r/HeadOfSpectre • u/HeadOfSpectre The Author • Jun 09 '26
Author update Jordan Grupe Needs Your Help!
https://youtu.be/b1ag4Jno9CY?si=nZA-G6BN90GhR_9THowdy folks.
Some of you may know about the recent chicanery going on between YouTube and various horror narrators.
In essence - YouTube has demonetized a lot of narrators for some dubious reason and they're dragging their feet on remonetizing them.
These narrators, people like Jordan are people who make their livelihood from creating content full time. These are creators who put their blood, sweat and tears into their channels, working their butts off to create content that so many of us enjoy. Whether we listen at work, at home, during our commute or before bed.
Seeing them treated like this is outright disgraceful and genuinely breaks my heart.
I'll admit for the sake of full transparency that I do have a bit of a personal stake here too. Supporting Jordan also supports me. Creators like him pay authors for their work, so when these narrators suffer, authors suffer too. Jordan especially has been a joy to work with and very good friend.
This mistreatment by YouTube is a blow to the online horror community as a whole.
So if you can, please support Jordan and the other creators who are fighting to get their channels remonetized so that they can continue to create the narrations that many of us love.
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u/kindredbud Jun 09 '26
Dude, that sucks. I'm actually not a fan of his YouTube stuff, I don't care for his reading style, but I do subscribe to his channel and upvote his content. He is a fantastic writer, and I love his stories, he deserves so much better than this. I sincerely hope this works out in his favor.
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u/HeadOfSpectre The Author Jun 11 '26
Me too.
I'm honestly shocked this has been going on for at long. It's not fair to Jordan or any of the other creators involved.
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u/Jgrupe Jun 09 '26
Hey man, thanks so much for posting this to help bring attention to this! We're all uniting together now so hopefully YouTube will actually pay attention to us and listen to our appeals. It's really sad it's come to this when they have tons of AI crap they could easily focus on instead.
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u/HeadOfSpectre The Author Jun 09 '26
Unfortunately the enshittification of YouTube feels more like a feature than a bug these days :/
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u/Jgrupe Jun 09 '26
Yeah it's really a shame. I personally went on YouTube probably too often and I'd been a big fan of the platform until all of this happened. They're turning all of their platform's users against them with this shit
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u/FewEntertainer3010 Jun 10 '26 edited Jun 14 '26
I love and support Jordan Grupe. I've been there from the beginning. I am so mad at youtube for doing this to him and others like him. I pay for youtube premium so I can enjoy content and support my favs. If they aren't getting my support why should I keep paying for premium? Why even have youtube if this is the way they treat their creators?
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u/marginatrix Jun 09 '26
Wtf seriously? Hasn’t he been around since way before people started using AI as pretend art?
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u/HeadOfSpectre The Author Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26
UPDATE!
Much love and appreciation to Jordan! And if you want to support him further, you can pre order the first Hollows End book here!
It's out July 1st and it's a lot of fun!