Comments by "Neil Forbes" (@neilforbes416) on "2019: YouTube Hits Rock Bottom" video.

  1.  @VMonkies  As I understand it, Amazon's Twitch and Vimeo both charge a fee to be members and upload content to their sites. At the moment, being free is the ONLY thing YouTube has going for it. I DO NOT make my videos for profit. I'm a hobbyist videographer. I'm not about to pay for the privilege of uploading a video to YouTube or any other video-supporting website. Butif YouTube keeps going the way they are, they'll lose content-makers like me and many more around the world will also drop away, leaving YouTube with nothing to offer but the trashy tabloid gutter-journalism of Fox, CNN, NBC, ABC and CBS which is already available on cable(in America) or free-to-air. Google must be FORCED to relinquish its ownership of YouTube, that's the FIRST thing that needs to happen, then YouTube must PURGE itself of these so-called "authoritative"(read: gutter-trawling) media outlets and get back to what it was when it first started: be an outlet for independent content makers to share their content with the rest of the world.
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  2.  Bobby Collins  David Pakman is not the only YouTube content maker being hurt by YouTube's actions, Indeed the independent political commentators are not the only ones being hurt. There are SEVERAL YouTube channels dedicated to SEVERAL different types of video content, not all of us are out to make money from our videos. My two channels(Trams & Trains, and General Videography) are both done as a hobby. Why should I have to "jump through hoops" just to get a video uploaded?
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  3.  Instrumentality1000  You have to tell YouTube if your video is intended for children, or has children appearing in it. Two problems are clearly evident. 1) you CANNOT police who views your "masterpiece". A child of 6 years could be watching your video of your game-fishing trip, or OmarGoshTV's latest haunted house video, or my recent video of my visit to Sydney Tramway Museum. We have no way of knowing unless they write a comment and post it, but how many 6-year-olds are literate enough to do that? 2) You're shooting a video of an old steam traction engine trundling along a street, a 5-year-old girl might be riding on that engine, or she's in a crowd watching it go by and your camera picks her up in the course of trying to get a good shot of the engine. You don't want to scrap the shot just because a kiddie inadvertently got in the shot, it's something over which you have no control. But what's YouTube going to do? Take your video down because that kid showed up? That would be a grossly unfair move on YouTube's part.
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  4.  Bobby Collins  You commented on YouTube "fucking Pakman over" with its algorithms, I simply added that Pakman isn't the only victim here, likewise neither are any of the other independent political commentators the only victims. YouTube is making life difficult for a lot of content makers/uploaders, so my remark, in its way, was very much related to your comment.
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  5.  @jameshumphrey9939  It's the technical side of YouTube, Them making it difficult to upload content by trying to take away a system that has worked properly and replace it with a method unproven.
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  6. Listen, David Pakman! You independent political commentators aren't the only ones being effected by YouTube's antics, There are thousands, millions of us content makers around the world who are finding it harder to upload content because YouTube is stuffing around with the upload process when there was NOTHING wrong with it in the FIRST PLACE! So STOP YOUR GRIPING!
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