yep let's do it oh you got mucho and you didn't get mucho
for me i would have gotten you oh i i am so
hungry right now mind you people would have been like even more mad if we were both
eating on the shelf oh well i'm gonna try to like off screen it as much as i
can i'm not even going to notice how it's not even on camera they can't even
so i'll just randomly like you'll be talking i'll be like nodding and then suddenly just that is so cringe fading
out like that is so cringe wait for it wait for it
do you want something even more cringe though um i thought of a joke uh while i
was upstairs getting my uh power adapter from my laptop oh no
what is the weapon of choice
for the most certain ninjas
the shuriken
okay you need nope nope you're done you need no no i'm not saying this
negatively you need a kid's book i need a kid's body that has like kid friendly
art and there's like a little ninja with the shuriken and then you just have like
the little saying right there jokes for kids books are like pretty popular i'm
not even kidding i think that could be pretty good
one of one of the things that like i i would potentially do at some point in
the future because exactly it looks like the
easiest thing ever and if you just leverage your fame then
a bunch of people will buy it and you will make a bunch of money like it just
looks like the most obvious way to cash in on like having internet and if a
bunch of people buy it then it'll go up in like amazon rankings and stuff and then other people will buy it exactly
and if it's decent like the shuriken joke
totally good enough and like if it goes along with like
a frame of art which is like kid-friendly ninja dude yeah yeah and
just it's like uh like blown up zoom in on the on the
shuriken and it could be like you know what we could probably sell even more if
we build it as like a um as like a a a an educational tool
teaching kids about puns double entendres yeah so oh explain why it
works that's right that's right fantastic you could take nintendo labo's
approach and make it so that the shuriken can be like popped out yeah we
could make it like a phonics lesson yes you know why sure and sure are the oh
they're the same they say them the same way and they have two meanings
uh so we've got a great topic great topic yeah we've got a great topic for
you guys today and then we've got a bunch of other results about shuriken um
apple is bringing out apparently
bringing apparently 38 billion dollars
back to the us of a yeah samsung has
begun production on the industry's first 16 gigabit
gddr6 memory at t is under pressure to
cut all ties with huawei am i saying right yes i think so yeah and there has
been pretty major changes to the youtube partner program and you might care
or not actually i i don't know i think a lot of people care about this it's a
funny thing because it only really affects content creators and yet whether
it's because there are so many indie content creators now or whether it's the
the loyalty of fans towards these content creators there's feel it feels
like there is a disproportionate amount of outrage over this
because we're going to break down who it actually affects yeah and
the impact is arguably quite small or
arguably a huge flipping deal depending so
yeah why don't we i'm excited to get into that do you want to start with that
do you want to start with that or should we make them pull should we pull like uh
more on this at 11. more on this later for youtube creators that have been in
the game for a long time and started really small you know what let's do it
second because i want to talk about the at t thing i was actually at the huawei
press conference um and i didn't because
like the ceo was like on stage and unhappy about this right yeah it was it
was actually super weird yeah um so so
we were we were there as as part of a sponsored deal i'm gonna share this in
the chat um yeah thanks so we were there as part of a sponsored deal this was
posted originally on the forum by nina 360 and the original article here is
from Android authority so here you go um
so we were there as part of a sponsored deal and there were actually a bunch of other um influencers there as well
including zach from jerry rig everything okay yeah yeah um just trying to think
who else was there i believe keaton from tech smart was there
um what's that i'm trying to give you a hint on someone
that i think was there no i don't think he was there okay um
i like how that worked though i think juddner was there okay yeah i can't
remember i ran into all these guys like two to five times each over the course
of the week so
the whole thing's a blur anyway anyway the point was there were a bunch of influencers there which means that
huawei was spending a bunch of money on influencers specifically with the
north american reach and huawei it was boasting that they are now the number
three smartphone brand worldwide but i
think someone like you or i would look at that and unless we've seen you know
an infographic and some kind of data to back it up we'd kind of go really yeah
whoa like really
not really actually like not really because who else would be bigger yeah
and that's a great question but it does take a sec there's a little bit of pause
where you're like yeah because they don't get like i wouldn't say that in
north america in the media in the in the
kiosks in your telecom store i wouldn't say that huawei gets more attention than
you know someone like an lg for example whose market share is actually abysmal
yeah but over here gets treated like uh like a top-tier brand um
so anyway he he goes on stage and he's talking about this whole thing he's like yeah we have won over the trust of
consumers we have won over the trust of carriers worldwide and we have
you know we you know and he sort of seemed to lose his composure like i
don't follow mobile news as much as i perhaps should other than
our topics for WAN Show and when i'm working on a review of a device or
whatever the case may be yeah um so i did in your defense it's been a little
boring for a while i did not know about any controversy or any of the plans
that huawei had made with at t about
bringing the device not just into the us but into att stores because something to
the tune of this is according to the Android authority article here something
to the tune of 90 of smartphone sales in the us are done
on contract with a subsidy and this isn't the case in a lot of
other markets where people do tend to buy their devices outright like they
would any other consumers but i'm not surprised due to how contracts work in
north america and they don't work that way everywhere and they don't work that
way like in north america buying a phone on contract
is actually not stupid yeah um and you
know with a lot of contract with some contracts but yeah um but like you know
back when i was first getting into you know cell phone ownership when i was in
like high school i absolutely just bought on contract you get the zero
dollar phone you get the zero dollar phone and back then a lot of the
carriers at least the one i was on anyway so some carriers i'll say some uh
the one that i was on didn't give you a discount for bringing your own device
so you were actually yeah yeah yeah if you didn't just get hardware now you had
to sign a contract that was that was the drawback
but there were what two carriers at the time there was
rogers and there was telus here i don't think bell was available here yet back
in uh back in like 2000 you're talking like sliders and stuff right yeah i
i don't want to talk about it flip i no this is pretty bricks i hate you
you're talking about bricks i hate you okay so i wasn't in the game at that
point i wasn't allowed to have a phone at that age
um what was the uh what was that phone that i had
it was i don't remember v blocks i got a phone pretty late okay
this was oh nice this was my first phone
yes oh that's amazing so i got it because my
mom's hard of hearing and um
okay so this was i i believe this was like the first like text
centric device out there yeah um but this came around at a time that bricks
were the next right so she reads lips so if you want to call her it's not really
going to work that's right i never even thought about that that makes sense yeah okay because you've met her and you
probably didn't notice because she's really good at it yeah um but anyway so
so that was my first phone and um
right so so the only drawback was that you had to sign a contract which didn't
really matter that much because quite frankly where else were you gonna go
if you wanted to have a cell phone at all so as long as i knew i wanted a cell phone for two years it was no big deal
and then during your two years you would accumulate credit towards your hardware
upgrade after a couple of years the upgrade cycles weren't so fast
like to my knowledge apple kind of pioneered
the new phone every year come heller high water upgrade cycle because there
wasn't that drastic of improvements and i wasn't an enthusiast
at all about phones they they placed calls and in this case
they were really good for typing text messages but that was about it
um so i was like yeah whatever who cares
um so anyway back to the whole 18t thing so he was like visibly upset on stage
when he started talking about how you know
some carriers and some countries with
all this work that we've put into consumer privacy and security
are treating us with the appropriate respect while others are not and like he
kind of had like he didn't say respect i don't think but it kind of had that tone
and i was sitting here in the audience kind of going wow this is a really weird way to uh to
talk about you know your big push in the u.s
and the reason is that it's not happening
so while huawei does move some phones in
the u.s they only have access to a tiny
ten percent of the market because ninety percent of consumers are buying on
contract so it fell through at the last minute
and now a new report has suggested that
it was us lawmakers pushing att to cut
ties with huawei over national security concerns
um so senators and house members are
encouraging att to ditch even any potential plans to work with huawei on
standards for its 5g network 18d is expected to roll out that network
at the end of 2018 and is competing with verizon to become the first carrier to
offer high-speed service to the us on 5g
so um senate and house intelligence committee sent a letter to the fcc
raising concerns over huawei's alleged ties to the communist party as well as
china's intelligence and security services and there have been other
historical moves like this
by governments to restrict huawei's competitiveness so canada for example
really surprising i think like five years ago six years ago five or six
years ago canada actually disallowed i don't know if it's still in effect but
they disallowed the use of huawei telecommunications gear on the back end
of carrier networks
i can totally see why so your take on this then
because it seems like you it seems like you got an opinion here luke okay
the very bottom bullet point on this and there's a lot of information on this is
uh senate and host intelligence committees sent a letter to the fcc
raising concerns over huawei's alleged ties to the communist party as well as
chinese intelligence and security services there's already there's also a
lot of articles online about how huawei's backend equipment specifically
is specifically designed to allow the chinese government to tap into it um
also just being owned by the chinese government and going up again or having
ties to or having ties to on paper maybe there's no ownership whatsoever i
actually don't know but go ahead i
looked it up in a second ago but none of them are sources that i'm going to give
100 credibility to got it that said there is ownership but again
i don't know because i wouldn't give 100 credibility to those sources but anyways
with the current administration in the u.s
and it being a to some degree ties with chinese
government corporation i can probably see why there might be some influence
from the government being like no no let's not do this
um i can definitely understand not wanting the back end equipment holy crap
um the phones in general i think is more of a
yeah it's more just like uh out of i guess
out of well because okay this is a this is kind
of a weird insight thing that i'm going to take a tangent on for a second when
you travel to a lot of other so for north americans as we are as you travel
to a lot of other countries it's a little weird um
with the purchasing habits yeah and the stuff that you see around because in
north america you see whatever when you go to a lot of other
countries not all other countries but a lot of other countries you see that
country's thing yep i mean that's particularly common in germany germany
is huge for it japan is used for it korea is huge for it samsung everything
you'd be amazed what kind of things samsung makes toilets elevators yeah
insurance like like whoa um and like
there's a there's a much more uh and i might be using this word
incorrectly sorry i'm not super great on political stuff but there's a much more
nationalistic approach to purchasing where you want to purchase your own
country's things of course made in america made in canada are both things
yeah well like we don't mind yeah like it's kind of cool but it's not the same
particularly for canadians i think the the truth of the matter is that you
don't really have the option to we don't we don't make enough stuff like if i
wanted to if i wanted all of my personal grooming products to be made in canada
nope um good luck yeah like i could probably find some
stuff i'm sure you'd be able to find especially some beard-based things oh
i'm sure i'd be able to find some canadian beard care products not that that would be a major concern for me
since this is about as much of a beard as i can grow but thank you for bringing it up the only reason why i said that is
like around the world yeah there's a lot of like small homebrew kind of companies
that do beard stuff because you can make your own beard yeah yeah sure whatever
backtracking anyways um it's it's yeah it's not nearly as much
of a thing in north america but i could see how current administration in the
u.s might be pushing to make it more so sure and would be pushing against
especially companies that have ties to the governments of other countries that are
being purchased in a nationalistic sense from coming where there's no commitment
um you know up front to say okay yeah we're going to bring x number of jobs
into the united states because the potential here and again we don't
know okay so we don't know what involvement if any the u.s government
has already had in the negotiations but sure if while we were to come to the
table with the us government and say okay yeah
like we're committing to assembling some percentage of our devices that we sell
within the united states in the u.s if they were gonna if they were gonna come
and make some kind of a deal then i suspected more likely it would be
more likely but right now i guess i can't think of a great
reason for them to be gung-ho about this
also this part uh senators and house members are
encouraging at t to ditch any potential ties to work with huawei on standards
for its 5g network again that's them trying to get into the back end yup and
i'm super not surprised that that's not the thing
max just quietly walks off stage um i'm super not surprised that that's not a
thing because of ties to the idea of their back end being
tapped by the chinese government so to be very clear um you know we
allegedly yeah like we don't know
what is or isn't happening all we know is what's going on we know the us
government is uncomfortable with it we know huawei is super unimpressed with
what's going on and presumably at t would be as well
because by most accounts they make really good devices it's just not
necessarily affordable if you rely on
contract subsidies in order to buy your phone and it won't be competitive when
you can walk in and buy an iphone for
two hundred dollars yeah yeah yeah quote unquote uh versus a
huawei device for eight hundred dollars because you have to buy the whole thing
up front yeah um all right why don't we jump right
into the changes to the youtube partner program here this was posted by hey yo
on the forum the original article is actually straight from the youtube blog
so this is a pretty big deal do we want to do
kind of a short recap of some of the other changes that youtube has made
towards creators this year like sure um so what the biggest one is referred to
as the adpocalypse and there have actually been a couple of different stages yeah uh this i think is is
considered by the community to be wave three no okay i think something along those
lines i don't okay anyway i wouldn't entirely agree
with that there's there's been i i okay i saw it referred to as that whatever
whatever the community said yeah i call it two i i could maybe bundle this in i think
it's kind of a separate thing yeah okay the point is the adpocalypse is sort of
used as a generic term to describe changes that too many things google or
through youtube has made fundamental changes to the way that content creators
monetize on the youtube platform and so some examples have been
um pulling monetization from potentially
touchy or controversial subjects even if
the video in question is a mature conversation about said controversial
topic and contains you know no
um you know community guideline infringing
content like if it's you know if you're having unless you're a news
a tv news organization so that's been another
you know problem with this whole controversy is that there seem to be
channels that are getting their videos pulled just for having
knife in the metadata yeah uh or you know like a perfect example was when we
had the monetization pulled from an unboxing of the razer blade
or the switchblade switchblade interface that was the issue um so because it had
that keyword in it it got the monetization pulled so it seems like some channels are very susceptible to
this while some mainstream channels like i believe um
it's late show with colbert right i believe colbert has been pointed at as
someone who has had controversial topics in the titles i think it's basically all
the late show hosts because they a lot okay
this is super generalizing but a lot of the late show tv programs put snippets
and clips onto youtube yes it's really popular
they get quite a few kimmel does that i think does he still do it john oliver does it very occasionally i don't know
man um but they they get a lot of views yep and they're really heavily promoted
by the platform and they're not struck down in any way right
okay so that's been that's been a big part of the problem
then there was the whole issue that was kind of tied into monetization slash
preferential treatment where logan paul posted that extremely controversial
video in the suicide forest in japan and
the perception among the community i'm not going to make a judgment call here
because i wasn't sitting in the war room that i'm sure existed at youtube when
they were trying to figure out what to do about this yep um i wasn't present there um those got to be crazy meetings
nor was i present you know with logan paul when he was thinking about how he
was going to react to the community's reaction and i wasn't sitting in the
rooms of the people who are watching those videos i'll be honest with you guys i haven't watched it i have no
desire to see that um and actually we
sort of didn't address it at all because my general policy on something that i
don't agree with is to just not give it any attention whatsoever but in the
context of our news topic today it's sort of important because
what it appeared to spark was um a conversation where the
perception was that youtube was treating
logan paul vlogs that's the channel uh preferentially
in not removing this content or dealing
with presumably what would have been a fair number of community reports
and in fact at first anyway had appeared to not
penalize the channel or the user in any
meaningful way like many days for for days not just for like a couple hours
yeah um and then making matters worse
there were instances of youtube pulling down re-uploads
of the original video because they violated community guidelines while the
original was still live
okay so um
this blog post is sort of about how 2017 was a tough
year in fact you know let's let's just sort of discuss some excerpts from it uh
2017 was a tough year um what do they got here despite the issues more
creators than ever earning a living on youtube um blah blah blah major focus is
protecting our creator ecosystem ensuring your revenue is more stable
now we want to prevent bad actors from harming the inspiring and original
creators we want to do this we want to do that
so basically what they've done
seemingly as a response to these issues
is they have changed the previous eligibility requirements for the youtube
partner program which going way back so should i do another history lesson here
yes okay i think it's important for this section yeah so when i first started out on
youtube it was either
i think it might have been pre-monetization i think i was pre-monetization i'm not
sure so when i started out on youtube it was either pre-monetization at all
or it was shortly after the partner program
had been introduced and the only way to get into the partner program was by
specifically being invited so really early guys like phil defranco
were in it well before i had access to it yeah
after that there was an application process
that was when i got in through the ncix tech tips channel i'm not sure if Linus
tech tips existed yet although i actually i think it did
so that was when i got in actually no i'm actually quite certain that it did
because there was already revenue to show for the youtube program back at
ncix when Linus tech tips was created because i remember negotiating a bonus
around it or something okay okay then youtube basically opened up the
floodgates and they went okay we're just going to put monetization on all the
things because we've got this inventory of videos and anywhere there's eyeballs
google wants to put an ad yeah that's their mo that's how it works
so anyway fast forward quite a bit in april
of 2017 they set an eligibility requirement of 10 000 lifetime views
the idea was to have some kind of a history to look back
at for a given channel to make sure that it wasn't just blatant re-uploads of
copyright tv shows for example which is
still all over the platform oh yeah and lots of other issues like music and
movies and whatever else yeah but but the idea was so so that they could
they'd have at least you know ten thousand views worth of time to weed out
the ones that were just blatantly not real content
and then here's the follow-up that threshold
provided more information to determine whether a channel followed our community
guidelines but it's been clear over the last few months that we need a higher standard
so starting on the 16th of january which
is three days ago and this the blog says starting today like they they're like
effective there's a little aggro in that in that regard yeah they changed the
eligibility requirements for monetization to 4 000 hours of watch
time in the past 12 months and 1 000 subscribers
so basically
it appears as though if you're a one-hit wonder
who doesn't have any subscribers you might not be able to monetize and if you
you know run your channel as kind of like
a hobby and you don't actually get a ton of views or a ton of hours of watch time
but you actually have a decent number of subscribers who wait for your videos
that you may be published very infrequently you could be affected by youtube's
attempt to crack down on potentially inappropriate videos from monetizing
now right off the bat i'm not actually working off of my notes here but right
off the bat i can identify a couple of problems here number one is that that
whole spider-man elsa thing was going on for
over a year yeah like for a freaking long time and these requirements would
have done absolutely nothing to say not a thing
they got way more hours and way more subscribers than that the issue with the
suicide forest vlog wouldn't have thought that wouldn't have
stopped that what i'm trying to figure out right now is
what this move has to do i think anything the community
is upset about oh no i think this has a lot to do with
stopping things that the community is not particularly upset about but youtube
and advertisers might be upset about um i think it will directly
help stop things like people monetizing
movie song uh episode all those kind of uploads
because a lot of those accounts will will get banned but will get payouts
and they'll get payouts based on content that they ripped from someone else and
they might just create a new account and then get paid out on that account create a new account get paid on that account
so i think they're trying to hammer down on that i don't think it's really going
to solve much else another thing that i want to throw into the ring that some people have brought up is
if you have a thousand subscribers
if you have less than a thousand subscribers and less than 4 000 hours of
total watch time over the last 12 months yeah
how much were you making so okay
this is where we get into the conversation that goes
is this a big deal yeah so it is a big deal in the sense that
youtube is kind of spinning it as a benefit to the community when actually
this has as far as i can tell everything to do with the blowback that
they're getting from advertisers for having that wide open we're going to put
monetization on everything then advertisers realizing well yeah the
brand was getting i forgot that part of the history lesson unfortunately yeah so
advertisers realizing that their brand was getting placed next to content that
they found objectionable like like literally terrorists which we've talked
about which we've talked about before and i think this is just follow up on that and
i think that the suicide forest incident has nothing to do with this remember no
no it does it does but not on the community side yeah what it has to do
with is that he was a preferred channel yeah a
channel that youtube specifically goes out there
and pitches to advertisers like we're a preferred channel preferred channels are
to an even greater degree i would think
expected to abide by the community guidelines which by the way doesn't
necessarily mean that you can't drop a you know [ __ ] bomb in your video
occasionally it's spelled out pretty clearly i mean
you know egregious profanity i believe is covered
in the community guidelines i'm not sure i haven't looked at it regis is kind of
a specific term it's a very sort of gray area actually but there are there so
there are things that well no it makes it so that probably what you just said
isn't going to get you no owned you'd have to like go pretty ham
so it's still gray but you'd have to but i don't know how they'd make it less
gray you know what i mean so here's the community guidelines
blah blah blah blah blah blah blah nudity or sexual content harmful or
dangerous content violent or graphic content hateful content harassment and
cyber bullying threats spam misleading metadata and scams copyright privacy
impersonation child endangerment and additional policies a big issue about
all this is like i can even think off the top of my head of
one or more examples that i've seen of at least every single thing in there
yeah so a vulgar language is actually bundled under additional policies
right here and it specifically says here that exp sexually explicit language or
excessive swearing in your video or associated metadata may lead to your video being age restricted so excessive
so what happened here was um and in this case i don't even think
there's really anything in here you could call it graphic content actually
uh violent or gory content that's primarily intended to be shocking
sensational or disrespectful okay it's definitely exactly what it is um so
anyway the problem here is that
as far as i can tell youtube got yet another round of blowback from
advertisers for specifically promoting a channel that blatantly violated their
community guidelines and then the content was just left there
presumably with ads still running on and i think if it was dropped super fast
it might have been a different reaction from the advertisers yes and from the
community yeah but ultimately that's what's going on here
the collateral damage is mostly channels that and youtube lays
this out in our blog post mostly channels that made less than two dollars
and fifty cents last month okay this is what i was saying and less than a
hundred dollars in the last year if you're relying on that
whoa yeah there is probably other ways that
you can make money on the internet easier pretty sure there are and or even
we mowed lawns and that's more profitable we sold berries oh that
wasn't profitable yeah yeah anyway but the point is that
you could just go work at the place that there's a lot of outrage about this and
i'm putting myself i won't bundle you in with me but i'm putting myself in a
position to say something kind of unpopular yeah but
i actually don't think this is that big of a deal i'm with you
because okay the first thing i did when i read this was like at the very
beginning before you get really deep into it i was like wow they're screwing
over the little guy why would they do that that makes no
sense and then i saw their thresholds and i was like uh
this isn't gonna make a difference to anyone's major bottom line so anyone
that small speaking youtuber to youtuber
yeah i would recommend you turn off your i was just gonna say you will get more
traction with people and they will share it more and they'll watch more of the video if you turn off the ads anyways
and you'll be seen as a good guy and more people watch your stuff because you
gotta understand that there's always a trade-off between monetization and we'll
get into our sponsors for the wine show in a moment here heck yeah there's always a trade-off between monetization
of your existing audience and audience building
we could upload videos every day that are pure ads and our audience would stop
growing or we could dial back all of our ads
entirely and sponsors and all that stuff turn off
everything and we could grow faster and every creator out there is trying to
find that happy medium where they are satisfied with their level of growth and
when you're making they're making good money when you're making two bucks a month off youtube you need to focus on
growth it's probably worth focusing on growth especially because at that point
in time growth is way harder to get with all of that said
um i'm coming at this from sort of a um
maybe not unique but sort of an unusual angle in that the adpocalypse has not
had a significant negative impact on our
adsense yeah and uh this is something
that you know i was i was going to address at some point
but at the end of the day you don't get a what it's called a fill
rate so the number of impressions that you serve versus the number of ads
accompanying those impressions if you had one ad on every video that
you showed to someone aunt venom just said same oh interesting yeah hi aunt um
so so if you had one ad in front of every single video view that you showed
someone let's say it's a perfect world where nobody has ad block and youtube's
ad sales is like go in gangbusters they can sell more ads then youtube can serve
views which is like really yeah yeah okay
that would be a 100 fill rate now if youtube's ad sales you know
program completely shut down and there were no ads that would be a zero percent
fill rate nobody has a 100 fill rate
so what it means for family-friendly content or non-controversial content is
that your fill rate and your cpms because you might get
access to the more premium ads as a youtube preferred partner for example
your fill rate might go up and your cpms which is the amount that
you get paid per thousand views or per thousand ad views
that can go up too so our january this year
our viewership will not be higher than it was last year but through a
combination of youtube red being more popular
and through the adpocalypse stripping advertising away from many many many
many many potentially hundreds hundreds of thousands of very very very
small channels that will contribute to a higher fill
rate and potentially higher cpm for us
we are actually going to make more in adsense this january than we did last
january which is good because we have like five more people than we had last
january that's that's not anyone else's problem it's just if you guys were concerned
that a lot of people do express concern at the way that we hire um and the way
that we like build sets and buy cameras and all those things also doing business
you got it you got to do things we are we are don't worry we are we're planning
for the future we're watching all of these trends these are things that even though we don't necessarily talk about
all the time we are we have eagle eyes on if you're on something like youtube
and you're not moving you're screwed
um you got to do some stuff sometimes
and that's that's another thing i want to jump back to for the like if you are
if you are a smaller creator and i'm using the terminology of below a
thousand subs and below four thousand watch hours in the last what is it
12 months i think it's the last 12 months um
yeah but you can't now but don't monetize and you might not
want to monetize for a little while you might eventually get brought into the
partner program and you might want to stay not monetized because then when you
get there you will get the benefit of youtube not paying out a bunch of tiny
amounts to a bunch of creators that might never even reach the threshold
where they're going to get a check effectively giving youtube 100 of the ad
payout so this may have such an oh that's interesting this may actually
hurt youtube's bottom line if they are only
feeding ads to people who are actually going to get a plan now is way more
worried about making advertisers happier yeah they can get more big bins oh i
know but this just i think in the extremely short run it might hurt it
yeah i think this is a more longer term play um
but yeah i i would focus and maybe if you're like i need to focus on
this youtube thing more i need to cut back hours at work that's when you
monetize your videos yeah and you just tell your audience that
hey guys i'm going to monetize my videos because i want to focus more time on
making the great content that you guys enjoy of basket weaving with RGB lights
and that sounds horrible i'm gonna i'm gonna keep doing it i'm gonna go hard
i'm gonna spend uh at least four hours a day weaving these lights together making
sure all the power strips are going all properly and you know you can have
glowing fruit bowls um
yeah i don't know just communicate that to your audience and that will
serve you a lot better uh doing it later on down the line once
you have an established core audience because then they won't leave
they'll keep sharing it because they're an established core audience and you can
actually survive more properly question for you this was a great
question i forget who asked it
would you allow logan paul on Floatplane
would you i don't know you're the lead of partner
management whatever true i am but i'm curious to know what you think
knowing what you know let's say that let's say that he goes
you know what let's say he didn't post an apology that was super sincere let's
say that he was just like you know what no i'm gonna film dead bodies whenever i
come across them don't worry about it um
you're you're the public front
okay well you know what i have an opinion i'll throw my opinion i want to
cheat and hear what you have to say no no no no you already yeah you gave away
your hand what no no it hit me with your opinion no no you said you have one you
have to do it um i don't really care okay because in my
opinion how this should all be handled and how i
think things in general should all be handled is i don't personally in my
personal morality whatever like the idea of the governmental hand
coming down and slapping okay i would prefer that he joined the
platform yep people saw that video and
everyone unsubscribed and everyone stopped giving us money and
stopped giving him money here's the here's the lead of partner management
answer the answer is absolutely yes he would be allowed on the platform
because here's the thing about the youtube
community guidelines so flow planes guidelines are basically along the lines
of legality and there's nothing illegal
about walking in that forest and filming something
you're not allowed going off trail i don't think it's illegal i think it's
just there's lots of signs advising you not to okay yeah um
so so as far as i can tell he didn't actually
do anything illegal because that's that's one thing
you guys have to understand is when running sorry i'm gonna interject for a moment when running Floatplane that's
one of the reasons why it's its own company yes is because our opinions and
Linus media group's opinions don't matter
uh we're running the platform i think it's gross
i don't like it either not cool with it
but that is not my call to make and if float planes
if Floatplane's objective is to be the
the not um evil overlord then ultimately we have
to allow okay because flow plane itself is not
going to be a broader community in the same sense
that youtube is correct flow plane will be individual creators with their own
communities and if his community is fine with it
which fascinating they seem to be they seemed
to be it wasn't until this went viral and kind of spread beyond his
subscribers that people started sitting up and taking notice of how effed up it
was um and if his community is cool with it then ultimately we can
just not watch it not look at it
and kind of hope for the best and like one
thing about Floatplane if you're subscribed to this dude
and you're like wow i really don't like that i don't respect him anymore i
really dislike this content and you don't want to see it in your feed anymore
stop actively giving that person money and it won't show up in your feed
anymore ever nice timing yeah that was good hell
yeah because that's how the platform's done it's we we aren't going to make
flip i'm going to actively pursue people coming on the platform and i have that i
like and that i respect because i want them to be on the platform people are
asking if we would advertise it it's a great question so flow plane is not
designed with a suggested algorithm in
fact we do not intend to implement one
users would have to opt in they would have to browse creators in order to get
suggestions from us there won't be like you finish watching uh a Techquickie
video and then it's like hey
you might also like tech deals here's a here's a sample of tech deals go
subscribe to tech deals totally arbitrary example we haven't
talked to him at all about joining the platform sorry had something in my eye
um anyway
so there's no mechanism for that um so no we wouldn't we wouldn't have to
advertise it and honestly
if i was in charge of that judgment call which i'm pretty sure i am i wouldn't
yeah yeah and there's there's yeah
anyways so essentially yeah
our opinions don't uh zahee zahi funny
enough tech deals is a real channel i didn't know that whoa what
holy it's like you were referencing something really specific but without even knowing
about that oh darn um
okay anyway um okay you know what
okay do you have anything else to add here um no essentially our our opinions won't
govern what ends up being unfolding hopefully our opinions will
drive certain people to join because we're like hey we like you will you join
we want to support creators that we feel are doing great stuff but eventually the
door is going to be somewhat open to creators to join if they want
and yeah yeah platform's not live yet lol speaking of
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all right so what else what else we got here
oh man is this more bad one plus news
you gotta be kidding me um okay
so posted by walthar on the forum
uh oneplus had uh it appears to be a credit card breach
uh update january 19th update number two
thank you for your comments we're reading each and every one and we appreciate your feedback we do want to
clarify only potentially affected users will receive the email
but in a nutshell um oneplus has emailed
nearly 40 000 of their customers to inform them that their credit card data
may have been compromised here's what i want to know like we've discussed this
because back with Linus tech tips other than subscriptions on the forum
there was no reason for us to ever need people's payment information in one of
the rules hold on even then we didn't hold it one of the reasons that we opted
for paypal was that it allowed us to take payments in a recurring fashion
without holding the customer's payment information ourselves because we don't
want that responsibility and why would we need it we got owned once did we like
remember a long time ago oh that thing yeah and like that was kate and there
was no payment information and there was no
full-time developers on the site and stuff which is part of the reason why we
got owned but there was no payment information they didn't get anything yes we got nothing so
i'm looking at this going like okay so right we've discussed it
with flow plane we found other solutions um
but still on Floatplane we will hold
no i don't want it payment information i don't want any of it i don't want that liability
that's horrible that's horrible because then we might have to send out this email then then i don't want to send an
email then the level one tax podcast might be talking about flow play media
and their breach of a hundred thousand customers i want them to talk about
floor plan media yeah but not our customer credit card yeah no no no no we
don't want that other things that's terrible um why do they want this why
are they keeping it because who buys
from one plus in a recurring fashion like are we talking the world's most
forgetful people who lose their their dash charger all the time and they just
have like a like you know that's oh wow a dash button
and they just have like a like a one plus equivalent
of a dash button to get a new dash charger like why would they want this
are those still a thing i haven't heard about dashboards i don't know if they work in canada
though oh um so one of their servers was infected
with a malicious script affecting the payment page code collecting credit card
info while it's being entered oh okay so that whole rant was over nothing because
it was while it was being entered it operated intermittently capturing and
sending data directly from the user's browser and it has since been eliminated
so anyone who entered their credit card on oneplus.net wow that whole rant i
wish we could cut it out between mid-november 2017 and january 11
2018 could be affected credit card info
including card numbers expiry dates and security codes entered like what is the
point of that security code anymore when
pretty much everyone online makes you enter it the thing about this is like
you know that from from having worked at a retailer we don't need it to process
it costs more to process without it oh
yeah yeah baby interesting huh
that's why every single person takes it so that's why everyone takes it even
though the whole point of that is supposed to be that it's like a second
factor proving that you have physical access to the card
anyone who paid via a saved credit card should not be affected okay so that's
what you get for saving your credit card on websites don't do that and users who
paid via the credit card via paypal method those won't be affected because
their credit card is abstracted through paypal no no they're saying users who paid via
a saved credit card should not be should not be effect oh wait oh right because
it's only when you enter not entering okay okay why do we even well you know
what why do we even do news we should just banter forget it yeah so they're
working with payment providers to implement a more secure credit card payment method and they're offering one
year of credit monitoring for those affected that's nice because that's not cheap
like i have i have had to deal with credit card theft before
me too very recently yeah sucked a lot it's like a big bummer and then
all the accounts that you have auto subscribing are like
everything is cancelled uh this is posted by ag 1233 on the forum nintendo
announces cardboard yes switch controllers wait what no
a label for switch it's not switch controllers build it yourself cardboard
kits compat sorry excuse me cardboard kits compatible with nintendo switch
so okay sorta
not a great title a lot of people in my opinion have been
misrepresenting this you get a game you get software on the switch and then
you get a cardboard kit to build something that goes along with that game
so that you have interesting types of physical interaction with the game you get a game
okay everyone's like oh they're just selling cardboard no okay so here's an
example you could make a functioning 13 key piano cradle yeah for the switch con
you make a functioning 13 p piano that cradles the switch console and the right
joy con controller the ir motion camera and the joy con
detects which keys are pressed and plays each note through the console's speakers
and there's other stuff you can take control of your very own motorbike by
constructing a functioning set of handlebars with a joy-con inserted in
each side and the switch console in the middle so just to add a caveat here too
you might not be into it and that might be super fair
but so many people are just like oh they're just selling cardboard no there's games that go with it i
misunderstood i thought it was a controller in the sense that there was
cardboard and stuff but you just use your joy con and the switch as the stuff
got it yeah okay sure why not i mean i
i'll confess i went out there and i bought one of those um one of those
steering wheels for the week you should check it out it's the worst you should
check out these yeah um you should check out the robot one the robot suit
uh there's a video for this that's like really good actually
uh robot kit nintendo sure let's let's let's pull that up
i'm sure we're gonna end up with a strike should just oh oh
do you not want to watch it no no it's fine let's just let's just do it um you
could just youtube nintendo labo there it is nintendo labo okay let's
pull this let's pull this baby up
let's at least mute it for our best chance here yeah so this beginning bit
is them just print uh it's a little bit further so there's a fishing reel there
here's the uh
oh wow oh wow oh wow here's the keep hashtag flow plane there's the piano
yeah there's a house thing i don't know what that does yeah there's oh it just
like vibrates and runs around it's like those little toys
um that's the motorcycle thing
this is a fishing rod i believe this one's available now i'm not sure i'm not
sure so yeah you actually have to like reel in and like fight with the fish i don't
know i don't understand what the house does i never understood that part
um oh lagging where's the where's the
robot one though because it's crazy it's before this it's somewhere around here
is this it this is it okay
oh i think you're slightly past it yeah yeah you slightly passed it okay uh you
know what okay forget it it's cool right here's a guy there's part of the
backpack thing yeah you want to see when she takes the thing off the back so yeah
hold up shotgun yeah
there okay oh but you don't get to see the construction part wait wait let it
let it go let it go we already watched this part because she takes off the back and it
shows you how it works no no no no just wait just wait yeah
okay okay cool so
he has a joy-con on each of his ankles and he has a joy-con in each of his
hands and they're connected by strings through that box on the back and those
switches go up and down so it knows he's moving right and his movement in real
life goes into the game it has four points of
it's actually kind of cool it's kind of cool um
you know they're all hopefully games hopefully vr
gets better and cheaper enough that we can just do it that way pretty soon yeah
but i guess this is a um so that that's one of the criticisms that i think is
relatively valid is it shows the two kits there at the end yeah they're like
69 and 79 dollars so 70 and 80 dollars yeah and i believe
the games that are gonna come with it are gonna be pretty mini gamey right
um whereas they could have done a lot more with it but then we also don't know
what the games are like sure so there could be more to it i don't i suspect
the piano one is just gonna be a piano
that you can key into i don't think there's gonna be like many like a lot of mini games with
it stuff but we'll see so last topic we had um we had a lot of people really
upset with us about one of the videos we posted at ces
uh where we said there was an undisclosed number of cores in a laptop
why do we get [ __ ] for that uh we got flack for that because people were like
well here there was um there was a comment that i have where did i see it i
like just saw it someone in the chat maybe on the phone you're paying 70 for
cardboard oh my god i'm going to have an aneurysm
um anyway someone was really upset they're
like if it's too embargoed to say how many then you just
shouldn't post it and i'm like what would you not get excited about like
cool unreleased tech um anyway
in unrelated news uh there's a rumor on chippell.com
that Intel will be bringing six core processors to mobile six core 12 thread
processors word on the street is that we're going to see an i5 8300h all the
way to 8850h and that would be a 2.6 base 4.3
boost uh oh wait sorry this isn't oh this is
wow this is really unclear apparently there may also be about an i9 hk
what that does for up to 4.8 boost 6 core 12
thread sick wow that sounds awesome
um all right cool so this is coffee lake h
that was it not that i
saw anything
in unrelated news did we talk about the apple thing i
don't think so um which one at the very top i don't remember and and the samsung
yeah there's kind of boring faster memory in apple's bringing some
money back over to the states because the states was like new laws on taxes
and they were like okay leo laporte's company is suing twitter oh uh because
apparently they reached an agreement back in like 2009
um because look uh leo laporte was
concerned that twitter was going to start serving audio visual content and
that their that their their trademarks were too similar and that twit was audio
visual so he was like well you know we can co-exist as long as
you guys don't serve audiovisual content but then now twitter serves video so uh
he's suing twitter
so that's interesting i i really do wonder where that lawsuit goes because
isn't it an acronym for this week in tech not a word
but um it doesn't matter because the trademark twit
is theirs so yeah i mean i don't i don't personally
think that most people even know what twit is
but um i mean if you're on i believe air canada
flights and you go to the podcast section wow i believe there is a leo
laporte thing about something the savagery is real
yeah um and on that note um thank you for watching we will see you guys again
next week same bats time same batch
channel he does have a fair point though like they did agree not to do it and
they are doing it so i don't know where this is especially if there's an
agreement between them i don't know where this is going man he probably has
a lot of clout but then twitter might just have enough money to just be like
no go away or maybe they don't i don't know depends i don't think they make money
yeah they don't make money so it depends if someone will give them money to give
to anyway yeah bye but yeah i think because he has an
agreement he's gonna get something
i think it's kind of ludicrous that that's a thing at all but he has an
agreement so apparently i always look like i'm having
a really bad time doing this i like the WAN Show i don't think you do
i enjoy the show yeah i want us to talk about meltdown you guys talked about it
the other week right oh like AMD getting sued yeah i mean
yeah it was one of our topics but it's it's related to that thing that i
brought up the last time yeah but now AMD no like actually oh
oh okay yeah oh um well maybe next week
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