Sup you beautiful bastards, hope you're having a fantastic Monday
Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show and let's just jump into it.
and the first thing I want to talk about today is internet-y slash business news,
so let's talk about Fortnite. Let's start today's show of light cuz it gets horrible.
It's been so fascinating to see the rise and spread of this game
It is so also now in the mainstream that just in the past two days, keep in mind
We're talking about over the weekend, Forbes had six articles about Fortnite
Forbes I'm not talking about Polygon Kotaku IGN
Any of that. It's just one of those things like we always say when the numbers are there
You can't deny it and some of the news we've been seeing 'LawBreakers' Studio
They seem to be trying to get in on that PUBG Fortnite money
They have a new battle royale game called Radical Heights that goes early access tomorrow
But on that note, no one should be shocked
that other game studios are gonna try and get in on that battle royale money
We also got the news that Fortnite
Just on the iphone is bringing in about two
Million dollars a day, who knows what that number is going to go to as they get more widespread adoption
Whether it be just because then they include android or just more people finding out about the game obviously this is new
But that means that right now, they're making more money than Candy Crush Saga, Clash of Clans, Pokemon Go
Go those guys bring in stupid money daily
It's also been interesting to see how the YouTube, Twitch crossover has been affecting creators, Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins of course
We've talked about several times over the past few weeks
He of course has blown up on Twitch, but somehow the less talked about number
Is that on youtube he has gotten-just in the past 30 days-He's gotten over
170 million views so once again, just in the past 30 days, has gained almost
3.5 million new subscribers and unsurprisingly we're also seeing creators
Not only engaged with Fortnite, but also jump to Twitch to play Fortnite one of the biggest examples
We saw that came from over the weekend where the YouTuber Logan Paul jumped over to Twitch
He'd been promoting to the channel for over a week, but this was his first time actually streaming, he peaked at around
200,000 concurrents his stream also led to the
Forbes headline, "Logan Paul Is Getting Killed A Lot In His First 'Fortnite Battle Royale' Twitch Stream"
Which I will say that headline makes me think two things one,
Fortnite is here to stay at least for a while, and two if I really need it another thing to make me feel like these
mainstream
Sources are just like any other blog on the Internet that headline just sealed it for the main point where I will end this is
I'm fascinated to see where this goes well the last times
I saw adoption and and then success at this level it was minecraft a minecraft and fortnight of course are inherently
During games of course they both involved building
And it's a different level because fortnight doesn't necessarily have an incredibly young target
Demographic does that mean it has a stronger staying power also will be very interesting to see is how they fight off and keep their
Market share from other battle royale games. I don't even try to predict
What's going to happen next?
But I'm very excited to see then let's talk about Google and YouTube at the center of a data
controversy a child advocacy groups filed a formal complaint with the FTC
against coop and the complaint accuses YouTube of violating children's online
privacy and allowing ads to target them on YouTube the specific focus here is on children under the age of 13 and the reason they're
focused on that is the collection of that data is a violation of the Child Online Privacy Protection and that act states that in the
United States any company that intends to collect data about kids younger than 13
They have to first notify and receive consent from the parents the complaint says google has made substantial
Profits by doing this and that involves tens of millions of US children as far as YouTube's response to this the TLDR is they're essentially
Saying we're not for children and more specifically a YouTube spokesperson said well
We haven't received the complaint protecting kids and Families has always been a top priority for us
We will read the complaint thoroughly and evaluate if there are things we can do to improve because YouTube is not for children
We've invested significantly in the creation of the YouTube kids app to offer an alternative specifically designed for children even their Terms of Service
Reading if you are under 13 years of age, then please do not use the service
There are lots of other great websites for you. Talk to your parents about what sites are appropriate for you now
I will say on the note of we are not for children at all being in the Terms of Service
That has really not been effective. It's been researched on that says around 45% of 8 to 12 year olds
Have a youtube account now the thing is YouTube's responds that their site isn't for children does pose a problem
Complain argues that YouTube has actual knowledge of both the large number of child directed channels on YouTube and the large numbers of children using
YouTube to help their case here the advocacy group collected examples of this knowledge and some of the evidence includes
screenshots of Barbie ads that appear between videos aimed at children also pointing to a number of channels with content targeted towards children on Google
Preferred well Google doesn't let advertisers select age groups under the age of 18 the complaint says there is still a number of ways to
Still target children things like selecting keywords related to kids such as toddler toy as far as the potential impact
This could have on YouTube if it goes much further
It could be huge the complaint is asking at the FTC fine YouTube up to 41 thousand four hundred eighty four dollars per violation
Or one violation we're talking about the potential for billion of dollars ultimately where I stand on
This is this feels like more of a we're trying to screw YouTube than actually protect children kind of move the reason I say that
Is there is a YouTube kids app all right?
It's meant for children it already bans
Targeted advertising if the FTC finds that YouTube did violate this act then most likely other than the fines
We're going to just see age gate screen screens that just say are you over 13 and then someone that's under 13 goes
Yeah
At that point that under 13 year old is still being tracked they decide to lie for
Something a good number of people have already done on YouTube because they wanted to watch age gated videos
And they weren't 18 so they just said they were 18 right popping YouTube's not knocking on doors doing the reverse Club
situation like show me some ID
But I know that's my person will take away am I not thinking enough about
Protecting the children were you kind of of the same mindset from that I want to share some stuff
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So I don't know how to say this without seeming like I'm just shitting on the movie and being super cynical
But I'm gonna go into this movie with low expectations. I'm excited of course. I'm hoping for the best, but all done the guy
That's playing han Solo is
Probably the little thing I'm least excited about actually seeing him act in the trailer makes me concerned
And I feel like even the people that made the trailer. They're the people that run the Star Wars YouTube channel
I have that same mindset if you actually look at the tags before the trailer the only names they use in the tags Donald Glover
Emilia Clarke, but that's that I think it's good to go into movies with low expectations
Then we have actually another trailer that I'm excited about but then also is extremely
Skeptical and worried we got a trailer for the movie adaptation of Fahrenheit 451 soars Michael B Jordan Michael Shannon on paper
That sounds like it should work
But we'll see it's got a new trailer for Avengers infinity war and if you need some
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See the full versions everything. I just shared the secret link of the day anything
I talked about today links as always are in the description down below and let's talk about this whole Jimmy Kimmel, Melania Trump
Situation on April 2nd Jimmy Kimmel on his late-night show he was doing this bit about the Easter
Celebrations at the White House one of the targets of his jokes was Melania Trump. I want to really thank
The First Lady, Melania who has done an incredible job? She worked so hard on this event and so I want to thank you yeah
Not a chance she did one thing that helped set that up. There's no
She didn't die egg. She didn't feel bad only thing
She's been working on as an escape tunnel and then later making fun of Melania
Trump's heavy accent when she was reading a book to children be clever and
Curious just like a cat
Ask lots of questions
about this and bad
About these in that
Camo you realize what this means you could be First Lady of the United
But followed with Sean Hannity of Fox News then blasting Kimmel liberal Jimmy Kimmel
making fun of the First Lady of the United States and her involvement in the White House Easter Egg Roll
Even her accents, Jimmy you're a despicable disgrace ass clown Kimmel now. I got to tell you something
what a disgrace a
Mr.. Kimmel that's her fifth language. How many do you speak Jimmy Kimmel then heads back on his show?
What even is an ass well I was thinking about it this morning. Uh is it an ass
that's a clown, or is it a clown that actually lives in an ass like a
a little bozo bird in your buttcheeks
I honestly don't know and more importantly why is sean hannity openly fantasizing about clowns in the ass Jonathan his problem is
For eight years while Obama was president. He was unable to get an erection for eight years not one erection and he tried everything he
Biography Alice he tried looking at pictures of Paul Ryan with his shirt off
Went to office Christmas parties with Bill. O'Reilly nothing worked. He wasn't able to but now that Trump is president
Here's the twist Sean Hannity is unable to have anything but in erection
He's had an erection since November of 2016 and it's driving him mad
He's lost his mind. This is the guy who defended the multiple alleged pedophile Roy Moore
And I'm a despicable script. I'm the ass clown
Here's the if I'm an ass clown
and I might very well be you Sean are the whole ass circus then this turns into a Twitter back and forth and back and
forth and back and forth and back
I literally I if I read all the tweets this would be a ten minute segment to boil it down Hannity keeps adding
Disney which of course is Jimmy Kimmel's employer keeps using the hashtag pervert Kimmel keeps referring back to Jimmy Kimmel's old
Segments on his show the man show things like Jimmy Kimmel in blackface when he was playing Karl Malone video of Kimmel during a bit
Asking women to touch the outside of his pants referring to Jimmy Kimmel as Harvey Weinstein jr.
Responding every woman in that bit was a willing participant was a comedy bit
They signed releases
So they were in on it also asking Hannity things like when your clown makeup rubs off on Trump's ass does it make his butt
Look like a creamsicle. Also essentially saying that it's pretty funny that handy
He's trying to take the high road here and say the Jimmy Kimmel is bad though. He defended
The president's comments like grabbed them by the pussy Hannity responded to that stop deflecting Jimmy Walker room
Talk versus your interactions with women asking them to touch it and put their mouths on it
They then just continued taking shots at one another at one point Kimmel tweeted
And then deleted this tweet featuring a picture of a clown
Straddling Hannity writing this assclown has some words for one Sean Hannity this continued and continued until yesterday where Jimmy Kimmel
Apologized tweeting while I admit
I did have fun with our back-and-forth
After some thought I realized at the level of vitriol from all sides mine and me
Included as nothing good for anyone and in fact is harmful to our country even in 2018 the by
Attacks against my wife and witches for death on my infant son are shocking and I encouraged those who made them to give their words
and actions fall
I too will give my words more thought and recognize my role in inciting their hatefulness violent putting Sean Hannity's deference to the president I
Most certainly did not intend to belittle or upset members of the gay community into those who took offense I apologize
I will take Sean Hannity at his word that he was genuinely offended by what I believed and still believed to be a harmless and
Silly aside referencing our first lady's accent is his Trump almost
Certainly has enough to worry about without being used as a prop to increase TV ratings
I am hopeful that Sean Hannity will learn from this too and continue his newly found advocacy for women
immigrants and first ladies and that he will triumph in his heroic battle against sexual harassment and
Perversion so for those who kind of running a little bit slow today based off that last line
Not really an apology to Sean Hannity
But seemingly an apology for engaging in this kind of back and forth the furthers the divide as well as moments where he may have
Offended gay viewers also an interesting while all of this was happening is that there was a petition to boycott?
Jimmy Kimmel it's spread pretty fast as of recording this video
There are over one hundred seventy eight thousand signatures
Petition saying this is specifically about Jimmy Kimmel's comments about the first lady cordially all the signatures will be sent to the quote front door
Of ABC Disney notes mately where I land on this if we're gonna
Specifically talk about the initial joke I am personally of the mindset of we should be able to try and joke about everything that
Said I do think that going after the wives going after the children of the president is still punching down especially when it's something like
An accent like she speaks multiple languages. Yes, she has a strong accent, so what right it's Patti
It's punching down if you kind of want to joke about one of her side projects being
Anti-bullying yet, she is married to Donald Trump one of the biggest bullies online right and most people that support Donald Trump
They know he's a bully I mean even people on the left when you're watching those Republican primaries and Donald Trump was just fucking tearing
The soul out of Jeb Bush, but you were like yeah, get him cuz he had thought that he had no chance right
But at the same time I think Sean Hannity should not be such a fucking hypocrite like there are several examples
I could use of Hannity at taking aim at Michelle Obama, but just just so you understand like his mindset easily at times
He took aim at Michelle Obama and just tried to showcase something in the worst way possible
My remember Michelle Obama was in this kind of like joke wrapped music video where it was like trying to get kids to go to
College and this is how Sean Hannity introduced?
Isis is on the rise the Middle East is in complete turmoil the Western world is under constant threat from Islamic jihadist
But your First Lady Michelle Obama is busy making a rap music video about going to college
She's criticized her clothes says that she has sounded bitter and angry
That's without even diving into sean hannity is different treatment of accusations against, let's say former
President Bill Clinton and accusations against Donald Trump
But ultimately to me this whole
situation whether its side
Switching or whatever. It just seems like more of the same as far as will anything happened to Jimmy Kimmel
I think unless
Advertisers actually pull out or his numbers actually do take a hit
Probably not that said when it comes to outrage on these companies. You never really know how they're going to react ultimately
We'll wait, and we'll see and I want to pass a question off to you. What are your thoughts on this?
Let's give on the wrong was it that big of a deal with Sean Hannity, right?
Or is he just kind of on him out of nowhere white knighting the situation for ratings
I love know your thoughts here
And then let's talk about why we have Syria in the news so if you're not familiar at Syria has been in a state of
Civil war since 2011 and the major groups fighting it include Bashar al-assad's government
forces the Islamic state Kurdish militants and other domestic opposition groups and during all of this foreign countries became increasingly
involved as Isis spread throughout the region while there are other nations involved the biggest players in recent days have been France Russia and the
United States the reason we're talking about Syria again is on Saturday reportedly the Syrian government carrying out attacks in the city of dooma dooma
Is a rebel holdout, it's near the capital Damascus
It's controlled by a group known as the army of Islam attacks reportedly included bombs dropped from helicopters
activist groups in the area began reporting with the attack included chemical weapons many posting graphic pictures graphic videos videos of small children
unconscious and on ventilators men women and children
Asphyxiated blue-eyed having foamed at the mouth
And this attack apparently was part of weeks of assaults by the Syrian government and Russian allies in the larger area of eastern gute well
As far as the number dead and injured that has varied these past few days the go to a media center reported there were 75
Dead on their Twitter referencing barrels dropped by Assad helicopters containing sarin gas the union of medical care and relief
organizations that run medical facilities in eastern gute wah told the BBC that 70 deaths have been confirmed a Syrian American Medical Society in Syrian
Civil defense said that at least 42 were dead with 500 injured also noting that many gave off a chlorine like smell
American news agency is reporting at least 40 dead
But none of the news islands have been able to independently verify the attack Ward number dead as far as the response to this attack
the syrian state media
issued a statement denying they carried out a chemical attack White House issuing a statement saying these reports if confirmed are horrifying and demand an
Immediate response by the international community Assad regime and its backers must be held accountable in any further attacks prevented immediately Russia with its unwavering
support for the regime ultimately bears responsibility
For these brutal attacks targeting of countless civilians and the suffocation of Syria's most vulnerable communities with chemical weapons by shielding its ally
Syria Russia has breached its commitments to the United Nations as a framework guarantor it has betrayed the Chemical Weapons Convention
And UN Security Council resolution 2118 the United States calls on Russia to end this unmitigated
Support immediately and work with the international community to prevent further barbaric chemical weapons attacks
They also had the Russian Foreign Ministry calling this fake news and the situation really kicked into gear when shrimp went on Twitter on April
8th Trump tweeted many dead including women and children in mindless
Chemical attack in Syria area of atrocity is in lockdown and encircled by Syrian army making it completely inaccessible to outside world resident
Putin Russia and Iran are responsible for backing animal Assad big price to pay open area immediately for medical help and
verification another humanitarian disaster for no reason whatsoever
SiC and adding if President Obama had crossed his stated red line in the sand the Syrian disaster would have ended long ago
Animal Assad would have been history and this morning at a press conference President Trump talked about this situation once again
Our meeting with our military and everybody else
And we'll be making some major decisions over the next
24 to 48 hours if they're innocent why aren't they allowing people to go and improve?
Because as you know they're claiming they didn't make the attack if it's Russia
If it's Syria
If it's a Rand if it's all of them together. We'll figure it out and
We'll know the answers quite soon
But also that's not the end of the story because early this morning Israel reportedly carried out airstrikes
against a Syrian government airbase known as t4 in the Homs province
And it was an airstrike with serious state news agency initially called a suspected US attack, but a Pentagon spokesman denied u.s.
Involvement now officials in both Syria and Russia are referring to it as an Israeli airstrike cording to two US officials speaking with NBC News
Israel inform the US and advance
british-based, Syrian Observatory
For Human Rights said that 14 died in the airstrike that number including Iranians and three Syrian officers with that iran's Fars news agency confirmed
That four of their own were killed in the attack. Also as of recording this video
It's not clear if this is in response to the chemical attack Israel doesn't typically comment on attacks in Syria
They haven't issued one here Israel has also attacked inside Syrian borders more than a hundred times since 2012 and with that reportedly they're usually
Targeting weapons convoy is destined for Hezbollah ultimately the big question is what happens from here obviously
Trump said we're going to have a decision in the next 24 to 48 hours
We're also talking about President Trump. Who publicly stated on April 3rd March 30th. We're gonna get the troops out now
I'm sure I'm talking about Russia Putin by name Syria Iran saying there's going to be a big price to pay
Everybody's gonna pay a price
She will everybody will also on March 30th Trump had ordered the State Department is to spend 200 million dollars in recovery funds for Syria
And so now less than two weeks later
It is Trump because of this attack willing to turn the ship around
I don't know, but as far as how Trump is seen by the international community
It's going to be based on what he does next he is said there will be a big price to pay so
He's either going to be seen as someone that will actually do something or he's just puffing his chest and so I'll pass the question
Off to you one I'd love to know and in general did where you someone that supported Trump
Or you've been against Trump, then tell me what you think about Trump's handling of this situation in Syria
I asked because just in general it's been pretty interesting to see what people in Trump's corner have been saying and people that have
Normally been against Trump. I want to know with you specifically
What are your thoughts and that was actually going to be the end of today's show?
But just a quick update before I say goodbye it was just broke as I was finishing up today's show the FBI rated Michael Cohen's
Office so and of course president Trump's longtime personal lawyer reportedly the FBI seized records related to several topics including
payment to a certain porn stars
I just want to give you that last-second update, and I'm sure there'll be a lot more to talk about tomorrow
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