#content war

[onemanreviews]

The Weaponizing of YouTube Followers

I don’t know if everyone follows current events on YouTube as closely as I do, but I wanted to shed some light on one particular event that is currently cascading into what could be the end of YouTube for many creators.

The channels involved are H3H3Productions and DramaAlert hosted by KEEMSTAR, now whether you watch or enjoy these particular channels is irrelevant. I can’t say for sure how this all started but these two creators began arguing about something and H3H3Productions released a montage video of KEEMSTAR basically being a terrible person, and then weaponized his followers to cause KEEMSTAR’s sponsors to drop him (most notably G Fuel).

I am not writing this to defend KEEMSTAR but condemn the actions of H3H3, I think it is an incredibly morally bankrupt move to weaponize your audience against someone you disagree with. It was and is not H3H3′s responsibility to deem what content is allowable on a platform. (that job in this case lies with YouTube itself)

Basically whatever issue caused this argument in the first place is irrelevant, H3H3 released a video spurring his community to spam KEEMSTAR’s sponsors and presumably YouTube itself. This kind of action is not only morally reprehensible but an incredibly slippery slope not only for this situation but for all content creators in the future. 

If H3H3 doesn’t see or even understand that if he can accomplish this with his community it can just as easily be done to him and other creators who inevitably upset someone else online. This will accomplish nothing aside from driving creators away from the platform and fostering an overarching environment of dissidence towards creators you may disagree with.

As for my personal feelings about both of these creators, I think KEEMSTAR is an incredibly annoying child and has done and said some pretty messed up things, I do not believe however that it should up to a mob of YouTube followers to determine who should and should not be sponsored. If you have an issue with a creator’s content, just don’t watch it, it really isn’t a difficult concept to understand. Until today I had no issue with H3H3 and actually enjoyed some of his content but can in no way condone his actions. I think this whole situation is childish and only serves to damage the YouTube community as a whole. 

Rant over, thanks for checking out the blog, leave a comment if there is a subject you would like me to cover.

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[writteninpinecones]

YOU KNOW WHAT I REALLY WANT DC TO DO??

Stephanie Brown's pregnancy ark where it actually focuses on how she feels. You know, how a fourteen year old girl who had been molested as a child, most likely struggled with understanding a healthy relationship and thought she owed Dean this. Thought that if you really like someone, you'd be willing to do what they asked. I want to see Stephanie Brown who struggles with her self worth and Dean who makes her feel better about it because he's an older guy, and he thinks she's pretty so why wouldn't she do this for them. I want to see Stephanie Brown who, despite being ace, trusts this boy, and winds up pregnant and alone. I want to see her self worth plummet as she realizes she's going to do this mostly alone, and no one will let her forget the mistake she made. I want to see her being the center of gossip circles who whisper much too loudly and stop and laugh when she passes and Steph just knows they're talking about her, mocking her foolishness. I want Steph who has to deal with being known as easy and suddenly no one will leave her alone, and she's got a baby in her belly and her head in the dark. I want Tim who brings her to lamaze class so she doesn't have to be alone, but that's all, he's just there to support her and that's all we see. And then I want Steph struggling over whether or not she should get an abortion, wondering if she can really do this. Then I want her to ultimately be standing outside one of the clinics and not being able to go in. I want her inner conflict and turmoil, and deciding to give up the child because she's fourteen and her father's a criminal and her mom's a druggie and she can't raise a child on her own, not yet. And then, when everything's calm, and it finally seems like she's come to terms with her situation, I want her to go into labour. And I want it to be a false labour but it's still enough to scare her half to death and she's back in the spiral of I can't do this. When it's finally time, and she's truly in labour, I want her to be alone in the hospital at fourteen years old with a baby in her belly that just really wants out, and she's supposed to have a c-section but it's too late and the birth has complications and Steph thinks she might die and she almost does but she survives and the baby survives and she's alright. But she doesn't want to see her child so she sends them off without a name, and it's all over but the nurses are looking at her funny and the doctor, she's got this look of judgement, and Steph just shrinks because she feels like she's two feet tall and she just knows they're judging her.

I don't want it to end there. I want to see a variation of PPD where she has doubts about her choice and I want to see her having to switch schools because no one looks her in the eye but they call her fat and a slut behind her back and she can't de with it anymore. And I want Bruce to be the one to help her find a school with a good support system, because no one else can see how much she's hurting, but he does, and he's hurting for her, hurting for the girl he didn't think was good enough, hurting for the girl who could've been Robin, and he can't make the hurt go away but he can try to make things easier. And I want Steph to heal. She starts looking in the mirror and instead of her flaws she sees her triumphs, and instead of hating herself, she's slowly learning to love herself.

I want Stephanie Brown's pregnancy ark to cover the issues that come with birthing a child, the issues that come with being a survivor of assault, and the issues that come with being pregnant at such a young age. And I want her to survive so that people know accurate information about teen pregnancies and people can change the way they look at it. I want Stephanie Brown, a strong character who's been through a different kind of hell, and came out on the other side as queen.

That is all.