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Re: Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube

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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 disag…

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Re: Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube

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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 disag…

>No one’s said anything like that.

You're right, unfair, painting with a broad brush. It's easy to feel like people are coming at you from every direction when that's not the case.

Re: Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube

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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…

> repressed puritanism of US culture in particular is kind of awful.

Have you seen other cultures? US culture is one of the LEAST repressed cultures.

Re: Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube

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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.

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Re: Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube

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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…

1 question: how do you know their videos aren't demonetized?

Also, in my understanding, youtube only demonetizes PER VIDEO, not your whole account unless you do something serious, is that right?

Re: Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube

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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…

So did Madonna. And for good reason.

Quite often one needs to take a more direct approach because these misogynistic policies are so ingrained that people actually believe them to be natural. One needs to be in-your-face to get past that.

We like to scoff at Muslims and their backwards policies about women, and yet somehow Western societies are blind to their own - so much so that we need to be told from time to time that the emperor has no clothes.

Naomi is doing a good thing, and a service to women's rights.

Re: Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube

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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…

> repressed puritanism of US culture in particular is kind of awful. Have you seen other cultures? US culture is one of the LEAST repressed cultures.

US doesn't really have a unified culture. Compared to countries that have a strong cultural weight on the world, the US is pretty puritan.

Re: Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube

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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…

> repressed puritanism of US culture in particular is kind of awful. Have you seen other cultures? US culture is one of the LEAST repressed cultures.

Except sexually. The US is significantly repressed there compared to all other aspects.

Worldwide I’d put the US just on the conservative Side of the middle line regarding sexuality.

Re: Naomi Wu video demonetized on YouTube

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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 sc…

It's a little strange, I have the top tech review YouTube channel in Mainland China, one of the top five English channel- and yeah just because they are blocked here, but still it's a big market. And with 1.5m followers still I can't get a partner manager. I know guys with 400k who started years after me that have partner managers. I just go through the same forms, escalating past boilerplate responses. No regular point of contact or consistent dialog. Terse copy/paste responses. Refused my Play buttons and verification for years. None of which make any sense to me The risk I take running a YT channel this size, from inside China, as a Chinese national is not small. Why make it so much harder for me rather than establish a dialog?
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