What has Youtube taught us about Crazy ?

[SUPERECWFAN1]

The last decade of youtube has been good and bad for a variety of reasons. In the good aspect there is a number of folks who without the medium who wouldn't have exploded on the scene and gave enjoyment to folks. James Rolfe took a video he filmed for fun a couple years before and turned it loose on Youtube. He became a huge hit and has even did a movie he helped do with crowd funding from fans. Pewdiepie became a cultural type icon who did appearances on Conan to even being parody on South Park.




As Pewdiepie and Rolfe became big celebrities on the platform , soon enough a lot of folks decided they too would go on youtube and become just as big. In a lot of cases they started off big and utterly failed. But a lot was due to the talent not being there and little to do with youtubes overall service. It wasn't til a few years later as Youtube sold to Google did things begin to change big time.

The sale started some effects where Google wanted to keep advertisers happy and they pretty much started promoting more advertiser friendly channels. But the big explosion happened in 2016 when Pewdiepie did a terrible racist joke. This caused what many youtubers have claimed is the "Adpocalypse" where advertisers demanded the service remove their ads from questionable content and many dropped the service. Youtube realizing they were in a spot listened and the effect saw many channel owners who were doing huge profits , within months to barely making anything.

This caused some youtubers to lose homes when things were going so well generating big pay offs from the service to suddenly going homeless. With some refusing to get jobs for months believing they could weather the storm of this. It also caused many to change game plans and develop funding from fans.

But beyond that Youtube has also seen a rise in crazy at times where some content creators for months voice their growing anger in videos. The latest example was the shooting at the Youtube company where a disgruntled female creator named Nasim Najafi Aghdam who had posted videos for years suddenly saw her income drop by a huge amount. This led her to go on videos slamming the company and more for months. In which she claimed the company was doing this on purpose to her channels due to bias.





Unlike Aghdam who took a violent turn before taking her own life , many youtubers have complained over them losing partnership and not making money. Its the refusal of some to admit that this platform maybe isn't meant for everyone to make huge money and become stars. That maybe they need to work for a living beyond wanting youtube stardom.

Also its not just money that has taken many youtubers to lose their minds at times. Take the case of Elliott Roger who would go on rants over how women didn't love his penis. Ok , they didn't love him and see how awesome he is to give him sex. Which is what 99% of us guys all go through in life. Except were not gonna do a number of youtube videos discussing it or do what he finally did.




These are the worst cases in Youtube in a way. Where people voiced issues they had for months and no one sadly could get them help for what was wrong with them. Will it end anytime soon ? Its doubtful , as more tough rules come in from youtube your already seeing many possibly lose it. A lot of it is anger that the money , the fame is ending and they can't handle it.

[Buried Alien]

YouTube has changed nothing about human nature, but it has exposed parts of it that were once better hidden.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[KnockBlock]

Will it end anytime soon ? Its doubtful , as more tough rules come in from youtube your already seeing many possibly lose it. A lot of it is anger that the money , the fame is ending and they can't handle it.

There's this thing called the Youtube purge.

[SUPERECWFAN1]

There's this thing called the Youtube purge.

Many are for sure leaving and running to Twitch. But that service is already starting to put in place some rules. In fact the company itself laid off a number of workforce and people have said they are going like Youtube in a way. Because they know streamers generate lots of money and attention.

[KnockBlock]

https://www.polygon.com/2018/3/2/170...kes-moderation

I do feel that there's some censorship. People who tell truthful stuff get discredited. Content creators have to be careful what they put out.

[Iron_Legion87]

There are some YouTube personalities who are millionaires and such and I wonder why and how they got there. People like Pewdiepie, Keemstar, Jake Paul etc. A lot of them got famous for doing nothing being annoying or stupid in online games or in real life. Now we have thousands of copy cats and it’s kinda sad.

[CaptCleghorn]

Youtube on Crazy...

[The Great Usagi]

Lots of crazy on youtube.



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[Red Robe Jaldari]

There are some YouTube personalities who are millionaires and such and I wonder why and how they got there. People like Pewdiepie, Keemstar, Jake Paul etc. A lot of them got famous for doing nothing being annoying or stupid in online games or in real life. Now we have thousands of copy cats and it’s kinda sad.

I am sure there are a lot of political pundits with cult following that do the same, or look at sports radio, history will judge them as annoying loudmouths.

[Trey Strain]

Search it for street brawls and you'll learn something.

[mathew101281]

That their is an audience for it. But we already knew that.

[ed2962]

Youtube on Crazy...

The guy said it was an experiment gone wrong, but Marvel published it for a little over ten years, so it did well for a while.


I wouldn't mind having the issue they did with the Casper parody called "Casper The Dead Baby"...yes this was a real thing that Marvel published in the 70's.

[DrNewGod]

Before YouTube or Social Media, back in the '90s, people claimed The Internet was going to democratize information and media, and would create a whole new kind of economy for the future. Similar claims followed the advent of Social Media. Neither of them came through.

IMO, the reason is, soon or later, people running these platforms want them to make money. Sooner or later, no matter how revolutionary their advance may be, or how nonconformist their ethos, that means they're going to need more capital than they can conveniently get without turning to traditional means (investment banks and stock offerings). At that moment, the luxury of pretending to be outside, or beyond "The System" is over, whether the platform owner realizes it or not. The investors will demand growth, which means pushing beyond the constituency that the platform was meant to serve, changing the platform's nature. It also means adhering to conduct that "The System" finds tolerable, even if that conduct is at the edges of "The System's" tolerance.

Related to this is the fact that the amount of nonconformity TPTB will tolerate is inversely related to the number of people a nonconformist can reach. You can be as nuts as you want; if your crowd is small. But those with power will always attempt to force one of two choices on nonconformists whose reach begins to grow too large: allow us to co-opt you, or we will crush you. The only third way is when the nonconformists supplant TPTB, and then become The System themselves.

[GOLGO 13]

The guy said it was an experiment gone wrong, but Marvel published it for a little over ten years, so it did well for a while.


I wouldn't mind having the issue they did with the Casper parody called "Casper The Dead Baby"...yes this was a real thing that Marvel published in the 70's.

Marvel in the 70's was a magical time.

[DrNewGod]

Marvel in the 70's was a magical time.

I agree. Kirby, Ditko, and Heck showed lots of creators what could be done in the '60s and Lee let them try it.