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Re: Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube

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Post by spacexsucks » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 6:05 AM UTC

SexyCyborg wrote: post #6

oceanghost wrote: post #5

Sigh... while talented, she is constantly pushing the boundaries of taste and the YouTube TOS to gain subscribers. She pretends to be some women's rights activist when she's really just a purveyor of some weird type of titillation. Yes the algorithm is capricious, yes its arbitrary, and yes YouTube is evil. But she's clearly making a bust of herself naked. I'm sure if I put my balls on YouTube they'd be more than dem…

"She pretends to be some women's rights activist" I'm a mainland Chinese citizen with a high profile on Western Social Media, I can assure you I work very hard to make sure no one confuses me as a women's rights activist. Particularly not these days. "Yes the algorithm is capricious," Not the algorithm- all human moderation. "she's really just a purveyor of some weird type of titillation" Why not just have an Only Fa…

I am a huge fan. Keep being you. And you are brave.

Re: Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube

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Post by arpa » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 6:07 AM UTC

What I don't get is how in year 2022, having landed on the moon and tricked silicon into computing for us, we as a western civilization still haven't come to terms with our own bodies, other peoples' bodies, the fact that we have a sex drive, the fact that we can and do have sex for pleasure and punish ourselves for all of these things. It's insane.

Re: Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube

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Post by totony » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 6:11 AM UTC

How does she know whether the videos she references are demonitized? It's unclear to me if they are monitized since none of them seem to have midrolls.

But yeah, Youtube demonitization is pretty bad and arbitrary. Might be better if they had competition.

Re: Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube

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Post by solarmist » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 6:13 AM UTC

SexyCyborg wrote: post #4

tdeck wrote: post #3

Clarification: from the thread it appears that this one specific video has been demonetized rather than the entire channel.

Yes, it's a regular occurrence, not the whole channel yet. And technically it's "reduced monetization" but that works out to a 90% drop in income on those videos. And again, before all of HN jumps on me, yes I get why, and agree why, but no I'm not doing it for the reasons many of you think and will want to chastise me for. I really do just look like this. If it was just a matter of changing outfits like a normal fun…

Let me start with I completely support you and love your Twitter and videos.

But this feels uncalled for.

> Yelling at me that I have it coming because I'm a lying whore trying to cheat poor innocent simps out of their money isn't going to make it any easier to offer a complete backstory.

No one’s said anything like that.

From what I’ve seen, HN is generally pretty supportive and respectful of you, even if they disagree personally. So why all the negativity coming out of the gates?

Re: Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube

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Post by dirtyid » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 6:13 AM UTC

Wonder what the success rate for petitioning youtube as foreign national creators are. Alphabet goes out of the way to be support unfriendly and at the end of the day it's not even about clearer rules but incentivizing less support to save costs unless demonetization drama cause sufficiently bad PR. Content creators who has accumulated harassers over the years that are report happy are kind of screwed. Maybe extra screwed if they come from places like PRC.

Re: Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube

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Post by totony » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 6:15 AM UTC

arpa wrote: post #12

What I don't get is how in year 2022, having landed on the moon and tricked silicon into computing for us, we as a western civilization still haven't come to terms with our own bodies, other peoples' bodies, the fact that we have a sex drive, the fact that we can and do have sex for pleasure and punish ourselves for all of these things. It's insane.

Isn't it understandable that people want separate spaces for sexual and non sexual content?

I wouldn't jump the gun on allowing sexualization everywhere since it can have pretty bad effects on some people.

Now whether this is sexual or not is another matter.

Re: Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube

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Post by Barrin92 » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 6:21 AM UTC

totony wrote: post #16

arpa wrote: post #12

What I don't get is how in year 2022, having landed on the moon and tricked silicon into computing for us, we as a western civilization still haven't come to terms with our own bodies, other peoples' bodies, the fact that we have a sex drive, the fact that we can and do have sex for pleasure and punish ourselves for all of these things. It's insane.

Isn't it understandable that people want separate spaces for sexual and non sexual content? I wouldn't jump the gun on allowing sexualization everywhere since it can have pretty bad effects on some people. Now whether this is sexual or not is another matter.

Not really. Sexuality is and ought to be a normal part of human life and the repressed puritanism of US culture in particular is kind of awful.

There's a distinction worth making between voyeurism and sexualizing others but when someone portrays themselves as they want to be seen I have no idea why that needs to be put in some sort of box. Because there ought to be nothing offensive about sex, which is just about the most natural thing on earth.

And of course for some reason everything is assumed to be sexualized, from a sculpture of a torso to even breastfeeding mothers, I still remember 'female presenting nipples' on what was it, tumblr? It's like some sort of cursed feedback loop where the repression leads people to be horny about every sight of a nipple.

Re: Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube

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Post by fifteenforty » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 6:21 AM UTC

SexyCyborg wrote: post #6

oceanghost wrote: post #5

Sigh... while talented, she is constantly pushing the boundaries of taste and the YouTube TOS to gain subscribers. She pretends to be some women's rights activist when she's really just a purveyor of some weird type of titillation. Yes the algorithm is capricious, yes its arbitrary, and yes YouTube is evil. But she's clearly making a bust of herself naked. I'm sure if I put my balls on YouTube they'd be more than dem…

"She pretends to be some women's rights activist" I'm a mainland Chinese citizen with a high profile on Western Social Media, I can assure you I work very hard to make sure no one confuses me as a women's rights activist. Particularly not these days. "Yes the algorithm is capricious," Not the algorithm- all human moderation. "she's really just a purveyor of some weird type of titillation" Why not just have an Only Fa…

If YouTube put as much effort into addressing the pandemic of health misinformation as they do into making your life difficult, the world would be a better place.

Thank you for spreading such good information on masks.

Re: Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube

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Post by drawfloat » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 6:22 AM UTC

arpa wrote: post #12

What I don't get is how in year 2022, having landed on the moon and tricked silicon into computing for us, we as a western civilization still haven't come to terms with our own bodies, other peoples' bodies, the fact that we have a sex drive, the fact that we can and do have sex for pleasure and punish ourselves for all of these things. It's insane.

Not being funny, but there are plenty of western countries that don't go around censoring this stuff. There's one massive leader in it.

Re: Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube

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Post by twofornone » Thu, Jan 27, 2022, 6:29 AM UTC

SexyCyborg wrote: post #6

oceanghost wrote: post #5

Sigh... while talented, she is constantly pushing the boundaries of taste and the YouTube TOS to gain subscribers. She pretends to be some women's rights activist when she's really just a purveyor of some weird type of titillation. Yes the algorithm is capricious, yes its arbitrary, and yes YouTube is evil. But she's clearly making a bust of herself naked. I'm sure if I put my balls on YouTube they'd be more than dem…

"She pretends to be some women's rights activist" I'm a mainland Chinese citizen with a high profile on Western Social Media, I can assure you I work very hard to make sure no one confuses me as a women's rights activist. Particularly not these days. "Yes the algorithm is capricious," Not the algorithm- all human moderation. "she's really just a purveyor of some weird type of titillation" Why not just have an Only Fa…

>Why not just have an Only Fans, weekly photo video sets, and a decent copywriter and make 10x as much money? Why go through all this work?

I mean, I cant help but agree that you're being a little dishonest here. Without passing judgement on whether what you're doing is right or wrong, a quick glance through the Twitter link in the OP and its quite obvious that you are well endowed and using it to your advantage by wearing revealing clothing. Can we acknowledge that some probably significant proportion of your channel views are at least initially due to your physique and the way you happily show it off?