This, to me, is the crux of the issue. The interchangeable use of “copyright” and “trademark”, a misunderstanding of intellectual property overall. Many critics were the types of people who would post a clip of a TV show with the description “no copyright intended” like it’s a viable sentence, even respectable YouTube creators were jumping on the hate train seemingly without having tried to understand the original announcement video.

It’s disappointing that they had to end the program before it got a chance to start, the whole idea was an ideal antidote to the common complaint that it’s hard to get noticed on YouTube when there are so many established stars. They were willing to give people a mutually-beneficial leg up, botched the communications a bit and I can only imagine what the past few days have been like for them. Their update video was terrible and condescending but also clearly made under an incredible amount of stress.

Way to call out the anti-semitism too, that’s been one of the wildest parts of this and no one bringing it up was making me start to think I might have just been imagining it.

Spot-on write up once again, Hank. I hope the mob never comes after you, and I hope the positive voices prevail if they ever do.