Back to episode — Episode 739 Scott Adams - Talking to Ben Askren, Y**Tube Alternative, #Shampeachment, Cartels
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a glitch in our communications. Yeah, but anyway. Other networks then, things like Substack and Patreon, and they're applying some old principles obviously without a token. But in that case it's one individual. And so they call it the Rockfin subscription consortium. So essentially you're not by yourself and you pair up with a whole bunch of other people which makes it infinitely more valuable wh…
← Previous segment →he morning and find out that one of the most prominent senators in the country just retweeted your tweet because he thought the issue was worthy. And it's the issue of people being demonetized and especially conservative voices being demonetized.
Here's my take on what's going on and this is just speculation. All right, so I don't want to say this is a conspiracy theory. This is pure speculation. So I'm not asking you to believe it. I'm just trying to understand my world and thinking out loud.
If I were YouTube and what it looks like what they're trying to do is continue to evolve upscale so the content on YouTube is more like a television show quality. So they're de-emphasizing things of lower production values in favor of things with higher production values. Now David Pakman, as I mentioned before, that was also impacted the same way I was. And we're pretty much opposites on a lot of stuff. So it wasn't the political leaning. It was the fact that we were a low production value political talk. I think that's the key. That's what's getting us put in the same bin.
Now here's why this actually is not completely fair. If you were to remove from YouTube the independent voices both on the left and the right, what would be the result of that? Do you see it? If you get rid of the independent voices on the platforms like the social media platforms but YouTube in particular, what would that do with what's left? Well what's left is overwhelmingly mainstream media plus a little Fox News.
So it seems to me that the net effect of getting rid of the lower production value independent people like me and even David Pakman is that you would get rid of more people like me than you would get rid of David Pakman even if we were sort of held to the same standard. Well let me put it another way. I don't think that I could support that there would be more conservatives than liberals. That's anecdotal. What would be true is that all that would be left and therefore would be magnified in value would be the mainstream media. Is that a side benefit to YouTube just wanting to get a higher production value? I don't know.
But I will tell you that there are a lot of people like me who believe that they got on YouTube because YouTube had a certain set of rules and opportunity and it fe
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els like they change the rules after we got there. Now as a trained economist, in case you didn't know that, one of the worst things you can do in an economic system is change the system midstream unless you're really fixing it. In this case it's a change that was good for YouTube presumably but certainly not good for many creators such as myself. So anyway, enough on that. Have you heard the st…
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