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Glove and Boots Has Gone Too Far

You want to know what one of the best and often overlooked videos on Youtube is?

Glove and Boots.

These guys are great. The puppetry is phenomenal, the humor is perfect, and I love every character. Glove and Boots has kept me and thousands entertained for years. Every new video became the highlight of my day.

Then sadly, like many undeserving channels, they got screwed over by the YouTube algorithm in 2017. They went a long hiatus to figure things out and finally returned late 2018.

Except something had changed.

In order to not be swept under the rug again, the new videos were geared towards a younger audience. It was met with the disdain you’d expect, but after a time G&B found a good balance between enticing kid viewers and entertaining the older original crowd. And those who didn’t care for the new stuff could still go back to the classic videos before the hiatus.

But something has come to my attention today.

They’ve now privatized more than half their videos.

Anything they fear might scare away viewers because it’s not “family-friendly enough” is blocked off from their loyal viewers. This includes:

All the outtake specials

The Vertical Videos PSA

The Top 10 Reasons Why We Hate Facebook

Meet Jack Woods

Back to School Bootcamp

The Pee-Wee Herman Blog

The special video they made to help one of their fans propose to his girlfriend

The Mario’s Word of the Week on “lalochezia”

The Ode to Seuss

The live gaming streams and highlights

Some of product testing episodes

Keep in mind, the few times they swear are comically censored, and apart from the Uncle Joe Stories they’ve produced virtually no offensive content. The sketches I’ve listed are just a few of the hilarious videos me and my friends have bonded over. The comedy, writing, and fun with pop culture is spot-on and I’d say most of the videos are already safe for younger audiences.

This decision also comes across as hypocritical when you realize they kept up some of the videos that skew slightly towards the older demographic, like the Game of Thrones recap and Walking Dead and Saw parodies.

THANKFULLY they are not all lost.

Virtually all of them, including the ones that haven’t been removed, are on Vimeo. I guess they figure kids and helicopter parents don’t go on there as much as Youtube. And hopefully they won’t be going anywhere/

But why take down the videos they’re overly concerned about and not even bother telling anyone? Did they think quietly removing fan favorite videos would not cause an uproar among everyone who’s stuck with them so far? Even though I’m glad Glove and Boots seems to have found their footing again when it comes to their new videos, I am very disappointed in this move. If you guys end up reading this somehow, I hope you reconsider and bring them back. Until then, I’m sharing the link to your vimeo so any new or interested viewers can find your best stuff.

https://vimeo.com/gloveandboots

And guys, if you’re that concerned about losing viewership and money, get a damn Patreon already. Everyone’s asking you to and there’s no better way to support yourselves right now. You’ve got people who would gladly throw money at you to go back to the way things were and I am one of them, so why ignore us and keep kowtowing the the fickle whims of YT’s algorithm?