I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next

Re:I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next by colinmhayes on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @09:22PM (#23318422)

The monopoly is due to threshold of creators being on youtube. A single channel leaving would make no difference. I'd love to see a movement away from youtube, but that would require a movement with serous organization, which creators mostly aren't capable of doing.

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Re:I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next by marcus_holmes on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @02:06AM (#23319853)

This is exactly the same conversation that HN is having about blogging/social media.

Be the change we want to see in the world. Stop posting on YT/FB/IG/wherever, and create your own site, attract your own audience.

I'll come watch you/read it/listen to it. I'm sick of FB/YT/IG/wherever.

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Re:I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next by flukus on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @10:07PM (#23318674)

> I'd love to see a movement away from youtube

I have seen that, particularly in history channel circles were the content get demonetized for things like saying Hitler, many of them band together and publish to youtube last or not at all and promote these other channels in their videos. I don't know if any of them will be successful, but staying on youtube simply isn't an option for them either.

I think if/when youtube falters it will be death be a thousand cuts, it won't be a single movement with organization and it won't be to something else as centralized.

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Re:I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next by colechristensen on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @09:36PM (#23318521)

Cue the Simpsons clip "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas".

If one is not willing, capable, or even interested in trying to solve problems they help create, as an individual or a group, I have very little interest in sympathy for their difficulty.

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Re:I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next by colinmhayes on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @09:47PM (#23318575)

How is writing blog posts not trying something? Seems pretty clear to me that content creators are trying to create outrage to force youtube's hand, which seems to me to be the only successful strategy other than getting laws changed.

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Re:I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next by colechristensen on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @11:05PM (#23318986)

If the only thing you are willing to do about your problems is publicly complain about them implicitly hoping for an angry mob in response is... quite nearly the least you could do. I think I have expended the amount that I care about the issue.

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Re:I was blackmailed – any YouTuber could be next by Dylan16807 on Tuesday May 26, 2020 @10:08PM (#23318681)

People have tried it, that's how we know it doesn't work.

Refusing your pet idea isn't a refusal to do anything at all.

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