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Re: YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeting children

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Post by Veratyr »

imustbeevil wrote: post #101
Veratyr wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> YouTube hosts, monetizes, and promotes their content for free No, YouTube takes a cut of their ad revenue. YouTube isn't a charity, it's a business. > It feels kind of entitled to want to get money from YouTube ads, but not produce content that those advertisers are willing to place ads on. Advertisers historically haven't really cared much about language. This whole mess was triggered by ads on a terrorist video i…

> No, YouTube takes a cut of their ad revenue. YouTube isn't a charity, it's a business. YouTube lets anyone upload videos to their site for free. All of the ad revenue is theirs, as they have the direct relationships with the advertisers. They give content creators a cut of YouTube's ad revenue, not the other way around. When creators manage their own connections to advertisers (sponsors, native, merch) YouTube does…

> YouTube lets anyone upload videos to their site for free.

Yes, YouTube doesn't charge you to upload a video.

> All of the ad revenue is theirs, as they have the direct relationships with the advertisers.

All of the money goes _through_ YouTube but it doesn't belong to YouTube. There's a (formal, legal) agreement between YouTube and creators that predetermines how much of that revenue belongs to YouTube and how much belongs to the creator.

Re: YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeting children

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Post by randallsquared »

drdeca wrote: post #128
blattimwind wrote: post #97

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"I cannot be bothered to look after my offspring therefore I will downvote whomever doubts that education-by-internet for two year olds is appropiate"

I don't remember seeing "whomever" before, so I hope you don't mind me trying to understand where it is used. I see that it is used for the object of a verb, and whoever for the subject of a verb, but I am a bit confused here, because here it is the object of "downvote", but the subject of "doubts", so I am confused. In the sentence "I will look at whomever Bob greets.", I think I understand why it is "whomever", and…

It's an interesting corner case. I believe it's "I will look at whomever Bob greets." (as you note) and "I will look at whoever greets Bob." The object of the preposition is the phrase "whoever greets Bob," so subject-to-a-verb wins.

Re: YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeting children

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Post by amelius »

teddyh wrote: post #95
toasterlovin wrote: post #88

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Where is your jurisdiction?

Sweden, but on closer inspection it seems I was mistaken. There are, however, very strict rules: • No junk mail addressed to anyone under 16 years of age. • No TV advertisements directed towards, or meant to catch the attention of, anyone under 12 years of age. Additionally, in TV shows aimed at children below 12, there can be: 1. No commercials preceding or following the program, nor any commercial breaks in the pro…

How about sugary foods in the supermarket, advertised with e.g. superheroes or idols on the packaging?

Re: YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeting children

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Post by drdeca »

randallsquared wrote: post #142
drdeca wrote: post #128

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't remember seeing "whomever" before, so I hope you don't mind me trying to understand where it is used. I see that it is used for the object of a verb, and whoever for the subject of a verb, but I am a bit confused here, because here it is the object of "downvote", but the subject of "doubts", so I am confused. In the sentence "I will look at whomever Bob greets.", I think I understand why it is "whomever", and…

It's an interesting corner case. I believe it's "I will look at whomever Bob greets." (as you note) and "I will look at whoever greets Bob." The object of the preposition is the phrase "whoever greets Bob," so subject-to-a-verb wins.

Thank you!

Re: YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeting children

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Post by twentythree »

drdeca wrote: post #128
blattimwind wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"I cannot be bothered to look after my offspring therefore I will downvote whomever doubts that education-by-internet for two year olds is appropiate"

I don't remember seeing "whomever" before, so I hope you don't mind me trying to understand where it is used. I see that it is used for the object of a verb, and whoever for the subject of a verb, but I am a bit confused here, because here it is the object of "downvote", but the subject of "doubts", so I am confused. In the sentence "I will look at whomever Bob greets.", I think I understand why it is "whomever", and…

According to [0], it seems that "whoever" would be correct here.

> Rule 1. The presence of whoever or whomever indicates a dependent clause. Use whoever or whomever to agree with the verb in that dependent clause, regardless of the rest of the sentence.

> Examples:

> Give it to whoever/whomever asks for it first.

> He asks for it first. Therefore, whoever is correct.

[0]: http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/whoever.asp

Re: YouTube says it will crack down on bizarre videos targeting children

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Post by Feniks »

LyndsySimon wrote: post #76
reustle wrote: post #9

It's (un)surprising how fast YouTube responds to this somewhat mild criticism, while holding steady on their radio silence regarding the large amounts of huge creators who are getting demonetized and community strikes against their accounts. Nearly every big channel I watch has posted a video complaining about it in the past 2 months, with many just this week. Gives you some good insight on where their priorities are…

What communities are you seeing this in? In the firearms/gun rights communities, it seems like the prevailing opinion is that YouTube is specifically targeting them based on political bias. I've not really considering it much, but your comment makes me wonder if their issues are part of a much larger pattern.

This may be extremely shocking for Americans but most international companies do not in any way, shape or form want to be associated with guns.

No IKEA doesn't want to put an ad under your video of your daughter's first AR-15.

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Post by MichaelGG »

microcolonel wrote: post #107
sbjustin wrote: post #75

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Yeah. She's only allowed on Netflix now. I've seen Sofia 10,000 times.

I never understood how it was possible for little girls to watch the same movie literally hundreds of times, sometimes twice in one day. Some day science will get around to the real mysteries like this. I think I've tried to erase the memories of torture I survived, hearing Horton Hears a Who played most days for almost a year.

I remember watching Dumbo (with the Lambert The Sheepish Lion Pre-Show) off a broken cassette repeatedly. I have a very distinct memory of somehow hoping this time things would turn out differently. Like thinking OK, the mother elephant could just trample the guys this time. Nowadays I do not enjoy watching things a second time until I've really forgotten them, and only then if I'm introducing someone new to something great.

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Post by wickawic »

sbjustin wrote: post #77
ashark wrote: post #64

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> We used to let our 3 y/o watch youtube. She learned lots of things from there which was amazing. Colors, Numbers, the alphabet; all by the time she was 2. I'm not a teacher by any means so it was awesome to see this happen. It's entirely possible the videos made this happen, or at least helped, but some kids just develop that stuff crazy-early. My daughter saw little video content before age two, and very little Yo…

Yeah. It's pretty amazing the speeds at which kids learn but seem to "even" up as they get older. My son is doing this completely different than my daughter. At 3, I can barely get my daughter to eat and my son at 7 months flips out if we don't feed him real food when we're eating now.

I know your children are younger, but there is definitely something about school that brings out the lowest-common-denominator in all of us

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Post by emodendroket »

microcolonel wrote: post #107
sbjustin wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah. She's only allowed on Netflix now. I've seen Sofia 10,000 times.

I never understood how it was possible for little girls to watch the same movie literally hundreds of times, sometimes twice in one day. Some day science will get around to the real mysteries like this. I think I've tried to erase the memories of torture I survived, hearing Horton Hears a Who played most days for almost a year.

I don't remember where I read this anymore, but it seemed as plausible as any other explanation: as adults, most things are familiar, so we seek out novelty. To children, almost everything is novel, so they seek out familiarity instead.
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