Whew! Newsy Thursday, eh?
Be that as it may, I’ll keep this short. Just two (maybe three) small points:
1.) My YouTube career is, sadly, over.
Why? It’s not what you think.
On Tuesday morning I got this bizarre email from YouTube saying they had removed my channel due to severe or repeated violations of their “sex and nudity policy“. WTF?
After you finish laughing, know this — I have many faults, but uploading videos containing sex/nudity to YouTube is NOT one of those faults. In fact, I think even my worst critics will agree — my videos may have contained some offensive content, but not much nudity. I mean come on — you saw them all. Which video do you think violated the sex/nudity rules?
Do you think YouTube banned me for showing an unclothed cat? 🐱 That’s literally the only thing I can think of!
I had no idea what YouTube was talking about, so I “appealed” their bizarre decision. Maybe an hour later, I got a ruling – judgment affirmed. Channel GONE. Forever.
DAMN, just when I was getting hot.
But wait, it gets better!
In addition to my paid YouTube Premium account (which has been cancelled/banned), I also paid for YouTube TV. And guess what? Not only did YouTube block/ban my YouTube TV account, they did something which BRICKED EVERY TV IN MY HOUSE (there are eight of them).
Now, when I try to open YouTube TV anywhere in my home, all I get is an error message that says “Whoops! Something went wrong!” But there is NO option to sign out. No option to create a new account. No option to do anything.
They literally BRICKED my fucking TVs. All. Eight. Of. Them.
I am guessing there MIGHT be a solution – do a factory reset of every TV. That *might* allow me to start with a fresh account (I have plenty of ALT accounts). But honestly, after this bullshit, do you really think I’m likely to spend more money on YouTube anything? Plus, resetting every TV would be an insane nuisance — I’d also have to go back and sign in to Netflix, Amazon, Spotify, and any other paid streaming service I use.
So, for now, although I COULD simply create a new channel, I am not going to do that. FUCK YOUTUBE. Just FUCK THEM.
And no, other than the issue with my TVs, I really don’t care about being banned.
My YouTube channel generated no money and lots of hate. So screw it. I’m done. Probably. Maybe. But almost certainly.
NOTE – of course I kept backups of my videos, so I could restore them somewhere else someday. But for now, it’s not worth the effort.
2.) As for the other news of the day…
I’m not going to be discussing it online. Nope. I said 2026 would be different, and I meant it.
So for now, all my talking will happen in court. After almost two years into this mess, I have finally learned you can’t win arguments with trolls. Like thermonuclear war, the only way to win is not to play the game (thanks Matthew Broderick).
But I will close with this brief comment – I would never call myself a bankruptcy expert (because I’m not). But at the same time, during my relatively long legal career, I’ve done cases in MANY different areas, including bankruptcy court. Several times.
Fun fact – MANY years ago, I actually represented the City of Phoenix in a bankruptcy adversary proceeding in California. Sadly, the case is so old you won’t be able to find pleadings online, but I’ll just share the TL;DR result – I won the case for my client.
Can’t remember what my 3rd point was, so I’ll just say have a nice week….and weekend. Peace.✌️
