KillianM2 Youtube channel is no more....

Say Your Number

Saw this tweet a few minutes ago and was pretty disappointed, the channel was a great resource, loved the weird obscure gems from RTE, footage of the football panel and the old ad breaks, especially the rapid fire of freeze frames ads at the end of a break voiced by some serious auld lad, I'm sure he'll find some other place for it

https://twitter.com/KillianM2/status/1403097795758903298

razorblunt

Saw this on twitter too.

He seemed to think it was coming, I wonder what the third strike was for, I'm guessing music used in an ad or clip was caught by an algorithm

cj maxx

I've never heard of it ! , what does he show?

Tchaikovsky

He seemed to have recorded every TV channel from back in the day and would post up videos of ad breaks, old shows, football matches etc. A shame it's gone, but probably inevitable. I'd say RTE got onto Youtube.

Atlantic Dawn

Pity, enjoyed it.

razorblunt

cj maxx wrote: »

I've never heard of it ! , what does he show?

He'd copy VHS tapes and put them up online.
He was always looking for donations of anysort of VHS that was recorded from back in the day.

Tchaikovsky wrote: »

He seemed to have recorded every TV channel from back in the day and would post up videos of ad breaks, old shows, football matches etc. A shame it's gone, but probably inevitable. I'd say RTE got onto Youtube.

I think he mentioned that RTE have been more than fair to him so he doesn't think it came from them.

Hangdogroad

A shame, very enjoyable channel. A lot of archive tv that's not viewable otherwise particularly the RTE stuff. Hopefully he can host it on another platform.

Church on Tuesday

Another example of why YouTube has gone to the dogs....

retalivity

dailymotion or vimeo is your only man

NoLuckLarry

Youtube is really gone to **** lately between the intrusive adverts and copyright takedowns on channels. Not even video playlists titled "Music for babies to sleep to" are safe from the bull**** - my 7 month old had just nodded off the other night when Youtube (in all its logic), decided to interrupt the lullaby video and wake her with a ****ing 20 minute GAA podcast which somehow showed up as an advert???

If there was any realistic alternative to it I'd never use it again, and I'm saying that as someone that was there when it first launched.

Hangdogroad

One of those who brought a copyright strike was a country and western singer. Think I know who it is, not Irish.

Gregor Samsa

razorblunt wrote: »

Saw this on twitter too.

He seemed to think it was coming, I wonder what the third strike was for, I'm guessing music used in an ad or clip was caught by an algorithm

I think it might be more than just the automatic copyright scanning youTube does.

I've a video up there that happens to contain some scenes where reognisable music was playing on a stereo nearby to where the video was being recorded. So the songs aren't part of the video as such, but are audibly contained within it.

YouTube spotted this, and alerted me to it, but the only sanction is that the video isn't available for monetisation (it wouldn't make any money anyway). It doesn't count as a strike, and they didn't take the video down or restrict the audience or anything.

So I'd guess it was an active complaint that did it.

NoLuckLarry

NoLuckLarry wrote: »

a ****ing 20 minute GAA podcast which somehow showed up as an advert???

The ads are ridiculous. Singers trying to launch songs by putting the full crappy son that no one wants to listen to, as an ad.

An "ad" I seen recently was a full orchestra banging away. I think the runtime was like an hour or something. Fcuk off.

ancapailldorcha

Church on Tuesday wrote: »

Another example of why YouTube has gone to the dogs....

It's f*cking ridiculous.

I'm a fan of the World War 2 strategy game Hearts of Iron IV. I follow a few Youtube channels as the game is quite complicated and the creators can't use words like "war", "Hitler", "fascist" or "suicide". In a strategy game about World War 2.

silverharp

its a great platform but YT hate their creators, and YT algorithms will promote corporate content over individual. YT might want to become a big auld television station but thats not what their users want

Tilden Katz

Damn, I loved his channel. I love people like him who are nerdy about something and probably know that they don't have mass appeal but are dedicated to that small number of like-minded individuals.

I don't get why it seemed inevitable that his channel would be deleted if he reached a certain amount of videos. Is it because he was more likely to run into rights issues the more videos he posted?

Tilden Katz

This is very interesting. He wrote it in response to somebody basically saying "Good riddance" because apparently he was stealing content. :rolleyes:

https://twitter.com/KillianM2/status/1403156252813938688?s=20

Hangdogroad

Tilden Katz wrote: »

This is very interesting. He wrote it in response to somebody basically saying "Good riddance" because apparently he was stealing content. :rolleyes:

https://twitter.com/KillianM2/status/1403156252813938688?s=20

That was in response to a tweet, since taken down I think, by some radio DJ called Conka McBride (no, me neither)

Melanchthon

ancapailldorcha wrote: »

It's f*cking ridiculous.

I'm a fan of the World War 2 strategy game Hearts of Iron IV. I follow a few Youtube channels as the game is quite complicated and the creators can't use words like "war", "Hitler", "fascist" or "suicide". In a strategy game about World War 2.

Anything to do with weapons is de-monetised isn't it?even stuff that's completely historical and could never be used for a nut jobs rampage

The word Montenegro gets flagged.

L1011

Hangdogroad wrote: »

That was in response to a tweet, since taken down I think, by some radio DJ called Conka McBride (no, me neither)

Volunteer DJ on a community radio station, moaning about not having created content by uploading old TV clips when the 'content' on that type of station is, erm, talking between old songs. Pathetic.

Tweets still up though.

Tilden Katz

Deleted User wrote: »

The word Montenegro gets flagged.

SRSLY? Mad, Ted.

Google eventually manages to destroy every product they own.

ancapailldorcha

Melanchthon wrote: »

Anything to do with weapons is de-monetised isn't it?even stuff that's completely historical and could never be used for a nut jobs rampage

Funny how big budget Hollywood films can still graphically depict the stuff on Youtube via clips and trailers but some Belgian lad makes a video about a WW2 strategy game and accidentally uses the word "War".

10000maniacs

That is absolutely incredible. We are never going to see that content again. I keep being reminded that I won't see any adverts if I pay google a monthly fee. Was sincerely thinking about paying, but they can whistle dixie now after that pathetic ruling.

retalivity

10000maniacs wrote: »

That is absolutely incredible. We are never going to see that content again. I keep being reminded that I won't see any adverts if I pay google a monthly fee. Was sincerely thinking about paying, but they can whistle dixie now after that pathetic ruling.

Install adblock for free, it works on the youtube ads as well (on a browser anyway)

retalivity

retalivity wrote: »

Install adblock for free, it works on the youtube ads as well (on a browser anyway)

Sponsor block as well. And on Android, YouTube Vanced which gets rid of ads and includes sponsor block.

Santan

It has become a terrible user product now, but I just refuse to pay for it just in spite, they make a product worse and worse in order for you to pay for the better one, just a crap business model to me, but is there an alternative?

branie2

I really enjoyed it

Tony EH

Re: adverts on YouTube. As has been mentioned, just get an ad blocker for your browser. Firefox and Adblockplus works a treat. I haven't seen an advert on YouTube in years.

However, that won't help the decline of YouTube content in general. Their use of blunt force algorithms just stupidly target things that should otherwise be ok to broadcast. I don't think there's been a YouTuber I've watched that hasn't been hit by it and then had to go through the rigmarole of getting YouTube to reverse the "decision".

KKkitty

I genuinely liked his channel. Seeing all the old ads and other things was great. I've kids who were sick of the ads so I've paid for the premium version. In the UK they have Uktv gold and other tv stations that show old programming. At any point during the day you can see the likes of Bullseye, Only Fools And Horses and more. What's stopping RTE from doing similar?

AllGunsBlazing

silverharp wrote: »

its a great platform but YT hate their creators, and YT algorithms will promote corporate content over individual. YT might want to become a big auld television station but thats not what their users want

This has been the long game ever since Google took over. YouTube was genuinely interesting for all of three years.

L1011

KKkitty wrote: »

I genuinely liked his channel. Seeing all the old ads and other things was great. I've kids who were sick of the ads so I've paid for the premium version. In the UK they have Uktv gold and other tv stations that show old programming. At any point during the day you can see the likes of Bullseye, Only Fools And Horses and more. What's stopping RTE from doing similar?

UK Gold is a pay TV channel on platforms with tens of millions of subscribers combined, which makes it profitable. RTE doing the same would be a cost, not a profit or even a break-even.

Also, there's a lot of stuff that just doesn't exist in better than VHS quality anymore - so that won't ever be shown on TV again.

The video of that jackeen kid going on about eating galtee rashers for his tea is gone.

TheValeyard

What a shame. Was great stuff. Hope he finds another platform.

Hangdogroad

Deleted User wrote: »

The video of that jackeen kid going on about eating galtee rashers for his tea is gone.

Can still be seen on Classic Irish Ads twitter page.

https://twitter.com/AdsIrish/status/1245750307843432450

Tilden Katz

Hangdogroad wrote: »

That was in response to a tweet, since taken down I think, by some radio DJ called Conka McBride (no, me neither)

I think the Conka tweet is still there!

its_steve116

Copyright won in the end.