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If you don't know, Steven Crowder has decided to start a campaign against big conservative media companies and the pro-big tech contracts they make for their contributors.
https://www.louderwithcrowder.com/crowder-dont-sign-contracts
I've heard both sides, they both have decent points, this isn't about who is right and who is wrong since anything I could say has already been said by others much better. But it does have me wondering if this is has anything to do with how Steven was so anti-competition until he spontaneously was pro-competition. Like Romney and the pro-life thing, what was his "Come to Jesus moment" regarding competition? Nothing changed for him in-front of the scenes, so maybe it was something behind the scenes.
Exposed Steven Crowder banned and should have uploaded elsewhere: https://ccpandhgvideos.blogspot.com/2021/04/exposed-steven-crowder-banned-and.html
Fact Check Steven Crowder's Pro-Youtube Anti-Competition Past: https://ccpandhgvideos.blogspot.com/2021/06/fact-check-steven-crowders-pro-youtube.html
Hello Catholiccontriversy here. I've been on the internet for a good long while and recently I've been feeling nostalgic for old internet content. It's more than just "almost everyone I subscribed to in the first 3 years of youtube has quit," and "there were sites like atomfilms and blip and crackle originals and newgrounds that specialized in TV quality content that wasn't highly produced," there was an overall different approach people took to "being an internet content creator." A lot of this is just going to be me waxing nostalgic about "the good old days," and I recognize that this could just be "what I want is out there but I just don't have the time to discover like I used to," but I feel like there is something we're missing now.
Back in 2005-2011 when people thought of "internet videos" there were 3 different categories. You had "Charlie bit my finger, David after dentist, nut shot videos" and other "one off viral videos similar to AFV," no production value webcam and movie maker slide show videos of the user "as they are," and "high production but no budget creative series," and the most popular of those were the "high production no budget creative series." Back in the day the most popular youtube channel was Fred, a 4-8 minute series about a hyperactive 5 year old that does wacky things with a chipmunk voice. I know he was generally hated by the youtube community, but he was still very popular and I think a lot of that came from the creative passion Lucas put into his character along with how it was "a scripted series that couldn't be found on TV" (though that would change when Nickelodeon made him into a series). If you don't want to talk about "the most popular but most hated youtuber," there was also Smosh. Sure Smosh got their start with the Pokemon lip sync, but what kept them going for years were the scripted short films they made over the years. Their creative parodies of movies and videogames were a really fun time, and they were the 3rd most popular channel back when Fred was the most popular channel.
Now it wasn't just "scripted series" that were popular, there were also reality series. This is more than just "family vloggers, makeup tutorials and other how-to videos, news and entertainment commentary," I'm talking about series like "will it blend" and "is it a good idea to microwave this." Tom wasn't shy about the fact that Will It Blend was just an advertisement for Blendtec blenders, and both are just multi-camera edits of people destroying things in creative ways, but there was a theme song, and seasons, and intentional comedy, and episodes, and things that made it "a series." It wasn't just "hey it's Jake the Destruction Dude, I'm going to smash this with a hammer and chop it with a knife." Nothing against channels like that (hydraulic press is basically "hey guys, let's destroy this thing" and it's really entertaining), but shows like that added something more than just destruction. You also had The Game Chasers and Flea Market Madness, which was more than just vlogging which is "people in their life," it was a reality show about people specifically looking for videogames and where they look for them. I know Game Chasers are still around, but they used to make episodes more frequently.
So the question I wonder now is, why are there seemingly no "web series" anymore. Where are the Chad Vader's, the Ride with Me's, Supermac18s, Gaming Wildlife's, the Kids at Heart's (shout out to my friend Sky)? Well I know Kids at Heart stopped because Sky wanted to go onto other projects, and there was a lot of behind the scenes drama with Gaming Wildlife, and a lot of youtube channels stop because the guys behind them run out of steam, but like all TV shows that aren't The Simpsons and South Park, if one show ends the entertainment void is filled by something else. But except for maybe Scott the Woz, I don't really hear much about "character driven web series" anymore. There are plenty of scripted channels, but they're all critics and documentaries, and the person delivering the message is "the real person" and not "a character like the Nostalgia Critic or Jeepersmedia." I know a lot of this has to do with youtube's algorithm giving priority treatment to fast content turn around producing "character driven" content isn't as easy to make as "personal commentary" (to do it at the speed the algorithm needs requires method acting), but it could be done. Mike Mozart and What The Buck produced near daily content in their characters (Mozart wasn't as crazy on live streams as he was on fail toy reviews, and Michael Buckley wouldn't have deleted/privated all his videos if that was "really him"), but you just don't see people doing that anymore. If it could be done back when there was less business to online content creation, it could still be done today.
I think it actually runs deeper than that. This is more of a shift in culture, and I don't know if we will see "character driven web series again," at least not to the extent that we did back in the day. When the internet was still very young, everyone that wasn't "I just want to talk into a web cam or make a slide show in movie maker" was very "character driven." I think the general mindset was "on my own I am not interesting enough, I need to make a character and really play it up." Sure, there were guys like Tsukento that were themselves and were also making "high production content," but there was a rather large gap between "high production character" and "low production personal." However, as everyone got more familiar with online content creation, and the financial stability of online content creation became more understood (Crackle used to make their own high production web series like Star-Ving, and John K had the George Liquor Program and Weekend Pussy Hunt, and atomsfilms commissioning Angry Kid shorts and others, all of which went under because it was too expensive for the returns they were getting), things started to overlap. It turns out that people really liked the "real me" side of youtube and with higher quality editing software became more readily available, and youtube favoring "fast content and watch time" essentially killing off the "infrequent short creative works," we got more and more "real me driven" and less "character driven" content.
I admit that I'm an old man on the internet talking about "my good old days," and a big part of those "good old days" were things were far less saturated which made it easier to find things (the only barrier to entry was a willingness to make internet content, and that was actually a lot smaller than you might think), and I know there's a lot of stuff out there that I'm missing out on because I just don't have the time (my old bitlanders friend Alexander Trapp is probably making a goanimate series at this time, and I know Has Been Hotel has gotten a lot of praise), but you just don't hear about "dude you need to check out Ask a Ninja or Potter Puppet Pals" anymore, and kids are looking up to lets players and Ryan's World Toy Videos (or whatever Ryan's World is), and college kids are looking up to podcasters and vloggers, which isn't inspiring a kind of creative story telling that there used to be. Are we still going to have budding animators say "I have this great idea for a cartoon, I'm going to make a web series," or film students say "I want to tell the story I want to tell, and I'll post it to the internet." Is that even going to be a "reasonable aspiration" anymore? Again, I admit that I miss a lot of what is trendy; I thought the death of Adobe Flash meant the end of internet games, yet when I was on vacation somewhat recently I saw kids playing internet games on the hotel computer in the lobby. I just don't want to see the art of character driven web series die. I'm well aware that I'm "part of the problem" with this one (the only truly character driven series in my library is "Pokematic's Food Reviews," and I never pursued my "juxtapose modern problems to how they would be solved in a 1950s TV show" or "a mime lives with his own disembodied voice" show ideas), but that's just not where my creativity lead me. I hope in the future we can get more "character driven" web series that are more than just review shows, but who knows where the culture will take us. I don't know, I just find myself not wanting to watch a lot of user created content now adays while favoring traditional television because I want something that isn't "me in reality." If you have recommendations for "web series," leave them in the comments and maybe I'll check them out. Well this has been Catholiccontriversy, signing off, and may God bless you.
*Sigh* It's not that I'm not happy about Steven joining rumble, it's just that he doesn't realize the hypocrisy and lack of self awareness about his past. Hello catholiccontriversy here and if you don't know, Steven Crowder got banned from youtube...Again. This is the 2nd time he got hard suspended, but like the 9 jillionth time he's gotten in trouble with youtube. With this most recent banning though, Steven decided to join rumble and mirror his content there, something that I know I've been saying he should do since forever, but most specifically since the SvenComputer video got banned 3 years ago.
Now I know what you might be thinking, "but it's on bitchute, it's the official louder with crowder bitchute channel." Well funny thing about that. See, normally when someone mirrors their videos somewhere else, they promote the alternative platform they can watch it on. Instead of doing that, Steven basically said "well, it's gone, but you can watch it on mug club."
"But I’ve never expected everyone to be able to afford the $6-7 a month, so we’ve made sure to upload the full one hour show (what you’re used to seeing here on YouTube) over at Rumble."
Bull! OK, I know you've never HONESTLY expected everyone to sign up for mugclub, that's just not a reasonable assumption for anyone, buuuuttttt every time the topic of "what if I get pulled off youtube" comes up you say "sign up at mug club, that's the only way you can be free of big tech censorship" and never even had another alternative that wasn't a paywall.
"If this is the first you’re hearing of that, it means you’re still dependent on YouTube for your news, and that’s scary to think about."
Oh REALLY!? REALLY!? It's scary to think that people are still dependent on youtube for content that is ONLY AVAILABLE on youtube. Why, golly gee! Who could have predicted that uploading content EXCLUSIVELY to one platform runs the risk people not knowing about the happenings of that creator when they get banned? Gee, it's ALMOST AS IF having a single plan with no backup is a bad idea. Yeah, yeah, I know "follow me [Steven Crowder] on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter," but come on, Instagram is for ass models, Facebook is for soccer moms, and Twitter is a cesspool no one should be on. Pluuusss, it's not like facebook and twitter haven't tried to get rid of you too. *strokes beard* Gee, if only there was some other video sharing site people have been saying you should join for years.
"Which is why, while YouTube is important, WE ALL need to create a new table. And so we’ve started mirroring our channel on Rumble...But none of that means anything if Conservatives continue to complain about YouTube, while continuing to patron it exclusively and ignoring alternative, freedom-supporting platforms."
You mean, like YOU!? What I think you're forgetting is that for years you have been saying "I'm not going to support an alternative platform, just youtube and mug club." You dismissed the concept outright in this video from 2019.
If the time stamp doesn't work, go to 5:02
"You shouldn’t 'abandon' YouTube for Rumble, but you CAN make the time for both. It’s time we all did. In a perfect world, I’d see as many of you watching and commenting on Rumble as I see here, and eventually YouTube would have some competition on its hands. I know it’s a long way off, but we’ve got to start somewhere, and now seems like the right time."
Yeah, it's a long way off because user generated content platforms grow by word of mouth, and I'm sure that wasn't extended at all by the largest conservative youtuber saying "no, youtube is the place to be, the only way to watch us is on youtube or behind a paywall." Which speaking of paywalls.
"There’s nothing I hate more than when content creators pull the bait and switch, and put all of their content behind a paywall."
Really now? You hate it when content creators pull the bait and switch and put all their content behind a paywall. That's funny, because you seemed to be very OK with it when YOU did that back in June of 2019.
"But DON’T let YouTube cut you out of the loop. Head over to Rumble and subscribe to our channel."
You know, it's funny. I think this is the first time I'm ever hearing about you joining Rumble here on youtube. I checked your "I'm back" video (the only thing you posted since the suspension) and no mention of rumble, not even in your social media links. Methinks it's not youtube that's cutting people out of the loop. Methinks it's Steven Crowder who is "cutting people out of the loop." Maybe when you stream again you'll say "follow me on rumble," but I'm not seeing any effort to promote rumble.
OK. So maybe I'm being too harsh. I mean, everything I've cited has been over a year ago, and all of this happened before the hard strikes and removing the ability to upload. Maybe completely removing Stevens ability to upload was the straw that broke the camels back.
Pft, I can't even type that with a strait face. No it's not. This wasn't something that Dave Cullen and Jeremy Quartering talked to Steven about offline in (which, sorry Jeremy at 5:16, that bitchute channel is a pirate channel), and they brought Steven to the light. No, Steven held the opinion "youtube or nothing" 2 months ago.
If the embed is being dumb, go here Crowder VS Youtube, Time to Fight Like Hell
Or I call out all the BS here with timestamps.
*FACT CHECK!* Yeah, sorry Steven, but this community post comes off as virtue signaling. I'm not asking for a "bow to the mob apology," just a quick "follow us on rumble, yeah in the past I thought youtube was the only place worth my time, but now I've changed my mind, let's all mirror our content on rumble and tell youtube 'you can't stop us.'" This has been catholiccontriversy, signing off, and bu-bye.
Steven Crowder was just kicked out of the youtube partnership program. Mr. Enter was recently as well. I've listened to many other users complain about how bad youtube treats them with demonetization and burrying and youtube not caring about their users for years now. However, when someone says "then join another platform," they say "yeah, but, you know, there's not a community over there, and maybe one day I can get my monetization back, I know it can change, we just need to complain loud enough." Vote with your views, send a message, drive traffic to other platforms. Don't give me any crap about "it's hard to upload to other platforms." If I as a single man operation that does this as a hobby after my day job can upload to so many platforms I lose track of which ones I'm on, then you as a full time content creator with maybe a small staff can upload to at least one other platform.
I'm not saying you have to abandon youtube all together and upload exclusively to other platforms, I'm just saying you should stop being exclusive to youtube. You could be like me and simul upload to different platforms. You could take the Nostalgia Critic/Animat approach and upload first to the alternative platform and then to youtube. You could take the Mr. Enter Approach and upload the videos you have problems with on youtube to other platforms. Just stop complaining about youtube abusing you and then refuse to give other platforms a chance.
Yeah, this project here is where the burn out is. I need to be better about keeping this up to date, and reposting my old content that has been somewhat lost to the either.
*sighhhhhhhhhh* Yahoo this is why I stopped reading you. Hello
catholiccontriversy here and I’m not a fan of Eugenia Cooney. I just found out
about her the other day because I happened to open up the yahoo home page and
the title pulled me in. “Should this severely anorexic woman be banned from
vlogging?” “Oh she must be telling her story about how great anorexia is.” No,
she does dumb little make-up and clothing tutorials, and random Q&A vlogs
with click bate titles. Sure, I wouldn’t want to watch them but that’s because
I have no interest in watching a young emo woman talk about emo chic and
answer dumb questions her fans ask. But just because I don’t like her doesn’t
mean she shouldn’t be allowed to make videos. Right?
Not
according to THESE people. APPARENTLY because she is super skinny and is in the
public eye, she is an advocate for anorexia and is promoting eating disorders
in young girls, diii-spite the fact that she out right says “I am not a role
model, don’t try to be like me, just be yourself.” Does she have an eating disorder?
I don’t know. It could be anorexia, or it could be something else. I know
people with type 1 diabetes and no matter how much they eat they can’t put on
weight. They eat twice as much as I do and they’re still half my weight. Tell
them to “eat a sandwich” all you want; they’ll eat 3 and they won’t gain an
ounce. Maybe she has an eating disorder. Maybe she has some non-eating disorder
illness that makes her so thin. Maybe she really is, just naturally that
skinny. But I don’t care, if she doesn’t want to talk about it, then it’s none
of my business, and it’s none of your business.
“But
she made a video titled ‘I’m not dead,’ which is obviously a remark about how
she can harm her body without dying.” Sure, it’s not like the phrase “not dead” or “still alive” is
internet slang for “I haven’t posted in a while, so here’s an update.” It’s not
like everyone,
old,
young,
fat,
thin,
and everyone in between uses it for
updates. Eugenia didn’t mean “I haven’t posted in a while, so here’s an update”
when she made an update video about not posting in a while titled “I’m not
dead.”
But
you know what, I understand why people would have a problem with her. When I
was in middle school emo meant “emotionally unstable” and “emo” was synonymous
with “self-harm.” So if I had a daughter and she was watching a video where
someone said
I
would be concerned. So as a responsible parent, I would talk with my daughter
about what are good influences and bad influences, and how to make responsible,
healthy choices. You know, a thing called BEING A PARENT! It’s not your job to
shield your children from the troubles of the world; it’s to equip them with
the skills necessary to handle the troubles of the real world. It’s what my
parents did, and I’m an independent millennial that doesn’t need safe spaces.
If you did get Eugenia banned from youtube for the crime of being too skinny,
another will pop up in her place and you’ll be right back to where you were before.
If teach your children how to stay away from bad influences, then you won’t
have to worry about the Eugenias of the world.
“But
you don’t understand the damage that constantly being bombarded with unhealthy
imagery can do to young impressionable minds.” You’re right, I don’t know,
because my parents taught me better. However, I do know what it’s like to be
constantly told “you’re not attractive, change your appearance.” You see, I hit
puberty at a young age, and I started shaving in 6th grade. When I
was in 8th grade I said “forget this, I’ll just grow a beard.” It
wasn’t a very full beard like I have now, and if you watch some of my earlier
videos you’ll get a better idea of what it was like. Every single day I had
friends and peers tell me “your beard looks like pubes, girls think you’re
ugly, just shave already.” I’m not paraphrasing, that is a direct quote, every
single day, for 2 years. And it wasn’t just dumb high school kids, adult
members of my family also shamed me for my beard, they just did it in a more,
tactful way. It’s not like I didn’t clean it, or anything unsanitary like that.
I just looked different from everyone else, and every day people told me I
should change my appearance “because they cared about me and wanted me to be
happy,” despite the fact that I was much happier with my beard than without. I
shaved my beard once in high school, and even though I got nothing but
compliments, I wasn’t happy and I’ve had it since. I empathize with Eugenia,
having to deal with people who don’t know your life constantly telling you how
to live it.
But
this is what REALLY brings my blood to a boil. It’s the outright hierocracy of
yahoo beauty. This article about “how bad of an influence this make-up and
random thoughts vlogger is, sign this petition to get her banned from youtube”
is mixed in with “lose 10 pounds with these tricks” and “this celebrity lost
weight and is now gorgeous.” YOU are the one saying “you’re not pretty enough.”
YOU are the problem. How dare you condemn a random vlogger for “accidentally
negatively influencing young girls” when YOU are the one saying “lose weight so
you can look like this model.” This is disgusting.
Eugenia,
if you have an eating disorder, I pray that you get the help you need because
eating disorders are a serious problem. This goes for anyone who may stumble
upon my blog and is currently fighting an eating disorder. However, you must
realize that people over the internet only have influence over you if you let
them, and if you can ignore me, you can ignore Eugina, and she can ignore you. This
has been catholiccontriversy, signing off, and may god bless you.
