It's funny how the moment I post something about how I'd like to improve my own videos, Youtube decides to fuck up to near Orwellian levels. I'm sure there's people out there going "SEE? I TOLD YOU, DIDN'T I? IT WAS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME" and yeah, they're kinda right, but honestly, it wasn't that difficult to figure out either.
If you still haven't heard the news and you're wondering why nearly everyone's pissed at Youtube right now, here's why: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6162278?hl=en&pageId=116546663462822302823
Youtube is a big company first and foremost, owned by an even larger company called Google. It was only a matter of time before they'd push their own corporate agenda in due time and guess what, that time has come, and it's ugly. Nobody likes it for a good reason: something called "censorship". Something called "you can monetize your videos only if we like your content" and said content has to be "advertisement friendly", otherwise you can forget even starting a business on Youtube. They think it's a good idea to censor the internet. :D
Well, personally, I make mostly instrumental music and my titles are far from being perceived as provokative or "controversial". Still, by principle, it's absurd that as a creator I need to be "scared" of the consequences because I simply talk about the real issues around the world or because I happen to swear from time to time, just citing two banal examples. I understand if I upload hate speeches or speeches that specifically target minorities, or upload pornography or some gore shit, I mean, there are plenty of other websites for them. But I think they're driving it waaaaaaay too far.
They want to turn Youtube into a family-friendly safe haven for kids, dumping all the watered-down mainstream media BS with big sponsor money. If it keeps going like this, it's gonna be the next MySpace and a large portion of the userbase will migrate to alternative websites like Vimeo, Dailymotion or even Netflix. Or, you know, there's always the Deep Web, which I think will be the only alternative in a near future/present.
So hey, that's the 10-second version of "Youtube fucks it up again", so if you'll excuse me, I now [REDACTED] █████████████████████████████████████████
Useful links for discussion:
Stardust-Nation
Your songs are way too edgy m9. You are going to cut someone.
ForgottenDawn
Let them bleed. :)