@ReentryPhantom @Raven'sChild
[Warning: long-ass post incoming. Not my fault, nothing I could do.]
I was looking into this subject yesterday because I remembered reading some things about the great "MCN purge" back when it happened earlier this year. I came across
an article on Polygon (
http://archive.is/juIEE) from April 23rd of this year that goes into reasonable depth about the whole thing regarding a different MCN, named FullScreen. I won't copy-paste the whole article because it's rather lengthy, but I will highlight some interesting parts:
“YouTube is ‘forcing’ all networks to remove creators that are at risk of violating terms of service (copyright issues, misleading thumbnails, etc),” Pinsky said.
The decision Pinsky referred to is something called the “Know Your Customer” policy, according to Jason Urgo, CEO of Social Blade. The “Know Your Customer” policy puts MCNs in a tricky position, according to Urgo, who said that it pushes companies to drop a large number of creators in order to continue working with YouTube. “[It] in effect forces MCNs to either watch every video uploaded by their partners, or at least be reasonably confident none of the videos they are uploading could possibly either in the present or in the future violate or even come close to violating a YouTube guideline/terms.”
The new internal policy means that “networks now have to either drop [everyone] but their top partners or bring more people on to manually review all content, which just isn’t economical in most cases.”
Thousands of creators are being dropped from MCNs, according to the source, as MCNs become stricter talent managers. Instead of MCNs being an entry-level partnership for up-and-coming creators, companies will work with a few hundred people already popular.
Very interesting information, and also partially in line with what DSP said on his ThanksREEing stream last Thursday. There are also multiple examples of other Curse partners getting dropped
on the exact same date as DSP's partnership was terminated, July 20th, 2018:
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/sUOYLssmOYc;context-place=forum/youtube
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http://archive.is/fVwKA)
https://www.reddit.com/r/letsplay/comments/8wpp97/curseunion_for_gamers_is_dropping_channels_doe_to/
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http://archive.is/jNrI0)
https://reddit.com/r/letsplay/comments/8wsyd5/just_got_dropped_wcurse_what_happens_now_with/
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http://archive.is/kP6JH)
And another soon-to-be ex-Curse partner posted something similar on Reddit, but also attached some emails sent by Curse to creators:
https://reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/8xp2rh/mcn_curse_union_for_gamers_drops_numerous_channels/
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http://archive.is/lSLKo)
The imgur album containing the emails:
https://imgur.com/a/B09eFcH
(no archived link because archive.is encounters bugged archiving mechanics on this particular page)
Interestingly enough, they specifically mention that the creators/channels/videos have nothing to do with it. It wasn't their fault. Nothing they could do. Typically something DSP would hear/read and emphasize that to at least make sure everyone knows he's not to blame.
DSP simply MUST have also received a similarly worded email months or at least weeks prior to him being dropped, just like the dozens of other partner thats got dropped at the same time.
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Now, let's have a look at what DSPGaming's video section looked like on July 19th 2018, the day before he got dropped:
It's the typical sight of one of the things DSP's known for: a frightening amount of videos, about 15-40 of them uploaded within a period of 24 hours, daily. You can still see his REEmergency video at the very top, uploaded on the 20th of July. And put together, the videos consist of HOURS of
raw and
unedited gameplay. Maybe less so regarding his Street Fighter videos, but those are the exception to the rule.
Now, if you'd be working for an MCN, and Youtube told you that videos have to be manually reviewed from now on, and you look at the spamfest that is DSP's channel, what would your first thought be? Mine would be: "Fuck that, I'm not going to spend literally 50+ percent of my (every!) working day to sit through that shit. Let's drop this dude and focus on smaller group of our bigger, more promising partners."
In my opinion, that is what happened. And they way Curse communicated this to their partners, planted the seed in his mind that he did nothing wrong. Or, in DSP's case: the seed that makes him think he does nothing wrong has always been there, but Curse provided the water and light for it to grow.
In part 1 of his "DSPGaming Emergency Live Stream Part 1" on KO Gaming, he himself basically explained it was a "financial decision" made by Curse and that neither he nor Curse was to blame for the whole situation:
Notice how he doesn't even slightly rant about trolls flagging his videos, detractors, people "illegally" taking his content etc., and how he didn't even look that mad. And that while he was fully aware of that at this point time, according to his claims during the Thanksgiving stream. He even specifically says that he doesn't feel the need to go into the specifics. Sounds to me like he just found an avenue last Thursday to emphasize on this to garner more sympathy.
Am I saying that detractors reporting his videos didn't a play a part in Curse's decision? No, I think stuff like that most likely also was a factor that Curse considered and probably discussed with DSP, as he said Thursday. But by spamming his channel with dozens of videos every single day, DSP greatly "amplified" their impact: every single video is one oppertunity for someone to file a report, so more videos means more (possible) reports, is more (possible) work for Curse, (possibly) costs more money to maintain DSP as a partner. And if Curse really didn't want to put specific part about massive amounts of reports being the main reason for them to drop him on paper, I think they simply used it as an easy excuse for them to drop DSP because they obviously know him and the way he views people not liking him.
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TL;DR
- Curse didn't want to take the risk anymore with the ever controversial DSP
- Curse didn't want to use up recources to maintain his partership by babysitting his dozens of daily uploads and hours of gameplay, and instead chose to focus on a much smaller group of bigger/better/more profitable partners
- Curse probably emphasized on his videos getting a lot of reports as an excuse that perfectly fits with DSP's way of thinking,
not wanting it to be put it on paper or in writing, for whatever reason
In my honest opinion.
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Oh, and a wild T-Pose appeared while I was browsing his KO Gaming channel, so there's that.
