Life on the YouTube Plantation

Plan for YouTube

August 19, 2018 Eli 0

Just to let you know…

YouTube’s AI Needs to Explain Itself

August 5, 2018 Eli 0

What is it thinking..?

YouTube Needs Contracts with Creators

August 1, 2018 Eli 1

Contracts allow for both parties to feel comfortable with investing in a business relationship…

YouTube Apologists

July 25, 2018 Eli 1

Ignoring the warning sirens is one thing. Telling others to disregard them too is evil…

Why YouTube Matters

July 23, 2018 Eli 0

YouTube is about more than cat videos…

YouTube’s Competition

July 13, 2018 Eli 0

When entertainment flows like water…

Life After YouTube

July 12, 2018 Eli 4

Having spent 30 days away from YouTube I feel that I’m over the platform…

Dying YouTube Creators

May 11, 2018 Eli 5

How do you deal with death on YouTube..?

Breaking the YouTube Addiction

May 8, 2018 Eli 5

Is YouTube a drug..?

Logging Out of YouTube

May 7, 2018 Eli 5

I juist can’t shake the feeling that this isn’t what we agreed to…

Suppression Algorithm

April 19, 2018 Eli 1

Questioning how we got here…

Casey Neistat Could Kill YouTube

April 18, 2018 Eli 4

Will Casey’s love of YouTube lead to his attack on it..?

Can Philip DeFranco Leave YouTube?

April 17, 2018 Eli 1

Philip DeFranco, creator with 6.1 million subscribers, is losing patience with Youtube: https://youtu.be/4_jkeWgtZ18

Ramifications of YouTube’s Toxic Environment

April 4, 2018 Eli 3

When you subject large numbers of people to a psychological experiment should it be a surprise when they start snapping..?

Sound of Silence

January 23, 2018 Eli 9

Ending the open streams of communication for the sake of sanity.

Turning Off YouTube Comments

January 22, 2018 Eli 4

Do YouTube comments make life better?

Should Small YouTube Creators Quit?

January 19, 2018 Eli 10

Should small YouTube Creators quit?

YouTube Terminating Partners

January 17, 2018 Eli 4

YouTube is now terminating Partner Program for small channels.

YouTube Cargo Cult

January 16, 2018 Eli 0

What happens when society starts praying to the AI?

YouTube Pivoting Away from Independent Creators

October 12, 2017 Eli 1

The people to get where you are going, are not the same as the ones that got you to where you are. -Business Owner With everything happening with YouTube right […]

Mike the Cop: YouTube Channel of Police Officer

October 11, 2017 Eli 0

One of the greatest values I see in a platform like YouTube is that ability to humanize people and allow different folks to be able to explain the world as […]

Vimeo Live: Live Streaming Freedom

October 2, 2017 Eli 0

Vimeo has been a solid alternative to YouTube for a number of years for professional content creators with their own methods for monetization. A large appeal of Vimeo has been […]

Cloudflare Stream to Kill YouTube

September 28, 2017 Eli 0

Cloudflare has now put into beta their own video delivery platform. On the surface level there doesn’t seem to be a lot to say. Essentially this is their take on […]

PayPal vs. Patreon: Daily Income

September 23, 2017 Eli 4

I decided a long time ago for a number of reasons not to use Patreon. The TL;DR is it’s a financial tech startup run by a musician. Do I really […]

Milking YouTube

September 22, 2017 Eli 1

Let me clear. I’m not “back” to YouTube. I’m milking the hell out of something I spent years building until it falls in on itself. I did a Livestream today […]

YouTube Needs to Buy a CRM

September 21, 2017 Eli 0

Here’s the thing… You’re only paranoid if you haven’t been screwed with consistently. At the point you’re screwed with at an ongoing basis it’s no longer paranoia rather it’s just […]

Weaponized DMCA

September 12, 2017 Eli 1

So the story up until this point is that PewDiePie said the “N” word with a hard R (you can’t forget the hard R) on a live stream, and now […]

Building a YouTube Competitor…

September 8, 2017 Eli 2

So… I guess I’m having a Skype meeting with a founder who wants to create a competitor to YouTube next week… yup… I feel like I’ve had this conversation before… […]

As I have said, a case like this is extremely draining — especially on an emotional level — and can create massive chilling effects on free speech. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170906/13431338159/case-dismissed-judge-throws-out-shiva-ayyadurais-defamation-lawsuit-against-techdirt.shtml Over the […]

YouTube is Killing Valuable Content

September 4, 2017 Eli 5

Last week I was talking with my wife about the future of Failed Normal, and brought up that I plan to start doing video interviews again. At that comment she […]

Insidious Results of YouTube Recommendation Algorithm

August 25, 2017 Eli 13

The YouTube recommendation algorithm is changing not just the conversation on YouTube, but has ramifications on the outside world as well.

Why Tech Journalism Is So Bad

August 25, 2017 Eli 4

It’s pretty easy to agree that by and large tech journalism is in a horrible state. Although you do have the MIT Technology Review, most tech webzines are sophomoric at […]

Spee.ch Provides Video Sharing Without Permission

August 24, 2017 Eli 5

https://spee.ch/IMG1602-puppy/d6c7e0c0f1df95c2fcaccc9ab3f544a21e9397c5 Holy crap my stock in LBRY might actually be worth something!!! Is basically the TL;DR of this post. My advisor meetings with LBRY over the past number of months […]

LBRY’s Killer Feature (TOS)

August 24, 2017 Eli 6

Yesterday afternoon I was having an advisory meeting with the CEO of LBRY to talk about why I’ve left YouTube, and where LBRY fits into my calculations as a creator. […]

Attitude Correction from Leaving YouTube

August 23, 2017 Eli 27

There will probably be a massive change in attitude for me in my videos. Viewers complain about how I used to be happy and nice, but have become mean and […]

LBRY and DTube Problems for YouTube Content Creators

August 23, 2017 Eli 0

Once I uploaded my leaving YouTube video I was bombarded with comments saying I should start using LBRY or DTube. Funny that… being that I’m an official advisor for LBRY […]

Grateful to YouTube?

August 22, 2017 Eli 7

Having posted my “I Left YouTube” video yesterday one of the arguments I have been receiving is that I should be “grateful” to YouTube and should not complain about them […]

Morality of Paywalls

August 21, 2017 Eli 7

The paywall for Failed Normal has been built, and we’re close to posts and videos being moved behind it. I’ve decided that for this site we’ll keep somewhere between 1 […]

YouTube’s Numbers Problem

August 21, 2017 Eli 3

Over the past two weeks since leaving YouTube I’ve been doing a lot of math. It’s not fancy calculus or trigonometry, but rather good old basic math. Two plus Two […]

PR People and YouTube Creators

August 18, 2017 Eli 0

Have I told you how much I hate PR folks? I don’t mean that I slightly dislike them, but really detest them in a deep and profound way. They’re the […]

How to Make Money Doing Reviews on YouTube

August 18, 2017 Eli 0

Doing reviews on YouTube seems to be one of the quickest ways to making money on the platform. By uploading reviews you are easily getting on to the radar of […]

Breaking the YouTube Addiction

August 17, 2017 Eli 7

I made it half way through the latest Boogie2988 video this morning. I was able to finish a DramaAlert, but then… hit the unsubscribe button. I flitted through a few […]

How to Get Free Review Items for Youtube Videos

August 16, 2017 Eli 2

Reviewing products on YouTube is what many creators rely on for video topics. You’ll notice many of the big channels, especially in tech, are essentially review channels. When you’re starting […]

Personality Prism on YouTube

August 16, 2017 Eli 2

People’s personalities change dramatically based on the situation and the people they are interacting with in real life. You speak to a lover differently than you would a friend, and […]

Emotional Prostitution on YouTube

August 14, 2017 Eli 7

Let me tell you a secret… are you ready… it’s going to come as a shock… I don’t care about you… nope… I don’t give one iota of a crap […]

Nakedness of YouTube

August 14, 2017 Eli 5

When you have a project you visualize who you think your target audience is and then you build your product around assumptions based on who you’re targeting. When I started […]

Self Deplatforming

August 12, 2017 Eli 3

I was on the edge of publishing my Failed Normal content to Medium until I read a few posts talking about the CEO essentially running Medium as a vanity project. […]

Content Inventory for Creators on YouTube

August 11, 2017 Eli 0

There are 2 simple words that are the key to success in any technology related business, “ship product”. Whatever else you do in your day the only thing that really […]

How to Make Money on YouTube

August 9, 2017 Eli 0

When I told people my job was making content for YouTube there was really only one question anyone really cared about, “How do you make money?” The answer is rather […]

Broken by the YouTube Plantation

August 9, 2017 Eli 5

I think I’m broken. After 8 years of toiling for the YouTube Masters I think my creative will for video has left. This is not a screed against YouTube, platforms, […]