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Hey everybody, come on in. Got an interesting topic guaranteed to be shadow banned by YouTube. So we'll wait for a few more people to get in here. This could be a single-topic Periscope.

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I was just checking my YouTube analytics, and YouTube is really good at showing you all the different ways you can analyze who's watching and why they're watching and all that. There's one view where you can see that YouTube has decided to demonetize any particular videos that you've created. I was a little bit surprised to find out that my one demonetized video that I had before, which didn't bother me, I didn't see why it would be demonetized. I appealed it and I forgot about it because it was only one video out of many. But I just logged on and it turns out there are a number of demonetized videos now.

Those of you who watch me on Periscope may or may not know that I take this exact video that happens on Periscope and I just put it on YouTube. So if you've been watching me on Periscope, you have a real good sense of my content. Can you imagine that five or six of my videos in the last month would be inappropriate on YouTube? Think about it. Think about anything you've seen me do, because a lot of you watched all of these Periscopes. Think of anything I've done that would be inappropriate for advertisers.

Now, demonetized means that you can still view them but they're demonetized. However, through a little A/B testing I have discovered what demonetizes your video, and you are gonna go crazy when I tell you what it is. Said anybody? Well, I guess there is one topic that I mentioned that causes them to be demonetized automatically. And the one that I appealed, I lost on appeal, meaning that they looked at it, a human looked at it and said yes, this is something that should not be monetized. It's when I debunk the fine people hoax. That's right. Some of you already guessed it.

Now it's not language. There doesn't seem to be any correlation with anything except when I debunk a hoax. So when I debunk a hoax, I get demonetized. And let me tell you, this is a hoax that is not an opinion. This is just look at the transcript and see for yourself. It's right there. It's in the clearest possible language. I'm literally trying to repair a hoax with solid information which is easy to verify. You could look at it, you could listen to the video, you can do it yourself. And on several occasions it appears that just the mere mention of it causes it to be demonetized.

Now this will be the further confirmation test. So in theory this video will be demonetized. Yeah, and I'll let you know. It looks like it takes a week or so before they get around to looking at everything. But think about that. Think about the fact that all I'm doing is debunking a hoax that is a dangerous hoax because it divides the nation. I think that's just what's happening here.

And by the way, the other ones that are demonetized, they also don't seem to have any reason that I can determine. Now I do talk about topics in the headlines such as, I'm not going to mention that. I actually, I'm not going to mention another topic because I'm going to just keep it on this topic and that will be our confirmation that this topic is it.

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So if you're wondering what is the slippery slope for, let's say, demonetization on YouTube, and of course I'm famously saying there's no such thing as the slippery slope. There are always limits that pop up to stop things from sliding forever. Now this is sort of a special case because it appears, and by the way the first one that got demonetized is where I said that if the fine people hoax, the…

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