Egggg Yolk, what is going on with the viewers
of the tuuuubeeee! Who actually gets to see
this video….my name is Tyler and welcome
to the channel that always tells it like it
is, and wishes corporate virus commercials
would do
the same…...you know our corporate handbook.
It’s time for Chico Crpto!
Well I said, those who actually get to see
this video…..well Chico’s youtube channel
is currently being shadowbanned. Yesterday’s
excellent video, which is actually a very,
very important piece of crypto content...was
performing normally for the 1st 4 hours….up
to 16,500 views according Youtube's own analytics…...and
then something changes. Views absolutely flatline….gaining
just 4 thousand more views over the next 12
hours, and pushing it wayyyy out of my normal
views range, which is that gray area.
The more obvious analytic of a shadowban is
the impressions. Within the 1st 4 hours on
Youtube the video had 55 thousand impressions.
Which is an average of over 13,750 impressions
per hour. Those stopped dead flat past hour
4, and over the next 12 hours, the video received
less than 5k impressions, or just 416 impressions
per hour. In impression per hour drop of only
96 percent.
Obviously, YT stopped showing this video to
literally everybody. But at least my click
through rate on the video is almost at 75
percent, because literally people have to
search for this video, and want to click on
it. You wanna know what a normal click through
rate is. Well, how about my Elon video, very
popular topic ehhhh...well that video click
through rate was just 5.5 percent. Obviously
something is up, and it’s called a shadowban
against my videos.
And even my subscribers know it. Here are
comments from the video. Ping said...getting
shadow banned i guess. This didn’t go on
my recommeded list, had to go to your channel
direct. oAlvinn...this video was shadow banned
too. Saso….I am subscibed to your channel
but it doesnt show me new videos, sad face.
Ya I’m sad tooo Saso
Nithin…..says he couldn’t see my video
even on his subscribed list, and josh says
youtube is hiding your videos bigtime, but
I still found this one. Well that is the reason
for the more than excellent click through
rate…..
And this is not limited to just Chico, but
the crypto youtube industry as a whole. Alex
Saunders, I’m sure you guys know him as
Nuggets News, he is facing similar things
as mee. Luckily he hasn’t been censored
and banned by twitter like me already, so
he got to tweet about it “Recently @YouTube
began shadow banning videos so they don't
show in feeds. Even to subscribers with "Show
All" settings on. You can clearly see how
views just stop dead”
And he got YouTube to notice. They replied.
“Thanks for reaching out – with fewer
people available to review content due to
COVID-19, we’re being extra cautious with
flagged content. It may not show up on subs
feed before it’s reviewed. It's worth watching
this video for the full context”
So they blame it on the fewer people due to
the virus, thus they are shadowbanning flagged
content now?
Well, this is correct by Youtube and incorrect
at the same time, and goes much deeper than
just the virus, it goes back to something
that has been affecting us since December.
The scam giveaway youtube videos, you guys
have seen which included the likes of Ripple,
Brad Garlinghoouse Vitalik, and others giving
away Ethereum if you send a certain amount
to the address they have posted.
Now a larger Youtuber has covered this actually,
not crypto related…. Upper Echelon Gamers,
all the way back in November of 2019. His
video is titled youtube is facilitating the
scamming of millions, while doing nothing
about it. He covers the scam well, and explains
the reason why he is doing this video, is
a friend of his, another youtuber... fell
victim to the attack.
So what is the attack? Well the scammers and
hackers, use phishing techniques sent to youtubers
emails, to gain access to their accounts.
I get them daily, but I’m not a damn idiot,
so I don’t fall prey to plain out phishing
attacks, but some people do, even large youtubers.
Here is the latest one, I got a couple days
ago, it is using the virus stuff, to hopefully
get you to click into the blue button link,
and then provide your login details.
As you can see below, they create urgency,
by saying if you fail to comply with the latest
virus community guidelines, this could result
in strike on your account, or even lead to
account termination.
And unfortunately people have fallen prey
to this one lately. Going to Youtube’s help
for creator forum...where creators are looking
for help, we can see in the past 24 hours,
multiple accounts have been hijacked.
But there are more forms of this attack, and
it’s called spear fishing. A little more
complex, but it’s when a creator gets an
email, not from youtube, but from a potential
sponsor. And with the allure of money, the
creator eventually gives up their account
details.
So once the account is taken over, by the
hijacker…. they rename the account to something
like Vitalik Buterin. Then as we can see below,
they post a video of a giveaway….that one
is a 100,000 ethereum. It’s a total scam,
and they just take your ethereum. DO NOT FALL
PREY FOR THESE ACCOUNTS, and I cannot believe
this one is still up on youtube.
But they also do brad garlinghouse of Ripple
and an XRP scam giveaway, this one was super
common, I’m sure you saw it many times….well
Ripple, and Brad decided to “do” something
about it…Brad Garlinghouse announced a lawsuit
against Youtube on Twitter for allowing these
scam giveaways.
He said this “Across the industry, social
media companies have failed to police their
platforms from being abused by the entirely
preventable imposter giveaway scams. Hundreds
of people (including some of you) have been
hurt, yet big tech continues to drag their
feet. Today,
@Ripple and I personally are taking legal
action against @YouTube because their platform
is the epicenter for imposter scams, and they’ve
done next to nothing in response to our constant
takedown requests. He finishes by pulling
on the heart strings. In times like these,
when consumers already feel vulnerable, it’s
more important than ever to protect people
from these rampant scams.
And into the lawsuit, “The Scam has also
irreparably harmed Ripple’s brand and Mr.
Garlinghouse’s reputation.By infringing
on Ripple’s protected trademarks and misappropriating
Mr. Garlinghouse’s image and likeness, the
Scam fosters the false belief that Ripple
and Mr. Garlinghouse are somehow associated
with or to blame for the Scam (they are not),
and introduces profound uncertainty and confusion
into the broader digital asset market
And what do they want? Well of course money...An
award to Plaintiffs of damages, including
but not limited to, compensatory, statutory,and
punitive damages, as permitted by law and
in such amounts to be proven at trial and
for a recover in restitution equal to any
unjust enrichment enjoyed by Defendant, as
Ripple says youtube profited from Ad’s off
these scam giveaways.
So as we can see, the lawsuit was filed on
April 21st. The 1st signs of shadowbans, they
came around May 2nd. In a week and a half,
after the lawsuit, we started to see the effect
on crypto channels. This is obviously, something
to do with taking down the scam giveaway videos…..
I mean, if it wasn’t we would see other
genres of channels, having the same problems.
Every industry, every sub genre has to deal
with mass reports, and flaggers. If we go
to the Youtube creators reddit, do we see
anyone else talking about shadowbans? Not
a single topic on it.
So, this is crypto and btc focused, and is
a direct result of Brad Garlinghouse, and
Ripples lawsuit against Youtube. Thanks Ripple,
you freaking jerks!
So, Youtube is a corporation, and all they
care about is Money. Corporations are seeking
one thing, and one thing only profit. What
kills profit? Lawsuits and large one’s like
this. And this is very selfish of Ripple and
Brad, I get it, ya the scam giveaways are
bad, but if you win this “lawsuit” are
you going to be giving that money to the people
who lost it in the fake giveaways? How about
me and all the other crypto youtubers for
the lost ad revenue as collateral damage because
of your lawsuit?
No you won’t, you will take it all for your
greedy grubby hands. All I gotta say, is this
is pathetic, and I hope it gets resolved soon.
Yesterday’s video, that got shadowbanned
was exposing some of the scammers in the space,
and as a result of a lawsuit, because of scammers,
a video exposing scammers disappeared.
So please YouTube, don’t hurt the good in
the space, because of the BAD aka scammers
and XRP, they employ bot army’s themself,
to manipulate social media. I mean recently,
you have Geoff Golberg, who is suing Twitter
for his account suspension, as it was reported
by an army of bots.
I wonder what Geoff was exposing on twitter
to get bots to report him? The XRP army of
bots. We here at Chico just call it like we
see it, and this is disgusting. Cheers viewers,
I’ll see you next time!
