Showing posts with label YouTube. Show all posts
Showing posts with label YouTube. Show all posts

Saturday, 22 December 2018

Eradication of Club Penguin

This week saw the death of Club Penguin Island, an HTML and for a short period of time only mobile successor to Club Penguin. However, these past few weeks also saw the eradication of Club Penguin as on 20 November 2018, the app was removed from the app store (both Apple and Google Play) but this week, especially Thursday, saw the nearly-complete eradication of the franchise's social media presence.
The first thing I noticed was that their Twitter account became private:
They have also unfollowed everyone they were following and their Instagram has also gone private. The website also currently being taken down and any links to the Club Penguin website now redirect to Disney's website. Their videos on YouTube (as in videos on the OFFICAL CLUB PENGUIN YOUTUBE CHANNEL) have been deleted and many fans on Twitter have announced their intention to archive the channels and re-upload the videos. It's unclear if the channels (what remains of them) will be deleted along with the privatised social media accounts but if some noticeable change happens, I will this post or do a sequel post with the tag Club Penguin.

Monday, 13 August 2018

I've have noticed something with the YouTube Kids channels

YouTube Kids is supposed to be YouTube only toned down for kids but that doesn't stop disturbing cartoons from being shown on the app and these go against the YouTube Community Guidelines but yet they get away with it.
The reason I am blogging this is that I noticed that if you try to reach out to these channels, they don't comment on what they are doing as if they don't want to give their identities away or something like that. BBC News and Saberspark tried to no avail. I don't think it due to shyness because well, I don't know them but then it hit me. These channels repeat the same content as these "spokesperson twitter accounts" 
This is just one of the many examples of these "spokesperson Twitter account"
It came to me when I remembered watching this YouTuber's video about a YouTube channel called "Toys in Japan" and he said that a bot is controlling these channels and he covered this BEFORE THE ESLAGATE SCANDAL CAUGHT THE MEDIA'S ATTENTION!
Mind...
BLOWNG MATERIAL!
In fact, I only started to notice that when I saw that the videos are repeated like the spokesperson Twitter accounts!
I may be wrong but it looks like it.

Tuesday, 3 July 2018

Where's the Fair Use? - Ferris Wheelhouse wiped off of the face of YouTube

Ferris Wheelhouse, known for their YouTube series The Looney Tunes Critic have been terminated from YouTube. I find out when I was looking through Facebook and not trying to look up their videos on YouTube when I saw this message:
The YouTube Channel is officially dead. They said we had used spam and or commerically deceptive content. We used neither.
I was shocked because, at the start of every single one of their videos, they said that they don't own the footage or content and said it falls under fair use but I guess the lawyers at Warner Bros. didn't care and screamed CEASE AND DESIST at them. However, they won't back down as in the posts that followed the channel's death they said they would set up multiple channels, a Dailymotion channel, and a Patreon account so if they get hit again, they can start again. They were just reviewing a Warner Bros. gave to us and Warner Bros. "got offended" and struck them 3 times! As of posting this, they have made another youtube channel and a Dailymotion account.
I'll update this with more information...
UPDATE 4 JULY 2018
 They have uploaded a video that explains their situation (It's highly unlikely this will be geoblocked because it barely contains copyrighted footage).

Saturday, 10 February 2018

YouTube Kids and Elsagate - an introduction

Picture this.
You're a child and you see a video, you click on it only to find out you have to wait until you're 18 to watch it and you would have to watch something similar but G rated until then. That is when you come across this:



You go "That looks ok for an under 18" so you click on it and boy are you are wrong.
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Some years ago, the YouTube Kids app was launched and I remember my dad said that yit would have kid stuff on it like "Peppa Pig" and "The Magic Roundabout" on it but we brushed it off as there wasn't any real kids that were in the age demographic in the family at the time that would watch YouTube Kids. Now with my godfather and his wife having thier first daughter last year, I realised that she will be first in line in the family to watch the Youtube Kids app sometime soon and that would mean she would be exposed to the nature of them.


These YouTube Kids videos are basically clickbait videos with characters doing stuff and sometimes that involves nudity, violence and anything that is against the YouTube Community Guidelines but these seem to get away with it somehow. However, they are being tracked by YouTube themselves recently but that would probably only make them stronger.  I will try and catch some to review even though they barely have any stories but I will try and decipher them.
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For the Parents
You can learn more about them in text form or by watching the videos below. You can also make a playlist for your kids to watch that has the "kids" content that you approve of and do adult to adult screenings on these.

 For the Kids
Be careful out there and don't talk to the friendly stranger even if he has puppies!

Thursday, 8 February 2018

Dora OS by R.I.P NORBIKA9VIDEO (2014-2016)

Video: Dora OS
Uploader: R.I.P NORBIKA9VIDEO (2014-2016)

Made using: Goanimate and recorded with Screencast

Source: YouTube 
Upload date: 16 Feb 2016
Lenght: 6:20 (6 minutes and 20 seconds)
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Review
The video starts off with a bloodied smiley face saying that he upgraded his Windows 7 computer to Windows 10 and is going to download The X Files but the download turns out to be a trick and he is forced to download a (fake) operating system called Dora OS that was made by the Nick Jr character Dora the Explorer. When his computer boots up, he tries to change his desktop wallpaper but is restricted and is allowed after threatening Dora that he would trash the OS. He goes online where Dora translate Spanish on her site but the user goes onto The X Files website which causes him to get a BND Screen of Doom (Blue Screen of Death parody). 

After the computer restarts, the user is given inaccurate weather for Mexico (Seriously 100,000,000,000,000 with a rainy thunderstorm), tries to access sport but ignites it somehow, gets tortured by the Dora the Explorer theme song and gets trolled when he tries to play the never going to happen Half-Life 3.  This angers the user so much that he clicks on the UFO on The X Files wallpaper that has a kill option. The kill option kills Dora and Dora OS and the video ends with the user getting Windows 10 back.
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 Problem(s)
The Threatening Dora part can be unintelligible. 
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Video (Tell me in the comments if it has been removed, age-restricted or geo-blocked)