I had a damn good day in a variety of low-key ways. There were challenges to sanity, but nothing too mind-bending, and there were encounters with actually nice people as well. I got a lot done.
Into the evening hours something happened that harshed my buzz some. Fucking YouTube.
I had my channel up in a window and was periodically checking the view count for yesterday’s vid and for Monday’s. And it suddenly became very clear to me that the Monday video was being suppressed by the algorithim. The number of views grew steadily to 6, which was lower than usual, but not that out of the ordinary. But then from one minute to the next it suddenly dropped to 3.
This isn’t the first time that weird crap of this nature has happened, but it was remarkably obvious and ugly this time. What would be the rational reason for taking away three of a piddling six views? I didn’t say anything the least bit controversial. Hell, I didn’t even say anything INTERESTING (you shitheels).
About the only irrational explanation I can think of is that the video starts with a brief snatch of car radio noise from NPR, and that the news was talking about the situation in Gaza.
But see here, you doNoEvil cretins … if it was a copyright issue, give me a strike, or a chance to correct it. Don’t fuck with my view count–that’s not only a stupid way to signal your displeasure, but dishonest and arbitrary.
I hate monopolies, and I hate that one with especially splenetic venom.
Clearly I was in violation of some unwritten rule, and I paid some opaque price for it.
That’s a literally inhuman way of dealing with whatever you see as problems, Googlefucks.
It’s not like I’m making any money there anyway–I’m still hundreds of subscribers away from ever even seeing my first dime for my work.
All of which makes me begin to think seriously about moving to Rumble, or maybe Patreon/Vimeo, as a primary platform. Nothing stopping me from demoting YT to the afterthought, and promoting the others as my go-to, the opposite of how it is now.
We’ll see.
I have a third video in half-assembled form; hoping to get it up tonight. On YT for now, still, but I’m putting you on notice, you weird creepy alien capitalist autocrat dweebs.
RAWR
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Meanwhile, back here at the Controversial Ranch …
What They’re Not Telling You About The Three Dead Murkan Soldiers In Syria
and
MSNBC’s Joy-Ann Reid Bites The Hand That Feeds Her (with remarkable synchrony regarding the many wars of Genocide Joe, see above)