The forest was shrinking, but the trees kept voting for the axe; for the axe convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them.
Update: they denied the appeal this time after a "manual review". Which is obviously ridiculous since any actual human looking at it wouldn't deny the appeal. I wonder what changed between this time and the last 2 times the video was appealed. Hmm.
For the 3rd or 4th time, Youtube has removed this video again for "medical misinformation". Every time I appealed they restored the video. I don't understand how manual review that says the video is fine doesn't somehow prevent the video from future AI takedowns. So weird.
Got to talk to some local people in mainland China and many of them genuinely believe Covid originated in the United States. Misinformation of all shapes and sizes can spread like wildfire, truly.
Part of making videos on education means making the best videos I can, and unfortunately my mood has been negatively impacting quality. And it's during these times that I need to remind myself that I shouldn't just be making videos for the sake of getting content out.
Was working on a video today, and after writing the first 2 sentences of the script, I had a huge wave of demotivation. It's not the first time I've experienced this. I'll push the making of the video to tomorrow, but if this feeling persists, I might take a break.
After a while of decline, we have finally fallen below 200k subscribers.
As unfortunate as that is, I will continue onwards. It is the content that ultimately matters, not the number of followers.
A hearing on abortion access is currently happening in the senate. I think we shouldn't forget that there are people actively fighting to take away women rights in this country, and we shouldn't stand for it.
https://t.co/gd42jle2Pj
ARRRGGGHH I met a corworker for the first time today and accidentally said “thank you” instead of “nice to meet you” when shaking hands SOMEONE END ME.
Twitter is no longer censoring COVID misinformation, which will definitely turn away advertisers. Although it's not like the people here made a cent anyway.