Nah. I think if you work on something like this and your public have a lot of kids, you notice from things like the comments on the videos, and the videos that are more popular. Indirect ways but you still kind of “get it”. You don’t really need somebody to tell you, except if you are obtuse.
Unspoken rules are a thing that exist, real.
You mean if you’re a nobody you can say more and get in less trouble because the two people who follow you don’t care. But if you’re a celebrity and hit a certain status suddenly people care. Say it ain’t so!
Nope. If you have a lot of adults has public, you can freely and naturally talk about sex. But if you notice theres kids in the public, you self-censor a bit. If you don’t want to self-censor is can kind of be a problem for you.
I’m not talking about censorship as a criminal offense, I’m talking about the concept in general. The same goes for the Kotaku article, so I assumed that was what you were referring to as well.
Which goes back to one of my original questions, which you labelled as me putting words in your mouth:
So you think if he had two kids following him suddenly he’d be in deep trouble huh, yeah okay. YouTube has Kids YouTube for a reason, and it’s pretty easy to fly under the radar. You’re not under the radar if you’re pulling in 100k+ on most your videos… there’s a cost to that as well as a reward.
Leaving in a mature manner does not mean he has to leave quietly. Hell he could do it in a not as mature way and still not rail against everything while doing it.
Nah,
I understand the guy need for self-censor. I what was saying.
I guess I didn’t get my point across effectively, so let me rephrase it:
Do you feel that he should have not told people his true reasons for leaving rather than telling people his true reasons for leaving?
And who can say that he is giving his true reasons in his statement anyhow?
Just for clarification, this Adam Dahlberg guy is quitting the Minecraft video/streaming business. He’s not quitting Youtube. In fact, he’s already started producing content on a new Youtube channel. As far as anyone knows, neither Youtube nor Microsoft/Mojang is censoring him. His issue is that the Minecraft audience skews younger, so he cannot display his “fucked up sense of humor” or be too edgy without losing his audience.
Realistically, of course, there is a more formal kind of censorship in the Minecraft community. If you go nuts and start putting mature content in your videos, you’ll be shunned and you would lose the all-important cross-promotional stuff like when one Youtuber invites another over and they co-op together. You also wouldn’t get invited to con appearances.
On top of that Dahlberg says he’s just straight-up sick of playing the same game for the past couple of years.
One way 'tubers are “losing their audience” is having their videos “de-monetized” by YouTube. He could still make them and show them, but he won’t make any money. If YT decides your content is something they can’t sell ads on, that isn’t technically censorship since they let your vids play, but for someone who lives off money from their videos, its serious coercion. It’s their platform, it’s their rules though.
We can’t, although it would be weird for him rail against something he didn’t have an issue with. It’s possible he’s just trolling everyone (and giving up tons of money in the process)?
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Yeah, I don’t mean to imply that YouTube is guilty of corporate censorship in this particular case, I was just responding to what Nesrie wrote.
There has been a ton of discussion here but this is the main takeaway probably.
Just like PewDiePie paying people to hold up a “Kill All Jews” banner for the lulz.
Hmm. Brian Crecente has left Polygon and joined Glixel.
I thought Glixel was shut down?
The San Francisco office was shut down and everyone there was canned/moved. “Glixel” the editorial arm of Rolling Stone is still a thing, so I guess Brian Crecente gets to play there.
Never heard of Glixel so I went to check them out. Glixel’s top story on the front page is an article about Porn-Star-turned-Twitch-girl Mia Khalifa.
Well, it certainly looks like they need the help.
Yeaah. My initial opinion is, bad career move, but its not my career or decision I guess.
Polygon’s heyday seemed like a couple of years ago; it feels a bit strained over there now. It sorta feels like they for some reason were a casualty of the GamerGate crusade, but also that the kinds of games they care about aren’t the cutting edge stuff the kids want. It’s all about Battlegrounds and Overwatch right now.