Google’s Delusional Executives, YouTube Demonetization, and a Tech Giant’s Fall From Grace!
By: Daniel Imbellino
Tags: Censorship, Demonetization, Youtube Creators, Google, YouTube

As a result of Google’s adpocalypse that rocked their video sharing platform YouTube throughout the course of the year, Google’s response was to change the rules concerning what types of content they deemed to be acceptable for monetization, and the platform as a whole. The result? Google executives have stooped to an all time low, censoring and demonetizing videos that are critical of Google, that feature fictional violence in video games, and in some cases even videos depicting harmless food reviews, as well as anyone who expresses political views they don’t personally agree with.

Or as Dave Ruben recently stated, “It appears there’s some really shady stuff going on”, referring to Google’s actions towards creators on the YouTube platform.

How Google Screwed Over its Biggest Supporters:

Before I smear the facts in Google’s face and bring to light proof they are in fact still serving ads on YouTube in the midst of videos filled with hatred for humanity, first, I want to highlight the damage being done to hard working creators, the same people Google has now thrown under the bus and haven’t an ounce of regret for. After all, the point of this article isn’t Google, its to defend those who Google so graciously screwed out of their livelihoods. I honestly sympathize with these people too, and I know first hand just what its like to get screwed by Google, they honestly screwed us all.

Take a look at this video titled “YouTube Demonetized My Entire Channel” from the YouTuber who goes by the name of “Birdman”, who states that Google not only demonetized 99% of his videos, but even took the advertising axe to videos that clearly do not violate their advertiser friendly guidelines; such as a video that showcases his gaming setup. Apparently making videos talking about your gaming PC is against the rules.

Now, this is where things really get ugly, Google then goes on to demonetize that video as well. What better way to silence people than to hit them where it hurts the most, their wallets! Take a look at the snapshot below.

There you have it, Google is now resulting to economic censorship in order silence their critics.

Oh, and there’s more, lots more! Apparently doing reviews on Snickers bars will get you demonetized as well, according to the food review channel Wreckless Eating.

Matt Zion of Wreckless eating stated they put much of the blame on YouTube’s chief Susan wojcicki, who he called quote, “A Lying Woman”, after she previously stated she was working to help creators.

Oh, but we’re not done yet! Not even close! Check out this recent interview from Fox News host Tucker Carlson with YouTube commentator Dave Ruben, who hosts the popular YouTube show The Ruben Report.

Google responded to the claims by Ruben by telling Tucker Carlson that only 10% of Ruben’s videos were demonetized. They flat out lied to Carlson to cover up their misdeeds. Ruben stated point blank that virtually the entire back catalogue of his videos were demonetized, yet Google has no problem lying to media outlets and stating otherwise.

Dave says he doesn’t want to fight Google, nor play the role of David and Goliath, but rather he seeks transparency.

At this point, you pretty much can’t so much as fart on YouTube without being demonetized, and it appears YouTube’s Chief Susan has resulted to a campaign of demonetizing even the most harmless of videos. No doubt about it, Susan is the absolute worst thing that’s ever happened to the YouTube platform, and there’s no question she’s purposely doing everything she can to destroy as many people’s lives as possible.

Google claims that certain videos may not be suitable for advertisers, this appears to include gaming videos that depict purely fictional violence; in which gaming channels across the YouTube platform have been hit especially hard as a result to monetization changes. Call of Duty Channels have literally been blacklisted from monetization as an example. As a result, many YouTubers are now leaving the platform in droves to Stream on Twitch and turning to Patreon as a means to pick up for the shortfall. Google’s response? None, they don’t care.

A big question for Google’s self-righteous executives who believe the only opinion that matters is their own, since when did advertisers ever have a problem with serving ads on gaming videos of any kind, including those that exhibit what is nothing more than pure fictional violence?

The answer? Advertisers have never had a problem serving ads on gaming videos as whole, including games that exhibit fictional violence. In fact, the gaming videos that Google demonetized are often the ones that are targeted the most by advertisers.

Besides the rampant economic censorship, Google has even gone as far as to censor a wide variety of videos based on commonly known video games like Primal Rage and Street Fighter, as being quote, “Not Family Friendly.” In these cases Google will restrict this content from anyone under the age of 18. This is a different case scenario than demonetization though. While they restrict this content from certain users, they don’t necessarily demonetize it, they’re merely stating its not appropriate for all ages.

But the concern here is that Google is playing judge and jury as to what parents would or would not deem to be acceptable content for their children. Censoring Street Fighter for instance sounds pretty ridiculous. Every 12 year old on the planet played Street Fighter II back in the early 90’s when it was first released, and the game was in every arcade and pizza parlor in America at the time. No parents ever thought this game was inappropriate for their children, otherwise, why would millions of parents have purchased the console version of the game for their kids?

Once a video is demonetized, there is virtually zero recourse until the video in question reaches at least 1,000 views. If you don’t hit the 1,000 mark, you can’t get the video reviewed. For smaller channels, this is literally a death sentence. For larger channels, its a waiting game. YouTubers like Birdman are also stating that once a video is re-monetized if its re-approved, no ads appear on the videos again.

To make matters worse, it appears Susan, along with other Google executives have decided to play judge and jury with creators content, making up lies to help justify their mentally deranged and one-sided decision making.

Such is the case with gaming related videos that depict fictional violence, in which Google and Susan insist that these types of content aren’t suitable for advertisers. Yet, ad firms and the companies they represent have been dumping out ads all over cable television shows and movies that depict violence for decades on end. The advertisers weren’t concerned with video games, nor fictional violence, they were concerned with hate speech, but apparently Susan and her colleagues are too narrow minded to tell the difference.

More recently, Google moved to demonetize Ron Paul’s channel as well. Anything political is pretty much fair game to be demonetized as far as Google is concerned. Expressing your personal beliefs and political viewpoints is enough for Google to censor you by cutting out the cash flow.

Rather than accept accountability for the fact Susan and other executives turned a blind eye to a very big problem with issues like hate speech and harassment (still a huge problem) on their video sharing platform, both her and Google’s execs decided to put the blame on YouTuber’s themselves. Contrary to Google’s delusional claims that bad content is to blame, its actually their own ignorance that’s truly at fault. Our media organization actually contacted both Susan and YouTube Press directly back in early 2016 to report issues with harassment and hate speech on the platform. We’ve never received a response.

If Google had bothered to acknowledge the issues with hate speech they were clearly warned about long ago, advertisers would have never left the platform to begin with.

Google Promotes Hatred For Profit:

Google says they’ve been hard at work tackling the issues with hate speech on the YouTube platform, but what about harassment among the community’s users? Better yet, what’s the difference really? Paint it however you like, hatred is hatred.

Many YouTubers both big and small have turned the art of trolling and harassment into a profitable business model thanks to their enablers at Google. Just search for the keywords DSP in YouTube search, and the results are literally thousands of videos created by hundreds of individuals with the sole intent to harass a single user. Google then serves ads on these videos and makes a handsome profit from them.

Bigger YouTubers like Leafyishere have literally built their entire content production strategy around harassing other YouTubers. In one case, Leafy went as far as to harass and intimidate a mentally challenged YouTuber. After he berated and made fun of the user, his followers went to the victims channel and harassed him so badly he shut down his channel.

Google often claims such videos are criticism, rather than harassment.

So, Google says its perfectly ok with people making videos that threaten and harass others, and even allow them to be monetized. But, fictional violence in video games is a no go! Talk about irrational and illogical, not to mention incredibly unfair.

Conclusion:

It’s hard to ignore Google executives delusions of grandeur. Susan, along with Sundar Pichai, and the rest of Google’s narrow minded and self-centered executives have bestowed it upon themselves to appoint themselves as leaders of the free world, who aren’t subject to accountability, do as they please, and express total disregard for how their actions will affect others. Right now, YouTubers are going homeless while Sundar and his money machine Google, continue to reap massive profits at the cost of destroying the lives of those who supported them the most.

Despite Google knowing well in advance of the problems that persisted on YouTube (many of which still do, especially rampant harassment), Google executives decided to pretend nothing was wrong and go about their business of counting their money. Google insists they have a responsibility to protect their advertisers. OK, but you have no responsibility to those who support you?

Google’s executives are an absolute disgrace to humanity. How these people sleep at night after destroying the livelihoods of so many, I haven’t a clue. The actions of these people prove they haven’t one ounce of dignity, respect, nor any sort of empathy for those who’ve supported them for so long.

To them, YouTube is a business, and they’re clearly out to save themselves. Even if that means screwing tens of thousands of hard working YouTubers to make it happen. After they pissed off advertisers, the blame and punishment went back on creators, when it should have been on Google’s executives, not the innocent victims of their own failed policies.

Then again, this is the same company that’s currently facing a class action lawsuit initiated by female ex-employees who say Google segregated them into lower paying jobs than men. I guess the one place where Google doesn’t discriminate is that they appear to screw everyone equally.

All being said, I’ve long been an avid supporter of Google, spending years and thousands upon thousands of hours helping them to grow their social network Google+, but I will not stand idle while the they destroy years of their most avid supporters hard work. I think the next step for creators at this point is to seek a class action lawsuit against Google for discrimination, demand the tech giant’s failed leadership be replaced, as well as the forming of a union to represent creators.

Written and published by Daniel Imbellino — Co-Founder of Strategic Social Networking and pctechauthority.com. Many thanks for reading. Be sure to check out Strategic Social Networking Community on Google+ to connect with tens of thousands of IT professionals and learn effective strategies to grow your social presence online. You’re also welcome to follow Strategic’s brand page on G+ for the latest social media and IT industry news. You’re also welcome to connect with me on Google+: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+DanielImbellino