uppercaseCHASE1 my jaw dropped when i heard your name! I saw someone tag him in a tweet, and im so glad he took the time to look into it and make this video, and mention you!!!!!
I saw this and knew immediately that Hank must have seen your post. I'm so glad more Creators are becoming aware of this. Perhaps creating big creator waves is the only way to get TH-cam to listen. :/
Burgundy Burnouts True. But I think you have to collude with others that pay because 10$/month in comparison to potentially millions is nothing and therefore advertisers have the power grip if you don't get a bunch of paying people to agree.
Had one of those play before this one. Not the Lamborghini guy, some other sketchy mofo who claimed he knew how we can all get rich and wanted me to buy the book he wrote about it. I see now that it could have been worse. And that's terrible.
I came back to this video because I have been seeing a LOT of PragerU ads (full videos) as ads on channels that are specifically educational channels, often with a liberal or left of center bend. PragerU is so unethical to me in the way they misrepresent themselves and target vulnerable populations. My guess is the content creators have literally no idea that’s happening. It drives me crazy.
PragerU is so insidious. I actually watched one once because I genuinely try to listen to people with different opinions than me and I'm not Super far left or anything, compromise and health debate is important and possible blah blah (optimism, how I miss it.) The weird thing is how well it was written and structured to come off as reasonable for like the first 4-5 minutes before steadily sliding into batshit crazy land. I was like, well, I don't agree with that part, but you made a good point about this, hmm, maybe this isn't so bad... WTF? lol.
@@mayaenglish5424 FR bc I did the same, I didn’t know about prager u being a nutcase channel at the time and just thought it was another interview thing so I was just like “I guess I respect their opinion” until it rapidly declined to “what in the fuck am I watching??”
I'm back here 4 years after this was uploaded because I got an ad for the daily mail "documentary" which is just a guy running around being transphobic af on a video about a trans person educating people on trans anatomy and medical transition options... it makes me not want to use youtube.
I don't actually mind it that much when I personally get one and I usually let it play all the way through. Advertisers don't pay and content creators don't get paid if you skip a particular ad, so watching it all the way through essentially takes money from the advertiser and gives it to the content creator. It's especially great when their ad is like 10-15 minutes long. Generally the longer the ad the more money they have to pay for it, so I'll just leave it in the background and go do something else for like 15 minutes. It would be amazing if they fixed it but I seriously doubt that's ever gonna happen.
It's... still happening. I was watching a whole bunch of great trans TH-camrs and I keep getting that Matt Walsh ad. They did nothing. Thank you for doing something.
Ive seen a bit of a resurgence but in my experience it was far far worse 5 ish years ago. Though of course that doesnt mean its universal. I think they've "tried" but there a major corporation post 1980-1990 making as as much money as possible even while targeting the vulnerable is ultimately the goal. Ultimately this also majorly the algorithms fault.
Turn about is fair play. Gay and trans channels should absolutely take collections to pay youtube to have their ads placed on the conservative christians channels who are doing this.
If it can be labelled hate speech, then yes. Unfortunately, as he put it, there's a LOT of icing on that sh*t cake. As long as they don't cross that line, then they're free to say what they want.
No, not at all but but it is unreasonable to ask them to fight that battle in court and lose in what would basically be a symbolic gesture against a generally pretty nuetral and therefore sometimes entirely unreasonable entity.
@@OliverFoulkesMRO2013 I’d say cutting through the icing is the best way to expose the hate speech. The example Hank talked about where someone is “just telling people what the Bible says” could be exposed by showing that the person has not put out any videos about other weird rules from the Bible. Have they talked about it being a sin to get divorced? To wear two different types of cloth? To touch the skin of a pig? Have they explained the way the Bible suggests to evaluate how much a slave is worth? Or how to evaluate the dowry you should require when allowing a man to marry your daughter, as if marriage were a financial transaction? Have they explained the poetry of the Bible actually meaning a woman’s sexual organ when it talks about things ‘flowing from her navel?’ I’ve checked many medical texts, nothing should be flowing from anyone belly button, but women have a nearby body part which can flow and which has been the source of many poems throughout history. Seems pretty obvious. If the ‘just saying what the Bible says’ person isn’t interested in talking about even twenty five percent of the Bible and instead focuses on the specifically anti-LGBTQIA+ parts, then they’re telling you that they want to talk using hate speech but only if they can hide behind religion to do it. It’s disgusting that TH-cam would pretend it’s impossible to see through this and I’m certain it’s insulting to Christian’s to see their faith used to attack when their savior specifically told them to “love thy neighbor”. TH-cam, do better. Stop pretending it’s impossible, just do better.
Your discontent and empathy on behalf of the lgbt community is a beautiful thing, for which I am considerably grateful. Thank you Hank. I have enjoyed your content in the past, and you have earned much esteem from myself and your viewers.
@4one14 Didn't Hank mention in one of his shorter videos that he was Bi? I'll have to watch the videos again, but I think Hank's at least not completely straight.
SUPPORTING PEOPLE WHO ARE MENTALLY ILL IS NOT OKAY. THIS IS NOT OKAY, DEFORMING YOUR BODY IS NOT OKAY, THIS IS NOT A THING IN HEALTHY COUNTRIES LIKE SCANDANAVIA. TELLING SOMEONE WITH DYSPHORIA THAT ITS OKAY TO MUTILATE THIER BODY IS LIKE TELLING SOMEONE THAT IS SUICIDAL THAT THE SOLUTION IS KILLING YOURSELF, ITS WRONG AND AS A SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY WE NEED TO FIX THESE PROBLEMS AND ACTUALLY LOOK AT THEM REALISTICLY
Hey Hank, throughout my time as a highschool student, a college student (at Eckerd, ironically), and now a medical student (at Mayo, over in Minnesota), I've benefited so much from your various TH-cam enterprises, mostly Crash Course, Sci Show, and Healthcare Triage. As a member of the LGBT community, I am also outraged about TH-cam's willingness to throw the LGBT community under the bus as soon as money is at stake. So that is why this video convinced me to start supporting you on Patreon. At some point we must recognize that advertising-supported media is fundamentally incompatible with education because scientific truth is often unpopular. It is important that you are able to continue making good educational content that uses knowledge and understanding to lift up everyone in your audience, especially the impressionable young people that the ADF and their ilk are trying to target with their hate speech. So anyway, keep making awesome content!
The whole last bit about letting creators choose as well like... yes?!?! In traditional media this is all a two-way street, and it's always struck me that it's unfair advertisers can pick and choose all sorts of things but we have no power whatsoever
Sometimes LGBTQ+ content creators just want to provide visibility for those like us. Demonitization and age restricting videos kills visibility for those who need it. Do better TH-cam! Thank you Hank for unpacking this!
I can't begin to guess how hugely helpful it would've been if I could've seen positive, friendly videos (and text and audio) when I was a teen and young adult, struggling because I had gay feelings, and got bullied and didn't feel I had anyone safe to talk to or to, uh, figure it out with. (Boyfriend? It didn't even occur to me that a boy might want me for a boyfriend, or that I could have a boyfriend. All I knew was, I wanted friends I could talk to, and some friend who'd like to do what I wished I could do, just to figure it out, the same way the straight kids could with their boyfriends / girlfriends.) And getting bullied because people _said_ I was gay. All the bad feelings, questioning, the unhappiness and loneliness. -- So I am hugely grateful that now, adults and youth can put their stories out there, visibility, to let others learn how they feel, what they care about, to learn that hey, it just might be OK for me to be not straight. I might be able to find friends to talk to or someone to love and be loved by. imagine that, such a basic need, so completely squashed for so many folks, youth or older. Visibility is a good thing. -- And several very ordinary people are my heroes, just for being themselves and saying, sometimes in a very raw emotional way, sometimes in a very thoughtful way, how they really, truly feel, what they want, or just plain living their lives, being people. Things like that help me even now. I am still dealing with this, even though I've been out for years now. All that old stuff to unlearn or relearn, all those things to get over with and make a new, better life. It is an ongoing thing. And I still run into the negatives way too often out there in the real world, so I know it still affects all of us. So if just putting the word out there, being real, makes a difference for even one teen or adult, one questioning person, one potential ally and friend, then that is worth a whole lot for those of us who dearly need it, and it could just save a few lives.
sorry but by devinistion those items are all to some extend sexual in nature. so prefenting pre teens from stumbling unto those video's without parental guids might be a better than scaring children for live. that counting for the normal state of hetro sexualty as well.
Very well said! I'm only 14, but I've known I was different since I was around 7 or 8, and I was ashamed. TH-camrs like Miles McKenna are what helped me figure out what I was. At first I thought I was bi (I'm not saying being Bi is a phase, because I know for most people it's not, but for me it was), partially because I was a) in denial and b) honestly had no clue and all I knew what that I liked gorls. So know I know I'm gay. Still, TH-camrs are who helped me discover who I was, and it's upsetting that TH-cam is trying to stop young kids and teens from getting information about themselves
I have always thought you were awesome, but right now I have overwhelming amounts of love and respect for you. Thank you for taking such a strong and unambiguous stand on this issue. As a queer, disabled woman who makes content about adult sexuality, I'm rarely able to take advantage of monetization (although it seems videos about making your own toys are cool, but discussions about consent - and how important it is - are bad for advertisers). The idea that these hateful groups could be buying ad spots on my content is enough to make me sick.
Well, if Restricted Mode is anything to go by, I'm very excited for TH-cam to wait a week before releasing a terrible statement, then back tracking and releasing a better one, then saying they'll do something about it, then in a years time it's still happening.
Rowan Ellis yeah they don't seem to care at all. I think they just would rather support our increasingly evil overlords while pretending to care about the little guy than actually do the right thing
I love when Hank takes on topics like this because he brings a good argument while at the same time showing how much he actually cares about what he's talking about in this case both his viewers and the lgbt community.
Every time someone says it’s hard to be an “ally” I think about this video. It’s not hard. Get mad with us. Support us. Let us yell. Complain with us. Plug the amplifier for our mics.
I know a lot of things about life suck right now, I've been there. I also know "it gets better" sounds like total bullshit. But it does, if you let it. You will find people who you have a hunch that you can come out to, sometimes they'll turn out to be dicks and leave, but that is their loss. But there will be people who will love you, who will behave like decent human beings and accept you for who you are. Having people like that in your life is worth all of it. I sure know waking up next to my boyfriend every day is worth all the pain I had to suffer through before.
God satan not trying to start a fight or anything but you can experience gender dysphoria as soon as your brain grasps the concept of genders. That's how it was for me, a trans guy, and several of my friends.
God satan also the kid didn't specify what they are and you just kinda assumed. But again you can realize you're gay or bi when you're really young. You can be six and have a crush on a classmate of the same gender, look up what that means, and realize you're hella gay. Identity shouldn't be age gated.
I'm a trans guy (and a PDS fan). I cannot express how much Chase's videos have helped me. Dealing with dysphoria and bigotry and societal erasure as a trans man is hard, and this platform is unmatched in its capacity to help people like me be educated and have a sense of hope and community. Edit: typo
OnceUponAPiano Mate, chases videos have been a literal life saver and i wish more trans people (under 18s) had access to all of his things -o probably wouldn't know what a packer was if it weren't for him! (Ps The PDS rocks)
OnceUponAPiano me too. His trans 101 videos are nice too, some of which I show my family and once I saw an anti-lgbt+ ad lately while watching it and it made me really angry tbh. I hope they fix this because if they don't, everyone it aggravates will be even more upset
Toby Wafflez it doesn't help some trans people's causes - If i tried showing my parents a vid that showed an anti LGBT+ Advert, it could just further their own beliefs and cause further rejection. The exact opposite reason for showing them the video in the first place
Hearing this news makes me want to flip over many many tables! Thank you Saint Hank for being such a valiant defender of the LGBTQ+ community. Praise be 🙏🖖🏳️🌈
Bless Hank's angry dad mode when it comes to all the beautiful LGBTQ+ creators on this platform and just generally informing people that this is happening, because now knowing that this is happening I'm right there at the same level of just extreme frustration with TH-cam. I may not be a creator myself and at an age and level of self acceptance and love where I can ignore the BS in these gross preroll vids but I as a viewer don't want the creators I love to deal with this shit being put before their own video just on the front of how could youtube let their platform literally put hate before love and acceptance
Couple of honest questions. DO lbgt tubers put lgbt tag on their videos even if they dont talk about sexuality? Also is there tag like cis or straight that get flagged same way? Also isnt anything sexual automatically controversial/un-monetized on youtube?
Samuel Silver being LGBT+ isn't inherently sexual... same way being straight isn't either. So like tagging it either way shouldn't be an issue. Sexuality just describes who you are attracted to. Also this is about shitty people paying to putt their anti-LGBT propaganda in front content of users who are open about their sexuality and/or gender
It gets worse, because of how monitization works on TH-cam (see CGP Grey here th-cam.com/video/KW0eUrUiyxo/w-d-xo.html to learn more about the base system before the demonitization category) PragerU and propagandists like them are paying almost nothing for their ads. On top of that, they embolden and help organize the trolls, muddy the waters, and take up advertising slots that the main audience of the channel will instantly click to skip, meaning they don't have to pay for those slots on top of the already lowered price. Then, because the demonitization puts the voices speaking out against hate in a lower ranking for the recommendation algorithm, the balance is even further tipped in favor of the demogogues paying to spread hate.
Right!!!! Also Christians telling others that they're going to hell for something they don't like when the Bible says that only God can judge!!!! hdjsksxn I hate it
I asked a Priest and a Rabbi about that. They gave a similar answer: imagine a parent finds out their kid did something really bad. Like, a parent found out their child killed someone. The parent can love their child with all their heart, but has to do something. So they send their child away. Hell is that away part. And in the Bible, hell is basically the absence of God, and in the Torah it's the pit where Jews would cremate dead bodies (Sheol). Now, why is consensual sex between two men (the Torah specifically bans male homosexuality, but doesn't address female homosexuality) punishable by death, while raping a woman is punishable by a fine and offering to marry the person the man raped? There isn't a real satisfying answer. As for the judgement thing, people say "that's only among people of the faithful," meaning you have to be "one of them" to not be judged. Which is kind of crazy.
That isn't most christians, that is a small part/older part. Christians who are younger and wiser use the term 'hate the sin, not the sinner'. Their actions are sinful but it doesn't mean they aren't good people.
hank's outrage at the harm these ads might be causing to his community (to me) is actually kind of comforting. his passion in protecting his viewers and to being kind is great. he really cares about us 🎉
Spider Salticidae, How do you figure exactly? Yeah these ads arent going to magically change our sexualities but in a society that shows and has historically shown LGBTQ+ people massive amounts of hostility, disgust, and outright hatred for no reason, it would stand to reason that a person who is struggling to come to grips with their sexuality in that environment could be psychologically harmed by content that's mission is to voice disgust, unacceptance, and outright hatred towards LGBTQ+ people. And there are multiple studies that have shown this.
There's this one historical sewing channel (Angela Clayton, she's great!) that regularly gets demonetized because the algorithm thinks her _fitting dummy_ is a naked person... Oh, sewing, so controversial Edit: I also know a few more great lgbt youtubers! Macdoesit is absolutely hilarious, Jessica Kellgren-Fozard is beautiful and disabled and lesbian
I wonder if she covered the fitting dummy in new fabric that is patterned if that would change for her (I've seen some really cute fitting dummies made in calico prints
This could all be fixed if youtube allowed content creators to pick which ads played before their videos. That really can not be hard to implement. Stop leaving it up to flawed AI and just let the creators themselves do it.
The problem sadly is also the fact that there are servers to pay for, employees etc that TH-camrs don't necessarily see. Should there be something thought up of, yes but it needs to be more thought out.
If advertisers can pick the content they want to partner with, then creators need to be able to pick the advertisers they want to work with as well. When I see a Prager University ad in front of a Trevor Noah or John Oliver video, I know someone is gaming the system
Prager ‘university’ can go back to the pit of hell it came from. I hope TDS or LWT does a thing on them because that would be great, especially LWT since they could take 20 minutes to unravel that shitshow in painstaking detail, all with a British accented parrot.
Exactly, nothing underscores the laughably corrupt system of TH-cam's advertiser pandering algorithms than those alt-right cockbiters at Prager-U popping up on content that's filled with, ya know, actual viable information and research. Someone desperately needs to shine a spotlight on those craven little McCarthyists.
I'm kind of happy to see all these pissed off leftists. It's funny to me. Talk about first world problems. Try being gay in Saudi Arabia. Then you'll have something to complain about.
TH-cam has drastically changed so much in the last couple years and not in a good way. They aren't listening to their creators when something is broken and just creating even more problems. While at the same time they're doing things like their #ProudToCreate where they put on this facade that everything is perfect rainbows and unicorns.
Given that this is pride month, and so many companies are going to be running "pride themed" ad campaigns, I'm going to say that any company who is doing that should be ok with having their regular ads on lgbtq-positive videos.
Back when I was in high school and closeted, there was this big corkboard in the hall covered in information on scholarships. Some of them were general, others were very specific. There was even one scholarship for LGBT+ youth. One day, a man - a parent of a student, I think - saw the LGBT scholarship and tore it down. There was an article in the paper a few days later about "the controversy" and a picture of the man in question looking stern and resolute. I think I should have felt angry, but instead I just felt tired and a bit sad. It was a small town and mostly conservative, so this wasn't exactly out of step with local values. These ads remind me a lot of that man. Hank, thanks for getting angry. I don't always feel like I can, and I know I should. Otherwise, I'd just accept this as another thing to endure. I've traveled a bit and been out of the closet most of the time since high school, but old habits die hard.
I'm a bisexual youtuber, and honestly I'm too small to currently have ads on my videos anyways, but this is all kind of the worst. I hate going to look for community and instead hearing about how I don't deserve it.
I don't have much to say in response other than I identify with everything you commented. All I can say now is Bi Pride from one to another and no matter how horrendous the add is - you are ALWAYS WELCOME HERE.
this is still happening! thanks for making this video, this has been happening with many of the videos I watch (a lot of them being you and john, and then lgbtq+ creators). Just realizing this is FIVE YEARS OLD and it hasn't been resolved is infuriating. It's terrible that these sorts of advertisements are even spread around in the first place :(
I like the idea of Creators restricting what type of ads are showing up. It could be accompanied by a monetization calculator. That's the next shift. Reputation connected with advertisers.
I personally have gotten these ads and it was pretty frustrating. It hurts when I see horrible ads that dehumanize and just tear down LGBT people for being LGBT especially during pride month.
That’s a good way to put it. It hurts. My brother is gay and an amazing man who’s going to help a lot of people (he’s getting his master’s in psychology; we’re really proud) and it hurts to think of the intent in the messages, to make it seem like he’s... wrong, inherently, or in any way less. And, as a person of faith, it really bothers me to think of how many of the people who really respond to those messages use religion as a fig leaf for their bigotry and bias. It hurts, and it needs to stop. It is not okay and it never will be. I’m really sorry you’ve been impacted by this. I hope TH-cam backpedals soon.
it's gotten worse. i'm queer and trans and i watch a lot of videos related to that, and so i keep getting transphobic and homophobic videos (mainly youtube shorts, because i wouldn't click on something like that, whereas i cant help scrolling onto it), which obviously aren't the videos i want to be watching
The problem with depending on algorithms and machine learning to not discriminate is that the algorithms are still dictated by humans. Machines don't solve our biases, they just absorb them.
Also, algorithms like TH-cam look for repetitions. If most videos controversial has "Gay" and "LGTB" or smthg like that in the title (Imagine title as "I Have Gays"), then the algorithm is gonna think that, obviously, Gay-> controversial + Not worth our money And, also, it's hard to fix this types of algorithms. They learn throught data, and they keep learning without the creators having to do anything. Wich results in a machine you don't understand, and can hardly change bit by bit...
Do you realise how effective this video would be if it were on Vlogbrothers rather than a side channel? People don't care if it's hugely edited, it will get seed and mainstream news media will most likely pick up on it and shine a light on this issue. Dude, you could really help our cause
“He is right! You can tell because of his mustache.” I know this is a serious video and as a baby gay myself I appreciate it so much, but this line made me smile :)
@@carsonpearce5980 I don't know if you'll read this (a month is a very long time on the internet) but if you do, know that everything will work out. I'm an out gay man who grew up religious and it has caused me to question a lot about my identity. My advice is to love yourself enough to recognize that whoever you are, you deserve happiness and you deserve people who love and support you (in case you don't have that already). If things get hard, feel free to reach out to the Trevor Project and you can always ask questions on Reddit (going there was really helpful). Please know that whatever your identity happens to be, there are people like you (there's nearly 8 billion people on the planet after all). If you read this and still have questions/concerns, feel free to respond to this message.
@@Newton-Reuther aw dude this was so nice to read! nice strangers on the internet are the best thing ever, and the green brothers seem to be able to conjure them from thin air lol. I’m very lucky that i have a very queer friend group that was able to wisen me up even before i realized i was bi and some flavor of trans (we’re figuring it out lol) and that i have accepting parents. ive come out to my mom, but not my dad yet just because he is a question asker and a problem solver and i dont really want to deal with either of those things rn, but i have no doubt he’ll be supportive when i do feel ready to come out. loving myself isnt always easy but im lucky to have a bit of a head start and am doing pretty well, i think. thanks for checking in, it was a pleasure talking, and best of luck to you :)
I’d like to know why there’s a like/dislike for ads if I can’t make them stop. I got the same ad for Scientology for weeks even after skipping and disliking many, many times. I’d love for the people I watch to have the option not to have ads that are controversial. That would be awesome so that it doesn’t look like the creator is supporting medications, political videos or other weird content.
I had similar problems with the same ads showing up specifically about things that upset me. Eventually I turned off the targeted ads setting and it stopped immediately.
Can we get an option to see who is advertising on our videos? I think that would be fair and honest. People think that advertisements are endorsements from a channel, it happens with TV, so why not youtube? Even though we as creators have no control over advertisements
also you make content that keeps youtube alive. If youtube pisses off the creators, they will end up with bland content that no one will want to watch. They have to think about the people that MAKE what youtube SELLS.
+edt49er You are actually free to contact coca cola, ford, etc and any well established advertisers to hammer out a deal to have their ads play on your videos and bypass youtube's adsense. However if you aren't going to do this or you are so insignificant that it isn't worth Ford's time to sit down with you for direct advertising, don't forget you are still a small non-established fish. Be grateful for what you get because otherwise you sound like the beggars can't be choosers subreddit.
D K well right now I’m not even that with current youtube because I don’t have 1000 subs. I was in a huge growth spurt that was throttled when TH-cam changes it’s monetization policy.
+edt49er Sorry I wasn't trying to imply I was going to put you on blast on that subreddit; I don't even have a reddit account. All I meant was that each community gets this sort of crap to a certain extent. I think a strong comparison I can offer you to illustrate that at the end of the day we are in the same camp; we're allies against ads which by coincidence don't meet our beliefs: vegetarian/vegan channels are getting McDonald's ads which are obviously in conflict with channels who advocate for animal welfare. I think to lessen any hurt you and your friends may be feeling is to look at it in the following way: money is required to sponsor these anti-gay ads and personally I'd just laugh them off because at the end of the day; an ad isn't going to change your orientation so the joke is on whoever wasted their money trying to convince you otherwise. You know what I mean?
As a chirstian and member of the LGBTQIA+ community these kinds of things wound me to my core. Pretty hate is still hate and hatred is EXACTLY EVERYTHING JESUS WAS NOTTTT ABOUT. It hurts my heart on the deepest level to see people pretend that they're trying to help by tearing people down instead of building them up in love.
This is a GREAT video. Thanks. Your content is always the best. I talk about books, and I deal with LGBTQ+ books, and I don't want to have a add saying that this is wrong. Argh, I got so pissed about it. ~Gabi
I have a channel on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict asking Israelis and Palestinians to answer people's questions on the conflict, their societies, cultures, etc. TH-cam demonitizes often based on their own political considerations - for example, a video of Palestinians being critical of Palestinian society is often demonitized but a similar video of Israelis being critical of Israeli society is not. Most of the time, I cannot figure out what specific phrase, word or issue they believe is not appropriate for advertisers because they don't tell you.
Also, an issue like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict gets people who are supporters of one side and haters of the other. So even reporting something benign about one of the sides will make people on the other side angry because they view the conflict in zero-sum terms.
I've seen your videos! As a religious Jew myself, I totally understand the auto-hate people spew about the issue. As a very strong liberal I have understood both sides, and think that your content is very eye-opening on showing how little both sides understand the other, but in many cases want or believe very similar things.
shellbellbutterfly why do you care what other people do with their life? If they want to be sinful let them be sinful. Its their choice not yours. Maybe some people like to do things their own way and don’t care where they end up.
@Bughead & Choni Jesus Is God and He promised that His WORD would NEVER pass away and since He made the whole entire universe and every function of everyone's body (with THE FATHER), I'm SURE you can comprehend how easy it is for Him to keep some information together in a book. Please think about that. I was reading THE BIBLE when I MET Jesus, so it's perfectly kept in context & quite powerful as the living WORD of God (Jesus is THE WORD made flesh to walk among us & suffer & pay for our sin. HalleluYAH!!! Blessings to KNOW Jesus!🙋 💔👣👣💝💖
not only do i get anti-lgbt ads, i'm constantly recommend anti-lgbt videos (why i regret transitioning, sjw compilation, i keep getting recommended videos from some guy who hangs out on the street and "argues" with people about their beliefs and usually features anti-lgbt views and insults people who are in the lgbt community, and so many more) i'm bisexual and i haven't gone a day since i began watching lgbt content without seeing something anti-LGBT related.
Your recommendations are based on your watch history. All you've done is told us the kinds of videos you watch, announcing to the world what a bigot you are.
The ad I saw before this video was a weird propagandist pro-fascism (?) rant from The Daily Wire. I am baffled by the way YT's advertising algorithm works. I watch gardening videos, Vlogbrothers content, the occasional board game playthrough, and book reviews. I have no idea what I have googled to trigger these ads, but surely there has to be a better solution than the current one?
I think they care more about age and gender than anything else. I got a fancy sunscreen commercial. TH-cam has decided that I'm getting old so on top of all the stupid make-up commercials I'm getting inundated with "anti-aging" crap. All I watch are political videos and book reviewers but because I have breasts I must be freaking out about whether I'm pretty right? And apparently stupid enough to think magic exists in the form of moisturiser.
I mean, Pirate Captain Anne Bonnie is pretty fantastic, although her bisexuality is merely alleged. There was also this FrenchOpera singer, I forget her name, who kept getting in duels with French aristocrats because she kept seducing their wives. Most duels are fought to the death, so she ended up killing some of the aristocracy. She also joined a convent just so she could seduce a nun. I don’t know what context we’re using “dope”, but these are two great dope lesbians to start with.
Fyre Goldfox Please note that “homophobic” and “conservative” are NOT necessarily synonymous. My opinion that the government is too big or my thoughts on how our foreign policy should be conducted has nothing to do with my opinions on sexuality. (Actually do not understand why the government defines or licenses marriage...this is where I get libertarian.)
I don’t understand why people have such a problem with the concept that it’s really shitty to hate people based on things about themselves that they can’t change. Thank you hank for using your platform to talk about this issues.
5 years later and i'm still getting anti-trans ads on the videos of my favorite beloved trans creators. really sucks as a young trans adult who has to deal with these issues both on and off the internet :(
I think the easiest way to solve this without silencing conservatives (which some social platforms DO have a history of doing) is to say that the ad is not allowed to, literally or in the gist of things, contradict the content of the video it runs on. Like, for example on a video that tells you about the pros of birth control, you couldn't have an ad for baby clothing for example.
The problem is neither TH-cam nor the advertisers can monitor exactly what videos their ads go on. For example, a video talking about gun control may have an ad for a concealed carry holster, because they're both tagged as gun-related. Or pro-life video may have a Planned Parenthood ad on it, because they're both about abortion. With billions upon billions of videos being watched every single day, it's tough to monitor for mistakes
That's a great idea - in my case I've seen ads on videos that were not controversial but simply made it obvious I would never buy the product - which is something you'd think advertisers would *like* to filter for. It seems to be common because the tags are similar and don't seem to discriminate based on whether it's promoting the product or not. This is actually an issue I have with Google searches sometimes - I want to look up "not" something but it keeps giving me results which use that. I know you can use the quotes to tell Google you want to specifically look for those words in that order, but sometimes I don't want the phrase after the "not" to be specific (I want it to inlcude synonyms and similar topics). I know you can use the "-" to tell Google to not include results with a certain word/phrase in it, but I *am* looking for that phrase, because I want to see the cons or alternatives to that.
Nathan Harris True, but I think that's a rather tame example. Like, it's annoying, but it won't be harmful to the person watching it. The cases he talks about are. And so are a lot of others. Like, a friend of mine, who has lost a child and was watching videos about that topic got an ad for children's clothing. That's not OK. And I think it's also both unnecessary and not intended by the company who bought the ad space. Like, the best case scenario is they are wasting money, the worst is they are actively causing someone mental anguish.
ThisOne I agree with your point about more specific tagging. But to be fair, in the tragic case of your friend losing his child, may God be with him, the mechanism for choosing ads for him really had no way of knowing he had lost his child. All they knew was that he had a child at some point in the past, if that makes sense. Also, I would say there is a huge difference between an anti-gay ad and an ad that references your deceased child
yes it might sound less terrifying. But I do not think that is a good idea. most AIs are neural network/machine learning algoritmes and what they do seems intelligent, but it is nothing more than a very complicated curve fit. They will "learn" all humaneties biggest errors if we are not very careful. For all situations where one uses optimization algoritmes one should be aware that they tend to exploit errors in the setup, for AI that might be finding errors in games to achieve the highest high score or keeping people in prison just because of the skin color.
I've seen enough mattress ads to know that they are never relevant. I hate ads, I prefer sponsorships because it typically means the creator that I like endorses them, and is usually MUCH more relevant.
@@nonic4vic600 ugh, I once got the same ad twice in a row. Like literally back to back. This isn't gonna convince me, or anyone. And it was unskippable.
When I first got one of these ads I tried looking for a way to flag or some sort of filter I could put these ads in but I found nothing. Why are advertisers allowed to choose where to show their ads but we aren't allowed to choose which kinds of ads we want to be exposed to?
Gilda Rodriguez I've been able to go to the channels themselves and block certain advertisers like that directly on a few things. Sucks trying to navigate that, but I haven't had any pro trump bullshit in months since I managed.
same thing with scary movie trailers. sometimes they are just as scary as the movie. and most of the time they are unskippable. even normal movie trailers you can skip. i don't want that when I'm watching youtube late at night before i go to sleep, or really any time. I've tried reloading, going back and rechecking the video, nope still getting horror movie trailer.
Fighting Faerie Yesssss!! I used to have such a problem with that. (I'm highly susceptible to dreaming about whatever I watch before sleep, and if it's horror the movie will be happening in my dream, but it will be happening to me and it's awful.) I'm glad I'm not the only one who really dislikes the inability to skip through horror trailers. And I agree, we should be able to flag certain potentially disturbing ads or be able to report hateful ads.
Shouldn't you be able to allow or deny advertisers? Sort of like the reverse of the way advertisers can select the videos they wants to advertise on? If you can't now, they should add this ability.
Michael Taylor I think this would be the ideal companion to advertisers being able to choose what subjects they want their ads to play with. This is the closest mirror to the mutual, contractual relationships in the old media.
Except TH-cam's content creators don't own TH-cam and don't pay the bills when it comes to keeping it's servers running. Would it help TH-cam to sometimes receive feedback on their ads should something extremely polarizing get out there? Perhaps, but that doesn't mean that adding a feature to disable any and all of it's regular ads is going to help them. At the end of the day TH-cam is a business, not a charity.
The thing is, Joseph, without the creators there would be no TH-cam. There would be no content for Google to monetize to pay bills or keep those red hot servers running. If I had a popular channel...filled with MY content that I created, I'd be completely pissed off if YT allowed an ad to appear anywhere near my content if that ad violated by own ideologies or values. No one is saying it's a god damn charity. We're talking about giving creators control over the ads that are displayed in connection with their content. If you can't understand the value in such an idea, then you're on the wrong side of this.
I'm not sure he meant it's a good thing. It's just how things are. The fact that creators are the reason for YT success seems to have absolutely no bearing in YT recognizing that or treating them fairly. Creators have little to no power in the relationship--except big ones who, were they to leave, could actually take significant eyeballs, brand value, and money with them. That's why it's such a good thing that Hank speaks out about these things, even though he's not directly involved.
Yep. I'm absolutely targeted for ads that are nothing but anti-lgbt hatespeech, and anti trans hatespeech in particular. I watch a lot of trans creators, and I see ads for bigot documentaries, or just ads for the concept of fearing trans people all the time.
I saw that flower ad. It reminded me so much of this time my dad and I got on this argument about how he thought it was unchristian for a black person to date a white person. Even down to claiming he wasn't racist because he had black friends. He also used the n-word til the day he died. That woman is equally terrible.
Like she "served him" for years for dates but the one time he asked for his WEDDING because he liked her work and her, she said sorry my "religion", btw I'm Christian and there is no reference to homosexuality even in the Bible, says no so sorry. It is frustrating and disgusting and I'm so glad you guys agree
Kitkat13 I am too. think I remember something about it in the old testement, but nothing in the new testement. What I do remember from the Bible is that the old testement was treated more as a history and the new testement involved Jesus continuously telling his followers to not be judgemental and to accept everyone whole-heartedly like he did, because that's the way a christian should be. We should spread love, not hate.
That’s rough, to see a family member use faith like that. I was raised in a Christian household and still am a Christian, but I’m one of those live and let live ones who doesn’t talk about it much unless asked and isn’t fond of organized religion (the denominations thing is nuts). It feels like this is not about God, but about feeling right and comfortable in bias and bigotry. We don’t still Stone children who are uncooperative or women who have had sex with someone to whom they aren’t married, or people who act as mediums. We don’t shun them. We don’t throw our judgment at them and quote scripture at them for it. It’s not about God. It’s about wanting to have a reason to be right in what they already think. Lots of Christians embrace the New Testament God about most stuff but still go back to Leviticus about this one thing. It’s not cool and it’s not okay and it’s really making all Christians just seem.... so horrible and holier than thou and judgey. And Christians are supposed to self-censure other Christians, say, “You’re deviating from the path, dude, what is up? You’re hurting people! How can I help you stop drifting? You have to give an accounting of yourself when it’s your time, and do you think this will make things go WELL for you?” Where are the other Christians being pissed?? We need more people saying it’s not okay, not afraid to be talked down by the rest of the congregation, quoted to and harangued. Hopefully this will get much rarer to see in the next few generations and people will remember God as a God who is pleased by loving others and wishing them happiness and helping them, not saying their very selves are inherently wrong. I don’t know how people can feel like that’s okay!
Amara Jordan thank you. This is exactly how I feel as a whole put into words. I agree with everything you just said, and there absolutely should be moral outrage over these things from our fellow Christians then there is right now.
Jesus would have made the dang cake and he would have made the dang bouquet. He hung out with people society discriminated against because they needed help and love. Anyone claiming "christian" motives to do the opposite is a liar.
I'm not religious so I have no business saying this but, I think the problem here is that some people value certain parts of christianity more than others.
The thing is, people don't make pastel-coloured saccharine circle-jerks about how lovely and beautiful lying is. Or have adulterer pride parades. Google didn't run a memorial on the progress Richard Ramirez made in making society more murder-tolerant.
Hridya13 Thomas here's a little thought tobacco is currently legal you can smoke it, chew it, do whatever you want really with it. Is it good for you? "no" is the answer. If you agree then you're intolerant to smokers and a bigot to smokers. I dare say you're smokerphobic. If you disagree with the comparison then please check out the CDC statistics on homosexual behavior. LSS, Stop telling people to celebrate something they disagree with!!!I
I'm bisexual. I'm not controversial. I'm not "nsfw". TH-cam should not consider me or the topic of bisexuality controversial. Doing so is actively violent by saying that lbgtqia people are not "safe" or "fit for everyday life". This is an argument homophobes use to hurt lbgtqia people because they reason that lgbtqia people "hurt others" by being who they are God this makes me so tired. TH-cam, just leave us alone. You obviously don't care. Edit: if you take issue with the semantics of the word "violence" used here to talk about the activities of TH-cam and their affiliates, please read the conversations between myself and the first few people who commented or do not comment. I'm not going to personally talk to everyone that wants me to engage. I don't have the physical time. I'm not trying to be mean. I just don't want to type for the next five hours. Edit, again: particularly Henry. He was very nice and respectful when we were talking and brought up some great points!!
Revolting Swan yes. Passive violence can happen when something is withheld that is important to living. Like if an abusive parent doesn't give their toddler breakfast, but instead watches TV. There is nothing inherantly wrong with watching TV but their choice hurts the child and is therefore an act of violence. A lot of violence can be passive. It's pretty scary.
While I completely agree the substance of your point, that definition of violence annoys me slightly. It’s mainly an innovation of post modernist academics working in the social sciences. Although, even there it is controversial - scholars who research things like war and crime tend to reject violence extending to general oppressive behaviour. Post modernist types are constantly redefining and schema - almost always quibbling about categorisation systems being arbitrary and seeking to broaden definitions. I’ve read entire bloody papers which are nothing more complex than ‘gender/race/historical periods/class/civilisation is a construct!!!!’ Which is a. unhelpful because rarely is there a practicable, objectively justifiable replacement for discussing well...anything b. obvious. They just assert relatively simple ideas a hundred times and call it a breakthrough.and c. Obscurantist. I swear post mods mangle dictionaries for fun in their spare time. Sorry, that rant was pretty tangential. I swear my degree left with with intellectual PTSD.
this honestly breaks my heart. I am an allies to the LGBTQ+ and a Christian who is currently in school studying theology as my undergrad. I weep for all the Christians who act so shamefully and are so hateful. I love everything vlogbrothers stands for and it makes me sad to think there are people who would automatically assosciate me with such hateful people.
This issue is sooooo much worse today. I feel like I cannot watch any video about trans rights without getting an ad for some transphobic organization.
I think its time to consider other platforms. Everyone is so afraid to leave because of the work spent here and because it seems there is nowhere else to go. TH-cam sees that and thinks it can get away with making money off of discrimination and hate. But the thing is WE are TH-cam's greatest and honestly ONLY asset. TH-cam is here to serve US. Because without us, TH-cam is nothing. It is time we start standing up and leaving. We all deserve better than this.
Until the content creators I follow switch platforms though, I'm stuck here. Besides, where would they go? Any attempt at creating a better platform failed miserably, unfortunately.
Any platform will eventually do the same shit Google did if it booms and gets investors that have hateful beliefs. They will want to please the shareholders to keep the money going just like Google does. It’s a capitalistic issue that has no solution in this economical environment. Money is the biggest incentive unfortunately.
I get the impression that they asked for historical people. There are surly lot of books about various women. But I got fascinated by writers who wrote about positive lesbian characters in long ago past. Needless to say, it was different from today 🙂 With that I would recommend a Emma Donoghue book Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature.
Also... If anyone wants to use Christianity as an excuse to ignore the laws of the land... "Obey the government, for God is the one who has put it there. There is no government anywhere that God has not placed in power. So those who refuse to obey the laws of the land are refusing to obey God, and punishment will follow. " -Romans 13:1-2.
I'm 100% on your side, Christianity does not support hate speech or crimes against gay people. This is very clear if you've ever heard of Jesus. Happy pride month! However, your quote is really not a good example because its interpretation is very fuzzy. Laws change, rulers change, politics is evolving. There were so many oppressive, restrictive and criminal regimes in history and some of them even exist today. Saying you should always obey the law of the land might mean committing war crimes or owning slaves in a pre-civil-war America.
This is going to get deep quickly. Just want to pose this question- Who did Jesus advocate for and defend? -A despised tax collector -A widow -A leper -The poor e.g. the woman who gave two coins, her entire life savings, game more than the Pharaseses ever would. -Children I am certain that Jesus would flip tables in churches where the pastors ask for private jet money. TL;DR- Christianity is not anti-gay but pro-human, pro-loving relationship
Acts 5:27-29, “Having brought the apostles, they made them appear before the Sanhedrin to be questioned by the high priest. 'We gave you strict orders not to teach in this Name,' he said. 'Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man's blood.' Peter and the other apostles replied: ‘We must obey God rather than men!'“
Unfortunately a lot of christians are currently using that logic to declare that all this prejudice is being supported by the government (despite the actual laws on the books) because look who "God has...placed in power".
The worst part about homophobic people (beside the blatant HOMOPHOBIC part obvi) is that you can’t argue with these people (I mean you CAN but it’ll probably get you nowhere) because their facts and beliefs on sexuality aren’t based on truth. It’s difficult to bring logic to the table when arguing with someone who has beliefs that are more or less fabricated (bc of the whole translation error with le Bible), and with someone who has probably already made up their mind.
+Sierra Yes, you're right. I mean if I made a video on no matter what topic and Nestlé, McDonald's or some other evil company wanted to put an ad of theirs in or in front of it I think I should most definitely have the possibility to say no to that and risk not getting any ad revenue at all as a result in case no one else would want to put an ad in or in front of my video. I'd be perfectly okay with that risk. But I think it would not even be that risky since there would most probably be some company (or something else like that that I approve of) willing to put an ad in or in front of my video. And depending who that would be I would get less money than I could get from Nestlé or McDonalds. I wonder wherein the financial obstacle to such a rule would lie but I assume that youtube wants to have businesses etc. who can pay a lot and otherwise generate a lot of income more than other businesses. What I have no idea about is how much the difference would be to youtube for me to have a Ceylor ad in my video instead of an anti-gay ad.
It's impractical. There are 1000s of advertisers that bid on videos. It would require going back to the old model where a content creator and an advertiser agree to work together, and I don't TH-cam/Google would be willing to take the massive add revenue hit from loosing the "real-time bidding on each customer based on dozens of data points" thing.
It could actually be implemented pretty simply. Advertisers currently can pick what categories of things they want to be shown against and an algorithm does it's best to make a good fit, but they don't get to pick and choose the exact videos they get shown on. They could do the same of for content creators and let them pick categories of ads. Not that I think TH-cam will actually do that because it makes things more complicated and would likely cut into their profits. They've shown many times that they don't really care that much about their creators, so the backlash would have to get pretty big for them to do anything.
Fair enough. I suppose if you were selective in who was allowed to advertise on your channel, the bidding wars would not get as high, so creators would be correctly incentivised to choose as wide a range of ads as possible. Apparently that system exists! Hank did a video on it!
Advertisers should be put into buckets, and users/creators should be able to pick which buckets they want to see ads from or have ads on their channels from. This would drive up the quality of advertisements and their value, which would be good for advertisers and for TH-cam (cause more value can be charged more for).
Exactly, there are CAPITALIST reasons to avoid mismatching ads and content. "Vote Conservative" ads won't change the mind of a mainly Democratic audience, it'll just make them leave the platform or push them further left. In this and similar ways, running ads that don't match the content won't change anyone's mind so why PAY for it??
Kalvin Garrah As someone who is questioning and struggling with my identity. Thank you. With all this bs I can't ask you to stay on TH-cam, but I can beg you to keep making content. Your work is amazing, and has inspired not just me, but countless others way beyond your subscription count. Keep pushing We the viewers have your back. And thanks again. Because if it weren't for the likes of you, I might not have been here writing this post.
I wish I had the option to choose ad genres even as a viewer, ...I'm so sick of seeing horror/violent movie trailers before I try to watch something relaxing. I don't want to hear all that screaming and shooting 2 seconds into a vid.
You can do that indirectly if you pause the advert and click on the little i in the bottom left corner. Then you get a menu to say you don't like the ad. It takes a while to train the algorithm not to show you certain types of ad but it can work over time if you consistently say "it's not relevant". I used to get horror movie trailers, especially when I was watching youtube late at night, but now I don't any more.
Thank you so much for bringing this out to the public and mentioning me. I hate how this is happening!
uppercaseCHASE1 my jaw dropped when i heard your name! I saw someone tag him in a tweet, and im so glad he took the time to look into it and make this video, and mention you!!!!!
Thanks for doing the leg work and bringing this to my attention.
I saw this and knew immediately that Hank must have seen your post. I'm so glad more Creators are becoming aware of this. Perhaps creating big creator waves is the only way to get TH-cam to listen. :/
I fucking cried, no lie
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"Here is some lesbians WHO ARE DOPE" ...best Hank Green quote ever.
Hey Ash your so awesome
Yay Ash! (love you! (platonicaly))
Can someone make this video a thing lol
LOVE YOU ASH
"Here is some lesbians WHO ARE DOPE" please Please PLEASE make this a video tag thingy!
While researching vegetarianism I was getting bombarded by steak ads.
Mike Irving "You sure you don't want steak instead of veggies? Look at this delicious steak. Mmmmm!" - Steak companies.
Me: how to be vegan
TH-cam: *DEAD COWS*
Honestly that is hilarious to me
@@emmakilburg9221 me too
Wait vegetarianism is a word
That makes it sound like a religion LOL
I’m vegetarian just because killing animals makes me sad
the fact that before this very video i just got a transphobic ad says a lot about how little things have improved 5 years later
Turning Point USA for me -.-
Happens to me all the time too
If advertisers can select their sellers, sellers should be able to pick their advertisers
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But we're the product basically when it comes to TH-cam so that's not going to happen.
We could pick if we payed TH-cam. Simple economics.
xWood4000 I pay TH-cam, it's called TH-cam Red
Burgundy Burnouts True. But I think you have to collude with others that pay because 10$/month in comparison
to potentially millions is nothing and therefore advertisers have the power grip if you don't get a bunch of paying people to agree.
this makes me long for the days of "HERE IN MY GARAGE" before videos, thanks for addressing this
The guy must have ran out of Lamborghinis in his Lamborghini account.
TIL: schmoyoho watches hankschannel. huh.
Hooray for exploitative pyramid schemes winning the moral high ground over hateful ideological harassment!
I just want to love the gays in the Hollywood Hills!
Had one of those play before this one. Not the Lamborghini guy, some other sketchy mofo who claimed he knew how we can all get rich and wanted me to buy the book he wrote about it.
I see now that it could have been worse. And that's terrible.
I came back to this video because I have been seeing a LOT of PragerU ads (full videos) as ads on channels that are specifically educational channels, often with a liberal or left of center bend. PragerU is so unethical to me in the way they misrepresent themselves and target vulnerable populations. My guess is the content creators have literally no idea that’s happening. It drives me crazy.
PragerU is so insidious. I actually watched one once because I genuinely try to listen to people with different opinions than me and I'm not Super far left or anything, compromise and health debate is important and possible blah blah (optimism, how I miss it.)
The weird thing is how well it was written and structured to come off as reasonable for like the first 4-5 minutes before steadily sliding into batshit crazy land. I was like, well, I don't agree with that part, but you made a good point about this, hmm, maybe this isn't so bad... WTF? lol.
@@mayaenglish5424 FR bc I did the same, I didn’t know about prager u being a nutcase channel at the time and just thought it was another interview thing so I was just like “I guess I respect their opinion” until it rapidly declined to “what in the fuck am I watching??”
@@mayaenglish5424 the misrepresenting themselves as legitimate is how the getcha, its their whole plan
I'm back here 4 years after this was uploaded because I got an ad for the daily mail "documentary" which is just a guy running around being transphobic af on a video about a trans person educating people on trans anatomy and medical transition options... it makes me not want to use youtube.
I don't actually mind it that much when I personally get one and I usually let it play all the way through. Advertisers don't pay and content creators don't get paid if you skip a particular ad, so watching it all the way through essentially takes money from the advertiser and gives it to the content creator. It's especially great when their ad is like 10-15 minutes long. Generally the longer the ad the more money they have to pay for it, so I'll just leave it in the background and go do something else for like 15 minutes.
It would be amazing if they fixed it but I seriously doubt that's ever gonna happen.
It's... still happening. I was watching a whole bunch of great trans TH-camrs and I keep getting that Matt Walsh ad. They did nothing. Thank you for doing something.
Ive seen a bit of a resurgence but in my experience it was far far worse 5 ish years ago. Though of course that doesnt mean its universal. I think they've "tried" but there a major corporation post 1980-1990 making as as much money as possible even while targeting the vulnerable is ultimately the goal. Ultimately this also majorly the algorithms fault.
I keep seeing Anti-Choice ads before youtubers I've been subscribed to forever. Seems like just the last couple of weeks.
Turn about is fair play. Gay and trans channels should absolutely take collections to pay youtube to have their ads placed on the conservative christians channels who are doing this.
Yes! I watch a lot of trans TH-camrs too and I keep getting ads on their videos and other videos for some sort of anti-trans movie or “documentary.”
I’ve only ever gotten the ads for that stupid documentary (if you would even call it that) on LGBTQ+ content. It feels so targeted.
Only 90s kids remember Anderson 63 Scooper
Is it unreasonable for us to expect youtube to just not accept anti-gay advertisements, period?
If it can be labelled hate speech, then yes. Unfortunately, as he put it, there's a LOT of icing on that sh*t cake. As long as they don't cross that line, then they're free to say what they want.
No, not at all but but it is unreasonable to ask them to fight that battle in court and lose in what would basically be a symbolic gesture against a generally pretty nuetral and therefore sometimes entirely unreasonable entity.
Yes
@@OliverFoulkesMRO2013 I’d say cutting through the icing is the best way to expose the hate speech.
The example Hank talked about where someone is “just telling people what the Bible says” could be exposed by showing that the person has not put out any videos about other weird rules from the Bible. Have they talked about it being a sin to get divorced? To wear two different types of cloth? To touch the skin of a pig? Have they explained the way the Bible suggests to evaluate how much a slave is worth? Or how to evaluate the dowry you should require when allowing a man to marry your daughter, as if marriage were a financial transaction? Have they explained the poetry of the Bible actually meaning a woman’s sexual organ when it talks about things ‘flowing from her navel?’ I’ve checked many medical texts, nothing should be flowing from anyone belly button, but women have a nearby body part which can flow and which has been the source of many poems throughout history. Seems pretty obvious.
If the ‘just saying what the Bible says’ person isn’t interested in talking about even twenty five percent of the Bible and instead focuses on the specifically anti-LGBTQIA+ parts, then they’re telling you that they want to talk using hate speech but only if they can hide behind religion to do it. It’s disgusting that TH-cam would pretend it’s impossible to see through this and I’m certain it’s insulting to Christian’s to see their faith used to attack when their savior specifically told them to “love thy neighbor”.
TH-cam, do better. Stop pretending it’s impossible, just do better.
It is illegal in my country, the ASA would have a field day!
Your discontent and empathy on behalf of the lgbt community is a beautiful thing, for which I am considerably grateful. Thank you Hank. I have enjoyed your content in the past, and you have earned much esteem from myself and your viewers.
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Didn't Hank mention in one of his shorter videos that he was Bi? I'll have to watch the videos again, but I think Hank's at least not completely straight.
@@gigicaresse503 he's said multiple time's that he has straight behavior but is still confused about his sexual orientation. so kind of?
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Thanks for clearing this up!
@@3bugsinatrenchcoat the heck does straight behaviour mean? Straight or gay or bi doesn’t imply any behaviour. Its just a sexual orientation
SUPPORTING PEOPLE WHO ARE MENTALLY ILL IS NOT OKAY. THIS IS NOT OKAY, DEFORMING YOUR BODY IS NOT OKAY, THIS IS NOT A THING IN HEALTHY COUNTRIES LIKE SCANDANAVIA. TELLING SOMEONE WITH DYSPHORIA THAT ITS OKAY TO MUTILATE THIER BODY IS LIKE TELLING SOMEONE THAT IS SUICIDAL THAT THE SOLUTION IS KILLING YOURSELF, ITS WRONG AND AS A SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY WE NEED TO FIX THESE PROBLEMS AND ACTUALLY LOOK AT THEM REALISTICLY
Hey Hank, throughout my time as a highschool student, a college student (at Eckerd, ironically), and now a medical student (at Mayo, over in Minnesota), I've benefited so much from your various TH-cam enterprises, mostly Crash Course, Sci Show, and Healthcare Triage. As a member of the LGBT community, I am also outraged about TH-cam's willingness to throw the LGBT community under the bus as soon as money is at stake. So that is why this video convinced me to start supporting you on Patreon. At some point we must recognize that advertising-supported media is fundamentally incompatible with education because scientific truth is often unpopular. It is important that you are able to continue making good educational content that uses knowledge and understanding to lift up everyone in your audience, especially the impressionable young people that the ADF and their ilk are trying to target with their hate speech. So anyway, keep making awesome content!
The whole last bit about letting creators choose as well like... yes?!?! In traditional media this is all a two-way street, and it's always struck me that it's unfair advertisers can pick and choose all sorts of things but we have no power whatsoever
This is not traditional media, and youtube is a monopoly - they can do whatever they like
Sometimes LGBTQ+ content creators just want to provide visibility for those like us. Demonitization and age restricting videos kills visibility for those who need it. Do better TH-cam! Thank you Hank for unpacking this!
absolutely! well said
I can't begin to guess how hugely helpful it would've been if I could've seen positive, friendly videos (and text and audio) when I was a teen and young adult, struggling because I had gay feelings, and got bullied and didn't feel I had anyone safe to talk to or to, uh, figure it out with. (Boyfriend? It didn't even occur to me that a boy might want me for a boyfriend, or that I could have a boyfriend. All I knew was, I wanted friends I could talk to, and some friend who'd like to do what I wished I could do, just to figure it out, the same way the straight kids could with their boyfriends / girlfriends.) And getting bullied because people _said_ I was gay. All the bad feelings, questioning, the unhappiness and loneliness. -- So I am hugely grateful that now, adults and youth can put their stories out there, visibility, to let others learn how they feel, what they care about, to learn that hey, it just might be OK for me to be not straight. I might be able to find friends to talk to or someone to love and be loved by. imagine that, such a basic need, so completely squashed for so many folks, youth or older. Visibility is a good thing. -- And several very ordinary people are my heroes, just for being themselves and saying, sometimes in a very raw emotional way, sometimes in a very thoughtful way, how they really, truly feel, what they want, or just plain living their lives, being people. Things like that help me even now. I am still dealing with this, even though I've been out for years now. All that old stuff to unlearn or relearn, all those things to get over with and make a new, better life. It is an ongoing thing. And I still run into the negatives way too often out there in the real world, so I know it still affects all of us. So if just putting the word out there, being real, makes a difference for even one teen or adult, one questioning person, one potential ally and friend, then that is worth a whole lot for those of us who dearly need it, and it could just save a few lives.
sorry but by devinistion those items are all to some extend sexual in nature. so prefenting pre teens from stumbling unto those video's without parental guids might be a better than scaring children for live. that counting for the normal state of hetro sexualty as well.
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You growned boi. Be civil and respectfull. You already lost now.
Very well said! I'm only 14, but I've known I was different since I was around 7 or 8, and I was ashamed. TH-camrs like Miles McKenna are what helped me figure out what I was. At first I thought I was bi (I'm not saying being Bi is a phase, because I know for most people it's not, but for me it was), partially because I was a) in denial and b) honestly had no clue and all I knew what that I liked gorls. So know I know I'm gay. Still, TH-camrs are who helped me discover who I was, and it's upsetting that TH-cam is trying to stop young kids and teens from getting information about themselves
I have always thought you were awesome, but right now I have overwhelming amounts of love and respect for you. Thank you for taking such a strong and unambiguous stand on this issue. As a queer, disabled woman who makes content about adult sexuality, I'm rarely able to take advantage of monetization (although it seems videos about making your own toys are cool, but discussions about consent - and how important it is - are bad for advertisers). The idea that these hateful groups could be buying ad spots on my content is enough to make me sick.
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While watching videos about the Owl House I keep getting ads for Matt Walsh ranting about how much he hates trans people
I’m sorry you had to see that
Well, if Restricted Mode is anything to go by, I'm very excited for TH-cam to wait a week before releasing a terrible statement, then back tracking and releasing a better one, then saying they'll do something about it, then in a years time it's still happening.
Rowan Ellis yeah they don't seem to care at all. I think they just would rather support our increasingly evil overlords while pretending to care about the little guy than actually do the right thing
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Rowan Ellis Nice name.
Hank, thank you SO MUCH for making this video.
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Love seeing all these big trans influencers here! Love your videos
I love when Hank takes on topics like this because he brings a good argument while at the same time showing how much he actually cares about what he's talking about in this case both his viewers and the lgbt community.
Every time someone says it’s hard to be an “ally” I think about this video. It’s not hard. Get mad with us. Support us. Let us yell. Complain with us. Plug the amplifier for our mics.
Three years too late but Yk he’s bi right?
this aged poorly in the best possible way
As a closeted LGBT kid who uses TH-cam as an escape, this is DISGUSTING.
Hiya Batm-... I mean Mr. Wayne 😊😋
I know a lot of things about life suck right now, I've been there. I also know "it gets better" sounds like total bullshit. But it does, if you let it. You will find people who you have a hunch that you can come out to, sometimes they'll turn out to be dicks and leave, but that is their loss. But there will be people who will love you, who will behave like decent human beings and accept you for who you are. Having people like that in your life is worth all of it.
I sure know waking up next to my boyfriend every day is worth all the pain I had to suffer through before.
How old are you exactly ....
if you are like 10 you don’t know shit
I had gender dysphoria when i was a kid
I grew out of it because of puberty .
God satan not trying to start a fight or anything but you can experience gender dysphoria as soon as your brain grasps the concept of genders. That's how it was for me, a trans guy, and several of my friends.
God satan also the kid didn't specify what they are and you just kinda assumed. But again you can realize you're gay or bi when you're really young. You can be six and have a crush on a classmate of the same gender, look up what that means, and realize you're hella gay. Identity shouldn't be age gated.
I'm a trans guy (and a PDS fan). I cannot express how much Chase's videos have helped me. Dealing with dysphoria and bigotry and societal erasure as a trans man is hard, and this platform is unmatched in its capacity to help people like me be educated and have a sense of hope and community.
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OnceUponAPiano Mate, chases videos have been a literal life saver and i wish more trans people (under 18s) had access to all of his things -o probably wouldn't know what a packer was if it weren't for him!
(Ps The PDS rocks)
Especially his Trans 101 series I was able to educate my friends who don't quite understand something!
OnceUponAPiano me too. His trans 101 videos are nice too, some of which I show my family and once I saw an anti-lgbt+ ad lately while watching it and it made me really angry tbh. I hope they fix this because if they don't, everyone it aggravates will be even more upset
Toby Wafflez it doesn't help some trans people's causes - If i tried showing my parents a vid that showed an anti LGBT+ Advert, it could just further their own beliefs and cause further rejection. The exact opposite reason for showing them the video in the first place
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great opening line
"the history of great lesbians" is probably a real Jessica Kellgren-Fozard video
And if it isn't, it should be :D
It is a series:)
She has a whole queer history series, it's awesome
Hearing this news makes me want to flip over many many tables! Thank you Saint Hank for being such a valiant defender of the LGBTQ+ community. Praise be 🙏🖖🏳️🌈
Jesus Christ one of the only times I’ll listen to Jesus, thanks 😂
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I love how it’s not only Jesus Christ; it’s *verified* Jesus christ
holly crap im atheist...
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Bless Hank's angry dad mode when it comes to all the beautiful LGBTQ+ creators on this platform and just generally informing people that this is happening, because now knowing that this is happening I'm right there at the same level of just extreme frustration with TH-cam. I may not be a creator myself and at an age and level of self acceptance and love where I can ignore the BS in these gross preroll vids but I as a viewer don't want the creators I love to deal with this shit being put before their own video just on the front of how could youtube let their platform literally put hate before love and acceptance
who-what-videos-maybe can we just all make Hank our unofficial dad
Everyone is frustrated with youtube why because you cannot try and silence one group without it effecting every group
Couple of honest questions.
DO lbgt tubers put lgbt tag on their videos even if they dont talk about sexuality?
Also is there tag like cis or straight that get flagged same way?
Also isnt anything sexual automatically controversial/un-monetized on youtube?
Samuel Silver being LGBT+ isn't inherently sexual... same way being straight isn't either. So like tagging it either way shouldn't be an issue. Sexuality just describes who you are attracted to. Also this is about shitty people paying to putt their anti-LGBT propaganda in front content of users who are open about their sexuality and/or gender
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So THATS why I can't get TH-cam to stop showing me effing PragerU adds!!!
And these effing "Trump is God" ads, too.
It gets worse, because of how monitization works on TH-cam (see CGP Grey here th-cam.com/video/KW0eUrUiyxo/w-d-xo.html to learn more about the base system before the demonitization category) PragerU and propagandists like them are paying almost nothing for their ads.
On top of that, they embolden and help organize the trolls, muddy the waters, and take up advertising slots that the main audience of the channel will instantly click to skip, meaning they don't have to pay for those slots on top of the already lowered price.
Then, because the demonitization puts the voices speaking out against hate in a lower ranking for the recommendation algorithm, the balance is even further tipped in favor of the demogogues paying to spread hate.
I get those all the time! Aagh!!
Adblock seems to be your solution.
Isn't God's whole like, thing, that he loves everybody? I thought that was one of the major parts of the bible?
Right!!!! Also Christians telling others that they're going to hell for something they don't like when the Bible says that only God can judge!!!! hdjsksxn I hate it
I asked a Priest and a Rabbi about that. They gave a similar answer: imagine a parent finds out their kid did something really bad. Like, a parent found out their child killed someone. The parent can love their child with all their heart, but has to do something. So they send their child away. Hell is that away part. And in the Bible, hell is basically the absence of God, and in the Torah it's the pit where Jews would cremate dead bodies (Sheol).
Now, why is consensual sex between two men (the Torah specifically bans male homosexuality, but doesn't address female homosexuality) punishable by death, while raping a woman is punishable by a fine and offering to marry the person the man raped? There isn't a real satisfying answer.
As for the judgement thing, people say "that's only among people of the faithful," meaning you have to be "one of them" to not be judged. Which is kind of crazy.
That isn't most christians, that is a small part/older part. Christians who are younger and wiser use the term 'hate the sin, not the sinner'. Their actions are sinful but it doesn't mean they aren't good people.
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@@km1dash6 So basically their belief is that any other religion that isn't catholic like buddhism, the people there will go to hell?
hank's outrage at the harm these ads might be causing to his community (to me) is actually kind of comforting. his passion in protecting his viewers and to being kind is great. he really cares about us 🎉
Kathari Kaplan if being gay is genetic then those ads will not affect them much.
Spider Salticidae, How do you figure exactly? Yeah these ads arent going to magically change our sexualities but in a society that shows and has historically shown LGBTQ+ people massive amounts of hostility, disgust, and outright hatred for no reason, it would stand to reason that a person who is struggling to come to grips with their sexuality in that environment could be psychologically harmed by content that's mission is to voice disgust, unacceptance, and outright hatred towards LGBTQ+ people. And there are multiple studies that have shown this.
That makes no sense. If I saw an ad that was against brown people I'd be pretty fucking pissed, especially if it was shown to me repeatedly.
There's this one historical sewing channel (Angela Clayton, she's great!) that regularly gets demonetized because the algorithm thinks her _fitting dummy_ is a naked person...
Oh, sewing, so controversial
Edit: I also know a few more great lgbt youtubers! Macdoesit is absolutely hilarious, Jessica Kellgren-Fozard is beautiful and disabled and lesbian
PoisonTheOgres Thomas Sanders is another incredible lgbt creator! He's gay and also has lots of lgbt friends that appear in his skits and videos.
PoisonTheOgres i love all of those people and it sucks that any of them get demonetized all the time
PoisonTheOgres I love Jessica! Just found her randomly a few months ago.
I wonder if she covered the fitting dummy in new fabric that is patterned if that would change for her (I've seen some really cute fitting dummies made in calico prints
oh jessica is the greatest!!!
I hate that Google regulates (read: censors) creators so much more than it does its advertisers.
This could all be fixed if youtube allowed content creators to pick which ads played before their videos. That really can not be hard to implement. Stop leaving it up to flawed AI and just let the creators themselves do it.
The problem sadly is also the fact that there are servers to pay for, employees etc that TH-camrs don't necessarily see. Should there be something thought up of, yes but it needs to be more thought out.
Gabzo Avro Letting creators pick which ads play on their videos doesnt affect that.
Yep. Like you shouldn't be forced to let ads you don't like play on you videos.
Thank you for this, H. -G
That lesbians who are dope video needs to happen.
Makoto Itoshi I’d watch it
Panda25732 Williams Nicholas Cage?
Atom Gallup ah yes, Nicholas Cage; history’s greatest lesbian.
...Julie d'Aubigny?
Vita Sackville-West.
If advertisers can pick the content they want to partner with, then creators need to be able to pick the advertisers they want to work with as well. When I see a Prager University ad in front of a Trevor Noah or John Oliver video, I know someone is gaming the system
Kesona Fyren rock on this is a great point.
Prager ‘university’ can go back to the pit of hell it came from. I hope TDS or LWT does a thing on them because that would be great, especially LWT since they could take 20 minutes to unravel that shitshow in painstaking detail, all with a British accented parrot.
Exactly, nothing underscores the laughably corrupt system of TH-cam's advertiser pandering algorithms than those alt-right cockbiters at Prager-U popping up on content that's filled with, ya know, actual viable information and research. Someone desperately needs to shine a spotlight on those craven little McCarthyists.
Najimubu Nice to see there are people who can agree on some points with people who have different hobbies.
I'm kind of happy to see all these pissed off leftists. It's funny to me. Talk about first world problems.
Try being gay in Saudi Arabia. Then you'll have something to complain about.
TH-cam has drastically changed so much in the last couple years and not in a good way. They aren't listening to their creators when something is broken and just creating even more problems. While at the same time they're doing things like their #ProudToCreate where they put on this facade that everything is perfect rainbows and unicorns.
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Given that this is pride month, and so many companies are going to be running "pride themed" ad campaigns, I'm going to say that any company who is doing that should be ok with having their regular ads on lgbtq-positive videos.
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They're "defending freedom" by attempting to restrict the freedom of others. How ironic
Can we buy this as a pre-roll ad?
Dries007 Hell yeah! Start a gofundme for Hank to buy ad spots for this video...
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I love how this ended on a tangible, actionable, reasonable SOLUTION. Thanks Hank. You're the best.
Back when I was in high school and closeted, there was this big corkboard in the hall covered in information on scholarships. Some of them were general, others were very specific. There was even one scholarship for LGBT+ youth. One day, a man - a parent of a student, I think - saw the LGBT scholarship and tore it down. There was an article in the paper a few days later about "the controversy" and a picture of the man in question looking stern and resolute. I think I should have felt angry, but instead I just felt tired and a bit sad. It was a small town and mostly conservative, so this wasn't exactly out of step with local values. These ads remind me a lot of that man.
Hank, thanks for getting angry. I don't always feel like I can, and I know I should. Otherwise, I'd just accept this as another thing to endure. I've traveled a bit and been out of the closet most of the time since high school, but old habits die hard.
stonescorpio , terrorist recruitment ADs would worry me more.
I'm so sorry you've felt this way.. my son had a hard time to, I try to be there, I hope there's someone who is there for you:(
I think you could totally consider this educational in terms of vlogbrothers time rules and reupload there.
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I'm a bisexual youtuber, and honestly I'm too small to currently have ads on my videos anyways, but this is all kind of the worst. I hate going to look for community and instead hearing about how I don't deserve it.
I don't have much to say in response other than I identify with everything you commented. All I can say now is Bi Pride from one to another and no matter how horrendous the add is - you are ALWAYS WELCOME HERE.
Here's a sub to help towards that sub goal. 🌈🦄.
Katrina Eames completely agree! this (hateful ads) is so emotionally damaging for those of us who need community and come here to seek it
Thanks so much! Also I love the unicorn emoji - I didn't realize that was an option.
As are you! Thank you for reaffirming that I belong
this is still happening! thanks for making this video, this has been happening with many of the videos I watch (a lot of them being you and john, and then lgbtq+ creators). Just realizing this is FIVE YEARS OLD and it hasn't been resolved is infuriating. It's terrible that these sorts of advertisements are even spread around in the first place :(
I'm trans and I appreciate you advocating for the family. Love you
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Go team lgbtqa nerdfighters!
Edit: lgbtqa. Left myself off the list
Ethan my favorite subgroup
Ethan, that's some next level asexual/aro erasure
Lol, I dont know why im like this
Probably because most people stop at Q.
I like the idea of Creators restricting what type of ads are showing up. It could be accompanied by a monetization calculator. That's the next shift. Reputation connected with advertisers.
I personally have gotten these ads and it was pretty frustrating. It hurts when I see horrible ads that dehumanize and just tear down LGBT people for being LGBT especially during pride month.
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I have taken note of the elevated output of such ads in certain months.
That’s a good way to put it. It hurts. My brother is gay and an amazing man who’s going to help a lot of people (he’s getting his master’s in psychology; we’re really proud) and it hurts to think of the intent in the messages, to make it seem like he’s... wrong, inherently, or in any way less. And, as a person of faith, it really bothers me to think of how many of the people who really respond to those messages use religion as a fig leaf for their bigotry and bias. It hurts, and it needs to stop. It is not okay and it never will be. I’m really sorry you’ve been impacted by this. I hope TH-cam backpedals soon.
You do know people on the other side see ads promoting a lifestyle that is against their world view as well.
DeludoSui they're ignorant, me wanting to be accepted for liking guys? That isn't ignorant. Don't know why you're wanting to defend bigots tbh.
The James I understand I won't be fully accepted but I can still be sad about it.
it's gotten worse. i'm queer and trans and i watch a lot of videos related to that, and so i keep getting transphobic and homophobic videos (mainly youtube shorts, because i wouldn't click on something like that, whereas i cant help scrolling onto it), which obviously aren't the videos i want to be watching
The problem with depending on algorithms and machine learning to not discriminate is that the algorithms are still dictated by humans. Machines don't solve our biases, they just absorb them.
Pro-LGBT content was specifically, manually blocked on Restricted Mode. We can't forget that.
"Machines dont solve our biases, they just absorb them" is probably the single best sentence about algorithm ive ever read.
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Also, algorithms like TH-cam look for repetitions. If most videos controversial has "Gay" and "LGTB" or smthg like that in the title (Imagine title as "I Have Gays"), then the algorithm is gonna think that, obviously, Gay-> controversial + Not worth our money
And, also, it's hard to fix this types of algorithms. They learn throught data, and they keep learning without the creators having to do anything. Wich results in a machine you don't understand, and can hardly change bit by bit...
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How can they demonetize political videos but allow political ads?
Do you realise how effective this video would be if it were on Vlogbrothers rather than a side channel? People don't care if it's hugely edited, it will get seed and mainstream news media will most likely pick up on it and shine a light on this issue. Dude, you could really help our cause
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What? side channel?... oh this is in hankschannel! damn I was certain this was on vlogbrothers, but yeah, maybe you should reupload it there?
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“He is right! You can tell because of his mustache.”
I know this is a serious video and as a baby gay myself I appreciate it so much, but this line made me smile :)
as a now-no-longer-baby gay, any advice for those still very much in the “who am I?” phase?
@@carsonpearce5980 I don't know if you'll read this (a month is a very long time on the internet) but if you do, know that everything will work out. I'm an out gay man who grew up religious and it has caused me to question a lot about my identity. My advice is to love yourself enough to recognize that whoever you are, you deserve happiness and you deserve people who love and support you (in case you don't have that already). If things get hard, feel free to reach out to the Trevor Project and you can always ask questions on Reddit (going there was really helpful). Please know that whatever your identity happens to be, there are people like you (there's nearly 8 billion people on the planet after all). If you read this and still have questions/concerns, feel free to respond to this message.
@@Newton-Reuther aw dude this was so nice to read!
nice strangers on the internet are the best thing ever, and the green brothers seem to be able to conjure them from thin air lol.
I’m very lucky that i have a very queer friend group that was able to wisen me up even before i realized i was bi and some flavor of trans (we’re figuring it out lol) and that i have accepting parents. ive come out to my mom, but not my dad yet just because he is a question asker and a problem solver and i dont really want to deal with either of those things rn, but i have no doubt he’ll be supportive when i do feel ready to come out.
loving myself isnt always easy but im lucky to have a bit of a head start and am doing pretty well, i think.
thanks for checking in, it was a pleasure talking, and best of luck to you :)
I’d like to know why there’s a like/dislike for ads if I can’t make them stop. I got the same ad for Scientology for weeks even after skipping and disliking many, many times. I’d love for the people I watch to have the option not to have ads that are controversial. That would be awesome so that it doesn’t look like the creator is supporting medications, political videos or other weird content.
I wonder if since you were engaging with the ad, that caused it to show up more even though it was negative engagement?
MissLilyputt you can get rid of it. There's an option to not see that ad anymore on the bottom left of the ad. It'll ask you why too.
RealToWonder even to the video ads? I've never seen that for prerolls?
any ad. click the little "i" in the circle labeled "why this ad". it will bring pop up page where you can click to stop seeing that particular ad.
I had similar problems with the same ads showing up specifically about things that upset me. Eventually I turned off the targeted ads setting and it stopped immediately.
Can we get an option to see who is advertising on our videos? I think that would be fair and honest. People think that advertisements are endorsements from a channel, it happens with TV, so why not youtube? Even though we as creators have no control over advertisements
also you make content that keeps youtube alive. If youtube pisses off the creators, they will end up with bland content that no one will want to watch. They have to think about the people that MAKE what youtube SELLS.
+edt49er You are actually free to contact coca cola, ford, etc and any well established advertisers to hammer out a deal to have their ads play on your videos and bypass youtube's adsense. However if you aren't going to do this or you are so insignificant that it isn't worth Ford's time to sit down with you for direct advertising, don't forget you are still a small non-established fish. Be grateful for what you get because otherwise you sound like the beggars can't be choosers subreddit.
D K well right now I’m not even that with current youtube because I don’t have 1000 subs. I was in a huge growth spurt that was throttled when TH-cam changes it’s monetization policy.
D K also feel free to share my content with that subreddit if you want to, I could use the views
+edt49er Sorry I wasn't trying to imply I was going to put you on blast on that subreddit; I don't even have a reddit account. All I meant was that each community gets this sort of crap to a certain extent. I think a strong comparison I can offer you to illustrate that at the end of the day we are in the same camp; we're allies against ads which by coincidence don't meet our beliefs: vegetarian/vegan channels are getting McDonald's ads which are obviously in conflict with channels who advocate for animal welfare. I think to lessen any hurt you and your friends may be feeling is to look at it in the following way: money is required to sponsor these anti-gay ads and personally I'd just laugh them off because at the end of the day; an ad isn't going to change your orientation so the joke is on whoever wasted their money trying to convince you otherwise. You know what I mean?
“and he’s right. You can tell because of his moustache” I’m crying. Bless angry dad hank and his incredible sarcasm and activism
You're right, angry dad Hank is the best!!
I know I’m incredibly late, but the fact that hank knows that his audience is mostly part of the LGBT+ community is awesome :))
Update: this video was in my subscriptions 30 minutes ago. Now it's gone. How... poetic.
Same thing happened to Chase's video on the subject. I guess TH-cam is just trying to sweep this all under the rug.
Hank: I’m angry
Me: RANT! RANT! RANT! RANT!
Pheobe Owusu and yt users gave Hank the biggest soapbox ever
he ranted for 13 minutes...
Thanks for talking about Chase's recent struggles (albeit briefly) because it's so unfair that all his hard work is at risk of being deleted.
As a chirstian and member of the LGBTQIA+ community these kinds of things wound me to my core. Pretty hate is still hate and hatred is EXACTLY EVERYTHING JESUS WAS NOTTTT ABOUT. It hurts my heart on the deepest level to see people pretend that they're trying to help by tearing people down instead of building them up in love.
This is a GREAT video. Thanks. Your content is always the best. I talk about books, and I deal with LGBTQ+ books, and I don't want to have a add saying that this is wrong. Argh, I got so pissed about it.
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you have a lovely channel! :)
Thanks! :)
I want in that beta to self-rate. I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE your educated rage.
I have a channel on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict asking Israelis and Palestinians to answer people's questions on the conflict, their societies, cultures, etc. TH-cam demonitizes often based on their own political considerations - for example, a video of Palestinians being critical of Palestinian society is often demonitized but a similar video of Israelis being critical of Israeli society is not. Most of the time, I cannot figure out what specific phrase, word or issue they believe is not appropriate for advertisers because they don't tell you.
Also, an issue like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict gets people who are supporters of one side and haters of the other. So even reporting something benign about one of the sides will make people on the other side angry because they view the conflict in zero-sum terms.
I've seen your videos! As a religious Jew myself, I totally understand the auto-hate people spew about the issue. As a very strong liberal I have understood both sides, and think that your content is very eye-opening on showing how little both sides understand the other, but in many cases want or believe very similar things.
I'm surprised to see your comment here, I've watched a bunch of your videos in the past. Super interesting content.
Corey Gil-Shuster Thank you for sharing! Your videos seem super interesting too. /All the way from Sweden
plfp did nothing wrong.
But I see.
What’s the point of homophobes funding *“the gay”*
Candy Gobbler I like the idea. Take money from those stupid prejudiced people and use it to fund something good.
I always click on ads that are clearly antagonistic to the videos like. Gotten make them pay for those CPCs.
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Planting seeds in the lost. It's WELL worth it. Trust me. I KNOW. Blessings in Jesus!🙋
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shellbellbutterfly why do you care what other people do with their life? If they want to be sinful let them be sinful. Its their choice not yours. Maybe some people like to do things their own way and don’t care where they end up.
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Jesus Is God and He promised that His WORD would NEVER pass away and since He made the whole entire universe and every function of everyone's body (with THE FATHER), I'm SURE you can comprehend how easy it is for Him to keep some information together in a book. Please think about that. I was reading THE BIBLE when I MET Jesus, so it's perfectly kept in context & quite powerful as the living WORD of God (Jesus is THE WORD made flesh to walk among us & suffer & pay for our sin. HalleluYAH!!! Blessings to KNOW Jesus!🙋
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not only do i get anti-lgbt ads, i'm constantly recommend anti-lgbt videos (why i regret transitioning, sjw compilation, i keep getting recommended videos from some guy who hangs out on the street and "argues" with people about their beliefs and usually features anti-lgbt views and insults people who are in the lgbt community, and so many more)
i'm bisexual and i haven't gone a day since i began watching lgbt content without seeing something anti-LGBT related.
panic! at the everywhere I kinda enjoy the sjw videos.
panic! at the everywhere Same. I thought it was really strange and couldn't figure out why... I'm really disappointed..
Probably the same algorithm that puts hateful content on activists' front pages, like in Pinterest.
Your recommendations are based on your watch history. All you've done is told us the kinds of videos you watch, announcing to the world what a bigot you are.
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It's usually to correct people; it happened once, and then I got swamped. Then I thought of this and stopped clicking. It's taken awhile to work.
The ad I saw before this video was a weird propagandist pro-fascism (?) rant from The Daily Wire. I am baffled by the way YT's advertising algorithm works. I watch gardening videos, Vlogbrothers content, the occasional board game playthrough, and book reviews. I have no idea what I have googled to trigger these ads, but surely there has to be a better solution than the current one?
Hannah Lou I'm pretty sure those ads seem to be intentionally targeting anyone they can because they just want eyes regardless of the eyes opinions.
It's like prager u and ty lopez. They just want as many eyes as possible so they spread their ideology and make money.
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The Daily Wire is stupid but come on it’s not fascist
I think they care more about age and gender than anything else. I got a fancy sunscreen commercial. TH-cam has decided that I'm getting old so on top of all the stupid make-up commercials I'm getting inundated with "anti-aging" crap. All I watch are political videos and book reviewers but because I have breasts I must be freaking out about whether I'm pretty right? And apparently stupid enough to think magic exists in the form of moisturiser.
Can you talk about dope lesbians in history on a vlog brothers video? Because now I want to know about them. It sounds awesome!
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I mean, Pirate Captain Anne Bonnie is pretty fantastic, although her bisexuality is merely alleged.
There was also this FrenchOpera singer, I forget her name, who kept getting in duels with French aristocrats because she kept seducing their wives. Most duels are fought to the death, so she ended up killing some of the aristocracy. She also joined a convent just so she could seduce a nun.
I don’t know what context we’re using “dope”, but these are two great dope lesbians to start with.
They've been doing this for a while for left leaning news. The first time I saw a PragerU video was as an ad while watching TYT.
i say we retaliate with progay ads on homophobic or conservative videos
Don't forget the muslim vids too.
Fyre Goldfox not all conservatives dislike LGBT people
Fyre Goldfox
Are you that stupid? Do you think all conservatives go around with Anti lgbt+ flags
Random BlastOff you can't blame him since they label these opinions as conservative voices
Fyre Goldfox Please note that “homophobic” and “conservative” are NOT necessarily synonymous. My opinion that the government is too big or my thoughts on how our foreign policy should be conducted has nothing to do with my opinions on sexuality. (Actually do not understand why the government defines or licenses marriage...this is where I get libertarian.)
Thanks for this Hank. I respect you even more now, and I wasn't sure that was possible.
I don’t understand why people have such a problem with the concept that it’s really shitty to hate people based on things about themselves that they can’t change. Thank you hank for using your platform to talk about this issues.
10 things white men need to stop doing in 2018
Oh I see what you did there because a person has no control over the color of their skin or their gender...just like sexuality...yup...
5 years later and i'm still getting anti-trans ads on the videos of my favorite beloved trans creators. really sucks as a young trans adult who has to deal with these issues both on and off the internet :(
if it ever gets too difficult to deal with there are always ad blockers they have helped me
I think the easiest way to solve this without silencing conservatives (which some social platforms DO have a history of doing) is to say that the ad is not allowed to, literally or in the gist of things, contradict the content of the video it runs on. Like, for example on a video that tells you about the pros of birth control, you couldn't have an ad for baby clothing for example.
The problem is neither TH-cam nor the advertisers can monitor exactly what videos their ads go on. For example, a video talking about gun control may have an ad for a concealed carry holster, because they're both tagged as gun-related. Or pro-life video may have a Planned Parenthood ad on it, because they're both about abortion. With billions upon billions of videos being watched every single day, it's tough to monitor for mistakes
Zachary Henderson And I get that, I just think that there is a case to be made for more specific tagging
That's a great idea - in my case I've seen ads on videos that were not controversial but simply made it obvious I would never buy the product - which is something you'd think advertisers would *like* to filter for. It seems to be common because the tags are similar and don't seem to discriminate based on whether it's promoting the product or not.
This is actually an issue I have with Google searches sometimes - I want to look up "not" something but it keeps giving me results which use that. I know you can use the quotes to tell Google you want to specifically look for those words in that order, but sometimes I don't want the phrase after the "not" to be specific (I want it to inlcude synonyms and similar topics). I know you can use the "-" to tell Google to not include results with a certain word/phrase in it, but I *am* looking for that phrase, because I want to see the cons or alternatives to that.
Nathan Harris True, but I think that's a rather tame example. Like, it's annoying, but it won't be harmful to the person watching it. The cases he talks about are. And so are a lot of others. Like, a friend of mine, who has lost a child and was watching videos about that topic got an ad for children's clothing. That's not OK. And I think it's also both unnecessary and not intended by the company who bought the ad space. Like, the best case scenario is they are wasting money, the worst is they are actively causing someone mental anguish.
ThisOne I agree with your point about more specific tagging. But to be fair, in the tragic case of your friend losing his child, may God be with him, the mechanism for choosing ads for him really had no way of knowing he had lost his child. All they knew was that he had a child at some point in the past, if that makes sense. Also, I would say there is a huge difference between an anti-gay ad and an ad that references your deceased child
'Thinky machine' Is a great way to make artificial intelligence and self teaching algorithms sound less terrifying.
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yes it might sound less terrifying. But I do not think that is a good idea.
most AIs are neural network/machine learning algoritmes and what they do seems intelligent, but it is nothing more than a very complicated curve fit. They will "learn" all humaneties biggest errors if we are not very careful. For all situations where one uses optimization algoritmes one should be aware that they tend to exploit errors in the setup, for AI that might be finding errors in games to achieve
the highest high score or keeping people in prison just because of the skin color.
I’m still not used to hearing Hank cuss- it’s not even a big deal! It just shocks me 😂
I've seen enough mattress ads to know that they are never relevant. I hate ads, I prefer sponsorships because it typically means the creator that I like endorses them, and is usually MUCH more relevant.
C2Lception Headbanging to some death metal??? You know what would go perfect with that? A PURPLE MATRESS....yeah, totally man!
@@wabbajackwabbajack6932 yeah, purple have got their fingers everywhere
Wabbajack Wabbajack okay but purple has incredible ads imo I watch the entire thing but not for any other company would I think of that
Oh you want to watch random videos. DONT WORRY. WE WILL KEEP PLAYING THE SAME KFC ADD TWICE AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN
@@nonic4vic600 ugh, I once got the same ad twice in a row. Like literally back to back. This isn't gonna convince me, or anyone. And it was unskippable.
When I first got one of these ads I tried looking for a way to flag or some sort of filter I could put these ads in but I found nothing. Why are advertisers allowed to choose where to show their ads but we aren't allowed to choose which kinds of ads we want to be exposed to?
Gilda Rodriguez I've been able to go to the channels themselves and block certain advertisers like that directly on a few things. Sucks trying to navigate that, but I haven't had any pro trump bullshit in months since I managed.
rainwasheseverythingaway thank you I’m going to try that next time I get an ad I don’t like
same thing with scary movie trailers. sometimes they are just as scary as the movie. and most of the time they are unskippable. even normal movie trailers you can skip. i don't want that when I'm watching youtube late at night before i go to sleep, or really any time. I've tried reloading, going back and rechecking the video, nope still getting horror movie trailer.
Because corporations are the ruling class with more rights than citizens. It's sad but the world we live in now.
Fighting Faerie Yesssss!! I used to have such a problem with that. (I'm highly susceptible to dreaming about whatever I watch before sleep, and if it's horror the movie will be happening in my dream, but it will be happening to me and it's awful.) I'm glad I'm not the only one who really dislikes the inability to skip through horror trailers.
And I agree, we should be able to flag certain potentially disturbing ads or be able to report hateful ads.
Shouldn't you be able to allow or deny advertisers? Sort of like the reverse of the way advertisers can select the videos they wants to advertise on?
If you can't now, they should add this ability.
Michael Taylor I think this would be the ideal companion to advertisers being able to choose what subjects they want their ads to play with. This is the closest mirror to the mutual, contractual relationships in the old media.
Except TH-cam's content creators don't own TH-cam and don't pay the bills when it comes to keeping it's servers running. Would it help TH-cam to sometimes receive feedback on their ads should something extremely polarizing get out there? Perhaps, but that doesn't mean that adding a feature to disable any and all of it's regular ads is going to help them. At the end of the day TH-cam is a business, not a charity.
The thing is, Joseph, without the creators there would be no TH-cam. There would be no content for Google to monetize to pay bills or keep those red hot servers running.
If I had a popular channel...filled with MY content that I created, I'd be completely pissed off if YT allowed an ad to appear anywhere near my content if that ad violated by own ideologies or values.
No one is saying it's a god damn charity. We're talking about giving creators control over the ads that are displayed in connection with their content. If you can't understand the value in such an idea, then you're on the wrong side of this.
apparently, that feature existed, but its been so well hidden.
I'm not sure he meant it's a good thing. It's just how things are. The fact that creators are the reason for YT success seems to have absolutely no bearing in YT recognizing that or treating them fairly. Creators have little to no power in the relationship--except big ones who, were they to leave, could actually take significant eyeballs, brand value, and money with them. That's why it's such a good thing that Hank speaks out about these things, even though he's not directly involved.
Thank you Hank, for being a true ally!
Yep. I'm absolutely targeted for ads that are nothing but anti-lgbt hatespeech, and anti trans hatespeech in particular. I watch a lot of trans creators, and I see ads for bigot documentaries, or just ads for the concept of fearing trans people all the time.
As someone who is starting transitioning I’m getting nothing but anti-LGBTQ content
@@TrinitySaysHi That's horrible
I saw that flower ad. It reminded me so much of this time my dad and I got on this argument about how he thought it was unchristian for a black person to date a white person. Even down to claiming he wasn't racist because he had black friends. He also used the n-word til the day he died. That woman is equally terrible.
Nikkita Puppy yeah that ad was a fucking terrible time for me as well.
Like she "served him" for years for dates but the one time he asked for his WEDDING because he liked her work and her, she said sorry my "religion", btw I'm Christian and there is no reference to homosexuality even in the Bible, says no so sorry. It is frustrating and disgusting and I'm so glad you guys agree
Kitkat13 I am too. think I remember something about it in the old testement, but nothing in the new testement. What I do remember from the Bible is that the old testement was treated more as a history and the new testement involved Jesus continuously telling his followers to not be judgemental and to accept everyone whole-heartedly like he did, because that's the way a christian should be. We should spread love, not hate.
That’s rough, to see a family member use faith like that. I was raised in a Christian household and still am a Christian, but I’m one of those live and let live ones who doesn’t talk about it much unless asked and isn’t fond of organized religion (the denominations thing is nuts). It feels like this is not about God, but about feeling right and comfortable in bias and bigotry. We don’t still Stone children who are uncooperative or women who have had sex with someone to whom they aren’t married, or people who act as mediums. We don’t shun them. We don’t throw our judgment at them and quote scripture at them for it. It’s not about God. It’s about wanting to have a reason to be right in what they already think. Lots of Christians embrace the New Testament God about most stuff but still go back to Leviticus about this one thing. It’s not cool and it’s not okay and it’s really making all Christians just seem.... so horrible and holier than thou and judgey. And Christians are supposed to self-censure other Christians, say, “You’re deviating from the path, dude, what is up? You’re hurting people! How can I help you stop drifting? You have to give an accounting of yourself when it’s your time, and do you think this will make things go WELL for you?” Where are the other Christians being pissed?? We need more people saying it’s not okay, not afraid to be talked down by the rest of the congregation, quoted to and harangued. Hopefully this will get much rarer to see in the next few generations and people will remember God as a God who is pleased by loving others and wishing them happiness and helping them, not saying their very selves are inherently wrong. I don’t know how people can feel like that’s okay!
Amara Jordan thank you. This is exactly how I feel as a whole put into words. I agree with everything you just said, and there absolutely should be moral outrage over these things from our fellow Christians then there is right now.
HATE GROUPS DONT DESERVE EQUAL RIGHTS. Hurting others and profitting off of that has no place here and I hope this video gains recognition , srsly
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Jesus would have made the dang cake and he would have made the dang bouquet. He hung out with people society discriminated against because they needed help and love. Anyone claiming "christian" motives to do the opposite is a liar.
No, he wouldn't. That enabling. He would've made the cake if they used it for something other than an action which his very essence found repulsive.
I'm not religious so I have no business saying this but, I think the problem here is that some people value certain parts of christianity more than others.
The thing is, people don't make pastel-coloured saccharine circle-jerks about how lovely and beautiful lying is.
Or have adulterer pride parades.
Google didn't run a memorial on the progress Richard Ramirez made in making society more murder-tolerant.
*you're
Hridya13 Thomas here's a little thought tobacco is currently legal you can smoke it, chew it, do whatever you want really with it. Is it good for you? "no" is the answer. If you agree then you're intolerant to smokers and a bigot to smokers. I dare say you're smokerphobic. If you disagree with the comparison then please check out the CDC statistics on homosexual behavior. LSS, Stop telling people to celebrate something they disagree with!!!I
Update: it's still a problem, and it's really only getting worse
I'm bisexual. I'm not controversial. I'm not "nsfw". TH-cam should not consider me or the topic of bisexuality controversial. Doing so is actively violent by saying that lbgtqia people are not "safe" or "fit for everyday life". This is an argument homophobes use to hurt lbgtqia people because they reason that lgbtqia people "hurt others" by being who they are
God this makes me so tired. TH-cam, just leave us alone. You obviously don't care.
Edit: if you take issue with the semantics of the word "violence" used here to talk about the activities of TH-cam and their affiliates, please read the conversations between myself and the first few people who commented or do not comment. I'm not going to personally talk to everyone that wants me to engage. I don't have the physical time. I'm not trying to be mean. I just don't want to type for the next five hours.
Edit, again: particularly Henry. He was very nice and respectful when we were talking and brought up some great points!!
Unless you're doing explicitly sexual or sexually suggestive stuff then yeah your great. You do you.
Revolting Swan yes. Passive violence can happen when something is withheld that is important to living. Like if an abusive parent doesn't give their toddler breakfast, but instead watches TV. There is nothing inherantly wrong with watching TV but their choice hurts the child and is therefore an act of violence.
A lot of violence can be passive. It's pretty scary.
JoJiJoJo I mean yeah? That's what I'm saying. That my mere existence isn't sexual and suggestive. I'm just livin life my dude.
While I completely agree the substance of your point, that definition of violence annoys me slightly. It’s mainly an innovation of post modernist academics working in the social sciences. Although, even there it is controversial - scholars who research things like war and crime tend to reject violence extending to general oppressive behaviour.
Post modernist types are constantly redefining and schema - almost always quibbling about categorisation systems being arbitrary and seeking to broaden definitions. I’ve read entire bloody papers which are nothing more complex than ‘gender/race/historical periods/class/civilisation is a construct!!!!’
Which is a. unhelpful because rarely is there a practicable, objectively justifiable replacement for discussing well...anything b. obvious. They just assert relatively simple ideas a hundred times and call it a breakthrough.and c. Obscurantist. I swear post mods mangle dictionaries for fun in their spare time.
Sorry, that rant was pretty tangential. I swear my degree left with with intellectual PTSD.
Merry Machiavelli I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be mean but I literally cannot parse your argument from this. What are you trying to say?
this honestly breaks my heart. I am an allies to the LGBTQ+ and a Christian who is currently in school studying theology as my undergrad. I weep for all the Christians who act so shamefully and are so hateful. I love everything vlogbrothers stands for and it makes me sad to think there are people who would automatically assosciate me with such hateful people.
Thank you for reminding the world that Christian God is a Loving God
Either TH-cam is going to fix this fast or we have to move to another platform cause this is disgusting. Thanks Hank for making this ❤️
Noah Hella yes please leave, go somewhere else
Elian Jamsey ☺😊
where can you go? youtube is not profitable, where can you probably won't find another comparable to youtube
Twitch.tv, they're adding youtube like features.
I think both is not going to happen. :(
This issue is sooooo much worse today. I feel like I cannot watch any video about trans rights without getting an ad for some transphobic organization.
I think its time to consider other platforms. Everyone is so afraid to leave because of the work spent here and because it seems there is nowhere else to go. TH-cam sees that and thinks it can get away with making money off of discrimination and hate. But the thing is WE are TH-cam's greatest and honestly ONLY asset. TH-cam is here to serve US. Because without us, TH-cam is nothing. It is time we start standing up and leaving. We all deserve better than this.
Until the content creators I follow switch platforms though, I'm stuck here. Besides, where would they go? Any attempt at creating a better platform failed miserably, unfortunately.
Any platform will eventually do the same shit Google did if it booms and gets investors that have hateful beliefs. They will want to please the shareholders to keep the money going just like Google does. It’s a capitalistic issue that has no solution in this economical environment. Money is the biggest incentive unfortunately.
I need links to “here are lesbians that were dope”
Christine Ash Hardell, Jessica Kellgren-Fozard, Hannah Hart,
I get the impression that they asked for historical people.
There are surly lot of books about various women.
But I got fascinated by writers who wrote about positive lesbian characters in long ago past. Needless to say, it was different from today 🙂
With that I would recommend a Emma Donoghue book Inseparable: Desire Between Women in Literature.
Also... If anyone wants to use Christianity as an excuse to ignore the laws of the land...
"Obey the government, for God is the one who has put it there. There is no government anywhere that God has not placed in power. So those who refuse to obey the laws of the land are refusing to obey God, and punishment will follow. " -Romans 13:1-2.
I'm 100% on your side, Christianity does not support hate speech or crimes against gay people. This is very clear if you've ever heard of Jesus. Happy pride month!
However, your quote is really not a good example because its interpretation is very fuzzy. Laws change, rulers change, politics is evolving. There were so many oppressive, restrictive and criminal regimes in history and some of them even exist today. Saying you should always obey the law of the land might mean committing war crimes or owning slaves in a pre-civil-war America.
This is going to get deep quickly. Just want to pose this question- Who did Jesus advocate for and defend?
-A despised tax collector
-A widow
-A leper
-The poor e.g. the woman who gave two coins, her entire life savings, game more than the Pharaseses ever would.
-Children
I am certain that Jesus would flip tables in churches where the pastors ask for private jet money.
TL;DR- Christianity is not anti-gay but pro-human, pro-loving relationship
Adrian Schrader That is what it means. The word is very clear that God chooses all rulers.
Acts 5:27-29,
“Having brought the apostles, they made them appear before the Sanhedrin to be questioned by the high priest. 'We gave you strict orders not to teach in this Name,' he said. 'Yet you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching and are determined to make us guilty of this man's blood.' Peter and the other apostles replied: ‘We must obey God rather than men!'“
Unfortunately a lot of christians are currently using that logic to declare that all this prejudice is being supported by the government (despite the actual laws on the books) because look who "God has...placed in power".
The worst part about homophobic people (beside the blatant HOMOPHOBIC part obvi) is that you can’t argue with these people (I mean you CAN but it’ll probably get you nowhere) because their facts and beliefs on sexuality aren’t based on truth. It’s difficult to bring logic to the table when arguing with someone who has beliefs that are more or less fabricated (bc of the whole translation error with le Bible), and with someone who has probably already made up their mind.
even if the translation was good, Bible has very immoral opinions so ... 😛
TH-camrs should be able to approve the adds shown on their videos.
+Sierra Yes, you're right. I mean if I made a video on no matter what topic and Nestlé, McDonald's or some other evil company wanted to put an ad of theirs in or in front of it I think I should most definitely have the possibility to say no to that and risk not getting any ad revenue at all as a result in case no one else would want to put an ad in or in front of my video. I'd be perfectly okay with that risk. But I think it would not even be that risky since there would most probably be some company (or something else like that that I approve of) willing to put an ad in or in front of my video. And depending who that would be I would get less money than I could get from Nestlé or McDonalds. I wonder wherein the financial obstacle to such a rule would lie but I assume that youtube wants to have businesses etc. who can pay a lot and otherwise generate a lot of income more than other businesses. What I have no idea about is how much the difference would be to youtube for me to have a Ceylor ad in my video instead of an anti-gay ad.
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It's impractical. There are 1000s of advertisers that bid on videos. It would require going back to the old model where a content creator and an advertiser agree to work together, and I don't TH-cam/Google would be willing to take the massive add revenue hit from loosing the "real-time bidding on each customer based on dozens of data points" thing.
It could actually be implemented pretty simply. Advertisers currently can pick what categories of things they want to be shown against and an algorithm does it's best to make a good fit, but they don't get to pick and choose the exact videos they get shown on. They could do the same of for content creators and let them pick categories of ads. Not that I think TH-cam will actually do that because it makes things more complicated and would likely cut into their profits. They've shown many times that they don't really care that much about their creators, so the backlash would have to get pretty big for them to do anything.
Fair enough. I suppose if you were selective in who was allowed to advertise on your channel, the bidding wars would not get as high, so creators would be correctly incentivised to choose as wide a range of ads as possible.
Apparently that system exists! Hank did a video on it!
Advertisers should be put into buckets, and users/creators should be able to pick which buckets they want to see ads from or have ads on their channels from. This would drive up the quality of advertisements and their value, which would be good for advertisers and for TH-cam (cause more value can be charged more for).
Exactly, there are CAPITALIST reasons to avoid mismatching ads and content. "Vote Conservative" ads won't change the mind of a mainly Democratic audience, it'll just make them leave the platform or push them further left. In this and similar ways, running ads that don't match the content won't change anyone's mind so why PAY for it??
Love you Hank. Keep fighting the good fight!
Positive messages are great!! Thanks, and also I'm just trying to increase engagement as it points out to YT what content is "most important"
THANK YOU! ❤️ I’ve been hit by demonitization due to my lgbt videos but also given community guideline strikes... it’s all so messed up.
Kalvin Garrah
As someone who is questioning and struggling with my identity.
Thank you.
With all this bs I can't ask you to stay on TH-cam, but I can beg you to keep making content. Your work is amazing, and has inspired not just me, but countless others way beyond your subscription count.
Keep pushing
We the viewers have your back.
And thanks again.
Because if it weren't for the likes of you, I might not have been here writing this post.
Oh Hank/#TrumanBurbank ..you so silly !
Mheret Tatek
Have you seeked professional help?
KillTyrant
Yep. I'm in a lot better place now, thanks for asking.😜
Mheret Tatek
glad to hear it mate. Keep ya chin up
Hank, I love you something fierce. Thank you for talking about this.
I wish I had the option to choose ad genres even as a viewer, ...I'm so sick of seeing horror/violent movie trailers before I try to watch something relaxing. I don't want to hear all that screaming and shooting 2 seconds into a vid.
You can do that indirectly if you pause the advert and click on the little i in the bottom left corner. Then you get a menu to say you don't like the ad. It takes a while to train the algorithm not to show you certain types of ad but it can work over time if you consistently say "it's not relevant". I used to get horror movie trailers, especially when I was watching youtube late at night, but now I don't any more.
oh sweet I'll try that, thanks!
YES! People with PTSD or trauma should not have to be on guard for horror movie ads.
KiddPenn The worst thing is unskippable horror ads :/
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This makes me so glad that I always just get ads for mattresses.
Yeah, I find it disturbing that people would pay the money to have an ad put up just to tell a minority that you hate them.
How does YT know I need more sleep!?
...maybe because you keep watching videos?
Your reaction to this made me cry tears of happiness. This is NOT okay, thank you for talking about it 💕