Idk what is happening but her videos still have ads on mine. Two ads before actuale video starts a d about 7-8 yellow ad markers at least on recent videos. I checked about 4 and it seems business as usual for her. At least from where I am.
Same here. I’ve actually thought about it a lot and I realized that I’ve seen quite a few with ads that changed every time I went back to the same video to read comments. And this has been happening on more than one channel.
My boyfriend went to a few channels he watches and they’re completely unrelated to lolcows (video games, tech etc) and the same thing happened every time he closed the app and went back into the same video. Sometimes they had no ads, sometimes they had a mid roll, sometimes they just had one at the beginning or end.
I think the reason that people are just now noticing this phenomenon is because they’re going back to the last thing Amber uploaded over and over to see if there are updates in the comments, something most people normally don’t do. Then they went to other lolcow channels and the same thing happen. Confirmation bias, when in reality it’s happening to everyone.
A very good example of this is Peter Monn. I used to occasionally watch his videos until last year where it got to the point that he had an ad going off like every minute and a half to two minutes during a 20-30 minute video and I couldn’t take it anymore. Like I said with Amber, there was almost more commercial than video. Well I just went to his channel, and while he’s still trying to shove 9 mid roll ads into 23 minutes (yellow ticks are still on the slider bar) the only ones that played during the first video I clicked were the first two before the video starts. None of the mid roll ads came up and the ad at the end didn’t play. This was the case for the 4 videos I went through. Only one played two mid roll ads. Alex is Shook mentioned this in his video on the ALR demonetization drama. He said you put them in and hope that one pops up. That doesn’t explain a lot of other stuff, but it does make me think that everyone, including myself, jumped the gun thinking they took her Adsense.
I won’t speak for the rumor going around that YouTube has more rules now about channels that talk about or feature eating disorders, because I want to read the TOS myself, but I do believe that Adsense has gotten more fickle with the pandemic going on and maybe that’s made YouTube tighten up on ads. I don’t think the channels we talk about here are specific targets of revenue loss, but I do think they’re being afflicted. Maybe more so because of their view counts. Someone with millions of views can take the hit easier than someone whose getting 60-100k per upload.
I think our gorl is making money off her last video and she knew that disappearing would double the views, which would make up for ads she couldn’t place. If and when she does come back, I see these antics becoming a regular part of her strategy. I also think that while they haven’t been completely demonetized, the days of being paid ridiculous amounts of money to simply exist are very numbered for the Chantal and Amberlynns of the YouTube world. Advertisers probably don’t want their products and services being advertised by fat, dirty slobs who make terrible content and I don’t blame them. I think the gravy train is going off the rails, even if it hasn’t crashed yet.
