A previously announced series of regulations on YouTube that are designed to protect children from being exposed to predators and dangerous or offensive content is causing uproar among some parents. Now, YouTube is improving its protections for underage users by moving content featuring children to the YouTube Kids app. Some parents of child YouTube stars
You’ve heard the news by now, and probably suspected the worst, but it has sadly been confirmed that Desmond “Etika” Amofah is in fact deceased. After going missing earlier this month, fans and online personalities suspected the worst for the up-and-coming 29 year-old. In his final video, since removed by YouTube, Ekita apologized to various
So YouTube appears to be cracking down pretty heavily on underaged users of their services with a new set of restrictions and policies which take effect immediately. Children will effectively be locked out of streaming on YouTube with this new policy. The announcement comes just months after multiple controversies involving the potential exploitation of underage
YouTuber ProJared, real name Jared Knabenbauer, was recently at the center of a major controversy, one that’s cited by NormalBoots as a motivator for severing ties. According to the allegations, ProJared was accused of soliciting explicit pictures from fans in interactions, that accusation comes from ProJared’s wife, Heidi O’ Ferrall. NormalBoots is a channel known
Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg is an extremely popular, and often polarizing, figure in online circles of creators and fans. As his popularity grew from his first video uploaded in 2006 on his original Pewdie channel, no one could have predicted the life we would find the world’s most popular gaming YouTuber in today. Recently, he took
The now legendary D&D liveshow/podcast, Critical Role has grown a lot since it’s launch in 2015 as a weekly show on the Twitch channel of Geek & Sundry. For the first three years, we followed the misadventures of a group of nerdy-ass voice actors as they played Dungeons & Dragons together, putting on an intense
Harry Brewis, better known by his online persona Hbomberguy, is a YouTuber known for his biting and often hilarious political commentary, response videos and general weirdness. He’s now known for something even better, raising more than $300,000 to benefit trans folks in the UK by performing a marathon style charity stream of Donkey Kong 64.
One of the largest and longest-running YouTube multi-channel networks has seemingly folded up. Machinima seemingly deleted their entire video library over this past week, across almost all of their major channels. The change was noticed by multiple personalities and creators across the network, which was followed understandably by panic and confusion. So for those who
After nearly a decade of work, passion and dedication, one of the best gaming and “Let’s Play” channels on YouTube has disbanded. Matt, Pat, Woolie and Liam were the four members of a massively successful YouTube channel, known as Super Best Friends Play. The group got its start under the Super Best Friends banner with
As usual with high-profile releases like this, the inevitable has happened and Kingdom Hearts 3 has leaked online. The full version is out already in the hands of some enterprising gamers, and some unscrupulous types have taken to posting spoilers for various story elements online. Luckily, there’s an easy-to-use way to control the flow of
The infamous Nintendo Creators Program, the bane of many YouTube content creators, is finally going away. And it all looks like Nintendo is making it easier to monetize Nintendo-related content on various video platforms. The company has published the set of guidelines that will replace the Nintendo Creators Program, and they apply across all of
Nintendo isn’t just bringing great first-party properties like Smash, Mario and Zelda to the Switch in spades, the company is also setting up the platform as an entertainment hub with the addition of the Switch Online service, and the inclusion of media and streaming apps. Those streaming and media apps are the latest announcement concerning
YouTube personality Brandon Lucas (aka “Golden Modz”) and his frequent partner Colton Conter (“Excentric”) are the first targets of a new lawsuit from Epic Games targeting those distributing Fortnite cheats. According to the suit, the two conspired to violate the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, breached contract and engaged in “tortious interference” by posting videos of
Since Amazon bought out Twitch in 2014 for a deal worth $970 million in cash, YouTube has consistently been on the back foot in terms of content innovation and revenue. In 2015 Google launched a competitive service called “YouTube Gaming”, a direct answer to Twitch’s dominance of streaming for online and gaming content. YouTube Gaming
According to YouTube CEO, Susan Wojcicki, Logan Paul doesn’t deserve to be banned for making offensive content. “He hasn’t done anything that would cause those three strikes. We can’t just be pulling people off our platform. They need to violate a policy. We need to have consistent [rules].” While YouTube is hesitant to ban Paul,
Everyone is aware of what awful idiots YouTubers can be, a while back it was the racism and anti-Semitism of Pewdeipie, now it’s Logan Paul, again. Logan Paul has once again caused more controversy for the sake of those sweet clicks. The insensitive idiot displayed a concerning lack of tact when posting footage on New
In yet another deal that could see Twitch compete with YouTube, Twitch and Disney have inked a deal to bring popular YouTubers onboard for the streaming service. The deal, which includes YouTubers Markiplier, Jacksepticeye, Strawburry17, and LuzuGamers, means each of the aforementioned will “livestream and create video on-demand content for Twitch, as part of a
Google sent out an email to all YouTube channels this week, and people aren’t happy. Contained within the email was a new set of stipulations that ALL YouTube channels need to satisfy in order to monetize their content via AdSense. Get reviewed after reaching 4,000 watch hours in the previous 12 months and 1,000 subscribers
The Thargoids have returned to Elite: Dangerous in patch 2.4, and already players are attacking them and trying to find a weakness to exploit. Early reports seem to indicate that the Thargoid craft and their Thargon minions are immune to many types of damage. Nevertheless, players are finding ways to fight back. One player already
With the conclusion of a formal decision against Trevor Trevor “TmarTn” Martin and Thomas “Syndicate” Cassell, the FTC found that these specific influences had not clearly violated disclosure guidelines in their promotion of their CS: GO gambling site. And even though that particular case is over, the FTC is taking steps to prevent such cases
Earlier this week, the worlds most popular YouTuber PewDiePie landed in hot water over a racist slur he shouted while livestreaming PUBG.And as many bystanders--myself included--predicted, it was only a matter of time before he screwed up again.
Update (09/12/17): Kjellberg has released an apology video for saying a racial slur during a PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds stream. In the video, he says: It was something that I said in the heat of the moment. I said the worst word I could possibly think of, and it just sort of slipped out. I’m not going to
With a new round of policy changes, YouTube has angered and confused a lot of users, including some quite large channels. The new bout of chaos for the site centers on the content guidelines for “advertiser-friendly” content. Now it’s worth mentioning that these guidelines were in place previously. This policy is not new and nor
The recently created Pandemic Horde, the newbro-centric offshoot of Pandemic Legion, has begun work on their video series to teach newer players basic game mechanics. The ever-talented Hendrick Tallardar lends his video creation and voiceover talent to the video series. I suggest anyone looking for a quick primer on basic mechanics check this out. ISKMogul
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