Have not uploaded to this channel. The traffic hit from the removals is devastating, it has killed the channel.[DOUBLEPOST=1511857522,1511857045][/DOUBLEPOST]
Yes and no.
On a video conf call with our Yt partner manager, a fellow creator asked what Yt's position is on Toy Freaks. Yt's statement was "we're letting the parents determine what's appropriate". Asked how to build traffic and what videos are best to make, the Yt rep stated to identify your most popular topics and video (Analytics - Groups) and compare the groups to each other to identify what your subscribers watch (highest watch time and retention), and make more. When she analyzed our channel, we together identified Doc mcStuffins Mommy Injection etc as the most popular videos with the highest engagement. I was advised to make more content like that. I have all this on screencapture video. It is only 1.5 weeks ago that Yt suddenly took this action and demonetized on mass. They had plenty of time to warn us, communicate to us, so we can adjust content. They never identified the "bad baby" trends as bad, not once on the 8 or so video conferences I've been on.
Anyways, we'll see how this pans out and legal avenues available.[DOUBLEPOST=1511857657][/DOUBLEPOST]
Ok that's great. Green is a nice color. Problem is, will kids watch? Maybe new kids coming onto the platform. Maybe have to think of away to make toy reviews fun.
We're bouncing some ideas around with a new channel as well, toys of course.[DOUBLEPOST=1511858002][/DOUBLEPOST]
And how do you propose these channels fund their living expenses for 2 parents and a few kids. By the most conservative, lower middle income estimates here in Australia, it costs $4000 all up for rent, expenses and a very basic standard of living (lower middle class). So for 6 months, that's $24,000. Add to that the costs of video production, toys, expendables, costs to drive and buy toys, etc, etc. At the very minimum, $1000/month to run a toy channel.
So you're proposing a family of 2 adults and 3 kids (like us), work for nothing, get in the hole by -$30,000 all the while producing content that draws viewers to the platform? So Youtube gets free content, viewership (which they can monetize in many ways), and we get what? A debt of $30,000?
Is that really the model you are proposing?[DOUBLEPOST=1511858295][/DOUBLEPOST]
Youtube reps directly stated to follow trends. I have this on video. They wanted us to follow trends, they promoted the videos that were on trend, and the algorithm populated the right bar suggested with similar tagged on trend videos. The only reason
@babyteeth4 and us and others here and not on here jumped on bad baby is because that is what the algorithm promoted and what Yt reps encouraged us to do.[DOUBLEPOST=1511858601][/DOUBLEPOST][DOUBLEPOST=1511859157][/DOUBLEPOST]
Exactly my point. All of us kids channels here, and probably the vast majority of kids channels, would gladly follow guidelines, as we are in this for the long haul and want to build a sustainable, enjoyable family business. But to promote videos to 5M or 10M views in a few days send a strong signal - this is viral, we like it, make more. Ads are running, advertisers are getting exposure, Yt is making money, creators are making money, viewers are enjoying it (and if they are not then bloody click off no one is forcing you to do anything in this world unless you live in Nazi Germany or North Korea). So everyone makes more of what the Yt algorithm promotes, and gets more views. And the algo promotes it even more to staggering levels. And the Yt rep during the calls says identify your best videos, playlists and groups, and make more.
That's like the sales department manager sitting you down, telling you you've had great sales with Hoover Model 455 vacuum cleaners in Orlando, and customers are buying more accessories as well, and tells you to sell more and more. Then 3 weeks before Christmas, you're fired for selling too many Hoover Model 455 vacuum cleaners and selling them too well. What the f**k? You told me to sell more???[DOUBLEPOST=1511859491][/DOUBLEPOST]
A skit can actually take 15 minutes to film. If you do 5-6 per week, that's say 2 hours. Maybe an hour in front of the green screen. The kids acting is very quick on the camera, well within the guidelines for child actors in Australia and I'm sure the US. All the extra 30 hours of work is with editing, special effects, sourcing footage and sounds, learning how to put it all together, matching sounds, editing.
Toy unboxing can take 3 hours for one video. Some toys, like the Barbie camper, take forever to open, do all the stickers, assemble, play, take many shots, etc. But then, the kids are playing anyways. There's just a camera also running. If the camera is off, they still play the same. Or what if it's a video for the family. Just because I have a camera running for 2 hours trained on the kids does not mean they are working, they are just playing and I'm recording. I can edit that to 2 min or 60 min, it doesn't matter. There's no laws to stop parents filming their kids playing, nor the parent interacting with their child while they are playing. Making money off stuff you created and own copyright to is not illegal either. Should monetization of videos determine if it's considered labor or play?
A family in rural Chiang Mai has 6 year olds planting rice in the muddy waters (I can see them from the back of our house). If the kids get paid 20 baht for their work, that's child labour by western standards. If they don't get paid but are doing it to help out the family who can't afford to pay Myanmar foreign workers to do it, is that still child labour?
Yt is a global company, by which country and standards will child labour be judged? Some of the things I've seen parents do in Thailand with their kids would land you in jail in Australia and the kids in foster care.
