Starting an email accusing someone of ‘Illegal or extremist content’ with ‘Hi there’ is such a level of tone deafness I’m not sure whether it being AI or a copy paste hack job is worse.
probably an email template for an automated email. All these brands try to be "friendly" in automated emails so the template would be written like that, and then it just inserts the take down reason into that.
depending of the country that could count as defamation, act that could be a good reason to take them to court. if bot keep accusing people of beeing terrorist and what not, they could make for fun hearing in court
I am a 50 year old woman who is crippled. After you opened up and shared your review of the worst horror in any video game, I was able to share your review of the game and, because your review was so personally astute, and did not copy everyone else on RUclips, I was able to share your video with my husband/caregiver, and his awareness of his attitude and my autonomy has done a 180°. Thank you for sharing intelligently. You never know when your word affects someone else's life! (I've never commented on any video, ever.)
@@resileaf9501 oh buddy please don't say shit like this to people. "in spite of being crippled"? you're saying DISABLED people can't have "the best in life". Don't do that.
@@potatertot360 Exactly. "Disability" doesnt make anyone undeserving of life, liberty and the pursuit of their own happiness. That's a pro-eugenics attitude. Stephen Hawking couldn't do much, but from his power chair... He made the world a better, more educated place. That's just one example...
Funko's CEO was the President of Wizards of the Coast, who perpetrated the OGL scandal for D&D and allowed AI art used in official product art. That should tell you everything you need to know about this BS.
‘On reflection it’s pretty funny’ I paused when you said you fell down the stairs and not gotten the injury during an actual match and said ‘that’s comedy. Not funny, but comedy’ Hope that injury becomes an annoying memory. Thank you for the Jimquisition!
It reminds me of a health and safety talk during my science degree, where they told us that, in our department, the activity that resulted in the most injuries to researchers wasn't anything to do with the dangerous chemicals, bacteria or plants we might be handling in the lab. It was... crossing the road to take samples over to another building. Because people were more likely to get hit by a car than have a serious screw up in the lab, I guess?
For context given by itch's site owner it wasn't a "mere DMCA", instead funko/brandshield reported it as "fraud/phishing", very likely specifically so the takedown would be quicker and harder to dispute in the domain registrar's (yet another) shitty automatic system
Yep, itch has a DMCA process in place already that was completely skipped in favour of targeting the websites existence to get faster results (even though the disputed page was killed within a day of notification by the hosting provider) iwantmyname failed to react appropriately to notice from itch, brand shield committed perjury
Funko called dude's mom... Like, y'all have some decorum. And their AI attack company has ties to a government committing gen*cide. The CEO Yoav Keren "was Senior Advisor to a minister in the Israeli government and was the head of the Technology branch of the Israeli military’s Information Security Department" according to their webpage. This automated money generator is just one of this jerk's side hustles.
It's interesting you talk about context in media because that's also one of the most important things in archaeology and paleontology. Bones without context are almost worthless compared to bones with context.
"Bones without context are almost worthless compared to bones with context" feels like a good rule of thumb for how to do Souls-like style story breadcrumbs as well.
i mean, that could be said about anything in life. most things can be a microcosm if you're existential enough. but it's cool you learned this lesson from your field.
I think it's overrating these algorithms to call them AI. There is no I. RUclips moderates comments far more than videos, and as far as I can tell, it just scores words (sometimes adding points for two words used in one comment) and too high of a score = deleted.
I get your point, but we also call humans intelligent... so me thinks you gotta take that word with a pillar of salt in all contexts, it definitely has no implications of capability, correctness or usefulness.
It's better to call them LLMs and blatantly ignore any attempt at calling any of this heap 'Artificial Intelligence'. The software is a subset of a subset of AI without any connective tissue to demonstrate a solution that justifies the outrageous cost.
They allow fetish videos made for children onto the website and even let them make thousands on ad revenue, but God forbid you actually talk about the videos because then you lose ad revenue or your channel.
I mean the issue is that there COULD be more context added. They just REFUSE to do it. Like being required to submit Proof of Copyright. Giving Penalties for False Reports. Etc. But companies REFUSE to add in ANY safeguards, because it isn't profitable.
As a German, those automated false accusations _can_ actually lead to actual, real harm. Because big social media corps are now required by law to report any such cases to law enforcement. Sure, a human at the DA's office _has to_ look over them before anything can go to trial, but with enough reports your name is bound to end up in a police database and cause you trouble in the future.
It may be worth knowing that new EU AI laws went into effect August 2024 classifying AI into segments and imposing regulation specific to each segment. The Act defines prohibited AI practices down to those considered minimal risk.
Still, that should count as defafamtion if happens regulary, in the UK? has soundcloud enough uk presence to accuse them of defamation for it, i mean being called a terrorist with no reason? Maybe even a mass case?
@@marocat4749 Not sure how much legal standing there is if it only happens in mails _to you_ that no third party ever gets to see (unless you go public).
He stole most of the gags from the movie Ed Wood/ the real-life awful movie director who inspired the film. The giveaway's the bit about Orson Welles, as that's a repeated line in the film. Unfortunately Gibson's whole deal seems to be an elaborate troll.
6:02 "A _hands on_ investigation of myself, that could result in my discharge" oh lords. That one was glorious It legitimately took me a moment to notice what you'd done, and then it just gradually sank in 💜💜💜
They're not ALLOWED to say "sorry" because that could be seen as an admission of guilt. Y'know, regardless of how literally guilty they are of doing the thing they're not allowed to say sorry for.
You know ... if a person is falsely accused of shoplifting in the United States, you can seek legal action against the business for damages. I wonder if something similar could apply here. Feels like there should be anyway!
@@MH-hu5pi probably wouldn’t be as they kept it a private matter, only reason people know about it is because Stephanie reported it so they’d probably be considered responsible for any damages to reputation not Soundcloud
tecnically, they could sue both shield and Funko for loss of renevue, if they can a.) show staticsics that shows drop of provit in timeperiod takedown was active. b) throw enough money to go international arbitation (usually done by companies vs countries) or c) go for the long haul of both countries own legal system. its alot of hazzle where internationality brings a massive complication on things.
1:20 I did a martial arts class for about 3 years. We did a mix of strikes, grappling, chokeholds and joint-locks, and the worst injury I ever had was that time when a new guy sat on my foot
as someone who once fell down a flight of stone steps while holding a crock pot full of meatballs in boiling hot tomato sauce...i understand your pain. my ass bones felt broken for weeks and the bruises didn't go away for MONTHS, the pain was so great that i didn't even notice the boiling hot sauce that drenched me. there was a time i also fell down a mountain...but somehow that didn't hurt as much
Well, when you fell down the mountain, you didn't ruin dinner as well! Unless you were climbing a mountain while carrying a crock pot full of meatballs. :D
I'll do you another Soundcloud funny. I used a ROYALTY FREE and paid for track in a video. It got copyright struck by soundcloud, because someone had stolen that track, renamed it and claimed it was theirs on soundcloud. So, I was essentially accused of being a copyright thief..BY a copyright thief....lol
Honestly Steph? I thought it would be something nastier. After the events of last week, I'm surprised these dumb acusations from AI Bots weren't due to some video about Luigi's Mansion - along talking about industry executives and your health .
I am german. And i have to agree with steph about germans being sensible about nazi stuff. But! On a more gaming related point of view. We changed the law in videogame media in that case(for around a decade by now,i think). Such things like "swastikas"can be shown now in games too. Weirdly only bethesda(yes...bethesda) seems to had make use of it so far. Because,after we changed the law in that case. They instantly made the"wolfenstein:"international version" avaible for purchase in germany too. Which includes "swastikas" etc.
Apparently the law allows a review of the standards every so often and it was Bethesda itself that requested the standards be re-evaluated, due to their ongoing previous need to censor the Wolfenstein series in Germany. This is what I've heard from inside the game industry.
I work as costumer support for a social media company. We are actually forbidden from saying "sorry" or apologizing in any way for the mistakes of the bots. We also have very limited tools and simply cannot help the client any more than the client could help itself by just reading the plataform's help center articles.
Then maybe the problem with AI isn't the fact that they take down the most random things... maybe it's the unapologetic companies that use them and forbid customer support from doing the job they're named after. You know? Supporting the customers? Stupid people ruin regular lives 🤬
Funko claiming they have a “passion for creativity” feels like if Purina claimed they have a “passion for fine dining,” with the main difference being that I’d much rather spend my money on dog food than Funko Pops
"don't forget about OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji, who accused the company of breaking copyright law, who was recently found dead in apparent "suicide"
Ironically, a collectible line that was designed to explicitly be a faceless mannequin wearing famous pop culture costumes would actually kind of slap as a cosplayer and fashion enthusiast myself. Like, a tiny, elegant dressmakers mannequin for your shelf dressed in a very accurately designed rendition of your favourite character's costume. What if it was transparent, or metallic or something, to emphasise the actual costume and just act as a framework to hold it up? Ngl, I should probably just be diying these out of clay of my favourite characters.
would you believe Funko has their own mascot who didn't initially look like the dead-eyed doll the name is synonymous with? Freddie Funko looks like a child mascot from the 40s or 50s and he has a dog but you'd never know that with them even making multiple pop-ified versions of Freddie.
Soon in automation news: Ebay taken down due to Gaming company strike for the sale of Physical retro games. "We here at game Corp beleive that all previously published media is ours as we have changed our terms of service and your posession of the product means you automatically accepted it."
You joke but that's already happened. Bethesda threatened legal action against an Amazon user for trying to sell their physical copy of Evil Within 2. The case was still in its original seal and never opened and their legal claim was the user listing it as "New" was unlawful.
@@pseudonayme7717 Don't, really. The first has a "so-bad-it's-good" energy, but the sequels are just painful... Especially the third... the only, midly entertaining part is that the movie was renamed "Blood Reich" for the french-speaking countries...
Learning why you were accused of terrorism was a bit of a roller-coaster, but it brought us back to the security building whose dispatch is run by a spin-n-say. You'd think after years of false alarms, they'd say "Alright, this isn't working, we need to pay a human to do this, or at least have one look into what the bots pick up before acting on their reports" but we know how executives think; "I don't care what breaks, don't spend a single cent unless we stand to lose more money if you don't."
The problem with a "have humans look into what the bots pick up" approach is that it means you're not solving the problem of all the things the bots should have picked up but failed to. The only correct way is to get rid of the bots and have humans do all of it.
Ive been revisiting many old videos of yours, and youve been consistently right. Thank god for you! Wishing you well and all the best these holidays! Merry Christmas!! ❤
At first I thought this was going to be about RUclips, but then it turns out it's about SoundCloud? Geez, man, I would have thought they'd be better than this... Not sure why I thought that, though. Feels like more and more there's less and less actual human oversight for a lot of these supposed "breaches" in websites Terms of Service.
I can't help but wonder that if these bots, casting wide nets for keywords with no ability to read context, are inadvertently making it easier for hate groups to thrive. Plain, open discussion of what hate groups are doing require direct language to communicate, which trip the bots' naughty word sensors, whereas hate groups speak in code with an evolving lexicon, squirming under the radar by changing terminology every time their code becomes common enough knowledge for the owners of the bots to update their keyword lists. Also, this video taught me the word "temerity". Thank god for James Stephanie Sterling!
AI false flagging content always makes me think of when How To Cook That's video on the danger of fractal wood burning was taken down for supposedly promoting dangerous behaviour. The AI really did read "don't do this, it's extremely dangerous" as "do this, it's extremely dangerous".
They flagged one of my tracks for copyright infringement because it contained a royalty-free sample I (and apparently others) had legitimately purchased. They did correct the error swiftly, but this is an extremely common practice on their site. I can only imagine how many millions of songs on Soundcloud contain the same samples or beat kits, and none of it constitutes infringement.
The thing that pisses me off the most about these situations is these AI dipshits are trying to be passed off as real people. I remember I got banned from a subreddit by a bot for "promoting illegal content" because I used the word "emulating" in the correct English context of trying to passable imitate something and not software emulation. Anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together would have thought nothing of my post but an algorithm with no context would see that single word, assume piracy and banned me. So instead I had to appeal to an actual human, waste both of our time to have it undone and the post restored. GREAT TIME SAVER GUYS!
Fellow writer here who knows the pain of having content flagged by "Artifical Ignorance." Glad yours was resolved but God dayam the BS we have to deal with these days.
The "AI" you see being promoted by various tech companies is literally a dressed up version of the code that makes NPCs do their little routines in games, and the false takedowns it generates are the equivalent of an NPC running into a wall or phasing through the floor. All these AI detection algorithms have the decision making power of a merchant in a Bethesda game.
Nah. NPC behaviour has been labelled "AI" since Pac-Man (which has an unusually capable system for it), but is typically trivial scripts, sometimes layered. The "AI" buzzword tends to mean ML abuse, where a system is trained to vaguely resemble something but not to be corrigible, reasonable or mappable. They're literally used *because* they make no sense.
While I do agree, at the moment, the options right now are absolutely not fantastic... Many of them go about touting "ay we protect our freezepeach here!" but what that REALLY means is that there is somehow even less moderation on those platforms. Leads to a lot of slop.
I am wondering how copyright is going to be claimed on an AI generated thing? As of now, copyrighting something can only be done if a human has done it, and not another species of animal. You can thank PETA for that one when they sued a photographer about trying to copyright a picture a gorilla took. So, if a computer makes it, than how can a human claim any ownership over it.
Usually, most AI-generated stuff is "made using AI" and not actually "made entirely by AI." So long as they have some unpaid intern spend ten minutes making minor tweaks to an AI-generated base, they can claim it to be their creation and not something entirely computer-generated, which lets them claim ownership. At least, that's my understanding. I'm sure there will need to be some kind of formal reckoning in the not-too-distant future defining how much human intervention is needed to create a distinct intellectual property, because if things keep going unregulated you'll absolutely see studios just ripping off each others' products with minor tweaks, but for now, I don't think there is any actual minimum.
@@dudeguy2330 Only the tweaks would be copyrightable (if meaningful). That's what was ruled on that AI-made comicbook (the AI generated artwork wasn't copyrightable, only the human-made story and text).
STILL NEVER MISSED A MONDAY! THANK GOD FOR YOU STERLING! also it's wild seeing The Long Drive footage here while I'm going through a long drive binge. have a good week, Sterling
i notice that funko's "we have engaged with itchio on this matter" is ambiguous and could just as easily mean "we got our lawyers to tell them to stop being mean to us" as anything productive
7:24 I lost my Soundcloud account and had to fight to get it back (including calling their HQ in Germany) because I would mock all the spambots (and their comments were FILLED with them) using the same line ("The above comment was made by a 'bot"). I was accused of spamming by idiots too lazy to get rid of the spambots!
1:24 hey! Falling down the stairs is no joke! The older we get the worse it is… when I was younger I could bounce off stairs, now if I fall down even a few it feels like I been hit by a truck! Feel better! 😢
Kinda reminds me of the kneejerk reactions that existed around 1999-2000 when the corporate stance of "mp3 format is evil" and websites started pulling any and everything posted in the format and setting rules against hosting said format... even if the files had absolutely nothing to do with any licensed music or materials. Doubly ironic, given that one of the loudest protestors weilding the supposed "legal threat" cudgel - SONY - were simultaneously in the mad rush to trot out one of the world's first portable MP3 Players to recreate their successes with the Walkman and Discman for the new era.
It was murkier than that. MP3 encoding was monopolized, so even if you made your own audio, you weren't permitted to publish it in that format unless you paid Fraunhofer for the encoding (not even just the encoder). Similar restrictions applied to e.g. TIFF, GIF, all other MPEG formats, etc. Ogg Vorbis was developed to solve this problem, and today Opus serves a similar purpose. Other formats such as HEIC (used for iPhone photos) are similarly encumbered today.
@@0LoneTechwhile the licensing particulars might be true, most of the reactions weren't that deep. The fear wasn't lack of permission to record in mp3. The fear was that record companies were going to sue anyone facilitating piracy into oblivion, and webhosts scrambling to cover their asses by outlawing the boogeyman outright. Even if you had specific license, you couldn't upload results to many host sites because of their bootlicking "just in case" approach. And at the time, the most ubiquitous formats were mp3 and wav. One was far larger, took forever to transfer, and ate what was considered a lot of data in a point of history where terabyte sized drives were at the edge of a pipe dream unless you were a cutting edge corporation and the only access to high speed internet for most people was on their local college campus. It's similar to the battle with emulation. Webhosts by and large don't neccesarily care who has permission to host what roms or if they're homebrew or whatever particular "in the weeds" (to them) protections that may exist. They just don't want a company like Nintendo swinging their massive dong their way and trying to "make an example" of them, and will institute policies into their EULAS to shield themselves from any potential litigation as quickly and as dirty as possible.
Of course those responses lack apologies. Doing so means accepting guilt, which they can never do in cases where someone has potential to claim repayment for loss of finances. They have to deny and claim innocence up until the point they are legally proven guilty, even if they knew it was their fault all along. All for the chance that they might be able to find a way to avoid the consequences of their own actions.
Your last video really touched me. Thank you for it. With ai What's crazy are the amount of people I've talked to that think it is or suddenly could become sentient. People really scare me sometimes.
I know how much falling down the stairs hurts and how different it is from cooperative (in terms of injury avoidance, anyway) athletic entertainment, but I have to admit... getting injured at a professional wrestling event by falling down the stairs between matches is still kinda funny.
Your mouth washing video is one of the most moving and beautifully written pieces of work from yourself I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing. Or at least that was the case until just now when you blessed me with the line "said funko with all the believable sincerity of Billy sarcastic, Suffolk's most sarcastic boy". If that's not peak British humour I don't know what is.
14:39 It's actually worse than this, a bot _alone_ filed a _phishing and scams_ complaint to the registrar. Funko themselves just happened to be using the bot (which make no mistake, means they hold responsibility for doing so) and it was in fact not a DMCA claim.
I remember hearing your reply on Podquisition and distinctly thinking "Steph's top shelf writing is a delight even when they write replies." Thank god for you.
Years ago I came up with the term ALI : Artificial Lack of Intelligence - then based on the behaviour of bots in video games. I think it can be expanded to cover moderation algorithms too.
Because of how much their AI sucked in Fallout 2, I always called it the "Vic and Sulek Effect." Which is an unnecessarily long name that requires explanation every time I use it, so it's perfect.
The difference is that the ALI frequently is intentional (developers frequently want the player to be able to defeat the enemy bots and to be more skilled than the allied bots). With moderation algorithms is hard to tell when the flaws' origin is from negligence or malice (or a combination of the two so they can have plausible deniability for the latter).
I want to see more crazy skits from back when you started RUclips those skits used to scare tf out of me I’m happy you are who you are and that you are a creative
a lawyer once pointed out to me: "if they are going out of their way to NOT show you the evidence against you, there is a decent chance they don't have a case and know it." turns out this also applies to corpo's? xD
They definitely know, that's why Steph made the blunderbuss reference. One or two pellets may actually hit their intended target, but most of it hits targets that aren't actually targets. Corpo's simply rely on the system they put in place themselves to control any response by making it both difficult and near-meaningless. Like most often, they do not really retract anything unless you serve them actual legal papers and they are forced to let it go (which is something Steph has had to do in the past IIRC).
I wouldn't begrudge platforms the use of algorithms to flag content that may be infringing on its terms; there's a lot of content being published! But you would think if the infraction was that serious, a human would be pinged to review it, rather than simply sending out an automated email... so dumb. Here, Stephanie: 🏆
I got hit with a strike for medical misinformation on my channel, if they’d let me talk openly then Jim might not have her chronic pain quite as bad. Also Jim how are you such a tank? You take on pain like a machine it’s very impressive.
I was kinda hoping the offending podcast was going to be an old Johnathan Holmes bit where Jim trying to force the guy to become a sleeper agent and assassinate the president and soundcloud thought it was an attempt at radicalising little chungus Holmes or something.
Whenever someone says context I immediately think of Dr Reagan Ridley in Inside Job saying "oh, for the love of god: CONTEXT!" in response to her dictator hack and company CEO father saying "we've been fucked by the pope!" in a board meeting
I feel you pal. Recently, our band's blog that has been up for 17 years has been flagged for 'malware' by an algorithm and blocked because we had download links for our music. I wrote an email to get a human review, the blog was reinstated... and then a week later the algorithm blocked us again for the same reason :D
13:47 Also they have blank stares with beady little eyes that stare into your soul. At the least some of them look better in this style than others, such as Baymax for example who has a simple looking face by design. Characters who wear helmets or full masks as well, probably because the headwear adds something more to the face. There also are a select few of them that do in fact go beyond the base model BTW, such as Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Because you can't use the base humanoid model for a dragon-shaped dragon, obviously. There's also a Blue-Eyes Toon dragon but it doesn't actually look that different because the regular Blue-Eyes already looks so goofy lol (though to be clear it _does_ use a different mold). Also a Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon which naturally triples the goofiness of the original.
I know it's not the focus of the video. But I love the 'Not Gilson B Pontes' note on the Long Drive video. Because my mind immediately thought about how a game with content so spread out in it that you might take hours to actually find even a small fragment of it is still more engaging and interesting than the busiest Pontes game.
I got blocked from Twitter because a pun about cutlery I made was flagged as violent or threatening language and I refused to delete it because it was nothing of the sort. If it was any other platform than Twitter I might have been upset about it.
I shared it with friends who had the same thoughts. I thought they would like to here it put into good words like you do. Also good reference for them too.
As someone who's been banned from Facebook for telling bigots to 📴 themselves, yet the hateful sentiment said bigots post remains untouched when I report it, I relate to your frustration so hard, Sterling!
Starting an email accusing someone of ‘Illegal or extremist content’ with ‘Hi there’ is such a level of tone deafness I’m not sure whether it being AI or a copy paste hack job is worse.
probably an email template for an automated email. All these brands try to be "friendly" in automated emails so the template would be written like that, and then it just inserts the take down reason into that.
depending of the country that could count as defamation, act that could be a good reason to take them to court. if bot keep accusing people of beeing terrorist and what not, they could make for fun hearing in court
soundcloud hast published it, so no.
they also relented instantly after answering so dont think its gonna be sucessfull
"Hi there... YOU HITLER REINCARNATED!!!"
Hello user BinLaden01, we believe you may have done an oopsy-woopsy.
I am a 50 year old woman who is crippled. After you opened up and shared your review of the worst horror in any video game, I was able to share your review of the game and, because your review was so personally astute, and did not copy everyone else on RUclips, I was able to share your video with my husband/caregiver, and his awareness of his attitude and my autonomy has done a 180°. Thank you for sharing intelligently. You never know when your word affects someone else's life! (I've never commented on any video, ever.)
I wish you the best in life in spite of being crippled.
Whoa, that's amazing
Agreed the sharing really helped thanks for sharing
@@resileaf9501 oh buddy please don't say shit like this to people. "in spite of being crippled"? you're saying DISABLED people can't have "the best in life". Don't do that.
@@potatertot360 Exactly. "Disability" doesnt make anyone undeserving of life, liberty and the pursuit of their own happiness. That's a pro-eugenics attitude. Stephen Hawking couldn't do much, but from his power chair... He made the world a better, more educated place. That's just one example...
At this point they're enshittifying enshittification.
AI Centipedification :D
Shitception 🤯
this is the true singularity, a suck black hole.
Especially since the slop is now "training" the slop. The "tech bros" ran out of actual content and now the AI is cannibalising itself.
Fractal Enshitification
Funko's CEO was the President of Wizards of the Coast, who perpetrated the OGL scandal for D&D and allowed AI art used in official product art.
That should tell you everything you need to know about this BS.
Is that why Itchio had trouble this past week?
Funko's main product should tell you everything you need to know about Funko. It's a smear on the concept of culture.
@@0LoneTech Truth.
@@Roadent1241 Given WOTC/Hasbruh's track record of embracing AI and penchant for weaponizing the copyright system, yeah.
I cant believe they even contacted the itch admins MUM
"hands-on investigation of myself that may result in my discharge" Well done.
Thank you, that joke completely flew over my head
Hey, wait a minute....
I’m such an idiot, I didn’t catch that Lolol. Well done, indeed.
What, did someone rightfully call CEOs incompetent?
That's being added to the list of unacceptable hate speech.
-RUclips TOS
Impotent
Tripple D?
@Praisethesunson well I'm a homosexual now because of you
Delay! Deny! um... Dessicate? Delicious? Whatever, CEOs need to watch out! Yeah!!!!
‘On reflection it’s pretty funny’
I paused when you said you fell down the stairs and not gotten the injury during an actual match and said ‘that’s comedy. Not funny, but comedy’
Hope that injury becomes an annoying memory. Thank you for the Jimquisition!
I honestly burst out laughing
I laughed too; not AT Steph, but at the irony of wrestling being much safer than taking some stairs.
It reminds me of a health and safety talk during my science degree, where they told us that, in our department, the activity that resulted in the most injuries to researchers wasn't anything to do with the dangerous chemicals, bacteria or plants we might be handling in the lab. It was... crossing the road to take samples over to another building. Because people were more likely to get hit by a car than have a serious screw up in the lab, I guess?
@@deadpool3982 Same here. It's that heaping mountain of irony that did it for me. But I'm sure that's the reason it was mentioned.
@@evilbob840 Yup
Corpos never apologize. Because some judges in the US interpret an apology as an admission of guilt in a followup lawsuit.
"We are very sorry you feel like that..."
To be fair, corpos wouldn't apologize even if it wasn't an admission of guilt. Corpos don't like think/admitting they're wrong in anyway.
guess that explains why soundcloud, which is german, had an apology in there
For context given by itch's site owner it wasn't a "mere DMCA", instead funko/brandshield reported it as "fraud/phishing", very likely specifically so the takedown would be quicker and harder to dispute in the domain registrar's (yet another) shitty automatic system
Yep, itch has a DMCA process in place already that was completely skipped in favour of targeting the websites existence to get faster results (even though the disputed page was killed within a day of notification by the hosting provider)
iwantmyname failed to react appropriately to notice from itch, brand shield committed perjury
Clearly showing their 'love' and 'appreciation'...
Funko called dude's mom... Like, y'all have some decorum.
And their AI attack company has ties to a government committing gen*cide. The CEO Yoav Keren "was Senior Advisor to a minister in the Israeli government and was the head of the Technology branch of the Israeli military’s Information Security Department" according to their webpage. This automated money generator is just one of this jerk's side hustles.
It's interesting you talk about context in media because that's also one of the most important things in archaeology and paleontology. Bones without context are almost worthless compared to bones with context.
"Bones without context are almost worthless compared to bones with context" feels like a good rule of thumb for how to do Souls-like style story breadcrumbs as well.
Conspiracy theories are born from bones not having context, or contextual bones being ignored altogether.
People get really mad if you mention the Trans skeletons.
i mean, that could be said about anything in life. most things can be a microcosm if you're existential enough. but it's cool you learned this lesson from your field.
I was told the same thing trying to download the Internet for Archive Team when I went a little off-script.
I think it's overrating these algorithms to call them AI. There is no I.
RUclips moderates comments far more than videos, and as far as I can tell, it just scores words (sometimes adding points for two words used in one comment) and too high of a score = deleted.
Yeah, they're more like... statistically self-selecting algorhithms?
I get your point, but we also call humans intelligent... so me thinks you gotta take that word with a pillar of salt in all contexts, it definitely has no implications of capability, correctness or usefulness.
It's better to call them LLMs and blatantly ignore any attempt at calling any of this heap 'Artificial Intelligence'. The software is a subset of a subset of AI without any connective tissue to demonstrate a solution that justifies the outrageous cost.
They allow fetish videos made for children onto the website and even let them make thousands on ad revenue, but God forbid you actually talk about the videos because then you lose ad revenue or your channel.
That would certainly explain a LOT. ;>_>
It's as I always say: a computer can never find out, so a computer must never be given the ability to fuck around.
I mean the issue is that there COULD be more context added. They just REFUSE to do it. Like being required to submit Proof of Copyright. Giving Penalties for False Reports. Etc.
But companies REFUSE to add in ANY safeguards, because it isn't profitable.
As a German, those automated false accusations _can_ actually lead to actual, real harm. Because big social media corps are now required by law to report any such cases to law enforcement. Sure, a human at the DA's office _has to_ look over them before anything can go to trial, but with enough reports your name is bound to end up in a police database and cause you trouble in the future.
It may be worth knowing that new EU AI laws went into effect August 2024 classifying AI into segments and imposing regulation specific to each segment. The Act defines prohibited AI practices down to those considered minimal risk.
Still, that should count as defafamtion if happens regulary, in the UK? has soundcloud enough uk presence to accuse them of defamation for it, i mean being called a terrorist with no reason? Maybe even a mass case?
@@marocat4749 Not sure how much legal standing there is if it only happens in mails _to you_ that no third party ever gets to see (unless you go public).
Speaking of Gilson B. Pontes: He wrote his own bio on imdb, and it is hilarious.
"Inspired by Orson Welles" is my personal favorite tidbit.
I had no idea, but it is a gem! I'm personally fond of "and known producer for" instead of "and producer known for".
He stole most of the gags from the movie Ed Wood/ the real-life awful movie director who inspired the film. The giveaway's the bit about Orson Welles, as that's a repeated line in the film. Unfortunately Gibson's whole deal seems to be an elaborate troll.
6:02 "A _hands on_ investigation of myself, that could result in my discharge" oh lords. That one was glorious
It legitimately took me a moment to notice what you'd done, and then it just gradually sank in 💜💜💜
Soundcloud: We think you promoted terrorism
also Soundcloud: We actually checked. You're fine.
Also Soundcloud: Please ignore the automated police report and ensuing investigation.
They're not ALLOWED to say "sorry" because that could be seen as an admission of guilt. Y'know, regardless of how literally guilty they are of doing the thing they're not allowed to say sorry for.
You know ... if a person is falsely accused of shoplifting in the United States, you can seek legal action against the business for damages. I wonder if something similar could apply here. Feels like there should be anyway!
Interesting. I'd like that to be the case.
Do I need to prove that there was damage? Or just claim to be offended?
@@MH-hu5pi Damage. Obviously.
I wonder what the laws are in Germany, since that's where the action originated
@@MH-hu5pi probably wouldn’t be as they kept it a private matter, only reason people know about it is because Stephanie reported it so they’d probably be considered responsible for any damages to reputation not Soundcloud
tecnically, they could sue both shield and Funko for loss of renevue, if they can a.) show staticsics that shows drop of provit in timeperiod takedown was active. b) throw enough money to go international arbitation (usually done by companies vs countries) or c) go for the long haul of both countries own legal system.
its alot of hazzle where internationality brings a massive complication on things.
I am ending all of my professional emails with "Fondest Nuzzles" from now on.
Here at Anthrocorp that's mandatory!
"Bondest muzzles".
The Mouthwashing video is certainly my favorite video you've ever made and I've been watching the show since 2013.
1:20 I did a martial arts class for about 3 years. We did a mix of strikes, grappling, chokeholds and joint-locks, and the worst injury I ever had was that time when a new guy sat on my foot
Okay... why would he sit on your foot? And how huge was he that the act of sitting down crushed your foot?
as someone who once fell down a flight of stone steps while holding a crock pot full of meatballs in boiling hot tomato sauce...i understand your pain. my ass bones felt broken for weeks and the bruises didn't go away for MONTHS, the pain was so great that i didn't even notice the boiling hot sauce that drenched me. there was a time i also fell down a mountain...but somehow that didn't hurt as much
Probably years of erosion makkng the mountain smoother, while stairs are jagged
Well, when you fell down the mountain, you didn't ruin dinner as well! Unless you were climbing a mountain while carrying a crock pot full of meatballs. :D
That is absolute nightmare fuel.
We're evolved to fall down mountains, stairs are unnatural abominations of man.
Wait, THIS was why the majority of my games were temporarily offline??
I hate AI with a passion some can only dream of.
I'll do you another Soundcloud funny. I used a ROYALTY FREE and paid for track in a video. It got copyright struck by soundcloud, because someone had stolen that track, renamed it and claimed it was theirs on soundcloud. So, I was essentially accused of being a copyright thief..BY a copyright thief....lol
That's just a SNAFU. It's what the system is built for.
Someone should warn people about those stairs.
He warned them, dog.
@@FreyjaKitty It keeps happening
Commander! Greetings and salutations! Thank you for everything you do. ❤
Honestly Steph? I thought it would be something nastier. After the events of last week, I'm surprised these dumb acusations from AI Bots weren't due to some video about Luigi's Mansion - along talking about industry executives and your health .
I mean the ACTUAL accusation was VERY serious. It's just the situation wasn't, with how quickly it was reversed
@@TheAyanamiRei Thank God, for Jim!
I mean, in fairness, Uwe Boll movies have yet to be ruled upon by the Geneva Convention
Where is Uwe Boll’s Russian equivalent Sarik Andreasyan and where is the director of the Birdemic trilogy too?
I am german. And i have to agree with steph about germans being sensible about nazi stuff. But! On a more gaming related point of view. We changed the law in videogame media in that case(for around a decade by now,i think). Such things like "swastikas"can be shown now in games too. Weirdly only bethesda(yes...bethesda) seems to had make use of it so far. Because,after we changed the law in that case. They instantly made the"wolfenstein:"international version" avaible for purchase in germany too. Which includes "swastikas" etc.
Apparently the law allows a review of the standards every so often and it was Bethesda itself that requested the standards be re-evaluated, due to their ongoing previous need to censor the Wolfenstein series in Germany. This is what I've heard from inside the game industry.
@QuasarEE cool but you are wrong.
I work as costumer support for a social media company. We are actually forbidden from saying "sorry" or apologizing in any way for the mistakes of the bots. We also have very limited tools and simply cannot help the client any more than the client could help itself by just reading the plataform's help center articles.
Then maybe the problem with AI isn't the fact that they take down the most random things... maybe it's the unapologetic companies that use them and forbid customer support from doing the job they're named after.
You know? Supporting the customers? Stupid people ruin regular lives 🤬
Funko claiming they have a “passion for creativity” feels like if Purina claimed they have a “passion for fine dining,” with the main difference being that I’d much rather spend my money on dog food than Funko Pops
Since you mentioned them, would you be surprised to learn Purina has also toyed with AI in its commercials.
I could, technically, eat the dog food. Which gives it more value than the wholly worthless funko pops
"don't forget about OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji, who accused the company of breaking copyright law, who was recently found dead in apparent "suicide"
Another Beoing scenario I see
I think the algorithm just wanted Sterling to call it "darling."
Ironically, a collectible line that was designed to explicitly be a faceless mannequin wearing famous pop culture costumes would actually kind of slap as a cosplayer and fashion enthusiast myself.
Like, a tiny, elegant dressmakers mannequin for your shelf dressed in a very accurately designed rendition of your favourite character's costume. What if it was transparent, or metallic or something, to emphasise the actual costume and just act as a framework to hold it up?
Ngl, I should probably just be diying these out of clay of my favourite characters.
would you believe Funko has their own mascot who didn't initially look like the dead-eyed doll the name is synonymous with? Freddie Funko looks like a child mascot from the 40s or 50s and he has a dog but you'd never know that with them even making multiple pop-ified versions of Freddie.
You might want to look into fashion dolls, they even have multiple semi-standardized scales used for them and their clothes.
“Fondest Nuzzles” is incredibly puppybrained and I am 100% here for it.
over half way to that under 700k sub special can't wait ☺☺☺
The email has Young Ones "Darling Fascist Bully Boys" energy.
👌 Perfect comment! Cheers for the laugh! 😂😂😁
Soon in automation news: Ebay taken down due to Gaming company strike for the sale of Physical retro games.
"We here at game Corp beleive that all previously published media is ours as we have changed our terms of service and your posession of the product means you automatically accepted it."
You joke but that's already happened. Bethesda threatened legal action against an Amazon user for trying to sell their physical copy of Evil Within 2. The case was still in its original seal and never opened and their legal claim was the user listing it as "New" was unlawful.
don't give Nintendo ideas.
Watching Bloodrayne is probably the most valid reason I've ever seen to cancel you.
Makes me want to watch it. So I shall.
@@pseudonayme7717 Don't, really. The first has a "so-bad-it's-good" energy, but the sequels are just painful...
Especially the third... the only, midly entertaining part is that the movie was renamed "Blood Reich" for the french-speaking countries...
@@pseudonayme7717Do it! Do it and report back! 😁
Learning why you were accused of terrorism was a bit of a roller-coaster, but it brought us back to the security building whose dispatch is run by a spin-n-say. You'd think after years of false alarms, they'd say "Alright, this isn't working, we need to pay a human to do this, or at least have one look into what the bots pick up before acting on their reports" but we know how executives think; "I don't care what breaks, don't spend a single cent unless we stand to lose more money if you don't."
The problem with a "have humans look into what the bots pick up" approach is that it means you're not solving the problem of all the things the bots should have picked up but failed to.
The only correct way is to get rid of the bots and have humans do all of it.
@@mjc0961 Yea, good point. It _should_ be a fully human job, but they're even less likely to shell out for that.
Retroactively doing this for 10 year old content they left alone until then is disgraceful.
Ive been revisiting many old videos of yours, and youve been consistently right.
Thank god for you!
Wishing you well and all the best these holidays! Merry Christmas!! ❤
At first I thought this was going to be about RUclips, but then it turns out it's about SoundCloud? Geez, man, I would have thought they'd be better than this... Not sure why I thought that, though. Feels like more and more there's less and less actual human oversight for a lot of these supposed "breaches" in websites Terms of Service.
Soundcloud have been shitbags for years now.
Soundcloud have been shitbags for years now.
Soundcloud have been [anti-user] for many years now.
(weird, I had to resubmit that short sentence 3 times before I stayed. I detest youtube these days 😤)
They talked about it on the most recent Podquisition. It's... profoundly stupid.
'That is automated libel.' 👏
I can't help but wonder that if these bots, casting wide nets for keywords with no ability to read context, are inadvertently making it easier for hate groups to thrive. Plain, open discussion of what hate groups are doing require direct language to communicate, which trip the bots' naughty word sensors, whereas hate groups speak in code with an evolving lexicon, squirming under the radar by changing terminology every time their code becomes common enough knowledge for the owners of the bots to update their keyword lists.
Also, this video taught me the word "temerity". Thank god for James Stephanie Sterling!
AI false flagging content always makes me think of when How To Cook That's video on the danger of fractal wood burning was taken down for supposedly promoting dangerous behaviour. The AI really did read "don't do this, it's extremely dangerous" as "do this, it's extremely dangerous".
All hail our allegedly AI overlords! Censor the masses. Pay the corporations!
I bow
I cannot bring myself to thumb, however sarcastic this comment is.
@@pseudonayme7717 me? being sarcastic? no way man.
@@MH-hu5pi what
Im Just not getting tired of the panda doing the ear flap thing
accused you of vile behaviour with no investigation, evidence, or specifics.
so it is Tuesday?
Monday. It's always Monday.
The use of an SMG4 screenshot while making the point about companies "protecting their brands" (at 15:45) is lowkey the best visual gag in this video.
They flagged one of my tracks for copyright infringement because it contained a royalty-free sample I (and apparently others) had legitimately purchased. They did correct the error swiftly, but this is an extremely common practice on their site. I can only imagine how many millions of songs on Soundcloud contain the same samples or beat kits, and none of it constitutes infringement.
12:30, I personally should SUE Funko for lost money... Since they crushed Itchio, I have lost sales........ :|
The thing that pisses me off the most about these situations is these AI dipshits are trying to be passed off as real people. I remember I got banned from a subreddit by a bot for "promoting illegal content" because I used the word "emulating" in the correct English context of trying to passable imitate something and not software emulation. Anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together would have thought nothing of my post but an algorithm with no context would see that single word, assume piracy and banned me. So instead I had to appeal to an actual human, waste both of our time to have it undone and the post restored. GREAT TIME SAVER GUYS!
Fellow writer here who knows the pain of having content flagged by "Artifical Ignorance." Glad yours was resolved but God dayam the BS we have to deal with these days.
The "AI" you see being promoted by various tech companies is literally a dressed up version of the code that makes NPCs do their little routines in games, and the false takedowns it generates are the equivalent of an NPC running into a wall or phasing through the floor. All these AI detection algorithms have the decision making power of a merchant in a Bethesda game.
Nah. NPC behaviour has been labelled "AI" since Pac-Man (which has an unusually capable system for it), but is typically trivial scripts, sometimes layered. The "AI" buzzword tends to mean ML abuse, where a system is trained to vaguely resemble something but not to be corrigible, reasonable or mappable. They're literally used *because* they make no sense.
RUclips needs competition.
While I do agree, at the moment, the options right now are absolutely not fantastic...
Many of them go about touting "ay we protect our freezepeach here!" but what that REALLY means is that there is somehow even less moderation on those platforms. Leads to a lot of slop.
I am wondering how copyright is going to be claimed on an AI generated thing? As of now, copyrighting something can only be done if a human has done it, and not another species of animal. You can thank PETA for that one when they sued a photographer about trying to copyright a picture a gorilla took. So, if a computer makes it, than how can a human claim any ownership over it.
Usually, most AI-generated stuff is "made using AI" and not actually "made entirely by AI." So long as they have some unpaid intern spend ten minutes making minor tweaks to an AI-generated base, they can claim it to be their creation and not something entirely computer-generated, which lets them claim ownership.
At least, that's my understanding. I'm sure there will need to be some kind of formal reckoning in the not-too-distant future defining how much human intervention is needed to create a distinct intellectual property, because if things keep going unregulated you'll absolutely see studios just ripping off each others' products with minor tweaks, but for now, I don't think there is any actual minimum.
@@dudeguy2330 Only the tweaks would be copyrightable (if meaningful). That's what was ruled on that AI-made comicbook (the AI generated artwork wasn't copyrightable, only the human-made story and text).
Who wants to bet Funko's 'apology' was written by an AI?
STILL NEVER MISSED A MONDAY! THANK GOD FOR YOU STERLING! also it's wild seeing The Long Drive footage here while I'm going through a long drive binge. have a good week, Sterling
i notice that funko's "we have engaged with itchio on this matter" is ambiguous and could just as easily mean "we got our lawyers to tell them to stop being mean to us" as anything productive
I believe it factually means "we had our lawyers make threatening phone calls to itchio's operator's mother"
They probably just sent a SMS : "OOPs. Sorry for inconvenience." Any more effort would cost too much
"Thank god for me" just gets truer and truer as the years go by.
Falling down the stairs sounds awful ;w; am so sorry you got hurt like that >
Germany: trying to distance itself from that unfortunate past.
USA: rummaging through its garbage for ideas.
The response email was hilarious. 😂 Fondest nuzzles indeed.
If you don’t mind me asking, where is that “only the clown is impressed” clip from? Because I kind of love it!
7:24 I lost my Soundcloud account and had to fight to get it back (including calling their HQ in Germany) because I would mock all the spambots (and their comments were FILLED with them) using the same line ("The above comment was made by a 'bot"). I was accused of spamming by idiots too lazy to get rid of the spambots!
1:24 hey! Falling down the stairs is no joke! The older we get the worse it is… when I was younger I could bounce off stairs, now if I fall down even a few it feels like I been hit by a truck! Feel better! 😢
Kinda reminds me of the kneejerk reactions that existed around 1999-2000 when the corporate stance of "mp3 format is evil" and websites started pulling any and everything posted in the format and setting rules against hosting said format... even if the files had absolutely nothing to do with any licensed music or materials.
Doubly ironic, given that one of the loudest protestors weilding the supposed "legal threat" cudgel - SONY - were simultaneously in the mad rush to trot out one of the world's first portable MP3 Players to recreate their successes with the Walkman and Discman for the new era.
It was murkier than that. MP3 encoding was monopolized, so even if you made your own audio, you weren't permitted to publish it in that format unless you paid Fraunhofer for the encoding (not even just the encoder). Similar restrictions applied to e.g. TIFF, GIF, all other MPEG formats, etc. Ogg Vorbis was developed to solve this problem, and today Opus serves a similar purpose. Other formats such as HEIC (used for iPhone photos) are similarly encumbered today.
@@0LoneTechwhile the licensing particulars might be true, most of the reactions weren't that deep. The fear wasn't lack of permission to record in mp3. The fear was that record companies were going to sue anyone facilitating piracy into oblivion, and webhosts scrambling to cover their asses by outlawing the boogeyman outright. Even if you had specific license, you couldn't upload results to many host sites because of their bootlicking "just in case" approach.
And at the time, the most ubiquitous formats were mp3 and wav. One was far larger, took forever to transfer, and ate what was considered a lot of data in a point of history where terabyte sized drives were at the edge of a pipe dream unless you were a cutting edge corporation and the only access to high speed internet for most people was on their local college campus.
It's similar to the battle with emulation. Webhosts by and large don't neccesarily care who has permission to host what roms or if they're homebrew or whatever particular "in the weeds" (to them) protections that may exist. They just don't want a company like Nintendo swinging their massive dong their way and trying to "make an example" of them, and will institute policies into their EULAS to shield themselves from any potential litigation as quickly and as dirty as possible.
Of course those responses lack apologies. Doing so means accepting guilt, which they can never do in cases where someone has potential to claim repayment for loss of finances. They have to deny and claim innocence up until the point they are legally proven guilty, even if they knew it was their fault all along. All for the chance that they might be able to find a way to avoid the consequences of their own actions.
Your last video really touched me. Thank you for it.
With ai
What's crazy are the amount of people I've talked to that think it is or suddenly could become sentient. People really scare me sometimes.
I’ve said this before but never have I meant it so emphatically: That is a *hell* of a title.
"Fondest Nuzzles" Hahaha, oh my god xD
Accuses you of terrorism; goes whoopsie, my bad. The future is dark.
it's a small thing that doesn't have much to do with the episode but I love all the Lee jokes
I know how much falling down the stairs hurts and how different it is from cooperative (in terms of injury avoidance, anyway) athletic entertainment, but I have to admit... getting injured at a professional wrestling event by falling down the stairs between matches is still kinda funny.
''Cooperative athletic entertainment'' ???? LOL
2:56 That Incredib-Lee is pure genius.
Your mouth washing video is one of the most moving and beautifully written pieces of work from yourself I've ever had the pleasure of experiencing. Or at least that was the case until just now when you blessed me with the line "said funko with all the believable sincerity of Billy sarcastic, Suffolk's most sarcastic boy". If that's not peak British humour I don't know what is.
14:39 It's actually worse than this, a bot _alone_ filed a _phishing and scams_ complaint to the registrar. Funko themselves just happened to be using the bot (which make no mistake, means they hold responsibility for doing so) and it was in fact not a DMCA claim.
I don't even watch these episodes anymore. I just listen to them. That said, I stop what I'm doing to watch Dancing Panda in a kilt every time!
I remember hearing your reply on Podquisition and distinctly thinking "Steph's top shelf writing is a delight even when they write replies." Thank god for you.
Oh my god the soundcloud icon with googly eyes 😂
Years ago I came up with the term ALI : Artificial Lack of Intelligence - then based on the behaviour of bots in video games. I think it can be expanded to cover moderation algorithms too.
I've often heard it called Artificial Stupidity.
Because of how much their AI sucked in Fallout 2, I always called it the "Vic and Sulek Effect."
Which is an unnecessarily long name that requires explanation every time I use it, so it's perfect.
The difference is that the ALI frequently is intentional (developers frequently want the player to be able to defeat the enemy bots and to be more skilled than the allied bots). With moderation algorithms is hard to tell when the flaws' origin is from negligence or malice (or a combination of the two so they can have plausible deniability for the latter).
I want to see more crazy skits from back when you started RUclips those skits used to scare tf out of me I’m happy you are who you are and that you are a creative
a lawyer once pointed out to me:
"if they are going out of their way to NOT show you the evidence against you, there is a decent chance they don't have a case and know it."
turns out this also applies to corpo's? xD
They definitely know, that's why Steph made the blunderbuss reference. One or two pellets may actually hit their intended target, but most of it hits targets that aren't actually targets. Corpo's simply rely on the system they put in place themselves to control any response by making it both difficult and near-meaningless. Like most often, they do not really retract anything unless you serve them actual legal papers and they are forced to let it go (which is something Steph has had to do in the past IIRC).
I wouldn't begrudge platforms the use of algorithms to flag content that may be infringing on its terms; there's a lot of content being published! But you would think if the infraction was that serious, a human would be pinged to review it, rather than simply sending out an automated email... so dumb.
Here, Stephanie:
🏆
I got hit with a strike for medical misinformation on my channel, if they’d let me talk openly then Jim might not have her chronic pain quite as bad. Also Jim how are you such a tank? You take on pain like a machine it’s very impressive.
I was kinda hoping the offending podcast was going to be an old Johnathan Holmes bit where Jim trying to force the guy to become a sleeper agent and assassinate the president and soundcloud thought it was an attempt at radicalising little chungus Holmes or something.
Wise person say, "Context in life is basically everything." (offers painkillers of preference and a warm fuzzy blanket)
Whenever someone says context I immediately think of Dr Reagan Ridley in Inside Job saying "oh, for the love of god: CONTEXT!" in response to her dictator hack and company CEO father saying "we've been fucked by the pope!" in a board meeting
The only surprise to me is that it wasn't some Not-C trying to TOS-strike some of your content regarding your transition, Steph.
They need to start making companies that rely on AI liable for the ACTIONS that AI takes.
I feel you pal. Recently, our band's blog that has been up for 17 years has been flagged for 'malware' by an algorithm and blocked because we had download links for our music. I wrote an email to get a human review, the blog was reinstated... and then a week later the algorithm blocked us again for the same reason :D
13:47 Also they have blank stares with beady little eyes that stare into your soul. At the least some of them look better in this style than others, such as Baymax for example who has a simple looking face by design. Characters who wear helmets or full masks as well, probably because the headwear adds something more to the face. There also are a select few of them that do in fact go beyond the base model BTW, such as Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Because you can't use the base humanoid model for a dragon-shaped dragon, obviously. There's also a Blue-Eyes Toon dragon but it doesn't actually look that different because the regular Blue-Eyes already looks so goofy lol (though to be clear it _does_ use a different mold). Also a Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon which naturally triples the goofiness of the original.
I took a picture of a Funko Pop once and the algorithm kidnapped my family and held them hostage.
Thanks for putting into words my hate for funko. I knew they were stupid little pieces of shit, but you put into words what my brain couldn’t.
I know it's not the focus of the video. But I love the 'Not Gilson B Pontes' note on the Long Drive video. Because my mind immediately thought about how a game with content so spread out in it that you might take hours to actually find even a small fragment of it is still more engaging and interesting than the busiest Pontes game.
I got blocked from Twitter because a pun about cutlery I made was flagged as violent or threatening language and I refused to delete it because it was nothing of the sort. If it was any other platform than Twitter I might have been upset about it.
Well that wasn't very knife of them.
@dudeguy2330 RUclips are so gonna block you 😂
when even the platform won't put up with "knife to meet you"
wheres our next Luigi but for the tech industry
I shared it with friends who had the same thoughts. I thought they would like to here it put into good words like you do. Also good reference for them too.
As someone who's been banned from Facebook for telling bigots to 📴 themselves, yet the hateful sentiment said bigots post remains untouched when I report it, I relate to your frustration so hard, Sterling!
... they removed it cos it had a title of a movie in it?... god yeah this is automated libel wow thats so stupid of them.