Forgotten Weapons and YouTube's New Firearms Policy
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eoLZ7SJIJo
Was going to post this in this thread but I forgot lol. What's horrendous is that the policy is RETROACTIVE, how fucking moronic can you get. Gun based channels will have to comb through all their videos to avoid channel strikes.
It's a bummer Ian and Karl are getting fucked like this, as well as any gun channel really.
At least we still have their official site.
The time for VideoHub is now, PornHub. Make it happen.
Ian is too pure for this world, and definitely too pure for fucking youtube
Honestly, I'm even more okay with the policy now than I was when I initially read it. It's super easy to just not link to a sales site, not show instructions on how to manufacture stated stuff, and not show how to install stated stuff (only possible bad retroactive thing could be if text displayed in video is counted as a 'link').
It really seems like it will be easy for any channel to stay on the safe side of it, with the only annoying effect being that it may interfere with sponsored content links. In the case of sponsorship with auction organization like Forgotten Weapons often has, I'd hope they're able to work something out to keep it going but just without an explicit direct link to their site and just displaying the info and telling you to Google it. If anyone is really interested in purchasing whatever featured gun is up for auction I doubt that's too much of a barrier for them.
I wonder what kind of contingency plan do they have. Knowing Ian, it'll be something really interesting.
As far as Im concerned, forgotten weapons is purely an educational channel. He doesnt make any money off the auctions he links, he just uses that as an in to make these seriously insightful videos.
Why does youtube keep fucking up?
Because they think they're doing the right thing by keeping the site 'advertiser-friendly' which means purging videos with what they deem 'controversial' or 'inappropriate' whatever that means, keeping the site clean. In turn the end user gets screwed over because they're not handling videos on an individual basis and instead relying on a guilty until proven innocent approach.
YouTube right now puts advertisers first, content creators second
except for the channels that always has millions of viewers they're always good to go no matter what they do
I'm from the UK, where we banned guns in 1996, the same year as Australia, and I am actually happy about that. Still, I really love this channel. It's super interesting to see how the MP18 fits together. The complexity of these guns is really incredible, especially considering some are from before WW1, like the Puckle Gun, for instance.
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