Show threadKevin Karhan 1d ago
@rozeboosje @GreenRoc granted #AdPocalypse 2016 was when #YouTube decided to give everyone a finger who was passionate!
Kevin Karhan :verified: (@kkarhan@infosec.space)

@GreenRoc@mastodon.social I think it's really stupid for YouTube not wanting a million channels making $5 per month but rather 5 channels making $1M. Because channels making Millions won't wait 12 months to get paid, but a $60 payout threshhold is acceptable with the small channels. - Plus the power dynamics are less favourable even if the 1M channels were to *"unionize"* or all together class-action in a dispute case (which literally would never happen because #ClassAction isn't a thing outside the #USA and no #ClassActions ever covered non-#US - residents or customers overseas!)… It's as dellusional as the #XboxOne [E3 2013 presentation!](https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/115440644827450949)

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Show threadKevin Karhan 1d ago

@GreenRoc nodds in agreement

What pissed me of and still pisses me off is that even obeying every bullshit rule doesn't guarantee not being a victim of #CollectivePunishment as a #SmallChannel just getting started.

  • It's not about the €5-ish that they took from me by refusing to pay me out, (I didn't expect to ROI the cost of said videos anyway!) but the principle!

I followed every rule and every best practise they said to the letter and then they randomly decided to demoneitze all the #SmallChannels because they couldn't be assed to vet theor platform so #Daesh propaganda channels didn't get #ads on their videos and #advertisers complained at them for that.

  • Cuz that's what #AdPocalypse essentially was: Kicking all the small channels into their groin for something they didn't do wrong.

Just because they'd get away eith that as de-facto #monopoly!

Kevin Karhan 1d ago

Granted, #YouTube's constant #Enshittification makes it useless beyond being a #Hoster for Video Files...

  • Yes, I am #StillMad re: #AdPocalypse and I'll not even consider forgiving #Google, #Alphabet or whatever they call themselves until they paid my my #AdSense revenue, reinstated #monetization of my channels & back-owed revenue + interest, but I sincerely doubt that they'd ever do that *as a matter of principle.

The enforced #US-Style #prudishness of #AntisocialMedia is really alienating cuz it's just bad and only results in #SelfCensorship-based #NewSpeak to circumvent that shit which helps noone but #Advertisers who want content to bow before them instead of actually choosing where to advertise what and to whom!

How YouTube Coerced Its Way Into Rewriting Our Language

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Show threadF3715H4d ago

@swanson wtf?

So it's not enough people who obeyed the rules to the letter got their ad revenue stolen and #demonetized with #AdPocalypse but also now get kicked in the face?

Show threadKevin Karhan Oct 7

@GNUmatic ja natürlich ist das ein Problem.

  • Sollte ich jemals nen #YouTube - Account aufmachen - was ich mir seit #AdPocalypse geschworen habe zu lassen - wird bei mir konsequent die #Kommentarfunktion eingestampft, die Videos demonetarisiert (mit einem obligatorischen "Fick dich Google!" binnen der ersten 30 Sekunden!) und konsequent nur noch im Fediverse diskutiert.

Was dann auch wieder nur #Videohosting wäre...

Stefan IhringerOct 6

The #enshittification of.... wait for it.... fridges!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSIH-ol29bk

Vanessa Windgårdh reports on Samsung's and other companies' latest ways of monetizing every fricking bit of our lives. And won't you know it, #OpenAI seems to already be in on the game and they will add ads (or "recommendations") to their chat bot's answers.

#adpocalypse

They're Putting Ads In Everything Now

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Show threadKevin Karhan Aug 1

@jackeric I guess #YouTubeAds are just full of shit.

Yes, I'm #StillMad for #AdPocalypse…

Show threadKevin Karhan Jul 12

@niklas @mattgrayyes I just don't bother with a #YouTube account since #AdPocalypse in 2016.

  • I'm #StillMad at #Google for going collective punishment against #SmallChannels like mine and #demonetizing me despite having literally done nothing wrong by any metric whatsoever. Not even a single complaint or rule infraction whatsoever...

They still have ~ € 5 in #advertising revenue widthhold in my account and with their retroactively introduced minimum watch time I'll never get above the quota for a payout.

Kevin Karhan Jul 11
@X00001 Pretty shure like #AdPocalypse it'll not cancel all the #AiSlop but only punish #SmallChannels and #SmallStreamers even if they did nothing wrong!
Show threadKevin Karhan Jul 9

@daemon_nova +9001%

I so fucking want that to happen!

Cuz I followed every rule yet got penalized like every other #SmallChannel!