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ありがとうございます。 Hey,

and welcome to a very rainy vlog.

Can you hear it? So it 's been raining

all day, and I waited hours and hours

until midnight, and it 's now nearly one

a. m ., and it 's still raining. So.

I thought to myself, oh, just— I'll just

go and make a video anyway. I'll take an

umbrella, it'll be fine. Hopefully since

it's raining there, there shouldn't be too

many people around to interrupt my video

making, so, so maybe that's a good thing.

Anyway, I just wanted to make this video

to, um, talk about demonetization,

and I want to explain a little bit about

why there's so many ads on my videos

recently. I've noticed a lot of people

have started complaining that they've been

saying things like, why are there so many

ads on this video? He's so greedy now.

Thank God I have adblock. And the reason

why I've started to put nearly 4 to 5 ads

on every video is because my channel has

recently been under attack by

demonetization age-restricting,

and I've had nearly 30 videos be affected

by this yellow dollar sign. And the yellow

dollar sign means that, that the video

isn't suitable for most advertising. It

doesn't mean that advertising has been

disabled completely. I still get a tiny

bit from the companies who, who don't mind

having their adverts displayed on videos

like mine, but it means that most

advertisers won't have— won't, won't be

placing adverts on my videos, and that

means I hardly make any money on the

video. Now, I'm actually kind of surprised

that this didn't happen to my channel

earlier because I talk a lot about cereal,

and talking about cereal is one of the

things that can make your video Um,

not be eligible— eligible, is that how you

say it? For monetization. I was watching

all these larger YouTubers complain, like

Abroad in Japan or The Anime Man,

complain about their videos being

demonetized even though they don't talk

about cereal and they just talk about

pretty random, pretty general stuff like

anime or living in Japan. But those 2

YouTubers, they swear a lot, so maybe that

has something to do with it. I was kind of

surprised that their videos were getting

demonetized and all of my videos where I

talk about cereal were still fully

monetized. But something changed around

last week. I'm not sure what happened.

Maybe it's because my channel got bigger

and YouTube started to notice me. The

system started to notice my videos about

cereal. But there's also this bunch of sad

people who really hate me. And they've

started to report my channel, report my

videos, and flag my videos. And I think

that might have something to do with it as

well. There was this group of people

writing things in the comments saying

things like, let's all report Daniel's

channel, let's get him banned, let's get

his channel taken down, which was kind of

irritating and really sad. A really sad

thing for them to do. I'm not scared that

my channel will get taken down because I

talk a lot about cereal, but I don't talk

about things on my channel that go against

YouTube's rules. I don't violate YouTube's

rules that, that could get my channel

deleted. But the thing is, I do talk a lot

about cereal, and that means a lot of my

videos can be demonetized or deemed

not suitable for most advertisers.

So the reason why I've started to add so

many ads onto my videos is because they

don't usually get, uh,

the yellow dollar sign straight away.

They do stay fully monetized for around a

day, so I can still make some money from

the first, first lot of views, but the ads

usually end up getting taken away after a

day. Either the video gets age-restricted

if I say the word cereal too much, or if

I talk about cereal in, in detail,

then it will be deemed not suitable for

advertisers or age-restricted. But it's

strange because I've had videos where I

don't talk about cereal at all and they've

been, they've been yellow dollar signed.

For example, I have a few videos where I

talk about cameras where I do camera

unboxings, and they've been demonetized

or deemed not suitable for advertisers,

which doesn't make sense because I didn't

even swear, I didn't even talk about

cereal, I was just talking about the

camera, and yet they've been affected.

So I'm pretty sure this is an automated

system. It's not some guy watching every

single video on YouTube trying to find out

if it's appropriate or not. It's an

automated system. And the system picks up—

it must be like some kind of voice

recognition system where it can tell if

you're using bad words or cereal-related

words. And maybe I said the cereal-related

word in the camera video, but I

don't know. You can actually request— you

can request a manual review,

and this means that a real human being

will watch the video and then decide.

So I've requested all of my videos to be

manually reviewed, and several of them

have been returned to the green dollar

sign, which is fully monetized— fully

monetizable, is that the word? So that's

some good news. So in an effort to try and

get my videos fully monetized, I'm going

to try and talk about cereal less. I'm

starting to use this new word, cereal. I

think most of you have caught on to what

it actually means. I don't know if this is

actually going to work. Because if I say

the word cereal, it shouldn't flag. It

shouldn't set off the automated system,

the voice recognition— recognisation

thing, hopefully. I don't want to sound

like I'm greedy for money or I'm begging

for money, but I do make a bit of money

from my videos, surprisingly, even though

it's a very small channel. And it's very

irritating when you've made a video and

you think you've made a nice video and it

gets loads of views and then it gets

demonetized or it gets age-restricted.

It's so frustrating. So if,

if you are interested in supporting me or

helping me, I have a Patreon. It's in the

link. I'll put a link in the description.

It's patreon.com/hidinginmyroom.

And I also have a PayPal. It's

[email protected].

And if you don't have money or you don't

feel like sending me money directly,

then the best way you can help me out is

by watching the ads whilst they're up

before they get taken down. Usually the

ads will be available for at least a day,

but recently my new videos, they've been

age-restricted almost straight away.

And a few of them I've requested manual

revisions and they've been restored to

fully monetized, but By then it's too

late, everyone's already watched the video

and they're not getting many clicks after

they've been restored because it takes

time for the manual reviewer to review the

video. Also, sometimes I do

get a bit worried that my channel will be

taken down or terminated, so in

case that does happen and you want to find

my new channel, which I'll have to make a

new YouTube channel if my channel gets

taken down. Which I think is fairly

unlikely. But you know, just in case you

want to find out my new channel, if you

wake up one day and you see Hiding My Room

is no longer available or it's just

disappeared from YouTube, then I will make

a new YouTube channel. And you can find

out what that channel will be called or

the link to that channel if, if you follow

me on other social media such as Twitter.

My Twitter username is @Rabbitlol666.

We also have a Discord server, which is

the first place I go to to make

announcements and to talk about stuff.

And what else do I have? I have

an Instagram. My username's

@rabbitsatefamily. I also have a Twitch

account. Maybe if YouTube doesn't work

out, I could start streaming on Twitch,

become a Twitcher instead of a YouTuber.

And my Twitch channel is DanielHimr

with no spaces. Um,

so those are like backups in case my

channel does go down, worst case scenario,

then you know, you at least know where to

find me on these other social media

websites and services. YouTube has just

become so unreliable recently when it

comes to monetization. They've become so

sensitive sensitive after the whole

Adpocalypse thing happened and the whole

boycott— advertisers boycott thing

happened. And I guess they're just worried

that something like that would happen

again. That's why they're being so

sensitive about, um,

monetizing sensitive topics, videos that

are about sensitive topics or

controversial things.

And yeah, maybe this is a sign that I

should start to talk about cereal less and

try and focus on other things. I know some

of you are getting sick of hearing me talk

about cereal all the time, and some people

are starting to think that I'm some kind

of cereal addict. Cereal addict. Which I

don't know if that's entirely true. I

enjoy cereal, but I'm not sure if I'm

addicted to it. Maybe I am.

And finally, I just want to say thanks to

all the people who do send me donations on

PayPal, or they pledge to me on Patreon,

or they send me Super Chats during

livestreams. I want to say thanks. You

really make me happy. You really lift my

And I appreciate you and

the support you give me. And the more

support I get, like financial support I

get, even a dollar helps,

and it means I can go on more trips. It

means that I can do more things. I can get

into weird situations easier and make

videos about it. Otherwise I'll just end

up having to go back home and I'll end up

sitting in my room all the time being

depressed and there won't really be much

to talk about. Anyway, I think that was

all I wanted to say. Um, I'm gonna go back

home now. My feet are soaked. Absolutely