I don’t know what the video “Kids React to Gay” is about or who “ConnorEatsPants” is, but based on those two strings of text alone, I’m very suspicious about the contents.
Also, I find it very strange that Content ID, a system based on copyright, is being used to handle trademark infringement issues. I am obviously not a lawyer, but I don’t think this would stand up if someone actually challenged it. The trademark infringement, that might stand. But the use of Content ID or other DMCA mechanisms to enforce it I think is a mismatch.
Also, this whole things reeks of drama and fakeness. Very sus.
Looks like the oven is finally out for Paul Joseph Watson. Everybody even remotely familiar and critical of his shtick knew what a horrible excuse for a human being the guy is, but he finally got caught in doing the only thing mainstream media cares about: breaking decorum.
A secret recording of him calling for someone to “press the button” to “exterminate the jews” has surfaced among a tirade ladden with slurs. Of course, it isn’t far from what he usually talks about, but since this time he isn’t dressing it up nicely through the magic of the YouTube grift, enabling dish rags like The Spectator may actually have to think about before writing glowingly about him again.
I have come across a wierd internet situation. Recently a married couple of british retro-gaming youtubers, Top Hat Gaming Man and Lady Decade, got into hot water. They used a copyright protected photograph in one of their videos and got a copyright claim for about 500 pounds. The photo was of Ray Harryhausen by a photographer called Martin McNeill. Instead of simply paying this somewhat trivial sum or editing the video to remove the image, Lady Decade released a video where she tearfully called for help, how it was a terrible copyright troll and how it was impossible for them to come up with it on the quick.
The problem I have here is that primarily the resources I could find on the situation were other garbage drama youtubers who were really badmouthing them in the worst way and with just incredibly red flags. Such as youtube titles with all caps words in them and mocking photoshops and voice overs, and using “e-beggars” as a perjorative. I was actually initially thinking this was a harassment campaign before seeing more of the evidence, though partially that was subtle bias on my part because I had viewed some of THGM’s videos in the past (after being linked to one of them in this very forum), though I don’t think I was ever subscribed to his channel. The videos were okay but kind of bland. I was also not really able to find any evidence of what had actually happened on either of the couple’s channels or Twitter.
However, basically the evidence has born out that the two are incredibly shady and are now trying to downplay the situation and hide their past posts on the matter. But the biggest red flag to me was when I found out that the couple is friends with one of the biggest shitstains on the internet, Jeremy Hambly a.k.a. The Quartering, who we have discussed here before and who had inserted himself in the situation on behalf of them. Hambly even paid them the 500 pounds that McNeil was asking for. This of course lead to the doxxing and harassment of McNeil by Hambly’s incredibly awful fanbase.
Based on a bunch of data, I’m trying an experiment by refreshing the thumbnails on some, but not all, of our panel videos on youtube.
The one thing I’m not doing is adding “youtube face” but otherwise I’m trying to hit the styles that seem to objectively drive clicks. Just to see what happens.
I will say I’m definitely more interested in clicking those thumbnails than previous ones. And if I wasn’t aware of Geeknights but saw that thumbnail I’d be like “ooh interesting” so definitely a step in the right direction.
The red YouTube play button in the middle ruins the white-on-red text. It’s not unreadable but it takes an extra half second to parse. Slide the text down half a line so the play button is between Video Game and Ethics?
There should be some YouTube thumbnail psd templates that include layers for all the possible player configurations so that you can design around them.
I don’t know if it’s a Youtube feature or just creators being cheeky, but another thing you might want to try on new uploads is just changing the thumbnail after a day.
Personally speaking, videos that do this stick out like a sore thumb, as my subscriber list is filled with old youtube channels that I don’t really watch anymore, and it’s “content” gets fairly static. I’m guessing it’s because of the fairly static nature of that page that, when the thumbnail changes, always gets me to notice and be like “Didn’t I see/notice this before, click”.
