Posted on 04/16/2022 7:52:53 AM PDT by Philo1962
I was running a YouTube channel called "Professor 219" throughout 2021. This was 100% me, sitting at my desk at home, ranting into a webcam much like Dan Bongino, Ben Shapiro or Michael Knowles, regarding the stupidity, hypocrisy, corruption and generally unconstitutional behavior of the left, their political party and the media minions who serve them.
I do teach in real life, but I'm not a professor. I teach gifted 13- and 14-year-olds for a Catholic diocese in an after-school enrichment program.
I'm 62 years old, and I have a pretty strong amount of knowledge regarding a lot of different topics. I started reading when I was three years old and in my lifetime, I probably read at least 20,000 books and magazine articles (but not much fiction).
In December, I came down with COVID. In January, I spent almost the entire month in the hospital (3rd-29th). Then I spent two weeks in rehab at my sister's house. She's a nurse practitioner, she worked for 15 years in the ICU, her house is big and beautiful, it's in a fairly large city a mile from the hospital, and she was a great help when I really needed it.
Around February 15, I made it home to my little shack 200 miles to the north in farm country. This was the best I could do after my divorce in 2017, and it offers certain advantages with which I'm quite comfortable.
And my YouTube channel had been deleted somehow. I'm not sure I will ever get an explanation from YouTube, but I do still have all the videos stored on my hard drive.
I'm trying to decide whether to restart the channel on YouTube, move it to Rumble or some other platform, or just give it up altogether. Help me make up my mind.
The channel was very vanilla regarding racial issues. I clearly rejected "racism in all its forms" several times. Mainly, I focused on why the left's policy decisions just aren't going to work out, as a practical matter.
Let's look at "renewable energy," for example. Solar panels, wind turbines and high-capacity batteries contain cadmium, antimony and lead. Cadmium causes cancer. All three are poisonous. When these things burn out after 20 years or so (the service life of a Tesla battery is only 5 years), they go into the landfill. At some point, the weatherproof shell on each of these items gets crushed, then rainwater seeps in and leaches all the heavy metals into the groundwater. So we're going to poison every drop of drinking water in North America to keep the ocean from rising 28 feet? This is monumental stupidity.
Then there's the power grid. To recharge all these cars every night, we'll have to upgrade every residential grid in every city block in America. Each block is capable of recharging only three Teslas at once. If every house on the block is charging a Tesla (or some other electric car) every night, we'll see an epidemic of California-style brownouts all the way from San Diego to Maine.
Finally, there's the issue of the cost of each vehicle. A Tesla costs over $110,000. Even the cheapest, Chevy Volt, is in the $29,000-$34,000 range depending on options. We have a very large part of the population driving used gasoline vehicles that they bought in the $500-$10,000 range. They can't afford it. If the government finances it. just like the student loan debacle, we'll end up with millions of defaults.
The battery is hideously expensive, anywhere from $5000 to $25,000 to replace. Its service life is five years, so if you finance your Tesla for six years, you'll need to replace the battery a year before the car is paid off. It may be the first type of vehicle requiring a "second mortgage." Overall, this is a recipe for rapidly increasing costs and frustrations.
As you can see, simply knowing what I know about physics, chemistry, electrical engineering and human nature allows me to poke holes in leftist theory that are big enough to fly through with a squadron of F-35 fighters, wingtip to wingtip. And I haven't even started the political science and economics.
COVID and its aftermath have left me in "not very good shape," physically or financially. I missed two months of work. I can barely walk, although that's coming back with a lot of hard work. (I'm 62. It's a challenge.) Sitting at a desk making videos isn't hard, but it's very time consuming.
Now here's the complication. I married very late in life and I have a nine-year-old son who really needs his dad. His mother has become very difficult. I met her here at Free Republic when I was 40 and she was 18. Her username was "republican." She's now gone completely gonzo for the Democratic Party and the vogue urban lifestyle. Divorced in 2017. She has custody of my son, and she's moved him out of state with no authorization from the court. I filed for custody; we are awaiting the court's decision on April 22. But before she moved him out of state, that boy was my constant companion.
The YouTube channel turned out to be a major issue of contention in the custody battle. She claimed that I was pushing racism and white supremacy in my videos. Nothing could be farther from the truth. But the battle over this issue, proving that she's a liar, has been exhausting at a time when I have very little surplus time, energy or money to fight her. If I start up my video channel again, it will inevitably lead to another long, drawn-out battle just like this one, even if I win this one.
Your thoughts and comments, please.
Drop YouTube and move on with your life. You aren’t going to change the downward spiral this nation is in, no matter how many hours you speak into a video screen. Prepare yourself, and prepare for your family. It’s important ‘good heads’ survive what’s coming.
However, with the limited time you have (as we all have!) I recommend you use it for your son, your work, and your recovery.
Purely my opinion.
If it were me, and it’s not, I would let the videos rest until the kid thing is settled. No matter what, if you think it might muddle getting your kid, don’t take the risk. The attack on free speech and opinion is disgusting, but it is. Courts almost always seem to give children to the mothers, no matter what they do, so I wish you the best.
Rumble - don’t even bother with Youtube they won’t give you an answer.
Good advice.
“I’m trying to decide whether to restart the channel on YouTube”
“Doctor, every time I hit myself with a 2x4 it hurts. What should I do?”
Docktor: “Stop hitting yourself.”
If you didn’t get banned with three strikes, I say reupload it to YT and do Rumble at the same time. Hedge your bets, but I’d say don’t give up on YT just yet.
I’m launching a (non-political) YouTube project in the next month and I’m uploading it to Rumble as well and will probably be doing some Rumble exclusives to get YT subscribers to also subscribe on Rumble.
It isn’t going to happen overnight, but if YouTube continues down its current path, they are doomed. If you keep pushing your userbase bit by bit to other platforms, one day you’re going to wake up and find that you no longer have much of a userbase.
YouTube will drop you again or shadow ban you. I would not waste any more time with YouTube.
Overall, I would look to first settle issue with your health, ex-wife, and son.
As good as your content may be, from what you say, it seems you are unable to do everything, and also make Youtube content, all at once. I also doubt Youtube provides sufficient income to make that a priority, or at least that’s from what I have been told from other youtube content-providers.
Perhaps don’t give it up entirely - perhaps cut way back to one topic you are most knowledgeable and passionate about.
You have a need to teach and help others. That’s great.
Right now you need to help yourself. Get things right in your life with your son and your health and don’t let anything jeopardize that. Take the deletion of your YouTube channel as a sign to refocus away from it.
Good luck.
I think you’re asking in a difficult place. FR is great for a lot of things, but constructive advice on creative projects like this is not something many users here can or will provide. You’re more likely to hear this ‘get off youtube and do something useful’ crap, which is akin to the people who feel the need to one-up each other on how long it’s been since they’ve had a TV set in any thread about a TV show.
Move it to Rumble. There are people who need the knowledge you provide.
Upload them all to rumble. Good for posterity and you can always add more when you feel like it.
What is the link to the channel? Maybe someone can say what the violation was— but I’m guessing you discussed covid treatments. Did you use the word ivermectin or a pejorative for vaccine like clot shot? That will obviously do it.
(By the way, that sounds like a terrible case of covid. Hope you’re feeling better.)
You son is the important part of all of this.
But do keep a record of all your videos in case you need to "prove" something in court.
YouTube has "fact checked" a children's movie (Ice Age: The Meltdown) and a homesteader who was just talking about the article about how in 2030 "You will own nothing and like it" by the WEF. Mind you, he said nothing that was not admitted to in the article.
I would not call myself a video blogger, but I did put a little effort into it a few years ago. According to the video “analytics” on YouTube my channel has had 593,000 lifetime views. It is kind of amazing that so many people have wasted their time watching my videos. I was getting about a $100 a month from YouTube at one point after I “monetized” my channel. I didn’t put the videos up to make money, it was just something I did for fun. But it still irritated me when YouTube demonetized my channel when I was about $3 short of getting another $100 transferred to my checking account. So now I only upload videos for our friends.
If you still have all of your videos... it takes so little effort these days with high-speed internet, that I would just go ahead and reupload your favorites at least. Who knows why they ditched your channel? You could probably do a little digging and find out, or you could just start a new channel.
I feel for you. How sad. You met your wife on Free Republic, and she was a kindred spirit at that time. But then she changed and went liberal and the result was divorce. I’m sorry for your life’s issues, and your son sadly is in the middle of that.
Good luck.
What did you do that got YouTube to stop monetizing your channel?
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