I imagine a lot of you are probably familiar with Metatron, but if you aren't he's been on youtube for almost a decade now, making primarily very detailed and well-researched historical videos. Almost 750k subs, and over 800 videos during that time.
Couple days ago, Youtube decided to fully remove all monetization from his channel (his (extremely naive IMO) video on this is here).
Personally, I think it is obvious why this happened. Two weeks ago, he made this video pointing out that the ancient Greeks were, in fact, not actually pro-gay which got over 1 million views. And a week ago he made this other video talking about how the black Cleopatra thing was rubbish and that there were better choices to pick from if they wanted black warrior queens which got over 500k views.
And then his channel suddenly just loses all monetization? Such a strange coincidence!
Dang. I’ll have to see if he is on Rumble. I’ve been following him for a while
Don't think he's looked into alt-tech platforms yet, as he said he's hopeful Youtube will restore monetization - he seems to be thinking it may have just been a mistake, hence why I said his video was probably naive.
To be fair, as of yesterday it was restored. We will see what he does in the future though now knowing YouTube will be gunning for him.
If he was so quick to think it was purely a mistake, I'm not hopeful that he will take any steps to hedge against future shenanigans. But I don't know this dude at all so who knows.
Where are you getting that it was restored?
I don't necessarily agree that he was being naive (even if he wasn't being naive, it would be good strategy to pretend to think that it was just a mistake), but Youtube reversing itself after an outcry does not necessarily establish that it was a mistake. We simply don't know. Youtube is about as transparent as the Angkar.
He announced it on the community page of his channel yesterday.
I also don’t believe it was a mistake. Just that on this issue the PTB at YouTube decided this was a poor hill to die on since even other Leftist were upset by the raceswapped Cleopatra.