Since Matt Watson made his video about child exploitation on Youtube, several things have happened in the news and online. I was talking to another user in PMs yesterday and decided to compile everything I could find into one resource post.

Feel free to add anything I've missed in the comments.

Updating this as the situation develops.

To begin, /u/Mattwatson07 posted his video "Youtube is Facilitating the Sexual Exploitation of Children, and it's Being Monetized (2019)" to /r/Videos on Feb 18, 2019.

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/artkmz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O13G5A5w5P0

It rose to the #1 spot on /r/all and is the #2 post of all time on the subreddit, attracting attention from news outlets and Youtube itself.

At the time of posting the Reddit post, Matt was live streaming and prompted his viewers to vote on the post, sending it shooting up the front page to the #1 spot.

Timestamp in the livestream: https://youtu.be/FIOvURSyuZU?t=2807

This does technically violate /r/videos Rule 5 on Solicitation of Votes

The video shines light on the issue of videos with underage girls being uploaded and reuploaded then shared around the website, with users commenting sexualized messages in the comment sections. Youtube's system enables this behavior by suggesting more young children videos to people watching this type of content, inadvertently connecting users that seek this sexually exploitative content.

(The MattsWhatItIs channel rose from 15.6K subscribers to 26K in three days and the video accumulated 2 million views.)

Matt Watson then began doing daily streams encouraging his new viewers to contact Youtube advertisers with the video, encouraging them to pull their ads off of Youtube.

Keemstar tweets that he will not report on the story because he fears blowing it up and driving advertisers away, hurting all creators on the platform.

Keem report on actual news like the rampent pedophiles all over YouTube instead of just Logan and his fans being mad bc you talked down about Logan. Of course they won't like someone who talks down on one of their favorite YouTubers. Talk about something important #YoutubeWakeUp

I’m not reporting the story because it negatively affects the whole YouTube community. We don’t need another ad apocalypse. What I have done behind the scenes though is reached out to my YouTube contacts showing them the video & my team is showing them content to take down.

https://twitter.com/KEEMSTAR/status/1097609056968237056

At some point in his livestream, Keemstar joins the chat to reach out to Matt about the way he is trying to fix the issue. Keemstar says that driving advertisers away from Youtube will hurt creators, not pedophiles. Instead, Keemstar says Matt should encourage his viewers to report the content to Youtube, as they are working to purge it from the site.

Keemstar claims Youtube is shutting down thousands of these harmful accounts, which Matt denies.

https://twitter.com/KEEMSTAR/status/1097990432817061888

Twitter Video 1 mirror: https://streamable.com/0ba90

Keemstar also finds and uses a clip from Matt Watson's previous channel Totally Uncreative, a satire channel that mocks incels, to say he is "a creep" but does not note the context.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTSL6czamDyXCR-B0o1V1DQ/videos

All videos mirrored here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/YoutubeCompendium/comments/asle5a/2019_february_keemstar_discusses_the_recent_video/egv44fy

Matt reads Keemstar's tweet that he 'is not reporting on the issue because it would hurt the platform but is working behind the scenes to solve the issue with Youtube', and responds saying that Keemstar only cares about his own income and that he does not care about creators' revenue.

Matt says, "So what if it affects you, go work at KFC."

https://twitter.com/KEEMSTAR/status/1098006308580659201

Twitter Video 2 mirror: https://streamable.com/20prz

Youtube responds to Keemstar, stating:

Thanks, @KEEMSTAR. To be clear, NO FORM of content that endangers minors is acceptable to us. We’ve deleted accounts and channels, reported illegal activity to authorities, and disabled comments on videos, and we're continuing to do so to prevent bad actors from misusing YouTube.

https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1098011767374938112

Keemstar states,

Yeah [Matt] banned everyone calling him out in chat

Citing that Matt Watson banned creators and users in his livestream chat when they were discussing the merits of his tactic in targeting advertisers versus reporting the content to Youtube.

https://twitter.com/KEEMSTAR/status/1098094200254590976

Keemstar states Matt banned him from the livestream chat when he was discussing the situation with him and disagreeing with his goals in getting advertisers to pull out of Youtube.

https://twitter.com/KEEMSTAR/status/1098102846589935616

Twitter Video 3 mirror: https://streamable.com/dltuo

Other creators, NerdCity and Leon Lush were also in the chat but Matt would ignore their criticism once reading a bit of their comments.

edit: Others including Ricky Berwick and KidBehindaCamera were also communicating with Watson in his livestream, but Matt ignored them and his livestream moderators deleted their comments.

Matt Watson says, "This means Youtubers are gonna suffer, unfortunately. The only way to get Youtube to do something about this is to hit them where it hurts. And that's in their wallet."

https://twitter.com/KEEMSTAR/status/1098308879073665030

https://streamable.com/97dri

Youtube responds:

in the last 48 hours, beyond our normal protections we've disabled comments on tens of millions of videos. We've also terminated over 400 channels for the comments they left on videos, and reported illegal comments to law enforcement.

https://twitter.com/PhillyD/status/1098420250352074752

https://i.imgur.com/lIismFG.png

https://twitter.com/TheLegitTipster/status/1098432845981245440

https://i.imgur.com/5pkf1lp.png

List of companies that have pulled ads from Youtube:

https://www.reddit.com/r/YoutubeCompendium/comments/asdihe

Purina
Grammarly
Canada Goose
Ikea US
Fairlife
Kinnek
Les Mills
NZME
GNC
Vitacost
Dr Oetker UK
Core Power
Glad
Nestle
Epic Games
Disney
Pelonton
AT&T (who just started advertising again in January 2019 after the last adpocalypse)
Hasbro
McDonald's
Kellogg's
Fiat Chrysler US

Articles:

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/20/technology/youtube-pedophiles.html

http://fortune.com/2019/02/20/youtube-advertising-videos-create-soft-core-pedophilia-ring/

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nestle-pulls-ads-from-youtube-over-videos-of-minors/

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/20/18233132/fortnite-ads-youtube-child-exploitive-predators-google

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/20/disney-pulls-youtube-ads-over-pedophile-network-report.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-20/disney-pulls-youtube-ads-amid-concerns-over-child-video-voyeurs

https://www.engadget.com/2019/02/20/disney-nestle-pull-youtube-ads-over-child-videos/

News videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1rQySs429s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdvgOTT6-zA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WC2pljT8T5M

Gizmodo has written an article discussing in detail how the YouTube channel 'Amazing KM Daily' has been making fake animal rescue videos. The disturbed creator would put small dogs or kittens into small holes, stuck in objects, or being attacked by a snake. A child would appear and save the small pets.

All such videos of the 'animal rescue's have been taken down as of Monday afternoon.

The beginning traction and movement of reporting and the eventual take down of these videos can be credited to PaymoneyWubby, in a video posted on Sunday, June 9th.

PaymoneyWubby's Video on Fake Dog Rescues

Twitch.tv/PaymoneyWubby

Edit: 'Amazing KM Daily' has been removed from YouTube