 So in the past week I have put up three videos on my YouTube channel and two of them have been demonetized Why the answer might make you think so I put up a video I just released a video today and it's entitled Do you know the via negativa? Okay now this video was demonetized as was a video I put up I guessed a couple days ago called programs that suck less suck less So let me explain why the the via negativa video was demonetized So if you don't know when you upload a video to YouTube there's an uploading process and then it is processing for a time and Processing usually means converting it to different sizes dimensions for people and also checking to see if there's copyrighted content That was not why my videos were demonetized or anything like that. They were demonetized because of Is stuff either in the title or the tags now in the via negativa video. I know exactly why so the video It totally innocuous content. There's nothing nothing objectionable in it It was more or less me just talking about you know, it was more or less like a life advice or something like that I mean it was just like Minimize stuff in your life kind of stuff and I talked about the concept of via negativa And specifically the guy naseem taleb who popularized the term recently now the reason this video was demonetized And I know this because I I was there when it happened was that originally I released the video I put a bunch of tags in it You know, for example, I included things related to the video Including naseem taleb's name and stuff like that and after the video released I wanted to add a couple tags in because I realized that taleb recently He's been in a public spat, I guess with Stefan Mullin you so I figured I might as well put some tags relevant to that Just to I don't know get some extra views or relate it to videos that are related to that so I added in two tags and those are IQ which is what the debate was about Mullin you and taleb have been talking about IQ and Mullin you that's it So I added those two tags and immediately once I saved those tags the video was demonetized So that should tell you something already Additionally, if you know once that happened I was like, oh geez not again This happens every once in a while when you put really politically sensitive terms YouTube will immediately demonetize your video whether in the they're in the title or just in the tags or anything else So I immediately took these out and of course that doesn't that doesn't make a difference Or at least in this case it didn't make a difference. So the video is still demonetized and Basically what happens if that happens is you can say I want this manually reviewed and You know if your video gets more than a thousand views in a week or whatever They will send some some Google app or a check to watch your video and say if it's okay or not So that means I will have to wait probably 24 hours for their for this video to be monetized at all now If you don't know anything about YouTube that effectively means I'm not gonna get any revenue from this video Okay, because really all the views you get on a video you get within the first couple days and you know I mean you get you get some stuff afterwards, but really it all comes in the first couple days So if you can demonetize a video for the first couple of hours that it's out You're really gonna be depriving the person who made the video of basically all the ad revenue now Why do I mention all this? Okay? Let's well, I say there are two videos I did that were demonetized the other one again was programs that suck less suck less It's on suck less programs now this video was demonetized for a similar reason that is it included the term suck Okay, and potentially that could be sexual content or something like that So originally when I gave the video its title and its tags You know, I forget exactly how I wore it I mean it wasn't anything sexual, but it's something that a computer You know some kind of algorithm might interpret as being a sexual video so it was demonetized But like with the via negativa video, I immediately changed the stuff I changed it to make it less. I mean I didn't particularly I just really renamed it I added some extra stuff into the to the title and that Immediately monetized it now that should make you think because there it seems to me and granted Despite the fact that I put up YouTube videos People who put up YouTube videos have no clue You know, we really just have to guess about what what we're supposed supposed to be able to post or not post frankly So really that what that makes me think is that Google has two tracks for censorship If you put up potentially sexual content or sexual words or something like that That might get you demonetized But you I don't need to get manually approved for that video to to get monetization Really all that happened was I changed the tags and I said it's acceptable for Viewership and it was it you know immediately had ads on it. Okay We're in the other case where I put a potentially political term or well Could have either been the IQ tag or it could have been the Mullin you tag either one demonetized my video immediately and When I changed those or removed those It doesn't monetize my video now That's very interesting because that makes me think that there are true two tracks of censorship one more one that YouTube obviously cares less about and that is potential sexual content and one that YouTube cares more about and I have to get manually approved and that is potentially You know really just political right-wing political content frankly now. This has happened to me before I should say A couple months ago. I put out a video I think it was on like internet censorship or something like that I actually put up two and around the same period. I remember specifically one of them I mentioned Alex Jones in and the one after I mentioned Andrew Anglin in and in both cases I decided okay. Well, I'll put I'll put their names in the tags and both videos were Marked for you know demonetized, okay, or I think especially trying to remember exactly Yeah, I'm pretty sure I put like Anglin in the tag of One of the as a tag of one of the videos and it was immediately demonetized. So that means Mind you when you actually upload a video if you're on the like the upload screen It doesn't tell you if your video has been, you know declared demonetized or demonetized or whatever You really have to go looking for it in another menu. So that means, you know Even if I put up some questionable, you know tags or something. I can't even revise it but anyway, this makes me think because You know the people often talk about people getting deep platformed in deep person from these These kind of things and it's not like I put up. I don't really put up that much Nowadays I don't put up any kind of political content on my YouTube channel It's all mostly tutorials and boomer ranting and woods and stuff like that But every time that I get even impinging on something Potentially political and I put it in the tag and granted. It's a gun that only shoots one direction It's only when I put someone who's either right wing or I mean really just possibly a right wing person If you even mentioned their name in the video, you will get demonetized I mean, it's just insane to me. It doesn't happen in there You know if I put I've had lots of videos on no Chomsky or something Obviously you the people who run YouTube are not going to demonetize no Chomsky or something like that So this is extremely annoying to me. It's extremely. I don't think anyone pretends YouTube has You know some deep You know is YouTube isn't going to even pretend that it's objective in political things. I understand that you know YouTube is going to censor the people they don't like that's what they do. That's what all of these companies do but it's just getting to the point where it's so annoying that I do videos and You know put in relevant tags and the videos are totally innocuous in content And they I was still they will still all get demonetized And it really is a way of affecting the kind of say I mean more than just them deep platforming people This is a way where even if I wanted to talk about it Let's say I wanted to put up a video about how much I don't like Andrew England You know bald man bad You know his daily storm is a terrible evil site evil Nazis even if everyone wanted to put up a video like that It would still get demonetized because of all this stuff Because it would just be flagged for being a bad video So it's worse than just Deplatforming people it's that you can't even acknowledge or talk about something in passing without YouTube's explicit permission You have to get these videos manually approved by some YouTube Apparachuk in order for people to see them anyway. That's what this is all I want to talk about I'm just I hope this is communicating to you that I'm very frustrated. I am putting up videos that aren't even political but they're still getting demonetized and You know maybe someday soon I will go out of YouTube in a blaze of glory But um, you know Well, I'll just say that's becoming more and more of it a desirable thing to do at this point because I'm getting so Frustrated with YouTube so pretty soon. I'm gonna start putting up whatever content I want just because there's nothing I can do, you know here. It's a terrible terrible place So anyway, that's all I want to say actually that's all I want to say but I noticed I'm at 9 30 So I'm gonna wait 30 more seconds so I can get add extra ad revenue to count to compensate me for all my videos getting demonetized So enjoy the next 20 seconds, but that's all subscribe to the channel watch the videos whatever or just quit YouTube Okay, it's almost the 10 All right guys. See you next time