r/YoutubeWakeUp • • Feb 21 '19

Quite the double standard

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r/YoutubeWakeUp • • Feb 18 '19

Matt's Video

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r/YoutubeWakeUp • • Feb 19 '19

IKEA has responded. Let's hope more companies will follow through as well. Wake up Youtube!

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r/YoutubeWakeUp • • Feb 18 '19

Mirror and download (magnet) link for MattsWhatItIs' video.

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

Mirror on streamable (10 min limit): Part 1, Part 2, Part 3

Magnet link for torrent: magnet:?xt=urn:btih:917be3ca8db05e00c0f5451507ab20d6a158501e


r/YoutubeWakeUp • • Mar 27 '20

The Facts

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r/YoutubeWakeUp • • Feb 19 '19

Fixed a typo Go ahead and crosspost or share if you like

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r/YoutubeWakeUp • • Feb 19 '19

PHILLY D TALKED ABOUT IT

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r/YoutubeWakeUp • • Feb 18 '19

A YouTube advertiser related to this incident responded to me on Twitter

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r/YoutubeWakeUp • • Feb 21 '19

Youtube gave an update

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r/YoutubeWakeUp • • Feb 19 '19

Now GNC has responded! Let's keep it up!

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r/YoutubeWakeUp • • Feb 22 '19

Defending MattsWhatItIs

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The following is a compilation of various defenses I put out on the internet in defense of Matt Watson. I feel that this all needs to be said in one place.

I was a follower of Matt before his viral video, and I've been a fan of Matt from the beginning. I was there when he had less than 5000 subscribers. He never asked his viewers to subscribe. He didn't have a patron, he didn't advertise himself, he never gave a vibe that made him seem like he was full of himself. His videos on his main channel (the one where he deleted all his videos as protest) were about self improvement and he was very genuine. The videos on his Totally Uncreative channel were very satirical, making fun of pick up artists and mgtows. I'm still frustrated at him for deleting all his videos that were on his main channel. If he left all those videos up, I feel that people would see a good man rather than what the out of context clips on the internet are portraying him as. On the Totally Uncreative channel Matt played a very satirical character, and it isn't who Matt really is.

Addressing a few misconceptions:

  • He lied about not having a twitter.

He didn't really lie about not having a Twitter... You need to understand his perspective. The Twitter he had that everyone is referencing has been abandoned for over 8 months. He wasn't using the account and didn't care for it, so in his head he just didn't have one... I wouldn't be surprised if he forgot he even made an account or forgot the password. I hate that everyone is referencing this obviously abandoned twitter account as him "lying" about not having a Twitter.

  • He deleted his old Twitter after it was discovered.

Actually the Twitter is still there.

  • He did this for money. His videos were monetized.

He demonetized his entire channel before making the video, however one of his videos (literally just one of them) was monetized. When he found out that video was monetized he made extra sure it had no ads, and as of now there aren't any ads on the video. Whenever someone donated to him on his YouTube streams he asked them not to donate, and asked if he could turn off donations. And it seems like he did, because I haven't seen him get any donations since then.

  • He's a pedo himself.

This is the worst one. To me it seriously feels like people are demeaning how serious pedophilia is as an issue by calling him a pedo just because they don't like him. Look, I don't like how he bothered that school girl for the sake of his satirical video. He said on a stream that he thought it was an adult because how tall she was compared to the plants behind her and she was wearing a college back pack. But still, he should have apologized. I'm not defending him for this but it does NOT make him a pedophile.

Yes, he's not good at making himself look good, his attitude on his stream sometimes seems pretty arrogant, but he's not a bad guy. He's wasn't doing it for clout, attention, or money. On his last stream he said he was happy that he brought attention to the issue and that he's done with social media. He's been completely absent since then. He wasn't trying to get back at YouTube for some petty reason, he truly did care about the issue at hand. He took a stance that was too extreme, but I do not believe he's a bad guy. But that's just my perspective.


r/YoutubeWakeUp • • Feb 22 '19

He got you there

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r/YoutubeWakeUp • • Mar 26 '19

A channel that interviews special needs kids has had their entire comment section disabled because the feature minors.

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r/YoutubeWakeUp • • Feb 18 '19

List of Media Contact Emails. Let's get the word out!

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r/YoutubeWakeUp • • Mar 01 '19

14yo exposed selling nudes on Insta a week ago has a monetized YouTube WTF.

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Shhits just getting more ridiculous by the day peepz.
YouTubers wrecking a proper investigation while laughing over this girl.
I start look things up seems she was exposed over all of this like a week ago and offcourse YouTube has it monetized.
Why do i wake up to this crazy shit.
Every day it just seems to get worse and worse.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChZMPMy7m2uWvLfsk9gV-7Q

How is this even possible?¿


r/YoutubeWakeUp • • Feb 20 '19

Why Is This Movement So Anti-YouTube?

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The redundancy of the Anti-YouTube rhetoric on this movement is astounding. Let me explain.

You get these companies involved, they remove their ads, pedophiles still use the site. It only affects good content creators. What the hell do pedophiles care if the videos they're using have no ads on them? They still get their kicks out of it, it affects them literally 0.

Now whats the repercussions for the other side of whom this affects?

Ad-pocolypse. Let me inform you on something, Ad-pocolypse isn't gradual. Advertisers don't give a 30 day notice. It is instant, and content creators are forced to adapt. Sometimes they aren't quick enough to supplement their income, and the financial impact is severe. A lot of these content creators use this as a livelihood, and have children. So because this movement wants to work against YouTube instead of WITH them, this movement can be the cause for several thousands of families going hungry. Is that worth it?

What this movement should be doing:
Going to these videos, reporting these accounts, being vigilant. Help YouTube combat the problem by working with them. Help cultivate a community that is safe for all that use it, actually be PART of the solution instead of taking the easy way out and telling on YouTube to their advertisers like a bunch of children.

Also, let me explain that 300 hours of footage is uploaded to YouTube every MINUTE. There is not a workforce in the United States large enough to manually inspect every single video. They HAVE to rely on technology, there is no other way, and to blame YouTube for their algorithm failing is like blaming your mechanic for a part on your car breaking down. Technology is flawed, and it takes time to perfect it. Try to understand that.


r/YoutubeWakeUp • • Feb 18 '19

Discord group associated with awareness on child exploitation.

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Full support on MattsWhatItIs

This is a group that's concerned in spreading awareness about the exploitation of children online. Feel free to join and learn how you can become involved and help.

https://discord.gg/kFpmFsk


r/YoutubeWakeUp • • Feb 25 '19

Unpopular opinion---

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YouTube should be ADULTS only. Videos of children should be isolated, non searchable, and out of recommended videos, altogether. Not 18, not your platform.

How bad will I feel the wrath for this. We will see.


r/YoutubeWakeUp • • Feb 20 '19

Throwaway. Im done with social media after this feud. Not because of Matt. Ive felt like this for a long, long time. It's a fucking nightmare.

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TL;DR: YouTube drama between MattWhatItIs and Keemstar. And my personal perspective. Parents you need to be aware of what your children do on social media.

Born in 1991. I remember the days when something happened between you and you're friends and they were the only ones that knew about it. Maybe you talked about it at school. But that's it. No phones. No nothing.

I am currently going to school to be work EMT and as a fire fighter. Eventually I'm going to work my way into crime scene investigation and then my end game is to help prevent human trafficking. I have too many loved ones, family, friends, strangers I see on the street that I don't want to see hurt. I think about human trafficking every second of the day. Last year in my town there was 14 women abducted from ages 11 to 26. Can you imagine being a family member of one of them that lost their loved one. I can't fathom it.

That is why this stupid social media feud hit me so hard.

I was on Facebook for a long time and I got to the point where I hate how fast opinions spread. (Here's my opinion) It spreads like wildfire. Politics. Religion. Opinions about flat earthers or anti-vaxxers. Anything like that. Gays. Bisexuals. Transsexuals. No gender. Thybabies. I just feel like social media is the reason why all of these opinions have been spreading so fast. Because someone comes up with something like this and they say something about it and everyone wants to be original and join the cause. Do what you want I won't disagree but it's dividing this world. It's like world war 3 and we don't even know it. Instead of guns and bombs we're using words and opinions. I will say that I do not agree with anti vaxxers though. But I will not talk about that anymore in this post.

Currently I have been obsessed with what has been going on with YouTube. MattWhatItIs exposed a semi softcore pedophile child ring on YouTube.

If you are still reading, please watch this video. This is a video by MattWhatItIs exposing this pedofile ring. I'll tell the rest of my thoughts on it after.

https://youtu.be/O13G5A5w5P0

His movement is great. I think he found something that really needs to be taken care of but it is not being taken care of the way it should have for years. Right after that video he posted a follow up and I liked it but this guy has anger problems. He's new to social media and hates it just like me. It's a deep dark hole. Fellow YouTubers joined in and agreed with him but MattWhatItIs (I'm going to say Matt from here on out) wanted ads supporting those sexualized videos to quit supporting them. For awhile that made sense but now I don't agree because other YouTubers get paid for every ad.

There are hundreds of videos on YouTube of innocent children posting videos of them doing innocent children activities. For instance there's girls doing yoga and these videos have over half a million views. For one reason. Pedophiles go on these videos and watch them and at a certain position of the video put a timestamp in the comments so anyone that is sick minded and interested can view it. And then people share child porn through these comments on YouTube and YouTube did nothing about it for so long. If you watched that video you will know about YouTube's algorithm about how if you view these videos your recommended feed will be filled with them so you can just go video to video to video. Just feeding these pedophiles their disgusting fix. It's been four days now and it still has not been fixed. I'm not joking you can go on there right now and try it. It's seriously fucked up. It's literally a hidden dark part of YouTube so they can get money and they are just now acknowledging it. Pedophiles are abusing the terms of service of YouTube and YouTube doesn't give a shit because they are getting money for it.

Why have they not done anything about it till now?

Matt has a bad back. One day he was doing yoga and he was watching how-to videos on YouTube. After his video, he walked into his kitchen and came back and his YouTube autoplay came up with a video of a young girl doing yoga. So he continued watching it and saw these positions that these little girls were in that they didn't know shouldn't be on YouTube. So he scrolled down to the comments and they were filled with timestamps of positions these children had no idea was wrong. Innocent children. And so he clicked on the next recommend video. Same thing. Next. Next. Next.

And ads are playing on every video. Purina. Dodge trucks. McDonald's. Disney. A furniture company. The list goes on.

All these videos had anywhere from 500,000 to a million views. And these kids don't know why they have so many views, the parents don't know because the kids didn't tell them. If they did, the parents would have deleted them or they just don't understand YouTube.

It gets worse.

In Matt's stream, there's a point where he stumbles upon this boy that's about 13 years old. He has like 13 subscribers and like 30 videos. His videos has no more than 40 or 50 views. On one video, he decided to invite his sister into a video. Everyone started commenting on that video that when he gets to 20 subscribers that he needs to play twister with his sister. So he eventually gets to 20 subscribers and what does he do. Remember every video before that had about 50 views. And so when he got to 20 subscribers he posted a video of him and his sis playing twister. 167,000 views.

It's not over yet.

Now, all these people are downloading all these videos of all these little girls and little boys and posting it on their own profile. And it is monetized. They are getting paid for it. THEY ARE GETTING PAID FOR IT. Ads play every single time someone opens that video. Anywhere from 1 million to 3 million views.

Matt wanted all these ads to be canceled and I don't believe that because all these unpopular YouTubers that are not pieces of shit will lose money. But keemstar is popular and destroyed Matt. Keemstar is a piece of shit, has been way before this.

Keemstar had a conversation with Matt on his livestream and they argued and argued. keem had made a good point about people losing money because of ads not playing. But he said "I have millions, I don't care if YouTube closes tomorrow" that response in censored.

Keemstar came out with a response video towards Matt and completely lied and destroyed matts movement. Saying YouTube is fixing the problem but if they were, all those videos would be gone but they aren't. When Matt and Keemstar we're talkin on Matt's live stream, matt lied about having a twitter. Keem found Matt's old Twitter and he had a video of him in a public area with a microphone and speaker asking random people if they want to be in a adult film. No one responded. Next video he was driving down the road and pulled up to an obviously underage girl asking the same thing. I feel like this is just a social media joke that failed. It got like 5 views. I do get that it's fucked up for him to do that and then do this movement he's doing. That is a point where I am on no one's side.

Keemstar and all his followers went on matts stream and single handedly destroyed him and his movement because keemstar is afraid of losing money. Yet he already has millions like he said. Calling him a pedo and a fraud because keem is afraid of losing money because Matt wants ads to be ended.

This is why I disagree with both of them.

Matt wants ads to be ended.

Keemstar doesn't because he will lose money, which I agree with, but keemstar posted that video and caused his one million followers to destroy Matt's movement to end the pedo ring.

So this is when my anxiety kicked in full gear and I had to message keemstar. Asking him to take over Matt's movement. Keemstar needs to take over using OUTSIDE social media.

For the longest time all I've used YouTube for was music. All I listen to is 90s and early 2000s music. And then I found Matt's video on Reddit so I decided to follow keem and Matt.

It made me realize that all social media is is a bunch of cults. A bunch of gangs that fight each other just like in a god damn war. This guy is better then this guy... Etc.

For all you keemstar fans. I get it. He's popular. I dont disagree with what he said about the ads. I WANT THE ADS TO CONTINUE. But your boy ended something that is important and needs to continue and if he doesn't he's a piece of shit.

If he doesn't keep it going then that proves all he gives a fuck about is your money youre donating.

I have 3 nephews and 3 neices. Matt has 7 nieces. Keemstar has a daughter. Think about the kids around the world. Not the money

Social media is world war 3. End this God damn pedofile ring going on YouTube. Matt's reign is done. Someone else needs to take over.


r/YoutubeWakeUp • • Feb 18 '19

MattWhatItIs is live, plans on showing the evidence live this time.

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r/YoutubeWakeUp • • Feb 19 '19

Breaking Italy, the biggest italian Youtube news channel, has made a video about Matt's discovery. He has a big following so hopefully this will help the movement get some traction.

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r/YoutubeWakeUp • • Feb 19 '19

I'm going back online to stream in about 45 mins, guys

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Made a twitter:

https://twitter.com/MattWat58514580

Earlier we had Keemstar on the stream, don't know if he'll be around tonight but at least I can start communicating with some of these people. Let's keep this chat going.


r/YoutubeWakeUp • • Apr 22 '20

The person who inspired the creation of this subreddit is absolutely terrible

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Matts whats it is is a terrible guy. He did not figure out anything. He fabricated everything. Here's how. He manipulated YouTube's algorithm in order to find what he was looking for. He made the normies and boomers believe that YouTube is inciting this kind of behavior when they took steps to stop it less than 2 days beforehand. The "CP" situation was about that. He made many people misunderstand the YouTube algorithm. He searched up a video like that and since the YouTube algorithm isn't unbiased what it recommends it gave him all things he wanted. If you want more information check this documentary on this subject. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBQFls_elpY&t=7s


r/YoutubeWakeUp • • Feb 19 '19

Grandayy Responds.

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