#august 13

My delightful, my love, my life, I don’t understand anything: how can you not be with me?

Taylor Swift describing the theme of 'The Life of a Showgirl' and the making of the album with Shellback and Max Martin:

''It's everything that was going on behind the curtain. My main goals were melodies that were so infectious that you're almost angry at it and lyrics that are just as vivid but crisp and focused and completely intentional. So its like, I feel like we actually came together in a beautiful way, the 3 of us, Shellback, Max and I. We had a conversation about how Max was like 'I loved folklore, I loved the storytelling on folklore. I don't want this to change just because we're making these infectious anthems, I dont want you to leave that behind' and I was like 'I couldn't even if I tried.' I'm married to that kind of writing. It was amazing that we were able to do this without doing too much overthinking. We were able to get in there, and it was just ideas flying and all of these ideas were like we've been waiting years to come back and do this project.''

For anyone that is a little lost about this topic, I'll do a quick summary: This August 13th, Youtube implemented in the US an AI that goes through your search history, to determinate if you're under 18 or not, and the only way to appeal against the AI, is to show a selfie, your ID or similar. Which is BAD, link HERE

This has to do with other stuff, mainly in the UK about political bills, stuff that I don't have the capability to talk about.

First thing clear, DO NOT GIVE ANY OF THIS SENSIBLE INFORMATION TO YOUTUBE, you'll put yourself in risk if any information gets leaked out, similar case that happened recently was the "Tea app" data breach, that was hacked and leaked lots of IDs and drivers license of multiple women.

Second, this gives place to censorship (Reporters can get banned or have their channels linked to their IDs, to give an example), limits places of artistic expression and affects people who watches "childish" videos, besides is completely HYPOCRITAL with the types of ads that youtube sometimes has and the inappropriate videos in youtube kids.

That's why people wants to boycott youtube, starting today, August 13th.

I don't live in the US, so why am I joining? Cause this is REALLY WORRYING as a precedent of how things can turn out later and I don't want more people to go through this ridiculous censorship.

Before giving tips that I found around of how to deal with this, I want to give a warning:

DO NOT harass people who can't join, some people really need stuff like youtube to study and sometimes can't afford other mediums, besides, you'll push away people from the boycott, we need to bring people in, no push them away.

This is not a "won't be in youtube for a day", this most likely can take weeks to months, or even not work out, but if we don't try then we would definitely lose the battle.

If you're learning about this after the 13th, don't feel bad, you can still join anytime

Now that you know about this, what you can do? I searched for tips to the boycott to make a list (Still search about this if possible)

The majority of the tips comes from HERE, credits to him

Cancel Youtube Premium Subscription and if possible, list the AI age verification as the reason.

Refrain to use/watch Youtube (Or use it in your desktop with an ad-blocker and/or VPN)

Support content creators in social media, merchandise, kofi/patreon and similar (Only if you can afford it)

Download and archive stuff for you to watch

Use alternative websites to watch stuff

Use physical media if possible to watch content (Have an old mp3 that I filled with my music, other examples are CDs, DVDs, VHS, videogame consoles, etc)

Spread the word to family and people around you, especially vulnerable people like kids and elderly

I've never written a serious post and English isn't my main language, if I made any grammatical mistakes or misinformed, please call me out.

TAG EVERYONE YOU KNOW

My favorite man’s 43rd birthday!

August 13th!