Exposing a Youtube Company

guilty because I'm like oh I don't want to seem like that, oh I'm so sad I might lose my house, I said I haven't lived in it yet because a lot of people lost their similar houses of 30, 40, 50 years, but it was kind of like , Oh yeah. It was heartbreaking, it was crazy and I know we're lucky enough to be sitting under the house that's still standing and so many people aren't, it's so hard to understand and process and think about those people and everything, so we're sitting. my couch or not, I'm sorry, we're Scouts from Salem Oregon, I'm like a point, like I'm going crazy, it had been, I don't know, four days, five days, I don't even know, and my brother, who's so crazy as he literally was.

Driving around like looking at the fire and sending me pictures, you know, and saying, Okay, now it's here, it's you, whatever it was, oh my God, get away from it, what are you doing? And then we both have this moment of like, I think. wereWe're going to lose our house like you know, but we have each other and we're safe, okay, we have this, whatever you know, trying to make me feel better and then my brother, my brother, sent me a video from your phone where you like to enter. our neighborhood which she should know because it was blocked off and he went by and filmed the house and was like hey it's still here like oh my gosh I lost it.

She was crying. It was like a disaster. Do not look. I don't know if you were crying or not, but it was a disaster, but that was a really cool moment in the house, yeah, you survived, which is crazy because I shouldn't have, really no, it was right along the lines of what could. they've been disastrous and they were very disastrous for many and the crazy thing is people are like, oh, I saw that on Twitter. Oh it's just celebrities and famous people and you know who cares, they can buy new houses, it's really not like Malibu is like farmers and people who have lived there for 50 years, we're retirees, we know people who have a lot of animals, like sheep, horses, goats, like an entire farm that they couldn't evacuate in time.

He was evacuated when flames rushed toward his home. Three pigs died on the property. Hello, you have water? Hey honey, it wasn't just like Smith the whale, it was literally like working people. We're fine, we were very lucky. We have a lot of friends whose houses are gone, all of Malibu Park is gone. I also don't understand Sag being just a rich celebrity because a lot of these people like that they built their dream mansion that they've worked on their whole lives. They swore that they have invested a lot of their money, why should they lose their house just because they are rich?

I mean, I get it. I grew up poor and I grew up, you know, with this line-like mentality, against celebrities like Who Cares? There are problems. I get it, so I get it, but it's also Eisley. It's devastating. I don't have a lot of money. This house burned down. Yeah, insurance would maybe cover some of it and I'd figure it out and whatever, but I don't have money like you, no, I definitely do, I wish I had, I should, I mean, maybe it's not interesting to invest in, right? I don't know, a lot of YouTubers have so much money and they're just like no, but no, it's like we're here anyway, we're fine, yeah, before you leave the panic attack room, you should talk about it, yeah, and I know this is a lot less serious than what we were talking about, so just. like switching gears with me for a second, many of you know or like to have heard that before starting my channel I worked for a channel called smart which was under the umbrella of defy media where I hosted and produced Entertainment News, let's make one thing clear.

Here, Nicki Minaj would never have left anything of little Kim. I was never able to make a smart video of why I quit because they were threatening to sue me literally every day for like three months in the grand scheme of things they just wouldn't allow. I progressed like they were letting everyone else progress and I thought: Why can't I let you stop me forever? And I expanded on my own and then it worked, but in order not to get sued, I had to sign. a deal where I would partner with their MCN, which is a multi-channel network that I've seen a lot of you say, I have no idea what an MCN is basically, like partners with YouTubers who take a percentage of their ads. hopes that MCN would give them brand deals and sell direct ads on their channel and essentially like building a business relationship for them, it was a way to bankrupt me but keep me out of my full-time job at Smart, which I probably could have It came out anyway, but they wanted to take a litigation route that would have taken forever, essentially suing me and then it could be two years later, before I was free to do whatever I wanted.

I would have been stuck working there and not being able to do it, I wanted to do it, so I just said okay, which meant they got a percentage of every dollar I made on this channel recently. You may have seen that

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fail if I reached out to the owners of big YouTube channels like Smosh. About me, among others, they have now announced that the entire

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is going to close. They reviewed after securing seventy million dollars in financing just two years ago. They spent everything. They notified their employees that they no longer had work and called us for a few days. later say, "Oh, by the way, not only are we not a company anymore, but they withheld our checks to the point that I'm trying to figure out how you stole your money, yes, they literally stole my money because I should have gotten my money." ". check three days before they went out of business as a company but instead they decided not to pay us and then they failed so that all the

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rs under them all their money could go towards their debt since a company that Defy supposedly owes me between forty and sixty. a thousand dollars in outstanding payments and it's just not right, imagine, okay, then you're working on all the news, Jenny Craig, because I was worth it, Sam, I'm working with Jenny Craig, right, and I work for a whole month and work hard. off and I like okay, yeah, yeah, this was a good month.

I'm excited and then at the end of the month you know the person who gives you the check, not even Jenny Craig, just like you know the receptionist who gives you the check. who likes that it's not her money, she's just giving you the check, she disappeared and with the money basically because YouTube is a fact that you made the money with YouTube, right? YouTube gave the money to challenge the employee and then the employee who davai is supposed to hand over. your check, that's how it works, I mean, it's like a basic version, but the employee was like a test.

I like this guy who's tweeting about it and who got 420 million views that month with his girlfriend or his wife. That money has gone now to put that perspective that it has as a children's channel, basically, which is good and got 420 million views. I'm not going to throw out a number because I don't want to speculate, but that's a lot of money. and if I were him, I would be, I would go back, that's so crazy, I'm going to and I hate it. I have a pop office. Ari, this is soundproof, thank God our new neighbors don't need to hear this.

I didn't like it. I have had so much hate is the word for this company for so long because I have seen what they do to their employees. I've seen how they treat people. I have seen the strange manipulation inside the building. I've seen what I did to Smosh I saw what they did to you I saw what they did to Lily Marsden, who like you was like the smart face, like she was the blonde girl I made. I've made videos of her with her, we've all made videos of her. When I met her, she was working smart and she was like the face of, you know, one of the channels and she would come up with ideas for the videos by editing the videos.

I think she was even making miniatures. She was in the videos. It was really like her channel, well, I mean, there were two other girls with her, there were actually a lot of people with her, but she was like at that time like the front of the channel, basically the face of the smart bottom of the channel, I mean, her ideas are what made channel 60 right, which everyone would act smart would agree, right, um, Jocelyn, everyone would say, oh yeah, Lily really helped me now, when I met her, I was like , oh, like, wow, the channel is really working. really cool, are they paying you well?

Are they giving you bonuses because it was growing so fast and I always make sure I don't like it when people get bookings because I've been on YouTube for a long time. and I saw the reading and I thought, okay, I'll tell you what a clever style this channel is coming up with that you're on based on what I know well because I want you to know that you're worth more because his contract was ending and he had to quit and I thought it would be better give you more money when I told him how much money smart style was supposedly making with my calculations his face turned white and he stopped breathing and grabbed his Baskin Robbins chair. where we were she didn't even swallow her ice cream cake she needed a minute and I said the reason I'm telling you this is because you think these people are evil okay and they don't pay you enough and I hate it please fight for it.

They were paying him probably a hundredth of what the channel makes. Put it in perspective. They paid her what they paid me. Jenny Craig. And she's on a channel that gets a hundred million views a month. how to edit the videos and do all these things is disgusting and companies like defy that's what they do they find

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rs they find these people they work with they make them work very hard and then they don't pay them anything and not even them like not being honest about how much the channels are making and then brainwashing you into thinking that you can't do it without them, that they are giving you resources, is essentially like a cult mentality, I mean, if you are actually brainwashed into thinking that That it's the reason you're successful when in reality these people behind the personalities/producers are the ones driving the success of the channel and they ultimately ended up wasting their money on who knows what because they weren't paying their employees. well, and now they're gone, they're all gone, so now you can't even find out who's responsible because they're all gone.

All I'll say is Karma is crazy and Karma is real and when you're done, not just as YouTubers but when you were, there were like a hundred people that worked there, I mean, and these are people that like, we're talking about editors. , we're talking about a camera, people were talking, you know, hundreds of people work like, yeah, people cooking and cleaning and they like managing things and people like so many people's jobs and then they wake up and their jobs are gone. , yeah, and they weren't even notified and she's like, boom, it's gone, the holidays are coming up, sorry, it's just them, yeah, and now the company is getting away with it I know there are a lot of lawsuits, a lot of people are suing, thank God, we have to do it.

I mean, well, you have to do it. I didn't invest in it. I mean, the fire took priority over my life. I could go on for 20-30 minutes about the reasons I left and how I was treated so horribly when I worked there as an employee, but the next level is that when I was making my own money, they still found a way to steal it; The thing is that all YouTubers need to keep in mind that when your money filters through them, if that company fails, they will take your money with them, so if you are with an MCN and they don't give you extra money or opportunities, just don't do it.

No, if you're a YouTuber, you're starting a channel and you know maybe you just started a channel and you're really excited because you just got a bunch of emails from different networks like, hey, we love your channel, we want to be with us, we have all these great youtubers, don't do it because honestly they don't really do anything. just in 2018, it's useless to keep it real, it's useless. I think a lot of these networks are going down and exploding because, like, they don't make sense, so do one thing and that's powerful because of my panic. attack room, but the only thing that really matters now is that we are safe and local life and life.

I can't even talk anymore. Yeah, I don't think there's any air in here. It is not clear. I think I'm fainting. I'm not even a kid, I think because a door closed and now there's no work getting the air out, yeah, yeah, this room is causing a panic attack, huh, come on, well, I guess let's go before we have a real panic attack, thanks for joining us. Well, there haven't been any videos on this channel for a minute, but I will tell you that we have a very fun tour of an empty house coming up and only a few days, well, I won't.

People literally say, Oh, Shane, he quit. you're making eight-hour long videos. I'm doing like a pop on 15. Hey, like Rylan, why can't you work with my girl? Eight days of hell. I feel bad because I haven't been up for so long and that's why I'm trying to come up with an idea guys, but I'm also trying to accept that this is supposed to be your break too. Let me tell you that while I may not have been filmingor haven't been working on a YouTube video, this hasn't been a break. I'm going to break up with that, see you soon, bye.