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The MSM assault on independent entertainers may have just reached a new low. Six weeks after a failed attempt to smear PewDiePie – whose audience of 54 million subscribers is the largest in YouTube history, Wall St. Journal reporter Jack Nicas – who’s clearly got an agenda, is out with another hit-piece designed to justify the demonetization of videos deemed offensive; except Nicas may have fabricated the evidence.
H3h3 is one of the more popular YouTube comedy / entertainment channels. If PewDiePie makes an estimated $14-$20 million / year from his 53 million subscribers, h3h3 is probably pulling in at least a million dollars per year with their audience of 3.7 million. So, it was of particular concern to husband and wife owners Ethan and Hila Klein when they noticed their ad revenues declining following the PewDiePie hit piece, along with reports of widespread demonetization taking place.
After doing some digging, Ethan Klein from h3h3 apparently caught the WSJ author FABRICATING evidence…
To break it down:
- WSJ author Jack Nicas writes an article describing how YouTube “accidentally” advertised major brand names on a video with a racist title.
- Nicas took “screenshots of the ads” to prove they were being run over the racist titled video.
- In response, Coca Cola, PepsiCo, Wal-Mart, and Dish Network are pulling ads.
Ethan then contacted the uploader of the video…
While the WSJ article’s screenshots claiming monetization had 261,165 views, the entire video only has 261,406 TOTAL VIEWS according to the uploader’s dashboard… So clearly the WSJ screenshots were taken recently…
But Wait:
Looks like that ad hasn’t been monetized since September of 2016 – for a very brief period of time, and YouTube’s automatic content filters did in fact kick in and demonetize the video as designed:
So Ethan from h3h3 appears to have caught Wall St. Journal author Jack Nicas fabricating screenshots for an article which allegedly led to major advertisers pulling their ads from YouTube. The WSJ article is exactly the kind of “evidence” YouTube can point to for justifying widespread demonetization, which is really about starving out up and coming entertainers whose influence is growing, especially among conservatives…
UPDATE: It appears that the video in question was apparently claimed by “OmniMediaMusic” – NOT the original uploader – and may have in fact been monetized. This would explain why the original uploader’s monetization stats died off.
If you enjoy the content at iBankCoin, please follow us on Twitter.@h3h3productions messed up. The video was monetised by OmniaMediaMusic. Evidence in source code of original video.
— Ben (@TrustedFlagger) April 2, 2017
With so much disinformation going around who can blame ppl for being cynical.