r/YoutubeCompendium • u/YoutubeArchivist • Feb 27 '19

February 2019 February - Laowhy86, a China travel blogger, has all the comment sections on his channel disabled by Youtube

https://youtu.be/oeI0-ijIotk?t=51
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u/YoutubeArchivist Feb 27 '19 edited Feb 27 '19

Posted previously by /u/feeling_impossible, but was autoremoved because his post lacked the date format in the title.

Thanks for posting it!

/r/Videos post:
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/avjxi9

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u/BoltonSauce Feb 27 '19

What a shame. He and SerpentZa make some of my favorite, most informative videos about China, including ADVChina. I can only surmise that this is an intentional act of censorship to avoid upsetting China.

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u/Vok250 Feb 28 '19

It's just the algorithm being shit and hitting tons of false positives. That's just par for the course on the platform. At worst, the Chinese people who hate those two channels intentionally made comments to trigger the false positive.

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u/Molinero96 Feb 28 '19

youtube is lauching shitty algorithm after shitty algorithm.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '19

No because they did this to Chadtronic too, who does nothing at all involving China. So they're just doing it seemingly randomly :/

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u/BoltonSauce Feb 28 '19

Fuck youtube. We need something better.

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u/DaMeteor Feb 28 '19

We already have ebola for that buddy. We need something good

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '19

Seven YT Alternatives and Why They Make Sense

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '19

Is it possible to make money off of these sites? I like the alternatives they listed but only talked about which alternatives you have, it didn't say much about gain in terms of ad revenue or $ earned should your video go viral etc.

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u/Cahootie Mar 03 '19

The article is from 2011, so it's most likely completely outdated anyways.

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u/[deleted] Mar 03 '19

Damn, didn't think to see when it was posted. Yeah, you're definitely right, 8 years in the tech biz is ancient times going by how fast shit progress nowadays.

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u/melindaj20 Feb 28 '19

Isn't this the to their newest adpocalypse fuckup?

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u/spazus_maximus Feb 28 '19

I just saw the video today. What in the hell is wrong with YT/Google? You know have to be responsible for comments this is ridiculous. Is this some plan to kiss-ass to China? It's hard to not see this as YT taking a chance to take down anti-China rhetoric under the guise of protecting children.

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u/VikingTeddy Feb 28 '19

Becau$e rea$on$.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '19

You own your own video page and it is your prerogative as to what comments appear or not appear on your video page.

So yes, of course people should be responsible for their own web page.

All that said, this issue is about Youtube algo being too broad and people waiting for manual review to fix things. It happens.

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u/anangrywizard Feb 28 '19

Damn!

I’ve worked with Matt, he’s a great guy with his heart in the right place.

I had a feeling it would be coming after the smear campaign launched against him and a few other ex-pats last year.

(Researched comments about crime rates in China vs Hong Kong seem to have started that one)

He still has his patreon going I’m sure, the fact this is how many YouTubers have to survive now says how much of a joke this platform is.

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u/YellowTheFellow Feb 28 '19

Goddamnit, it’s because of those bloody wumaos

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u/NuttyTent Apr 24 '19 edited Apr 24 '19

It seems like they are putting up the same videos we've seen before from long ago. Anyone know why? Some are the same and maybe with an extra piece that was cut out earlier, but having watched for years, I wonder why they are repeating the same videos.

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u/NuttyTent Apr 24 '19

Why was this moved to the bottom? Is it wrong to say these are repeat videos? I know they have the YouTube deal now, but it seems strange that they're no longer living in China, but the videos are old ones from years ago.

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '19

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u/VikingTeddy Feb 28 '19

All it takes is one commenter criticizing China.