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Floatplane is now below 37000 subscribers. (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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They have approximately now lost over 5000 subscribers which equates to about $25000 per month or $300000 per year in lost revenue.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is youtube cracking down on gun channels or something? Wouldnt shock me.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Youtube is being an ass about guns specifically. They had vague rules about assembly instructions including not being allowed to show someone screwing in a suppressor. Then they did the typical google thing and offerred no discussion or recourse options for talking about the rules to any of the youtubers. Essentially, fuck you, you do what you're told type of deal. It was enough that all the gun youtubers had legitimate worries about their job security in the short and longterm future. They've since walked back that specific rule, but there are still a lot of other rules restricting what kind of gun related content is actually allowed. And all the channel owners know that google can and will cut their gun content on a whim without forewarning or talking about it.

You also see this with their rules about swearing in videos. Whatever makes the advertisors happiest apparently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That’s hilarious and complete shit.

Screwing on a suppressor?!

YouTube: NO OPENING A BOTTLE ON VIJIA

Being a creator would be so difficult nowadays with how careful you have to be to avoid their shitty unwritten rules.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think Gun Jesus over at Forgotten Weapons has spoken about this on a couple of his Q&A videos.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I mention the silencer thing because attaching one to a gun is literally screwing it in - every hollywood movie that includes a silencer has this specific scene in it, and so did all of the gun youtubers. Google never told anyone if these rules were for going forward or if their old content would get called out for it too, and so there was lrgit worries about finding a channel ban for videos uploaded ten years ago.