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not to pull a "think of the children," but No Actually. I've been making videos as a hobby since 2015 (and I've had my channel since middle school), I was a minor when I started and I'm not sure I would have understood the kind of damage something a seemingly simple as a video of your face can do.

this is a Massive breach of privacy and over-reach on google's part No Matter What, but if they're going to randomly demand a state ID or license then they absolutely should not allow minors to be creators.

google having a stockpile of identifying information on teenagers is bad enough, but the Alternative of recording your face and handing it over to be filed away is Alarming considering it opens the gates for minors who Aren't old enough to have a license.

and yes, there is a third option, but it's intentionally obtuse. a long wait period (2 months), with no guarantee of access (unlike, say, the convenience of using your phone's cameras for either of the other two), with absolutely No elaboration on what the criteria is or how it's being measured.

it's the same psychological effect that mobile games rely on. offer a slow, unreliable solution with no payment to make the Paid instant gratification look more appealing (the "payment" in this case being You. you are the product being offered).

and it's Particularly a system that (I think intentionally) disadvantages people who don't treat their channels like a job. hobbyists or niche creators who don't create regularly enough or aren't popular enough to meet whatever Vague criteria needs to be met to pass.

markiplier would have no problem passing, your little brother might not be able to. and while Mark's name is already out there there's no reason why your little brother's should be too.

something like pinned comments may seem simple, you don't technically Need it. but it's a feature that's been available for years. most people don't look at descriptions anymore. so when there's relevant information that needs to be delivered then the pinned comment is usually the go to.

for my little channel that information is about the niche series I create for. guides on how to get into the series, sources on where to find the content At All (and reliably so). for other creators it can be used for things Much More Important.

I don't want to bother the person who made this tag, but I Do want to make this clear that I am not a monetized account either.

this affects potentially Any And All youtube accounts

This is google's official sources on what you need to do to unlock features beyond the "basic" user. what those features actually are is listed here:

Bare in mind, that All of the features listed here Used to be available to anyone with an account until youtube decided to rip them out and gate them off.

But an account with Basic Features is now the standard account. If you create a new account now (or if you're randomly prompted as an old account) you Will Not have access to the rest of the features listed. And you'll be limited in the number of videos you're allowed upload in a day by default.

To upgrade to Intermediate Features you Must "verify" your account with a phone number.

These features include:

Uploading videos longer than 15 minutes

Live streaming on the platform (with a daily limit)

Creating custom thumbnails for your videos

Creating a podcast in youtube studio

To upgrade to Advanced Features you are expected to share either a State Issued Identification (such as an ID, drivers license, or passport), or a 30 Second video of your face.

These features include:

Content ID Appeals (Meaning You Cannot Appeal If Your Video Is Copyright Claimed Without This, You Must Bend To Whatever The Claimant Wants By Default)

Apply for monetization

Add clickable links in descriptions

Pinned comments on videos

Community posts

I didn't Know that these pages existed when I made this post, because Youtube Didn't Tell Me when they sent me that message and asked me to appeal. imagine not finding out that you've lost the ability to fight a copyright claim until After the claim has already happened. that's insane.

oh and ! if you can't pin comments under your videos and you can't post clickable links in your descriptions then you're pretty much never able to source things ever again. which Again, is a major issue for me on my little nothing of a channel, but could be a Major Problem when it comes to things that are Much More More Important.

Oh and lets enjoy this little gem:

They'll either remove your face and or Literal ID from their systems in A Few Months, 2 Years, Or Maybe Never!

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yeah that shit rules. white being reformed is great. its the ultimate rebuttal to the ideology that only good/useful/perfect people deserve to live- which is exactly the standard white held herself and everyone else to. it mirrors stevens arc of selfless heroism. it mirrors the toxic, insecure selflessness thats plagued everyone from pearl to jasper to rose about what it means to "deserve" to live it ties into "love like you" of how learning self-love is intertwined with loving others. it ties into how steven can't let go of his hero role until he's confronted by *literally* having his own mind in white's body, hating the idea of being like her yet ironically reacting exactly how she would - "this is someone bad for society, they should be shattered, this is what's best for everyone." trying to hurt her only hurting him. trying to help her helping all of gemkind - from the corrupted gems to dismantling a system that was held up by those exact ideals.

"Well done, Steven! You saved most of Beach City!"

Yeah sure, plenty of shows do a silly 'haha things got broke' bit, but this was different. This was bringing home something important that they'd been saying all episode.

This was the episode that introduced the thesis statement of the whole show, and they managed to keep that thesis statement clear throughout the entire thing, all the way to the end: "If every pork chop were perfect, we wouldn't have hot dogs." Steven Universe is a show about how things are broken, and that's okay. Steven Universe is a show about how people are fucked up, and that's okay. It's not our job to be perfect or condemn everything that isn't; it's our job to say "okay, we've got this fucking mess here, and wallowing in blame and recrimination and shame and self-hatred isn't going to help. How do we move forward?" I had never, ever seen that message committed to in another children's show before Steven Universe, and it's one of the most important things you can tell any kid -- that the mess of their life is normal! That it's okay! We have stuff that sucks and we can move on with that!

Oh, sure, other shows will have a Very Special Episode every now and again where someone makes a bad mistake and has to be 'forgiven', or is unable to do something and has to live with it, or there's a tragedy or whatever. That's not what Steven Universe did. Steven Universe got comfortable with the mess on every level and kept coming back to it, both subtly and overtly. Steven can't save the moon goddess temple, Greg fakes a broken leg to be with his son and psychologically fucks up his magic powers and the other plot of the episode that's acting as a metaphor for the whole thing involves them literally fixing that problem by duct taping over it, the Gems don't know how to raise Steven and make him a false obstacle course to boost his confidence and he has to Uno Reverse their own trick on them and shoulder the responsibility of parenting them instead of the other way around. There's an entire episode that's just Peridot confirming that her people fucked up an area of the Earth so badly that nothing will ever grow there again and this isn't resolved by fixing it, but by other characters saying, "yeah, it's broken and it sucks and we can't stop that. How about we grow a garden literally anywhere else on the planet."

There was one episode with a trans woman getting different gender-affirming operations, including breast implants. It showed the procedure, and (what I found so fascinating that it's stuck with me for decades), as soon as the doctor put the implant in, a censor blur popped up on the nipple.

And you just know there was a meeting between the TLC lawyers and the editors and producers of the show to discuss what the difference was between a "man nipple" (can be shown) and a "woman nipple" (no no must obscure, 'tis naughty). And they decided that as soon as the implant goes in and the nipple has more mass behind it, that's the moment when it becomes a woman's nipple and must be hidden to comply with TV rules.

But it's the same nipple. On the same person. I know what it looks like; I just saw it. But TV and obscenity rules are rules, and the rules say woman nipple = sexual and therefore explicit, but man nipple = neutral, just fine.

So glad you asked, @kittycattscathy! This is the short answer – I'd be happy to elaborate once I have more time, but I think this at least gives some food for thought.

These days, we use "friend" in a very specific way to mean 1) someone who is not a family member 2) who we are close with 3) in a platonic way.

In the 18th century, "friend" is less a specific category of acquaintance (non-familial, platonic) and more a signifier of the depth and closeness of the bond between two people.

Samuel Johnson (1768) gives us this definition:

"Friend" (when used to address someone directly) is a term of endearment and affection; it's a way of indicating that someone is in your inner circle without necessarily meaning "platonic non-family-member". Thus, dismissing any kind of relationship where the two parties use this term by saying "they were just friends" fundamentally misses the point of how the word was being used.

You start seeing society as it is: a collection of flawed, limited, man-made institutions that can be ignored, reshaped, or abolished. You see your environment as something that you’re free to improve and beautify. You see items on shelves as common property which is unjustly hoarded and guarded. You see cops as violent oppressors upholding the unfair demands of the ruling class - but you also see them as human, able to be avoided, fooled, and fought

It is happening everywhere, all the time, and in all of these different ways that each person has access to.