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title: YouTube Comments Discontinuation
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author: Xe
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date: 2021-11-27
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Hello,
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I have disabled the ability for people to comment on my YouTube videos directly
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on YouTube and the rest of this will explain why. If you want to contact me,
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please email me at me@christine.website or any of the other contact methods
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listed at christine.website/contact.
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I use YouTube as a glorified file host for my videos. I use YouTube for this
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because YouTube seems to have the longest staying power and seems to be stable
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enough that I can rely on YouTube being the only copy of some of my older
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videos. As such, I don't totally actively monitor YouTube beyond what I get
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emails about. I'm thankful for the amount of support and for most of the
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comments I get on YouTube, but there are also some other things that come up
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that make me have to change my stance.
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Being a visibly transgender person on the internet is a chore. I've managed to
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extract myself from online spaces with people that actively abuse me and I
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adjust settings aggressively to prevent future harassment. My Twitter account
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has an app attached to it that mutes everyone I don't follow in an effort to try
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to curb the hate I get that way. I think my Twitter blocklist is almost at 2000
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entries now.
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I recently got a YouTube comment that I am going to quote in its entirety:
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> Nice video, you he she furry cunt.
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This is the kind of abuse that transgender people get on the internet, and I
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really really don't want to be in a position where I have to moderate this. I
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also don't want to have to have anyone I know moderate it. So my only real
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option is to close the YouTube comments on my videos in an effort to stop
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further hate. It is sad that I feel like I have no other option, I have gotten a
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vast majority of positive, topical and otherwise insightful comments. However
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YouTube comments are an environmental sacrifice zone. I do not want to propagate
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hate in my inattention to what random people do to a social aspect of a filehost
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that I just happen to use for videos.
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If you see something that I say in a video and want to comment on it, please
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contact me through other means than YouTube comments. If I don't reply instantly
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on Twitter, I'll reply once I do a regular review of my lockout folder in Block
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Party. The more reliable way is going to be to email me though.
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Be well to eachother, and please do what you can to avoid letting hate propagate.
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I have one extra aside for the author of that comment I quoted: If the author of
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that comment is watching this video or reading this article: making those
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comments at the expense of other people is not funny. It is not edgy. It is not
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cute, and it is not a good way to get yourself known and it is a fantastic way
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to end up alone in life.
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