I have to post this because it's pissing me off.
I sell fetish content on a few different websites, including my own. I've noticed a disturbing trend regarding clips4sale and competition.
A few months ago my entire youtube channel was wiped out (not the channel or my account, but ALL of the videos were suddenly deleted over a few days for "inappropriate content"). Right after that, I noticed the same thing happening to other ladies in my niche. Several others. What was the common thread with ALL of us? We all had recently changed our links on our youtube videos/channels from our c4s stores to our other stores, because we get better payouts on the other stores.
Sounds like a coincidence, but I've done some digging.
Every lady I have talked to in my niche, who also switched from promoting her c4s store to promoting her other stores on youtube, has had her youtube account suspended or at least all the videos deleted. In all cases, these are accounts/videos that had been up for months and years, with no problems. No TOS violation warnings, nothing. Until we switched our links from c4s to other stores...
It's fairly common knowledge that anyone with the know-how can write a script to essentially target certain videos/accounts on youtube by keywords and repeatedly flag them via multiple IPs / YT accounts, and YT will dump the videos/accounts being flagged, regardless of the content or whether they actually break any rules, just because it got flagged "too much". So people can abuse YT policy to screw up others' promotion, traffic, business.
If you do a search on youtube right now for a couple of keywords, you'll find that there are over 2500 results for the term clips4sale, but (at last check) only 26 for the term kinkbomb (and some of those are suspended as well). Why is that? Because anyone with links or references to kinkbomb gets their videos deleted and/or accounts suspended. This causes a big drop in traffic for those who lose their YT videos/accounts, not just on their content stores, but general website traffic, live calls/cam sales, etc..
It's too much of a coincidence. Clearly c4s has begun to feel the effects of competition offering better service to content producers, so rather than try to compete, they just use shady tactics to hurt a LOT of people's overall search rank, traffic, business. Youtube accounts for a LOT of traffic for our business, our overall search rank, and bottom line: income.
I'm not sure what can be done about this, but it's pissed me off enough to want to write about it publicly and see what happens.
Youtube / google are completely unconcerned about the wholesale abuse of their retarded flagging / removal policy. There is no way to contact them about it or ask for a review or reconsideration. They ignore any attempts to ask questions, no matter what channels you use. Basically, once an asshole over-flags you, you're just fucked. And the assholes know it.
My next thought is, hey, why not find out how to make my own script and do the same thing to c4s? Get all THEIR youtube links mass-deleted. Why not? I know that stooping to their level is unethical, but at this point, I have to say I don't really care.
C4s screws us over left and right. Their customer service is nonexistent. Their payouts SUCK. Their website sucks. They're having far too many chargebacks these days, resulting in lost revenue for producers, pirated content, more lost revenue for producers. And so on. And now they're also outright attacking our business in an attempt to keep it all for themselves. Not cool.
Something needs to happen...







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