The YouTube Creator Mentality
The EXACT same mentality as The Battered Woman Syndrome (BWS).
Google/YouTube has made a new rule that firearm channels are being hit with retroactively. In-Video sponsors are now no longer allowed. It’s not illegal and not illegal for any other channel to do in-video sponsors but Google/YouTube has a vendetta against guns because Google/YouTube are cucks of the Democrat Party and the anti-gun movement. Most gun channels are already not allowed to get advertising revenue (there are of course, exceptions), so cutting out in-video sponsors is meant to hurt them all the more.
The most obvious course of action is to go to Rumble. Keep your in-video sponsors and tell Google/YouTube to fuck off. Sadly… that doesn’t happen because some of the best channels have no issues making excuses for YouTube while Google/YouTube beat them with their policy fists. They’ve become battered spouse channels to Google/YouTube’s abuses and the way they make excuses pisses me off.
Above, Hickok45 makes excuses against moving fully to Rumble as other people in their comments suggest. One excuse, of which, is that people are not watching over there. Well… when you are weeks behind in uploading and your last upload was 7 months ago… I wonder why no one is watching on Rumble??? Could it be that you haven’t tried hard enough to keep the viewership growing?
It’s the same for any middle-to-right channel, “Oh, we can’t leave YouTube because YouTube is the biggest. They beat us all the time but it’s okay, we just need to learn how to navigate the new policies so we don’t break the new YouTube rules. Please don’t hit us again, we promise to do better…” No wonder Google/YouTube has their way with these channels. They know they can beat them down and they won’t leave.
YankeeMarshal is making excuses, excuses, excuses…
All the gun channels could get together and move at one time. Test it out even. Do a full month of nothing on YouTube with every gun channel only uploading to Rumble. See if you can make change happen. But no… They all just wait for Google/YouTube to hit them again. And with this new move being retroactive, it dings channels that have had these videos with in-video sponsorship for decades now. You can’t expect a channel to go back and re-edit thousands of videos. That’s ridiculous. So the gun channels are taking the risk having YouTube remove their entire catalogue.
Key Stages of the Battered YouTube Channel Syndrome (BYCS)
The Battered YouTube Channel Syndrome is often described as progressing through four psychological stages:
Denial: The YouTuber refuses to admit or acknowledge the abuse from YouTube.Minimization: The YouTuber downplays the severity of the abuse or blames their own channel.Dependence: The YouTuber becomes trapped in the abusive platform, hoping for change.Escape: The YouTuber recognizes the abuse as unacceptable and seeks help to leave the platform.
When it comes down to it… These channels can only blame themselves. They refuse to diversify content platforms and choose to stay involved with the platform that beats them. They have only themselves to blame if they lose everything.
You are exactly right when you point out that all these channels could move and find success elsewhere. The whole 'we can't go to Rumble because no one is on Rumble' argument is absurd. If all the gun guys decamped for Rumble, those interested in gun videos would follow, instantly. Every damn one of them, because Rumble would then be the only game in town.
If we take a look at elections we can see that people are pretty evenly divided. Half the population thinks one way, the other half things Google's way. If that massive half of the population abandoned Youtube for Rumble, that would be the whole ball game.
I have to wonder, why on earth, people want to continue giving their attention and the dollars that result from that attention to companies that are eager to censor them? That's just bat shit nuts.
That’s good that you grub is purging gun Chanel’s.
Tell YouGrub to go fuck itself and go to other Chanels; there are plenty to choose from… starve YG of good and interesting content… and ad revenue. You are gun owners, shoot for the stars…