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YouTube Demonetizing Channels for "Reused Content"

ninja8tyu

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I want to archive my shit here just in case Twitter or YouTube tries to remove it.

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I made a quick video about it when I discovered others had the same issue as I did, which I have a video on it on VarisTube, in the event YouTube gets pissy at me.
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The general gist is that essentially every channel I visited made original content or transformed it to be original, so it isn't "Reused Content" as so YouTube claims.

I'm also well aware of bots bothering YouTube which probably do reuse content.
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Which is why I checked every channel which has had this problem, and excluded those who didn't have this problem from my video.

So yeah, all channels I've covered are very much human, made original/transformed content, and have no discernible reason why they should be demonetized for "Reused Content" which cannot exist, due to the fact said "Reused Content" would have to be literally made by the creators before they made them.
This includes music, animation, gameplay, memes, and so on.

In fact, some of the ones I've listed have made their own videos trying to appeal to YouTube, discussed the topic
Note: Rayken made his own video, but deleted it after I started the thread for unknown reasons.



You might be wondering if I'm just trying to stir up drama simply to help get myself monetized for what I've made, which just so happens to be reused content.
I don't deny that I'm trying to get monetized. However, none of my videos actually reuse content without it being transformed enough to be original.
But your Cyborg 009 videos are clearly Reusing Content!
Clearly not, if YouTube states that they consider "Reused Content" as something they can't monetize, but are willing to monetize my Cyborg 009 compilation videos.
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Even better, they basically say that my Cyborg 009 videos are advertiser-friendly and are monetizable.
Good job making your bots, YouTube.
You either admit you never actually review content yourselves and would lead to the conclusion that you're actively screwing your creators out of their money, or you admit you fuckers reviewed my videos and considered them a-okay according to your quality guidelines.

But your Chris-Chan videos are clearly Reusing Content!
Adding dialogue/commentary makes it unique, as per what they have written in their shitty feedback.
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Unless it just so happens my life experience, stories, voice, and personality happen to be a perfect copy of someone else who isn't Chris-Chan and also decided to commentate in the same essence, I highly doubt it's "Reused," and even then, if such a person and their content exists, I'd like to see it to prove that it is "Reused Content."

But your Tenma/VTuber clips are Reusing Content!
Not Theo made a post about how he qualifies for monetization, despite the fact his channel essentially contains clips of someone else's content, aka Tenma Maemi.
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I can generalize this that other clipping channels are also capable of being monetized, and even if Not Theo didn't become monetized/approved to be monetized, in some of his clips before he was monetized, ads were running on them as well, so you know.

Of course, he just so happens to be the only one I happen to watch a majority of clips from, alongside some from Cooksie, Low Effort Clips, Shondopilled, etc.

If I wanted to dig into a variety of VTuber clipping channels to see if they're monetized or not, I'm sure I'd find plenty.
Unless, of course, YouTube decides to retroactively remove monetization from all VTuber clipping channels, which would be quickly noticed by said creators and fans of said creators.
That includes their own revenue, because should ads still run on them even if they decide to not pay said channels...
It's self-explanatory, really.

Aside from that, I also add my own twists and such to my edits, but to humor the notion that my clips are "Reused Content," I opted to boldly assume my edits were never considered original.
So no, my clips of Tenma and other VTubers are not "Reused Content" as you'd think they are.
In conclusion, nothing I've posted actually is "Reused Content" and YouTube's just a little shitbag.

Of course, even if you were to insist that in spite of all that, that my channel "Reused Content," it doesn't apply to the other channels I've displayed, which lack said content.
Doesn't invalidate my position and points entirely, nice try, go fuck yourself.



If anyone can find more instances of this happening, where a creator was blatantly demonetized for a guideline which does not under any reasonable circumstances apply to said creator's content, even better if it's inapplicable beyond reasonable circumstances, please feel free to share it here.

I doubt I can get anything to change despite presenting this knowledge, but I'd like to see how far I can get.
 

Hexasheep93

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Youtube is pretty crappy at, well pretty much everything :shinobu_kaka:

My best suggestion would be to try to keep appealing if that is possible
 

ninja8tyu

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Youtube is pretty crappy at, well pretty much everything :shinobu_kaka:

My best suggestion would be to try to keep appealing if that is possible
i'm not tempted to appeal again, despite being able to at the moment
youtube will more than likely reject me while still placing ads on videos they're pretending my channel is full of reused content

youtube is only a train wreck that only gets worse from here.
the biggest pain is people still stick around to this website simply because otherwise the culture and history built on that site will kinda disappear, and everyone has already decided youtube to be the hub for all video content
 

YakuInTheFlesh

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You might not agree, but YouTube doesn't owe you a single cent. It is a miracle that they allow people to upload content for free in the first place, since every video costs them money especially ones that get barely any views, since they generate zero income.
  • Try to appeal
  • put your eggs in different baskets if you want to make money and potentially live off of it:
    • Multiple platforms
    • Patreon, SubStar, LibrePay, etc
    • One Time Donations like Ko-Fi
    • Use your YT to push a Product
      • Your own
      • Somebody else's
  • Join some kind of Network that has an in with YT
 

ninja8tyu

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You might not agree, but YouTube doesn't owe you a single cent. It is a miracle that they allow people to upload content for free in the first place, since every video costs them money especially ones that get barely any views, since they generate zero income.
  • Try to appeal
  • put your eggs in different baskets if you want to make money and potentially live off of it:
    • Multiple platforms
    • Patreon, SubStar, LibrePay, etc
    • One Time Donations like Ko-Fi
    • Use your YT to push a Product
      • Your own
      • Somebody else's
  • Join some kind of Network that has an in with YT
I highly doubt a multi-billion company generates zero-income.

Even then, given the platform we see today, YouTube really isn't owed shit either, considering how they keep fucking over well-known creators who do generate quite a bit of revenue due to their popularity.
Alongside that, a lot of creators noted sponsors don't give a shit about YouTube's quality guidelines (aside from what's explicitly and questionably legal) and still pay creators to run their ads on their videos. Sponsors, who are just advertisers who cherrypick big creators to run ads on their videos.
YouTube is incredibly stupid for not monetizing anything at all, given the fact it appears advertisers just don't give two shits if someone swears or not, yet still deciding that they can't because hurr durr might offend advertisers (count: 0).

I've appealed, but I doubt it'll result in anything.
I've already linked my Odysee with YouTube, but no one cares about any other platform but YouTube when it comes to video media.
I have no idea what networks exist that have an in with YouTube, let alone what it'd take to join them, if I qualify, and if they'd let me in.
 

Taruby

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I highly doubt a multi-billion company generates zero-income.

YouTube is incredibly stupid for not monetizing anything at all, given the fact it appears advertisers just don't give two shits if someone swears or not, yet still deciding that they can't because hurr durr might offend advertisers (count: 0).
Like Twitter, Youtube is ultimately operating at a loss (its owner's other services are covering for its loss).
I highlighted the part in your post where you answered one of the reasons they're operating at a loss.

To understand what a video-upload platform that generates a profit looks like. I would suggest you refer to Niconico Douga:

Similar to Twitter, Youtube's primary goal is propaganda. If everyone is on Youtube, then Youtube can more easily disseminate their propaganda. So the reason they're doing stupid stuff with the lack of monetisation is cause they want to use a carrot and stick approach on creators to encourage them to only create stuff Youtube wants them to create, not what will make Youtube and video creators the most money. Mastercard and Paypal are also playing this sort of game, and really, the only thing outside infiltrating these companies and taking over is the true advent of web 3.0.

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YakuInTheFlesh

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I highly doubt a multi-billion company generates zero-income.
You vastly underestimate the cost of running a site of the scale of youtube then.
You have Hardware that costs lots of money. That HW uses a lot of power and needs staff that maintain it. On the other end they both send and receive petabytes of data each day, which leads to bandwidth cost and they are nothing to scoff at.

Honestly if Alphabet wants YouTube to be profitable they need to kick out Susan & all the diversity hires and get somebody with some sense. This however will not happen, as like @Taruby said it is too mich of a propaganda tool.
 

ninja8tyu

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the only thing outside infiltrating these companies and taking over is the true advent of web 3.0.
Really wish people would start using more of web 3.0
Too bad everyone prefers the convenience of corp-owned platforms and the "safespace" they've made for them.

Honestly if Alphabet wants YouTube to be profitable they need to kick out Susan & all the diversity hires and get somebody with some sense. This however will not happen, as like @Taruby said it is too much of a propaganda tool.
That being said, if they can give a pedophile like SethThePredator a 6-digit income from his videos, I'm sure they can spare some for actual talented people.
 

Gun

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Youtube is becoming shittier at every moment man. I don't even know how most people didn't drop it yet, I don't even know why I didn't drop it yet. Stupid Censorship.
 

ninja8tyu

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So it appears YouTube is demonetizing clipping channels. Specifically VTubers, but I didn't bother to check normie streamer clippers.


And also one guy who does guides as well.
This person apparently got remonetized after getting into contact with people inside YouTube, whom allegedly realized it was ridiculous.

Of course, reused content again.

It's not exactly consistent, but given what I've seen so far, it's illogical what it demonetizes, but at this point, it's not about whether or not it's a bad decision to not monetize certain channels and videos, because they're probably going to do it because YouTube is genuinely run by retards, and the bots reflect that.

Seriously, who the fuck doesn't use adblocker on this site if they have to use it anyway

What, have the shitheads run out of personal data to sell?
 

PhantomXero1x

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i'm not tempted to appeal again, despite being able to at the moment
youtube will more than likely reject me while still placing ads on videos they're pretending my channel is full of reused content


the biggest pain is people still stick around to this website simply because otherwise the culture and history built on that site will kinda disappear, and everyone has already decided youtube to be the hub for all video content
1 year later now, people are now retirting left adn right from the platform lol.
 

YakuInTheFlesh

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which one would be more viable to migrate to, odysee or rumble, to earn money from videos
I would say Rumble, since this is a thing: https://nitter.net/LBRYcom/status/1722362231654920277#m haven't heard any updates though. Besides that though YouTube has the best CPM in the game and even Rumble would make you pennies compared to YT for the same views. Best way to make money is simple: User funded content.
 

ninja8tyu

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I would say Rumble, since this is a thing: https://nitter.net/LBRYcom/status/1722362231654920277#m haven't heard any updates though. Besides that though YouTube has the best CPM in the game and even Rumble would make you pennies compared to YT for the same views. Best way to make money is simple: User funded content.
guess i'll migrate to rumble and see how well it goes

youtube's going to hell, and honestly, i'd be happy just to get whatever i can, rather than being limited to $100/month minimum or no money ever


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fucking cocksuckers
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youtube needs to go to hell
 
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