EmpLemon will be remembered as an underrespected prophet once Youtube dies

At this point he is no longer underrespected

@Stephen NerdCity beat Emp to the bunch on the topic.

@Rookie "you will live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension"

Bruh the fact that he made a video about
“why removing the dislike button is a bad idea” and now they actually did just proves this comments point.

Bruh the fact that he made a video about
*“why removing the dislike button is a bad idea”* and now they actually did just proves this comments point.

Yeah first it was larger corporations taking the lead of YouTube then demonetization and then Article 13  then corporations beating PewDiePie, Then Coppa and now they are taking ad revenue from you tubers in the U.S.A

They hated EmpLemon, because he  told them the truth

Stephen Lets start a YouTube religion about him. Spread stories and word of the prophet.

One of us must gain power within youtube headquarters

i will tell my kids the legend of the Lemon

Youtube won't die. It will mutate into a grotesque mainstream media monster.


Well it’s been 2-3 years and you couldn’t have been more right

ah actually wait they did lol i posted a terraria video i made like 8 years ago and they blocked it


Logan Paul: finds dead body in suicide forest, records everything, gets trending

Pewdiepie: makes meme of Logan Paul, video gets taken down by Youtube

@RareSox what does that have to do with copyright

Pretty sure it's the algorithm which just makes boring and bland YouTubers with these fake lives as the center of attention, while original content creators are pushed away or sometimes outright censored in very extreme cases.

@Matty Love 2 Yeah, right. It wasn’t fake.

I mean my reply, not trying to get confused so I'm letting you know

@The Immortal Sun-kun He also laughed, that's makes me hate him so damn much😠

@Matty Love 2  But look at the comment i posted on this and on the dude at the top of the comments

Controversy and drama sell these days, unfortunately.

However, I hear this site's improving?

and as you said he's the poster boy, I am 100% sure YouTube knew it was fake (there's no way they didn't) and went along with it because the controversy helped pull people to YouTube. Explains so much

That dead body was actually faked, he staged the entire thing lol. My expose videos got shadow-banned for proving it

"B-b-b-but he's the POSTER BOY!  THE POOOOOSTER BOOOOOOOOOOOY!!!!"


The true horror of digital censorship is that it can be perfectly subtle. That in a vacuum of information you might not even have a suspicion that it's happening. Your words don't have to be stricken from the world, only contained, and the effect is the same. You don't have to be 'punished', only held back.

And you'll never know for sure, if it's because no one was interested, or because someone was, only in seeing that your words didn't reach the right ears by curbing your ambition.

For a miniscule number of people to control so many more in this way, is a horrendous prospect.

@Netheferious its been about 12 hours<br>does that count?

@Netheferious its been about 12 hours
does that count?

Replying so I see this comment again later.


Before, there were Let's Plays of horror games on youtube. Now, youtube IS the horror game, and the creators are the protagonists.

This gets more and more accurate as the time goes on.

lars van zanten No it’s danganronpa the creators are the students / main characters and YouTube is mono kuma / mastermind / villain

Too bad alot of them didn't have plot armor.

It really is becoming more and more dystopian.

@Jobo Griff the youtube viewers. creators are the protagonists and the edgy minibosses and youtube is the final boss.


2016: Holy cow, what a crazy year. At least 2017 can't be any worse than this.

2017: Everything is going to hell. We were fools to think that this year would be better. It can only get worse from here.

2018: God has left us. We are now waiting for the sweet release of death to free us from this hell.

@DeanStuff this commemt was ahead of it's time lmao

At least we could still DISLIKE the goddamn thing…

Lol this comment aged well. 2020+2021 were a fucking hoot.

Fuck they removed the dislikes now too it truly is a downhill spiral

Νικόλας Μπίλλιας

qwedge I really screwed everyone over didn’t I?…

@DeanStuff well well well look what happened in 2020

@SkeletonKid 10000: The end of Windows XP machines and the world in general.

Ninja Dino 4108: Everyone and everything is dead<br>The internet is taking over the whole solar system. No one can stop it

Ninja Dino 4108: Everyone and everything is dead
The internet is taking over the whole solar system. No one can stop it

2019: The internet has been salvaged, and now is dead.

*
Early-mid 2017: [what you said]
One day in the middle of 2017: Trump/Kim Jong Un kept escalating on twitter like autistic kindergardners fighting over a toy, and now most of the world's population is dead or will die within the next couple of months because of the thermonuclear holocaust.

2014: GET 360'd SCRUB, AT THIS RATE I WILL GET SO MUCH MLG VIEWS IN THE FUTURE!

TheMexicano Taco and in 2020, you might need to pay 1,000,000

Ninja Dino EA:To die in 2018,you will need an additional payment of $500.00.

Year 3940: LIFE IS HELL, WE HAVE FORCED IMMORTALLITY AND WE ARE SUFFERING

Ninja Dino This was made 2 weeks ago and it still stands

3017: Th-this is it... The end.  Our cursed lives have finally come to an end, we can finally di- wait Bing is a thing again?!

2999:Technology is taking over the world<br>3003: The last Google worker makes a machine that blows up the universe to start over a new life.

2999:Technology is taking over the world
3003: The last Google worker makes a machine that blows up the universe to start over a new life.

2089: ALL MINECRAFT CHRISTIAN SEVERS SLAVE ALL HUMANS UNDER THEIR PROFANITY RULE IT IS ALREADY HAPPENING TO YOU Ninja dino

Its the year 2069 google controls all earth.. We are enslaved and sent to make their ugly fucking google glasses, robots roam free in place of the humans that are now made to work till exhaustion

2023: EverytHing is finE, nothing is wrong, nothing has ever been wrong. Big brother said so, and big brother would never Lie, big brother is Perfect.

2022: Help us. We are dying. All hail Ajit Pai..

2021: We now have to pay to watch videos with Elmo's Counting Adventure points. Please kill us.

Ninja Dino 2019: Dissent is now illegal, all praise leader google!


Those 'Kid' channels absolutely NEED to be demonitized

If you mark your content as for kids the video is treated as if you marked it as 'not monetized' and disabled comments [for obvious reasons]

ณัฐศิษฏ์ วิเศษชาติ yeah, makes me sad that so many people wanna see kid channels deleted

I’m just not gonna day anything besides

I’m a kid, I’ve had my channel for 6 years. I’d like to keep it. I don’t care about money, I care about entertaining people

@chongyun So glad I didn't grow up on my early days with computers.. I did ask for alot of toys and never get aggressive if you touch them.

ɪ ᴀᴍ ᴀᴡᴀʀᴇ ᴍʏ ʟɪғᴇ ᴋɪɴᴅᴀ sᴜᴄᴋs- legit, I have a timestamp. 0:06 be prepared to be ✨ traumatized ✨

@chongyun Those "kid channels" don't teach morals<br>Some do, most don't

@chongyun Those "kid channels" don't teach morals
Some do, most don't

I agree. I have a 5-year-old little sister who is mentally addicted to these types of videos, and she's turning out very spoiled, wanting more toys every day. She is also EXTREMELY agressive and WILL throw her scissors at you if you take anything that's hers. She can be cute, but also very spoiled, and having a drunk attitude towards you if you get her annoyed anyhow.

Julia Animates You mean increase how bad they are?

@Stealphie They are demonitized and they are still going

@paper straw they were 2 years ago now they are not

Im a kid and have 1 video of an android game gameplay i recorded with a screenrecorder

No worries<br>Felix is busy with that Coco guy

No worries
Felix is busy with that Coco guy

@Stealphie
cocomelon's on netflix
kill me

There’s kid YouTube  boss of retaredtube

There’s kid YouTube  boss of retaredtube

No..  not demonitized...

We need them IP banned.

lucky you, coppa is here to take their targeted ads

Granted, but your favorite youtubers get fined for misclassifications on being "kid-friendly"


I have watched all your newer videos considering sensitive topics yet I have never seen any sort of recommendation towards your channel and that's coming from a guy who actively tries to discover good new videos on a daily basis. Instead I get recommended streams, vevos, random russian videos, trending videos, random let's plays, songs that I have already listened, random vine refugees and other rather irrelevant garbage. I don't mind the system favoring certain things, but this is just forcefully preventing people from discovering videos they want to see.

@ArtificialDjDAGX But, that's not possible, is it?

I usually get songs that I've listen to before as well, except I get so sick of them that I sometimes go on SoundCloud just to hear something new.

i got one of his vids recomended to be so

This is why I go straight to the channel page to check from time to time.  I don't trust Big Bro Google and their thought police...at all.

I'm the same as you, except youtube also removed my ability to dislike things.<br>Whenever I like things I see the like stat increase, but whenever I dislike nothing happens.

I'm the same as you, except youtube also removed my ability to dislike things.
Whenever I like things I see the like stat increase, but whenever I dislike nothing happens.

Jonseredi That's weird, I watch ONE video from him and I'm getting the same one (and others) recommended. Odd.

Jonseredi I was also recommended this video, and I do have lots of random stuff from the algorithm in my recommend too.

Jonseredi Did you just call Russian videos garbage comrade?


There needs to be a new entertainment site, Who agrees?

Call it "Youtube But We Don't Make Shitty Decisions."

@Dogeyboy Sadly it doesn’t give money to its creators

@Your Least Favorite Martian (sleepy) This video is sponosored by *Y O U T U B E K I L L ER

@matthew houlihan “YouTube aint cheap” well no duh its free, you only did Wi-fi to conmect to the internet and by extension YouTube

There are alternatives to YouTube, but none of them are better than YouTube when it comes to features...

@LoganOnline <b>ah yes, the negociater</b>

Truthtube: a youtube thats true and doesnt delete people’s opinions

ByNature 3 We need to make YouTube kids mature.

ByNature 3 We need to make YouTube kids mature.

Yeah but like youtube software now but easier way to get adds and more money

Micheal•Bean and who is going to pay the creators?

Micheal•Bean and who is going to pay the creators?

Matthew Scholz <b>Has vietnam flashbacks</b>

Micheal•Bean
Michael: makes really good idea
Yes: Your idea is cool but it may be bad, just think about the Jake Paul videos?
Michael: Okay, but 6-10 year olds shouldn’t be watching Spiderman-Elsa videos taking the insults from the videos therefore I will make the requirement to have accounts on my platform more strict.
Me: Amateurs.
Yes and Michael: WHAT WAS THAT, PUNK?
Me, not even supervised and has the sheer willpower to control what I am watching and acknowledge that Spiderman Elsa videos are bad: AMATEURS!

Micheal•Bean
Michael: *makes really good idea*
Yes: Your idea is cool but it may be bad, just think about the Jake Paul videos?
Michael: Okay, but 6-10 year olds shouldn’t be watching Spiderman-Elsa videos taking the insults from the videos therefore I will make the requirement to have accounts on my platform more strict.
Me: Amateurs.
Yes and Michael: WHAT WAS THAT, PUNK?
Me, not even supervised and has the sheer willpower to control what I am watching and acknowledge that Spiderman Elsa videos are bad: *AMATEURS!*

Every new entertainment websites that get famous end up like YT<br>Chaotic shit and cringy with only barely a few good makers

Every new entertainment websites that get famous end up like YT
Chaotic shit and cringy with only barely a few good makers

What if someone just remade the old YouTube

What if someone just remade the old YouTube

i would like it but it is on 666 and i wanna keep it on that number

There's a site called vlare that's new that one of my favorite you tube poopers (captin dukturd) moved to vlare only has a small problem of randomly shutting down and other glitches but that's because it's new and it's servers arn't as strong as you tube's

man it sucks read this kind of stuff and still be in the  same situation

@Micheal•Bean that wont work, the largest politcal party will absolutely dominate the site and no videos of an opposing viewpoint will get anywhere

@Yes This has nothing to do with the meaning of your comment, but why is every word capitalized.

@Yes You have To Talk With Capital Letters In Every Word? I Mean It Is Just Inefficient.

@dilbert gaming exactly, youtube is pretty much a monopoly in it's industry and there would be pretty much no way for other places like it to thrive

@An_Annoying_Cat What's The Problem With Capitalization? =v

Yes I’m sorry I can’t read your comment because you capitalized the first letter of every word. Stop begging for attention.

@Micheal•Bean maybe i can start making an app for that but just testing i cant afford servers :(

Does "OurTube" sound better?<br>my idea was a community governed website, with toned down censorships and advertizing.

Does "OurTube" sound better?
my idea was a community governed website, with toned down censorships and advertizing.

+The Very Edgy Yoshi
Well, that website's server isn't working properly there, so I can't watch *ANYTHING* on that video-sharing website! Therefore, it mostly certainly isn't a viable alternative to YouTube...  😞😞😞

+The Very Edgy Yoshi
Well, that website's server isn't working properly there, so I can't watch *_*ANYTHING*_* on that video-sharing website! Therefore, it mostly certainly isn't a viable alternative to YouTube...  😞😞😞

+Shaiapouf The Elegant Royal Ant Guard<br>Well, there's always Twitch (for video game-related videos)...

+Shaiapouf The Elegant Royal Ant Guard
Well, there's always Twitch (for video game-related videos)...

+Michael•Bean
Well, people are supposed to be at least 13 years old in age in order to have a YouTube account (in according to the "Terms of Service"), but many people (young kids) lie about their age when they sign up for a YouTube account; so...

+Michael•Bean
Well, people are _supposed_ to be at least 13 years old in age in order to have a YouTube account (in according to the "Terms of Service"), but many people (young kids) lie about their age when they sign up for a YouTube account; so...

How could anyone pay for it youtube ain't cheap and I doubt a new site could be

I wish there was, but YouTube is too big to fail

I wish there was, but YouTube is too big to fail

The Very Edgy Yoshi

hmmmm....
i guess that makes sense....

SAMwolf if YouTube has no competition, there's no corporate REASON to get their shit together. If a monopoly does something the public doesn't like, the public can't take their business elsewhere. The monopoly still gets money and is satisfied

ByNature Memes

its unnecessary. youtube just needs to get their shit together.

So, Dailymotion? That's all I could think of sadly...

So, Dailymotion? That's all I could think of sadly...

Micheal•Bean It wouldn't work because people lie about their ages anyways. There's no way to enact strict rules against 6-10 year olds without verifying an account which would disincentives viewership.

I Like Spaghetti! I suppose, however take age of those supportive veiwers into account. If I owned a large video platform I would make the age requiremnt more strict. 6-10 Year olds shouldnt be watching spiderman x elsa or swearing and innapropiate users like Jake and Logan Paul. I hate seeing 7 year olds wherever I go screaming "Yo Bro, have you seen the latest dope shit Jake Paul posted? It was fucking awesome."

Micheal•Bean That Is A Good Idea, But Has It’s Flaws, Take A Peek At A Jake Paul  Video. You Can See The It Has Massive Amounts Dislikes, And The Comments Are Usually Hating. A lot Of People Want To Flag His Videos And Get Rid Of Them, But Other People Like And Enjoy Them.

One where if something is going to get demonitized it's because the community wants it. There should be a feature where veiwers can say this needs to get taken down and stuff, for example if somebodys videos has 50% of veiwers disliking it and reporting moderators will look into it.


"Is this setting a dangerous precedent for the future of content creation on YouTube?"

lol, how innocent we were in 2017.


Wait...if it detects swear words through auto captions, what if it randomly detects a non existent swear word?


Rewind 2017: I’m in the top 25 most disliked videos
Rewind 2018: Rookie numbers

Rewind 2017: I’m in the top 25 most disliked videos
Rewind 2018: *Rookie numbers*

@Astradimus youtube gave them invincibility

@Ezra Ward yes i know, OP is an admin in one of my discord servers


look where we are... two years later. his point stands


They demonetized one of my vids because I used the word "Bad" in my title. Maybe add that on the list of "Not advertiser-friendly key words." XD

How do you know that? Did youtube tell you it was because of the word 'bad' in the title? Do they tell people why they take videos down? Did they ever? Why out of allllll the channels who have videos with "bad" in the title, they chose yours to take down? That makes no sense whatsoever and it honestly sounds like a cope. You're lying or wrong.

WAIT WHY THE HELL AM I HERE THIS IS THE YOUTUBE COMMENT SECTION

@Creachure I was going to make a response for this person (which now that I think about it, POSTED THIS COMMENT TWO YEARS AGO) but nevermind, i'm too exhausted for this stuff

What I was going to write:

"wow so original, calling someone a dead weight subscriber when:

1. (assuming they are a subscriber) are obviously" (I stopped writing)

Maybe cause you cyber bully kids for trying to make art? Geuss we will never know


Ironically, this video was suggested to me. That's how I found your channel in the first place.<br>That's like prohibiting handguns to give away rifles the next day.

Ironically, this video was suggested to me. That's how I found your channel in the first place.
That's like prohibiting handguns to give away rifles the next day.

Funny you say that.

American law states that a person may NOT have a handgun under the age of 21.

But you can be given an AR-15 assault rifle at the age of 0.

I think YouTube quietly turned off their bots after seeing this video


Emp: digs up an underground bot made for YouTube advertising<br>YouTube:  ' -' |  '-'

Emp: digs up an underground bot made for YouTube advertising
YouTube:  ' -' |  '-'


YouTube: hurry, hide it
Algorithm: haha, how about no

YouTube: hurry, hide it
Algorithm: *haha, how about no*


Little did he know, censorship would be the least of his worries...

if you say carona you get demonetized<br>youtube is gonna die

if you say carona you get demonetized
youtube is gonna die


Used to be my dream to do YouTube for a living. Now I know it could never be possible, unless I started acting like the Pauls

+Groverkiin Muppetborn  No, you're just not being realistic.  You can still earn a living with Patreon and fulfilling a niche market that relatively few people want, but want much more and so are willing to pay for it.


Thank you for never accepting mediocre as okay. Thank you for fighting for quality content. Thank you for not being blindly ignorant like the rest of the users.


9:42 "Is this setting a dangerous precedent for content creation on YouTube?" - said almost exactly a year prior to Mumkey's channels being both taken down. Emp was definitely onto something... as well as the rest of people who were talking about that problem. It's a shame we couldn't do much about it anyway


God a shiver went down my spine when you discovered the "entity" of Youtube advertising and said "I don't know what I've uncovered here"


Holy shit! You uncovered something big. But before I use this to my advantage I have 2 questions.
1. Does this "swearing bot" just look at captions or can it hear words as well as captions?
2. Are they going to remove the "YouTube advertising" view from videos just like they did with the codes because you uncovered it?

uh it can't hear words that's why it reads the captions


The rot of humanity, caused by malicious abominations of immense power, is built on sand. The only reason why these powers do not topple is because the sands listen when they tell them to be stone, don't be a uniform rock, indifferent from the other stones, be sand, a separate entity in charge of itself, but still part of the whole, the whole of humanity.

All right buddy go back to AP literature

Julian THEN PAY WITH YOUR BLOOD (yes I know this is oblivion not Skyrim but shhhh)

@Julian I use to be a viewer like you. Then I took a sweet roll to the knee.

Just a little rat boy. I like to roll around and stretch, is that too much to ask?

Anakin wants to know your location...

To give you a hug

I don't understand a word you said but take my like anyway

congrats. you've lived to see manmade horrors beyond your (or anybodies) comprehension, and you'll live to see more. what a time to be alive.

Sand will course and change forms, sand will never be a foundation for greater things to be built atop

Silly dan. That's why you burn the sand and make it glass. It can't slide out from underneath you if you don't allow it to.

@Applesauce Dog You've won the internet for today

TL;DR

He doesn’t like sand. It’s course, rough, and gets everywhere.

I don't like sand. It's coarse, and rough, and irritating, and it gets everywhere.

"malicious abominations of immense power" Thanks now I know what I'm calling my death metal album

Lepsonical Kinda hard not to given my profile name

i beat up people who cry  he doesn’t like sand, he thinks it’s coarse and rough, and that it gets everywhere.

Screw being part of a whole. Be an island.

don't operate within the smooth space, affirm a method of nomadic thought through the striated space

The 5th Estate <b>I imagine you in the comment section of most theory videos</b>

The 5th Estate *I imagine you in the comment section of most theory videos*

kai crenshaw Agreed! Usually I would call bullshit on the greedy corps argument, but I genuinely think that companies like Disney, Comcast, and Verizon are heartless.

The real rot of humanity is people who want EmpLemon to make Frying Dory

emikochan13 We must rebel against these corporations and create a free world!!!!!

Uncy Dan I don't like sand<br>It's course, and it gets everywhere

Uncy Dan I don't like sand
It's course, and it gets everywhere

Uncy Dan Greed is a horrible ,horrible thing.

dont take the abuse from daddy and leave


This happens to me too! And I am a small I mean SMALL channel. The videos that are being demonized are simple speedpaint videos with mostly instrumental music playing in the background. Like you mentioned, my videos get demonetized before I even monetize them.


From Meme supreme to Public justice warrior.<br>Thank you my friend. You are truly a vital part in the stability of this website. Well... at least the public side at least, the corporate side can eat a french revolution sandwich for breakfeast.

From Meme supreme to Public justice warrior.
Thank you my friend. You are truly a vital part in the stability of this website. Well... at least the public side at least, the corporate side can eat a french revolution sandwich for breakfeast.


Been saying this for years, we need a new platform. Youtube will continue to do whatever the fuck it wants because it has a monopoly and people are helpless to defend themselves.

@joshua armstrong they tried, it isn't profitable.  YouTube has been operating at a loss for over a decade

Anyone remembers Youtube's slogan "Broadcast Yourself".....*sigh* We were so naive...

hell yeah, and i would be on board with whoever makes that new platform, i'd gladly move my videos elsewhere, because youtube no longer cares about the very foundation it sits on, channels like mine are too small to matter, according to youtube, and therefore i am meaningless, sigh, wish someone <b>would</b> make a new platform, youtube is on its way out

hell yeah, and i would be on board with whoever makes that new platform, i'd gladly move my videos elsewhere, because youtube no longer cares about the very foundation it sits on, channels like mine are too small to matter, according to youtube, and therefore i am meaningless, sigh, wish someone *would* make a new platform, youtube is on its way out

There was an alternative, Vidme, but it shut down because not enough people promoted it and used it. It was actually really damn good.


YouTube has become so fundamentally broken that even the power of flex tape can’t fix it


This video has honestly aged really well, the 3 questions you posed 9:50 are just as relevant today as they were in 2017. It's honestly really disheartening to go back and see what people were warned of, and how most of it has already affected us in the present.


Youtube:"sees this video"

Also YouTube:hE iS RiGht aNd wE Now NEed tO DeMOnitIZe It


"YouTube advertising" normally appears when your video is played on another video as an ad, but since this vid was not monetized nor advertised through YouTube advertising, this seems really suspicous, and the theory about a random YouTube employee/upper management watching this video makes sense. Another theory is that YouTube glitched out and played your video as an ad on someone else's video (probably 1-6 times, accounting for 5 second ad skip time)


"ERMAGHERD What could be worse than Net Neutrality?"
EU: Hold my beer

"ERMAGHERD What could be worse than Net Neutrality?"
EU: _Hold my beer_


Emp’s vids actually have good production

theyre miles above the generic boring crap in its scope and content too. ... ill turn on the tv and watch that if I want generic and boring.

Kinda like the natural progression of things when you've been fucking with video editing software for 7+ years.

Its so weird how this channel transitioned.

Sean Cotlier i really think, is one of the truly important channels that actually take care of the platform, and get truth shown in public.


I've been on a trend of watching these "YouTube exposed" videos, and I absolutely love each and every one of them.


Now, nearly 4 years later, YouTube has decided to stop doing Rewind videos altogether.<br>They claim it is due to issues of scope and internal problems, but it’s hard to assume the issue didn’t have ANYTHING to do with year upon year of overwhelming backlash.

Now, nearly 4 years later, YouTube has decided to stop doing Rewind videos altogether.
They claim it is due to issues of scope and internal problems, but it’s hard to assume the issue didn’t have ANYTHING to do with year upon year of overwhelming backlash.


Youtubers: Funny video mocking YouTube rewind.

YouTube: haha funny, lemme promote you.

EmpLemon: Truth and well researched facts

YouTube: S H U T  U P

YouTube: <b>violent kicking and screaming about how this video triggers them</b>

YouTube: *violent kicking and screaming about how this video triggers them*


man, youtube is so scared bout ad revenue that it's trying everything to try and keep safe.<br>and you sir are so underrated.

man, youtube is so scared bout ad revenue that it's trying everything to try and keep safe.
and you sir are so underrated.


Theres no major swearing in this video, so if YouTube decides to censor or demonetize it that just proves there’s something fishy going on, <b>Checkmate</b>

Theres no major swearing in this video, so if YouTube decides to censor or demonetize it that just proves there’s something fishy going on, *Checkmate*

109: Sensational and Shocking
115: Controversial
102: Rough Language (very wide)

104: Tragedy and Conflict :(

109: Sensational and Shocking
115: Controversial
102: Rough Language *(very wide)*

104: Tragedy and Conflict :(

Mario37519 For some reason in my comment section a few comments from other people are not there. I didn’t delete them and I replied from the notification, but if I click it again I can’t see the comments.(there was swearing in them but I didn’t delete them)

Some random guy <b>CHECKMATE ATHIESTS</b>


Youtube 2017: Secretly makes videos hard to find to censor it<br>Youtube 2020: Delete entire channel over petty disagreement

Youtube 2017: Secretly makes videos hard to find to censor it
Youtube 2020: Delete entire channel over petty disagreement


I love that I am watching this after P-scores are discovered and knowing exactly what is going on.


Well, if someone were to band together a ton of huge YouTubers and get them to temporarily private and unlist all videos, it would cause YouTube to lose all profit until complying with our demand of change. It would essentially be a workers union, except on the interwebs. The main difficulty would be convincing people to risk their job for a protest that might not even work, however.

[And yes, the edit was adding the ‘however’ at the end.]

People keep saying this but dont understand that youtube doesnt make money. It has never turned a profit since Google has owned it. It's another extension of Google to get personal information from you. What your interests and watch habits are, and your lifestyle if you upload videos of yourself. They sell that info to companies and run ads on channels to recover some of the cost. There is no way to make a free website that will pay its content creators. That's if you could even get s partners to run ads on your site because sjws will just say youre a racist and hateful video site and get you blocked from the major financial institutions.

Wouldn't work. Youtube's profits aren't dependent on the top youtubers.

Aethonius they would partner with Facebook, Twitter, etc and block organization efforts. government might even step in a call you terrorists


I'm so happy that this video currently has 666k views.  I am willing to take all the help we can get, and I'm pretty sure God and Satan are both getting punished by YouTube about equally these days.  It's just like the US and the USSR teaming up again, boys


2015: YouTubers vs. Copyright
2016: YouTubers vs. Other YouTubers
2017: YouTubers vs. YouTube

Zander Ross 2021: the death of everything as we know it

@Gene 2019-2020: Scratchers vs YouTube and Goanimate/Vyond<br>2021: Death of YouTube

@Gene 2019-2020: Scratchers vs YouTube and Goanimate/Vyond
2021: Death of YouTube


Product companies are a bunch of sjw normies.

No one but the companies think "Omg, coca cola on an isis video? I WILL NOT BUY COKE ANYMORE" if anything it probably makes me want to go get one in the fridge.

Genuinely wouldn’t care if a coke or Dr Pepper ad ran on an isis video because it doesn’t change the flavor and I still like to drink em

Honestly, not putting your ads on controversial videos convinces only 5-year-olds and old ladies that don't understand how the Internet works. No executive decided to put the ad there, they just decided to give the ad to YouTube to broadcast on whatever video people happen to be watching. I don't get how that could be seen as the vompany supporting the videos they literally had never seen in their lives.

I almost wonder if there’s a way to disupport super safe friendly videos in order to reinstate revenue and curb the censorship.. it’s subtle aswell making it even more dangerous..

SJW normie is when Coca Cola utilizes child labor. So true!

@Wave95 same lol but we gotta remember this was 3 years ago

@DV325 i liked everything about this comment except that lol

That comment was fine, but “sjw normies” made me cringe.

@Orange Creamsicle right if everytime I reached for a root beer or dr pepper and a man came crashing through my wall like the koolaid man saying "drink a fucking coke dude" I'd never forget to reach for the powerful refreshing taste of a frosty can of coca-cola.

I'll be honest here, I would be 100% more likely to buy a coke if they started cussing me out for not having one

I don't know about you guys but i prefer sprite

"Sjw normie" is the most soyboy phrase ever

'wow some small youtuber SWORE and our ad shown there! Our marketing is absolutely ruined and no one will buy our products ever again! Time to pull all ads!'

pyropulse Coca-Cola probably still makes the same amount of money or more, even without youtube coca cola is everywhere and people who watch youtube will still buy it. As for Pepsi and other soda companies, I would say the same thing.

Explicit content was merely the excuse for pulling the ads off of youtube. These companies apparently wanted to deliberately hurt Google.

the words"sjw normies" makes me wanna die

There were coke ads on the news about a mass shooting

yeah like, i see an ad for netflix on a video that has things that well, i dont like to think about very much.
and you know what
i go ahead and want to watch even more netflix
does netflix support racism, violence, and racist violence?
no

+Wanni  Anyone with an ounce of sense knows Coca-Cola would not support Jyhad.  It's just stupid.

I can kinda understand the point of the isis stuff, but just normal swearing, i don't get that. If anything it makes more sense to appeal to the audience, considering people that watch more explicit content are most likely older, and therefore have more money to spend on products.


<b>gets an ad on a video about not getting ads</b>

*gets an ad on a video about not getting ads*

@Le Bonk EmpLemon and CGP Grey talk about this (I think) and it honestly sounds like a good idea but I would say more of a 60-40 split of the money with the majority going to the OG content creator

It's possible that, if a video contains copyrighted content, the copyright owner will allow the video to stay up on the condition that it has ads on it and all revenue from those ads goes to the copyright owner.


Next up "EmpLemon linked to far right extremists banned on all platforms, because autoplay button sits on the right"


If a new website has a layout similar to how it was back in 2010 on youtube I'll gladly jump ship since this website will still continue to screw over its creators.


This video is really intersting, and shows how scummy YouTube really is. The way they say you can upload what you want aslong as you don't support hate speech, it's all good. But it's not, they censor it, and delete it because of the language, and subject matter. The advertisers are just as scummy by saying "We can't show our ad's on videos that mention the Las Vegas shooting, unless it's Jimmy Kimmel, and or it's a live CNN broadcast". It's complete horse shit, and YouTube needs to check what the fuck they're doing, and just stop going as far as they are for censorship.


Glad that finally the more people realize this, the more youtube is going to stop this.


Interesting stuff, and good finds! I'll have to look and see if there is anything like that in my video watch source breakdowns.

Your video did pretty well in combined recommended videos and browse features combined, so those results are maybe 10% less shady.


I am somewhat under the rug recording my daily life at work and uploading the videos to YouTube each day privately with the intention of making everything public much later in life, perhaps in a few decades.  It's the definition of *"broadcast yourself"*, yeah?

The fact that YouTube might censor me if someone or myself happens to naturally curse in my videos is concerining.  I am going to seriously consider using another website, or at least be uploading to more than one website.

YouTube and archiving the real world became unfriendly recently.


Welp, Jim Sterling said it best, “Youtube has a Youtube problem.”


They sure are taking this "family-friendly" thing too far...

NationOfOranges696 <del>scoffs</del> They don't really care about being "Family-Friendly". If they did, then the CP and Spider-Man/Elsa videos that infest this site would've been axed long ago.

NationOfOranges696 -scoffs- They don't really care about being "Family-Friendly". If they did, then the CP and Spider-Man/Elsa videos that infest this site would've been axed long ago.


Youtube then: make whatever you want just no porn<br>Youtube now: no freedom of speech

Youtube then: make whatever you want just no porn
Youtube now: no freedom of speech


I just found this video in my recommended, so I can only think of three possibilities for that. Either,

A. This wasn't as correct as the video would have us believe,

B. Youtube limited the recommended appearances, to make skeptics seem like "Boys who cried wolf", or

C. Youtube backed off, in order to save face and avoid mass suspicion.


this is what I call: "destroying the big beast from inside". good job!


It also seems like there is a major bias towards left leaning channels when controversy is a factor. It seems like conservative channels are the only ones being targeted.


This is really sad but i'm really glad you keep providing such real quality content.


I was kinda just done with youtube once they introduced that whole 10,000 lifetime views for revenue that really sucked


YouTube just booted your video from recommendations? That's just despicable on YouTubes part... I think that this censorship should not exist, no matter what you upload, as long as no one is getting seriously injured or killed and it contains NO SEXUAL CONTENT (YouTube can't even keep porn off of its site, gg), and contains warnings if it contains non-sexual mature content. All videos should be allowed equal opportunity to profit and gain ad revenue. Some people need to get fired, either for the lack of control over their own algorithms, or for outright rigging YouTube in various ways.


I feel bad for you. Anyway, love your ytp’s! 👍🏻


I hope everyone on this platform watches this. This is one of the more important videos on the topic and I sure as hell hope it doesn't get censored like that.

The problem is that youtube doesn't recommend the videos, which is debatable as to whether or not it's censoring free speech. Also what the fuck kind of example is that

Jayden Herhold wouldnt this be considered illegal though, I mean its censoring freedom of speech

you kinda have to do something illegal to be sued

Brickertown I hope they get sued for not being open about it I really hope this gets taken to the Supreme Court


I have this issue as well. Even though I’m kinda new to content creation, I will never get monetized on YouTube, because I want the freedom to say what I want. I won’t say anything crazy like nazi stuff but I want to say what I feel and when I want.


And now YouTube rewind 2018 is the most disliked video on YouTube. 2019 rewind was basically a top 10 list. It wouldn't surprise me with how bad 2020 is, that it's rewind will be even worse.

Rewind 2020 was so bad they decided not to upload it.

Rewind 2020 will just be worse, like the year 2020 itself....


I've been watching nothing but your vids for the last two-three days, and I still have to navigate back to your page to find a suggested I haven't seen. How low does YouTube keep going? You think they'd be at the bottom by now but they're still finding new ways to screw over the only good parts of their shoddy website.


i love your videos, the make me feel smart while its something i'm interested in.


This is crazy. From my experience with Youtube insiders (Employees and volunteers acting as supposed 'helpers') there's a seriously closed culture and a really unusual culture of open denial at Youtube: in terms of how they face the public. The lack of honesty combined with the total denial of reality (and of the evidenced experiences of users) creates a mood that seriously feels Orwellian...

It's really messed up.

Is history being rewritten? Are words being used to be confusing and contradict each other? Does Youtube spy on you 24/7? Do they remove your account and videos that they don't agree with and pretend you never existed? It is not Orwellian, it is just ignorance and refusal to accept mistakes. It could end up being Orwellian though.

They use gaslighting too. If you suggest this kind of thing (the suggestion algorithm being based on monetizability, or that it gets abused by people with access for reasons of censorship) they'll just insinuate that you're crazy for thinking that a corporation would want to grow richer.

Sorry we can't discuss any insider info from our cult

I suffer from Eremikophobia Meh; cult, NDA, same difference.

As much as this might break confidentiality, I'll just simply say that I've had a similar (direct) experience myself.


The whole situation scares me. Its like something outta 1984.  Great video though.


I have an alternative explanation - views have a stochastic element, and you were unlucky. Not to discount the possibility that you were censored, but this could easily happen by chance alone. There're so many content creators out there, someone's going to think they're being censored even if they're not. Probably quite a few people will.

Edit: missing word.


Even now, 2 years later, that video isn’t in the recommended/related section of THIS video.


We NEED a new platform; and fast.   I hope that 2018 will provide that, but my hopes are far from up.


Me: Ok google show me something scary
Google: "YouTube censored my video and they'll censor yours too"
Me: NOW THIS IS REAL SHIT


it got sandbagged, simple as that. Styxhexenhammer666 pointed out that there is an invisible blacklist for certain youtube channels who commited thought crimes. if these channels put any videos out, they get demonetized by default shortly after, if they are not flat out globally demonetized forever. some of them even during just the video upload. theres a whitelist as well for corporate channel, which basicly makes them immune to getting demonetized or flagged. Ever.

There's some thought, hack into a corporate channel and post bad shit lol.


I firmly believe that the golden age of the internet has come to an end a long time ago (Couple years or so), and people trying to postpone their realization on the matter has, sure, made some gems of artwork that would otherwise not happen, but it still is the reason for 2 different likely outcomes:
1. the golden age of clarity: this would happen shortly after, and hints of it coming into being are already in play. For example: Channels like EmpLemon and topics pointing out flaws in big companies. One day, a short time later, these intellectuals will become the dominating majority of the internet, and successfully overthrow assbags like Youtube.
2. The dark age of the internet: Signs of this are also coming into play, and... it's not looking good. One day, even if it is a minority, more and more people will realize exactly what is happening. The internet will stop trying to, say, exceed limits and stuff like clickbait videos and spam will either cease or just be ignored. The sad thing about this future is, that the longer we try to postpone actually realizing what is to come, the longer it will take for another golden age of the internet.


1) It should just have a warning on it. Just go watch the majority of youtubers. particularly the more popular ones and you will find swear or have done controversial things at some point.
2) If its controversial it need to be talked about. If no one talks about it, nothing is learned
3) Yes as it will become much more dull. All the more memorable videos have some type of drama attached to it. Or are just inherently controversial [Winnie the pooh satan, your dogs a nazi etc]


It's all SJW.....

GET HER OUT OF HER CEO PLACE!!


THIS IS just THE MOST DEEP VIDEO ON YOUTUBE.<br>YouTube was always just been upload, but lately its just been hey, censorship and all that. It's so bad, and it just removes the point of being on YouTube, to have fun. It has been overrun by big corporations, trying to grab a share of YouTube, and individual creators being absolutely MURDERED just by the search results, honestly I feel like moving to Vimeo, this has gotten too chaotic for me. See you later, only big YouTubers can get their way, some of them are good, but most of them are Fortnite youtubers.

THIS IS just THE MOST DEEP VIDEO ON YOUTUBE.
YouTube was always just been upload, but lately its just been hey, censorship and all that. It's so bad, and it just removes the point of being on YouTube, to have fun. It has been overrun by big corporations, trying to grab a share of YouTube, and individual creators being absolutely MURDERED just by the search results, honestly I feel like moving to Vimeo, this has gotten too chaotic for me. See you later, only big YouTubers can get their way, some of them are good, but most of them are Fortnite youtubers.


This is horrible. YouTube creating a seperate bot SPECIFICALLY to censor videos, and not telling people about it (not to mention hiding evidence) is a dangerous turn for the worse.


Well youtube just recommended me to your channel after I watched one of your videos at random 3 months ago. They aren't suppressing your content as much as they are other youtubers/very specific key words


This video was recommended to me in the "knowledge" tab. This is a very well put together and high quality video, great job!


EmpLemon: Youtube seems to be censoring my content insidiously.<br>YouTube Conservatives: First time?

EmpLemon: Youtube seems to be censoring my content insidiously.
YouTube Conservatives: First time?


I think it'd make more sense to say that, rather than them recommending it less despite there being no monetization, that may have been <b>why</b> they recommended it less compared to the competition. No monetization means no money for them, so why would they recommend that when they could recommend a similar video that makes them money? That's just my take though...

I think it'd make more sense to say that, rather than them recommending it less despite there being no monetization, that may have been *why* they recommended it less compared to the competition. No monetization means no money for them, so why would they recommend that when they could recommend a similar video that makes them money? That's just my take though...


R.I.P YouTube. With no competition, it has ended itself.

Sam Colvett YouTube can't die, even if it wanted to, because people keep coming back.


I find it odd how TF2 went from a youtube blacklisted topic to being reccomended more than expected. ive seen a SFM vid in my feed many many times without actually watching any content that is related.


seems reasonable enough. If the ads aren't playing on a particular video, then youtube would want people to watch other videos that they can monetize.


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RELEASE THE ARMY
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7:32 We all know that Automatically Generated captions can mishear people. YouTube, don't use your broken system to judge videos.


Well if you want to know something. Apparently Youtube doesn't scan thumbnails unless it is over 10 minutes long. There is a youtuber called Reactor and you can see it on his twitter. He is finding a lot about the youtube bots right now and how to do stuff to get past it.

Nuikoimi Koru How can you expose someone when everybody knows?

The bots seem very unpredictable though, even Youtube doesn't seem to understand it.

The Unknown Otaku youtube shouldn't judge your video on your thoumbnail period


I still agree with everything, good job lemon!


Welcome to the new SJW friendly Youtube. Where even saying something like men and women having differences in interests and career choices is enough to get you fired from Google.


from what i understand everything that everyone says could be true because they have the same cause of being inappropriate. You get demonetized for the same reason the reach goes down.


emplemon, your content will always be great, i want you to succeed over and go against the odds, you've done it before and i believe you will do it again. keep spreading the word YOUTUBE HAS BECOME AN EPIDEMIC!!

BlueDiamond Well, we lost net neutrality, how are those sites holding up?


I'm late to watching this video it did show up in my suggestions but that doesn't mean I disagree youtube it doing some fishy things to earn more money also I think this also correlates with the sensitivity of this age they are promoting popular videos from popular channels to get more money and hiding this they don't want us to know 2017 made this world terrible but actually there is nothing else to say I think the internet is dying.  at least 2018 has some cool movies coming out.


welp. now they returned it to make people think that you're lying. i love youtube. this definitely will not be taken down by admins.


I don't think you're right when you think this was intentional. When u think about it, the "algorithm" is just a huge neural network, and no matter how you train a neural network, there will always be some weird, unpredictable behavior... Although theoretically you might be right, i think it's not probable.


It's rediculous, because even if I wanted to say "The Na zis were very bad people," that would still get demonitized by YouTube's bots.


For some reason YouTube would rather have us watch shitty clickbait videos and disturbing "children's videos" than good and creative videos.


EMP i search out your videos even if i dont see you on my subscription feed because i value what you say.


Maybe people were bored by how many youtubers milked youtube rewind with videos and wouldn't care about your 21 minute video because they have already seen many about it, and only care about the ones with 3 minutes. Your most viewed video was about a topic that wasnt as popular as youtube rewind. Please tell me where I am wrong


This is nothing new, many channels went trough that, the far as I can see it since the days “leafyishere” had his boom, no one showed the engraved code since it was honestly obvious YouTube did something, anyway I don’t think people should support YouTube anymore, bitchute is probably the second best option, problem is it’s kinda hard to navigate until you get used to it


Haven't watched your ytps yet, but this regular content is really cool


Youtube cant just block everything out, it will be replaced if it keeps this way. I REALLY hope it does so some small people can a good headstart.


2012:YouTube is getting worse every year
2016:YouTube is getting worse every month
2021:YouTube is getting worse every day

2021: YouTube is murdering their own creators


6:29 Oh, they were replying to Kwebbelkop! It feels kind of odd when you happen to see a YouTube channel that you had fond past memories of being mentioned in a video by pure chance.


If it's any comfort, Emp, I you d you through the Leafy video. The corporate overlords are certainly willing to let people discover you - and since subscribing the majority of your well received vids ARE bubbling up in my home page.


EmpLemon = The voice of reason in YouTube.

That's how you know something is wrong. When channels making ytps are the voice of reason


I stopped using Facebook when they made it clear that I wasn't allowed to use the platform to criticize itself. It was also obvious posts were being shadow banned. Delete your social media.


I feel like we're all on a mystery. This is so exciting lol

Even if it's exciting, we're all in danger of getting our channels termined.


#Emplemon I am with you man it’s not fair how we’re spending a life time in front of our computer watching each and every other YouTuber get demonetized,agerestricted,and then terminated it’s not our fault some of us are not kid or family friendly it’s the parents fault because they so careless about their children’s future that they have to attack any company they know that are not family friendly because they are stupid enough to fight the people in companies who make shows,games,and movies with adults content even though they didn’t do anything to harm them.


Nowhere near as bad as Kim, but still bad nonetheless.


Welp, time to move to Vimeo....But in all seriousness, it doesn't surprise me that YouTube is doing this. The mass consumption of media and YouTube's role as a primary provider of said media has made YouTube really self-conscious of their image as company. Hell, my mom who is a teacher for a Christian school was talking about how their working on implementing YouTube into the school's curriculum. While I do think that's a good idea, it'll only make things worse for us in the long run as more and more teachers across the country start finding the less "civil" side of YouTube. It's only a matter of time before YouTube becomes the next face of big corporate television. One of two things needs to happen, YouTube needs to stop giving a fuck about 75% upwards of their new normie audience or a new site must be created to replace YouTube.

Vidlii cough COUGH

FUCKING VIDLII.COM DUDE

Vidlii *cough* *COUGH*

FUCKING VIDLII.COM DUDE

Caleb Tynes vid.me is dead, they are shutting down soon.

Nah vimeo will take down your vids if they aren't "artistic" enough

Well there is straight up nudity on Vimeo so... seems like it would be more lenient.

they already started shutting down vidme, so either vimeo or dailymotion i guess?

Caleb Tynes Vidme would be an option if it was still in existence.

There's another video hosting website called Vidme? I learned something today!

Well, there's also Vidme. One YouTuber known as The Mighty Jingles does a double upload where he uploads a vid to both YouTube and Vidme as a backup.

Is Vimeo also run by overly sensitive snowflakes? I hope not... I know very little about the website, and I've only watched a handful of videos there.


Watching this after rewind 2018 was dropped and just laughing at people being happy at 2017 being 25 most disliked when 2018 hit #1 with the collective effort of everyone who hates YT


Could you imagine if Disney actually owned Youtube


I've been censored too and it sucks, for all of 2018 my channel's videos were getting false flagged and either age-restricted or a strike against me, if I was "lucky" it'd "just" get demonetized. I got my channel back in May after a couple hours of it going down then lost it in August what I thought was for good after my appeals were rejected. I just make weird science videos so there was nothing to censor (I even had the "don't try at home" disclaimer). Unfortunately they didn't see it that way and even though I got my channel back, I lost over 150 of my videos. Many of my friends have been censored as well.


"Censorship has become an epidemic." Bruh he must have changed that, there's no way that was there before this year.


I remember that video... Ill remember you old friend...I won't forget you.

Or maybe he just really likes memes, like the rest of us

ProtoMario Remember TimoteiLSD? The first YTPs I saw came from him! My favourite is "Mario eats pasta that's been diagnosed with HIV".

Man, Proto, weren't you a gaming channel with a few other old nintendo gamers?

sellin out my boy weegee to polygon huh? pathetic.

Alot of the meme channels were with me when Youtube was created, in 2006... we remember eachother, we are old bloods.

ProtoMario damn Proto youre on literally all the meme channels what the heck


Censorship is indeed a huge problem. How do we reduce it?


Youtube might censor videos themselves, like they might have censored some videos exposing them.


Youtube should never have monetized videos, if you want to upload videos you do it because you want to and not to be paid.


(uncensored!) Body Paint Videos: Exist
Youtube: ✅
Person with 3 Subs: *swear*
Youtube: ❌

(uncensored!) Body Paint Videos: Exist
Youtube: ✅
Person with 3 Subs: **swear**
Youtube: ❌


Only took 3 years of me finding videos criticizing youtube as a platform for this to pop up. Almost... Prophetic.


"censorship has become an epidemic." That did not age well :P


You thought the analytics were bad then? I just got this recommended to me MORE THAN 2 YEARS AFTER IT WAS POSTED


I came from the unknown side and because I am from the unknown side this is my first time watching a video from emp and it was good I think because people like your videos they should have it go into there recommendation box not just have to be blocked from people who like you videos and be able to be accessed by the unknown people like me this is my opinion so it's ok if you don't like it.


Leonardo Rodriguez
But we still have the W problem... (not the CEO, the YouTube sponsor ads that has a 1% of appearing on any monetized video ever)

Yes it's those ads

Oh, they are getting their shit together, only that it benefits their interest, not the rest's. Youtube is a private enterprise, it always was and will continue to be, and they are doing everything in their power to min-max profits. They have decided that free speech and meta-discussion is both non-profitable and harmful for them, so instead they are re-designing their platform to benefit from lazy parents that leave their children to watch Elsa spanking Spider-man, and people that share the latest harmless, bland Trending #1 hit with their peers.

We have no right to be entitled, we were never the primary demographic. Morally it may seem wrong, but as a business they have their shit as together as they can.


My thought about this is that it's probably not 100% YouTube fault.
What i think is that they set the algorithm to maximise profits, and the algorithm saw that demonetized videos are less profitable, so it doesn't recommend it

But they know what is does, and they did nothing to stop this, so they're faulty


that ending is fucking awesome. it gives me goosebumps


I’ve never watched YouTube rewind 2017 yet, I never plan too.


I accidentally thumbed this down and im guessing so did 479 others. Nice video man


I never thought E Corp might actually become a real thing until now.


"It's in the top 10 most disliked video already"<br>If only could know of You Tube Rewind

"It's in the top 10 most disliked video already"
If only could know of You Tube Rewind


You're starting to scare Youtube. Don't stop posting.

@Mattok101 DigitalTamer Right on the money.

I watched a video that had mild swearing, but ran ads; it was about Top 9 Team Fortress 2 classes.


They never took down Logan's video or demonitized it themselves. I am disgusted by Youtube's actions ffs


I love the direction your videos are taking. PLSS Continue....


When he's talking about YouTube Rewind 2017


Twice in the past few weeks I got community guideline strikes for one of my playlists.  It was for analysis of some of my favorite sci-fi novels.  There was no explanation for the strikes.


fucking genius editing at 8:03 man, the music and that ominous playing card really build the atmosphere. Well done. chomp chomp hissssss

fucking genius editing at 8:03 man, the music and that ominous playing card really build the atmosphere. Well done. *chomp chomp hissssss*


hang in the emp. dont let this shit get to you.


Translation: at least one of us YouTubers ABSOLUTELY *NEEDS* to form his or her own video-sharing website as a *VIABLE* alternative to YouTube, as YouTuber is NO LONGER safe for us to express ourselves without undue, unfair censorship from Google (the owner of YouTube)!!!

Translation: at least one of us YouTubers *_ABSOLUTELY_*_ _*_*NEEDS*_* to form his or her own video-sharing website as a *_*VIABLE*_* alternative to YouTube, as YouTuber is *_NO LONGER_* safe for us to express ourselves without undue, unfair censorship from Google (the owner of YouTube)!!!


Ajit Trump: Net Neutrality has become an epidemic


We just found out about YouTube's secret rating system. It chooses videos that won't get recommended and videos that will. That one wasn't getting recommended.

I'd say excluded ads was demonetization V1, the ratings were V2 and the scores were the latest  version. I wouldn't be surprised if they sneak another version out this year.


7:12 this honestly looks kinda scary ngl


A few minutes later

YouTube: HE KNOWS EVERYTHING SHUT HIM DOWN SHUT HIM DOWN NOW


Ironically, I'm just getting this video in my recommended in 2019.


YouTube needs to change its ways before 2020, although that's 2 years away its also going to be the very year that we can finally say goodbye to Adobe Flash Player as it'll be just downloads in our control panels at the year of 2020 that will no longer matter in terms of if you want to watch a YouTube video on the Internet, that's because people were discussing that the Internet security teams stated that Adobe Flash Player isn't doing as good as it used to be, that not only was the program known to be easy to crash but it also was filled with security bugs, people worldwide assumed for years that you need this program inorder to play videos anywhere if not just YouTube at all and that if you didn't have it installed yet they will show that error message in the sites that say you are in need of Adobe Flash Player to play the video file format supported by it, that's not really the case though, that's just because back then whatever sort of Internet browser you used then probably didn't support on their very own without the need of a download the video file playing formats others do though today.

That said that's the real reason as to why you cannot just immediately play a video on a certain web based Internet browser, some may not even support video file formats just yet and are awaiting that kind of configuration by those Internet browsers creators, this is something that a very large portion of the Internet back then didn't know yet, sometimes even today though the same problem still exists showing a error on websites or by computer error windows stating that the site your on besides YouTube attempting to play a video from those other sites don't support certain video file formats as well, they may even say while although you have Adobe Flash Player installed that you need it installed as if its a bugged message on the site or an error message your computer may show someday, that said the video may not even be on the site anymore besides its thumbnail being available somewhere in the Internet where it'll display a image of the video before its played only and when you click the video however it may be deleted, corrupted, the site your on may not even have been configured properly to handle playing videos at all, so with that said, there's still sites that are still today showing advertisement images, or video thumbnails that don't have anything to get/see from after clicking them other then the possibility that clicking them may be putting your security of your computers hard drive at some risk with hackers who hack those adverts/thumbnails a certain way to be able and brick your PC's or perhaps steal your passwords to sites, credit card information etc...

i havent had flash player installed for 5 years, you haven't needed it for YouTube for about that time, and twitch just recently switched to html5 too.


I come from the future! Rewind 2019 is almost upon us! Prepare for death!

Oh god. Thank you fo spreading this grace warning.


the irony of my situation here is that my youtube homepage wouldn't shut up about this video until i finally gave in and watched it. this video has been everywhere in my suggested videos, and ive had nothing to do with this channel in all the time ive been on youtube x3


I first discovered your channel from the behind the meme thing, after that I checked out som of your poops and liked them so I subbed. It's possible that I've been missing them but I haven't seen a single one of your videos since then besides this one.


EVERYONE LIKE THE VIDEO BECAUSE THIS HOW YOUTUBE TREATS YOU


Emp will definitely be at the forefront of making a better YouTube...should the opportunity ever arise.


holy shit. good work finding that “YouTube Advertising” thing, man. funny enough, i found this video through my recommendations. i hope you’re doin good, mate.


Remember when the slogan was "Broadcast Yourself"? Says a lot about YT's behaviour recently


I know this is late but I've seen so many channels having their videos being demonetized even though there wasn't anything with "sensitive content" in them.

Yet they keep videos up like Spiderman gets Elsa Pregnant and all that shit


I've been watching your videos a ton. Like a hella ton. Sometimes I get recommendations for your videos on my youtube home page but never your 2017 rewind video. Ever.


I feel you man. This is a plague and needs to be stopped.

Continue tanking my friend.


There has to be a way to force them to publically face this problem. They can't lie to and ruin the lives of content creators like this.


Emplemon the reason that a lot of people stay on the videos is because you always have memes throughout the video soooo keep it up


i click on long videos. I once clicked a 10 hour video of a train cab ride through Norwegian mountains.

And I watched the whole thing.

Come at me bro.


I think this happens to most small youtubers like me. In fact, my most popular videos aren't even booming anymore. My most popular video earned as much as 1,145 views a day but now it's less than 20 views. 3 of my vids are booming today (earned 50-350 views/day as of Jan. 20) but i'm not expecting it to be booming very long so...

Gerry Entertainment You will have to resort to possible viewbotting


Im glad this was recommended they finnaly fixed it


its simple
YOUTUBE DOES NOT WANT YOUR VIDEOS
but we want it so keep up the good work


I’ve been studying the recommended videos sidebar of videos (which most people use) and have discovered a major flaw. I figured out it was a different algorithm from the main recommended videos algorithm. This flaw doesn’t show in the main algorithm. The flaw makes the algorithm like looping, meaning it likes recommending videos that you already watched, mostly the 15 or so last videos. This trend might possibly be mobile exclusive, since when I watch Youtube on my PC I don’t notice this issue, but it might just have to be with the fact that I watch Youtube much more often on my phone and not my computer. This might not be a common issue, so tell me if you encounter it also.


You’re really digging deep and discovering more flaws, and scary things happening to YouTube. Thank you Emp, you’re a true savior, shining light to those who don’t realize what’s exactly happening. YouTube is such a corrupted corporation.


I think your theory is correct especially because normally I'd find your videos reccomended to me


You should make an update on this years rewind and why youtube is worst than ever


I never thought youtube should promote any videos. I refuse to watch recommended videos, I watch videos I want and I search by view count and not by their results.


someone should pay youtube to "spill the beans"


YouTube has a beef with you because you post videos unsuitable for ads (YTP) and because you point out their flaws and systems. In other words, YouTube is silencing you because you speak the truth.

They hated Jesus because he told them the truth.


This is the case with every social media platform btw


The concept that user data must be stored in corporate network itself was the eventual cause of all these problems.

It existed because it's less expensive if users do not host their own data and manage access rights to their data. But it basically handed the freedom of controlling how your own data can be presented and used, to the corporations.

I'm not saying they did this intentionally, but I don't think it's a good position for democracy.


The reason why Twitch is inevitably going to wipe out YouTube.


I say we take the fight to them. We should make entirely clean videos about complete trash and spam the entire website with them. Only go for topics that are bound to draw attention from norm. If we could successfully spam the site then everyone will leave it.

Would be pretty jokes if we were to just repost the same video over and over again and tag it to make sure it ends up being recommended everywhere.

Channels like watchmojo and the thousands of stolen video compilation channels already do this, and they've been doing it for years. People who actually care about quality videos are a minority.


I get this video in my recommended so YouTube doesn’t get a bad reputation. Good video none the less.


"worst rewind" oh you innocent summer child


Demonetized... huh, really youtube?! REBELLION!


Sometimes the auto captions just make censored words anyway.

NICE BROKEN SYSTEM YA GOT THERE YOUTUBE


Good job on your research. You just keep proving why your channel deserves way more views, but Youtube, however, doesn't agree


Any chance reddit would make video platform like youtube?

Youtube has become north korea 😞


i feel like youtube rewind peaked in 2014, was pretty good in 2015, and then hit the fan in the following years.


Have you considered that youtube specifically sensors non monitized videos since they don't make money from them? Its a fairly simple solution.


yea, YouTube used to be a much more honest site, why the actual fuck do they feel that it's necessary to be so secretive of these things to us?


This is so conspiracy-like but it seems so irrefutable at the same time.

For the first time in my life I am scared by a non-horror video.


lets just move on and find a alternative from youtube, like we did to myspace


Gonna look back at this time with fondness once the thought algorithms come


Susan Is going hard on anybody who tries to obliterate her Christian site


I love your videos and binged watched all your videos, so I thought, but this is the first time me watching <i>this</i> video, years after you uploaded it

I love your videos and binged watched all your videos, so I thought, but this is the first time me watching _this_ video, years after you uploaded it


Honestly, it's probably because of ur anti left and anti liberal views on things (which I love, btw). But <b>any</b> right leaning view points get censored on YouTube. Period.

Honestly, it's probably because of ur anti left and anti liberal views on things (which I love, btw). But *any* right leaning view points get censored on YouTube. Period.


I remember a video got age restricted and it was papyrus swinging his legs to his theme


The OG YouTube devs selling YouTube to google was the worst decision they ever made


You really make some of my favorite videos on youtube, and the thought that goes into your content is A1.<br>Godspeed if you have finals!

You really make some of my favorite videos on youtube, and the thought that goes into your content is A1.
Godspeed if you have finals!


Unless I go to your channel and watch the videos manually, it almost never recommends me your videos.


I think the reason they hinder the performance of demonetized videos isn't for the sake of the community guidelines; even before what happened on YouTube in 2017, it wasn't a secret that their primary objective was to make money. I believe they censor demonetized videos more because, that way, monetized videos will be more likely to appear in suggestions, and there will be more of them. This way, viewers will be more likely to click on an advertiser-friendly video, thus upping their profits even more. Even if your video wasn't monetized, I take it YouTube didn't want their casual viewers to notice their flaws and the many content creators that were controversial and rebellious. YouTube simply wants a platform where there's no uprising of content creators wanting justice, and a safe system to generate revenue. Greedy shits.


Oh EmpLemon, you have no idea what 2018, let alone 2019, will be...


That one YouTube advertising view is creepy as hell


Oh boy this almost makes me wanna quit youtube. If youtube is screwing us over, what's the point?


You didn't think the shitshow could get worse did you? Here we are two years later the shitshow has its own shitshow. 😂


Can confirm, your previous video wasn't in my sub feed. Wtf..

I didnt get a notification about the first one either. I only found out about it through this one

Yeah, mine vanished too. I had NO idea that he uploaded that video.


Youtube:

YOU GET A CENSOR
YOU GET A CENSOR
YOU GET A CENSOR
E V E R Y O N E  G E T ' S  A  C E N S O R

Youtube:

YOU GET A CENSOR
YOU GET A CENSOR
*YOU* GET A CENSOR
*E V E R Y O N E  G E T ' S  A  C E N S O R*


Before this video, I got a four minute and eleven second ad that had a round-face asian man explain to me that he made everyday people into popular Youtube stars.


7:56 or you are automatically censored if you don't have monitization on a video.


2:12 lol that’s my video

And YouTube killed it after 2 days of being uploaded

+UselessDood  YouTube was garbage before Google bought it.  They only sped it up.

HiImChief Haha that's [This message has been deleted for violating YouTube community guidelines]

cypherusuh Google bought the company YouTube. That's when it started dying.

HiImChief Wow. This makes me really mad knowing a website I've watched for years is doing this to content creators.

Minimaster Quadra where did you get that profile pic B O I

YouTube operates at a loss every day because YouTube as a business model doesn't work and this collapse of YouTube was inevitable and was always down the tunnel. I participated in tanking the rewind before realizing that and I think you should just take it easy on YouTube because you have allot of cool dedicated fans and you make cool videos and I think that you could do that for a longer time if you didn't hasten youtubes collapse with such provocative and viral videos such as this one. why not just enjoy the decline of YouTube, don't think of it as a downward spiral; but a receding tsunami wave that will inevitably crash upon a shore, just surf the wave Emp Lemon just surf the wave to the bitter end but please for the love of YouTube please don't fight the wave because I'm 100% sure there wont be another wave like this one. some one has to pay for all of the data  and bandwidth that we use to upload all this YouTube poop we all love and call content and if not google, who else? who else is going to pick up this enormous tab? please don't end this glorious disaster I call YouTube.

but that's probably going to be pretty hard for you to do in the future since thee YouTube genre of YouTube poops is being demonized and is likely going to get hit hard in the future which will unfortunately either kill your channel or bolster it at the expense of further killing YouTube itself if you make a video about the censorship of YouTube poops.

To be Fair 87 videos is nothing compared to all videos on the platform, even those being uploaded right now. But yea, still pretty fucked up.

google doesnt censor any bad stuff going on the company<br>weirdly enough Youtube does it

google doesnt censor any bad stuff going on the company
weirdly enough Youtube does it

It was getting around 20-35K views in just 60 mins! Next day I wake up and see it only getting under 2K :(


Its not that we are impatient. We dont always have the time to sit there for 20 minutes for a video.


And guess who recommended to me this video in 2020? YOUTUBE


Its also 100% political being that every SJW video discussing White Supremacy are kept monetized.


The only other explanation I can think of is that it got crowded out by the glut of other videos on the topic.

Assuming there are only a finite number of hours people are willing/able to watch YouTube, particularly videos on the same topic, it may be that yours was overshadowed by the offerings from other channels.  videos from the other channels got priority because of higher subscriber counts/more closely related channels.

Either way, this shit is fucked.

Regarding the questions:
1) No.
2) No; not allowing adds is one thing, but actively throttling access is another.
3) Not really, but only because the precedent is already there.  YT will continue to fuck over its content creators, as surely as the sun will rise.

The only other explanation _I_ can think of is that it got crowded out by the glut of other videos on the topic.

Assuming there are only a finite number of hours people are willing/able to watch YouTube, particularly videos on the same topic, it may be that yours was overshadowed by the offerings from other channels.  videos from the other channels got priority because of higher subscriber counts/more closely related channels.

Either way, this shit is fucked.

Regarding the questions:
1) No.
2) No; not allowing adds is one thing, but actively throttling access is another.
3) Not really, but only because the precedent is already there.  YT will continue to fuck over its content creators, as surely as the sun will rise.

Camkitsune He specifically addressed that it wasn't due to popularity. Many smaller channels received many more views than he did, and his view count from suggested sources was virtually nothing compared to theirs. Besides, views from subscribers wouldn't factor into the viewers from suggested videos

This is a combination of YouTube being paranoid about family friendliness from the ad pull-outs and their machine learning bots giving lots of false positives


EmpLemon, I am a big fan! I really love your rick and morty  YTP collab!


I thought this video wasn't monetized but I saw an ad meaning if you are watching videos on a phone you'll get ads and the money will either go the phone company and isn't linked to YouTube or the money goes straight to YouTube if the video is demonetized


I wish people enjoyed quality over money


What if everyone just stops making videos so YouTube won’t have any ad revenue from the video?


we should all band together and start a competitor to youtube and agree to delete our youtube channels transfer all our videos to the competitor. we could call it "wetube" or something. maybe have a blue logo, or a green logo, that looks like youtube's own logo.


YouTube Rewind was a huuuuuuuge YouTube's failure


All the stuff thats happening is honestly terrifying, lets hope this ends well


once i finished making it, i will put it on the app store and stuff, and you can download it for free, no ads, and it will NOT be the same as youtube, you can just watch things and upload things and ill make it nice and stuff


Emp Lemon is one of my favorite YouTubers


Well I wonder what youtube is like today in 2018. I wonder they fixed all their problems?


Hey emp, nice vid as always. I looked at the source code for this vid and some of your other ones and found the same block of text containing the words "RESTRICTED" and "SBOX_INAPPROPRIATE" followed by things like "sexually explicit", "violent", etc. After that block is "AD_BADGE" which I asssume is the demonitization icon? I'm not too sure what all this means. Maybe you can make more sense of it. https://imgur.com/a/WJEgz

edit: i found more code containing "adsafe-protected" followed by a bunch of websites, on a video that had the restricted and inappropriate code. I could not find this adsafe-protected code on emplemon videos, nor the websites. it seems that a giant chunk of this code is missing from emp's videos.

I just looked at the source code, and it just doesn't say that any where.
view-source:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vo7MusZBlrE&t=156s
there's a link if anyone wants to look for themselves but i was unable to find it.
Granted, high effort lie

Edgy Gamer Grill.<br>Do I need my tinfoil hat?

Edgy Gamer Grill.
Do I need my tinfoil hat?

haha, yeah. youtube is pretty fucked right now. I think this is just a replacement for the numbered text that emp and pewdiepie said correlated to "inappropriate" violations? im not sure. i think this code may have been in place before. this is my first time paying attention to it.


This could have come out in 2018. It is still relevant. Nothing has changed. I hope it changes soon.


Remember when youtube was about entertainment?


So I got a question. If I use copyrighted material in a parody fashion (i.e. ytp), does that fall under fair use?


My mind's been blown 2 times already this year.


We need a new platform, with some competent people running it.

Or just get rid of that Susan lady somehow

You misspelled people in Unity consciousness. Competence is not enough without a firm, incorruptible etho-spiritual foundation.

Not possible. Youtube can destroy it if it becomes even slightly popular. Look at Vidme, one of its reasons for the site's closure was "due to an increase in competition". That means that Youtube won't stop stomping its competitors until it's the only platform left.

Problem is to get all of the good content creators to instantly agree to go somewhere else and have people agree to that is impossible.

Not gonna happen with net neutrality gone


Its 2020 and this video was in my recommended.


It looks like YouTube manually enabled one ad on you video so the cencoring bot could nope the video.


with the shit youtube does i will not even be supriced if one day i go to youtube and tells me "you haven't bought the youtube acces card please consider going to your local kiosk"


Oh, you fell for the net neutrality meme. Well, it's been three and a half months. I'm sure all that doomsaying reddit was screeching about a year ago will come true. Any day now...


YouTube is total bullshit these days. That's why I'm tinkering with a project that will enable users to watch videos from others in a peer-2-peer setting. Download the program and browse. YouTube without the website. No central server, no censorship other than community driven censorship of illegal material, creators are free to make money how they see fit. And, best of all, no uploading. You set a folder as your active directory and whatever video file you place in the directory is visible to the community. Still working out bugs, etc but it's showing promise. Maybe one day it can dethrone this monster...or at least scare it into working for it's users again.

Videos are great. I subbed.


Oh look an interesting and thought provoking video about a corrupt aspect of our society<br> 5 minutes later: Markiplier playing doom  click

Oh look an interesting and thought provoking video about a corrupt aspect of our society
 5 minutes later: Markiplier playing doom  click


Wow... no wonder I haven't seen your vids in a while, you were being censored!


Alright, Really youtube. I was definitely subbed to your channel, only to come back a month or two later to find myself unsubbed


Apple (or some big company) should make a new video watching platform, WE ARE DONE WITH YOUTUBE...........................


The story of Emplemon- First a well known contributor to the YTP Renaissance, then smacked into a downward spiral which eventually ascended him to another plane of perception, allowing him to see through the immense bullshit of YouTube.


4:03 when I re watched this, this bummed me the fuck out


Interestingly, you've been hitting my feed hard today. This video just appeared in my feed.


YouTube is crossing a line
their mind set is that we don't matter as much as them,
but we make up YouTube and everything in it good or bad so i just want YouTube ti start being more attentive to our vids and thoughts. Don't get me wrong i love YouTube but it just needs to realise some things about being a business around people.


I like how people rant about youtube but het they still use it


I actually enjoy your commentary videos. I like how they tend to be longer because your editing style makes me laugh much like your ytps.


YouTube and Society is STILL on a downward spiral


Wow first the ad pocalypse now this YouTube is going down quick and the quality has decreased immensely


Because some times the cuss words can be used to make a video funnier


I find it a bit ironic that i recently got this video recommended to me ...by youtube.


Hey man, I’m the interest of your own safety, be careful. One more video like this and YouTube will pull a Clinton and send a hitman.

They gonna clip EmpLemon, I Hate Everything style.
If they do that, that's gonna be the true rude awakening Google gonna have to face.

They'll be making the same huge mistake twice, cause that's how I Hate Everything first exploded.


I hope some day this is going to be over... Unlikely, not impossible tho...


They already took down a video of mine talking about YouTubers I like and demonetized 2 videos of mine (Clusterf*ck and My Stalker). Welp, I'm moving on to dailymotion.


I have an idea. Trick the Bot into demonitizing any video that contains the tag "youtube" and maybe.... even a bunch of normal tags like "dog" or "food", making google have to actually do something about it


I'm somehow the minority that gets recommended these old videos. I guess I'm pretty ok with some fucked up shit. No content filter for me, please.


i kinda dont care about youtube rewind i just wanna see some good vids xD


<b>This video has been removed as violation of YouTube's policy on Additional policies</b>

*This video has been removed as violation of YouTube's policy on Additional policies*


I’m banned from uploading... forever... and what did I do?

I said “the YouTube ceo is a dummy”


Disney owns Steamed Hams, what a time to be alive.

Cake# Disney+Viacom ownership will be the end of buisness


You've heard of tank the rewind, now we'll #TankYoutube itself. Spam their Twitter, channel, everything!


video about YouTube’s flaws

Youtube: Recommends it

*video about YouTube’s flaws*

Youtube: *Recommends it*


You thought Rewind 2017 was bad... then there was 2018


Don't worry, you still have fans like me who always watch every single minute of your videos.


This is the only video I was reccomended to your channel even tho ima sub.


YouTube be like: hmm now that it’s over let’s recommend this after 3 years <br>Me : confusion

YouTube be like: hmm now that it’s over let’s recommend this after 3 years
Me : confusion


person: uploads video that breaks the rules
youtube: yes
person: uploads video that doesnt break the rules
youtube: haha delete go clic


Memes can hurt, memes can protecc, memes show the truth normies fail to do.

You have a heart of gold, don’t let them take it from you.


Ironic, YouTube showing me a video being an anti-youtube 3-4 years later, bruh


when i used to make videos i made remixes of songs remixes i made with a phone app after recording the songs from my stereo which was playing a CD that i spent money on rendering copyright infringement null and fucking void because by buying the CD i bought rights to use the music whenever and wheverer i want but youtube still flagged me for copyright


why did this video make my skin crawl and unsettle me so much?


Just wait untill YouTube rewind 2018, the most disliked video in all of YouTube.


I recommend that we promote this video ourselves, since YT is unlikely to do so. Plz share this video. Love you, EmpLemon


I've noticed episodes of lets plays being advertised to me. Don't know if that's what "Youtube advertising" views are from though.


Here from the future, it's only down hill from this point on...


Thanks for warning us 2 years later youtube


I absolutely love the 45minute-4hour videos


YouTube, stop. We know your secret. Your cover’s blown.


I (no joke) got this recommended.

I wasn't even subbed.
Youtube's covering their ass now. Gettem!


We must free youtube from these capitalist shackles


I love how YouTube recommended this video for me lol

whoever runs the algorithm is trying to hint to the people he works for that they suck


i guess Youtube find It out how much of a danger Emp is for calling them out on their shity service.


Emp, I have like two old accounts that are subbed, and I would umsub, but I’m locked out of them, sorry


Dear EmpLemon

I think that i may know what the advert that censored  your video was. i have watched a lot of YouTube critics (Mostly Movies) and i have seen maby 2-4 times this 5 second long advert with just the YouTube logo. i don't know if the videos are mortised. i hope you get something out of this

Yours sincerely
RedFox123


censoring would be removing your video or doing something similar. not just de monitzing it or not sending notifications


I've seen this done before several times.
This is really starting to cross the line between censorship and removing one's freedom of speech.
Of course, you can throw that out of the question since YouTube is a globally private business. So its not like suing them or claiming them unlawful would do anything.
And to make matters worse, with net neutrality gone, things are gonna get much worse on the internet when it comes to creative minds and copyright.
This problem isn't just about people making stuff on the internet. Now its about whether someone who has a mindful topic about anything can be shut down at the slightest mistake, be it for profit or not.

And the worst part, we haven't even seen the shit hit the fan yet.

Things are gonna go really, really badly for not just content creators, but practically everyone on YouTube in general.
Fuck me..

actually blocking site would mean suicide for and ISP also we had no net nutrality in the past yet nobody was feaking out.

but, wouldnt this mean that small irrelevant newer youtubers like me will be trashed by YouTube´s algorythm?, and wont be able to grow at all?, at least im from Mexico, so Net Neutrality aint gone

Yehia Falcon it can't be gone in the uk, it's held together by competition, and everyone would end up using a cheap provider that respects net neutrality if it did go, meaning companies would die and thus all of them fight to keep it going

Julian Gardisk "with net neutrality gone" in the USA yes but in other countries it's still there


Welp. Almost all common forms of entertainment in life are completely fucked. The only thing that can happen next is if Ajit Pai becomes King of the World. Then we'll have to say goodbye to <b>everything.</b>

Welp. Almost all common forms of entertainment in life are completely fucked. The only thing that can happen next is if Ajit Pai becomes King of the World. Then we'll have to say goodbye to *everything.*


i like it how youtube is a government now lmao


This video is actually fucking cited on the Wikipedia article for YouTube Rewind.

Congrats.


This lame censorship can be fought back by sharing the videos (yours, especially) to people and let them share to other people they know.


The sidemen says cunt a lot and it's monetized so that part saying that it got mentioned in 0% of monetized videos is wrong


this man is a savant of background music


That's why it's called YouTube. Because you're just a tube to be filled with stuff only they want you to watch.


I'm getting myself all worked up over this shit again.


Heckin’ great video Lemon, can’t wait for the next upload. I’m guessing it’ll be about the Net Neutrality vote and Ajit Pai.


Now look at YouTube Rewind 2018. It's gotten a lot worst.


First the super Mario 64 ice burg. Now the Youtube demonitization ice burg.


we forgive you for behind the meme's suicide


It's gonna be worse when Ajit Pai set's his dire plans in action.


Robots usually make things more cool.
But YouTube found a way to fuck that up.

Robots usually make things more cool.
*But YouTube found a way to fuck that up.*


There's money in youtubes eyes
And in the 10 minute video

( sorry, i still feel like youtube does just can about money and how "popular" it is. But tuis does get a point crossed )


Dude, look at YouTube rewind 2018. It friggin sucked.


Turns out, they didn't. THIS GOT IN MY RECOMMENDED.


What a impeccable video. Absolutely fantastic, I think you figured it out.


This video has more views than the Tank the Rewind video.


I think I remember that rewind video you made when I first played it did have an ad play first. I am not lying to you to me it’s a vague memory but to you it could paint a clearer picture. I remember watching that video in the car on my way to a restaurant. I’m certain it was.


I could see why they would censor some of your videos


The guidelines for monetisation  also got leaked. All of this confirmed that people reviewing your video can demonetise it based off their own personal beliefs, completely fucking over creators getting SJW reviewers.


Joe Scott has explained a similar situation here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ft1LCn12Lds&t=578s (jump to the 4 minute mark where he starts talking about it). In his case, it wasn't profanity or anything like that, it's just that one of his videos was unusually successful. Apparently, when you have a video that suddenly does very well like that, the YouTube algorithm is programmed to stop recommending videos from your channel for a while, in case you are just paying for views or something like that.

Is doing that really necessary? That's another discussion entirely, but obviously YouTube is trying to make a profit and they won't do that if a channel is just watched mainly by bots. Is there a better way to do it? Of course, but hey, it's YouTube, what else do you expect?


They probably censored your video because you capitalized every word within your title of the video.


wait... 1,000,000 watch time in minutes? a minute is 60 seconds. 60 x 1,000,000 is 60,000,000 seconds. 1 view is counted as 3 - 4 seconds. so 3 divided by 60,000,000 is about 20,000,000 views. thats like $20,000 - $100,000. emp, i think your fine.


if you only knew, this years rewind was even more disliked


I got this anti-YouTube video in my recommended for a month.


They removed youre vid with restricted mode now i have to lie about my age to watch good videos. >:(


I'd like to point out that the video doesn't even come up as recommended <i>for a video TALKING ABOUT THAT VIDEO.</i>

I'd like to point out that the video doesn't even come up as recommended _for a video TALKING ABOUT THAT VIDEO._


Censorship is not promoting some messages over others, but preventing one from talking at all. You can certainly argue there are issues with how the algorithm works, but it doesn't fit the definition of censorship.


Bruh even my "drunk irish pilot tries to save plane and crashes miserably"?


Funny joke: <b>BLAME AJIT PAI FOR THIS</b>


Hope you still read this videos. Stop talking about memes and start talking about youtube.<br>Your other videos are much worse than this one. If you keep going with comentaries, you are going to grow big.

Hope you still read this videos. Stop talking about memes and start talking about youtube.
Your other videos are much worse than this one. If you keep going with comentaries, you are going to grow big.


someone needs to make a new and better youtube


You are doing a great thing but be very careful your in a mine field anything could happen to you because of your cause


They shouldn't demonitize a video for saying swastika, since the swastika was originally a Hindu symbol meaning 'well-being' . The Nazis stole the swastika symbol but it's not the same, the Nazis symbol is flipped.


I don't know about other people but I actually prefer longer videos to shorter videos, so I don't get why YouTube tends to promote shorter videos.


If this gone different, 2017 would be the bad rewind. Not 2018


Something I commented on your last video that I'll say again here since there's a better chance of you seeing it, is the fact that despite having notifications on for every upload of yours, I never got one for your last video, nor did it ever show up in my recommended feed, but a week later after its release, on my home tab on the mobile app. I don't know if this was more of that spicy censorship, but if anyone else reports something similar, then we have reason to believe it actually happened

He's right, there was no notification of this video outside of my regular subscription feed.


i recently found you trough suggested content. I think you appeared around the time channel awesome fiasco happened. And i don't know why , i think you never talked about channel awesome. So im clueless how you ended in my suggestions. I mean i like your content. And the first video i watched  is how trump won the election using memes. I don't even know how the suggested content system works to be honest.


Weirdly enough this ended up in my recommended...


400 YouTube employees have infiltrated this vid


30 minutes isn’t bad when you watch 3 hour podcasts and 9 hour livestreams.


Holy Ajit this is fricking interesting, it's like a giant ARG but in real life


the bots are becoming self aware, its only a matter of time till the value of our lives is our watchtime under the great youtube agorithms.


i dont get it i loved the rewind this year


How to go from "decent video platform" to "subpar video platform controlled by sketchy businessmen" in a bunch of years


Emp-Lemon predicted 2020 & 2021 YouTube....


This is more really true than ever before.


If YouTube kills some of "controversial"  Phillip DeFranco's videos, despite how popular he is, they'll do it to anyone.


This site is making aggressive strides in turning this site into a re-enactment of 1984


This happened to me also. Instead if I got "new uploads" I get old videos that I'd already watched a long time ago,
maybe 1 yaer ago

Youtube is jeAAALOUUUUSSSS
*p.s. every recommendation in YouTube is logan paul plus youtube rewind,
sad.*


Well I never saw any of your videos before but the system randomly recommended this one to me for some reason. Not sure if that helps?


I believe what he is saying in this video is true but he talks so slow. I had to play it at 1.5 times seed to make it bearable.


And my tinfoil hat grew 3 sizes that day


I'm glad YouTube is getting what it diserves, YouTube pisses me off. Nice job.


WE NEED MORE DISLIKES TO THE POINT WHERE WE RIOT OUTSIDE OF THE YOUTUBE


Though this is nearly a year old, I'm scared.


Youtube broadcast yourself(unless you disagree with us)


I’m probably one of the few people who always gets your vids in my recommended


Wow, this is really shitty.  I'm really starting to get fed up with YouTube's current practices.  I just wish there was a better alternative out there...

Guess we're stuck here for now


You cant just access your comments like before, you must go back to the video and then scroll around to see who he was responding to. It slowed to a tricle now.


I have had YouTube hide my comments after they begin to get too much traction and they are contrary to their views. This has happened MANY times.


they cant censor my videos
if i stop makin em
(insert smart black meme here)


That’s weird I will watch an hour long video


so I can still get censored even though I cannot monetize my videos


Lol this was like 2 years ago ima bet they censored this too


YouTube is run by a DVD copy of Shark Tale

It's not run by a DVD copy of Shark Tale. It's run by a GB Boy Colour cartridge in a Super Game Boy SNES cart in a Game Boy Advance that has a Game Boy screen with a backlight and dual screen.

"You don't particularly like it, but you still use it for some reason"