MirceaKitsune
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Animations taken down in wake of Youtube persecution
🕑 Added 2018-05-14 22:14:39 +0000 UTC I don't want to dive into too much detail right now, since I'm honestly feeling too sick to even discuss the subject. As this affects my watchers as well I felt at least a notification is in order.As of the last few weeks, Youtube has began a new rampage against content creators on its platform, randomly deleting videos from smaller channels and punishing them with strikes. The issue seems to have reached unprecedented heights this time: Even segments of cartoons that have aired on kids television are being deleted under the hallucinating excuse that they're violent and / or sexual. If you appeal such decisions and tell Youtube they've made a mistake, either your appeal is rejected or you are punished with a strike (if you weren't already) for daring to contest them. We suspect it's either some recent algorithm change, or Youtube has given trolls and lunatics access to their moderation tools entirely... whatever the case it's greatly harmed a lot of artists in a matter of days, with many +10 year old channels getting deleted overnight for literally no reason.
This madness seems to have spilled onto my channel as well. For that reason, I'm afraid I had to take down all of my animations from there. Once the existing strikes expire I may bring them back up, though at this point I really don't even know if I want to put anything on that demented site any more. Even so I now risk losing my 13 year old channel, and am just hoping the next 3 months pass without anything new happening.
I apologize to all viewers who are unable to watch my animations, including the Patreon projects they've supported me for. I hope to have an alternative place to upload them soon, especially since I'm getting ready to give DTube a try. My videos were also on vid.me but unfortunately that platform went down. Once I repost them I'll make another journal and let you all know where to watch them next. Thank you for understanding.
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Mircea Kitsune
Thank you very much! It's not a bother. And for the most part it's going well: I decided to move over to DTube, which is currently the simplest and most reliable decentralized video platform I found. I'm even compiling and running a local fork of the project, and once I work around some issues with video conversions I'll be ready to upload the rest of my animations at proper quality! The task has taken up most of this month, but hopefully by next month I'll have a ready channel with all of my exiting animations back up.
Joseph Williams
I just started pledging to you and I don't mean to be a bother, but how has the search for a new place to upload your animations been coming along?
