hello everyone this is a special message for our youtube viewers so if you're listening on audio or you did listen on audio you will not hear this this is just for the youtube viewers we've actually been struggling pretty hard with demonetization on our youtube channel on our crime weekly youtube channel and to be honest i have been also struggling with it this past month on youtube uh we usually go through ebbs and flows like this where sometimes youtube's really cracking down on monetization in the true crime space and it's been worse than i personally have ever seen it this past couple of weeks now obviously it is about making money off of this content to some extent because this is what we do for a living but it's also a fact that when you're demonetized your videos are suppressed by the youtube algorithm so they don't show up in other creators recommended they won't show up when people are actively searching for true crime content and that is the bigger issue when it comes to growing this channel and having our voices go out to more people which is ultimately what we want we're trying to tell the stories of these victims because they aren't here to tell them themselves and we want those stories to be heard by as many people as possible and we want them to be able to take away whatever tools tricks techniques that that we come upon to protect yourselves but youtube is making that very difficult right now and we don't know why but at the end of the day we need to find something more long-term and and more sustainable to make sure that even if youtube tomorrow says crime weekly you're never going to be monetized again we have a way to continue bringing you this content and as a result what we've come up with is a patreon option and i'm going to let derek explain that a little bit to you i've i've never used patreon before i've only gotten it from you but it's pretty simple what we're going to do for the time being the videos will always be available um by around wednesday of that of the following week every week that's what we're still hoping for if we're not completely banned from whatever as far as posting with youtube but for people who want the video early and ad free we have a one level tier right now for patreon so you can go to URL_TOKEN crime weekly um it's the day one or tier it's gonna be NUMBER_TOKEN and what that's going to do is you'll get a link i think that's how it works stephanie you will we'll send you a link early the video will be unpublished but you will have access to it and you'll be able to watch the entire video it'll be the edited version of exactly what everyone else is going to get but it'll be ad free absolutely and you know for now that's that's what we can do later on we're thinking of adding and expounding on to that but i think we both have our hands full because we both have our other full-time jobs me with my youtube channel and derek with his private investigation firm so we have all of those things that are kind of keeping us running behind the scenes but later down the line when things uh slow down a little bit hopefully within the first couple
START_INTERACTION_TOKEN hello everyone this is a special message for our youtube viewers so if you're listening on audio or you did listen on audio you will not hear this this is just for the youtube viewers we've actually been struggling pretty hard with demonetization on our youtube channel on our crime weekly youtube channel and to be honest i have been also struggling with it this past month on youtube uh we usually go through ebbs and flows like this where sometimes youtube's really cracking down on monetization in the true crime space and it's been worse than i personally have ever seen it this past couple of weeks now obviously it is about making money off of this content to some extent because this is what we do for a living but it's also a fact that when you're demonetized your videos are suppressed by the youtube algorithm so they don't show up in other creators recommended they won't show up when people are actively searching for true crime content and that is the bigger issue when it comes to growing this channel and having our voices go out to more people which is ultimately what we want we're trying to tell the stories of these victims because they aren't here to tell them themselves and we want those stories to be heard by as many people as possible and we want them to be able to take away whatever tools tricks techniques that that we come upon to protect yourselves but youtube is making that very difficult right now and we don't know why but at the end of the day we need to find something more long-term and and more sustainable to make sure that even if youtube tomorrow says crime weekly you're never going to be monetized again we have a way to continue bringing you this content and as a result what we've come up with is a patreon option and i'm going to let derek explain that a little bit to you i've i've never used patreon before i've only gotten it from you but it's pretty simple what we're going to do for the time being the videos will always be available um by around wednesday of that of the following week every week that's what we're still hoping for if we're not completely banned from whatever as far as posting with youtube but for people who want the video early and ad free we have a one level tier right now for patreon so you can go to URL_TOKEN crime weekly um it's the day one or tier it's gonna be NUMBER_TOKEN and what that's going to do is you'll get a link i think that's how it works stephanie you will we'll send you a link early the video will be unpublished but you will have access to it and you'll be able to watch the entire video it'll be the edited version of exactly what everyone else is going to get but it'll be ad free absolutely and you know for now that's that's what we can do later on we're thinking of adding and expounding on to that but i think we both have our hands full because we both have our other full-time jobs me with my youtube channel and derek with his private investigation firm so we have all of those things that are kind of keeping us running behind the scenes but later down the line when things uh slow down a little bit hopefully within the first couple END_INTERACTION_TOKEN