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yep oh you got mucho and you didn't get mucho for me I would have gotten you I am so hungry right now mind you people would have been like even more mad if we were both eating on the show oh well I'm gonna try to like off screen it as much as I can I'm not even gonna show notice how it's not even on camera they can't even saw just randomly like you'll be talking about nodding and then suddenly just that is so the fringe fade note like that is so cringe do you want something even more cringe though hmm I thought of a joke while I was upstairs getting my power adapter from Oh No Oh No what is the weapon of choice for the most certain ninjas the shuriken oh okay you need Oh No you're done you need no no I'm not saying this negatively you need a kids book I need a kid that has like kid-friendly art there's like a little ninja with the shuriken and you have like the little saying like pretty popular I'm not even kidding I think that could be pretty good what one of the things that like I I would potentially do at some point is stop at your gate and if you just leverage your fame then a bunch of people will buy it and you will make a bunch of money like it just looks like the most obvious way to cash in on like having in turn and if a bunch of people buy it then it'll go up in like Amazon rankings and stuff and then other people will buy it exactly and if it's decent like the the shuriken joke totally good enough and like if it goes along with like a frame of art which is like kid-friendly ninja dude yeah yeah and just it's like like blown-up zoom in on the on the shuriken and it could be like you know what we could probably sell even more if we build it as like a as like a an educational tool teaching kids about puns double entendre yeah so explain why it works that's right fantastic you could take Nintendo Lavos approach and make it so that the shuriken can be like popped out yeah we could make it like a phonics lesson yes you know why sure and sure so we've got a great topic great topic yeah we've got a great topic for you guys today and then we've got a bunch of other about shuriken um Apple is bringing out apparently bringing apparently eight billion dollars back to the US of A yeah Samsung has begun production on the industry's first sixteen gigabit GD dr6 memory AT&T is under pressure to cut all ties with Huawei and there has been pretty major changes to the YouTube Partner Program and you might care or not actually I don't know I think a lot of people care about this it's a funny thing because it only really affects content creators and yet whether it's because there are so many indie content creators now or whether it's the the loyalty of fans towards these content creators there's feel like it feels like there disproportionate amount of outrage over this well because we're gonna break down who would actually affect ya and the impact is arguably quite small or arguably a huge flippin deal depending so yeah why don't we I'm excited to get into them do you wanna start with that do you want to start with that or should we make them pull should we pull like a more on this at 11:00 more on this later for a long time and started really small you know what let's do it second because I want to talk about the AT&T thing I was actually at the Huawei press conference and I didn't because like the CEO was like on stage and unhappy about this right yeah it was it was actually super weird yeah so so we were we were there as as part of a sponsored deal to share this in the chat yeah thanks so we were there as part of a sponsored deal this was posted originally on the forum by Nina 360 and the original article here is from Android Authority so here you go so we were there as part of a sponsored deal now we're actually a bunch of other influencers there as well including Zach from jerry-rigged everything okay yeah yeah um just trying to think who else was there I believe Keaton from techsmartt was there with that I'm trying to give you a hint on someone that I think was there no I don't think he was okay yeah I like how that worked though okay yeah I can't I ran into all these guys like two to five times each over the course of the week actually the whole thing is a blur anyway anyway yes was there a bunch of influencers there which means that Huawei was spending a bunch of money on influencers specifically with the North American reach and Huawei it was boasting that they're now the number three smartphone brand worldwide but I think someone like you or I would look at that and unless we've seen you know an infographic and some kind of data to back it up we'd kind of go really yeah whoa like really not really actually like not really because who else would be bigger yeah and that's a great question but it does take a sec there's a little bit of pause we're like because they don't get like I wouldn't say that in North America in the media in the in the kiosks in your telecom store I wouldn't say that Huawei gets more attention than you know someone like an LG for example you know whose market share is actually abysmal yeah but over here gets treated like like a top to your brand um so anyway he goes on stage and he's talking about this whole thing he's like yeah we have won over the trust of consumers we have won over the trust of carriers worldwide and we have you know we you know and I think he sort of seemed to lose his composure like I don't follow mobile news as much as I perhaps should other than our topics for land show and when I'm working on a review of a device or whatever the case may be yeah so I didn't our defense it's been a little boring for a while I did not know about any controversy or any of the plans yeah that Huawei had made with AT&T about bringing the device not just into the US but into 18 t stores because something to the tune of this is according to the Android authority article here something to the tune of 90% of smartphone sales in the US are done on contract with a subsidy incur this isn't the case in a lot of other markets where people do tend to buy their devices outright like they would any other consumer but I'm not surprised due to how contracts work in North America and they don't work that way everywhere and they don't work that way like in North America buying a phone on contract is actually not stupid yeah and you know with a lot of country with some contracts but like you know back when I was first getting into you know cell phone ownership when I was in like high school I absolutely just bought on contract you get the zero dollar phone you get the zero dollar phone and back then a lot of the carrier's at least one I was on anyway so some carriers I'll say some the one that I was on didn't give you a discount for bringing your own device so you were actually yeah yeah yeah yeah if you didn't just get hardware now you had to sign a contract that was that was the drawback there were what two carriers at the time there was Rodgers and there was Telus here soon I don't think bail was available here yet back in back in like 2000 you're talking like sliders and stuff right yeah I don't want to talk about it flip no this is pretty fricking about brick okay so I wasn't in the game at that point I wasn't allowed to have a phone at that age what was the UH what was that phone that I had it was I don't remember VBox I got a phone pretty late okay this was oh nice was my first phone yes oh that's amazing so I got it because my mom's hard of hearing and um okay so this was I believe this was like the first like text centric device out there yeah but this came around at a time that bricks were than right so she reads lips so you wanna call her it's not really gonna work that that's right I never even thought about that yeah that makes sense yeah okay cuz you've met her and you probably didn't notice cuz she's really good at yeah yeah but anyway so so that was my first phone and um right so so the only drawback was that you had to sign a contract which didn't really matter that much because quite frankly where else were you gonna go if you wanted to have a cellphone at all so as long as I knew I knew wanted a cellphone for two years it was no big deal and then during your two years you would accumulate credit towards your hardware upgrade after a couple of years the upgrade cycles weren't so fast like to my knowledge Apple kind of pioneered the new phone every year come hell or high water upgrade cycles there wasn't that drastic of improvements and I wasn't an enthusiast at all yeah about phones they placed calls and in this case they were really good for typing text messages but that was about it so I was like yeah whatever who cares um so anyway back to the whole 18t thing so he was like visibly upset on stage when he started talking about how you know some carriers and some countries with all of this work that we've put into consumer privacy and curity are treating us with the appropriate respect while others are not and like you kind of sat like you didn't say respect I don't think but it kind of had that tone and I was sitting here in the audience kind of going wow this is a really weird way to to talk about you know your big push in the US and the reason is that it's not happening so while Huawei does move some phones in the u.s. they only have access to a tiny 10% of the market because 90% of consumers are buying on contract so it fell through at the last minute and now a new report has suggested that it was US lawmakers pushing AT&T to cut ties with Huawei over national security concerns so senators and House members are encouraging 18t to ditch even any potential plans to work with Huawei on standards for its 5g network 18 DS expected to roll out that network at the end of 2018 and is competing with Verizon to become the first carrier to offer high-speed service to the US on 5g so um Senate and House intelligence committees sent a letter to the FCC raising concerns over Huawei's alleged ties to the Communist Party as well as China's intelligence and security services and there have been other historical moves like this by governments to restrict Huawei's competitiveness so I Canada for example really surprising I think like five years ago was six years ago five or six years ago Canada actually disallowed I don't know if it's still in effect but they disallowed the use of Huawei telecommunications gear on the back end of carrier networks I can totally see why so your take on this then like you it seems like you got an opinion here look well okay it's the very bottom bullet point on this and there's a lot of information on this is Senate and hosts intelligence committees sent a letter to the FCC raising concerns over hallways alleged ties to the Communist Party as well as Chinese intelligence and security services there's already there's also a lot of articles online about Huawei's back-end equipment specifically is specifically designed to allow the Chinese government to tap into it also just being owned by the Chinese government and going up against having ties to we're having ties to on paper yeah there's no ownership whatsoever I actually don't know but go ahead I looked it up in a second ago but none of them are sources that I'm gonna give a hundred percent credibility to got it that said there is ownership but again I don't know cuz I wouldn't give a hundred scentcredible 'ti of those sources but anyways with the current administration in the US and it being a to some degree ties with Chinese government corporation I can probably see why there might be some influence from the government being like no no no let's not do this yeah I can definitely understand not wanting the back end equipment holy crap the phones in general I think is more of a yeah yeah that's more just like out of I guess out of well because okay this is this is kind of a weird insight thing that I'm gonna take a tangent on first area when you travel to a lot of other so for North Americans as we are as you travel to a lot of other countries it's a little weird with the purchasing habits yeah and the stuff that you see around because in North America you see whatever when you go to a lot of other countries not all other countries but a lot of other countries you see that country's thing yep I mean that's particularly common in Germany Germany is huge for it to panic yeah Korea is huge for it yeah Samsung everything you'd be amazed what kind of things Samsung makes glass elevators yeah insurance like like whoa and like there's a there's a much more and I might be using this word incorrectly sorry I'm not super great on political stuff but there's a much more nationalistic approach to purchasing okay where you want to purchase your own country's things of course made in America made in Canada are both things yeah like we don't mind yeah like it's kind of cool but it's not the same particularly for Canadians I think the the truth of the matter is that you don't really have the option to me I don't we don't make enough stuff like if I wanted to if I wanted all of my personal grooming products to be made in Canada nope um good luck yeah like I could probably find some stuff I'm sure you'd be able to find especially some beard based things no I'm sure I'd be able to find some Canadian beard care products not that that would be a major concern for me since this is about as much of a beard as I can grow but thank you for bringing it out the only reason why I said that is like around the world yeah there's a lot of like a small homebrew kind of companies that do beard stuff because you can make your own beard yes anyways it's yeah it's not nearly as much of a thing in North America but I could see how current administration in the US might be pushing to make it more so sir and would be pushing against especially companies that have ties to the governments of other countries that are being purchased in a nationalistic sense from coming where there's no commitment you know upfront to say okay yeah we're gonna bring X number of jobs into the United States because the potential here and again we don't know okay so we don't know what involvement if any of the US government has already had in the negotiations not sure if while we were to come to the table with the US government and say okay yeah like we're committing to assembling some percentage of our devices that we sell within the United States in the US if they were gonna if they were gonna come and make some kind of a deal then I suspect it would be more likely but right now I guess I can't think of a great reason for them to be gung-ho about this also this part senators and House members are encouraging a tea to ditch any potential ties to work with Huawei on standards for its 5g Network again that's them trying to get into the backend yeah and I'm super not surprised that that's not max just quietly walks off stage I'm super not surprised that that's not a thing because of ties to the idea of their back end being tapped by the Chinese government so to be very clear you know we allegedly yeah like we don't know what is or isn't happening all we know is what's going on we know the US government is uncomfortable with it we know Huawei is super unimpressed with what's going on and presumably AT&T would be as well because by most accounts they make really good devices it's just not necessarily affordable if you rely on contract subsidies in order to buy your phone and it won't be competitive when you can walk in and buy an iPhone for $200 yeah quote unquote versus a huawei device for $800 because you have to buy the whole thing up front yeah um all right why don't we jump right into the changes to the YouTube Partner Program here this is posted by heyyo on the forum the original article is actually straight from the YouTube blog so this is a pretty big deal do we want to do kind of a short recap of some of the other changes that YouTube has made towards creators this year like turn so what the biggest one is referred to as the ad pocalypse and there have actually been a couple of different stages and yeah this I think is considered by the community to be wave 3 okay I think I don't okay I wouldn't entirely group III okay I saw it referred to as that ever whatever the community says yeah I call it - I I could maybe bundle this in I think it's kind of a separate thing yeah okay the point is the ad pocalypse is sort of used as a generic term to describe changes that too many things Google or through YouTube has made fundamental changes to the way that content creators monetize on the YouTube platform and so some examples have been pulling monetization from potentially touchy or controversial subjects even if the video in question is a mature conversation about said controversial topic and contains you know no you know community guideline infringing content like if it's you know if you're having less you're a news a TV news organization so that's been another you know problem with this whole controversy is that there seemed to be channels that are getting their videos pulled just for having nice in the metadata yeah or you know like a perfect poll was when we had the monetization pulled from an unboxing of the razor blade or the switchblade switchblade interface that was the issue so because that had that keyword in it it got the monetization pulled so it seems like some channels are very susceptible to this while some mainstream channels like I believe it's late show with Colbert right I believe Colbert has been pointed at as someone who has had controversial topics in the titles I think it's basically all the Late Show hosts because they a lot ok this is super generalizing but a lot of the Late Show TV programs put snippets and clips onto YouTube yes it's really popular does it vary occasionally I don't know man but they get a lot of views yeah and they're really heavily promoted by the platform and they're not struck and down in any way right ok so that's been that's been a big part of the problem then there was the whole issue that was kind of tied into monetization slash preferential treatment where Logan Paul posted that extremely controversial video in the suicide forest in Japan and the perception among the community I'm not gonna make a judgment call here because I wasn't sitting in the war room but I'm sure existed at YouTube when they were trying to figure out what to do about this yeah I wasn't present there it was gotta be crazy meetings nor was I present you know with Logan Paul when he was thinking about how he was going to react to the community's reaction and I wasn't sitting in the rooms of the people who are watching those videos I'll be honest with you guys I haven't watched it I have no desire to see that and actually we sort of didn't address it at all cuz my general policy on something that I don't agree with is to just not give it any attention whatsoever but in the context of our news topic today it's sort of important because what it appeared to spark was a conversation where the perception was that YouTube was treating Logan Paul vlogs that's the channel and preferentially in not removing this content or dealing with presumably what would have been a fair number of community reports and in fact at first anyway had appeared to not penalize the channel or the user in any meaningful way like many days for days not just for like a couple hours yeah and then making matters worse there were instances of YouTube pulling down reuploads of the original video because they violated Community Guidelines while the original was still live okay so um this blog post is sort of about how 2017 was a tough year in fact you know let's let's just sort of discuss some excerpts from it 2017 was a tough year what do they got here despite the issues more creators than ever earning a living on YouTube blah blah blah major focus is protecting our creator ecosystem insuring your revenue is more stable now we want to prevent bad actors from harming the inspiring and original creators we want to do this we want to do that so basically what they've done seemingly as a response to these issues is they have changed the previous eligibility requirements for the YouTube Partner Program which going way back so just I do another history lesson yes okay I think it's important yeah so when I first started out on YouTube it was either I think it might have been pre monetization I think I was pre monetization I'm not sure so when I started out on YouTube it was either pre monetization at all or it was shortly after the partner program had been introduced and the only way to get into the partner program was by specifically being invited so really early guys like Phil DeFranco work in it well before I had access to it yeah after that there was an application process that was when I got in through the NCIX tech tips channel and not sure if Linus tech tips existed yet although I actually I think it did so that was when I got in actually no I'm actually quite certain that it did because there was already revenue to show for the YouTube program back at NCI X when Linus tech tips was created because I member negotiating a bonus around it or something okay okay then YouTube basically opened up the floodgates and they went okay we're just gonna put monetization on all the things because we've got this inventory of videos and anywhere there's eyeballs Google wants to put an at yeah that's their mo Tao works so anyway fast-forward quite a bit in April 2017 they set an eligibility requirement of ten thousand lifetime views the idea was to have some kind of a history to look back at for a given channel to make sure that it wasn't just blatant reuploads of copyright TV shows for example which is still all over the platform oh yeah and lots of other issues like music and movies and whatever else yeah but but the idea was so that they could they'd have at least you know 10,000 views worth of time to weed out the ones that were just blatantly not real content and then here's the follow up that threshold provided more information to determine whether a channel followed our community guidelines but it's been clear over the last few months that we need a higher standard so starting on the 16th of January which three days ago and this the blog says starting today like they effective there's a little I grow in that in that regard yeah they changed the eligibility requirements for monetization to 4,000 hours of watch time in the past 12 months and 1000 subscribers so basically it appears as though if you're a one-hit-wonder who doesn't have any subscribers you might not be able to monetize and if you you know run your channel as kind of like a hobby and you don't actually get a ton of views or a ton of hours of watch time but you actually have a decent number of subscribers who wait for your videos that you may be published very infrequently you could be affected by YouTube's attempt to crack down on potentially inappropriate videos from monetizing now right off the bat I'm not actually working off of my notes here but right off the bat I can identify a couple of problems here number one is that that whole spider-man Elsa thing was going on for over a year yeah for a frickin long time and these requirements would have done absolutely nothing just a lot of thing I got way more hours and way more subscribers than that the issue with the suicide forest vlog wouldn't stop that wouldn't have stopped that what I'm trying to figure out right now is what this move has to do I think this the community's upset about oh no I think this has a lot to do with stopping things that the community is not particularly upset about but YouTube and advertisers might be upset about yeah I think it will directly help stop things like people monetizing movie song episode all those kind of uploads because a lot of those accounts will get banned but we'll get payouts and we'll get payouts based on content that they ripped from someone else and they might just create a new account and then get paid out on that account create a new account get paid on that account so I think they're trying to hammer down on that I don't think it's really going to solve much else another thing that I want to throw into the ring that some people have brought up is if you have a thousand subscribers if you have less than a thousand subscribers and less than four thousand hours of total watch time over the last twelve months yeah how much were you making so okay this is where piece into the conversation that goes is this a big deal yeah so it is a big deal in the sense that YouTube is kind of spinning it as a benefit to the community when actually this has as far as I can tell everything to do with the blowback that they're getting from advertisers for having that wide open we're gonna put monetization on everything then advertisers realizing and all yeah Brad was getting acai I forgot that part of the history lesson unfortunately yeah so advertisers realizing that their brand was getting placed next to content that they found objectionable like like literally terrorists which we've talked about which we've talked about before and I think this is just follow up on that and I think that the suicide forest incident has nothing remember no no it does it does but not on the community side yeah what it has to do with is that he was a preferred channel yeah a channel that YouTube specifically goes out there and pitches to advertisers like we're a preferred channel preferred channels are to an even greater degree I would think expected to abide by the Community Guidelines which by the way doesn't necessarily mean that you can't drop a you know shit bomb in your video occasionally it spelled out pretty clearly I mean you know egregious profanity I believe is covered in the Community Guidelines I'm not sure I haven't looked egregious is kind of a specific terms a very sort of great actually but they're there so there are things well no it makes it so that probably what you just said isn't gonna get you know owned you'd have to like go pretty hand so it's still great but you'd have to but I don't know how they'd make it less gray you know what I mean so here's the Community Guidelines blah blah blah blah blah blah blah nudity or sexual content harmful or dangerous unten violent or graphic content hateful content harassment and cyber bullying threats span misleading metadata and scams copyright Privacy impersonation child endangerment and additional policies a big issue about all this is like I can even think off the top of my head of one or more examples that I've seen of at least every single thing in there yeah so vulgar language is actually bundled under additional policies right here and it specifically says here that sexually explicit language or excessive swearing in your video or associated metadata may lead to your video being age restricted so excessive so what happened here was and in this case I don't even think there's really anything in here you could call a graphic content actually violent or gory content that's primarily intended to be shocking sensational or disrespectful okay it's definitely it's exactly what um so anyway the problem here is that as far as I can tell YouTube's got yet another round of blowback from advertisers for specifically promoting a channel that blatantly violated their community guidelines and then the content was just left there presumably with ads still running and I think if it was dropped superfast it might have been a different reaction from the advertisers yes and from the community yeah but ultimately that's what's going on here the collateral damage is mostly channels that and YouTube lays this out in their blog post mostly channels that made less than 2 dollars and 50 cents last month ok this is what I was saying and less than a hundred dollars in the last year if you're relying on that whoa yeah there is probably other ways that you can make money on the internet easier pretty sure there are and or even Weebly mode bonds and I mean move on we're profitable we sold berries that wasn't profitable yeah yeah anyway the point is that you could just go work at the place that there's a lot of outrage about this and I'm putting myself I won't bundle you in with me but I know I'm here myself in a position on it to say something kind of unpopular yeah but I actually don't think this is that big of a deal I'm with you cuz ok the first thing I did when I read this was like at the very beginning before you get really deep into it I was like wow they're screwing over the little guy why would they do that that makes no sense and then I saw their thresholds and I was like yeah this isn't gonna make a difference to anyone's major bottom line so anyone that small speaking one bertie youtuber yeah I would recommend you turn off here I was just gonna say you will get more traction with people and they will share it more and they'll watch more of the video if you turn off the ads anyways and you'll be seen as a good guy and more people will watch your stuff because you got to understand that there's always a trade-off between monetization and we'll get into our sponsors for the moment back to you there's always a trade-off between monetization of your existing audience yeah and audience building we could upload videos every day that are pure ads and our audience would stop growing or we could dial back all of our ads entirely and sponsors and all that stuff turn off everything and we could grow faster and every creator out there is trying to find that happy medium where they are satisfied with their level of growth and when you're can get good money when you're making 2 bucks a month off YouTube you need to focus on growth it's probably worth focusing on growth especially because at that point in time growth is way harder to get with all of that said I'm coming at this from sort of a maybe not unique but sort of an unusual angle in that the ad pocalypse has not had a significant negative impact on our Adsense yeah and this is something that you know I was I was gonna address at some point but at the end of the day you don't get up what it's called a fill rate so the number of impressions that you serve versus the number of ads accompanying those impressions if you had one ad on every video that you showed to someone antvenom just said same Oh interesting yeah um so so if you had one ad in front of every single video view that you showed someone say it's the perfect world where nobody has adblock and YouTube's ad sales is like going gangbusters they can sell more ads than YouTube can serve views which is like really yeah yeah ok that would be a 100% filler rate now if YouTube's ad sales you know program completely shut down and there were no ads that would be a 0% fill rate nobody has a 100% fill rate so what it means for family-friendly content or non-controversial content is that your fill rate and your CPMs because you might get access to the more premium ads as a YouTube preferred partner for example your fill rate might go up and your CPMs which is the amount that you get paid per thousand views or per thousand ad views that can go up to so our January this year our viewership will not be higher than it was last year but through a combination of YouTube red being more popular and through the ad pocalypse stripping advertising away from many many many many many potentially hundreds hundreds of thousands of very very very small channels that will contribute to a higher fill rate and potentially CPM for us we are actually going to make more in Adsense this January than we did last January which is good because we have like five more people than we had last January oh that's that's not anyone else's problem it's just if you guys were concerned that a lot of people do express concern it the way that we hire and the way that we like build sets and buy cameras and all those things possible doing business you got it you got to do things we are we are don't worry we are we're planning for the future we're watching all of these trends these are things that even though we don't necessarily talk about all the time we are we have eagle eyes on if you're on something you tube and you're not moving you're screwed you gotta do some stuff sometimes and that's it that's another thing I want to jump back to for the like if you are if you are a smaller creator and I'm using the terminology of below a thousand subs and below four thousand watch hours in the last what is it twelve months I think it's the last twelve months yeah but you can't now but don't monetize and you might not want to monetize for a little while you might eventually get brought into the partner program and you might want to stay not monetize and then when you get there you will get the benefit of YouTube not paying out a bunch of tiny amounts to a bunch of creators that might never even reach the threshold but they're gonna get a check effectively giving YouTube 100% of the add payout so this may happen wow that's interesting this may actually hurt YouTube's bottom line if they are only feeding ads to people who are actually gonna get right now is way more worried about making advertisers happier yes get more big big bins oh I know but this just I think in the extremely short run it might hurt it yeah I think this is a more longer-term play but yeah I I would focus and maybe if you're like I need to focus on this YouTube thing more I need to cut back hours at work that's when you monetize your videos yeah and you just tell your audience that hey guys I'm gonna monetize my videos because I want to focus more time on making the great content that you guys enjoy of basket weaving with RGB lights and I'm gonna I'm gonna keep doing it I'm gonna go hard I'm gonna spend at least four hours weaving these lights together making sure all the power strips are going all properly and you know you can have glowing fruit bowls yeah I don't know just communicate that to your audience and that will serve you a lot better doing it later on down the line once you have an established core audience because then they won't leave they'll keep sharing it because they're an established core audience and you can actually survive okay question for you this was a great question I forget who asked it would you allow Logan Paul on floatplane would you I don't know you're the lead of partner management whatever it's true I am but I'm curious to know what you think knowing what you know let's say that let's say that he goes you know what let's say he didn't post an apology that was super sincere let's say that he was just like you know what no I'm gonna film dead bodies whenever I come across them don't worry about it um your your the public front okay well you know what I have an opinion I'll throw my pain I want to cheat and hear what you have to say no no no no you all yardie yeah you gave away your hand what no with your opinion nope you said you have one you have to do it um I don't really care okay because in my opinion how this should all be handled and how I think things in general should all be handled is I don't personally in my personal morality whatever like the idea of the governmental hand coming down and slapping okay I would prefer that he joins the platform yep people saw that video and everyone unsubscribed and everyone stopped giving us money and stopped giving him money here's the here's the leader of partner management answer the answer is absolutely yes he would be allowed on the platform because here's the thing about the YouTube community guidelines so floatplanes guidelines are basically along the lines of legality yeah and there's nothing illegal about walking in that forest and filming something well you're not a lot of going off trail I don't think it's illegal I think it's just there's lots of signs advising you not to yeah so so as far as I can tell she didn't actually do anything illegal because that's that's one thing you guys have to understand is we're running sorry I'm gonna interject for a moment when running floatplane that's one of the reasons why it's its own company yes is because our opinions and linus media group's opinions don't matter we're running the platform i think it's gross i don't like it either not cool with it easily but that is not my call to make and if floatplanes if floatplanes objective is to be the the not evil overlord then ultimately we have to allow okay because flow plan itself is not going to be a broader community in the same sense that YouTube is current flow plain will be individual creators with their own communities and if his community is fine with it which fascinating they seemed to be they seemed to be it wasn't until this went viral and kind of spread beyond his subscribers that people started sitting up and taking notice of how effed up it was and if his community is cool with it then ultimately we can just not watch it not look at it and kind of hope for the best and like one thing about floatplane if you're subscribed to this dude and you're like wow I really don't like that I don't respect him anymore I really dislike this content and you don't want to see it in your feet anymore stop actively giving that person money and it won't show up in your feet anymore ever that was good hell yeah because that's how the platform is done it's we we aren't gonna make folk I'm going to actively pursue people coming on the platform and I have that I like and that I respect because I want them to be on the platform people we're asking if we would advertise it it's great questions so floodplain is not designed with a suggested algorithm in fact we do not intend to implement one users would have to opt in they would have to browse creators in order to get suggestions from us there won't be like a you finish watching a tech quickie video and then it's like hey you might also like tech deals here's a here's a sample of tech deals go subscribe to tech deals totally arbitrary example we haven't talked to anyway so there's no mechanism for that so no we wouldn't we wouldn't have to advertise it and honestly if I was in charge of that judgment call which I'm pretty sure I am I wouldn't yeah yeah and there's there's yeah anyways so essentially yeah buddy our opinions don't say he's a he funny enough tech deals is a real channel I didn't know that whoa what holy huh it's like you are referencing something really specific but without even knowing both dad oh darn um okay anyway okay you know what okay do you have anything else to add here um no essentially our our opinions won't govern what ends up being on fo p yeah hopefully our opinions will drive certain people to join yeah like hey we like you will you join we want to support doing great 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savage jerky where is the box of jerky did we eat it all savage jerky is so delicious that if Colton doesn't create suppose if Colton doesn't hide the box in between when shows people find it and they eat it all even though they know they're not supposed to eat it because we're supposed to eat it on the last show Oh savage jerky is made with the best ingredients without nitrates or preservatives yeah the goal was to create a snack that's full of flavor and spice but isn't bad for you it normally is we have the box I know 13 different flavors of jerky my personal favorites are the that's the the maple buffalo bacon Moho man I love them all of them Ohio's like top tier that cracked pepper and sea salt my favorite too both have Mohan the name the original standard Momo and Yahoo habanero and they've also got super hot stuff made with like Carolina Reapers ghost peppers all that kind of stuff they also make barbecue sauce hot sauce and a spice rub and so their Carolina Reaper hot sauce uses one of the hottest peppers in the world so go check them out use offer code LTT over on savage jerky and get 10% off on all of their jacket thank you alright so what else we got here oh man now we're bad one plus news gotta be kidding me um okay so posted by Wulfgar on the forum 1 plus head appears to be a credit card breach update January 19th update number 2 thank you for your comments we're reading each and every one and we appreciate your feedback we do want to clarify only potentially affected users will receive the email but in a nutshell oneplus has emailed nearly 40,000 of their customers to inform them that their credit card data may have been compromised here's what I want to know like we've discussed this because bacliff Linus tech tips other than subscriptions on the forum there was no reason for us to ever need people's payment information one of the rules hold on even then we didn't hold it one of the reasons that we opted for PayPal was that it allowed us to take payments in a recurring fashion without holding the customers payment information ourselves we don't want that responsibility and we need it we got owned once did me like I remember a long time ago that thing yeah and like that was Kate and there was no payment information and there was no full-time developers on the site stuff which is part of the reason why we got owned but there was no payment information they didn't get anything yes we got nothing so I'm looking at this going like ok so right we've discussed it with floatplane we found other solutions but still on floatplane we will hold no I don't want it payment information don't want any of it that liability that's horrible horrible because then we might have to send out this email then then I don't even the level 1 tax podcast might be talking about floatplane media and their breach of a hundred thousand customers I want them to target open media but not our customer credit card yeah no other things that's terrible um why do they want this why are they keeping it because who buys from oneplus in a recurring fashion like are we talking the world's most forgetful people who lose their their - charger all the time and they just have like a like a you know uh that's oh wow a - button and they just have like a like a 1 plus equivalent of a - button to get a new - why haven't they bought this who's still a thing I haven't heard about - yeah I don't know if they work in Canada though so one of their servers was infected with a malicious script affecting the payment page code collecting credit card info while was being injured ok so that whole Ram was over nothing because it was well as being entered it operated intermittently capturing and sending data directly from the user's browser and it has since been eliminated so anyone who entered their credit card on one Plusnet wow that whole rant I wish we could cut it out between mid November 2017 and January 11th 2018 could be effective credit card info including card numbers expiry dates and security codes entered like what is the point of that security code anymore when pretty much everyone online makes you enter it the thing about this is like you know that from from having worked at a retailer we don't need it to process it costs more to process without it yeah yeah baby interesting huh that's why every single person takes it so that's why everyone takes it even though the whole point of that is supposed to be that it's like a second factor proving that you have physical access to the card Oh anyone who paid via a saved credit card should not be affected ok so that's what you get for saving their credit card on websites don't do that and users who paid via the credit card via PayPal method those won't be affected because their credit card is abstract appel no no they're saying users who paid via a safe credit card should not be should not be affect oh wait oh right because it's only when you enter not enter you ok ok why do we even well you know what why don't we even do news we should just banter forget it yeah so they're working with payment providers to implement a more secure credit card payment method and they're offering one year of credit monitoring for those affected that's nice cuz that's not cheap like I have I have had to deal with credit card theft before and - very recently yeah fucked a lot it's like a big bummer and then all you counsel you have Auto subscribing or like everything is cancelled this is posted by AG 1233 on the forum Nintendo announces cardboard yes which controllers wait what no atlatl force which it's not switch controllers they'll get yourself cardboard kits can pass sorry excuse me cardboard kits compatible with Nintendo switch so okay sorta not a great title a lot of people in my opinion have been misrepresenting this you get a game you get software on the switch and then you get a cardboard kit to build something that goes along with that game so that you have interesting types of physical interaction with the game you get a game ok everyone's like oh they're just selling cardboard no ok so here's an example you could make a functioning 13 key piano cradle yeah for the switch caught you make a functioning 13 P piano the cradles to switch console and the right Drakon controller the ir motion camera and the joy con detects which keys are pressed and plays each note through the console speakers and there's other stuff you can take control of your very own motorbike by constructing a functioning set of handlebars with a joy khan inserted in each side and the switch console in the middle so just a caveat here too you might not be into it and that might be super fair but so many people are just like oh they're just selling cardboard no there's games that go with I misunderstood I thought it was a controller in the sense that there was cardboard and stuff but you just use your joy Khan and the switch as the stuff got it yeah okay sure why not I mean I confess I went out there and I bought one of those one of those steering wheels for the week you should check out what's the worst you should check out these yeah you should check out the robot one the robot suit there's a video for this that's like really good actually let's pull that out I'm sure we're gonna end up with a strike you're just oh do you not want to watch it no no it's fine let's just let's just do it um you could just YouTube Nintendo lab oh there it is okay pull this let's pull this baby up let's at least mute it for our best chance here yeah so this beginning bit is them just print it's a little bit further so there's a fishing reel there there's the piano yeah there's a house thing I don't know what that does yeah there's oh it just like vibrates and runs around those little toys that's the motorcycle thing this is a fishing rod I believe this one's available now I'm not sure I'm not sure so yeah you actually have to like reel in and like fight with the fish I don't know I don't understand what the house does I never understood that part lagging where's the where's the robot one though because it's crazy it's before this it's somewhere around here this is it okay well I think you slightly past it okay it's cool all right here's a guy there's part of the backpack thing yeah you want to see when she takes her thing off the back so yeah hold up shotgun yeah there okay oh but you don't get to see the construction Burt wait if she takes off the back and it shows you how it works no no no just wait cool so he has a joy con on each of his ankles and he has a joy con in each of his hands and they're connected by strings through that box on the back and those switches go up and down so it knows he's moving right and his movement in real life goes into the game it has four points of it's actually kind of cool it's kind of cool you know they're all hopefully games hopefully VR gets better and cheaper enough that we can just do it that way pretty soon yeah but I guess this is a so that's one of the criticisms that I think is relatively valid is it shows the two kits there at the end yeah they're like 69 and $79 so seventy and eighty dollars yeah and I believe the games that are going to come with it are gonna be mini-game e right whereas they could have done a lot more with it but then we also don't know what the games are like sure so there could be more to it I suspect the piano one is just gonna be a piano that you can key into I don't think there's gonna be like many like a lot of minigames with it's tough but we'll see so last topic we had we had a lot of people really upset with us about one of the videos we posted at CES we said there was an undisclosed number of course in a laptop why do we get fucking it we got flack for that because people were like well here there was there was a comment that I have where did I see it I like just saw it going in the chat maybe I'm in $70 for cardboard um anyway someone was really upset they're like if it's to embargo to say how many of them you just shouldn't post it and I'm like what do you not get excited about like cool unreleased tech um anyway in unrelated news there's a rumor on chip he'll calm then Intel will be bringing six core processors to mobile six core 12 thread processors word on the street is that we're gonna see an i-5 80 308 all the way to 80 850 H and that would be a two point six base 4.3 boost oh wait sorry this isn't oh this is wow this is really unclear apparently there may also be at what an i-9 HK what that does flop 24.8 boost six core 12 threads sake wow that sounds awesome all right cool so this is coffee lake H that was it not that I saw anything you know unrelated news did we talk about the Apple thing I don't think so um okay at the very top I remember and Dan the Samsung yeah there's kind of boring faster memory and Apple's bringing some money back over to the states because the state seems like new laws on taxes and they were like okay Holly oh-ee Laporte's company is suing Twitter oh because I apparently they reached an agreement back in like 2009 because look Leo Laporte was concerned that Twitter was going to start serving audio-visual content and that they're that they're their trademarks were too similar and that twit was audio-visual so he was like well you know we can coexist as long as you guys don't serve audio-visual content but then now Twitter serves video so he's suing Twitter so that's interesting I I really do wonder where that lawsuit goes because isn't it an acronym for this week in tech but it doesn't matter because the trademark twit is theirs so yeah I mean I don't I don't personally think that most people even know what twit is but I mean if you're on I believe Air Canada flights and you go to the podcast section Wow I believe there is a Leo Laporte thing about something the savagery is real yeah um and on that note um thank you for watching we will see you guys again next week same bat-time same bat-channel he does have a fair point though like they did agree not to do it and they are doing it so I don't know where this especially if there's an agreement between yeah I don't know where this is going man he probably has a lot of clothes but then Twitter might just have enough money to just be like no go away or maybe they don't I don't know depends yeah they don't make money so it depends if someone will give them money to give to yeah by but it's yeah I think because he has an agreement he's gonna get something I think it's kind of ludicrous but that's the thing at all but he hasn't agreed always looks like I'm having a really bad I like the winch Oh Oh like mvgame suit yeah I mean one of our topics it's it's related to that thing that I brought up the last time yeah but now and II know like actually