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The curse of verification for tech platforms has always been that its a tacit endorsement.
Crowders channel remains active and verified.
On Thursday, YouTube notified some creators they will be losing their verification status come October.
It immediately caused an outcry, particularly on Twitter, among the YouTube community.
The notification, sent via email, informed creators that their channels no longer met the criteria for verification.
I guess >1.6 MILLION subs and an extremely large online presence at 14 years old doesnt mean jack.
The only disappointing thing in my life is YOUtube.
What youre doing is absolutely disgusting.
Just goes to show everyone that all the rewards creators get arent worth jack.
Whats your best mailing address?
I have some play buttons & a couple of meaningless letters from good ol Susan I want to return.
(YouTube said it is updating this as well in the coming weeks.)
Now, YouTube says it will judge channels using a new set of criteria, including authenticity and prominence.
Does this channel represent a well-known or highly searched creator, artist, public figure or company?
We wont know until October whose channels will actually wind up losing their verified status.
But that also points to a larger issue on YouTube.
Later,YouTube clarifiedit meant Crowder would have to do a number of things, including the shirt removal.
And through all this, Crowders channel remained verified.
If it cant shake the perceived link between verification and approval, YouTube should just stop trying.
Make anybody using YouTube prove who they are and what they are creating.
(This isnt a new idea.
Ivemade similar arguments for other platforms, like Twitter, in the past.)
Its reductive, sure, but if everybody is special, nobody is.
It would eliminate YouTubes unwitting support of hate-speech mongers and racists and bigots.
(Which it is becoming more and more clear isnt all that unwitting.
But thats another discussion for another day.)
Would verifying everyone further piss off the creator community and possibly hurt their current business models?
Being verified on YouTube, as it currently operates, means being seen as more legitimate by brands.
It wants the system to be taken literally.
YouTube, as of 2018,has 1.8 billion monthly active users.
Making everyone verify who they are could only benefit the platform.
