Saul

Saul was a YouTube channel that posted curated clips from the Dateline NBC show "", hosted by investigative journalist Chris Hansen.
==History==
Saul was an educational YouTube channel created in 2020. The channel gained popularity soon after beginning to upload excerpts from ''To Catch A Predator'' in early 2020, which was attributed to the overall increase in internet usage during the COVID-19 pandemic. At the channel's peak in March 2021, Saul gained 16,222,435 channel views and over 16,000 new subscribers that month alone. 
== Content ==
The channel almost entirely consisted of uploads from episodes of Dateline NBC's To Catch a Predator series, usually dedicated to individual predators' segments with additional information at the end. This included excerpts from the chats both online and over the phone between the predator and decoy, police interrogation footage and updates on the predator's current status such as mugshots and if applicable, later offenses. 
Each video was titled "To Catch A Predator -," followed by a nickname for the featured predator based on either a chat phrase or the subject of the video themselves. For example, an upload that focused on predator Henry Guzman was captioned "The Confusion Predator," since there was confusion during the confrontation over which potential predator the initial transcript belonged to. 
In each description of the video, the uploader would give a brief summary of the confrontation and sometimes would also post excerpts from the transcript between the predator and decoy. They also left links to the full chat logs on the predator investigation group Perverted Justice's website and various sex offender state registry websites, alongside any relevant news articles.
== Termination ==
Saul was terminated on June 6th, 2021 due to "multiple or severe violations of YouTube's policy against spam, deceptive practices, and misleading content or other Terms of Service violations." Saul had 149,000 subscribers and 123,908,468 video views at the time of his channel's termination.
==Channel Description==
"Thank you for just stopping by. Please have a seat! 
I guess my channel turned into a TCaP channel… but as a wise man once said: What's wrong with that?!
FOR EDUCATIONAL USE: INTERNET SAFETY AND SEXUAL PREDATORS. Originally produced to assist parents and children with ensuring their safety online. Discusses sexual predators who target children via the internet, their grooming tactics, etc."
==Trivia==
*Their first video was their only video to not be from Dateline's To Catch A Predator. It was a clip of Ronan Farrow's investigation into convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein.
* Any extra information added to the video was occasionally read by a background voice. It is unknown if the voice was from the uploader or from an associate of the uploader.
* Occasionally, the uploader would add extra music or sounds will be added to the video. One example is the upload of predator James Fowler's confrontation, where "" theme music was added due to his leering mannerisms toward the decoy prior to the confrontation.
* While the direct association between the uploader and the show itself is unknown, a common joke in the comments was that the uploader was former Predator host Chris Hansen himself.
*Saul's first ''To Catch A Predator'' upload in March 2020 was focused on former teacher Walter Babst who was caught during the Riverside, California sting. This upload would receive significantly lower viewership than most other uploads.
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