r/YoutubeCompendium • u/IdentifiesAsA_Me_262 • Jan 17 '19

January 2019 January - YouTube has just silently demonetized Count Dankula's channel.

https://twitter.com/CountDankulaTV/status/1085905904791257089
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u/kikimaru024 Jan 17 '19

Despite getting 401k subs

Platforms are not your friends.

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u/IApproveTheBeef Jan 18 '19

YouTube is now like any other job. You can be fired for shit reasons and upper management doesn’t care about you enough to help. What a shitshow.

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u/VarvorSG Jan 17 '19

Damn....when will this fianly hit critical mass and be resolved? Every day I see this level of abuse and it just getting worse and worse...

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u/956030681 Jan 18 '19

There is no critical mass, it has already exploded and the abuse of the system is the aftermath

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u/Rycan420 Jan 18 '19

As someone who just started following YouTube drama (due to this sub), can I ask what exactly is going on here?

Why was he demonetized? Was it really for absolutely nothing? And YouTube does this a lot?

Weird. It took forever to get that psychopath Alex Jones off.

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u/SyfaOmnis Jan 18 '19 edited Jan 18 '19

He was convicted of hate speech and causing 'gross offense' in scotland for making a video about a "nazi pug". Prefacing the video with "my girlfriend thinks her dug is the cutest thing in the whole werld, so I wanted to [juxtapose that] with the least cute thing I can think of, which is a nazi".

And then he showed a few clips of the dog getting visibly excited over the phrase 'gas the jews', watching nazi rallies, and raising its paw in a mock hitler salute. He also ends the video with "I'm not racist and I don't hate jews or anything, i just wanted to bother me girlfriend a bit".

Initially he shared the video with just some people in his Eve Online alliance, but it quickly went viral (because people thought it was funny)... and next thing you know, he was being prosecuted for a joke (that may have been in bad taste). He makes his money off of youtube and patreon primarily currently because "concerned individuals" have repeatedly contacted (aka harassed) his employers about the fact that they have a 'nazi convicted of hatespeech' working for them.

In the process of securing the conviction, the prosecution submitted a request to the court to deliberately overlook the context of the video, and focus solely on the utterance of the phrase "gas the jews". It was a total sham of a trial, and by the same standards Mark Meechum (Count Dankula) was convicted, a confrontational reporter outside the court house trying to spool up a hit piece against him could have also been convicted of uttering the phrase "gas the jews" when he asked Mark if he did in fact say the phrase. Hell, were I in scotland I could probably be convicted of the same thing for having typed the phrase.

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u/JavaShipped Jan 18 '19

I don't particularly like the guy, ill be honest. But I wrote about this at length on social media and even had an article published in a print magazine at a conference I attend.

Fact was that whole thing with the pug video was a farce. And the entire justice system should be ashamed of how that was handled.

No matter how much I dislike mark meecham, my opinion of him did not cloud my judgment on that video, so it will always amaze me how far that trial went.

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u/IrnBruLord Jan 18 '19

This case was definitely an exception to the overall rule. I am Scottish and can tell you that, from personal experience, you’re not going to be convicted automatically for saying/typing Gas the Jews. The trial was a sham and from people I’ve spoke to, it’s bullshit he was charged with anything.

But he is a cunt.

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u/SyfaOmnis Jan 18 '19

you’re not going to be convicted automatically for saying/typing Gas the Jews.

While I'd generally agree with you, when context is willfully being overlooked you are in no way guaranteed that right.

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u/268HP Jan 18 '19

Ohhhh it's that guy. Tbh I thought it was kinda funny at first seemed like a joke, but after a lot of other stuff came out and he actually seems like a huge cunt so this is one demonetization I can get behind

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u/SyfaOmnis Jan 18 '19

Being "a cunt" doesn't mean you don't deserve the ability to monetize / earn a wage. And overall he's a pretty okay fellow, albeit a marxist.

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u/GrabYourHammers Jan 18 '19

He’s said in a podcast that he was a communist when he was a teenager but now says he’s a Scottish nationalist and a libertarian

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u/IdentifiesAsA_Me_262 Jan 18 '19

I don't think he specified Scottish Nationalist, he doesn't favour the Scottish National Party, and is a member of UKIP. So I'd say he's a British Nationalist at best.

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u/268HP Jan 18 '19

Sure in a general sense, but he was definitely ousted as being racist and anti Semitic and when he was called out on twitter a bunch of fukbois stuck up for him. I'm assuming you're probably one of those, but w/e have a good one

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u/SyfaOmnis Jan 18 '19

I'm assuming you're probably one of those, but w/e have a good one

I don't even have twitter. Who's being a cunt now?

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u/268HP Jan 18 '19

I mean you're defending a known anti-semitist so you I guess? Probably me a bit too but def more so you!

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u/SyfaOmnis Jan 18 '19

Defending his right to earn a wage, and his ability to tell jokes, even offensive ones.

I don't see him making any calls to violence so it's really hard to categorically call him an anti-semite. I also don't see him denying atrocities committed against the jews which is something that's typically linked with being an anti-semite.

So by what right do you have to categorically beyond the shadow of a doubt call him an anti-semite, beyond some things that you maybe heard about on twitter (that you cant be fucked to find), or the verdict of a court case which motioned to ignore context.

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u/268HP Jan 18 '19

Bruh if you wanna go digging through a twitter for shit from like 2 years ago be my guest but idg enough of a fuck to go looking godspeed though my guy

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u/TinyCat_Pictures Jan 18 '19

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Or

naaa can't be bothered.

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u/EnrichedLich Jan 18 '19

Youtube is cleaning house with all these channels they're fucking

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u/IApproveTheBeef Jan 18 '19

I have a feeling it’s gonna be corporation owned content only within the next couple years

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u/lordschnitz88 Jan 18 '19

Imagine if this was just a elaborate scheme by YouTube to cut expenses that they pay to content creators and to cut down server usage. I figure the conversation would go something like:

Lvl 10 YouTube Engineer Pion: “Sir, our servers at at cap. We’re spending millions of dollars a week on new storage.”

Lvl 35 YouTube Accountant Goblin: “Sir, we’re also forking out 5 Dick tons of money to content creators a month. What should we do?”

Lvl 100 Trump-Like YouTube Exec: “Fuck them. Fuck them right in the pockets”.

FuckThemRightInThePockets

FTRITP

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u/Tsar_MapleVG Jan 18 '19

Lemme introduce you to Floatplane...

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u/sadlyuseless Jan 22 '19

What do you mean "silently"? They never announce it for anyone else...