Youtube is screwing its content creators AGAIN. Boldly, with no remorse. Just like the last time they ran a bait and switch program to enrich themselves by pretending to share advertising revenue with its content creators.
Recently, Youtube announced on its blog that it was opening up its revenue sharing Partners program, a highly elitist private club of a few dozen Youtube "lottery" winners, to everyone in the United States and Canada, but it is NOT. There's small print. There are conditions that only a handful of Youtube content creators out of hundreds of thousands can meet. Again.
Words are funny. Some of them have definitions, meanings. Others do not. The Youtube editors have proven over and over and over again that they either don’t know the meanings of words or ignore them altogether. In the olden days, we called such people “liars.” But we have become a nation that cannot call a spade a spade, so let’s be content to refer to them as mere purveyors of non-truths.
Youtube cheerleaders are spreading this false message of an open sharing program with misleading phrases such as: “The once-selective Partners program...”
"Once-selective"? Truth in advertising would be: "STILL highly-selective."
Am I supposed to be amused by this cheerleader's description? Am I supposed to believe that the “program” is not highly subjective and selective any more? Wait, what is the definition of the word “program”? Does it mean a highly fluid and intuitive process where some are subjected to rules that others are not? I think not.
“We’ve already seen the requirements drop,” the cheerleader continues. Oh we have, have we? Really? And those previous requirements were what, exactly? Does anyone know? How can anybody POSSIBLY know that requirements have dropped if the original requirements were never divulged?
Keep it vague. Define the word “prolific” (one of ScrewTube's vague requirements) as someone who won the viewership lottery with a one-hit wonder after uploading only 30 videos. Keep the unwashed masses away by inferring they are not “professional” enough, that their “production quality” does not meet the standards of a grainy dance video or some commercially viable drivel from a self-proclaimed thug who denigrates women and elevates fornication to the highest aspiration of man? (a top-rated Youtube-sponsored video)
Recently, Youtube announced on its blog that it was opening up its revenue sharing Partners program, a highly elitist private club of a few dozen Youtube "lottery" winners, to everyone in the United States and Canada, but it is NOT. There's small print. There are conditions that only a handful of Youtube content creators out of hundreds of thousands can meet. Again.
Words are funny. Some of them have definitions, meanings. Others do not. The Youtube editors have proven over and over and over again that they either don’t know the meanings of words or ignore them altogether. In the olden days, we called such people “liars.” But we have become a nation that cannot call a spade a spade, so let’s be content to refer to them as mere purveyors of non-truths.
Youtube cheerleaders are spreading this false message of an open sharing program with misleading phrases such as: “The once-selective Partners program...”
"Once-selective"? Truth in advertising would be: "STILL highly-selective."
Am I supposed to be amused by this cheerleader's description? Am I supposed to believe that the “program” is not highly subjective and selective any more? Wait, what is the definition of the word “program”? Does it mean a highly fluid and intuitive process where some are subjected to rules that others are not? I think not.
“We’ve already seen the requirements drop,” the cheerleader continues. Oh we have, have we? Really? And those previous requirements were what, exactly? Does anyone know? How can anybody POSSIBLY know that requirements have dropped if the original requirements were never divulged?
Keep it vague. Define the word “prolific” (one of ScrewTube's vague requirements) as someone who won the viewership lottery with a one-hit wonder after uploading only 30 videos. Keep the unwashed masses away by inferring they are not “professional” enough, that their “production quality” does not meet the standards of a grainy dance video or some commercially viable drivel from a self-proclaimed thug who denigrates women and elevates fornication to the highest aspiration of man? (a top-rated Youtube-sponsored video)
It’s all about the numbers, baby. Don’t let the techno-babble fool ya. They're not sharing the wealth with nobody, suckahs! The nondisclosure requirement at Youtube is the “tell”, folks. It SCREAMS back room deal shucksterism. Screams it. You're not allowed to tell anyone if you've actually made any money in the ScrewTube program or not. They MAKE you sign such an agreement to qualify as a Partner.
Does that sound like the requirement of an HONEST revenue-sharing site? No. No, it doesn't.
Does that sound like the requirement of an HONEST revenue-sharing site? No. No, it doesn't.
I can’t stop here. Lord help me in the face of so much bullshit, I can’t. This new “Everbody can apply now” bullcrap is SO disingenuous I can’t help but shout “BULLCORN!”
Yeah, everybody can APPLY. Apply all you like. Everyone can apply to be a Playboy bunny, but Hef ain’t gonna grant fat ugly girls access.
C’mon, this new “Everbody can APPLY” is so transparently crap, I can’t believe anybody would fall for it. Yet the Partners are tacitly bobbing their heads up and down like some snakeoil church choir humming “Yes, Lord, yes Lord” as the minister tries to hypnotize the fleeced. What else can they do?
To add insult to injury, ScrewTube bigshot Partner Renetto ran a video that falsely implies application = acceptance. HOO BOY! We’re all gonna be rich now!
Bull bull bull bull bull. Bullcrap. Same old carrot and stick bullcrap! I call FOUL! This is the same “we’re opening the opportunity up to everyone” lies told 4 months ago. Liars, liars, pants on fires.
Yeah, everybody can APPLY. Apply all you like. Everyone can apply to be a Playboy bunny, but Hef ain’t gonna grant fat ugly girls access.
C’mon, this new “Everbody can APPLY” is so transparently crap, I can’t believe anybody would fall for it. Yet the Partners are tacitly bobbing their heads up and down like some snakeoil church choir humming “Yes, Lord, yes Lord” as the minister tries to hypnotize the fleeced. What else can they do?
To add insult to injury, ScrewTube bigshot Partner Renetto ran a video that falsely implies application = acceptance. HOO BOY! We’re all gonna be rich now!
Bull bull bull bull bull. Bullcrap. Same old carrot and stick bullcrap! I call FOUL! This is the same “we’re opening the opportunity up to everyone” lies told 4 months ago. Liars, liars, pants on fires.
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