Life After YouTube

[Creamy_Goodness]

> On the first of September in 2009, I created my YouTube channel, and started uploading videos in January of the next year. Since then, my channel has been through many ups and down, and had its share of trails and tribulations. However, at the end of this month (July of 2014), it will all come to an end. I've decided to leave YouTube and permanently delete my CreamyGoodnessX channel.

> I have some good reasons for my decision, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that YouTube has slowly been going to shit since I joined over four years ago. First, YouTube decided to remove the channel page colors, and force everybody's pages to have this one dull, monotonous look. This was a very unpopular decision by YouTube, who carried out the change despite all of the opposition they were receiving from the community. Then, YouTube hid the video response feature, so that you would have to click on the video comment text box in order to expose that feature. Eventually, you couldn't even do that anymore, since YouTube made the brilliant decision to get rid of video responses altogether. And then, there was YouTube's absolute worst change to date; Google fucking Plus. YouTube basically merged with Google, and this completely broke the commenting system, throwing the threads out of whack, leaving the users unable to reply to any comments made before the integration of Google Plus, and forcing everyone to have a second account just to write comments at all. This to me was the last straw, so I disabled comments on all of my videos, and created an account on DailyMotion with all of my YouTube videos mirrored on it. However, the real final straw came less than 24 hours ago, when my nephew Austin clicked on an age restricted video and clicked OK, permanently setting my channel to allow such videos to play without a prompt, and this is something that I promised myself I would NEVER do for as long as I owned my channel. With no way to set my channel back to ask for the age restriction prompt, I now consider my channel to be permanently tainted, and this convinced me to finally decide to burn down my channel for good.

> Keep in mind that the video Austin clicked on was not pornagraphic or otherwise objectionable in any way. The video in question was an Annoying Orange video, particularly the one with Slenderman. I'm not upset about the idea of letting Austin see something he's "not supposed to". In fact he and his younger brother watch South Park, and are big fans of Family Guy, and I couldn't give any less of a shit about it. What I'm really upset about is the very concept of age restrictions themselves; it's always something that I've strongly opposed. I don't think it's right that I should be allowed to watch certain videos while other people are denied that right solely for something they had no decision in and can't control. Personally, I would rather not have a YouTube channel at all than one I consider to be so profoundly tainted, so by the first of August, the CreamyGoodnessX YouTube channel will no longer exist.

> But does this mean that my online video making days are over? Not at all. I still have all of my videos mirrored on my Dailymotion account and on my main website, Creamy's Wonderland. In addition, I will also create a Vimeo channel, and gradually upload my videos there as well. But as for YouTube, that's it man, game over.

[yahoo]

yea youtube has been deteriorating slowly.
its all BS

[|iR|Focalor]

I completely agree. All of the things that made YouTube such a hugely popular success, it's like they sat down and said, "Okay, now that we've got everyone hooked, let's slowly but surely take away all the features they've come to know and love and change things until our service is totally unrecognizable from it's former self." My biggest issue with them has always been their censorship policies. But I'd have to say that the number 2 biggest complaint I have is how they FORCE you to login using an email address as your ID now rather than having a simple user name like they used to. And as an addendum to that number 2 complaint, I furthermore HATE how they continuously pester you to input your telephone or cell phone number to associate it with your YouTube/Google account... apparently to make the service "better for you" and to make it "easier for you to retrieve a lost/forgotten/stolen password" should that ever happen. Uh. No. I call bullshit on that one. None of the changes they've made have been with the users best interests in mind. It's pretty obvious to me that all of the changes they've made to the service have been ENTIRELY for the benefit of Google to make it easier for them to comprehensively track your activity, and as far as I can tell they've never stopped once to ask themselves, "Is this good/better for the user?"

Honestly, if I knew for sure that I could embed DailyMotion videos on forums like this one using UBB, I'd be hopping on the Fuck YouTube Train right along with you. Of course I'd still keep my YouTube account. I'd replace all the current videos with videos admonishing others to join in on the exodus to another video site like DailyMotion or whoever else.

[adz1La]

If anyone knows about youtube adsence or whatever it is, hit me up on irc..I've got a question...

[Barton]

Bro, you can still see your video messages:

Click on your account icon -> Community -> Comments or Messages 

Also, they brought back the inbox but I'm not sure how it works since I haven't gotten a new message in years.

[Creamy_Goodness]

> The deed is done. The event horizon has been crossed and there's no going back. It's going to be a little awkward going without a YouTube account for a while, but I'm sure I'll get used to it eventually. In the future, I may create a new YouTube account for the purposes of watching videos only, just so I can keep up with the channels I was subscribed to. But as for uploading my own videos, my days of doing that on YouTube are over, but I will still upload to Dailymotion, and soon to Vimeo as well. Thanks for all of your responses, and I hope Dailymotion and Vimeo are at least as good to me as YouTube used to be before they sold me and every other casual user on the site out to the mega-channels and to Google.

[Barton]

Good luck but man those other websites are pretty dead compared to Youtube. If you ever heard of "The Classic Gaming Room" he was basically forced to go back to Youtube because his viewership wouldn't visit his website to watch his videos. Youtube is just too convenient, even if it is a pain in the ass at times.

[yahoo]

You can try other video sharing sites like xvideos