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YouTube Controversy

Collected by: Mount Dora High School

Archived since: Jan, 2018

Description:

In the past few years, the YouTube platform has transformed into a giant corporate mess. Creators find themselves fighting YouTube in order to stay relevant and get paid. This is because those YouTubers aren't creating content that is family friendly. Since the content isn't family friendly, creators find their videos de-monetized, or without ads. They find themselves demontized because the companies that provide YouTube with ads became upset when they found that many of their ads were being showcased on videos that promoted racism. YouTube isn't handling the problems their creators are being exposed to, and this generates conversation among YouTubers. Now, many of them have lost hope in the company itself. Favoritism from YouTube is abundant, with them putting ads mostly on YouTube creators that are politically correct and don't create controversy. The content creators are aware of this. Although, some YouTubers that are being promoted don't even create clean content, but they're still being monetized, despite the way YouTube has become.

Subject:   Society & Culture Blogs & Social Media YouTube Controversy and Drama

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Title: Prominent YouTubers Rally Around PewDiePie in Anti-Semitism Saga

URL: http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/pewdiepie-antisemitism-saga-youtubers-reactions-1201991626/

Description: This article showcases an introduction on the controversial topic of YouTube drama. It gathers the thoughts and opinions prominent YouTubers have on the subject, including PewDiePie and Markliplier. It's an informative source on how YouTubers percieve the drama and controversy being produced on the video website.

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Subject:   Youtube, PewDiePie, YouTubers

Title: PewDiePie is using Logan Paul’s drama to repair his own reputation

URL: https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/11/16878068/logan-paul-pewdiepie-youtube/

Description: This article gives insight on how it seems PewDiePie is now trying to improve his reputation after the Logan Paul incident. He uses his reaction video to argue that he should be granted the same level of immunity that he feels Logan Paul was given. He expresses that he feels that YouTube is being unfair to him because he's less politically correct than their star YouTuber. PewDiePie's show got canceled almost immediately after the antisemitic video, but it look way longer for them to even put out a response on the Logan Paul incident.

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Subject:   PewDIePie, Logan Paul, YouTube

Title: YouTube penalises Logan Paul for dead rat Taser video

URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/feb/09/youtube-logan-paul-dead-rat-taser-video-google

Description: Not long after Logan Paul's break from YouTube, he returns with another inappropriate video; tasering dead rats. YouTube responded to this video by cutting Logan's ad revenue. The article outlines how YouTube hopes to respond to these sort of videos, due to the backlash of recent events. This is an important factor in the YouTube controversy because it shows how the actions of a single YouTuber can affect the entire platform. Thanks to Logan Paul, YouTube has become stricter to creators and has begun demonetizing channels that contain the least bit of controversy.

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Subject:   Logan Paul, YouTube, Dead Rats

Title: YouTube Responds to Logan Paul Suicide Video.

URL: https://www.vox.com/culture/2018/1/11/16866864/youtube-responds-to-logan-paul-suicide-video/

Description: In late December of 2017, Logan Paul uploaded a vlog in which he and friends visited the Aokigahara Forest, also known as the "suicide forest." While in the forest, he and his friends stumbled upon the body of a man who had recently committed suicide. They filmed the man up close, blurring, but still featuring him. They included his picture on the front of their video. Shortly after this video was uploaded, he received tons of backlash, even from other prominent YouTubers. This article discusses YouTube's delayed response to the issue, which angered many. It quite is similar to the PewDiePie controversy. A YouTube spokesperson announced that the platform will strip Paul’s videos from its top-tier monetized system. Additionally, YouTube has canceled plans to produce a new film starring Paul, and he will not appear in the upcoming season of a YouTube Red series in which he previously starred.

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Subject:   YouTube, Logan Paul, Suicide Video

Title: Disney Severs Ties With YouTube Star PewDiePie After Anti-Semitic Posts

URL: https://www.wsj.com/articles/disney-severs-ties-with-youtube-star-pewdiepie-after-anti-semitic-posts-1487034533/

Description: This article is infamous in the YouTube community. The publishing of the article is the beginning of a huge amount of drama and controversy between PewDiePie, The Wall Street Journal, and YouTube. Felix Kjellberg, the most subscribed person on YouTube, paid two Indian men on the website Fiverr to hold up a sign saying, "Death to all Jews." Though PewDiePie did not do this out of malicious intent but for comedic purposes, the video generated a ton of conversation and controversy about YouTube creators and their influence on their viewers. The Wall Street Journal took notice and began to take clips from PewDiePie's videos out of context, where he included images of Nazis, as well as Felix being dressed like one.

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Subject:   YouTube, PewDiePie, Wall Street Journal

Title: Youtube's RIDICULOUS New Response To The Logan Paul Scandal

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-ePy-2WLfY/

Description: In this video, Philip DeFranco, a popular Youtuber who focuses on news, gives a brief summary of the whole Logan Paul suicide video, YouTube's open letter released on Twitter, as well as other videos that relate to this situation. He argues that there is no excuse for YouTube's delayed response and rebukes their claim that they "acted accordingly" to YouTube's community guidelines.

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Subject:   Phillip DeFranco, Logan Paul, YouTube

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