This may serve as a post to slightly tone the negativity down, in light of recent events, as well as to remember how I got my first (and potentially last, delivery to Russia now is hardly possible) award from the corporation called YouTube.
Roll back to 2020. The grass was greener, the sky was bluer. Year 2019 happened to bring my channel to the attention of most of my beloved community. The hypergrowth I'll likely never ever witness again, a lucky series of YouTube algorithm events.
I still remember longing for the elusive six-digit number, prior to which the growth speed suddenly plummeted and my subscriber count was stuck at 99 thousand for no less than 2 months. The final stretch and the long wait was, at last, over by September of 2020. Then lots of excitement and paperwork switched the atmosphere, until the plaque reached its final destination at November.
I can't say that anything changed in me past that no-return point of fame. The numbers still stood as numbers to me, even though getting an award truly feels amazing. I never really bothered to show the plaque to my audience and I never made any 100K-special videos (I could call the NoEscape.exe project one, but who am I kidding? It was never made with a certain number in mind, past which it would for sure get released...) simply because there isn't anything special in that occasion to me. I even made a parody video on FlyTech's ASMR unboxing of his silver plaque (since then, he privated or deleted his video, I really am unsure).
The only real deal within that milestone to me was channel verification, presumably quicker and more helpful YouTube support and, perhaps, extended reach.
1/3
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Fast-forward to now, since then, another bureaucrat took place of the YouTube CEO, lots of things have changed all across the board. Dang, even I changed. And how much I've changed since then! Truly unbelievable. Nonetheless, YouTube hasn't ever become helpful and that legend of improved support was simply a hoax, or an improvised glimmer of hope from smaller creators to keep the grind going.
The lack of change or will to improve from YouTube in such an important regard - the safety of creators - backfires today. Countless posts from angry YouTubers all across Twitter (practically, the last bridgehead for creators to contact an actual human worker that would try and solve your issue), heaps of misunderstanding and general fearful feeling of vagueness and volatility. As a creator, you've never felt safe from a false positive, but the system has definitely degraded even further and rotted all the way through.
Many creators have already vented about it, I will definitely not help by babbling about this topic all over again.
Today's episode has again proven to me that I do not matter as a creator to YouTube, and alongside with that stunning observation, another one, maybe a less commonly noted one has appeared - it feels like the community no longer cares. The dirty business of copyright ID trolls, the false copyright strike abuse in spite and YouTube's abhorrent automated video flag system is just way too commonplace now. These awesome features YouTube comes with are infact so common, the creators simply stopped caring about such unfair situations happening all around with their colleagues.
Maybe I am special in that regard and not a whole lot cares about my channel's fate - what I know for sure is that I'm not that welcome in the tech community, I feel as sort of a black sheep in it, but I've seen that happen to others. The desperate posts asking for help have become routine.
As a content creator you no longer have motivation to upload new content, as all you do is fighting for what you already have.
2/3
The lack of change or will to improve from YouTube in such an important regard - the safety of creators - backfires today. Countless posts from angry YouTubers all across Twitter (practically, the last bridgehead for creators to contact an actual human worker that would try and solve your issue), heaps of misunderstanding and general fearful feeling of vagueness and volatility. As a creator, you've never felt safe from a false positive, but the system has definitely degraded even further and rotted all the way through.
Many creators have already vented about it, I will definitely not help by babbling about this topic all over again.
Today's episode has again proven to me that I do not matter as a creator to YouTube, and alongside with that stunning observation, another one, maybe a less commonly noted one has appeared - it feels like the community no longer cares. The dirty business of copyright ID trolls, the false copyright strike abuse in spite and YouTube's abhorrent automated video flag system is just way too commonplace now. These awesome features YouTube comes with are infact so common, the creators simply stopped caring about such unfair situations happening all around with their colleagues.
Maybe I am special in that regard and not a whole lot cares about my channel's fate - what I know for sure is that I'm not that welcome in the tech community, I feel as sort of a black sheep in it, but I've seen that happen to others. The desperate posts asking for help have become routine.
As a content creator you no longer have motivation to upload new content, as all you do is fighting for what you already have.
2/3
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Is that really how YouTube is "rooting for us"? Or, perhaps, the CEO change yielded the change of policy, a so-called 180Β° turn against the creators?
That and more we will find out in the foreseeable future. YouTube absolutely has to change their way of handling creator safety to survive. No business is ever too big to fail.
I appreciate the award, and cherish the memories and fun I've had over the past 7 years (god damn, 7 whole years!) while doing YouTube as my main hobby. I'm not writing this post as sort of damage control (albeit it does help a lot!), nor do I blame anyone except YouTube for the situation I've been thrown into. You guys did an excellent job forcing the tweet, as even @TeamYouTube had to answer, that is considering I didn't mention them. The point being, our final bridgehead to any sort of human support from YouTube is being slowly but surely eliminated.
YouTube Chat was also proven extremely unhelpful and frustrating to deal with over the years.
Susan, can you really not wait to see what I'm going to do next? Because the length of that anticipation is although finite for now, is largely dependent on my motivation and mood. And those undeserved hardly removable strikes sensibly tweak these already by definition random variables.
Hopefully I didn't get on your nerves with that whole scientific-thesis-sized rant. It's just I've never spoken about these constant YouTube issues publicly, and I'm a human with feelings and emotions, just like you, even though I try my best to compress them and never show them to the general public.
3/3
That and more we will find out in the foreseeable future. YouTube absolutely has to change their way of handling creator safety to survive. No business is ever too big to fail.
I appreciate the award, and cherish the memories and fun I've had over the past 7 years (god damn, 7 whole years!) while doing YouTube as my main hobby. I'm not writing this post as sort of damage control (albeit it does help a lot!), nor do I blame anyone except YouTube for the situation I've been thrown into. You guys did an excellent job forcing the tweet, as even @TeamYouTube had to answer, that is considering I didn't mention them. The point being, our final bridgehead to any sort of human support from YouTube is being slowly but surely eliminated.
YouTube Chat was also proven extremely unhelpful and frustrating to deal with over the years.
Susan, can you really not wait to see what I'm going to do next? Because the length of that anticipation is although finite for now, is largely dependent on my motivation and mood. And those undeserved hardly removable strikes sensibly tweak these already by definition random variables.
Hopefully I didn't get on your nerves with that whole scientific-thesis-sized rant. It's just I've never spoken about these constant YouTube issues publicly, and I'm a human with feelings and emotions, just like you, even though I try my best to compress them and never show them to the general public.
3/3
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Another one of my videos has just been removed, but this time I did not receive a strike. As part of the desperate last resort, I renamed my most popular videos asking for help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZfNtTLnFtk
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The false DMCA claim was released. Without the help of YouTube. YouTube was not only unhelpful, it threatened action against me for "improperly" filing a DMCA counter-notice.
If only I could have an actual human reviewer for my Community Guidelines strikes. The channel's safety still remains in a dangerously volatile state, so it isn't yet time to celebrate.
Justice will prevail. Spread the word.
The false DMCA claim was released. Without the help of YouTube. YouTube was not only unhelpful, it threatened action against me for "improperly" filing a DMCA counter-notice.
If only I could have an actual human reviewer for my Community Guidelines strikes. The channel's safety still remains in a dangerously volatile state, so it isn't yet time to celebrate.
Justice will prevail. Spread the word.
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π Windows XP Phone Activation Keygen
The source code for a tool to activate Windows XP without a need of a phone call is finally out. I talked about it a while ago in one of my GitHub issues. The algorithm also employs Elliptic Curve Cryptography, but in this case it uses a hyperelliptic curve of genus 2.
Massive props to diamondggg for the source code, Neo-Desktop and CONIGUERO for bringing the necessary discussion up.
https://github.com/Endermanch/XPConfirmationIDKeygen
The source code for a tool to activate Windows XP without a need of a phone call is finally out. I talked about it a while ago in one of my GitHub issues. The algorithm also employs Elliptic Curve Cryptography, but in this case it uses a hyperelliptic curve of genus 2.
Massive props to diamondggg for the source code, Neo-Desktop and CONIGUERO for bringing the necessary discussion up.
https://github.com/Endermanch/XPConfirmationIDKeygen
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This is an entire documentary on my experience with YouTube. Uploaded to the main channel, after a grueling week ban.
https://youtu.be/9fvEOQPqXao
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I NEED YOUR HELP - YouTube Wants To Terminate My Channel
YouTube wants to terminate my channel, and you could be next.
PLEASE SHARE THIS EVERYWHERE YOU CAN!
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*My backups in case Enderman gets terminated:*
Second channel - @Andrewman (https://go.enderman.ch/andrew)β¦
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π Long-lost videos found
I mentioned in my recent documentary that some of my older videos have been irreversibly lost to history.
Well, I'm happy to announce I am wrong. I can't believe someone has my videos from 6 years ago saved.
2 out of 3 mentioned videos have been restored, namely:
PolyRansom Ransomware
WannaCrypt0r Ransomware
These videos were found and restored by Anto and TheTechRobo respectively.
I am really happy to watch them again. A sincere thank you to anyone who finds and restores my old videos!
Another one I'd really love you guys to find would be a video called "38zu.cn? ΠΠΠ Π£Π‘?! ΠΠ΅ ΠΌΠΎΠΆΠ΅Ρ Π±ΡΡΡ!".
Link: https://youtube.com/watch?v=i9dTveohEs4
Index of videos from 2016:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160624080939/https://youtube.com/channel/UCWb-66XSFCV5vgKEbl22R6Q
Please hit me up if you have more of my old videos saved, they might not be deleted indefinitely: [email protected]
I mentioned in my recent documentary that some of my older videos have been irreversibly lost to history.
Well, I'm happy to announce I am wrong. I can't believe someone has my videos from 6 years ago saved.
2 out of 3 mentioned videos have been restored, namely:
PolyRansom Ransomware
WannaCrypt0r Ransomware
These videos were found and restored by Anto and TheTechRobo respectively.
I am really happy to watch them again. A sincere thank you to anyone who finds and restores my old videos!
Another one I'd really love you guys to find would be a video called "38zu.cn? ΠΠΠ Π£Π‘?! ΠΠ΅ ΠΌΠΎΠΆΠ΅Ρ Π±ΡΡΡ!".
Link: https://youtube.com/watch?v=i9dTveohEs4
Index of videos from 2016:
https://web.archive.org/web/20160624080939/https://youtube.com/channel/UCWb-66XSFCV5vgKEbl22R6Q
Please hit me up if you have more of my old videos saved, they might not be deleted indefinitely: [email protected]
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Finally found a little bit of time to compose a post for you, my Telegram followers.
Recently, a YouTuber with 10K subscribers lisp received 3 consecutive false copyright strikes, which scheduled his channel for deletion in one week time.
I'm not here to judge and point at who's in the wrong, the situation seems like a common Discord drama.
One thing certainly stands out, though - the antagonist of that story abused the horrible, awful horrible YouTube's copyright system. The idea is very simple - they went for a blitzkrieg, false-flagging 3 videos with 3 separate DMCA acts in the span of a few days. That shows clear intention to take down lisp's YouTube channel instead of defending copyright.
And what do you think, all three DMCA strikes were successful! It baffles me how it didn't trigger any sort of a validity check after multiple strikes have been sent by the same claimant. Now lisp is given 1 week to resolve their strikes before their channel is terminated. Since the copyright system abuser managed to succesfully apply 3 strikes in mere 3 days, there are at most 10 days for the counter-notification process before termination. But here's the deal. The counter-notification usually takes 10 US business days to process if the claimant ignores the invitation to the court (basically, 2 weeks in official jargon).
So, if the math is right and YouTube does not intervene, the copyright abuser has successfully taken down a YouTube channel due to personal grudge. lisp doesn't have enough time to follow through with the strikes, as YouTube requires to resolve any of the strikes within a single week, while the lifting process takes at least 2.
This is a horrible precedent that's going to cause more drama and many more headaches in coming years. I am closely following through that story and cheering for lisp. That's what I talked about in the follow-up to "YouTube wants to terminate my channel" video, and it shows that the situation with copyright abusers is slowly spiralling out of control.
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