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YouTube lets biggest stars off the hook for breaking rules, moderators say
Moderators say YouTube overrode them when high-profile creators went too far.
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YouTube's 'King of Random' Grant Thompson Dead at 38, Paragliding Accident
YouTuber Grant Thompson died in a paragliding accident in Utah Monday night.
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YouTube faces creator backlash
YouTube's creator backlash is occurring as TikTok emerges as a creator favorite.
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YouTube isn't for kids. But kids videos are among its most popular, study finds
The Pew Research Center suggests children's content is among the most popular on YouTube, even though the company discourages children under 13 from using its platform.
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The Fight for the Future of YouTube
The video giant’s recent travails underscore a basic question: How “neutral” should social-media platforms try to be?
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YouTube looks to demonetization as punishment for major creators, but it doesn’t work
Steven Crowder’s case is a perfect example.
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Popular YouTuber Etika Dies At 29
Today, police confirmed the death of Desmond “Etika” Amofah, a well-known gaming YouTuber, after discovering him in Manhattan’s East River yesterday evening. Amofah’s body was found two days after police recovered his belongings on the Manhattan Bridge. Last week, he had published a video that appeared like a suicide note.
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This History Teacher Had His Educational YouTube Channel Banned For Hosting "Hate Speech"
“I’m a history teacher, not someone who promotes hatred.”
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YouTuber gets 15 month prison sentence, $22,000 fine for toothpaste-filled Oreos
YouTube star Kanghua Ren was just handed a 15 month prison sentence and 20,000 euro ($22,300) fine for a January 2017 video. The video, which generated widespread outrage online, found Ren giving a homeless man in Barcelona repackaged Oreo cookies filled with toothpaste.
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How YouTube let’s plays are preserving video game history
It’s a long-observed fact that the phenomenon of the YouTube let’s play has benefits beyond just entertaining viewers and gradually introducing teenagers to neo
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James Charles loses a million subscribers in a week
James Charles has lost more than a million subscribers amidst a row with fellow YouTube star Tati Westbrook. He now has 14.6m subscribers - previously the figure was 16m, according to the website Social Blade . It comes in a week where the 19-year-old has denied using his fame and money to try and manipulate someone's sexuality. Meanwhile his row with Westbrook centres around him promoting a rival product to one she'd created.
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On feeding and releasing the ego
YouTuber and marketing consultant Rachel Nguyen on independence versus collaboration, honoring your boundaries, and internal and external spaces.
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The golden age of YouTube is over
Danny Philippou is mad. He’s practically standing on top of his chair as his twin brother and fellow YouTube creator Michael stares on in amusement. Logan Paul, perhaps YouTube’s most notorious character, laughs on the other side of the desk that they’re all sitting around for an episode of his popular podcast Impaulsive. Anyone who’s watched the Philippous’ channel, RackaRacka, won’t be surprised by Danny’s antics. This is how he gets when he’s excited or angry. This time, he’s both.
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Kidfluencers' Rampant YouTube Marketing Creates Minefield for Google
Efforts to tackle inappropriate children’s content had unintended effect, pushing creators into legal gray zones.
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Meet the YouTube star who's de-radicalizing young, right-wing men
The far right is the dominant political community on YouTube. It's a flourishing world of men's rights activists, libertarians, anti-feminist atheists, and white nationalists. There are whole channels dedicated to showing "social justice warriors" getting "owned" by various conservative provocateurs. And this has gone largely unanswered by the left.
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YouTube Hopes to Silence Child Predators by Shuttering Comments on Videos of Kids
YouTube announced on Thursday that it will switch off the comments section on videos showing minors, in response to reports that highlighted the problem of pedophiles leaving sexual comments on videos of children. “We recognize that comments are a core part of the YouTube experience and how you connect with and grow your audience. At the same time, the important steps we’re sharing today are critical for keeping young people safe,” the company said in a blog post.
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YouTube Strikes Now Being Used as Scammers' Extortion Tool
In a terrible abuse of YouTube's copyright system, a YouTuber is reporting that scammers are using the platform's "three strike" system for extortion. After filing two false claims against ObbyRaidz, the scammers contacted him demanding cash to avoid a third - and the termination of his channel.
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These YouTubers are owed $1.7 million, and they’re probably never going to get it
A group of approximately 50 YouTube creators allegedly owed more than $1.7 million following the collapse of network Defy Media are unlikely to see that money. Ally Bank, one of Defy Media’s financial backers, tweeted a statement on January 25th following a video from popular YouTube creator Matthew “MatPat” Patrick asking Ally to give him and other YouTube creators the money they’re owed by Defy.
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Publishers are mostly recycling YouTube videos for IGTV
Instagram's attempt to compete with YouTube is looking a lot like YouTube more than six months after its launch.
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PewDiePie's Battle for the Soul of the Internet - Quillette
This is a story about the question of who holds power over what we can say, hear, watch and read on the internet—an increasingly urgent issue that many ordinary people have cause to think about every day. And yet the protagonist in this story, the man whose fate symbolizes the future of social media and the corporate web that controls it, is unknown to the vast majority of educated readers. That man is PewDiePie, a Swedish comedian whose real name is Felix Kjellberg. With 77-million subscribers, he has the most popular YouTube channel in the world.
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