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WHY THE FUCK ARE THERE NO POSTS ON THE WHOLE COPPA AND YOUTUBE SITUATION

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JzXiSkoFKw

Watch this video to understand what’s whappening, but as a general TLDR, if The Children’s online privacy protection act is inforced on Youtube, youtube content as we know it will change forever.

If you don’t have time to watch the video let me summarize it (and other videos on the topic) for you

One of the things COPPA prohibits is the use of personalized ads (Ads based on your location, age, sex, gender, interests, basically all the data that is collected through use of the internet) for children under the age of 13. For this, Youtube was fined and now they’re making changes to the way the platform works. 

One of these changes is making creators mark their content as “Meant for kids” or not. However there are a wide range of items that, on youtube’s eyes, classifies as children media. 

So basically if your video contains something that falls under any of these categories, even if its just one, and a minor thing, youtube can flag it as kids video and apply the new restrictions to this video or even your channel as a whole. And if youtube’s automated system finds any of these things in a video NOT catered for children, it can penalize you both by applying these restrictions anyways, striking you, or fining you for breaking the law

This is a snippet of a complaint made to be submitted to COPPAS’ feedback page, since they saw how problematic this act and laws can be. The whole complaint was written by a mexican youtube channel called Alfrely, and it reads:

YouTube viewers and creators petition the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to clarify and reconsider the new Children’s Online Privacy Protection (COPPA Rule) regulations on YouTube creators. Shutting off personalized ads on creators’ content will cause more harm than good, especially for children. Quality family-friendly content will shrink, while more mature content will grow — yet kids will still be watching.   The FTC should not expand COPPA regulations for content creators. Broadening the definition of “child-directed” to include “child-attractive” would force many more creators to turn off personalized ads. As a result, even more quality content will dry up, and more mature and extreme content will fill the platform. The free YouTube Kids app is a better solution than regulation targeting family-friendly creators. YouTube Kids removes privacy concerns around personalized ads. Parents buy devices and allow their children to watch YouTube Main. Many parents prefer to use YouTube Main because it has more features and less barriers. Creators should not be punished when parents choose not to use YouTube Kids. COPPA is about putting parents in control of protecting their children’s personal information online. The FTC should not use COPPA to remove parents from the process in regulating content and online advertising. While large corporations will survive these changes, small business creators face terminating employees, changing their business model, or shutting down production altogether. These regulations will particularly hurt young underserved audiences who participate in YouTube communities on topics like special needs, faith, and minority groups. Limiting quality free content for kids expands the digital divide. Turning off personalized ads on kids’ content also encourages increased product placement and brand deals within kids’ content. Creators face COPPA fines up to $42,530 per video, yet the regulation and definition of “child-directed” is vague. The FTC needs to provide creators with enforcement clarity.  We ask the FTC to: 1. Provide an enforcement statement for creators 2. Clarify the definition of “child-directed,” and not expand it to cover “child-attractive” content  3. Delay enforcement against creators until the FTC concludes its review of COPPA 4. Allow parents to use YouTube Kids or YouTube Main, without forcing creators to turn off personalized ads when parents choose to use YouTube Main 

Now onto another point:

The woman from the video replies

“We will start limiting the data we collect from ‘Made for kids content’ to comply with the law.”

The changes that will be applied to these videos are:

Comments

Personalized ads

Info cards

End screens

Stories

Community tab

Notification bell

Ability to “Save to watch later” or add to playlists, just to name the ones listed.

You basically get stripped of everything that makes youtube, youtube.

This change basically encourages content creators that live off the platform to create content that DOESN’T cater to children, creating more mature content that is already frowned upon on youtube and by advertisers, and will inevitaly make kids continue to consume media that is not for them

Not to mention that things like cartoons and videogames will be among the things that people won’t talk about.

Big corporations will always find a way to make this work, and the people who depend on youtube for a living may also find a way to make this work, but at the end of the day, it will ruin the careers and possibly the lives of many many creators, maybe even creators that you enjoy.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD ABOUT THIS. THE MORE PEOPLE SUBMITTING FEEDBACK TO THE FTC, THE MORE CHANCES TO SAVE THIS WE HAVE. DON’T SLEEP ON THIS.

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DuckTales Season 3 Theory: Gyro Gearloose’s Past

After the season 2 finale, I’ve been thinking about a lot of things. I honestly have a million theories to post right now but I’m going to start off with one that’s been on my mind for quite some time. It’s about Gyro (big surprise, huh?) and his role in season 3.

It’s going to be hard to collect all of my evidence because there is A LOT but here’s the basis: Gyro was raised by FOWL and spent a long portion of his life with them. Later, he ran away and was hired by Scrooge McDuck.

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Gyro and B.O.Y.D's moments is the cutest thing ever! (╥﹏╥)

I hope that B.O.Y.D and Gyro become closer and start to have a father-son bond in future episodes.

DuckTale Deaths?!

Tommorow, in “Moonvasion!”, two characters are confirmed to die. At least one of them is a good guy and they’re featured in this poster in spite of their death.

I was pretty shocked to learn about this, but I can’t help but think that there’s going to be a twist attached. Here are some routes I think the finale might take:

Option 1: There won’t be a literal death, but a figurative one.

We’ve already had a couple of these this season: We learned that Duke Baloney “died” when Glomgold decided to take on a fake Scottish persona and the lightning tower incident “killed” Jim Starling when it turned him into Negaduck.

Option 2: Someone will actually die, but they will come back to life.

A lot of these characters are too iconic to be killed off permanently. Some of these characters on the poster just got here while others haven’t showed up yet. It feels weird to bring them in for them to stay dead. 

Since the season’s ending, we are reaching the “Louie almost dies” portion of pattern he picked up on in “Game Night”. If it’s someone from the main cast, this makes Louie’s chances pretty high.

There’s a lot of time travel in this season, so the character in question could get revived that way, through magical means, or by ghost like Duckworth. 

Option 3: A supporting or minor character will die.

If someone’s gonna go and stay gone, it would more than likely be someone who doesn’t have the strongest impact on DuckTales as a whole. If this happens, the top three would likely be Manny, Lil Bulb and Penumbra.

I’m not sure how Manny could die, but there are multiple Lil Bulbs; the one featured in the poster could possibly break. Penumbra could end up sacrificing her life in an act of heroism similarly to how Lena did in “Shadow War”. 

Perhaps one of the deaths will be someone even more minor than we’re expecting… Could there be something significant to the watermelon wearing Donald’s sailor hat? 

Option 4: The death is fake.

This could go either two ways: The character is believed to be dead, but they’re actually alive or he character will pretend to be dead to fool someone or escape a situation. It’s likely that Lunaris will state that Donald is dead due to the launcher’s extremely low survival rate. Also, Scrooge previously faked his death to get Glomgold to admit he was the one who was messing with him in “87 Cent Solution”.

Whatever the show will do with this, it’s gonna be crazy.

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