[...] and curse has no real reason to drop him.
Hold my beer .
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"
YouTube networks drop thousands of creators as YouTube policy shifts" - Article from April 24, 2018
The whole article is worth reading. It also states these "multi-channel-networks" should monitor the uploads of their members. And here we have this guy who ups 15+ videos a day, you can imagine they don't really want to do that. It also reads like there was nothing they could do, it was a decision of YouTube. So yes, there is a new danger in town.
There is if course also a
guideline for social behaviours which is part of the terms of service. So here we have Phil basically violating:
- Nudity or sexual content - Shower video (2 of them), his vacation video with Leanna where even the title states something around "hot sex with panda" and shows porn covers. Sure his latest shower video is on KingOfHateVlogs but it's still under the control of the same person. He also spouts a lot of sexual innuendos in his videos.
- Harmful or dangerous content - You could argue he only shows what's on the market, some dangerous content in videogames. However, sometimes he embraces violence as something really cool and positive. I can't find it right now but some may remember his video where he puts on a sadistic show as the little kid from The Walking Dead stitched up her arm with a needle, which was extremely disgusting. Or do you remember his joy as Snake was electroshocked and Phil was all like "Yes put it on my balls, I love it, ack ack ack ack"?
- Hateful content - Do I really need to state how this guy hates everything and hates on everyone and never fails to hold himself back? Most toxic person alive. He also shows some racism from time to time (Chicki Chacka Wang Wang).
- Violent or graphic content - Technically speaking he should put on a warning when the game is 18+, at least in his description. He doesn't, nobody does that.
- Harassment and cyberbullying - He loves to talk bad about other people, even in the middle of his gameplay. With an attitude of "Person X is worthless, real talk. Also something something blue beard".
- Spam, misleading metadata and scams - HA HA HA HA HA HA ACK ACK ACK ACK. King of Videospam. King of Idiotic Tags. And he scams his viewerbase on a daily basis. He just made $1000 for a problem that lasted half a day. He actively wants money from his audience, explains a thousand times how they can send im money. And the reward for doing that is a shoutout, an animated gif or voting on a game he will play, which he will never start to begin with or even ragequit. Also Project 7, anyone? Not a scam at all?
- Copyright - Nothing he could do, but this time for real. Showing videogame footage, especially if it is story driven (which he plays a lot latelly) falls in a grey are, even right down to breaking the copyright. Sure there is this common rule which considers "transformative khantent" but Phil's RAW footage doesn't transform anything.
- Impersonation - Uuuuh Uuuuuh, look at me, I'm Person X, I'm book smart and know better than you, Uuuuh! - Followed by insults.
- Child endangerment - 11. Year. Old.
And then we have "Additional Policies":
- Vulgar Language - Which is the essence of Phil's personality (the other 3 policies doesn't fit).
So from the big list I only ignored "Threats" and "Privacy" because the description doesn't fit. Nothing he could do. A good reason - if Curse is the problem - for not mentioning it is the potential of breaking some rules again, he wants to stay on good foot with his network and YouTube, these book smart assholes, especially now.
Additionally I want to state how some networks sometimes restructure themselfs because the old way isn't profitable anymore or they changed focus over time. You could say Machinima did this, even if Phil left for other reasons. The way of lazy Let's Plays isn't really something every network will support anymore.
This doesn't mean the problem is in fact Curse. But I won't rule them out.
Constructive double post, except you've already seen it. Phil talks about the problem but stays vague.
(2h, 7m, 50s and forward)
It has absolutely nothing to do with taxes, but a "party". He can't fix it, his audience can't fix it, he has no control over it. He's done nothing wrong. He doesn't know what will happen. And it's a developing situation. It's not "dooming". But things can get very uncertain.
He also made a list of things he finally had nothing to worry about and it's possible (just possible) he tried to not mention the problem in this list. If that's the case he's not in jeopardy of losing his YT or Twitch channel. It's not the bills, his bank account is fine. Nobody tries to "troll" and shutting down his khantent.
BUT it could affect him moneywise.
So... why won't he get more specific like usual? Too embarassing? Tells too much of his privat life? Would it unveil his scams? Would we know how he spend the donated money but shouldn't done it? Riddle me this, Batman: What's a developing negative financial situation you can't tell specifics of?
(forgive some spelling and grammatical errors, it's very late right now, I can't really think)