The real issue IMO is people like Chantal treating their channel like a diary or some kind of private or exclusive group rather than, you know, public videos showing ads. YouTube videos are either the results of creative hobbies or profit-seeking products. They're public. They're open to discussion by default.
I've said it many times before, and I'll say it again. Clotso's "problem" is very simple. If you put a video up on YouTube, where it is public, then the viewers are gonna discuss the video. That's no different than hanging a painting in a museum. People see the painting, and if there's something noteworthy about it, they will discuss it.
So, if your content happens to be about building birdhouses, and you stick to birdhouses as your topic, the comment section will be filled with comments about birdhouses. You can see this all over YouTube. Among the channels I subscribe to are car review channels, retro electronics channels, and record collecting channels. Some of these creators are overweight or quirky in their own ways. But the comments are almost uniformly about cars, electronics, and records. Nobody seems to bring up weight or personal stuff. Why? Because nobody knows anything about the creator; they only know about the cars, electronics, and records that the creator discusses. If you want to be a YouTube success, stick to the simple rule: stay on-topic always and don't talk about yourself. And have some respect for your audience.
Chantal, and almost every other lolcow, are incapable of following this advice. They have no topic of interest. As Chantal herself has said often, her channel is about HER. That is her topic. So people, naturally, discuss that content, which means they are discussing her. If she talks about boyfriends and apartments and her cats and her weight, then of course people will talk about her boyfriends, apartments, cats, and weight. What else is there to discuss? Nothing, even if the viewer
wanted something else to talk about. We can only discuss what we see, and there is absolutely nothing wrong or weird about that. It is normal.
Most of the reaction channels fall within what YouTube defines as within TOS. Most feature more commentary than simple replaying of her material. That is transformative and fair use; even kids understand that. There are perhaps a few outliers who stream snipe, and she is within her rights to complain about those. But that isn't what FFG and all the rest do.
If Chantal were to delete all of her old videos, stick only to making videos about hijabs, never mention her personal life again at all, and refrain from doing disgusting things like farting or consuming drugs on camera, guess what? She would have one of the most boring channels in history, but the reaction channels would mostly wither and die and she would no longer face personal comments in her comment section. She'd just get comments about hijabs. It is elementary and obvious.
Lucky for us, she is too stupid and self-centered to ever have a topic besides her own everloving self. So, we have had 5 years of milk, and more to come. Until she is dead, apparently.
(in the first shot you can see the chat calling for Arabic Chinny's head).
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