Why A Controversial Change Has The Internet Angry at Logan Paul, Youtube, and More... - YouTube

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the first thing we're gonna talk about today by far

The most requested story of the day today are

the massive YouTube changes affecting tons of small creators on this site has been so much

Outrage people have been getting stripped of their ability to monetize their videos

So let's talk about what's happening

so when the before times in the long long ago YouTube was at a point where they were like

Hey, we have all these ads you want to put ads on your video you want to make money?

Let's do business

It really wasn't hard to join the partner program get ads on your video

then in April of 2017

YouTube said ok we have requirements you have to have

10,000 lifetime views on this channel

you got those 10,000 views and you qualify to join the monetization program

But as of last night YouTube changed the requirements to just be eligible for the partner program

You have to have a thousand subscribers on your channel in

4000 hours of watch time over the past twelve months also a note here

There's been some confusion around what is watch time there have been people saying I have to upload four thousand hours of no

That's not I use yesterday's video as an example that video was 12 minutes 32 seconds if someone watches the entire thing

That's 12 minutes 32 seconds towards the total so if I did some rough not exact math I would mean

19,000 200 people to watch that video in full to qualify that said something to consider not every youtubers videos are as long as mine

Also, you shouldn't expect your entire audience to have a 100% watch through rate or make short form animated content

It's a minute if you're gonna need a lot more views to qualify. You don't have to get all the views on one video

It's it's the entire archive for the past 12 months, so depending on the kind of Creator

You are the requirement as far as hours going to affect you differently as far as YouTube's reasoning for these changes

They wrote in the blog post

we've arrived at these new thresholds after thorough analysis and conversations with creators like you it will allow us to significantly improve our ability to

identify

Creators who contribute positively to the community and help drive more ad revenue to them and away from bad actors these higher standards will also

help us prevent potentially inappropriate videos from

Monetizing which can hurt revenue for everyone now that specific line made it so a lot of people thought that this was logan Paul's fault

If you're even remotely paying attention to YouTube you know that there's been mass

Controversy and outrage against Logan Paul these past few weeks both because he was very

disrespectful to Japan and the people in Japan as well as also showing a dead body in a video and a thumbnail and giving a

douchey apology before giving a seemingly sincere

Apology this specific move isn't because of Logan Paul this specific move and change is due to three factors the first due to the ad

pocalypse

1.0 extremist content propaganda videos being monetized Media beat up YouTube over this advertisers pulled their money most likely remember second part was ad pocalypse

3.0

Or as I refer to it as the kid pocalypse all those disgusting and weird

Channels that were geared towards children showing them incredibly inappropriate stuff that we're getting ad money and finally three

copycat channel their channels dedicated to stealing and mimicking the content of larger youtubers and Vedas Vedas get to make that ad money and so

to me it appears that YouTube had two shitty choices to make one keep things as they word continue to get hammered both by the

community and the media or to raise the minimum requirements to join the YouTube Partner Program

So they have enough eyes to make sure that the content that they are going to put ads on is not stolen cons that is

Non extremist content is not inappropriate towards children, but shown to be some sort of cartoon content

And I'll say to you what I said to them when they asked me what I thought about these changes about a week ago

I personally get it, but there is going to be a ton of backlash especially because there's one main thing

This is where there's the most outrage and controversy

No, channel was grandfathered in so channels that met the previous requirement that no longer hit this new requirement

They're kicked out of the partner program, and that has been seen by a lot of people in the community as an overcorrection

They're not just changing the size of the doorway into the program

They're kicking people out so understandably people are freaking out when they're getting an email from

YouTube over the past 24 hours saying you're no longer eligible if you don't have these requirements you're gonna lose access February 20th now YouTube

Defends this in the blog post saying people have until February 20th 2018

It's a 30-day grace period and while these changes will affect a significant number of channels 99% of those affected were making less than

$100 per year in the last year with 90% earning less than two dollars fifty cents in the last month and so to this I

Say, I understand where YouTube is coming from the thing I think YouTube's not considering is one via Adsense

You can't get paid out unless you have $100 the question becomes how many of that 99 percent we're getting close to

$100 ready to get their first paycheck now. They're getting kicked back because this is such a massive change

I would personally ask YouTube to figure out how they could pay out the Adsense that had not been paid yet even if they didn't

hit that $100 threshold since they have now changed the footing for that youtuber as far as changes that were affected by Logan Paul we

Could look to the Google preferred changes that of course Google's program for just super

Top-tier advertiser YouTube announcing an increased vetting process for these videos saying every video is submitted for Google

Her dad's must be watched by a human moderator and manually approved his family-friendly content right so that change is the Logan Paul change

They're like, okay

We got to put a human body on this to make sure Logan Paul is not showing another dead body because I don't want all

These small creators just to feel left completely abandoned right now

I'm gonna give out free advice whether you're a large creator or more importantly, or a small creator

You need to look at other sources of revenue. It's something that I preached for years and years and years

We can't always count on drunk stepdaddy YouTube to be looking out for us. It's a long term

You need to figure out ways to make money on YouTube not necessarily from YouTube

Let's say you're not eligible for the YouTube Partner Program under these new rules you have under a thousand subscribers

Maybe your videos are getting 500

800 views on that video where you're getting less than a thousand views YouTube is giving you most likely a

dollar or less you set up a patreon and only 1% of your audience signs up you're got 800 views that still eight people and

All of a sudden you're making more on

Patreon than on YouTube also go to teespring and just just put the name of your channel on a shirt same concept if you can

Get 1% of your audience to convert on that audience that if you put out four videos in a month that you're de Maynes less

Than most likely four dollars, you can get just 1% eight people to buy a shirt to price it out properly

That's around eighty dollars that month. I've been where you are every dollar matters at that point

I mean when I started making videos after it got past the hobby point there wasn't even a partner program at that time

That's not me trying to take away from people being hit today, but it's why I've always been up this mindset

there are also so many other ways just coming out that you can make new money and people can support other creators one of the

Things I'm most excited about especially since the crypto markets getting slammed over the past 36 hours

They even the basic attention token brave is they're fantastic browser

It's blocking ads it's blocking Annoying

Malware scripts all the shitty stuff built into that bad ass browser based on what you actually watch on YouTube or blogs you read you

Can support creators you just go into the settings and you say I want to give this amount to the creators that I walked way

I oversimplify it to my friends

It's essentially like YouTube bread

But you can choose if you want your money to go to someone or not because you can do these monthly payouts based on what?

You actually watch, or there's someone listed you don't like hit that trashcan

If there's someone you want to pay no matter how much you actually want you hit that pin

And then you enter in the percentage you want them to get every month

And that's it and what's also awesome today. They announced that if you go to brave calm slash million you get brave for desktop

You'll receive a new basic attention token grants about

$5 no cost to you and boom you can start supporting creators and sites that you like and you can look at this as one

Of two things I'm personally the mindset of the long term

This is the future or if you're a greater small or large

You can tell your audience about it have them sign up

They get like the five dollars a bag of them hit the pen type and 100 percent on your channel boom just one person from

Your audience does that you're getting more value than that

Hypothetical channel we were talking about earlier with eight hundred subs would get from an entire month also

I advise creators big and small to sign up get their verified accounts on brave. That's a second link

I'll include in the description. Also the people signing up getting that five dollars in tokens

I'm saying do not give that to me

I highly recommend

Specifically targeting small creators that are being hit by this and just trying to make it in general finally two notes for transparency sake one

this is not a

sponsorship with bat

I was trying to negotiate a deal with them because

Any time I can I can take something that's helping community and also benefit

Greatly just by like in this moment is incredibly important to get the word out into and I find it incredibly important for people to

Mention this when they're talking about anything in this world, I'm not personally advising anyone buy or sell

I personally have basic attention token arises it follows that benefit and lose based on what happens in the markup any point

Hopefully some of that helps you guys out on their grind with all event said I passed a question off to you

Do you think that this makes sense long term or no you think this is just a massive?

Overcorrection of screwing over their little YouTube loving your thoughts where you're coming from maybe how it's affected you personally

Let me know in those comments down below from there. I want to share some stuff

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Links is always there in the description down below and in hell has frozen

Over news North and South Korea have agreed to attend the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympic Games

Under one flag and in fact. They'll have a joint women's ice hockey team

This is wild considering the general

Relationship between North and South Korea as well as the last two years of communication which was essentially not much

We talked about it recently

It was just massive news that North Korea was finally opening up again to South Korea for the first time in two years and in

total the North plans on sending a delegation

cheering squad

Taekwondo demonstrators and officials to the Olympic and additionally the two Koreas will train

skiers together and while the South Korean president was

Praising this news saying I believe it will be a great opportunity to thaw the South North Korea relationship

That is frozen solid well that is what he is saying there are others that are not so happy Japanese foreign minister taro kono said

It is not the time to ease pressure or to reward North Korea the fact that North Korea is engaging in dialogue could be interpreted

as proof that the sanctions are working and also the situation is not a done deal yet the

IOC has to have a meeting on this the IOC issuing the statement we are sure that the two Korean

Delegations will present their ideas and proposals at the meeting on Saturday

This will enable the IOC to carefully evaluate the consequences and the potential impact on the Olympic Games and the Olympic competition

There's also the question of how this would work because of the sanctions on North Korea

And so it'll be interesting to see what happens with that meeting on Saturday

And I will say personally I'm conflicted on this matter. I mean I like it because of conversation can de-escalate a potentially catastrophic

Situation fantastic at the same time working with the North Korea is that normalizing and essentially saying what you're doing is okay?

What are the potential long-term effects that and then I'll pass the question off to you

Or do you like this move or you think this is ridiculous, and then let's talk about this USA Gymnastics mckayla maroney chrissy teigen

Situation you most likely remember in October of last year mckayla maroney comes forward as one of the over 100 women who had been sexually

assaulted by former USA gymnastic dr

Larry nosov and a Tsar has already been sentenced to 60 years in prison after pleading guilty to federal charges for child pornography in December

He's also pled guilty to ten counts of first degree criminal sexual assault in two

Michigan Court the Tsar's latest sentencing hearing began on Tuesday this week and around 20 of his victims have spoken out against him

The prosecutor is 98 of his 125 victims are expected to address the court this week

but news came out that Maroni was not expected to be one of them and the reason for that was because

mckayla maroney had reportedly signed a nondisclosure agreement as part of a settlement with USA Gymnastics in

2016 according to maroney's attorney that NDA stated that if she said anything about a czars abuse she could be fined

$100,000 or more and that probably sounds familiar because we talked about in December that a lawsuit was filed against USA

Gymnastics that lawsuit alleging that they illegally saw to buy her silence as part of a

1.25 million dollar settlement this in order to allow that monster

Nassar to leave quietly the lawsuit argues that Moroni was coerced into signing this agreement because she needed money for counseling counseling

That was necessary because she was trying to deal with the abuse

She received by an assault on that now USA

Gymnastics claimed that her former lawyer brought up the idea of the NDA it wasn't their idea no matter what we're talking about a situation

Where a young girl who was abused it had an NDA in a contract she signed to not talk about that abuse to me personally

That's disgusting and that's just a stain that won't go away as far as USA Gymnastics

But then this week in walks in model Chrissy Teigen and she brought new attention to all of this by tweeting out a headline about

The NDA and writing the entire principle of this should be fought an NDA to stay quiet about this serial monster with over

140 accusers, and I would be absolutely honored to pay this fine for you Makayla TV producer Michael Schur responding

I'll split it with you Kristen Bell saying all one-third it with you guys

And then mckayla maroney ended up responding to all of this through her attorney saying not on social media right now

But I wish I was for this

I'm shocked by your generosity, and I just want you to know how much hope your words bring to all of us

I just can't get over the fact that someone

I don't personally know is sticking up for me let alone a strong woman that I've looked up to for years. Thank You Chrissy

You're so inspiring and things are starting to change because of people like you just saying that was worth the decision to speak up regardless

of a fine and then late Tuesday night USA

Gymnastics responded USA Gymnastics is not sought and will not seek any money for mckayla maroney for her brave statements made in describing her

victimization and abuse by larry nosov or for any victim impact statement

She wants to make - Larry nazar at this hearing or at any subsequent

Hearings related to the sentences this has been her write and USA Gymnastics encourages Makayla and anyone who has been abused to speak out USA

Gymnastics remains focused on our highest priority safety health and well-being of our athletes and creating a culture that empowers and supports them and so

That's the situation as it is today now. We'll mckayla maroney go to court and speak out

We don't know but for me personally this just feels like USA Gymnastics trying to repair their

It's hard to forget that not only did they bring the sky on and apparently nobody knew anything?

Despite the massive number of young girls. He was doing this to that even after he was no longer with us a gymnastics

They didn't warn anyone else despite secretly working with authorities during that time

We know Larry nazar was still abusing young girls in a situation where they signed a contract with a young girl that had an NDA

That said we would find you if you talked about this for USA

Gymnastics to act like they're even part of a positive movement instead of what the problem was it's ridiculous. It's disgusting

I'm glad people with the megaphone are using and then let's talk about a real-life spy story that we have today

This is story that actually starts in 2010 2010 the Obama

Administration and the CIA began noticing that assets informants and agents are going missing in China first

They assume that this is just normal attrition

Intelligence assets come and go they're caught and killed on occasion then the CIA really starts to freak out a they realize it's more than

Just one or two agents the Chinese have seemingly caught on to the CIA's operations

They begin to dismantle the USA's operations in China at an alarming rate reportedly from 2010

2012 between 18 to 20 assets were killed or caught by the Chinese the CIA won't admit how many assets are in China

But it's widely considered to be nearly the entire

amount of agents in Beijing and some of those killed were killed in a dramatic fashion their reports that Chinese counterintelligence

Officials went to a Chinese government building where a CIA informant?

work and gunned him down right in front of others as a message to others who might have been working for the CIA and of

those found by the Chinese at least

12-hour believed to have been killed so the CIA and the FBI who they work closely with when it comes to catching leaks

counterintelligence they all begin panicking lost so many agents and informants in China could take years to rebuild there's also the question of how is

This happen at first it was assumed the Chinese managed to crack the encryption on CIA messages to operatives in China cuts by the end

Of 2012 it was clear that there was a mole so both the FBI and the CIA

Began to shrink down the list of potential suspects, and then they landed on Jerry Cheung Shing Li

Jerry was a 53 year old former CIA employee left when his career plateaued was a naturalized US citizen and worked for the CIA between

1994 and 2007 in 2007 he left for a business opportunity in Hong Kong

I'm here believe that I was set up by the Chinese government from there

There are records that he returned with his family in 2012 for a trip to Virginia during his stays and stops at hotels the FBI

Searched his belongings in secret. They ended up finding two handwritten note books

They described as an address book and a date book reportedly those

books ended up containing

Secret and top secret information about the CIA and its operations in China this including true names of operatives phone numbers in their locations

So then in 2013 the FBI and the CIA make up this situation to get mr.

Li to go to an interview offer him a possible contract with the CIA

This is a common thing among former employees during the five interviews between May and June they tried to fish

Information about his travels and business in China during this he never reveals his secret. No books

He defends his reason for moving to China

He ultimately ends up not getting arrested, and it's unclear why the FBI seemingly knew he had unlawfully recorded top-secret information

But all of that brings us to this week the CIA and the FBI got word that Saturday mr.

Li was coming to the United States

They scrambled they filed charges against him they met him at the airport, and they arrested him

He was detained in Brooklyn and charged with unlawful possession of classified document

He's currently being held without bail and awaiting transfer to facilities in Virginia. I will say there is something interesting to note here

He is only being charged with unlawful possession of classified

Documents in a situation where it seemingly would be justified to charge him with treason and there are two prevailing theories here one?

He was coming to the US on such short notice the FBI needed something to charge him with so they really we have the most

Evidence on this specific thing charge him arrested and to some believe the CIA didn't want full on espionage charges applied right now as that

Means the evidence. They would need to provide in court would expose programs

They currently have by the way as of right now because Jerry is just charged with this one thing

He faces a maximum penalty in ten years

If at some point espionage charges are applied he faces a maximum penalty of death, and so that's where we are right now

It'll be interesting to see if there are more charges applied on top of this

So we'll have to wait and see and then there are several stories

I want to talk about but that is where we're gonna end today so that this show can go out on time

There's several stories. I want to get to but we'll be able to knock those out by Friday

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