COPPA and lost media

I don't know much on the topic of COPPA, but from my understanding is that COPPA is just cutting ad revenue for videos and channels that have kids media, not completely deleting and purging Youtube of it. Correct me anyone if I'm wrong.

I think I've been living in a sewer for a while because of how COPPA blew up again almost overnight. I don't know much about the topic, and the last I heard someone bring it up by name was a video that Justin Whang made nearly a year ago about Rotten and online censorship. This is going to be very interesting how this plays out since the adpocalypse obliterated a lot of channels - lost media-related or not, and the amount of outrage this is going to spark is unfathomable to me.

With that being said, please make backups of everything you have or you can find. Save them to your Drive, Cloud storage, backup drives, and other sources. Hell, make copies for your friends and acquaintances to hold onto as well. I've already done this myself with music-related media before Myspace crashed and wiped out everything. Youtube has been going down a path of destruction for well over ten years now, and it's beyond unfortunate that this is what it has come down to.

Here's a list of list of links explaining the situation.

vimeo.com/358354245

support.google.com/youtube/answer/9527654

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qu18mjLhCCM

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0veLrwd9CK4

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JzXiSkoFKw

www.youtube.com/watch?v=49DpBpVSEYc

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MImtjK_slj8

Its trending now, everybody is making videos.


Lost Media will be effected because its mostly kid oriented, doesnt matter if its 30+ year old cartoons its still cartoons. Some people think its about money, that if a video is marked for kids then it just wont make money. NO, if a video or channel is marked or flagged for kids here is a list of things that will happen.

The following features won’t be available on individual videos or live streams:

Personal advertising
Comments
Channel branding watermark
Donate button
Cards or end screens
Live chat or live chat donations
Notification bell
Playback in the Miniplayer
Super Chat or Super Stickers
Save to playlist

Your channel also won’t have the following:

Stories
Community posts
Notification bell
Channel Memberships

Viewers also won’t be able to “Save to Watch later” or “Save to playlist.”

There are some leaks that say the videos will not be available in searches as well. Effectively putting videos marked as "for kids" into limited state. Youtube will also delete videos and channels who are repeat offenders or who try and skirt the rules.

There are so many destructive aspects to this. Lets say, there is a large channel hosting lost media, for the most part has been abandoned by the original channel holder. They don't mark their existing catalogue of videos as for kids, the FTC finds that channel, contacts them, they don't respond, (because its a dead channel just hosting videos), FTC then tells youtube, and youtube deletes said channel. POOF lost media lost again.

another scenario is, people just stop uploading content all together because the risk outweighs the reward.

It effects everything if the rules that are standing now, dont get changed.