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what's up guys JC sense here and he seems like the scandals scandalous whatever you want to call it just continues I mean recently with the strike that was applied to Kyle there was the strike that was applied to lioness last year and we nearly got our own strike for simply wanting to give you guys something for free so we're going to talk about that today and then a little plea from you guys to to help us come up with some content ideas for later this year cuz we kind of want to shake it up we want to shake that tree a little bit and see what falls out hopefully it's a nut strikes with its aluminum bezel solid construction and adjustable base the vast 35 inch ultra wide 100 Hertz VA panel for mass drop offers performance at an affordable price learn more about this drop by following the link in the description below so as some of you have probably noticed the link in our giveaway for the BLD giveaway that we did last week or whatever whatever you guys I don't know days are all blur because I just moved anyway that's besides the point I digress we did the giveaway or launched a giveaway video with the gleam link which is what we've been using for years now to kind of control the contest and what I mean by control the contest it's to make sure that things are kept fair gleam has a very good way of determining which are the spoof accounts the spam accounts the multiple accounts that are created in an effort to kind of circumvent measures to keep it fair for the giveaway and usually when we do these giveaways we'll have anywhere between a hundred thousand to maybe three or four hundred thousand entries because usually there's two or three ways to enter my giveaways unlike some people that would totally abuse the gleam system and have 25 different ways to enter that you could do daily making it have millions of entries really reducing your chances of winning because it's like unless you're gonna follow an Instagram and follow on Vimeo and follow on Twitch and find all this stuff which I never required by the way then it just got so big it was it was easy to for those measures and people to cheat so usually we do these giveaways I'd see you know a hundred thousand or so maybe two hundred thousand entries it would give me a list of about ten thousand of them that were considered suspicious and we give you reasons as to why and usually it was because of duplicate IPs and duplicate user names like worth one number difference and that sort of thing and so you could keep things as fair as possible so something we've always done news for years in fact fullscreen partnered with gleam years ago to give us that platform to be able to hold our public contests and giveaways and stuff to make it just easy because back in the way the way we used to do it back in the day we'd use a company or website called random.org and what you can do with random.org is you could just put in there grab a list of comments on this video and put in a link or if you use the hashtag on twitter for the giveaway like hashtag jays two cents giveaway anyone that ever tweeted what that hashtag would be automatically entered because we could tell it go grab all the entries from those hashtags randomize it give me one winner and that was how you verify it but the problem is there was no way to determine how people were cheating with that because it just randomly grabbed an entry so we stopped using random.org a long time ago in lieu of glean well fast-forward a few years what sort of been happening is YouTube as you guys have noticed has been really kind of falling behind in terms of tools as the channel has grown as the platform has grown so have a lot of these contests and stuff and YouTube has no mechanism whatsoever for us to be able to run these giveaway so we turn to third parties like glean the issue is that even on twitch there when you do giveaways in the chat and stuff like that has built-in tools so that you can manage the giveaways and not have any problems with trying to keep it fair and you can do it with live viewers and all that sort of stuff so we turn to gleam and apparently somewhere along the lines instead of YouTube wanting to give us the tools to be able to host these contests and stuff on our channel they've decided to make it harder for us to use tools being provided by third parties allowing us to be able to host these giveaways so here's where we are today the reason why the link is no longer in that video is because less than 24 hours of me putting up that giveaway the I got an email from YouTube saying that the link was reported now that means somebody watching the video went and reported the link that means some asshat out there was like Jays doing giveaway and I don't like it so they reported it probably because they were too dumb to not read the comments and see that actually opened it up worldwide because one of the first complaints was that it wasn't a worldwide giveaway and the reason why I usually do that with something like a system is more often than not the person that would win the system would be hit with like anywhere between $500 to $1,000 worth of a tax bill just to receive the component we're not gonna pay that obviously because we have don't have a mechanism for that and then in order for us to stay legal and compliant we can't list it as a free gift with a zero dollar value so we can't do that because then that's not legal on our end so we decided to go ahead and open it up worldwide NZXT was gracious enough to do that because NZXT supplied the pc and then we're hit with this reported link from gleam and basically what they said was we found your link to be in violation of our Terms of Service on YouTube we've decided not to take action at this time however if a link appears on this video again we are going to hit you with a strike now a strike is a major deal for YouTube because one it removes you from the recommended channels lists you no longer become a preferred channel and and when it comes to the Adsense and stuff like that which is a huge chunk of how we make our income around here too I can pay my employees they can pay their bills we pay our bills as a company obviously my livelihood as well - you lose all live streaming functionality which I don't really use that often but still it puts you in a negative standing on YouTube and it affects everything ask Kyle it can affect your video standings it can affect your views it can affect everything because YouTube will no longer push your content like it would before because it now looks at you as a liability and a risk so that's why the link disappeared from that video and I basically said go to my Twitter to find out what's going on because I just basically said look I don't know how to do this now the giveaway is still gonna happen all the entries that were in there are still there but I don't know how best to proceed with this now to stay in compliance with YouTube and still stay with the fairness and the spirit of this giveaway so the problem is YouTube they look at this as a fake engagement creator when you put a link like this you're having all these people come to your channel you're having them like video you having them watch videos and they're calling that fake engagement here's the problem with my give way and why this really needed to be reviewed by a human which is something we've talked about forever YouTube and Google rely entirely on AI for like 99% of these claims and these reports before a human gets involved which is why a lioness as well but which is why Kyle got a strike and then had to get it repaired a day or two later because a human never reviewed it it just automatically you're guilty until we determined that you're not the same thing applies here because what they said was that it forces fake engagement the problem is I had four entries for I had four entries on this giveaway none of them were required one was go to Twitter one was following Twitter one was go to my youtube channel and just have a look at it and then there was one that was like tweet about the giveaway or whatever none of it was required none of it was mandatory but they said it was promoting fake engagement on YouTube the problem is the only way you would have ever seen the link to begin with because I didn't even put the link in my Twitter was to be on my YouTube channel already watching the video telling you about the giveaway so how that could be fake engagement considering you're already on the channel is beyond me so I have no idea so what we're gonna do right now is I'm gonna go ahead and put that link on my Twitter and you guys can go and find it I think it's pretty obvious what my twitter name is gonna be I'm not gonna put a link to it down below although YouTube does allow you to put your social media links in the header of your channel so people can click on it to go to Twitter because what they said was also a violation is a link that takes you off the platform but they let you put links to your social media in your channel which takes you off the platform so it's like that's against the to the Terms of Service here but not here so anyway that's the problem with YouTube this could all be avoided if YouTube was willing to just give you the tools you needed for us to be able to do the things we want to do so this brings me around to kind of the next point this is gonna be my last giveaway I've given away more than a hundred thousand dollars in product since I started this channel and I'm extremely proud of that I mean yeah there may be a lot of products still sitting behind us but we have a whole pile of product over there that's slated for giveaways and a few things that we're doing like a fire sale with it said that you guys are going to kind of suffer from this now because I refusing to do giveaways anymore in fact we had a whole nother high-end system giveaway slated to go right after this one because you guys know I like to do giveaways like every quarter and so that's now been cancelled and I told them I'm not doing this anymore I'm not taking the risk we get nothing out of it really to be honest I mean we don't get any sort of like spike in channel growth or anything like that we do these giveaways because it's fun to get back to community and it's also nice to get a little bit of a return out of it maybe get a little more exposure or Lib get your name out there get some people to find your channel but at this point all you're getting is grief from YouTube these giveaways are unfortunately on my channel going to cease to exist but I'll still do stuff on Twitter so if you guys want to follow over there I will still do some some giveaways over there just haven't decided what yet but that's that's just I had to make this video explaining look what why J put up a giveaway video and then suddenly the link is gone and then everything's quiet like what is going as J frauding us as J being a scam no this is what's happened and this is how I'm having to handle this now so if you guys go to my social media that starts with a T you will find a link to the giveaway where you can still continue to enter you've already entered you're still there you're still good there's no issues there we're still gonna be using gleam for this particular giveaway it's just the link is no longer existent now one other thing I wanted to ask from you guys is what kind of content do you want to see from us do we like doing builds we like doing the overclocked challenge we have some major overclocking stuff we're getting ready to do with that was it 3975 expert 3175 that's a Big Damn I want the 3975 no 31 but anyway or maybe doing some more stuff with that obviously we've got Computex coming up in a few months lots of fun content with us of philanthropy stuff we're actually doing a thing with make-a-wish you guys are gonna see that coming up soon so we got a lot of fun stuff planned it just kind of sucks that these wrenches get thrown into our into the mix on the platform at which we reside because they can't get with the time to give us the tools that we need as content creators so I'm sorry that this video was such a downer but I felt like this explanation was was important and if I had put this out on Twitter it would have only been seen by a fraction of people and not the people that I'm targeting which is my YouTube audience so anyway guys thanks for watching make sure you comment down below with the kind of content you'd like to see later this year whether it be build overclocking guides let us we like to take those and we generate our ideas based on that so I'm gonna go guys thanks for watching and yeah good luck good luck on the giveaway and again sorry that we're not gonna be doing any more on this platform in the future you versus the guy she tells you not to worry about so that's why the you get to hear that in high def America