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Youtube Shooter had a website, railing against Youtube for lost views... (Original Post) HipChick Apr 2018 OP
She seems to have been rather... eccentric. The Velveteen Ocelot Apr 2018 #1
Pro-vegan, anti- anal sex? Thats topical, I guess. bettyellen Apr 2018 #4
Totally expressionless, even when singing and dancing. nt greyl Apr 2018 #2
Her stare is weird. DetlefK Apr 2018 #28
WTF??? NRaleighLiberal Apr 2018 #3
Had no idea views were a thing... HipChick Apr 2018 #6
You can make serious money on YouTube maryellen99 Apr 2018 #8
Youtube screwed over a lot of people with their new view time policies ansible Apr 2018 #20
Yep. Many videos lure people in with suggestive comments or initial image, only to find misleading. TheBlackAdder Apr 2018 #22
Screwed them over? GulfCoast66 Apr 2018 #24
She needed to find a new hustle or god forbid start working for a living... Blue_Tires Apr 2018 #31
Silly way to make a living lol. eom Tipperary Apr 2018 #36
Some people do pretty well at it and I have a hard time finding fault in it xor Apr 2018 #39
I hear that a lot from youtubers and there may something to it, buuuuut xor Apr 2018 #38
They definitely are... regnaD kciN Apr 2018 #9
In every single picture, she has exactly the same facial expression ProudLib72 Apr 2018 #5
Cue the conspiracy theories... regnaD kciN Apr 2018 #7
Drugged and brainwashed by a pedophile conspiracy headquatered in a pizza joint basement DBoon Apr 2018 #29
Blue Steel! Scurrilous Apr 2018 #15
IT IS BLUE STEEL!!! ProudLib72 Apr 2018 #33
Only Magnum unleashes the ambi-turner. Scurrilous Apr 2018 #35
Is she Persian? If so expect the wingnuts to start claiming lapfog_1 Apr 2018 #10
Vegan Terrorist JI7 Apr 2018 #11
The right will call it Eco-Terrorist LeftInTX Apr 2018 #14
Well, she's got a lot of views now dalton99a Apr 2018 #12
Well, she was an odd one. No one but her died, right? xor Apr 2018 #13
I took a picture of her at the Prop 8 protest in San Diego FreeState Apr 2018 #16
One victim in critical condition, a second serious, and a third in fair condition John1956PA Apr 2018 #19
Zuckerberg Hospital? Me. Apr 2018 #27
OK -- I'm stumped. stranger81 Apr 2018 #17
One that wont shut the hell up about how great it is to be vegan Lee-Lee Apr 2018 #21
The corollary being true as well, and how every vegan thread has the idiot who brags about eating st LanternWaste Apr 2018 #34
No meatheads were used in the filming of the video Generic Brad Apr 2018 #23
Where vegetables sing DBoon Apr 2018 #30
Since you asked Revanchist Apr 2018 #37
Post removed Post removed Apr 2018 #18
A far different story from what we heard yesterday malaise Apr 2018 #25
Is there any evidence of hospitilization? MosheFeingold Apr 2018 #26
A mental case. IluvPitties Apr 2018 #32

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)
28. Her stare is weird.
Wed Apr 4, 2018, 11:39 AM
Apr 2018

She does have typically persian eyes, but ordinary persian women have... you know... human emotions and facial expressions.

 

ansible

(1,718 posts)
20. Youtube screwed over a lot of people with their new view time policies
Wed Apr 4, 2018, 06:22 AM
Apr 2018

Before your revenue was based on how many views you got but now it's based on how much time those views actually went to watching the videos. Screwed over a lot of people who relied on Youtube for a living.

TheBlackAdder

(28,208 posts)
22. Yep. Many videos lure people in with suggestive comments or initial image, only to find misleading.
Wed Apr 4, 2018, 08:59 AM
Apr 2018

Once people click on a video, they realize that they were part of a click bait campaign and exit the video.

YouTubes policy means that you actually have to create content that people want to watch before cashing in.

GulfCoast66

(11,949 posts)
24. Screwed them over?
Wed Apr 4, 2018, 10:56 AM
Apr 2018

YouTube had no obligation to these folks.

It’s their ball. They get to say how the game is played.

Going only from what you wrote it sounds like they did not want their viewer to be lured into clicking onto crappy videos that did not keep people watching. I do not see a downside.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
31. She needed to find a new hustle or god forbid start working for a living...
Wed Apr 4, 2018, 12:11 PM
Apr 2018

Or am I missing something and her content was really that good?

xor

(1,204 posts)
39. Some people do pretty well at it and I have a hard time finding fault in it
Wed Apr 4, 2018, 08:22 PM
Apr 2018

They create content that people enjoy and in return they can make good money doing it. These people usually spend a lot of time making their videos, though.

Here's a channel I watch a lot. I don't find his videos or him making a living off it as being silly.

xor

(1,204 posts)
38. I hear that a lot from youtubers and there may something to it, buuuuut
Wed Apr 4, 2018, 08:19 PM
Apr 2018

her videos were not good. I don't think it was youtube preventing her from being the next [insert youtube star here]

regnaD kciN

(26,044 posts)
7. Cue the conspiracy theories...
Tue Apr 3, 2018, 11:44 PM
Apr 2018

She'd been drugged and brainwashed by ISIS to carry out terrorism, etc.

DBoon

(22,366 posts)
29. Drugged and brainwashed by a pedophile conspiracy headquatered in a pizza joint basement
Wed Apr 4, 2018, 11:41 AM
Apr 2018

Secretly financed by George Soros, with Hillary Clinton's powerful witchcraft altering her mind and turning her into an alien space create that worships satan

When you hear this on Alex Jones, remember I was there first!

xor

(1,204 posts)
13. Well, she was an odd one. No one but her died, right?
Wed Apr 4, 2018, 12:54 AM
Apr 2018

I don't even know what to make of that website. If I randomly saw that then I would assume it was some sort of performance art.

FreeState

(10,572 posts)
16. I took a picture of her at the Prop 8 protest in San Diego
Wed Apr 4, 2018, 02:17 AM
Apr 2018

She was in a black two piece swimsuit with “STRIPPED OF HUMAN RIGHTS” stenciled on her torso. She stood there as people and the press took her photo - very much performance art.

John1956PA

(2,655 posts)
19. One victim in critical condition, a second serious, and a third in fair condition
Wed Apr 4, 2018, 06:15 AM
Apr 2018

From https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/04/us/youtube-hq-shooting/index.html

Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital said they were a 36-year-old man in critical condition, a 32-year-old woman in serious condition and a 27-year-old woman in fair condition.

Article updated as of 5:17 AM EDT, April 4.

 

Lee-Lee

(6,324 posts)
21. One that wont shut the hell up about how great it is to be vegan
Wed Apr 4, 2018, 06:26 AM
Apr 2018

And how everyone should be vegan and how morally superior it is to be vegan and how much everyone who isn’t vegan sucks.

At least if it’s like anything else spoken or written by vegans.

 

LanternWaste

(37,748 posts)
34. The corollary being true as well, and how every vegan thread has the idiot who brags about eating st
Wed Apr 4, 2018, 06:06 PM
Apr 2018

The corollary being true as well, and how the vast majority of every vegan thread has the idiot who brags about eating steak.

Cheeseburger in Paradise and Rock Lobster will be forever cherished by bad-taste.. at least when sung by meaters


(six of one, half a dozen of the other-- and each as petulant, pointless and without evidence to support it as the other)

Response to HipChick (Original post)

MosheFeingold

(3,051 posts)
26. Is there any evidence of hospitilization?
Wed Apr 4, 2018, 11:25 AM
Apr 2018

Sitting here at my desk, having looked at a handful of her videos, my completely unprofessional opinion is she was coo-coo as CoCo Puffs.

There was a terrible trifecta (fivefecta?) of errors made in the 1970s regarding mental health:

1. Cheap Ronald Reagan wanted to shut down mental hospitals because they were very very expensive (and they are very, very expensive).

2. Greedy drug companies sold us on the lie that their drugs could make complete loons perfectly safe.

3. Good-hearted (but naive) people wanted to close mental hospitals because they were terrible places (and grossly underfunded, see No 1).

4. Sensationalist media (looking at you, Geraldo Rivera) made the hospitals appear worse than they were with camera tricks worthy of the "Blair Witch Project".

5. Naive judges raised the standard for commitment after being fooled by "experts" hired by #2 above, egged on by #3 -- and unopposed by No. 1.

It's past time to re-examine when we can put loons away for their safety and the safety of others.

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