Youtube situation
Added 2018-05-09 01:25:47 +0000 UTCToday I got monetization completely removed from my Youtube channel. It was nothing like it used to be, when I could earn a living from it –but today it was removed entirely. I'm not sure if it is coming back. It wasn't much but it helped pay some of the bills as a small stream of income to keep things ticking as I work on projects I actually can make money from like future Patreon funded works and artwork. To make people pay attention, I actually took down (made private) the Salad Fingers videos (otherwise nobody cares that I got screwed - 99% of them don't watch my other stuff anyway).
Anyway, what is going to happen I don't know but it's not fair to take away something from you chaps who support me on here so I reuploaded Salad Fingers 1-10 to Vimeo as a private video.
The password is chickenpiss
who knows, tomorrow Youtube might say it was a mistake and reinstate my revenue.
Comments
Yeah. I can understand not wanting to whore out for sponsors but I'm glad that some of your videos have gotten remonetized at least.
2018-09-02 01:41:29 +0000 UTCThe situation currently is: many of my demonetized vids were remonetized but there is still no budging on stuff like Dog Of Man and Valentines Day Special. The ad revenue itself is pretty low but stable. I haven't actually posted for a while so I hope that the "demonetized by default" problem is no longer a thing. Aside from that Youtube is still not a reliable source of income. Which is why people either don't bother uploading there any more or fill their stuff with ads and sponsored content. I intend my stuff to be watched years from now, rather than 1 million hits in a day like a lot of popular stuff so I couldn't stand to have any sponsored shit in there - plus it's fucking awful to see "now let's talk about dollar shave club".
David Firth
2018-08-31 22:12:07 +0000 UTCAny update on your situation? :/
2018-08-30 05:37:47 +0000 UTCI think you have quite a large fan base and we true loyal fans won't mind paying to watch your next creation.
2018-06-24 12:31:00 +0000 UTCWell they'd probably have to sign me up if there were doing that. I mean who else is even making non-children's, narrative based weird animations in the UK? There really is not much of an animation scene here.
David Firth
2018-05-09 18:55:15 +0000 UTCAh, I see. That makes sense. I’m sorry there’s not a better option for you, you work hard to put out content & you deserve to be paid for it. Totally not shitting myself that you replied or anything, by the way, everything’s cool.
Kendra
2018-05-09 18:54:51 +0000 UTCThere are many great platforms, but only Youtube really offers a fairly predictable, reliable ad revenue stream. Vidme had a donation system that showed me exactly how unlikely people are to make one-off donators when the content is already free (I made about $25 in total).
David Firth
2018-05-09 18:53:08 +0000 UTCWould you consider ever posting on a different platform? This is purely a hypothetical as I don’t even know what other platform opportunities are available & worthwhile monetarily.
Kendra
2018-05-09 17:25:11 +0000 UTCOh god I heard that password in your voice.
Unanimous D
2018-05-09 15:22:07 +0000 UTCUgh, YouTube needs a hard reset. I'm so sorry that happened. For something that wouldn't exist without people like you, they sure make it hard for content creators to do their thing. Thank you for letting us know~
Hawk Vercetti
2018-05-09 12:55:45 +0000 UTCHypothetically, if Adult Swim were in the process of establishing their UK regional offering, and were looking to acquire/commission new shows, would you be interested?
Cynic Snacks
2018-05-09 12:29:57 +0000 UTCAdult Swim don't really like me. They have a very specific type of American weird that they like and they just can't slot me into. I had a meeting with them in LA about a Salad Fingers series. They didn't go for it.
David Firth
2018-05-09 12:18:01 +0000 UTCIt definitely leaves a bitter feeling, as youtube is where I first found you. But I guess it's time to move on. It's changed too much during the years and became bland, greedy and disgusting. Not a fitting platform for your art anymore.
Plushine
2018-05-09 11:55:11 +0000 UTCFully support your descision
Nimrod Yonatan Ben-Nes
2018-05-09 08:43:58 +0000 UTCSorry to hear about the YT situation.
2018-05-09 08:12:19 +0000 UTCWould you consider cutting a deal for your existing content with an actual channel, like Adult Swim?
Cynic Snacks
2018-05-09 06:46:15 +0000 UTCIt's entirely possible that the decision wasn't event made by a human. Tom Scott has a great video where he talks about how nobody at YouTube now understands how the algorithm works because it is has improved itself through machine learning: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSpAWkQLlgM" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSpAWkQLlgM</a>
Marcus Cross
2018-05-09 06:14:24 +0000 UTC
