Monday 4 June 2012

Video to text?

Well.... yeah.

See, since 2007 i've been uploading to youtube, not actually starting a blog until about 2010 ish followed later by "Life with Bev" in 2011.

While Youtube is alot of fun, i really have to hold my hands up and admit, i'm losing the buzz of Youtube each and every day. Not only me, but big time youtuber's are considering leaving the site. Infact, some that i have spoken to, are just generally not too happy with some of the decisions that the site has been making recently.

Take this video from the HappyCabbie channel on Youtube (@HappyCabbie on twitter)


Now granted, the discovery of things towards the end is certainly shocking, but the question is, WHY would Youtube allow this?

I mean, IF the channels are really to promote certain things, then great, BUT while im aware that Youtube only has a few staff itself, it's part of Google, who should be monitering the situation alot more than they already are doing, esp when it comes down to issues like homophobia and racism.

Why should i still want to be a part of this site really? What can it offer me any more?

See, Youtube used to be a great platform for bloggers to upload their views and thought's on certain topics, but these days, the majority of people are going to be using Youtube to find songs and download them off Youtube, meaning less views for us bloggers on the site.

Not only that, but the whole system that Youtube has created in order to try and stop copyright infringement has and still does fail beyond being believeable. Want to know something funny? The Youtube copyright system once recognised my voice as a song that was owned by Sony. Honestly. I had to file a notice with Youtube to say that the video of JUST me talking, has nothing in it that Sony owns.

Youtube have since dropped the copyright notice on that video, but you see how messed up their system is? It's one of the main reasons i keep looking at Youtube and thinking "Fuck it, Im out".

Now i can already hear the voice in my head of Greg from MrStripyHead telling me exactly where to go....


Now while i can honestly say, i've never mad REALLY good money off Youtube, it was always seen by me as something great, that if money could be made off the videos that I create, then why not?

The reality is, Youtube keep making it impossable to make money off the site these days, wether theyre re-doing the front page of the site, not telling your subscribers when you've done a new video or putting false copyright notices on your video's, where your appeal will never be looked at because it was filed by a fake company in the first place.... etc, money just can't be easily made on the site.

So there's a few points there why im getting put more and more off the site.

Oh ok, 1 more?

Well, Youtube kept doing this competition where-by they would work with certain channels to make their content better and draw in more viewers to them. While this at the time looked like a great thing, their system had a MASSIVE draw-back. First fail, was that the person had to be a Youtube partner. Now to be a partner, you had to already have a good flow of views daily in order to be considerd. Second failing, was that you had to get people to vote for you, but see, here's the thing.... How can you get people to vote for you if your view count is low? Like some of my video's only have like 5 views or something like that, how on earth can i get people to vote for me? One of the things that Youtube said they would help you with would be the amount of viewers that would be drawn to your channel..... yet the.... Ahh screw it, i can't even be botherd to type it out to try and explain it futher.

So, what do i think of my future on Youtube?

Very very bleak. If something's dont change on the site over the next few months and for the better, then i'm out. The copyright system needs to be looked at, there needs to be better support for uploaders who are not a Youtube partner. They need to take reports of abuse more serious and understand the effects that hate on the website can have on people, before looking at a comment that states "Im coming to set you on fire" and not taking any action, because its not a credable threat of violence.... etc.

There's alot of faults on Youtube and i think in all honesty, I might just be done with the website.

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