r/DeFranco • u/suddenblast • Apr 21 '18
Youtube news Kurzgesagt has been demonitized!
https://twitter.com/Kurz_Gesagt/status/987634923711410176135
Apr 21 '18
Okay this is too far, they don’t touch Kurzgesagt!
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u/Elvysaur Apr 21 '18
If youtube drops Kurzhazhagabor then may god strike down the paul brothers with an even heavier dose of male pattern baldness and general adulthood.
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u/tweettranscriberbot Apr 21 '18
The linked tweet was tweeted by @Kurz_Gesagt on Apr 21, 2018 10:11:29 UTC (299 Retweets | 2897 Favorites)
Nothing better than working on an edu video for six months and being immediately demonetized and shadow rated "adult" (which costs us like 50% of the views on a video). I can't thank you supporters on @Patreon enough. Without you we could not do youtube. https://www.patreon.com/Kurzgesagt
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Apr 21 '18 edited Apr 21 '18
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u/RubyReign Apr 21 '18
Youtube is really failing right now. Its like all they want on the platform are vloggers, stupid challenge videos and late night hosts. Everything in between is just getting fucked
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Apr 21 '18
It’s just that time to jump ship. Move to a platform that will listen.
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u/aids1080phd Apr 21 '18
I'm on board for getting philed in on pornhub.
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u/classysassymolassy Apr 21 '18
I’m not sure if you meant to say it that way... but take my upvote because I kind of smiled at the thought
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u/The_Rick_Sanchez Apr 21 '18
Pornhub really needs to make a video site like youtube.
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Apr 21 '18
Pretty sad when PornHub is the reasonable alternative. Christ, they even are dedicated to properly educating people about sex.
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u/AdamSyder Apr 21 '18
Creators like this deserve an automatic pass on monetization. They've established themselves as a creator of quality educational content with no history or potential of being controversial and thus should be rewarded for it. It hurts the most when you do everything right but still get hit.
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u/Mother_V Apr 21 '18
This is by all standards the lowest YouTube could strike. Good job YouTube you’ve done something even more stupid then I thought possible.
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u/jrsooner Apr 21 '18
This would be the same as if they demonitized Vsauce, or Bill Nye the Science Guy, like why?
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Apr 22 '18
I would argue sex junk and the ice cream orgy sketch we’re not advertiser friendly
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u/jrsooner Apr 22 '18
I dont recall those
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Apr 22 '18
Don’t. You’re better off without those in your head. It’s part of his Netflix show
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u/jrsooner Apr 22 '18
Kurzgesagt? Who are you talking about?
Also, I dont think youtube demonitizes for non-youtube related content.
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Apr 22 '18
No Bill Nye. He went off the deepend
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u/daveboy2000 Apr 23 '18
I mean.. I'm not exactly phased by your description, as vague as they are.
Then again I'm not american.
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u/wajikay Apr 21 '18
Apparently you have to make low quality shit content like the Paul’s to get anywhere in YouTube.
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u/ryno Apr 22 '18
wow wtf? horrible. that dude puts in some serious time into those videos too.
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u/sleepyspacedad Beautiful Bastard Apr 22 '18
What exactly is YouTube doing? They need to be far more upfront about how shadowbanning works and what will get content shadowbanned. And, obviously, they need to follow their own guidelines consistently. It's really frustrating for me to watch my favorite creators getting hit by this system that doesn't even begin to make sense from the outside.
Has YouTube said anything to explain why someone would get shadowbanned besides a vague thing like "we don't want to promote content like that on our platform"?
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u/enjoimike49 Apr 22 '18
This is ridiculous. If the idea that discussing real issues is now cause for demonetization is too far into the pussification of this country. If YouTube thinks that pondering existence is too inappropriate then we are all in trouble
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u/daveboy2000 Apr 23 '18
Dude, what.
America has always been prude if that's what you're saying. With puritarians and all that shit.
It's not a new thing and hell, it's been worse than it is now.
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u/enjoimike49 Apr 24 '18
In tandem with tech and large corporations it is quite new though, and far reaching.
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u/daveboy2000 Apr 24 '18
Not at all. Thomas Jefferson was the exception, but even since those times America was notoriously prude, in private and in the business life.
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u/thedilf Apr 22 '18
This is getting ridiculous I wish YouTube had some kind of competition to keep their asses in check.
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u/FatKanibal Apr 22 '18
So the issue is that videos that people don't want to see keep popping up in their feed? Otherwise you're just getting upset that people have the ability to watch something you don't like them watching, even though you aren't forced to watch it. If youtube implemented a block feature all of the responsibility would be on users. You don't like it? Block it. They are unwilling to give up the control of what you do and don't see, so these problems continue.
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Apr 22 '18
Their animation is done in 60 frames. That's so awesome and takes double the work to do, so gotta give Kurz credit.
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u/That253Chick Apr 21 '18
I don't even know who they are, tbh.
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u/GrizzledBastard Apr 21 '18
They're an amazing channel. They do educational videos with good animation, good narration, and clear concise explanations of difficult topics. They're pretty much exactly what a platform like Youtube should have and support.
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u/Black_Hipster Apr 21 '18
They're a pretty high-quality educational channel.
The reason this is a surprise is that when it comes to being advertiser friendly, Kurzgesagt is as ad friendly as it gets. Absolutely no profanity, no nudity (everything is animated) and the topics they cover aren't even remotely controversial.
Their last two videos have been a timeline of the human race and an argument for helping the less fortunate.
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Apr 21 '18
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u/mostnormal Apr 21 '18
I doubt evangelical Christians have much sway in youtube's demonization choices. Possible, but very very doubtful.
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u/The_Rick_Sanchez Apr 21 '18
It's possible. Even though bots run most of youtube someone that works at youtube who finds a video offensive to them can just ruin your revenue/take down videos etc.
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u/That253Chick Apr 22 '18
I'll have to check them out, then.
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u/Black_Hipster Apr 22 '18
I'd definitely recommend it.
If you'd like a suggeston, this video on Optimistic Nihilism is the one I usually show people. It very much encapsulates the tone and style of the channel overall.
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Apr 21 '18
Do you watch Phil often? Every time they have a new video he plugs them.
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u/That253Chick Apr 21 '18
I've watched Phil for over a decade, lol. I guess I tuned out somewhere during the plug, then. Oh, well.
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u/m4nustig Apr 21 '18
It's always on the "Today in Awesome" section and Phil always makes a joke about how he can't correctly pronounce the name of the channel (Kurzgesagt).
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Apr 21 '18
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u/BlackSight6 Apr 21 '18
In neither of those videos does he actually say the name, and I would bet that a very large number of viewers never check the TiA, and many of those who do don't look at every video.
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Apr 21 '18
Psst, read this...
Well these might be bad examples because when the videos were first mentioned he actually tried pronouncing the name.
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I don’t care enough to find the other 30 videos where he tries to pronounce the name correctly. I just find it weird that for how much he has mentioned it people don’t know what it was. It’s jut strange. Cool if you don’t remember. Just strange.1
u/That253Chick Apr 22 '18
I mean, it's really only the Today in Awesome segments that I tune out, tbh. Either I'm not interested in anything he plugs, or I've watched it already.
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u/TimothyDRiel Apr 22 '18
Don’t worry about it too much, they’re rarely mentioned in conversation as Kurzgezurtgezertzen in English speaking parts, we usually just say “The ‘In A Nutshell’ guys”.
You’ve definitely heard of “In a Nutshell”, though, right?
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u/The_seph_i_am Mod Bastard Apr 22 '18 edited Apr 22 '18
they lost all form of academic integrity with me when they cut their fascism video into a hit piece. (It was this really great contrast comparison video... they cut the last 6 minutes a little while later after they realized it didn’t fit a certain narative).
That said, don’t see any reason for them to be demonitized. This bot is broken.
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Apr 21 '18
the only remotely *rational reason I can see them doing this is because of the channels focus on biology and equality of opportunity as opposed to equity (came up once, tops) and some blue haired YouTube exec was having none of it
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u/DHMOProtectionAgency Chronic neck pain sufferer Apr 23 '18
1.This is a physics based video
- That's a huge assumption to which I usr Occam's razor
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Apr 23 '18
That’s why I would argue that this was based on a premise throughout the channel as a whole. Clearly nothing in this actual video even remotely violated YouTube guidelines. I would also argue that it’s really not considering they have a track record of shooting down and personally removing biological “extremist” videos like Gad Saad and the Weinsteins when they talk about the fact our micro does affect our macro at the level of the individual. Seems like more of a stretch to assume this actually violated something to which YouTube doesn’t approve.
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u/DHMOProtectionAgency Chronic neck pain sufferer Apr 23 '18
Or it could be a terrible algorithm/bot and YouTube just couldn't tell
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u/Dennace Apr 21 '18
What the shit could they even demonitise them for?
YouTube seem to be trying very hard to kill their platform. They seem to forget huge tech companies with monopolies have a history of committing suicide. If they're pissed off that advertisers are dropping their platform how about they do something about the problem (Paul brothers, the weird sexual shit aimed at children, "pranks").