A couple of days ago, the censorious voyeurs over at YouTube sent us an email notification that the music video for “Dystopian Theme Song”—which [ai] have recently been promoting—“may not be suitable for viewers under the age of 18” and thus was “age-restricted.” See for yourself:
As per YouTube’s instructions above, [ai] immediately appealed, only to receive the following response:
[ai] will reach out to the YouTube liaison at our label, but for now, as you can see, the video “will not be visible to users who are logged out, are under 18 years of age, or have Restricted Mode enabled. It also won’t be eligible for ads [i.e., it has been demonetized].” If you try to watch the video without being logged on, you will see this:
And even if you are already logged on, you will see this:
So even adults who are logged on have to confirm that they are mature enough to watch a video with a political message that YouTube finds problematic? [ai] call bullshit!
What to do?
[ai] will definitely be looking into the possibility of setting up TV [ai] channels on Odysee, Rumble, and other less restricted platforms. In the meantime, though, [ai] have reposted the music video for “Dystopian Theme Song” on Brother Number One’s YouTube channel. Watch it there while you still can:
The lyric video for the Carmina Formosa Deluxe version of “Dystopian Theme Song” and the audio only videos as well as the synesthetic visualizer for the Carmina Formosa version of the song are still on the [ai] YouTube channel for now, but who knows for how long? (Maybe the censors will decide that “the children” need to be protected from the image of the attack dog below.)
This is not the first time
Did [ai] mention that YouTube flagged an upload of ours once before? The audio only video for “The Kinkster” was said to have violated the company’s “sex and nudity policy.” Back in August of 2021, they sent us an email with the subject-line “YouTube removed your video.” But in the text of the email they said they actually only removed the link in the video description to the fair use pic which we found in the commons. Once again, see for yourself:
So the link to the panties-around-the-ankles-pic has been removed, but the video which features that naughty pic may still be seen in all its glory:
Try to make sense of that!
And meanwhile, as YouTube was hassling us about a link to a still photo, Cardi B’s far more salacious video for “WAP” was presumably being viewed by everyone without restriction. As of today, it has 490M views. Of course, [ai] don’t begrudge her that exposure in the least. But [ai] do decry YouTube’s double standard.
Enough bitching already
Well, [ai] should probably end this rant here. But before signing off, [ai] will leave you with a video that’s safe for the whole family:
Or is it? Might not someone’s religious sensibilities be offended? Lonely God forbid!
Until next time, remember: [ai] 愛 you all!