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Bruh… almost all the episodes of Camp Camp have been pulled from YouTube…. (I’m not sure if any of the specials are still there, but the first episode is)… wtf.?

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It’s not looking good, in fact it’s looking very bad. Google has it’s ethics bought up by George Soros and now the legendary site known for being progressive is now an echo chamber of darkness that kowtows to despots from third worlds and silences their detractors and fixes the data against them and in favor of mass murderers and authoritarian monsters. 

Remember what I said a year or so ago? Youtube has never made money and now Youtube has hired people who only care about ideology so they are now going to start bleeding themselves in an effort to create a utopia online. 

For some reason, despite every piece of fiction saying that an attempt at Utopia always brings dystopia, people still gun for it. because ya know, people are very stubborn. 

So lets fulfill the story of Animal Farm minus the animals. This time it will work. 

But who wants to watch the Titanic slowly rush towards the iceberg? We all know what the impact is going to be like and instead of lives being lost channels will be lost, videos will be lost and everything that makes Youtube a good resource for video information unfortunately will vanish. 

If you have a youtube channel or favorite Youtube videos you must maintain and upload copies on other places. 

Youtube’s death is no longer a “maybe”. Ivan Drago has punched it to death and now it’s just watching him die. 

I don’t like watching things die surprisingly. I watched my Hamster die and that was pretty fucking wretched. 

So rather than stare at the clock and wait for it to strike midnight I’m looking at ways to take the stuff I like and I’m going to leave Youtube. Everybody is talking about how to replace youtube. 

That’s only half solving the problem. 

The real problem is that if Google didn't buy Youtube, Youtube would have shut down years ago. Viacom didn’t like that people were uploading their cartoons on the site illegally so it gave Youtube an ultimatum. Get shut down or control your site’s content. 

The first problem is letting everyone upload everything.

It was a nice idea but the creators of Youtube didn't comprehend just how much data that was going to be when the whole world got online. 

Now it’s a big deal and it’s big problem. A mainstream news network complained about hateful material on Youtube but they ignore that fetish fuel children’s shows, pedophiles peddling their wares, people abusing their children for views and money, and Jake Paul.

Well, I guess as long as you don’t say hateful stuff in your video about wanting to have sex with children it’s not a problem but that’s the shit that’s actually bad on Youtube. 

Andywarski calling Franny a fucking cunt for being a titanic jerk is actually the stuff that isn't bad. 

Think about it. 

Now what I’m not suggesting is quality control. I've thought about it. For years in fact, and I decided that there shouldn't be quality control. But there should be content focus. 

Ya see the best way to prevent a monopoly is to decentralize the content we absorb. If the public at large doesn't want to surf the web to find your stuff you should make the website inexpensive and focused on specific content that people will pay money for. 

Remember that Homestarunner.com was a flash website made in the early 2000s. It would take minutes if not a quarter of an hour for a 3 minute video to load but with a cheap animation style and animation budget along with a consistent schedule and content that people liked the website held for a decade, without ads, funded entirely through merch! 

Now, here’s a question. Could they have done that on Newgrounds? Yes. But it would be harder as people would just watch a different video or play a different game. All those really good cartoonists on Newgrounds were often better than Homestarrunner in animation and the website itself spew gobs of content more than Homestarunner on a good week but a lot of those people didn't make money beyond the commissioned artwork. 

Because Homestarrunner was on it’s own website and had it’s own content to control and it could give you a reliable service and a catered level of quality they made money without having a social network. Can you imagine that? Being successful without a social network on the early Internet where you had to tie up your phone and deal with this everyday?

It’s impossible. But not really. All you need is content. If you have something that people want to see they will come to you, and if you treat those people well they’ll spread your information around and more people will come. People should be working hard to find a way to be the next Homestarrunner. 

75% of the Internet is up for grabs and while it’s not cheap you have the means to make any website ya want and create a way to make money from it. especially if you have an imagination (and especially if you make porn).

What if you don’t want to make a website but you still want to upload stuff and make money or at the very least upload stuff for posterity? 

Well you’ll have to go to different sites, you need to use RSS feeds, and the websites need to decide what kind of stuff they want to upload. 

Say Minds.com only wants to upload politics. That’s a good way to gate content. it doesn't specify what kind of politics so nothing gets removed unfairly and there’s no mob rule. 

For entertainment it’s important for sites to give people an upload limit. This is typical of Lets play channels, reaction channels, and channels around banal stuff like unboxings and toys. They will routinely flood their users inbox with content and they’ll delete it off their computer so basically you become their dumpster for their content that often expires really quickly and almost never shows up in search results. 

Upload a set data amount or a literal number with either being expanded through a subscription service. People have to pay for flooding their inbox which can be lucrative for the website and you’ll only flood the website if you can get your money back. Of course, you can’t upload copyrighted videos as that would just create a system where someone either has to copyright troll you or the website has take a lawsuit bullet. 

Parodies and satirical uses of copyright materials are truly only protected in the US so I can’t even tell you that Youtube poops can be done in other places and yes, youtube poops do get hit with strikes every so often. 

Copyrighted entertainment has to have it’s own place and that place has to be really sly about how it makes money and it has to be on the down low. We can’t have a popular place getting stuffed with illegally uploaded content, even if it is for posterity and no one is making money off it. 

I didn't make these rules. My rules would entail having no rules so don’t look at me. 

If you really want to share copyright clips and audio of shows and video games you’ll have to do what the cool kids do and make torrents, and if you really want that to work it has to be seeded. Don’t delete the seed after you've download it. Sharing is caring. 

So let’s review:

Youtube’s model of broadcasting the world was a failure from day one. 

Political information regardless of whether or not it’s fake, slanderous, or really strange, has to be given it’s own space where it cannot be removed by outcry under any circumstances, this is not negotiable. 

Entertainment has to be original and it can’t be an endless stream of content from everywhere and everyone. People either have to delete stuff they’re done sharing or they have to pay for more space. In either case don’t delete content you’re done using. 

Copyrighted stuff has to go back to Piratebay where it belongs. 

It benefits you to create your own content that you can charge money for and to create a platform comprised of your own website where people can visit and expect your content on a set schedule with no delays and with as very little dips in quality as possible. Invest in 3d Printing and other methods that put production in your hands so you can lower the cost of the item in question. 

Get a Patreon and a Hatreon. 

If you do any of those things and you do it now rather than later you can start setting yourself up for a survival method so Youtube’s death doesn’t kill your career or indeed, your ability to have an online career. 

I do hear some worries still. Not so much about Youtube but with Google itself. In light of the Google memo (the original unedited memo with all it’s sources and citations and not any of the second hand articles commenting on the memo otherwise you read fake news about the memo) you may feel like Google and all it’s products can no longer be trusted. You’d be right to think so but you can’t just change gears all at once. 

Here’s an easy plan to changing the way you go about things online. 

There’s going to come a time where I won’t be able to link a video from Youtube. In fact every video I’ve ever linked from Youtube may die because of it and it’s hundreds of videos at this point. 

We all love Youtube and really enjoy it’s content and it’s brought us an endless supply of entertainment but it can’t stay around forever and it doesn't want us there anyways so we have to leave. 

The experiment of broadcasting the world on one website is coming to a close and it’s one of the sucky series finales but it is a series finale.