Abandoning YouTube

So yesterday I watched @AmericanHomestead 's farewell vid on YouTube. Today I watched Bigfamilyhomestead's on camera struggle to understand YouTube's motivation for alienating both their content producers, and their viewers by demonetizing those that produce content designed to show people how to live independently.

I, like many others can't help but think that these actions by YouTube are not advertiser driven at all, but instead politically driven. I think execs at Google have decided that those who think independently of the mainstream sock puppet out there, are what is moving along the populist wave that they are so fearful is destroying a globalist agenda that they felt had been working so well for them. In short, they had to stick a cork in the hole in their socialist boat!

It just came down to the fact that Google felt that their own media was pushing along a world view that violated their California, socialist, liberal sensitivities, and like the liberals they are comprised of, they couldn't stand to make an argument, opting instead to crush those with a view that opposes theirs. Google knows that the most effective way to silence the opposition is to hit them in the pocketbook.

And let's face it, why fund those you disagree with! It's a win-win in the mind of Google execs. They begin to thin the herd of the disagreeable people who obviously elected Donald Trump, and if they stay, they still get to make money off of their followers, without the associated cost!

So here's the deal for the content creator's, either they leave, giving Google a politically correct, sanitized, sufficiently censored medium that more closely matches Google's desired world view, or they stay, and produce free content just to stick it to Google on the principle of free speech, thereby giving away their services, and being taken advantage of. Every content creator must decide in this sad state of affairs. What a unenviable position.

Personally, this is tough not only for the content creators, but also for viewers, of which I am one. I am grateful for the alternatives here at Steemit, but I watch YouTube mostly in an app that runs through my PlayStation 4. I have developed one-sided relationships with these self reliant channel creators. I am invested in their product. Frankly, I wouldn't watch a network if you paid me, but these poorly paid people are producing far better content than just about any cable, or movie steaming enterprise, and it's not laced with crap I don't want to see, or designed to convert my mind into a controlled drone!

Google, of course, wants to change that! They like producing drones they can control with click bait! I get it.

However, as a consumer, I want to watch content sitting in my living room that inspires me, makes me think, and pushes me beyond myself! This one reason why I adore Steemit! Still I am waiting for that PlayStation app, that puts video content, and top quality producers at the touch of my fingers on my PlayStation controller!

If that can happen, then Google is going to need some help recovering from the beating they will take in viewership! Maybe I've missed something here on Steemit. It is so hard to find just exactly what you are looking for here, and then save the links so you can get back to it when you need it, but I am looking forward to being able to abandon YouTube myself without losing my viewing options!