In January of 2022 I was banned by BandCamp without explanation or even a notification. One year later, in January of this year, my entire YouTube channel was deleted, also without warning or explanation. I lost 16 years of my work...400 videos, 17k subs and millions of views.
I started over on Twitter with just a few dozen subscribers. In February, I started making new videos for Twitter, and in the last 4 months they've amassed over one million plays and almost 5 million views, earning me 7k followers and counting. This was despite regular throttling and shadowbanning of my account by Twitter throughout this time.
Yesterday morning, on Father's Day, I posted a thread for my daughter and I was suspended seconds later, effectively wiping the millions of views and the last sizable community I had.
I was playing the role of the court jester. Without folks like me, it's a sign that things are deteriorating rapidly. The silence after my YouTube ban was pretty disheartening, and this feels more of the same. Not sure what else to do but share this.
It occurred to me part of the punishment is how vague and arbitrary they are, which has a psychological effect. YouTube never explained why they banned me, even after the appeal. BandCamp just deleted my entire account and never responded to repeated emails. And now Twitter (in the Elon era!) says after "careful consideration" they've deleted my account, but didn't bother to say what I did wrong!
By denying an explanation, they can avoid scrutiny, and it prevents me from knowing what not to do in the future. It's extreme gaslighting, and it feels weaponized. The timing feels so strange too. Like they waited for me to get the blue check and then pounced. Something isn't right about all of it, and perhaps it was just a mistake that'll be overturned after an appeal. Either way, Twitter is still totally fucked. It does feel communist.
You're quite right, and it is a form of warfare that tries to crush human spirit. Their intent is to break your spirit, so don't let them do that. Don't give in, and stay elevated above it no matter how bad.
Twitter is still infected even after Musk did some housecleaning. Clearly it was not enough. But we do not know what is yet to come. Some of the problem is that even with remote workers, Twitter is physically in San Francisco, and many of its workers live there, but SF is a complete liberal shithole. I will mention that Twitter not long ago had tranny parties at night in the building and some of the perv workers are still there. Will there be further housecleaning? Unknown, but the new CEO Musk brought in to run the day to day operations is a liberal. So we have to see how that plays out. SF is in the early stages of collapse and that will affect Twitter, and Reddit which is a few blocks away from them.
Damn, this is fucked up. You are a true artist and based as fuck. I remember you from my Reddit days. Loved your music. This really doesn't surprise me that they would come after you like this, though. The best way to get truth/information across is in the form of satire and comedy, and you have mastered that. TPTB cannot have people like you creating content on "major" platforms.
Best to salvage all that you can, and start diversifying on other platforms. With the quality you put out there, you should regain your audience back in no time. Won't be as large as before, but, the writing has been on the walls and users have been migrating.
It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.
Voltaire
Chin up friend, you're on the right side of history.
PS. I watched that documentary you made on /r/conspiracy, and it was damn near spot on. Thank you for creating/archiving it. How can I support your work in a decentralized manner (ie. not fiat)?
In January of 2022 I was banned by BandCamp without explanation or even a notification. One year later, in January of this year, my entire YouTube channel was deleted, also without warning or explanation. I lost 16 years of my work...400 videos, 17k subs and millions of views.
I started over on Twitter with just a few dozen subscribers. In February, I started making new videos for Twitter, and in the last 4 months they've amassed over one million plays and almost 5 million views, earning me 7k followers and counting. This was despite regular throttling and shadowbanning of my account by Twitter throughout this time.
Yesterday morning, on Father's Day, I posted a thread for my daughter and I was suspended seconds later, effectively wiping the millions of views and the last sizable community I had.
I was playing the role of the court jester. Without folks like me, it's a sign that things are deteriorating rapidly. The silence after my YouTube ban was pretty disheartening, and this feels more of the same. Not sure what else to do but share this.
That truly sucks and I empathize a lot with you. We're in an era of masked mass censorship reminiscent of communist control.
It occurred to me part of the punishment is how vague and arbitrary they are, which has a psychological effect. YouTube never explained why they banned me, even after the appeal. BandCamp just deleted my entire account and never responded to repeated emails. And now Twitter (in the Elon era!) says after "careful consideration" they've deleted my account, but didn't bother to say what I did wrong!
By denying an explanation, they can avoid scrutiny, and it prevents me from knowing what not to do in the future. It's extreme gaslighting, and it feels weaponized. The timing feels so strange too. Like they waited for me to get the blue check and then pounced. Something isn't right about all of it, and perhaps it was just a mistake that'll be overturned after an appeal. Either way, Twitter is still totally fucked. It does feel communist.
You're quite right, and it is a form of warfare that tries to crush human spirit. Their intent is to break your spirit, so don't let them do that. Don't give in, and stay elevated above it no matter how bad.
Twitter is still infected even after Musk did some housecleaning. Clearly it was not enough. But we do not know what is yet to come. Some of the problem is that even with remote workers, Twitter is physically in San Francisco, and many of its workers live there, but SF is a complete liberal shithole. I will mention that Twitter not long ago had tranny parties at night in the building and some of the perv workers are still there. Will there be further housecleaning? Unknown, but the new CEO Musk brought in to run the day to day operations is a liberal. So we have to see how that plays out. SF is in the early stages of collapse and that will affect Twitter, and Reddit which is a few blocks away from them.
But you are in the right so stay resolute.
Damn, this is fucked up. You are a true artist and based as fuck. I remember you from my Reddit days. Loved your music. This really doesn't surprise me that they would come after you like this, though. The best way to get truth/information across is in the form of satire and comedy, and you have mastered that. TPTB cannot have people like you creating content on "major" platforms.
Best to salvage all that you can, and start diversifying on other platforms. With the quality you put out there, you should regain your audience back in no time. Won't be as large as before, but, the writing has been on the walls and users have been migrating.
Chin up friend, you're on the right side of history.
Thank you!!
You're welcome. Diversify and decentralize.
PS. I watched that documentary you made on /r/conspiracy, and it was damn near spot on. Thank you for creating/archiving it. How can I support your work in a decentralized manner (ie. not fiat)?
Get your own site. Host it in east europe or somewhere. Look up dcma ignore host.
Forget big tech
Make torrents.
Use non gmail email.
What did you post exactly? Almost sounds like you have a low social credit score and the threshold for tripping is very low.