Today on the 5: On Friday a new video will post to the show YouTube channel where Doug Bielmeier and I discuss two great sequels, Robocop 2 and Predator 2. What you won't see in that video are any actual clips from rthose movies because YouTube, MGM, and 20th Century Studios are all clearly managed by morons.
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How Stupid Are These Companies
Welcome to daily 5 for Tuesday, August 6th, 2024! Fair warning upfront, today's 5 is really just going to be me complaining about something very specific to the show. So if you're not interested in that, or if you're a big fan of YouTube or MGM or 20th Century Studios, then you might as well just skip this 5 entirely. Because I'm going to vent for a couple minutes, 5 in total, about what a nightmare it was to get a video uploaded to YouTube trying to promote two movies. This is the specific source of my deep level of aggravation, which I will probably talk about not in this Friday's show, because this Friday is going to be a replacement show, but next Friday's show. Replacement show, meaning it's going to be the two part sequel feature that Doug Bealmeyer and I did. We'll be back with Lando for the show after this week. Anyway, I did this recording, as I've done a couple now with Dr. Doug Bealmeyer, where we decided to spotlight two sequels that we both felt are unfairly seen as poor films. And they're really not poor films, they are simply sequels that had no hope of living up to the heights of the films that came before them. Those two movies are Rubble Cop 2 and Predator 2. And I did a video where we talked for about 5 and a half hours and I had interspersed clips from both films in efforts, again, to get more people to watch these movies who may never have seen them. At this point, these are movies that are 30 years old or so are almost. Yeah, no 30 years old, plus I think in both cases. And so it's very likely that their reputation has stopped people from watching them, and they only would have watched the first movies in each series, the classics. And so this was an effort to get people to legally watch them. At no point did we advocate piracy. We didn't tell people to go watch them by some dubious means. We didn't say to do anything other than, in fact, I think at one point, we mentioned that there were 4k releases of both films available to buy. So we were promoting people spending money on 30 plus year old films, or on a streaming service, whatever. But we were certainly not trying to get people not to watch them. We weren't making fun. We weren't tearing the movies down. We were celebrating these films by and large. I'm well acknowledging that they have some flaws, which you have to do in fairness. And I had to do, I don't exaggerate here, at least 10 different edits of these movies in an attempt to not have them entirely blocked from view on YouTube. I appealed, or I sorry, I did a dispute. They were shot down, even though I made a completely legitimate fair use argument that we were doing reviews, which we were, and using the clips as a way to highlight the films, not try to circumvent any type of copyright. I tried distorting the clips, making them black and white, putting images over them, and nothing was enough for either MGM or 20th century studios not to require the videos to be blocked. So what I had to finally do, and if you watch them on the YouTube, if you see the YouTube video, what you're going to see is you're going to see Doug and I, and then you're going to see these quick bits where I had to chop out anything that referred to the movies, anything outside of maybe one or two still images, maybe, and I don't even know if I left those in, because these companies simply did not care to take the time and effort to do what they should be doing, which is going, okay, is this really the case where we want to block this video? No, and YouTube, YouTube offers no support to creators. Let me tell you, there is nothing outside of their little automated process, which is nothing. And if you have a legitimate dispute, good luck trying to talk to somebody, you're not going to do it unless you're a big name. Now, none of these are new complaints. I am not unearthing something that people don't know about, but it is absolutely ludicrous that this is the way this system runs. And the fact that YouTube is one of the biggest, if not the biggest video provider on the planet with this type of abysmal way of treating creators, and this is just one of the many ways that YouTube abuses, and I'm using that word specifically, abuses creators, unless you are at a certain level, it is nonsense. I mean, Google as a company or alphabet or whatever you want to say, we know they're a trash fire, and they have been for quite a while. But the fact that again, that they have the dominant video platform, I hope to talk on seats and even not being on there, just because maybe it'll make them look twice at how they're treating people. Maybe it will be good to see them torn down and have to actually account for the practices that they've got. Like I said, I'm not even on TikTok at this point, I'm rooting for them because YouTube simply is not a good place for creators. It's one of the few places you can actually succeed there, not that we ever will, but I'm going to keep putting stuff there because that's where people are. And I do want people to see our stuff. But this process just demoralizes not only me, but I'm sure many others. And it's ridiculous, it shouldn't be allowed to go on, but unfortunately, that's where we are later.