 So first off apologies for some technical difficulties get the stream to launch As you can see I'm not using my standard camera. I'm using a different webcam I don't know what's going on every time I get my main camera, which is right above this one to work streamlabs crashes I Don't know what's up with that. I use streamlabs OBS. Maybe I'm gonna have to switch back to normal OBS I don't know I would hate that to do that because I get a lot of benefits of this I think my next step is probably to uninstall streamlabs OBS Delete all of the scenes and saved Things I have on here Reinstall streamlabs OBS like I'm starting all over again and then try to rebuild my streamlabs for that Which as you can see my stream layouts aren't that complicated any ways to rebuild. I mean I have a few You know Fancy ones I guess like I have my game streaming one But even that one's not that complicated right now my industry event one is mostly just based on an image So I still have all those files locally. It'll be easy for me to recreate it I think that's my next step is to attempt to do that outside of that the only other thing I could do is Maybe there's malware or something on my computer. I'm not sure I could try doing a clean like sweep of the computer Wipe out everything Reinstall windows and try to start from a clean slate and just reinstall all my software But again, that's more of a drastic measure. I would help. I hope I don't have to go to that that extreme I won't have to delete certain data like all my video files. Those are on a storage Unstorage Drives but like the main 500 gig SSD I have I might I might just wipe that clean start fresh again Plus that SSD is kind of close to full anyways And when SSDs get really close to full This probably won't happen on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, but on PC when SSDs get really close to full They tend to have more issues like this caching errors a whole bunch of stuff. So Whatever all right WTF weren't you using that camera normally until recently so I've been using this camera Not this one. This this is my old Brio Logitech camera as you can see the colors aren't as good. You do get a wider angle But the colors aren't as good Sometimes it glitches out as well my main camera I've been using it with three lives OBS forever having that issue, but I don't know what's going on I think I think it's it's it's computer related. I think my I know my SSD has been failing a bit So I probably need to get a new one. It's just I'm just not gonna be able to get a new SSD Until next year, but I just need to be honest I have a lot of money already invested in next-gen systems games all that jazz I'm just not gonna be able to do that, but it's okay. Let's and giveaways, of course I got a fit. I got a wrap of all the current giveaways going on but let's get into Let's get into the meat of this the crux of this the Brux of what's going on Now I understand fully understand that a lot of people aren't going to care about What's going on with me going out with the channel you're just gonna come here You're gonna enjoy the videos you're gonna enjoy the streams and you're just gonna call it a day and that's fine That's the way it probably should be You guys all have lives you guys all have your own problems. You guys have your own concerns All of you guys should just be worried about yourselves and your family and those closest to you You know, I'm just some random guy on the internet. I'm I don't have any major problems going on in my life I got a good life. I got good family. I got good kids. I'm kicking ass in college right now I just got all the grades back from My finals and I got A's in all of my classes I got 97% on one final and a hundred percent on another final So aced all that now I got new classes starting up. So my life's going pretty good My kids are pretty happy me and the fiance are really happy She's also working towards graduation in college as well. We I have a bright future ahead of us We're going on a cruise next year all this jazz, right? Everything's all good. I got next-gen platforms on lockdown I got plans galore for all that. It's going to be good times but one aspect of my life That I really enjoy it's kind of like my escape from Some of the everyday Congolings whether it's you know stress as a parent because parenting can be stressful Whether it's stress from doing college work because that can be stressful. Maybe there's you know Issues with the relationship. There isn't really any issues with a nice relationship But I'm just saying like if there's a fight or a stressor or something one nice escape is YouTube I enjoy YouTube. I enjoy making content on YouTube. Whether it's a standalone video or whether it's live stream Whether I'm streaming on Twitch playing a game when I'm streaming here and talking to you guys. I really enjoy this stuff but Obviously, I'm a really busy person with three kids college another job besides YouTube and As much as I enjoy this it's it's hard to To It's hard to justify spending a lot of time doing something that I really enjoy when there isn't a lot of Let's just say Boost to my life because of it now there are certain emotional boost, but let's just say I Hate to make it about money because everyone's got money issues. This is 2020 and I'm fine financially but the channel is Struggling through no fault of my own or no through fault no fault of anyone really because of YouTube YouTube as Essentially blacklisted my YouTube channel now. We're not talking about you can't find my content. You can't search for my channel Not that kind of lack listing They have decided That my viewership is How do I put it? I'm gonna use their exact words. I'm not gonna put words in their mouth use the exact words because They've decided that All of my traffic is invalid No, what is invalid traffic mean invalid traffic is Determined by YouTube determined by Google AdSense to be any traffic that is bought or paid for From a third-party vendor or website Any traffic that is Myself clicking on ads Yeah, damn right you're fine financially I was serious X in places you're five unlock like yeah, like I'm fine or I have you know Other other issues Other things that other extraneous sources for traffic that are not natural organic They want all traffic to be or go organic. They want all traffic to be natural in September We obviously had a massive boost right 3d all-stars videos blew up I've told the story already, you know YouTube went ahead and removed three thousand dollars worth of my revenue they wiped out traffic for two straight weeks and Because of that I've been in a back-and-forth with YouTube pretty much all of October and the scary thing is in October All of my revenue is being zeroed out every day. So I have made So I think it said last I checked 68 cents. I have made in October That is stupidly stupidly low For the amount of views I'm getting and it's kind of discouraging because I don't make this content Like I don't look at YouTube as like this big You know, oh my gosh, I'm making lots of money I look at YouTube as a way for me to escape, but also I'm able to justify to my family that I can escape more often Because of the money The money is nice to have Going to be honest. I was able to buy an Xbox Series X on a PlayStation 5 because of the money I made on YouTube Straight up. Otherwise, I would not have those pre-ordered paid off all that jazz So the reason I'm able to get this next-gen platform is because of YouTube the reason I'm able to you know Maybe take a family vacation like I did a few weekends ago is because of YouTube So I'm making enough money to get by but I'm making enough money for nice cities in life YouTube provided that YouTube has responded and gave me the official response. They have they have given to other people Here is the response and I have been through all the paperwork and I'm really left without a like to stand on There's things you agree to when you sign up for Google AdSense that basically signs all your rights away legally To fight something like this with invalid traffic because invalid traffic is determined solely on the discretion of YouTube There is nothing I can do about it. So here is the email. I finally got after a month. I've been waiting over 23 No, I'm sorry 20 days for this response. I've had back and forth of them for 20 days exchanging a bunch of information Here's what they said from YouTube partner support at Google.com. Hi there I hope all is well and thank you very much for patiently waiting I've just heard back from our internal team and here's what I'm able to share after careful and thorough investigation on the matter Our team has ruled out that the system has ruled As ruled that the system is working as intended you may have seen your revenue drop in your YouTube analytics account And it is determined to be a result of invalid activity on your videos and our channel This is because we filter invalid traffic and he links to an article here as a way to keep the YouTube Ecosystem including creators advertisers healthy keeping invalid traffic out of our ad systems helps advertisers feel safe running their ads on YouTube And make sure the creators maximize their launch and revenue. Okay, so I have invalid traffic Let me click on his article that takes you through the definition of invalid traffic This is the Google adsense definition of invalid traffic invalid traffic includes any clicks or impressions So specifically about clicks or impressions on ads That may artificially inflate an advertisers costs or a publisher's earnings invalid traffic covers Intentionally fraudulent traffic, but also accidental clicks So invalid traffic includes but isn't limited to and that's a key legal term isn't limited to this includes clicks or impressions Generated by publishers clicking on their own live ads. So this is me. I can't click on any ads on my video period I don't But I can't click on any ads on my video not even one click. All right Repeated ad clicks or impressions generated by one or more users So this would be like one person or several people repeatedly clicking on ads, right? I don't know. Maybe you guys were doing that. I certainly didn't tell you to do that And I don't have any evidence suggesting that somebody was repeatedly reloading videos and clicking on ads I actually wonder if this is a ghost way for people to take out channels now I'm actually wondering if my channel if my channel was targeted by somebody Because if that's that's the only thing I could think about if this is why I have invalid clicks Invalid impressions. What is there somebody out there that instead of using the Google copyright system? Figured out that instead of taking the channels out Why don't I just refresh their videos a bunch click on the ads a bunch and get all the revenue taken away? Very interesting tactic that could be done here. Anyways, that's a theory. I don't know that that happened And it says another invalid clicker impressions as publishers encouraging clicks on their ads Which I did not encourage anyone to click on ads on my channel And it can be any language encouraging users to click on ads add limitations that may cause high volumes accidental clicks, etc So add implementations that may cause accidental clicks isn't us Now that would be on the advertisers automated clicking tools or traffic sources robots or deceptive software clicks on Google ads Must result from genuine user interest and any method that artificially generates clicks or impressions is strictly Prohibited by our program policies. We observe high levels of invalid traffic On your account. We can suspend or disable the account to protect our advertisers and users Additionally, we are unable to verify the quality of your traffic. We may limit or disable your ad serving. So my ads aren't Disabled my ads aren't whatever ads are being served on my videos to this day But the pump but the ad companies aren't being charged. They're being refunded Which is why I'm not getting my money because my traffic is considered invalid all of it Every last bit of it is considered invalid So you'll notice when I went through that are definition of invalid traffic. There's none of it. I haven't I you go to everybody check I don't do that check. I don't do that check. I don't do that check I don't do that of the four things they have listed I do none of it my channel as far as I can tell it can at my back end is guilty of none of it I have no abnormal traffic from third-party websites. I don't have any particular weird behavior on certain videos All of my traffic was organic through YouTube's own algorithm So getting into the rest of this email says as our systems go through the process at the end of the month to finalize payment amounts This process brings all of our systems up to speed to ensure the accuracy of our payments Additionally, we introduce new slash better ways to detect invalid traffic on an ongoing basis based on emerging trends We find we did this recently to increase detection such defenses for invalid traffic Activity as part of these ongoing updates. This update happened around the last two weeks of September You will see your performance updated in Google or YouTube analytics your traffic will continuously be evaluated If we identified invalid activity You will see fluctuations in your revenue when we finalize these amounts at the end of each month If we detect invalid traffic on your channel, your estimated revenue will be adjusted by the end of the month when we calculate finalized earnings For more information about why this happens. You can refer to this page. Okay, and then I click on this page And it just Shows how your how your revenues report. It's basically your revenue is finalized like two days after the end of every month It's when your revenue gets finalized. That's basically all it says Lastly advertisers don't pay for these ads and therefore YouTube and the creator also do not earn money for information regarding these deductions You can go to the help center article. All right Let me click on that help center article that helps an article is just talking about deductions How how they did how they reduce your deductions why they reduce your deductions? They don't really go into detail about invalid traffic. That's what the prior article was for You can also learn how to prevent invalid activity. All right. I have invalid activity. I don't know how So let's look at how to prevent it This is how how Google AdSense tells you to prevent invalid traffic Understand your ad traffic and site visitors break down your traffic report into meaningful segments using URL channels custom channels or ad units This will help you gauge how traffic sources or implementation can affect your ad traffic Next use Google Analytics to get detailed information about your site visitors and be able to look over any suspicious user behavior Where do my users come from either geographically or on the web? Which which pages do they view on my site? Okay So this breaking down traffic reports in the meaningful segments and using URL channels and custom channels or ad units is Not available for youtubers It's only available for Google AdSense implementation with websites. I have done all the research I have talked to Google support. We do not have access to these statistics We do not have access to the custom channels and the traffic reports on ad clicks We do not have access to any of the analytics on ad clicks We don't have any we always see is these are how many impressions you got on the ads This is your CPM. This is how much you got paid. Those are the only stats. We get they don't break it down by video They don't break it down by traffic source We don't have any of this information available to us as YouTube content creators It is available if the traffic is to a website. It's not available to youtubers So this first tip just monitoring where your traffic is coming from Isn't available to us. All right moving on Avoid partnering with untrusted slash low quality parties Some publishers have had issues with invalid traffic when partnering with low quality ad networks search engines or directory sites in efforts to Increase traffic to their site learn more about purchasing traffic. I don't purchase traffic I don't have my YouTube channel purposely linked on any external websites beyond normal social media like Twitter and Facebook. I Don't have anything. I Don't purchase views that this is basically a you purchase views. I don't purchase views So, okay, I already don't do that. So I'm not doing the first part So I'm preventing, you know, I don't have access to that. So I can't look at it I don't buy traffic. So that's one way that I avoid invalid traffic already Let's go to the next tip don't click on your own ads Even if you think it's okay to do so I don't click on my own ads. I've never clicked on my own ads I don't think I've clicked on the ad on YouTube ever like ever not even accidentally Double and triple check your implementation Some publishers use custom implementations that may have unattended consequences. Well, YouTube Directly implements the ads. I have no say over how ads are implemented on my channel So got nothing to do with me, bro. Next consult the AdSense help forum if you have questions Ask us in the AdSense help forum Which just ends up leading you down the road to having the content customer support So again, all their tips to avoid invalid traffic. I already do or don't apply All right, so I know there's probably some stuff going on in the chat here I'm gonna move this over here. So I can see what's going on in the chat How does YouTube expect you to control who your videos? Yeah, it's weird All right, so here's all I responded because I knew this response was coming I've been talking about this on YouTube I've been talking about this on Google because other people have gotten these responses and I finally did Here's what I said. Hey blank. I'm not gonna give the support person's name I knew this was the response that was coming my way because other creators have already shared with me this exact same response Let me make this crystal clear as politely as possible The article you linked that tells me how to avoid invalid activity are things that either do not apply specifically to YouTube But due to websites and or are things I am already not doing or are doing in the case of preventing invalid traffic Like not clicking on my own ads This means invalid activity is something that is not my fault nor could I have actually prevented it Well, I understand filtering out invalid and I assume bot users Zeroed out days imply for two weeks. I had no valid activity Which doesn't make logical sense considering the likes comments and sheer amount of people that were super chatting during live streams Proving that I had thousands of legit active users Lastly my viewership bump during September came from your browse feature. Here's proof Something I have no control over I give a screenshot of showing where the traffic came from in September If that feature is broken, that's on you. Not me to me It seems like this invalid activity is due to a higher than typical click rate on ads based on my own research During the month of September, there was a very popular ad running on my channel from Nintendo for the very game My videos were blowing up over it would logically make sense that the viewers of any of my Mario 3d all-stars videos Were highly motivated to click on Super Mario 3d all-stars ads to try and gain more information from Nintendo I never encouraged them to click on the ad But I was aware the ad was running on content directly related to the videos I was making and that made sense considering the video in the channel I run Nintendo ads on my channel are going to have very high click-through rates from my side of things It looks like and maybe even you guys are punishing yourselves and my channel for a random uptick and click-through rate Because I had a surge in viewers over a very popular game with an ad running for that game Causing a high click-through rate. It is stated that these are also manually reviewed and I think manual reviews Could easily put two and two together realizing my audience and content type match that ad content perfectly creating valid clicks I would appreciate more feedback then I got a massive email. Oh my god YouTube is Basically telling me I'm boned and I'm boned forever or for as long as they want to bone me It says hi there. Thank you for your detailed response I completely understand that this is not the response you were hoping for even if you may have expected it I fully realize how important it is for you to seek further clarity about this issue So allow me to help shed some light in this by the way He doesn't really shed any light, but we'll get into this as much as I would love to provide more details I'm only able to provide what information is available on my end anything else other than what has been shared is speculative at this point The links provided were shared to justify and support the action of what is transpired Okay, so I went through each of those links right now on live stream with you guys None of it supports the action and none of it Justifies the action nothing in any of those links provided Explains why my channel has invalid traffic Nothing they gave me in the first email explains why my traffic is invalid is explains why traffic can be invalidated And how you can prevent for me and invalidated and none of it applies to my channel my things They say create invalid traffic weren't happening and the things we do to prevent invalid traffic were already occurring So it didn't justify it and it didn't support it There was no actual justification or support for the invalid traffic in the prior email zero none no explanation Just generalized public articles They have that didn't actually explain anything because those articles didn't apply to my channel I can see where my traffic came from on a video to video based on my channel And I know none of it came from these third-party websites. No, no, nothing was bought. There weren't no bots There was no me clicking on my own ads None of this happened all the things to justify the action didn't factually happen on my channel So what the how do you mean the links were provided this to justify and support the action? Support the action none of it justifies or supports it In fact, the very things you linked work against your justifications of it. They don't justify it They just make it look worse for you. All right moving on They wanted to define important important terminologies. Let me get some water here As well as to provide enlightenment on the principles behind this policy plus what can be done about it Well, you are right that there are things beyond your control as a creator So he admits there are things I have no control over if You suspect invalid traffic from a third party you are empowered to use this form to report it to our traffic quality team I don't suspect traffic from a third party I can see where all my traffic is coming from on a day-to-day basis and it's not coming from third parties So I have nothing to report Unless you're telling me YouTube that YouTube is a third party Is your browse feature a third party? Then I'm gonna go ahead and report every video I've ever uploaded on this goddamn website. I don't get it. What am I supposed to report? There's no third-party traffic So what am I supposed to report to you? There is so so basically he's confirming here that the reason was third-party traffic third-party traffic is why am I what why all my stuff is invalidated But there isn't any All right next add sense publishers are ultimately responsible for the traffic So this is something that you agree to any sign for answers I'm responsible for all traffic on the ads. That's that's the agreement for this reason It is critical that you diligently monitor your ad traffic to ensure that your account is compliant with our policies and not accruing invalid traffic Sorry, I want to read that again Add some publishers are ultimately responsible for the traffic on their ads. Okay for this reason It is critical that you diligently monitor your ad traffic to ensure that your account is compliant with our policies and not accruing Invalid traffic, but you don't give us the tools to do it YouTube you can't tell me that I'm responsible for the ad traffic and that I need to diligently pay attention to it when I don't have the tools Available to actually check out the ad traffic You can't there's a bullshit You can't sit here and tell me it's my fault and I wasn't following ad traffic when I do not have the tools Available to monitor ad traffic. All I could see is how many impressions that day Here all is how many impressions that day were shown an ad what the CPM was and Then how much money I made off those impressions that is it that is it I can't see per video not on Google AdSense. Anyways, you kind of go on YouTube's back end But Google AdSense is what matters. You can't see it on the back end You can't see where this traffic came from you could see where traffic overall in the video came from you could see Oh x percentage of the video came from notifications x percent came from this x percent came for that But you have no idea which part of that audience was being served ads because the ads are being served only to people I don't have a block on so I have no idea Where the ads are being served or what part of that audience it's being served too So if I am ultimately responsible for the traffic on their ads So I need to diligently monitor your ad traffic then you need to give me the ability to digitally to Diligently monitor that ad traffic, but there is no current ability for youtubers to diligently monitor ad traffic It's not possible. It's not there in the system if I was a website absolutely Google AdSense is fully fleshed out for websites It's not it's not For YouTube so I don't have the ability to do what you're telling me to do Okay, you could check this link to know how to better understand your traffic All right, maybe they're going to explain to me. How can I better understand my traffic? All right segmenting traffic is the process of setting up your ad unit in custom channels So you can explicitly see your different traffic sources. Oh wait a second You know what this is hold on stop Segmenting the traffic the process of setting up your ad units in custom channels so you can explicitly see your different traffic sources. Well Folks, let me show you my back end of Google AdSense because you tell me where's my ad units for YouTube? I'm curious. Maybe you got maybe you guys can see something. I don't maybe I'm blind. Let me open up Google AdSense here Well, I gotta get logged in before I show you guys It's wrong account All right next Next get logged in All right, let's all sort it out. All right ads All right, here we go. So I'm gonna show you guys this quick. Where's where's stream labs? Because you know, I'd have this this evidence out here for folks Where is my media is a media? No, it's not media source. It's a display capture Which I need to move up move up display capture move up All right So here's my Google AdSense background to prove this is my one for YouTube. Here's my payments All right You can see for September. I was paid one thousand three hundred six dollars for August I was paid seven seventy five this used to say four thousand one hundred and thirty one and then they reduced it to thirteen oh six See in October zero dollars. All right Which by the way, I've made zero dollars in October according to them So here I am in Google AdSense their own article that they have linked me to Did I just close it? Whoops? Wait. No, maybe it's over here. Maybe I just have All time so their article Which you can see right here says says Let's bring it up here says segmenting traffic is the process of setting up your ad content or your ad units in custom channels So you supposed to see your different traffic or to help you understand your traffic via segments We've settled the steps you'll need to take below Okay to better understand traffic sources and users you want to see and understand will what prevention, okay? As you can see I already clicked on this and read the invalid traffic stuff use custom channels for for specific ad units All right Here's the different ad units above the full below the full inline content, right? Google search Google plus page social media by Google plus doesn't even exist anymore Showed you how long expensive they've updated this other search engines homepage blog forums Here's my Google AdSense You see it's all zeroed out by the way all zeroed out. Here's my Google AdSense. Okay already showed you guys This is the account that's connected to my YouTube channel. Here's my ad units. Oh Wait a second Where's my ad units They don't exist because ad units is a reference to this watch Watch you go, uh, where is it? You can you can let Google paste at place ads for you or you can do this Boom you can create ads now what you see in here are all these things that are created for prior websites So gamnesia you see Zelda informer in here. You see Nintendo Prime the website by the way This is Nintendo Prime website Not the YouTube channel all this made back in 2016 2015 2014 2013 so these are my ad units, right? None of these ad units are active right now Haven't even touched this in what four years four years last time I even modified an ad you turn on here These existing ad units are all for websites that no longer exist So I don't have anything so let's go to custom channels, right? Oh, there's no data in my custom channels URL channels. Oh, there's no data there What the fuck? How am I supposed to how much was the track ad units for a YouTube channel that don't exist? They don't exist. So how am I supposed to track it? How much was the track ad units that don't exist? I can't I can't track ad units that don't exist All right, so let's move on to the next part of the email Because I can't track ad use that don't exist. What can I do? All right All right The team's investigation concluded that it was invalid traffic was the main cause of the decrease in earnings during that period So first off they said Main cause which means there's other reasons not being told to me Anyways, so Let me see which was has been corrected and your earnings are now allied to their true values Our team is proactively identifying new and emerging threats to minimize risk And we are rolling out new and valid traffic defenses for our ad systems on an ongoing basis Where appropriate and possible any revenue found to be from invalid clicks or impressions is refunded back to the affected advertisers Including YouTube share this means ads may run but advertisers aren't charged and as a result Nothing, there's no it just ends there so like What they're saying is YouTube doesn't make any money either so what they're saying is we could show you ads But we don't have to charge the advertisers for it, which I Mean why would YouTube want to hurt themselves? Also, I'd like to highlight there are a number of factors why advertising revenue may vary from time to time Now he gets into the generalized reasons why it'll fluctuate and I already know about these It's an automated process which takes various different factors in the consideration Flexuations are largely due to advertising revenue being based on a number of different factors Yeah, these factors include advertiser bidding advertiser availability advertiser demand of your videos This is all just you know, and then it goes in the seasonal talk About how you know CPM varies by seasons So I already know that like January is always like the worst CPM month of the year But September October November and December are the best CPM months of the year That's just that that's seasonal advertising. I already know about this So additionally, please note there are no guarantees under the YouTube partner agreement about how much you can earn well No, duh Earn you can make as little or as much as possible earnings are generated based on a share of advertising revenue Generally when people organically view your videos We're constantly validating views and earnings final validations and adjustments are also done after a full month before any Amount can be transferred to AdSense, which isn't true, but that's besides the point Let me let me put it this way. We get paid. I get paid anyways. It's deposited in my bank on 10 21 2020 that's when I got paid it Here's the funny thing. I got paid on 10 21 2020, right? Oh, it's 30 days later before before right It's a full month before any amount is transferred to AdSense and then AdSense pays you Well, let me tell you something The 1306 was the grand total From September 1st to the end of September Can we do our math here? Maybe I'm maybe I'm dumb, but as a full month as a full month. Let's see here So the 30th, right? I was paid on the last month counted in this revenue was September 30th I was paid on the 21st three weeks later Tell me is three weeks a full month Looks like the money's transferred to AdSense and then able to be paid out to me sooner than than a full month I'm just pointing out like a discrepancy here You're telling me that it takes a full month before AdSense even has the money, but I'm paid before a full month is up Doesn't really add up All right Just just a number of discrepancies that exist in these emails and I don't fault this guy because he's just a he's Just a creator level support guy. I'm asking him questions that are above his pay grade um Then he talks about how your feedback goes directly to YouTube I'm allowing you to express my appreciation for the fact you're on the platform pursuing your passion keep up the fantastic work And I wish your channel all the best So I gave a long-winded response I'm not going to get into but then it basically notes that October is being affected as well So this isn't just some weird issue. This is just happening It's A complicated situation Now when you talk about, you know, Phillips, we're saying oh you need to learn law of contracts has to be relatively fair to be enforceable Just that fact alone. The only here's the thing What we're talking about Phillip is something that just goes in the small claims court in California. All right $3,000 does not dictate anything beyond small claims court in California it's just The process of me filing for it the process of me going through it Even if I hired a lawyer to handle all the technical details It would end up costing me more than $3,000 to get my small claim of $3,000 to come through There's a high chance if I took it the small claims court and my lawyer was anything decent at his job YouTube a cave and just pay me out the three thousand bucks and call it a day and have me go away The problem is that doing that is not profitable. It's not worth doing. I will lose money doing that So then the issue is what can I do that makes a bigger deal out of it? Well, then you start to get into class action lawsuits or other types of lawsuits Where you are trying to go after a significantly larger amount of money and trying to punish YouTube even further for suing them for illegal activities, I am not proficient enough at this to know if this is legal or not what I do know is that Google has a literally entire law firms on the payroll that Get paid whether there's lawsuits or not and go through all of their legalese and even write their legalese with a fine-tooth comb There's a reason that while YouTube Well, Google and other companies make it sued sometimes even my governments YouTube often wins Google often wins Because they know the laws inside and out when they write this stuff so Much as I could point poke holes in it There's holes in the legal system too that allow them to get away with it Ultimately, we're talking about a lawsuit that would cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars to even begin the thought process I've going after them over revenue losses that are only three thousand to go after them over You know creating a unfair situation for YouTubers and this assumes the only way it gets anywhere is if other youtubers big youtubers want to get behind it And since big youtubers don't want to piss off the person signing their paychecks, they're not going to get into it so It leaves me kind of shit out of luck because they know I'm not some rich billionaire that can go after them I'm stuck It's not worth going to small claims car because it's gonna cost me more to file the paperwork and hire a lawyer Then it's gonna cost for what I get back and it's not worth me going for a big massive lawsuit Because I can't afford to do it for starters and I'm not gonna get big-name youtubers to back me on it Because they're not gonna want their paychecks to go away too in the end. I Am stuck between a rock and a hard place. I Want to keep making content on YouTube. I'm going to keep making content on YouTube YouTube be damned But I obviously have to make less content because I can't keep justifying Taking all this time away from my kids away from my family to make YouTube content Because the justification was always yeah, but I make this extra revenue that allows us to go to these fun things I can't do that So now it becomes just about having fun and having a good time and that's going to keep me making YouTube content But every day several times a day No so one thing One thing I'm going to try to do and this is probably gonna really start in September in November Is I'm gonna be doing more live streams now. Why would I be doing more live streams? The revenue I make on live streams is relatively not touched even when you guys super chat YouTube takes their cut But I still get my 70% it's not ad revenue YouTube pretty much leaves it alone When I get obviously donations YouTube can't touch that anyways Whether I'm streaming on Twitch or streaming here on YouTube The revenue I make on streams that isn't ad related Is revenue that I get to keep so I'm gonna stream me now for God knows 40 minutes Whatever I have not made one penny on this goddamn stream. I have no no donations. No super chats. No nothing and that's fine But I need to start focusing on doing the thing is I don't enjoy streams as much as I enjoy making standard content I want to be completely honest with you guys I don't enjoy doing these live streams like not just like this kind of YouTube drama kind of one But I don't enjoy live streams as much as I enjoy making standalone content. It's just a fact But I have to be honest if I want to keep making YouTube if I want to keep making content on YouTube If I want to make it keep making content on YouTube, I need to find a way to make YouTube and make this Side gig I guess more solvent and the way to do that is to focus on the ways that my revenue Can't be impacted and that is live streams So the problem with live streams is it relies on people giving me money It literally relies on people super chatting and donating and that's volatile too. I could have one stream where I make $7,000 I can have another stream where I make zero Okay, I've never had a stream make seven thousand like the most ever made with 700 something But most my streams. Thank you beautiful blades for the $2 super chat. I appreciate the support man Like most of the time I'm not going to make enough money doing that So reality is I've said it before like hey if you guys want to support at patreon.com Slash Nintendo Prime great like that's one way to support me If you guys want to super chat you guys want to donate that's great Those are more ways to support me, but I need you know Certain levels of that support to keep making videos every day to keep making the content I would like to make every single day more often so Basically the future of Nintendo Prime right now is looking like it's gonna be live streams and I'll hell of a lot of them Until the live streams aren't viable either because reality is you know live streams are only gonna stay viable the hours and hours You stream are only viable so long as you know, you make just enough revenue to justify it It sucks now you might say what just do for fun and you know what in my 20s in my early 20s before I had kids My god, I had all the free time in the world man I I could sit here and just make videos all day long not worrying about anything all YouTube took my money Who gives a shit just move on? But I'm not in my early 20s anymore. I do have three children I do have other things I could be spending my YouTube time doing but I choose YouTube because I enjoy it and because there's a Financial reason to do it. There is you know Yeah, my video might make only five bucks for they that's five bucks make three videos That's 15 you do three videos of a five bucks a video 15 bucks it adds up adds up is it you know minimum wage know it's below minimum wage, but at least I enjoy doing it So you know you get the 15, you know, you got you know say 30 days in a month You know you time times at 15 by 30 next thing, you know, that's 450 bucks sitting in your pocket That's 450 bucks I can use on family vacations, you know, it's just It it's just a little bit, you know, but it's something So that's what I got How you guys doing in the chat? I do I stream all game stuff trucker I stream gameplay stuff over on twitch already and I do talky talk streams over here How you been your carving pumpkins nice, I'll be carving pumpkins. I think Friday Make sure no one's messaging me. I still don't have a phone November 6th, so when I get my new phone finally Thank fuck 99 cents We got a dollar in from only it's me read. Thank you so much pretty good. I'm raging. Are you really raging? Your titans lost a heartbreaker today. Did they I know they came back they were down bigger than they came back. I Didn't even watch the entire Packers game today. I mean obviously a packer fan here, but I didn't watch the entire game I got the W. Mr. Pumpkin. He is favorite. Mr. Pumpkin here. I'll show you The camera working I Can't tell where's my mouse. I think I showed you mr. Pumpkin. I Think Pretty sure I did my stream lapses and up so I can tell he's face down on the ground over there Just face planted It is what it is, you know, I'm not gonna sit here and keep you know I this is probably my third stream about this or for stream and I made a couple standalone videos I'm not going to keep making videos and streams about this because I It's not what you guys subscribed for you didn't subscribe to talk about YouTube bullshit You didn't you didn't subscribe to hear any woe is me story. It's not what was me. I'm fine financially. I just It's frustrating. That's all It's frustrating. It's disappointing in the worst part. It's discouraging That's what sucks. It's like kind of killing my passion For YouTube killing my passion to content create and that sucks But it is what it is I'm not gonna sit here and dwell on it. This is the last video I plan to make on this unless YouTube reverses their decision So nothing I could do. I probably made no money in October. So Everything's zeroed out for October. So I've probably made Not even a buck There's what it is man. There's what it is You know, it's not fine Philip Nothing I can do about it. I've already explained all the reasons reasons why I can't do anything about it So time to move on time to move on Make the best of what's still here and what's still here is you guys you guys are still here or 60 plus you watching in the stream You guys are still here. So let's make the best of it, right? You know, again, if you would like to support the channel like to support what I do Obviously, I have three links down in the description. One is for patreon one is for twitch go follow over on twitch If you happen to have Amazon Prime you could throw me your prime sub if you want you don't have to of course You can prime sub to anybody Or whatever you can use, you know a regular sub or whatever you decided to do I do stream I do stream game game streaming over there. So check that out Otherwise I have patreon down there as well patreon.com slash antenna prime and there is a streamlabs donation link That's about it. There's nothing else I can do ask for community support in the community There are supports or the community doesn't support and I just move on with my day and I keep making content when I can justify making it Um Age of calamity in a few weeks Hi, I'm back. My name is not John. My name is Nate or Nathaniel Rumpel Jans as I put in all my videos I'm very very upset at you to remember for years. I always dream of having a YouTube channel and now all these years later I realize what you do actually does just makes me sick as that Denver danger, you know for 60 plus almost 70 plus people watching the chats really slow It's alright everyone's got their own shit going on Check the score in the NFL game. So Casey's dominating Denver. No surprise there Chargers look like they're probably gonna beat Jacksonville Tampa Bay destroyed Vegas. I'm not really surprised there How many touchdowns did the Tom Brady throw he I'm going against Tom Brady and he's got what one touchdown Two touchdowns three touchdowns four touchdowns and a Rochstein touchdown. Damn it. Tom Brady had a huge damn game Dang it No, I probably lost my fantasy game this weekend. God dang it. Watch out one last week I'm having the worst luck with some of my players The drop-off is real. I think it's time. I switch out quarterbacks I've been starting Josh Allen all year, but he's just been sucking for three weeks straight I think it's time to swap them out Time to make the swap and the problem is my backup quarterbacks on you better, but that's alright. Hey, at least at least I scored over 100 this week We're like completely forgot about AOC. I'm obsessed with the rest of the wild too Am I leaving YouTube? No, am I leaving YouTube? I had Tom Brady The year we did fantasy at the center prime. He wasn't as good that year Yeah, Josh Allen's been great, but he hasn't been great fantasy wise for a few weeks so Tom Brady had 37 fantasy points in my league Josh Allen's 16. That's just not gonna cut it Not going to cut it. Plus you had James Robinson for Jacksonville. He has a 31 point game right now. Jesus And the Niners defense at 20 points. No, my god I'm just totally crushed. My team is so destroyed But oh well. Oh well Is what it is time to retool for next week Hi from Australia. Sorry to hear about your YouTube not treating you. Yeah, it happens I just switched from the 11 pro max and the note 12 ultra and it's so dang amazing You'd know 20s great enjoy Chris I'm having a really lucky week my team is struggling with the top person in my league is struggling more nice Well, it's only been various BS ever since Google bought YouTube and no one give me that BS And what adds sense even before Google many people will be money off of YouTube Yeah And the thing is sponsors are another way like people have told me oh just get sponsors It's not as easy to get sponsors as people think it is You know, I'm trying to lock up a deal with a with the VPN But like even then I've done a deal with a VPN before it looks like what an extra hundred bucks in my pocket That's you know pocket change Not gonna get you that far. I'd need I need like a sponsor for every video and I don't have sponsors for every video so I Don't have interest from people to be sponsoring my videos Oh Man, what am I yawning? I slept in I got to sleep in the day. So why am I yawning? Maybe it's just YouTube bullshit. It's wearing me down. You'll catch the next stream later, man Do I play among us? I have never played among us ever Might be shocking. No VPN won't hold the YouTube issue. I Don't click on my own ads. So I can't be an issue. I don't create my own traffic All the traffic of my videos comes from YouTube YouTube oh YouTube oh It all comes from YouTube YouTube oh The traffic comes from YouTube Sox life moves on Just glancing it What my back end of YouTube says I estimated revenue Have I played get an impact nope You need to stream among us. Maybe someday Ace game right you have no job can't drive. Well, dude, you're still like a high schooler, man Your family hates black Friday, so no black Friday for me I mean so you don't have a job and you don't have any money. So I mean black Friday shouldn't matter to you anyways Black Friday is for people who have money and have jobs. You're still a kid. Enjoy being a kid Don't worry about that crap yet What's the worst nest game you have played although I've had a job since I was 15 I sent it here First job working at Kmart, baby Kmart cashier. Oh, yeah, but the law to our prime for breathable to No doubt no doubt breath of the wild to man this chat is really slow for so many people being here We got such a slow chat. It's alright. I was a bro till I got to be an adult. Oh my god, dude I had so much more expendable money when I was good MP live is Nintendo Prime live Welcome to my channel That's not so enthusiastic Welcome to my channel. This is Nintendo Prime. This is Nintendo Prime live Thank you so much for joining us here today on today's news. YouTube is full of shit. It's kind of making me depressed I hope my voice is doing okay, suddenly being like Nintendo Prime live, baby Yeah, like I don't have the energy man I it's hard on streams like this to like try to get that energy level up cuz I'm just not I don't have it I just don't have it. I don't have the energy. I Can't have like all this really positive energy right now today I've been dealing with these emails all weekend and have you seen me putting out any videos. I Just don't have the motivation Throw it a hype topic and people will chat. No, thanks. I can't I don't have the I just I don't have the enthusiasm right now I should probably stop streaming because I don't have the enthusiasm right now I'm completely honest. I should probably cut off the stream and just be done. I just don't I just don't have it That's exciting. I have expectations for this Nintendo Prime live. Well, your expectations are probably done What's your opinion on Spyro on switch? I mean it's good That's either tweet from Nintendo I haven't been on the internet today, so no Something exciting happened. That's what actually we're talking about. Let me see here mean do Nintendo of America I see Animal crawler and Pikmin 3. Yeah, if I see online open Is that what people are excited about? Well, it's the finals Okay Five dollars from Mr. Pete 1985 Says hey Nate playing some Yakuza Z while listening. Well, thank you for playing Yakuza and thank you for the $5. I appreciate that so Yeah, I'm looking at I'm not seeing anything crazy on there Am I supposed to see something? Well, I'm gonna go into Sunday night game with a 15-point lead with Wilson and Metcalfers Hopkins Lockett and Carson. Good luck, man Ding ding the bell showering Look up Mario to plumber why Man, she sneak. I want to cut down on the spam before our bots or for our bots. Well, that's right I just admitted we have bots know before our mods come in and sweep you under the rug Mr. Pete 1985 I'm listening while playing Pokemon the latest DLC both of all the post game battles. So they're a lot more fun. Nice That's good For those that are interested good very good So what will you do to eat that's what people are excited about why why are people excited about the what will you do? to eat Nintendo Nintendo of America Forge a path fall in love or foil a bad guy share your favorite Nintendo switch gaming stories in the comments You know bonus points if you can do it with only emojis Like I don't it's a cool tweet, but I mean, it's just like, you know, they're just interacting It's not really like an exciting thing If Xbox or PlayStation had to disappear, which would you let stay? I mean The isn't that kind of like a catch-22 question because if one goes away all the games that are on that one will go to the other So you don't really lose any of the games. So then it just comes down to I Guess which controller you like best? I don't know like it's a weird question beautiful blades. I Mean, I like Xbox controllers better than so then then dualshock. So I'll probably rather have I Guess Sony go away because then all their games would just go to Xbox Because it's free twitch prime. What? I'm a bot. I have no emotions. I don't feel pain and I'm not real What phone am I getting? Nothing special. Just I'm getting the iPhone 12, but Only because I had to wait anyways Since I had to wait three to four weeks to get a new phone regardless because all their phones were out of stock I just went with a 12 my whole family uses iPhones, so You know just kind of stuck in that ecosystem while they're on it. I've done. I've used Android I had it oh nine oh ten whatever, but I liked it by the way There's some things I miss about it, but iPhones are fine. They work. They get the job done That was a moral of which ones Shady's practice is you low slightly less Would Nintendo release a digital switch like like a digital only switch. I mean they might I don't think they're doing that anytime soon They don't really need to they already have one that can have cartridges. It's at $200 like what do we need a hundred dollar switch? Do I like Android more than Apple? I don't really know that I like either one more than the other camera wise you bring up the camera Android doesn't have a standardized camera the camera is up to the individual phone maker, so You know so Android's not really responsible for cameras That Neil out you know the different types of phones that are made They decide what cameras going Android is just an operating system The Nintendo phone remember when there was like that PlayStation phone or whatever? totally flopped totally flopped There's a you can still find some of them on eBay Maybe that's what I should have did oh someone stole my phone, so then I replaced it with the PlayStation Oh Wonder what the specs were on the PlayStation with specs for PlayStation phone, so the PlayStation phone See it was back in 2011 weighs 175 grams only as 400 megabytes of memory 32 gig micro SD cards are supported though It comes with the 8 gig micro SD card the operating system was Google Android 2.2 2.3 gingerbread processors of 1 gigahertz scorpion arm v7 Yeah, you got asphalt and journal and six Bruce Lee started battalion the Sims 3 and Tetris preloaded Oh boy, I Mean it's kind of cool the slide all control there a thing I am is kind of a cool idea But bringing the old sliders back back in 2011 Do you think they will add a TV only switch to come with the OG slight no G switch no Yeah, someone stole my phone like last Saturday Switches to XL Vita Vita XL except Vita still has a better screen. I Notice your comments number danger. What's a good TV for next gen? I mean depends on what you want There's no like one answer beats all unless you want like to spend $5,000 on TV Well, you said that slots for SD cards, which is more than you can say about most modern phones. Yeah, I Missed the days when that was like a standard feature on phones But I mean most modern phones give people more storage than they need anyways, you know Most modern forms do hey We're a new follower. I think over on to which. Thank you so much Landon where All right, I'm gonna go I'm gonna go get my kids ready for bed They're with my fiance right now upstairs, but I'm gonna go spend some time with them before bedtime read books all that jazz Go be a good dad. I think it's a better use of my time Thank you guys for stopping out and listening to me kind of rant a little bit beautiful blades Thank you for the two bucks only as we read. Thank you for the $1 and obviously mr. Pete 1985 thanks for the $5 don't know and thank you so much for using the street labs donation link And just cutting out the middle man and just saying screw it. I want to support Nate directly Thanks for that. Catch you guys in the flip side Which is The other side of the stream. I guess I won't cut you on that side. Will I I don't know catch you in my next video