfunded and then I just don't give a shit like if I was like Jim Sterling and with just 100% crowdfunded I don't give a shit then what they do with the ads give me the money don't give me the money who gives a shit but I'm not 100% crowdfunded unfortunately I'm we're all living in a pandemic world who the hell can become you know that that liquid right like all right well I'm gonna go I don't want to sit here and just bitch you guys are awesome thanks for the support thanks for Israel soda for the $2 super chat earlier I went to $20 super chat I think that isn't showing up for some reason on my feed now but I think Kukola right did the $20 one I remember right I don't know why it doesn't show up on stream labs but I know it was there big bird as well for the $9 donation through the donation link I appreciate it I appreciate all you guys I'll catch you guys later and if any major changes come with the channel like if I'm gonna stop making content if I'm going to do live streams only I don't know I'll make an update video if something's gonna change if nothing's gonna change and just keep enjoying my content as you always have because I don't know how much longer I can weather this make you guys catch you later