Adpocalypse 5.0 on Youtube

[gimmick]

This time for 4dragons related reasons. Some major advertisers pulled out till they fix the issue of predatory comments on videos with kids.

Remove if there's already a thread about this.

[gimmick]

Apparently this video sparked it...



... there's more recent articles about this...

https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/20/1...rs-adpocalypse

...but that one roughly explains it.

[Dan Druff]

This isn't too different from what happened to Yahoo in the early 2000s.

Yahoo Chat was thriving at the time, and a popular feature was user-created rooms.

Unfortunately, pedos created rooms like "Older men for preteen girls" and other sick stuff like that, and amazingly, Yahoo looked the other way and did nothing about it.

This went on for years, and the content in these rooms was beyond raunchy and often blatantly illegal.

But the day of reckoning came when someone informed Yahoo's major sponsors such as Pepsi, Sprint, etc that their ads were appearing as those rooms were loading.

So people were going to pedo rooms, and it would advertise Pepsi on the way there. Not a good look.

The advertisers were furious and abruptly pulled their ads. Yahoo then killed the user rooms, but it was too late. They never got sponsors for the chat again.

[sonatine]

This isn't too different from what happened to Yahoo in the early 2000s.

Yahoo Chat was thriving at the time, and a popular feature was user-created rooms.

Unfortunately, pedos created rooms like "Older men for preteen girls" and other sick stuff like that, and amazingly, Yahoo looked the other way and did nothing about it.

This went on for years, and the content in these rooms was beyond raunchy and often blatantly illegal.

But the day of reckoning came when someone informed Yahoo's major sponsors such as Pepsi, Sprint, etc that their ads were appearing as those rooms were loading.

So people were going to pedo rooms, and it would advertise Pepsi on the way there. Not a good look.

The advertisers were furious and abruptly pulled their ads. Yahoo then killed the user rooms, but it was too late. They never got sponsors for the chat again.

so you know, the fbi insisted those rooms stay online so they could monitor them.

same story on irc since the mid 90s.

[dwai]

This isn't too different from what happened to Yahoo in the early 2000s.

Yahoo Chat was thriving at the time, and a popular feature was user-created rooms.

Unfortunately, pedos created rooms like "Older men for preteen girls" and other sick stuff like that, and amazingly, Yahoo looked the other way and did nothing about it.

This went on for years, and the content in these rooms was beyond raunchy and often blatantly illegal.

But the day of reckoning came when someone informed Yahoo's major sponsors such as Pepsi, Sprint, etc that their ads were appearing as those rooms were loading.

So people were going to pedo rooms, and it would advertise Pepsi on the way there. Not a good look.

The advertisers were furious and abruptly pulled their ads. Yahoo then killed the user rooms, but it was too late. They never got sponsors for the chat again.

so you know, the fbi insisted those rooms stay online so they could monitor them.

same story on irc since the mid 90s.

more importantly, how does druff know the bolded portion of his post? this also happened on AOL and pretty much anywhere you could chat back in the late 90s early 2000s before chat rooms became obsolete.

[sonatine]

also fun fact this has nothing point nothing to do with chat rooms or whatever and is very much about actual child pornography being hosted _and monetized_ and racking up hundreds of thousands of hits while sex predators literally post the time stamps to 'the good parts' in the comments.

excellent writeup:

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/yout...os-advertising

[gimmick]

Some clean up had to happen. Content creators are just pissy that they are losing money when they had nothing to do with it.

This did speed up the process by making sure YouTube has skin in the game. Bleeding advertisers guarantees they are taking this seriously.

[splitthis]

This time for 4dragons related reasons. Some major advertisers pulled out till they fix the issue of predatory comments on videos with kids.

Remove if there's already a thread about this.

4d life took a shit because an idiot cop posted a photo of his kids, that 4d shopped for lols, granted a bad decision but not worthy of a ruined life. The whole thing is a damn shame.

[sonatine]

This time for 4dragons related reasons. Some major advertisers pulled out till they fix the issue of predatory comments on videos with kids.

Remove if there's already a thread about this.

4d life took a shit because an idiot cop posted a photo of his kids, that 4d shopped for lols, granted a bad decision but not worthy of a ruined life. The whole thing is a damn shame.

yeahhhhh that had nothing to do with his arrest for child pornography im guessing.