"Think of the children" if you're trying to pass off lies is the best way to mobilize useful idiots


Even tough I may disagree with your stance, I think this was a really great video! Wonderful story-telling :)


The holes in the last theory can be filled quite easily: Matt Watson was always an alias just because he didn't want to use his real name online to begin with; he was specifically selected by advertisers because they wanted someone small and untraceable, but also with an account that had existed previously so as to not arouse suspicion.

@Lollikaboss [o.W.n] that's not how anarchists think nor what they care about.

@Than Os  i guess the real thing is that he was untraceable.

so if the theory is true, they contacted him because he was perfectly anonymous, made a deal, he did the video, then the media bandwagoned on it because they were part of it and the controversy starts.

there's two possibilities:
-first he was acting and everything he did was fake, then vanish.

-second, the companies profited from his thirst for clout, and as long as he wasn't compromising this anonymity, he was free to say or do whatever he wanted for as long as he felt (or for a predetermined time), because whatever happened to him wouldn't matter anyway. so he streamed, got his fun, then Keem ruined his high so he stopped and disappeared, finishing the last part of the deal and taking his paycheck, mission accomplished.

@Than Os questionable content is the perfect misdirection and cover up. We stop at "dude was a creep lmao" and don't look any further.

And he probably hated his old content and was trying to get a non-youtube career

Alessandro Lira but that questionable content doesn’t matter, as if the theory is correct then the company or group who hired him wouldn’t have any connection to him anyway. Him having this content only makes him more believable in the eye of the public. Even now people don’t think he is a hired instigator.

sure, you can fill these theory holes with whatever you want, but what matters is whether the filling is backed up by real proof, so it's better to wait for more high quality theory fillers

I think not, I was on the subscribers os his Channel, he did a series in Nofap, Very emotional and personal about himself. All of this come to me as a surprise, his content Just made a complete shift and such a big impact in the youtube community from nowhere, IDK, YouTube recommend me the Channel soo.

@Than Os My guess is whoever the HR manager in [GENERIC BUZZFEED CLONE] found his mocking of other weird people funny and prolly gave other dreary middle managers at Sleeping Giants that this guy needs to be promoted hard.

Martin Rebro thats a p bad understanding of that ideology lol

i believe he was an anarchist, who went bored, so he decided to try and ruin youtube. no moral reasoning, no logic, just anarchy and hate.

Besides, the "past content" of a small creator plays no big role here, given how the hit and run strategy worked

I believe that if Matt was a corporate shill, he was chosen because he was a failed YouTuber who was desperate enough to take the companies up on their offer. They knew his older videos would get him in trouble eventually, so they saw him as a patsy who would take the fall for it.

Reminds me of how the Chinese government payed bart baker to move their and produce pro-government propaganda for them lmao.

also they dont give a flying fuck what the guys backround is becuase they probably used shell or umbrella companies . futhermore, the guy was disposable and thye knew it. thus theory leads alot of creadence.

@That Guy ad agencies becuase they would still get the same butget but the "20% off pedo discount code" would give them a larger cut of the same budget.

MrHatoi it would make sense especially because of his previous content pandering to certain tastes that also inhabit a large chunk of Reddit, meaning it would only help him get more upvotes and support and would make people think “this weirdo is a regular guy” which has worked pretty well so far, then just pay him a lot of money and boom, a man who never really existed disappears!

@That Guy Probably the first to pull out of advertisement to gain a kind of public trust

Idk, there a lot of small time untracable youtubers who have far less... questionable content, I.E the totally uncreative channel, any company can see that kind of liability a mile away. IDK, i guess its just the corporate plant theory seems a little too farfetched for me.

not a bad point, if that theory is true I wonder which company (or companies) most likely did it.


The guy basically said "The Principal is abusing kids so shit down the entire school district! All you teachers complaining about job loss just don't care enough about child abuse!"


I hope you continue to do more videos like this, and the never will there be another hungry box video are really interesting. Great job! Subscribed


Man I am inspired by how much information/research and effort is displayed in 'bits' that last literally less than a second. Fucking slow clap. 10/10


I love how he says to hit youtube in the wallet meanwhile for years youtube has been on google life support because they don't make enough money to keep the site up


Scene Selection:
0:00: Opening
1:52: Exhibit A: Who is Matt Watson?
2:54: Exhibit B: Matt's Wormhole of Deception
10:14: Exhibit C: The Strange Agenda
16:25: Exhibit D: The Red Tide
19:14: Exhibit E: Outspoken, yet silent...
24:16: Exhibit F: Corporations 4 Kidz?
26:05: Exhibit G: I miss the old Matt...
28:47: Exhibit H: We did it, Matt! We saved the city!
30:26: And now, a short intermission...
32:06: The Mainstream Narrative
33:19: Disgruntled YouTuber Goes Rogue
36:58: The Bernie Pipeline
42:25: Matt Watson is an Industry Plant: Part 1
47:17: Matt Watson is an Industry Plant: Part 2
50:00: Conclusions.
54:36: Credits

@hardlybreathe Where are the special features?


Dude, you are fantastic at story-telling. How the hell do you do it?


i feel the explanation is a mixture of your 1st and 3rd proposals, in which Matt failed as a youtuber, wanted revenge, and thus teamed up with the corporations to give his "revenge" a boost.


My theory: Matt is just an angry narcissist who wanted to present themselves as a savior of the internet, didn't expect the video to take off, and thus didn't go through any of the trouble of justifying his initial rhetoric or contacting news agencies for interviews


theory: Matt, via a relative or mutual friend or something, had a connection to the corporations that temporarily pulled ads. He approached THEM with the idea to create an adpocalypse to hurt the commentary channels he despised, and they helped him in order to get better prices on ads.


One of my favorite things about EmpLemon is the super unique editing style. It’s very appealing to people who’ve used Youtube since the early 2010s.

I just love the reacquiring themes and graphics

I wasn't really part of the "Youtube community" in the 2010s, but I agree.


High quality documentary on a massive event that sent YouTube once again to shit. Here's hoping for a dislike button documentary


if the rogue youtuber theory is true, it makes me really sad that his plan failed so miserably.


Considering how almost everybody is removed roughly 6 people from everyone else on the planet: it should be possible to track down who this guy really is and potentially figure out the motive.


This issue has been on the site since before 2010. Disgusting people upload these videos of children in various states of dress while following a naming convention to help others find them. To this day, it is still a problem that hasn't been fixed and some of the videos that have been reported are over 5 years old. It's a real problem that hasn't been fixed.


This is why skepticism is a virtue not a hindrance. You need to look at things like this with an analytical eye to make sure you don’t cause more harm than good

Sayari Mamani something many people now a days don’t have

And you need the humility to question your own opinions

And yet again I find you in the comments

Basically think before you get outraged and complain.


Matt posted on his community tab a month ago about this topic. He didn’t explain much but goes into the topic.


my guess is that he likely at some point lost the motivation to make stuff, and then at some point after coming across these creepy videos regained it. He had a clear vision for how the video would go and what would result from it, and basically convinced himself that his way was the only way. And then once he realised he'd kinda messed up, he just left.


EmpLemon, I would like to translate your videos for free obviously using my voice in order for you to get more public, I could translate them to Spanish because I think you deserve way more views, the quality of your content is amazing and it would be awesome for people who doesn't speak English to be able of seeing your amazing content! Also I could make subtitles if you want!

Al final lo hiciste bro? si algo te ayudo

Do it soon, because community captions are going away after a little bit.

If you do subtitles it would probably be more than enough


40:00 I love hearing Boards of Canada pop up at random because their music is truly like the soundtrack to bizarre conspiracies. Anyway, I initially thought he must be some sort of corporate shill but so many theories seem plausible in some way.


I hate how he tries to frame it as "muh monetization"

"They care more about money"

If you came to my job and lit the building ablaze, I'd be very reasonably upset.

He threatened people's JOBS doing what he did.

@Deadliest Vice Sssh, these guys only like capitalism when it suits them

*"They care more about their own food and shelter than trying to become vigilantes going after random underground creeps." It's basically some paladin syndrome shit.

@LJK401 I didn't say anything about anarchism...

@Diversity Deliverer That's not anarchism

Or maybe he’s in the Illuminati? He did only one job and bail cause there was nothingness when the purpose’s done it’s deed. Another person would keep being an nuisance on the site and had video after video made on him to keep the attention going.

I’m only half joking but it’s something to keep in mind as well. WORMHOLES

@hangsight. More likely he's one of those who is so desperate to try and deplatform people he dislikes that any collateral damage means is an acceptable outcome as long as [INSERT POPULAR FIGURE BREADTUBERS HATE] gets removed. Of course, I think he's a man working in the NYC media scene just because he has that vibe of a man who really does believe that Gamergate caused Donald Trump to be the president.

an anarchist, he cared not for others, he wanted to turn a candle into australia

YouTube monetization is a privilege,not a right.

I can believe the ‘failed youtuber’ theory only cause what person invests that much into advertisers going away? an bitter fool.

I mean, if you want to burn down my work, I won't stop you. I get severance pay.

Youtubers don't, though.

Doom58 Even if that is the case, it would be frustrating and selfish to harm the creators who do actually put effort into their videos, like animators and such.

Brainlet: “Hurr durr just be an Uber Driver”

After acknowledging them as jobs then discrediting them as jobs


This was a cool video. Not what I expected.  I liked it. Hope you keep doing these


The portion of this video which talked about "hitting them where it hurt - in their wallet" is scarily similar to the justification rioters use when they loot stores and destroy businesses. I asked a friend who supported rioters, "why do people riot?" and he said it was "because the government doesn't care about the people and they only care about money" which is the same logic Matt used against YouTube when he said "YouTube doesn't care about these issues, they only care about money." History tends to repeat itself in new and separate forms.


You know sometimes you just got to spend a couple hours watching dudes remove wasps from shittily repaired houses. And murmur to yourself. <br>Being an adult is awesome.

You know sometimes you just got to spend a couple hours watching dudes remove wasps from shittily repaired houses. And murmur to yourself.
Being an adult is awesome.


It. Definitely seems like he had a vendetta on YouTube as a whole, but at the same knew how to pull some strings.

  He’s definitely got a manipulative side to him. But also seems to have a very impulsive, and attention seeking side. He doesn’t seem to have much consistency in his motives either. I’m getting some slight adhd vibes or some sort of disorder vibes from him.

For being so able to get such a public outcry so fast, yet to be willing to stream himself reacting live to the situations unfolding. Clearly isn’t the smartest move. Especially since someone in his situation should be more concerned about interacting with the media.

Seems to me that by using his knowledge of the site, and from analyzing previous YouTube dark ages. He found an reasonable excuse to get the public outraged enough to cause mass hysteria, of which he was able to coax the public into doing his dirty work. Relying heavily on the public’s ignorance of the site. However why he wanted to make everyone suffer is still unknown. However it definitely sounds and looks like he wanted any attention he could get. Especially in the moment. However for him to disappear without barely any trace. Was more then likely a way to conceal himself from any possible backlash.


I always thought of this guy as the most extreme manifestation of the atmosphere of hostility against YT management among the YouTube community at the time, but taken to a ridiculously irrational and self-destructive level. Though I think it's clear now that there was something more going on.


I think Matt fails to realize EVERY online platform has predators of some type on them.


i think one of the most important questions posed is why matt was more excited about brands pulling ads than youtube addressing the problem. why was matt's focus on brands and not youtube? super interesting shit that we will prob never know the answer to.

Because his ideology made him hate YouTube, not empathize with victims. It was about hate for the 'offender', not love for the victim. So all he really cared about was hurting YouTube, not about the kids being saved. That's why he liked the Adpocolypse.


It’s so weird for me to go down this rabbit hole because I never indulge in conspiracy theories. But I believe that he was a corporate agent. The fact that no one can find any social media (even personal) confirms it for me. I think that in his personal life, “Matt” works for one of those corporations like Disney or Nestle and had done YouTube on the side. When the new year came around that’s when he was tasked with causing this fiasco and then to disappear without a trace. I also believe he wasn’t working alone considering the inconsistencies.


YouTube geographic is maybe one of the most important historical archives on the platform

Its not even an archive. It's a documentary


If I put myself in his shoes, my first thought is that he was trying to manipulate the stock market. For each advertiser who pulled ads he was super happy, this supports my theory because advertisers pulling support could trigger investors to sell, lowering the stock price. He could then simply short sell google or trade options or something to make money off the stock dropping.

The strangest thing about this whole controversy is his disappearance from the Internet and the lack of information about him.


Despite matts motives and all I think platforms are absollutely responsible for this stuff. Especially if they generate billions in revenue. I think yt could do a lot by just hiring people who actively search for this shit (idk). They shouldn't be allowed to take a penny in profits before ending this.


Great video. This one together with Leafy story are very entertaining and well produced. Nice combination of classical Music such as Tchaikovsky "Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy" and The Doors covers. Really adds more flavour to this mystery atmosphere.


What an amazing video, certainly worth an hour!


Your series like "Never Ever" or "Youtube Geographic" is such a great content to watch, thanks for your work <3


This is really unrelated to the video but I just realized that most of the music EmpLemon uses in his videos is the stuff I used to listen to all the time during High School. Never thought I'd feel nostalgia from this.


This is still one of the best videos on the whole site


im still astonished how one man could nearly destroy an entire arm of google<br>Matt Wattson: The Antagonist Of YouTube

im still astonished how one man could nearly destroy an entire arm of google
Matt Wattson: The Antagonist Of YouTube


“Trust me, these companies care about us”<br>Ha

“Trust me, these companies care about us”
Ha

@Equidistant Honeyjoy can’t cover something liquid in itself covering is more of a physical property. if you cover something with paper then that’s covering it but covering something with a liquid makes no sense even if it’s oil

@okay In that case, nothing is ever wet. It's semantics.

@Equidistant Honeyjoy if you look at how molecules are arranged they are not covered but rather interconnected

@okay It's a semantic argument that completely falls apart when you include the entire definition of 'wet' instead of intentionally leaving out a part. An object is wet when it is saturated with water, and saturation is defined as 'holding as much as can be absorbed'; meaning not only is water wet, but it is the wettest that something can be.

Also, please no broken up replies. It's annoying to read, and I've replied three times so you can hopefully see how annoying it is.

@okay Yes, and I would only say otherwise if you could ever show me a fire that isn't made with burning materials.

@okay On what earth is water not covering itself? You have a potential philosophical argument if it's a single molecule of water, but a body of water is absolutely covered in water.<br>Lava may be burnt, if it's on fire, but it isn't always.

@okay On what earth is water not covering itself? You have a potential philosophical argument if it's a single molecule of water, but a body of water is absolutely covered in water.
Lava may be burnt, if it's on fire, but it isn't always.

@Equidistant Honeyjoy It’s a semantic argument that only comes together when you look at the deeper meaning therefore water isn’t wet

@Equidistant Honeyjoy wetness is defined by containing, covering or soaked with water. water does not contain itself, it takes the shape of other things that contains it, therefore the thing that contains it would be wet and not water itself. water is not “soaked” with itself, and water does not cover itself.

to put it simply, water makes things wet but is not wet itself. Wetness is characterized by how much water is on it and since water is generally a liquid water cannot be wet. Is lava burnt?

@okay Touch water, mate. Feels pretty wet.

@Equidistant Honeyjoy except water isn’t wet

"in other news water is not wet, and stone is the best material for a pillow"


Time Stamps!
EXHIBIT A: Who is Matt Watson? 1:52
EXHIBIT B: Matt’s Wormhole of Deception 2:55
EXHIBIT C: The Strange Agenda 10:14
EXHIBIT D: The Red Tide 16:25
EXHIBIT E: Outspoken, yet silent... 19:14
EXHIBIT F: Corporations 4 Kidz? 24:17
EXHIBIT G: I miss the old Matt... 26:05
EXHIBIT H: We did it Matt! We saved the city! 28:48
Disgruntled YouTuber Goes Rogue: 33:19
The Bernie Pipeline: 36:59
Matt Watson is an Industry Plant 42:25
Conclusions 49:59

ElectronicWaffles thanks based catman, very cool


Theory: Matt was paid to do it, or he went to work at an advertising oriented company


Whenever Matt gets angry, he looks like he's about to have stroke.


tfw trying to bankrupt a 170 billion dollar company through making them miss out on a couple ads somehow doesn't work


This guy is the very pinnacle of virtue-signalling, hell, in a way he's also part of the problem because his thumbnail is LITERALLY a kid with revealing clothing. When you're click-baiting that hard, you have no room to call anyone else exploitative and greedy.

OvenBaked Pancakes

Virtue signaling in a reply thread doesn’t make it any better.

@GOINGGODMODE Except I was more pointing out that he's a hypocrite who hurt YouTubers in order to protect children which is kind of undone by his own thumbnail. Also, I could say the same thing about you, especially since you directly brought up likes when I didn't until now.

@GOINGGODMODE oh yeah, likes. Wait, what can I buy with likes?

Virtue signaling in a comment section for likes does not make you better.

I mean he frequents chaptraphouse a subreddit full of tankies and commies. So the farthest Left you can go, its akin to The_Donald, but worse because its not quarantine and it spills over to other subreddits.


Hey Emp, Matt recently posted on his reddit again. He says he regrets some of the things he has done and was asked if he heard about you. He says he has not heard of you but HAS seen people accusing him of being a corporate puppet. Go check it out for further info.


Love him or hate him, he still brought attention to the subject


Great video one small thing you had gotten wrong was that people under 16 can’t direct message but they can talk to people through comments but those are public.    Love the video.


Tangentially related but the section about how he got his video on reddit was particularly infuriating to me since I had a video that organically got 80k upvotes on r/videos, but it was removed by the mods because my channel had be blacklisted for supposedly posting my own content on the subreddit years prior.

Two things:

1. What was your removed video about?

And 2. Regarding YouTube Wake Up, I would argue Industry Plant is the most likely explanation because of the media coverage, and it’s possible that he was a disgruntled YouTuber who was paid more money by industry insiders than he thought he could have made through ad revenue making videos.

What do you think?

Glink, emplemon theyre all salty xD <br>This matt Dude was awesome

Glink, emplemon theyre all salty xD
This matt Dude was awesome

Why do you want reddit users watching your content anyway. Do you really want r/wooosh as a reply to every comment in your comment section.

@Cooper The more internet and reality merge the lamer both get.

I really do miss the "good 'ol days" Aside from being a 'nerd' being something that'd get your ass kicked. >__>

I feel This situation can be applied to the current coronavirus pandemic

Woah glink with brim!!! <br>HIIIIIIII!!!!


It's fair to say that Emp is the storyteller of youtube, picking up the pieces from the former battleground and rearranging the scene to explain how it all happened.


This isn’t a “YouTube” Phenomenon in terms of the seeming inability To contact any person associated with the platform, it’s evident in many new platforms, some Financial. If you’ve got an issue; you aren’t going to be able to talk to anyone and the only help you’ll get is a QA page…


This video was more compelling and interesting than most of the bs coming out of Hollywood


Great video. I don't completely buy any of the theories presented; I think he was a misguided idiot who thought he was fighting child exploitation, and who was maybe hoping to capitalize on the outrage to reboot his channel. I think that the amount of circlejerking that occurred both online and in the media made him feel uncomfortable with the type and amount of attention he was getting and made him decide to just not bother, or not follow through. Having Youtube permit sexual comments under videos of kids was kind of fucked up, and outrage at YouTube would be understandable if your perspective lacked nuance. I think he was just largely ignorant of the collateral damage he was causing and when that was called to his attention he responded with hostility because that's a natural defense mechanism for a lot of people.

For example, I once had a guy put his car in R for race mode in front of me at a traffic light, and his first reaction was to get extremely angry at me, despite that he was obviously 100% to blame. Hostility is a defense mechanism for some because nobody wants to accept that they have made a mistake, and anger and blame shifting gives them a way to suppress having to accept their own fuck up.


Thank you so much for the ad placement,cabt explain how much that means and how useful and versatile it makes the video


I remember seeing this and being super suspicious of it. Decided it was probably a hoax


The fact that he didnt win an oscar for his performance is baffling, hollywood is a joke


Tbh when I was little my mum told me all about pedos & their habits (on the web). I was staying away from strangers, mining my own business on the platform (and anywhere else) in it's early days.
<br>Imo it's not YouTube's responsability to regulate smth like this, it's the parents.

Tbh when I was little my mum told me all about pedos & their habits (on the web). I was staying away from strangers, mining my own business on the platform (and anywhere else) in it's early days.
Imo it's not YouTube's responsability to regulate smth like this, it's the parents.

parents can tell their children what to stay away from but youtube can get rid of the problem almost entirely

I think youtube should be held accountable like a newspaper of what allows to publish or not.
Sure videos would lad some minutes (especially in new, unkown channels) but who cares?
The hands off approach and hand washing youtube does is too much in my opinion and they will always do it because they can.

yes, but what if you don't have parents, and their guardians lack the time to teach the children "YouTube Advice"?

yup. true. but entitled, lazy parents that refuse to take responsibility of their offspring will never accept it. everyone has to censor everything and themselves just because they decided to pro-create and can't be bothered to curate what their children consume themselves.

There's a looooooooooooong history of parents wanting to blame anything but themselves. KMFDM, Rammstein, and Marilyn Manson are responsible for school shootings. Video games cause violence. Rap causes homophobia and sexism. Et cetera.

Media is a reflection of society; and if a media source is a bad father figure it's far more likely that it's because the creator had no father figure than because the creator was influenced by the devil.

@s4juliette They have a social responsibility to try and limit the amount of damage possible. It is either Youtube does it or a regulatory body will try to step in like is done with just about every other medium of entertainment.

@s4juliette I understand this issue is old news now but like
I can create horrible things with legos
thats not legos fault

@Ryan Criddle It's basically adults watching kids do sports.  to a normal person there's nothing there.  to maladjusted ones it's sexualized.  How should Youtube know the difference when a normal person wouldn't even think like that?  And why should the censor people's expression when they probably generally weren't trying to make content like that?

Some of it was probably kids making content because they wanted to see themselves on YT.

It's gross but you can't stop people from being creepy.  And most of the content isn't illegal in any fashion.

They all are guilty, the parent for not educate, the platform for not be more responsible, the predator, for obvious reasons

I'll See Ya' on the Dark Side of the Moon

That's reliant on if the kids listen to you lol

Agreed, Youtube is not meant to be a daycare.

@Nobody Important that's not really YT's fault, tho. or their responsibility to fix

This is BS. Not everyone has the privilege of a stable and supportive family.

@Ryan Criddle they already do hold some. mostly because of some content creaters target locking for youtube.


The "hired agent" theory is entirely pointless considering you already established his motive and history as an angry leftist who regularly attacked reddit advertisers before. There really seems to be no ambiguity about this


I find it weird that people didn’t question this when it was going on. I wasn’t really participating in this but quite honestly the mannerisms of Matt made it pretty obvious he was lying. Like in the stream, he said “just admit it, you’re salty”? I’ve only ever heard that from 9 year olds on Xbox who are losing an argument


So, weird thing. In the YouTube community page on his channel he made a level headed response just a month after this video. His response was level headed and he apologized.


I feel like that Matt was a real content creator at some point, but got hired by corporations to do what he did since he knew more about YouTube than the 90-year-olds at said corporations.


The real tragedy is that this man cost the real Matt Watson his twitter verification for years

Don't you see his name? It's in Korean. His post is what the cool kids on Twitter call a "fan cam".

Did you reply to the wrong person? No ones talking bout nestle here.

They get chocolate in a part of Africa where children are used for labour for first world countries.

Beware the suffering you indirectly cause

Tony_ δυτικός αμυντικός

MunkMan9 a fitting name. I shall enshrine it in the history books.

@Doctor Mitchell M.D. i prefer to call him the real matt watson


Wow. This conspiracy is like 7 layers deep, and how was I not aware of this when it happened?


I really wish someone could send this video to Matt. Nothing feels better then seeing some jerk's "argument" fall apart before their very eyes.<br>Edit: I know it wouldn't mean much now that he's basically gone, but still.

I really wish someone could send this video to Matt. Nothing feels better then seeing some jerk's "argument" fall apart before their very eyes.
Edit: I know it wouldn't mean much now that he's basically gone, but still.


This is like that one time the reddit/YouTube community supported Peta cuz they were right for once.


No one wants to be the guy to go against "saving the children" which is why demagogues and authoritarians use it as a tool to dismantle anything they don't like. Privacy being the latest target in Australia.


With the theory about him being a plant, at least one of the questions is answerable in my opinion. They chose someone with a history, the specific history he had, so that if anyone caught on that something wasn't right, then they would think they had it figured out when they looked at his past on YouTube. Just look at the way that most other YouTubers just dropped the search for his motivations after coming to the conclusion that he failed on the platform. as for the lack of frequent Matt Watson clones it could be that companies don't want to overuse the tool they have discovered for fear of others realizing what is going on. If they only use it when the chips are down, it will take a while longer for a traceable pattern to form. You can't hang yourself if you don't give yourself enough rope to do so, so limiting rope dispersal makes sense

It could also be that a small firm cut him a check of a few thousand to do this, and he saved them maybe twice that.


While I know this might get dated rather fast I find it funny that in the last few weeks there's been talk of banning Tik Tok in the US. That is hilarious in my mind. This train of thought Was connected to some of the apps and the weird stuff with kids. While YouTube may have issues he makes an excellent case for everyone else who is probably worse.


maybe we need to combine the failed youtuber theory, and the industry plant theory.
this would explain not wanting to co-operate with other youtubers, and preasuring out advertisers.
that also explains his older content


Here after Max's video, history repeats itself

The parallels are obvious but I can only hope the intention is genuine this time.

Seriously, Max's video has good points and makes sense, but he went at it the wrong way. Not to mention his cringe Joker Jigsaw like tone on the video, on a serious issue too.


God, reading his posts on Reddit really makes him seem like the quintessential Redditor

Except Redditors don't like coporations.

Halen2020 Real leftist don’t sellout to Mega Corporations who says “trans rights”, the left movement was always about humanizing capitalism and serving the working class man, not about selling themselves for Google and the privileged Medium Class kids.

@rare pepe <br>This text is basically most of the issues i have with reddit lmao, is this a copypasta or did you make it by yourself?

@rare pepe
This text is basically most of the issues i have with reddit lmao, is this a copypasta or did you make it by yourself?

@⠀ r/woooosh but it is actually misused to the point of having no true meaning anymore

When he browsed r/chapotraphouse I lost it.

@rare pepe I hope that that's a copypasta

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Redditors be like: time to jump on internet bandwagon, bully fortnite kids, keanu reeves epic, elongated monk, piss and shit

@Cian You had a point there but you lost it

Count Binface Global President for #2024

@Kodeb8 Once they start projecting, you already won, no need to continue.

@Cian I've never played the last of us... Clearly you're projecting an image to me of something I'm not.

@Cian Plenty of leftists also complain about SJW's and silly things like feminism in their games too.

I love how quickly everyone's image of the "typical redditor" switches political sides.

@Cian You are the reason why no one takes modern day leftism seriously

@Cian because it's just companies riding social bandwagons that they see as more profitable. They have every right to complain about that, especially when it infringes on the quality of the product

@Absoloot Disaster nah king, they're the kinds of guys who complain about feminism and sjws in their video games

Because that's what heroes do.<br> r/holesum r/keanuchungus r/sounding r/simps

Because that's what heroes do.
 r/holesum r/keanuchungus r/sounding r/simps

Saw that he posted in ChapoTrapHouse. Needed no further explanation.

@Halen2020 Pretty sure the majority of those DANK MAYMERS are 12-15 year old right leaning pewdiepie fans.

Le epic Keanu chungus wholesome 100 pupper updoots

r/emojipolice R/foundthemobileuser r/angryupvote r/beetlejuicing

"I must appease all of my wife wishes<br>For  am unable to satisfy thee"-quintessential redditor 4350

"I must appease all of my wife wishes
For  am unable to satisfy thee"-quintessential redditor 4350

Edit: Thanks for the gold, kind stranger!


This man talks about spirals more than Junji Ito


12:52 They broke even in 2015 when they properly enabled mobile ads. I think the entire reason they stopped sharing the profit reports is to perpetrate the myth that YouTube isn't profitable when they actually are. There's plenty of people blindly defending YouTube and even some who aren't perpetrating that myth to this day as though it were somehow a valid excuse for a lot of the sh*t that goes on. You're actually one of the few who's rightfully saying no one knows but I still have my suspicions. As for not having to directly answer to the shareholders, the actions of last and current CEOs have been generally hostile towards users (Creator Insider has also been generally hostile to anyone who dares question them (Todd claimed I was acting in bad faith when YouTube are the ones acting in bad faith and I am responding in kind), just short of blocking people like me who do so). While what you said is true, I don't really consider it a valid point because of this.


I have no attachment to Matt Watson and he creeps me out, but he had an actual point even though he did probably cause the ad-pocalypse.
YouTube unintentionally facilitated it by not paying attention to the human condition when designing an algorithm to provide content in this way.
When designing an algorithm with a billion dollar company remember to hire child, adult, and behavioral psychologists to explore how a service might be abused by bad actors.

I apologize but your inability to acknowledge this is why I have to unsubscribe because this is about children and I fully doubt your sincerity in this video.
This is one situation where no matter what the cost was to youtube and its content creators and no matter whether or not he had other motives he did identify an actual issue.


If someone starts out a statement by accusing someone of pedophilia or saying it’s “for the children” I am now immediately skeptical of whatever shit comes out of their mouth next


this man managed to cause an adpocalypse even  kjellberg could only hope to achieve


I get triggered every time someone says “Wormhole” because a wormhole a tunnel that links two points in space time.

If you can’t escape the recommended wormhole, it’s a recommended black hole.

I get triggered every time someone says "it's raining cats and dogs" because that would be animal cruelty.<br>Words and statements can also have figurative meanings.

I get triggered every time someone says "it's raining cats and dogs" because that would be animal cruelty.
Words and statements can also have figurative meanings.

Unless the content creators are considered rabbits

Well, internet rabbit holes aren't exactly dug up through dirt by rabbits.

<b>holds back laughter</b> or a hole made by a worm

*holds back laughter* or a hole made by a worm


I always looked for what the so called “ad pocilips” but found few videos but had a general idea but finally an in depth explanation


I forgot I already watched this, but the thumbnail was so appealing, and the video so engaging, that I watched it again.<br>I think he was a disgruntled YouTuber, who then sold himself out to an advertiser, to burn the site.

I forgot I already watched this, but the thumbnail was so appealing, and the video so engaging, that I watched it again.
I think he was a disgruntled YouTuber, who then sold himself out to an advertiser, to burn the site.


The REAL problem here is the total lack of parenting skills in 1st world countries.

@Geoffrey Wilson then let them read a book or draw or play with Legos.

@Kenetic Kups
Yes. But at the same time, kids are NOT fundamentally innocent.
Even before tv, kids knew about sex and money and racial class.
Also, there's this detrimental effect that adults do to kids that really fucks them up.  We call it "inspiring them to change to change the world."

@Tiger Festivals <br>Nah. People just overreact to children doing anything.

@Tiger Festivals
Nah. People just overreact to children doing anything.

Samuel Anthony That's not even renotely equivelent<br>parents should be screening what media the kids consume

Samuel Anthony That's not even renotely equivelent
parents should be screening what media the kids consume

@Acsion42
Regardless of parental controls, people need to understand that innocence is relative. Kids arent inherently innocent. And innocence is not the same as purity.
We need to include kids in real-life matters instead of shielding them.
Otherwise we end up with stunted "adults" like we have now.

'Parental controls' are not infallible. My main point is that the internet is only 'no different' from tv in that they both appear on a screen.

@Kenetic Kups
???
Then we shouldnt let kids have tv or radio or books.

You can't accidentally watch snuff porn or spend $5000 on robux on a tv

@Twister
Unfortunately, most people think that childhood is a separate  reality from adulthood. Even before Internet and TV, kids learn about money, sex, fashion, and discrimination.  The real problem in the West is the smothering romanticism  of childhood.  Kids are not allowed to disagree, criticize, be cynical, walk to school by themselves, etc. Hell, people in their 20s are now being treated like oversized infants bc "muh brain development".
Adults need to stop viewing kids like dogs.
If a child fails or gets a boo-boo, dont lock them away from the outside world!
It's no wonder why Anglo countries have the highest rates of social-personal disorders.

The Internet is no different than TV. Kids shouldn't be banned from the Internet. Just set controls. Most browsers have them.

That’s why I believe we need the government to decide who is worthy of breeding. Can’t trust the weak, only those who are worthy of legally holding can do so.

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@Morgan Wragg even then, is it really that difficult to teach a kid to take care of themselves? Over the age of like 5, its possible to teach a kid to have a sense of preservation, to not immediately try to kill themseleves/eat poison etc. We just need to figure out how to do that... digitally.

It is possible to teach kids, even incredibly young ones, to make the right choices independently. Not many kids actually want to be traumatised or abused.

@Morgan Wragg even then, is it really that difficult to teach a kid to take care of themselves? Over the age of like 5, its possible to teach a kid to have a sense of preservation, to not immediately try to kill themseleves/eat poison etc. We just need to figure out how to do that... digitally.

It is possible to teach kids, even incredibly young ones, to make the right choices independently. Not many kids actually *want* to be traumatised or abused.

+Absoloot Disastr<br>Yep. I recall a certain number of families in Europe while I was backpacking, who, when the child was pitching a fit, would just hand them their phone or a tablet, and the child would absentmindedly take the device and shut up. It almost reminded me of a pacifier, but in this case, its purely a distraction, and not something meant to calm / soothe the child. The parents do not know how to raise a child. Such behavior will only stymie the child's development.

+Absoloot Disastr
Yep. I recall a certain number of families in Europe while I was backpacking, who, when the child was pitching a fit, would just hand them their phone or a tablet, and the child would absentmindedly take the device and shut up. It almost reminded me of a pacifier, but in this case, its purely a distraction, and not something meant to calm / soothe the child. The parents do not know how to raise a child. Such behavior will only stymie the child's development.

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Oh get a life if 3rd world countries had as much access to tech as first world countries do they would face a similar problem. It's not about the quality of parenting but instead the special type of problem being faced, it's so new that we're still trying to find the best way to deal with it..... boomer

@Geoffrey Wilson they can play with the paint on the walls if it means avoiding this shit

Well it can be pretty difficult to keep children from accessing the internet, especially considering how important it has become. I think internet with moderation is the best choice for parents.

@Oda Swifteye this, it doesnt just happen in the first world, it also happens a lot in 3rd world, most of the child twerking videos in youtube right now are either from brazil or somewhere in latin america, sadly kids do it not just because the lack of attention from their parents but also because society has made all of this behaviors popular.

<b>implying that 3rd world countries raise their children in an effective way</b>

*implying that 3rd world countries raise their children in an effective way*

Yeah wtf my parents werent THIS bad like 15 years ago...

Workforce exploitation via long hours and multiple jobs for the numerous low wage parents of our 'first world' country feel like an easy way to explain much of the time sinks incapacitating them from doing that very task well. Bit hard to read to your children on a double shift, but a tablet will tide them over for hours, so bandaid it is.

@Tiger Festivals YESSSS. Adults are just as fallible as kids are tbh

𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐨𝐯𝐞

Tiger Festivals fucking seriously<br>letting children online should be considered child abuse

Tiger Festivals fucking seriously
letting children online should be considered child abuse


"Matt Watson is a corporate bargaining chip" is a conspiracy that I can sink my teeth into.


Awesome vid. I will say that YouTube makes so much money they probably don’t care about advertisers pushing them around. It’s a drop in the ocean. If YouTube actually played tough against all the ad people at once theyd get sued for anti trust violations (not saying they’d lose but still)


Matt didn't care about YouTube he just wanted to destroy everything for everyone. That's the only thing he wanted


I feel compelled about talking another huge YouTube mystery... how the hell did you pitch a deal with a HAIR LOSS tonic?


This guy used "Think of the children " as a way to crash YouTube with no survivors.<br>What a madlad

This guy used "Think of the children " as a way to crash YouTube with no survivors.
What a madlad

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I like the fact that he keeps insisting on the solution of going to the advertisers, it's like telling someone who has a tumor to kill themselves because that's the only way to remove it.


Matt Watson is a weird individual, he acts like he's dumb, even though he knows the in's and out's of the platform. He acts like he's saving kids, even though he supports companies with child labour. He feels like he's fueled by ego, but he decides to disappear completely. He might be working with brands, but he has made questionable content. Nothing about him adds up.


High af on shrooms and I’ve been binge watching your channel. Then Peggy came on and I was like holy shit wtf going on and then the entire video just fucked my head. Cool video? I don’t really know what’s goin on tbh just loving the ride and the videos


Every time I watch the end of this video I get goosebumps it’s so good


I didn't even know about his video starting the controversy, so Emp basically gave me 3 times the info that any other news source has. Big ups and blessings to you.


A side note to this video, the music choice is really dope.


Just rewatching this after a couple years and I'm surprised I didn't notice this earlier since Matt sounds so bad.  23:17 Isn't the blue yeti a front address microphone?  He's talking into the complete wrong part

To be honest i think he didn’t care. This whole situation reminded me of a small child saying “if i cant have fun. No one can.” He was butthurt he wasn’t succeeding with his channel so decided out of jealousy that nobody should be able to


The frustrating part of being on the roof of a skyscraper looking down on the masses is that I can see the totally predictable patterns forming below me, and yet I am powerless to guide them. In fact, they don’t even know I am here... and they never will.


9:23
That pyro comment did not age well

Edit: my comment about that pyro comment that did not age well did not age well

your edit about the comment of the pyro comment didnt age well

@John Jobs watch pyrocinical's my response video.

@Kārlis Ulmanis Oh no i ment the pyrosynical stuff.

But thank you

@John Jobs basically, not everyone can recall comments from a while ago.

@Predator 20357 Im afraid im still a little out of the loop. Mind explaining

@Bruski most just forget about the comments they make

At least you’re self aware enough to admit it.


Matt Watson was an industry plant paid by an unknown company to give a reason for advertisers to pull out of YouTube so they can negotiate lower rates for these advertisers to spend. That was his one goal and he succeeded.  He didn't want to consider any other options that made better sense, he was just paid to do one thing and he did it. But what doesn't get talked about nearly as much during this shitstorm was how the hive-mind of Reddit was so quick to promote Matt's video.

Actic exactly remember when some senators were trying to pass a law that is literally chinese style censorship.

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He would have to be paid by someone small enough to not be noticed, but big enough to cut a half decent check.

@Yotrymp <br>'Think of the children!' works everytime, trust me. It's hard to be against it as children are in danger, but there will be times when someone would use it for gain.

@Yotrymp
'Think of the children!' works everytime, trust me. It's hard to be against it as children are in danger, but there will be times when someone would use it for gain.

People are sheep and child abuse is usually a topic most don't want to argue about or ponder. And if you said what Emp is saying now, you'd probably be accused of being a pedophile justifying things.


the worst part about all of this is that he doesn't use his mic properly, you speak into the side of the yeti not the top. it's clearly stated in the manual and on the box


“The only way to get them to act is by hitting their monetary income”
Is my man forgetting that child is literally illegal?

“The only way to get them to act is by hitting their monetary income”
Is my man forgetting that child is *literally* illegal?


Okay but the real question is, why is your music taste so fucking good. From Let there Be Light by Justice to the goddamn Wario Ware theme 🤣


I feel the reason why he of all people was picked by big corpo was his background .
Most people that would try to look into him at the time of controversy, would see and think its only a failed youtuber trying to burn both website and his more successful peers.
It would be a perfect facade for the deeper story behind the scenes and explain why watson tried so poorly to cover his past.
Would you burn down your place of work after being fired? Unless you're insane no.
But would do it for monetary incentive and guaranted safety afterwards? think more people would be inclined to agree.
Still there's a high possibility that there where many more people like matt that declined offer and what happend to them? got paid to shut up? got taken down cia style?
and leave the question of other people behind the scenes?
truth is we might never see the full story


Yeah his videos on Totally Uncreative were definitely meant to be satire, that's clear enough by him jamming a remote up his rear and saying he's "taking his daily dose of red pill". WILDLY terrible satire though, and even the best comedy isn't really a good enough excuse for harassing people on the street like a weirdo.

It's amazing how quickly he came and went. Really makes u thonk.

"even the best comedy isn't really a good enough excuse for harassing people"<br>Well, UNLESS they are a Furry, its not acceptable.

"even the best comedy isn't really a good enough excuse for harassing people"
Well, UNLESS they are a Furry, its not acceptable.

It's not that hard to make fun of manosphere types tbh

I mean, the harassment video could have been fake...

well, there's one comedy that has a good enough excuse...

B O R A T

well, there's one comedy that has a good enough excuse...

*B O R A T*


like clockwork, as a man once said "It's like poetry, It Rhymes"


Dude behaves EXACTLY like everyone I’ve known diagnosed with Schizophrenia. This was him Vlogging his 'Break'.


Wasp removal videos are the true wormhole (or wasphole) we should be investigating


Nice video! Can't believe I sat through all of it. I can tell you a little something about Matt if you are interested. In fact, I was following his channel and his first few videos when he opened it back in 2016. Ehh.. but I'm too lazy and tired I'm afraid. No one will care to read anyway so I'ma just make coffee and play video games


What if Matt's actions were some sort of test to find out
- how much influence can be gained from a single youtube video under the right circumstances
- how long obvious contradictions don't have any impact on someone's credibility
- how easy it is to manipulate a previously neutral audience
- if someone's strategy for creating a viral video works
- if someone's strategy for creating a viral movement works (and for how long)
etc.

@James Kyle Alboroto sounds like the game we become what we behold, if you haven't played it then you should.

@Doodguy The blank It is, and it's creepy. We shape the internet and in return, the internet shapes us. All it takes is one image/video/article in the right time and right place.

This is turning into some mk ultra shit now.


His argument of "I won't reveal my identity because I could be implicated by reporting to the FBI or Police" makes no sense, because if that was the case, it would dissaude people from reporting these incidents and thus would make investigations much more difficult.


Never remember hearing about this boogaloo. It really sounds like a guy trying to destroy other people’s small income because he couldn’t get some of it himself.


You can hate on keemstar all you want, but you gotta admit, he was droppin heat on Matt

@drip naruto of course you hate jojo,  he's you're enemy isn't he?

@Cool Dude 876 <br>Same though. This name and pic are just an inside joke between a few friends.

@Cool Dude 876
Same though. This name and pic are just an inside joke between a few friends.


This is the best video that Emplemon have ever made


i love this guy is like "billionare companies are evil and greedy,  so i will tell other billionare companies to solve our problems, they will know what to do" which they didnt, they just remove the adds  and act like nothing happened.

That's because the whole "woke" thing comes entirely from the top down. The modern SJW culture was essentially invented (or at least popularised) during Occupy which ended up destroying it. When numerous corporations and media outest started pushing the idelogy conveniantly all at once. Also we know that it comes from the education system now. Plus now almost every major corporation pushes this. You have to be an idiot to think this is somehow grassroots or is a threat to 1%ers

@Fco Omega How easily we forget Carlos Maza.

@Shay Ó Laoghaire no, that is how libertarians and capitalists  operate, "woke" people always call the goverment to do stuff for them, not companies (generaly speaking of course)

Quixotes neoliberals are capitalist not left at all

@Shay Ó Laoghaire But he's not woke, Matt is a mercenary with no motivation beyond whatever he got from Disney and friends for his work.

so goes the last theory posited in the video.


Tfw when a weirdly defensive and emotional ginger is actually a peephole through which we can see the secret maneuvers done by the coalition of companies that's actually pulling the strings behind society and technology.


i remember when all this went down... crazy how time flies


This guy has been watching nothing but "those kinds of videos" to the point that youtube is recommending no other videos.


The point was to start the conversation and prime the community for the coming purge of content which would be deemed "offensive". AKA, anything that goes against the mainstream narrative. The purpose of the guy's channel was so that other people would eventually say "well maybe there is some content like that, but it's already being addressed. What about all THIS content that is soooo offensive? We need to demonetize this!" And so now anyone to the right of Mao has not only been demonetized but entirely banned, and legacy media outlets are prioritized in search results over independent commentators. It's about maintaining control of the narrative. Too many independent voices were undermining the establishment monopoly on shaping public views. And to think that Youtube wasn't involved in the discussion/planning is so idiotic that it's more likely that anyone suggesting this is doing so as a deliberate effort to misdirect rather than due to ignorance.


Theory: Matt Watson is actually Matpat in disguise trying to get revenge on everyone for making fun of him for giving the Pope a copy of Undertale.

@rallokkcaz each feather represents a memory

@Hypno Bagels it was Cancel Culture. He tried to market Etika's suicide as an example of cancel culture when it wasnt.

@Moobattle He's not incorrect tho. Again, he does do seminars and talks to very important people. Like the Pope and Susan Wojcicki. He has enough pull to get Dan Harmon on his channel.  Of course, Susan didn't listen.

And actually, Susan as CEO of YouTube does not have to listen. EmpLemon's newest video brings up the fact that basically as long as Alphabet/Google is still around, YouTube will have no monetary struggles.

I'm not a Matpat fanboy or anything but, why did people make fun of him for giving the Pope a copy of Undertale? Is it because it was around the time he did that  theory about Sans being Ness?

Game Theory: is Matt Watson actually Papyrus from Undertale?

@Wisemankugel Memicus Cool game though. Nice to see something in the vein of Mother 3 in the modern age.

Why did you not say "Game Theory: Matt Watson is actually..."

True. I remember that time a while after Etika’s death where he used it as a mismarketed image of something else, I can’t remember exactly what it was.

@Wisemankugel Memicus he also thinks it's his responsibility to be the spokesperson for the gaming community. I love the guy, and I feel like he has good intentions, but he needs to learn to back off once in a while.

Matt patt turns out to be some comic book super villain who can disguise himself as anyone but he uses his powers to get against people who made fun of him.

He gave a copy of undertale to the pope?

@MarkaVar he does stupid shit every week it's hard to keep track of it all

People make fun of MatPat for that? That's stupid. MatPat gave him a copy of Undertale because he thought it was a perfect representation of the gaming community.

Which is, honestly a statement that hasn't aged quite like wine.

im actually surprised anybody remembers that meme of pat giving a mfkn copy of undertale to pope xdddddd


it's always one dude that wants to see the world burn and everyone follows


Google should sue the shit out of Matt Watson for complete defamation.


This is more relavent now than ever before

As a swiss man once said "it's always relevant because nothing fucking changes"


anyone doing something "for the children" is likely not to be trusted

@Aaron Stepien Are you accusing Nerd City of being a bad person?

@rowan e "You miss my point"

It's hard to find a point in a sarcastic response that consists of a 3 word and 2 word sentence whose only purpose was mockery of the person it was a response to. You can argue that "D might do X, but R also does X" all day, but the truth is "R and D both do X, but D does X so often that X is attributed to being a trait of D". Your tu quoque isn't going to change that.

@Anthuny that's %100 what I meant. Nothing about my statement implies that I meant ONLY Democrats. They do however evoke children VERY commonly.

@Anthuny You miss my point (plus I'm not talking only about pedophilia here). Republicans said to "think of the children" when they wanted to censor anti-Christian or "harmful" media. "Think of the children" when they wanted to pass the corporate coronavirus bailout bill. I can go on. It's an extremely common moral high ground tactic used by both parties, so going "So Democrats" is pretty fuckin stupid.

@rowan e You missed the point. He's not saying that there aren't pedo Republicans. He's saying that "think of the children!" is one of the most commonly used Democrat excuses when they want something banned.

You know, a lot of campaigns to "help starving children in Africa" never actually directly help the children in any way, so this statement makes sense. I'm not saying it's a fact, but it's sure got a lot of truth to it.

Will somebody please stop thinking of the children?!

@Mohammed Shaker Yeah, just Democrats. Only them


Honestly this dude, Matt, is what pisses me off.

The words "Child Exploitation" generally force people to have a knee-jerk reaction or else be seen as a bad person.

Then talking about shit he doesn't know about. Based on his other videos, doesn't seem like a channel I'd like.

I'm glad someone cared enough to look into his shit.


I suspect he didn't find this stuff by accident.  He sounds like he projecting to me... he's got a certain type of outrage that you see in people trying to convince others that they don't like something.<br>For example, when a habitual liar says they hate liars to try to make people think they don't lie. That's what this sounds like to me. Now when he gets raided he'll say he was "doing research".

I suspect he didn't find this stuff by accident.  He sounds like he projecting to me... he's got a certain type of outrage that you see in people trying to convince others that they don't like something.
For example, when a habitual liar says they hate liars to try to make people think they don't lie. That's what this sounds like to me. Now when he gets raided he'll say he was "doing research".


It’s kinda messed up to refer to being unemployed as being salty


Youtubers really are shooting themselves in the foot by monetizing their channels, the day is coming that you will be forced to watch 5-6 unskippable 30-60 second ads in a row, just like the tv, and youtubers will have nobody but themselves to blame for losing their viewer bases when people go somewhere else for videos, I appreciate that Emp keeps his ads to a minimum, but I wouldn't even watch this channel if I had to wait for that many ads, entertaining and insightful as it is


20:35 Can someone elaborate on what about this mixture was so dangerous? I saw a bunch of these but never knew that they were all so dangerous

bruh gamer <br>It’s meant to temporarily dye your pupils, which also can cause permanent damage

bruh gamer
It’s meant to temporarily dye your pupils, which also can cause permanent damage


It amazes me that there are STILL people TO THIS DAY who don't understand how the youtube algorithm and recommended videos work. It's really not a hard concept to comprehend. It should be pretty much common sense.


What about monetarily rewarding people who accurately report pedo content? Its not like youtube will ever be able to build a team big enough to tackle every single one of these videos, but they do have access to a large enough audience that will. Any of the money they would spend on this hypothetical and ineffective team can be shifted to this program.


What Matt did is like accusing Mojang of supporting Racism because of Villager Slavery and Iron Farms.


I think Emp is the real under covered agent here. He's too smart for the platform.

noob2243 He’s basically the YouTube version of a CIA agent

He's a plant placed here by the YTP industry


There is one part that really is damning that should have been elaborated on, instead of all the meandering for useless points like "Matt's name isn't spectacular."
When the comments from Matt's reddit account are shown, it's on a subreddit called /ChapoTrapHouse, a subreddit for pinko losers. For years, CTH got away with breaking Reddit's ToS, even going so far as to call for politicians to be 'baseballed' (search what happened on June 14, 2017 if you want to crack the code) for years. Their userbase had a lot of overlap with other power-groups on Reddit, such as AgainstHateSubreddits and SRS, which also act as the admin's pet subs.

Just as well, Reddit's scoring system directly translates popularity into exposure; in order to game Reddit, it's possible to buy/farm just enough upvotes in order to get a post trending, then let the community launch it the rest of the way to the top of the site.

I point this out because a user from that subreddit would likely know how to game the site, so it's not entirely unfeasible that he would be able to launch a post on Reddit inorganically, while not being able to do the same for a Youtube channel.


Matt's the kinda guy to launch 100 nukes at a country just because he found out it had one human trafficking ring


He's a network guy.Big media already had the story ready to go because Matt was put there by   big media


@MaximumYogertCloset nah, there are more subs like that PCM is the most popular   <br>chill one

@MaximumYogertCloset nah, there are more subs like that PCM is the most popular
chill one

worm I mean reddit is owned maybe, allegedly by chinese shills

They recently took down r/redditisownedbychina

Hmmm they love them social credit points

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Kode true, but I’d perfer reddit over any other media. Any other media is a virus, a cancer, a disease...in my eyes

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Bob Domler such a strong opinion, so brave and controversial.

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Alien Observer “leftism” ooooo boogeyman word

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Mama Diepie so what, you consider us the scum of the earth foul beast!

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OMG! I came back from my vasectomy and my wife's boyfriend surprised me with a large frappuccino from Starbucks!

As per usual reddit is useless, stupid, and won’t even try to understand anything, or just accept others opinions.

@KingHalbatorix Wrong, /sci/ is the best board**

Reddit is only good for promoting your videos

I'd gladly accept blaming reddit for all the problems in the world. And throw twitter in there too while we're at it.

@Clorox Bleach  r/thedonald suggests otherwise.

@The PR Don't let this distract you from the fact that Mr. Krabs sold Spongebob's soul for 62 cents.

Isn't this what the redditors did? Blame one thing blindly (Youtube) without digging deeper?

@Alien Observer Reddit's been fucking up way longer than the political canyon we've gotten ourselves into.  Remember when they thought they found the Boston bomber and got an innocent security guard killed?

@Just Your Everyday Pig same with 4chan, twitter and tumblr.

@MaximumYogertCloset WAS the only good sub. It's been trash since it hit 100k subscribers, almost on the dot.

I really have grown to despise Reddit over time.<br>It seems to actively promote harmful/explotive behaviour in its users at this point and what amount of good there is in it isn't worth digging through the cesspool of lazyness and hostility the rest of the site is.

I really have grown to despise Reddit over time.
It seems to actively promote harmful/explotive behaviour in its users at this point and what amount of good there is in it isn't worth digging through the cesspool of lazyness and hostility the rest of the site is.

@Sebastian Thomas reddit, for me, is good for fandoms. Really nothing else... the memes are okay (except for dank memes. Fuck dank memes.).

Honestly the only good part of reddit is the porn

@Mama Diepie /k/ and /fit/ are the only good subs<br>>inb4

@Mama Diepie /k/ and /fit/ are the only good subs
>inb4

r/ihavereddit You're right the reddit admins are extremely left they're the VIOLENT LEFT!

i accept your opinion even though i am a redditor. Isn't that fair?

So the whole Matt Waston Scandal was a Reddit moment.

@MaximumYogertCloset you've said that like 100 times

A ton more people then a website was at fault tho. Reddit was definitely a part of it but dont let that distract you from other people to blame here


Incredible that I’m just learning about this. I guess late is better than never. Great content as always


I mean the ads are told to pay for a content filter, they instead wait for a controversy, this inevitably results in lower rates for the brands which makes up the shortfall caused by this new expense.


15:43 Seeing GRAMMERLY with that red typo underline made me laugh way more i should have.


In France, the video by "Le roi des rats" was on trending for a while and Everyone was talking about it, but yeah it stayed in French speaking YouTube


The part about the controversies always happening at the beginning of the year before the Upfront meeting in March is eye opening. But if Matt was a corporate plant, and Matt Watson is not his real name, then surely someone at least recognizes the guy by his face?

The whole thing just doesn't make sense. And what you brought up about other platforms being far more dangerous than YouTube is also true. Are those companies not the target of these controversies because they refuse to be bullied by advertisers like Susan is? Where are the campaigns to tear down all playgrounds because they provide a place for predators? There's definitely something going on behind the scenes...

@CyberNinjaZero If he was just a butthurt lefty, why would he not just raise awareness about the thing that he wanted to? It's not like that didn't JUST cause a massive adpocolypse at the time of his expose.

I think there are hit pieces against other social media sites before. They just don't have much traction as Youtube's. The one I can think of are The Tik Tok predator, war against privacy on Facebook and Twitter, no 18 and up art on Tumblr, viral fake news on any social media site, Cambridge Analytica scandal, Gab's war against porn, Covington Kids for Twitter, etc.

Ultimately I think the butthurt leftie theory is true. It had the least convincing "holes" against it especially considering Carlos Maza did practically the same thing for similar motives. "He didn't mention class" is a very weak excuse because not all progressives talk about it nor is "b-but it hurt leftie youtubers" because again people like him and Carlos don't care about that

Well, once we start finding out what exactly is going on behind the scenes, things are going to get insane.


The video and editing in this are akin to something on netflix, in fact probably better than netflix.


He's probably someone who found /b/ and decided to pull off an EPIC TROLL and, despite his ludicrous incompetence in doing so, it worked. He's even using the classic "Will somebody PLEASE think of the children!" message.


Great video, and excellent choice of music


Really liking the doors music in this. When alabama song bled into strange days it was cool knowing the doors had been specifically put in this.


I like how EMPlemon keeps using tf2 jokes in his vids, it feels nice to see the game get any attention these days

@GOINGGODMODE <br>Calm your powerlevel dude

@Bungus sick burn kid, I'll let this one slide,,, but let's just say you BETTER not show your face in down town Detroit. :-))))))

@GOINGGODMODE He dared to reference a product? What is he an NPC?

That's it. I assume he drinks protein shakes therefore is similar to people who are muscular and make me insecure. He's clearly a consoomer guys, but I love capitalism.

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@Calvin_Coolage I think his brain is leaking. Don't mind this one

Durr yuhtub person guy likes product? Me like product durr durr!<br>Eat protien, pray to matt, get epic gains, get cunny.

Durr yuhtub person guy likes product? Me like product durr durr!
Eat protien, pray to matt, get epic gains, get cunny.

Imagine what will happen if Team Fortress 2 will get some attention from Valve or be made into Free and Libre software (FOSS or FLOSS).

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"...to upload what he would describe as comedy videos" is such an underrated dig.


"There was a glitch in the um algorithm"
"That was a pop-up ad"

Also, maybe he really didn't intend on helping companies, just unleashing his hate on Youtube in the worst way he can, because he failed at being a Youtuber, which would explain his older, personal videos. The companies just took it as a blessing. But why is 'Matt Watson' so anonymous? idk, really. Oooooh scary~


This reminds me of a real life version of the black mirror 'fitness youtube' episode.


It wouldn't require many people to stay quiet, just a few parts would required to pull something like what Matt did. A PR agent, somebody to pay him, and a hot and volatile subject for him to work with. The PR agent would tip the news, Matt would get the views, and whoever hired would benefit. The paper trail would be nonexistent if he was paid in either cash or out of an individuals pocket, if it was an out of pocket, it would be impossible to narrow down the individual responsible for paying him when looking at a massive corporation, and if it was cash all we would see is a withdrawal of funds, not the purpose for the withdrawal. All the PR agent would have to say is "look at this, this is some big news" and the media would be all over it, all they would need is a tip, no insider required in the media, but a trusted source is, this also may be why more Matts don't show, they need to be both credible and trusted by news outlets, and trust is hard to receive when your a massive corporation, Journalists are known for being nosy and looking into things, so imagine some PR rep just emails you something and your a journalist, this PR rep works for a large corporation, you wouldn't jump on it, you say "why would they tell me this, why do they care?", this may allow us to rule out which companies were responsible, Disney and Nestle wouldn't be trusted on such a subject, so it wouldn't be them.  Matt deleted all his video, but being a youtuber gave him unique experience that isn't easily found in somebody who doesn't have a channel, and even harder to find one with a successful channel, now the company is looking around for someone who can pull off their scheme, enter Matt, no paper trail, unknown to the masses, had a successful channel and is willing to do what you want for a price, looking at his home and living conditions in the videos, it wouldn't even take offering ten grand to convince to go ahead and do it, especially if he thinks social media is toxic and unsafe. The ulterior motive would be to show and highlight the toxic nature of social media and get paid while doing it, he isn't some rogue, just some dude who really dislike social media for unknown reasons, this also may play into why he deleted all of his videos, maybe for a cleanse, looking at his channel the content is juvenile, edgy, and impulsive, but successful, could he not have wanted that kind of content? Did he grow bored of it? While the reason be unknown, the cleanse theory is the best explanation, it would also explain his disposition towards you tubers and his unwillingness to talk to media outlets, maybe he just dislikes media in general, considering the news to be on the same level YouTube, it's either that or exposure was too risky and unnecessary, the topic was already well known and being addressed, why take any risks doing interviews when you  already have what you need? Everyone could already agree that the problem was very much real and needed to be addressed before he even started, he just needed to throw fuel onto the flame. News outlets tend to ignore social media platforms, most of the time they simply discuss what somebody discovered about the platform, not really ever doing the research themselves, meaning it would require a tip from a trusted source to provoke them into looking into it, and all the tip would have to do is point at Matt, note how hardly any other channels highlighted or even mentioned in those articles, and if they did, hardly elaborated on them, that acts evidence to suggest what I say is true. Was it all planned? Of course not, it was never planned, why would they have somebody like Matt in their back pocket? At best they kept tabs on him, but I think they just happened to stumble across him and after hearing some bad news found out hat they had a unique opportunity on their hands. Were other corporations consulted? Possibly, and it is strong one at that, but I think only one actually carried out the plot and those who were consulted were limited in number and were in agreement to keep their mouths shut, that is if they were, but there is no evidence suggest this is true. Now Matt has no paper trail to follow, he isn't active on social media as far as we know, but at the same time he has incredible experience and knowledge about the various platforms, he would make for a perfect industry agent, especially since no one actually knew who he was, and all of those things would be a requirement, if youtube  found out who was responsible, they could sue, hold it against them and punish them, or make life a lot harder, I mean CNN managed to dig up enough dirt to blackmail some guy with nothing but a comment to start with, the task wouldn't be easy, but not impossible. This is why more Matt's don't show up, a person like Matt is incredibly uncommon, 80% of the population is active on social media, even more are aware and have an known presence, and those who don't don't have the knowledge or know how to do what Matt did, to settle for less is incredibly risky, but Matt was competent enough to handle the situation on his own, and succeed, and with no real online presence, no dirt could be dug up because there was no dirt to dig into, therefore, the news outlets would think that it was legit and support it, and when the news supported it the bandwagon effect comes into play creating the perfect storm. Isn't that a bit complicated? No not really, like I said it was probably not planned but rather there was nothing to lose but everything to gain, if Matt failed the consequence would be inconvenience, nothing too devastating or threatening, just not ideal. So I think that some corporation stumbled onto Matt, the two had a chat, came up with an idea, and decided to just say "Psh, why not?" and went ahead and did something, this is probably why Matt is proud of accomplishing what he did, it truly was an incredible feat that he could take pride in, being able to manipulate the masses, not just the news or countless unknown names in the comments, but the other you tubers as well, he used them and manipulated them all to succeed, and once he succeeded, I bet he was paid handsomely to do something that he was already willing to do or something he wouldn't think much about, and all of it on short notice. This is just a theory I have on it, and I don't think there are too many holes in it, either way, I enjoyed making it.


hate him or eh hate him, he did play everyone like a damn fiddle

@Alias Z50 People hate Youtube because Youtube does shitty things constantly and has always been doing shitty things.

He had me all of an hour then I laughed at myself

@TheBigShot we need to be mindful of when we are believing something because of mob mentality

Thats because youtubers and the idiots who take youtube seriously.... kinda hate youtube for some reason so they use every oportunity they get to shit on them without realizing that this will also hurt them in the process.<br>Honestly is kinda funny

Thats because youtubers and the idiots who take youtube seriously.... kinda hate youtube for some reason so they use every oportunity they get to shit on them without realizing that this will also hurt them in the process.
Honestly is kinda funny

Bryson Omoto “ no fiddles are hard to play, he played us like the cheap kazoo we were” - Raymond Holt

@Penelope McQueen "B-Buhhh-But muh that would make me guilty! I will try to destroy things for the sake of children!! Not like it would fail..... again.... for the like, 10000th time..."

And this is why you NEVER take the "think of the children" argument seriously.

@Plasti Garbo <br>well you're in at least one of those audiences so don't go thinking you're immune or anything

@Plasti Garbo
well you're in at least one of those audiences so don't go thinking you're immune or anything

You are giving him too much credit, he manipulated the internet equivalent of a bunch of especial ed kids.


i saw mumkey jones at like 20:05 and i instantly remembered that whole debacle, i miss him


Wow this man single handedly destroyed youtube


Okay, I know this part of the video was only an example to prove your point, but I have to ask, Why would someone have any reason to celebrate grotesque scenes of monkey abuse?


This is one of the first times I feel I am not up to date with what is going on in the world.<br>I cannot keep up.

This is one of the first times I feel I am not up to date with what is going on in the world.
I cannot keep up.


yknow, him having videos may be EXACTLY why they picked him if him being an industry plant is correct. No one would suspect a seemingly normal youtuber to be a industry plant.

If they wanted him to seem like an ordinary youtuber why would they have him delete all of his videos a week before the scheme?

@Dlaumor Kaizen a shill basically, a seemingly normal person like you or I, but they really work for large companies in secret, manipulating things for those companies. Nestle and Disney are both well known to use scummy tactics like that.

The only problem with this is that it would be very risky for the corporations. If the host doesn’t exist in a vacuum, there is a decent chance they would just refuse and possibly even tell someone about the scheme.

That’s what I was thinking too. It’s kind of like going undercover.

Thats what I was thinking during the vid, quite subtle to ward off those thoughts.


All this goes to show, never trust gingers


I enjoyed the Strange Days instrumental thing, and then you've got Brian Ellis' Terminated right after that.  Emps got good taste.


Fuck I literally threw my phone reading Forbes publish "Does it really matter that the President of the United States has dementia"


you shouldn't trust him because he speaks too close to a mic that's designed to pick up his voice from several feet away

sure sign of a scammer


You could do a shorter one on "Congratulation!" Its a scene from the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion where several primary characters congratulate the primary character. They all only say "Congratulation!" The comment section followed suit, and the WHOLE THING is just people saying congratulations. Some people editted some thing, some people used the Japanese translation, but its all the same. Well of course, except for one :3

Did I mention that there are NO REPLIES TO ANY COMMENTS


I love that any non programmer calls anything an “algorithm.”


the videos are already good, but the inclusion of GT4 music is sublime.


What does cheese pizza have to do with any of this? Seriously though can I Sue Matt for punitive damages to my psyche for even viewing his thumbnails?


Begins with a Down the Rabbit Hole reference.

Oh, this is gonna be a good one.

*Begins with a Down the Rabbit Hole reference.*

Oh, this is gonna be a good one.

HOLY SHIT! IS THAT A <b>[Down the Rabbit Hole]</b> REFERENCE!?

HOLY SHIT! IS THAT A *[Down the Rabbit Hole]* REFERENCE!?

I actually have it looming next to this video lol

I actually opened a seperate tab to check if the
'' Whheeeooouu whhheeeeooouuu''
was the same.
what am i doing with my life?
Ah yes. Quarantine.


He reminds me of syndrome from the incredibles. He wanted to be a YouTuber but then when he failed he wanted all other youtubers to suffer. It’s honestly incredibly fucked up and selfish


this is like a magician saying close your eyes during a magic trick when he finds things that don't go with his message


Ill admit I was concerned when you started the bernie pipeline narrative but you remain the most critical unbiased commenter on YouTube company culture, based emplemon


It’s so weird because I have literally no memory of this event happening.


I just wanna know why miniplayer is disabled for “children’s content”

I just wanna know why miniplayer is disabled for “children’s content”

same. i don't think it makes much sense. the only reason i can think of is that full screen is easier for parents to see what the kids are watching, while they could be watching something inappropriate in the mini player to avoid getting caught??? but any parent actually watching what their kid is watching would notice the kid isn't just attentively staring at the unmoving video list or something that isn't entertaining, they'd know.

If you want to save a song from a children's movie in a playlist you can't, can't even see the comments

Even though it's a children's movie from 3 decades ago...

Atr0 they could simply fix the mini player to not do that

Atr0 they could simply fix the mini player to not do that

I wasn't able to save a video of an American stereotype in anime because it was "children's" content even though the clip had like ten f-words

Now I can't comment and discuss my favorite clips from animated movies. Thanks COPPA and Matt for taking away the ability to talk and share with others about our nostalgia for our childhood cartoons.

the crazy thing is i was watching a documentary about yukio mishima and it said that it was for children.

I remember a (now deleted) shitpost of Hatsune Miku covering The Next Episode got classified as kid's content by YouTube. Which is hilarious.

Edit: typos cause im stupid

The Boondocks clip with Jasmine's lemonade stand is considered for kids, despite having the word "hell" in it. This shit clearly isn't working out.

Considering what it considered children content

You want children to watch THAT, YouTube??

Considering what it considered children content

You want children to watch THAT, YouTube??

So a kid can’t hide what he is watching by making it small when mom or dad walk by lol

So a kid can’t hide what he is watching by making it small when mom or dad walk by lol

Whoever likes the way Youtube is being run is either lying to themselves, or they're getting paid to say that

or "watch later" it annoys me, because the algorithm taggs random bullshit as "kids content"

or "watch later" it annoys me, because the algorithm taggs random bullshit as "kids content"

According to youtube some  "Children's content" applied to robot chicken and Bojack Horseman, because there are kids voices. Can't wait for the ending of Human Centipede 2 be considered "Children's content" cause of the baby.

wazzuper25 I can only hope all the Nintendo related channels like Mario maker and theorists don’t get destroyed by this stuff

Nintendo dodged it thankfully, the LEGO Mario reveal isn't feelin' so good.

Nintendo dodged it thankfully, the LEGO Mario reveal isn't feelin' so good.

Its for children because its bad to overstimulate children. Look at kids tv shows. The ones aimed at younger kids are slower like sesame street. Less action and motion on screen. Spongebob for older children is more fast paced in terms of dialogue and action on screen. The miniplayer stops so kids arentnoverstimulated because younger brains arent good at handling so many things.

I saw like parodies of cartoons and games made for kids get marked as children’s content even tho the videos featured blood and in some cases swearing

ToadySP that’s a horrific psychological dark pattern

ToadySP that’s a horrific psychological dark pattern

Here's my theory: when going into childrens content you only get childrens Content suggested, but miniplay can show content that isn't children's content.

I've seen bloody fight scenes in anime flagged as child friendly content. The whole thing is ridiculous

I've seen bloody fight scenes in anime flagged as child friendly content. The whole thing is ridiculous

Nobody 2020:
Because clearly government has been really helpful so far this year

Nobody 2020:
Because clearly government has been *really helpful* so far this year

Yes that has happened too fuckin much I was watching a  <b>captain fordo</b> clone wars clip he is a badass  and it has been happening to things not even ment for kids

Yes that has happened too fuckin much I was watching a  *captain fordo* clone wars clip he is a badass  and it has been happening to things not even ment for kids

It's so adults can see what their kids are watching at all times. That screen is so small it'd be impossible to tell whether it's Elsa and Spiderman, or family finger friends.

@bitelaserkhalif 平家boy천궁파워서플라이  and @itz sj77

This is the reason why  we love the comment section.

@bitelaserkhalif 平家boy천궁파워서플라이  and @itz sj77

This is the reason why  we love the comment section.

Yeah I just wanna listen to donkey Kong country returns music while browsing my subs

Yeah I just wanna listen to donkey Kong country returns music while browsing my subs

My favorite Lego Star Wars stopmotions from 2007 are "for kids" now and it fucking pisses me off every time I go to watch them

Same reason Roblox censors numbers for kids under 13

Same reason Roblox censors numbers for kids under 13

It’s fucking annoying when I find a song I like or a version of a song I like and want to save it but can’t because it’s “children’s content”

@ToadySP Why can't they do non-tracking ads on kids' videos? Project Wonderful exists, so does DDG, so the technology is there.

Well it's most likely because YouTube is trying to discourage kids content from being made. They stole data and served children Ads. Instead of stopping these behaviors COPPA and YT just decided to stop these videos so less children will not be able to enjoy the platform.

my guess is it's down to information collection, the reason the COPA thing happened was youtube was collecting information about kids which is illegal in the US. videos that are targeted at kids are videos that are set to be kids content, the act of sending a notification must require the user to share some info, same thing with the miniplayer

Oh yeah, one time I found some taliban music and when I tried to miniplay it, it said I couldn't because it was "children's content"

itz sj77 That was bothering me so much. Thank you

itz sj77 That was bothering me so much. Thank you

It’s because of the whole COPPA thing. YouTube disabled most features for children’s content, including comments, playlists, and the miniplayer on kids videos to try and avoid further fines from the FTC.

I'm pretty sure "children's content" is just a different label for "Shadowban".

I'm pretty sure "children's content" is just a different label for "Shadowban".

It to reduce watch time to punish creators further for making childrens content; same as not having notifications.

An episode of the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure OVA is marked as for kids, when in that episode, they play poker, gamble, and a man has a seizure in camera

Especially when it's definitely not "childrens content"

Especially when it's definitely not "childrens content"

Especially when some random music of meme is hit with it and its just disappointing

Especially when some random music of meme is hit with it and its just disappointing

Some of the Beatles' songs from Yellow Submarine and Magical Mystery Tour are children's content so I can't just listen to them or even add them to my playlist. It's so dumb.

Atr0 Can’t they just not do that when the mini-player is up during a kids video?

Atr0 Can’t they just not do that when the mini-player is up during a kids video?

I think it may have to do with the auto play feature so that they don't get lead into a blackhole of content

Miniplayer is disabled because YouTube uses the data from the miniplayer to provide predictive search suggestions and recommendations. This kind of thing is what YouTube is prohibited from doing in order to be COPPA compliant.

All the Peanuts content is childproofed and I HATE IT Peanuts isn't for children, it's for ALL AGES. God.

All the Peanuts content is childproofed and I HATE IT Peanuts isn't for children, it's for ALL AGES. God.

I know it's literally so frickin stupid, I try to watch and hear me out Kidz Bop for a playlist I have with over a thousand and five hundred videos and I can't even scroll down or add more to it at least the ones that are already added can stay its just really sad and I can't wait till the day this site crashes and dies....<br> I just hope all the videos will be archived.

I know it's literally so frickin stupid, I try to watch and hear me out Kidz Bop for a playlist I have with over a thousand and five hundred videos and I can't even scroll down or add more to it at least the ones that are already added can stay its just really sad and I can't wait till the day this site crashes and dies....
 I just hope all the videos will be archived.

@bitelaserkhalif 平家boy천궁파워서플라이 also that sounds good

@bitelaserkhalif 平家boy천궁파워서플라이 also that sounds good

I sometimes go on a nostalgia trip by finding some old cartoon openings and I usually put nostalgic videos in a playlist, with this block I can barely listen to nostalgic cartoon music.

@Wes Small you can actually by workarounds

See my playlist: coppa-cabanana? Some of video are marked as for kids, in past or till this day. Ironically some are age restricted!!!

How to do it?
• Hit like button, and it'll be on liked video list.
• Try to add into other playlist
• There we go!

Sometimes on phone, it got recommended and it doesn't autoplay thumbnails. Click on video, see if it's age restricted, if not close the video and try to add to playlist

(Barry Manilow's song added for emphasis on the name)

@ToadySP Wow thats a good theory, I never thought about this like that. The fact that youtube doesn't seem to do anything with the content that would fall under the mixed audience exclusion seems to support this. Make the system so insufferable that it will be easier for people to lie (or actually claim the mixed audience exclusion but youtube doesn't want to admit it exists)

I can't watch a video from the Pokemon channel cause every time I put the mini player the video stops -_-

I can't watch a video from the Pokemon channel cause every time I put the mini player the video stops -_-

From what I've heard, I think that's moreso an issue with Coppa. YouTube restricts features on "children's content" because they want creators to lie and say that their content isn't made for children even if it is. That way they can still make ad revenue off of it. Basically: Coppa said "You guys can't make advertising revenue off of content labeled for kids because we don't want you collecting ad data on children.". So YouTube is like "Okaaay we'll just try to force our content creators to lie then, so that way if a lawsuit happens, the individual creators who lied will be held responsible and we won't, and we can still make money." Basically the only way you're able to profit off of kids content now is to put yourself at risk of a Coppa violation.

That's like the most annoying thing ever

That's like the most annoying thing ever

You can't add children's content to playlists either.

You can't add children's content to playlists either.

You also can't enable subscription notifications for "children's content" either.<br>Don't get it.

You also can't enable subscription notifications for "children's content" either.
Don't get it.


You know you messed up when Nestle pulls ad funding.  1:05 Nestle the company linked to (child labor, slavery,  etc.)


The easier bit would be to ban any videos on youtube related to the younger crowd, wouldn't it? It'd be easier to handle it that way.


When youtube hitting matt hard, he hits back


If we do one day track him down, he should be made to personally pay back the lost ad revenue of all the YouTubers he hurt.


Your theories are surprisingly enlightening. I was expecting the usual "failed youtuber argument"


The biggest problem is that advertisers listen to these petty people, when the consumer doesn’t care


Holy shit I didn't know I could hate so much a person I met only 11 minutes after


That guy literally made it so I went from being able to make like 1-4$ a month from all my different channels to nothing because each channel didn't meet the requirements for subs but I had plenty of watch time and then the change in the gun rules on youtube finished off my gaming channel since you can't show reloading guns in a video BUT VIDEO GAMES HAVE RELOADING ANIMATIONS. so that fucked me. One day I'll get back to making videos. Just not sure if I want to make content on youtube at this point.


The real wormhole were the friends we made along the way.


I've been working on my YouTube channel for 3 years and haven't made a dime off my channel cuz I stand at 307 subscribers and I'm against this guy who calls YouTubers greedy for calling him out on it.


Damn, I almost forgot this controversy, and the schisty things happening behind lol

Jhonel Ola • ᜇ᜔ᜌᜓᜈᜒᜎ᜔ ᜂᜎ


The corporate shill makes sense, they wouldn’t pick a new account with no videos uploaded- the past videos of his were a perfect mask to sway suspicion.
He declining interviews with all the news outlets further shows that his acting skills are up to par with the one note he kept reiterating, but not up to debating a true open questioning by reporters.
Final verdict: he was a failure on YouTube, so took a chunk of cash to propagate a corporation’s desire to renegotiate ad rates.


The core problem is the legacy media is leading YouTube around by the nose and YouTube doesn't seem to be aware of it.


No wonder I couldnt find Half Life 2's 'CP Violation' around that time. Huh.


49:10 If this conspiracy was to be true, then they would probably need someone somewhat familiar with the platform to begin with but low level enough that he could swoop in. That would at least explain the older vids.


I think Matt is misguided. Well, he also comments on r/ChapoTrapHouse so he's also a lunatic.


I choose to believe he is an industry plant because that just seems like the most poetic truth possible

You just defined the core of every conspiracy theory


Love that both Wish You Were Here and the Hammers were briefly cameoed


Yes, it is YouTubes fault that videos of children that aren't supposed to be up aren't immediately taken down. They can take down copyrighted videos, videos that upset them, etc but not videos that go directly against their terms of service? Come on, stop defending a corporation that'd throw you to the sharks.


It could be theory 1 and 4 at the same timw, and maybe the company hires him to do this and he acceptes because he was angry.


What is so wired and wonderful about this video, the “corporate plant” theory accounts for the most inconstancies.

It is also pa the most complicated therefore unlikely