Recording summary · October 2017
I feel like everything i do in life fails
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Overview
Daniel experiences distress after receiving a YouTube community strike for violence and a livestreaming restriction until January over a video from nine months prior involving a sausage and ketchup, as well as encountering automated demonetizations on recent uploads.
Daniel recounts a recurring personal history of abandoned or banned ventures, including an eBay store, microstock photography, reward survey platforms, iOS game coding, a shortened working holiday job in Japan, webcomics, and romantic relationships.
Daniel cancels a planned trip and hotel reservations to Hiroshima with a partner because of poor weather, an approaching typhoon, and menstruation.
To protect audience reach and cope with YouTube channel vulnerabilities, Daniel plans to diversify onto Twitter, Discord, and Twitch, having acquired a rented 4G pocket Wi-Fi device for one month to conduct upcoming livestreams.
Themes
The impact of YouTube community strikes, automated demonetizations, and manual review appeals on Daniel's channel.
Daniel's reliance on YouTube for social connection as a self-described socially withdrawn person.
A history of Daniel's past commercial and creative projects ending in bans, mistakes, boredom, or abandonment.
Cancellation of the Hiroshima travel plans due to weather conditions and personal circumstances.
Audience diversification plans across Twitch, Discord, and Twitter, supported by rented pocket Wi-Fi.
Developments
Daniel cuts a sausage in half and applies ketchup to hands in a video made nine months prior.
YouTube issues a community strike for violence and restricts Daniel from livestreaming until January.
Daniel appeals the YouTube community strike.
Daniel submits manual review requests for demonetized videos, restoring five to seven videos to green monetizable status.
Daniel cancels hotel bookings for a scheduled trip to Hiroshima with a partner.
Daniel receives a ban from eBay following negative customer reviews concerning late deliveries.
Microstock photography platforms ban Daniel after an attempt to sell free stock photos.
Survey websites ban Daniel and block the associated IP address for creating multiple accounts.
Daniel resigns from a job four months into a working holiday visa and leaves Japan.
A webcomic platform bans Daniel for uploading pornographic content to webcomic pages.
Daniel rents a high-speed 4G pocket Wi-Fi device for a duration of one month.
Uncertainties & gaps
Whether Daniel's YouTube appeal will succeed in removing the community strike or restoring livestreaming access.
The precise reasons causing recent video uploads to undergo immediate automated demonetization.
Whether Daniel will execute a Twitch livestream the following day.
Whether initiating the stream will prove to be fun.