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YouTube Top Official Mocks Content Creators 'In Their Basement'
Newsbusters ^ | May 2, 2020 | P.J. Gladnick

Posted on 05/02/2020 3:10:58 PM PDT by PJ-Comix

Every YouTube employee should get down on their knees and thank the video creators, mostly working from home, for making that site an enormous success over the years. Instead, the attitude emanating from YouTube recently has been one of denigration and mockery of those same creators in favor of promoting mainstream media channels despite the fact that YouTube has grown primarily because viewers wanted an alternative to the MSM output.

The latest example of a YouTube official sneering at the very creators who brought them to the table of success comes in the form of YouTube Chief Product Officer Neal Mohan mocking the people, who made his big salary possible, as "espousing their opinions...in their basement."

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Almost everybody who regularly posts videos on YouTube, especially about current events, knows just how much YouTube officials despise the very people who made that site a success. People watch YouTube to get AWAY from the crap put out by the mainstream media so who does YouTube promote at the expense of the creators who made it a success? The mainstream media.

The attitude of this YouTube official is the norm for the current leadership at YouTube which has now taken it upon itself to act as a CENSOR for views it deems as dangerous (i.e. conservative views)

1 posted on 05/02/2020 3:10:58 PM PDT by PJ-Comix
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To: PJ-Comix

YouTube’s appeal was that it provided an accessible global commons. I guess the company now wants to reimagine itself as a subsidiary of the propaganda ministry.


2 posted on 05/02/2020 3:14:03 PM PDT by sphinx
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Youtube stopped being Youtube when they got bought by Google. Now they’re just another subsidized piece of the evil empire and don’t have to give a damn about their users.


3 posted on 05/02/2020 3:14:57 PM PDT by Mr. Rabbit
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To: PJ-Comix

The vast majority of what I look at on you tube is put up by affecionados of the subject. There is very little I look at that is done by professional prodicers.


4 posted on 05/02/2020 3:17:03 PM PDT by TalBlack
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To: sphinx

To be blunt, it was done as planned since the beginning. Once they became a virtual monopoly, that was when the nazis came out of the woodwork, stealing all the production from the created content. There should have been massive lawsuits from the get-go for violation of terms of services in the beginning; remember, terms goes BOTH ways.


5 posted on 05/02/2020 3:18:54 PM PDT by GOP Congress
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These creator need to move over to ugetube.com, and start making it better. Dump youtube.


6 posted on 05/02/2020 3:19:46 PM PDT by curious7
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To: PJ-Comix

The vast majority of the most viewed videos on YouTube are professionally produced music videos.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-viewed_YouTube_videos#Top_videos


7 posted on 05/02/2020 3:23:30 PM PDT by FewsOrange
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To hell with the entire inte
8 posted on 05/02/2020 3:23:32 PM PDT by coaster123 (XLV-MMXX)
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Neal Mohan, Real American™

Just another Indian jerk sneering at the inhabitants of the country he had to come to for a little affirmative action

9 posted on 05/02/2020 3:26:48 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: curious7

“These creator need to move over to ugetube.com”

Absolutely

Not that hard to do an upload site, somebody actually did it


10 posted on 05/02/2020 3:28:38 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: FewsOrange

Where else can you watch guys dropping a bowling ball on a trampoline from 165 meters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6h65t2MOfU

I’ve been binge watching these guys’ videos for the past week.


11 posted on 05/02/2020 3:29:21 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Is that Bigfoot in the background?

12 posted on 05/02/2020 3:36:17 PM PDT by McGruff (Biden's still Hidin)
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Alphabet needs to have a DOJ antitrust action brought against it and needs to be broken up.


13 posted on 05/02/2020 4:01:23 PM PDT by FLT-bird
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HR thinks the business is all about them. Finance guys run airlines. Project management runs software.


14 posted on 05/02/2020 4:13:02 PM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie (All I know is The I read in the papers.)
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Neal Mohan talking about “authoritative sources” that he wants us to get our information/news/medical information from.

https://youtu.be/rivsTA9jnaA?t=268

Out of the other side of his mouth he refers to Theirtube as “our platform” and “open platform.”

If he wants to force feed his preferences onto the viewers that is programing, not just providing a platform.

It gets even more interesting at about 10:00.

He goes on about removing videos that are obviously harmful and by 12:30 he easing right into opinions and politics.

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15 posted on 05/02/2020 4:27:05 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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Here is another video discussing the above video and goes into more detail about what Theirtube is up to.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2Kc4YK4LLc

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16 posted on 05/02/2020 4:36:03 PM PDT by TLI (ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: sphinx

Exactly. Good comment.


17 posted on 05/02/2020 4:45:07 PM PDT by Track9 (Islam: Turning everything it touches to ShiÂ’ite since 632 AD)
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To: PJ-Comix

If this is a knock on Joe Biden, I approve. Otherwise it’s just elitist bull carp.


18 posted on 05/02/2020 7:18:12 PM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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