I have been Doing This For Awhile, so this isn't the first time this has happened, but something about having that PSVR2 stream I did on Wednesday fully blocked on YouTube for music shit was weirdly discouraging. It took a lot of time to prep for that, to figure out where to put cameras, and a lot of other "production-like" work to get it together and now it's only going to reach a fraction of its potential audience. I felt good about it as a showpiece for what the hardware can and can't do and all that, like, editorially speaking. Ugh. Like I said, normally very good about shaking that bullshit off, it happens, it's the problem with using Someone Else's Platform and everything, but... yeah. Bummed about it.
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This is why I don't post content on Youtube anymore. If they aren't going to put the effort into making their platform useable, I'm not putting the effort into making them ad revenue. I'll just post to 20 other places.
it's a little reassuring to hear a more prominent video creator than i bump up against this shit - i'm sure a lot of people at all levels still wrangle with the hellscape that music shit has become online, amd i certainly see it spoken about in the circles i run in. but it has FELT like this shit kind of stopped being discussed in the mainstream, whether that's a growing complacency with the situation, my own perception being off, or simply because there isn't any shit to be done about it.
i can't put one of my streams on youtube because i listened to all of the pokemon christmas bash album. like come on man. does that really need strict legal enforcement on it
YouTube's approach to music copyright is the most low-effort bullshit in the world. For the level that it impacts the people who drive traffic to their platform, you would think they could give the smallest of shits about it. It's been junk for ages and it doesn't seem like they have any plans to do anything about it. The only progress I've seen is that some labels have come around to the idea that free publicity is good, so they just allow it with a credit in the description. I guess we can hope to see more progress on that front, but it's frustrating that YouTube's just like 🤷♂️
