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82 year old farmer becomes latest YouTube ‘star’

John Butler, who was an organic farmer in Lincolnshire and who now lives in Bakewell, has become an internet sensation across the globe in his twilight years, with viewers tuning in to see his regular updates discussing various matters and his religious beliefs.

His profile has been boosted by fans of ASMR – autonomous sensory meridian response – in which viewers watch relaxing clips of people doing every day things and speaking in calm voices as a form of relaxation. His Spiritual Unfoldment YouTube channel has in excess of 32,000 endorsers and his recordings have timed up about 5,000,000 perspectives.

The clasps – just titled Conversations with John Butler – show the unshaven 82-year-old talking about his own life and his otherworldly convictions on various themes, ordinarily inside Bakewell Church, however his excursions have taken him to Lanzarote, where he additionally recorded various recordings with companion and cameraman Phil Shankland.

John, who has been rehearsing contemplation for more than 50 years, has likewise composed a few books concentrating on his convictions, Wonders of Spiritual Unfoldment, Mystic Approaches and two little volumes entitled Mystic Verses.

In mature age, in the wake of soliciting himself what he had from most an incentive to desert, he began gathering the numerous notes made for an amazing duration of his bits of knowledge and encounters.

He experienced childhood in the wide open as a rancher, yet his life later self-destructed, prompting extensive stretches of gloom and searching for answers before dedicating his life to profound quiet. The recordings see him tending to inquiries from the books just as musings sent in by YouTube watchers.

His profile has been supported by enthusiasts of ASMR – independent tangible meridian reaction – in which watchers watch loosening up clasps of individuals doing each day things and talking in quiet voices as a type of unwinding.

Delicately spoken John, who medidates each morning and night at the town’s All Saints Parish Church, has become such a top choice, that fans presently rush from around the world to go through ends of the week talking and contemplating with him.

Is YouTube Really Cracking Down On the Alt-right? (Answer: YES)

Whether you agree with the alt-right or not, you probably don’t agree with censorship. If we have a censored video website then we all become zombies with the same opinion. Sometimes it’s healthy to have a different opinion and to change your view, this is like on websites such as ChangeMyView here. So in spite of later reports, YouTube claims it isn’t attempting to expel conservative voices from its website in a purported “YouTube Purge that we all know about” head of business Robert Kyncl revealed to The Hollywood Reporter. It’s a load of nonsense!

“We have some flexibility under which YouTube works: opportunity of articulation, opportunity of chance, opportunity to have a place and flexibility of data,” Kyncl stated, emphasizing remarks he made to YouTuber Casey Neistat in February. “They really turn into our North Star amid troublesome circumstances. For me, having originated from a place that didn’t have opportunity of data and flexibility of articulation, they’re critical. Our message is that we completely are inclining in to flexibility of data and opportunity of articulation, subject to our group rules.

YouTube was first blamed for endeavoring to “cleanse” conservative voices toward the beginning of March in the #purge, after remarkable moderate savants, firearm advocates, trick channels and other conservative voices got group strikes or were bolted out of their channels. YouTube tended to the worries, revealing to Bloomberg that new arbitrators “may twist some of our strategies bringing about mixed up expulsions.” YouTube’s group at that point corrected those slip-ups, expelling strikes from makers that were given strikes, similar to the master firearm Military Arms Channel.

Things just opened up in following weeks, in any case, as a portion of the conservative’s loudest voices, as Alex Jones, announced that YouTube was taking up arms against small-c conservative content. Despite the fact that YouTube hasn’t altogether prohibited any of the commentators standing up about the stage purportedly cleansing their substance, it hasn’t prevented individuals from blaming the organization for control. The reality remains, in any case, there’s frequently little legitimacy to their allegations. Jones, for instance, got two group rule strikes against his channel after he distributed recordings wherein he charged that a portion of the more candid survivors of the Parkland school shooting in Florida were emergency performers.

YouTube didn’t issue a site-wide rule due to this; Jones got the strike since his substance abused the organization’s rules on cyberbullying and provocation. The organization’s strategies express that makers can’t make “pernicious and adverse remarks/recordings about someone else,” which Jones’ recordings did. Disputable makers are currently searching out elective stages as an approach to sidestep the organization’s rules and strategies. So what do you think, is YouTube right to do this? I don’t think so personally, and it will just drive content creators away to alternatives like GAB (if they allow videos anyway).

Ads From Companies Have Been Placed on Racist Videos on YouTube

A new report suggests that around 300 top companies are affected by YouTube showing racist adverts before and during their videos. Not only that but some of them promote child abuse, according to Forbes.

A large number of the organizations said they didn’t know their advertisements had been set on the recordings and were making a move to make sense of why they were set there. At the point when organizations publicize with YouTube, they can focus on their promotions in light of client conduct and socioeconomics. They can likewise piece particular channels and pick a “delicate subject rejection” channel, as per CNN, which ought to keep advertisements from showing up on specific channels.

YouTube said it needs to work with sponsors to control wrong substance, yet it didn’t address how the most recent issues happened.

“We have banded together with our publicists to roll out huge improvements to how we approach adaptation on YouTube with stricter arrangements, better controls and more prominent straightforwardness,” a representative for the organization told CNN in an announcement. “When we find that advertisements erroneously kept running against content that doesn’t conform to our approaches, we quickly evacuate those promotions. We realize that notwithstanding when recordings meet our promoter inviting rules, not all recordings will be fitting for all brands. In any case, we are focused on working with our publicists and getting this right.”

This isn’t the first run through organizations have discovered their promotions set on fanatic substance. A year ago, several organizations cut back on their YouTube promotion purchases after they took in their commercials were being shown on disputable substance. In any case, after that occurrence and others like it, promoters came back to the stage.

“We have partnered with our advertisers to make significant changes to how we approach monetization on YouTube with stricter policies, better controls and greater transparency,” a YouTube spokeswoman said in a statement.

“When we find that ads mistakenly ran against content that doesn’t comply with our policies, we immediately remove those ads. We know that even when videos meet our advertiser friendly guidelines, not all videos will be appropriate for all brands. But we are committed to working with our advertisers and getting this right,” she added.

However, the YouTube statement does not address why the issue keeps happening.

Downloading YouTube Videos - is it possible?

Everyone knows that YouTube is promoting its “Premium” offering now, and it wants as many people as possible to use that. Why? Because it makes them money.

But there is a drawback: despite what many people think, downloading videos from YouTube isn’t possible from their website, even *if* you have a YouTube Premium subscription. So inevitably people are looking at other ways to download the YouTube source video for offline use.

Some reasons why people might want to download YouTube Videos are:

  • For educational purposes i.e. for your study
  • To make a backup or copy for safety reasons
  • To edit it and add it to another video that you’ve made
  • For many other “fair use” reasons not otherwise listed.

The easiest way that I have found to download YouTube Videos is to use a program like Viddly or DLYou.tube. They are Freemium - that means they are free to an extent. It’s not possible to use them completely for free but it depends on your usecase; for most users you won’t need to pay I suspect!

Websites like SaveFrom that promise ‘free’ YouTube video downloads always come with dodgy spyware or browser extensions. The disturbing thing here is that you DON’T KNOW what is inside them. They are not downloaded from places like the Play Store or from Chrome Webstore - that is very worrying.

All is not as it seems…

Why do websites like SaveFrom not use the Website or Mozilla Extensions website to promote their browser plugin? Because quite simply they don’t want the code (source) to be analyzed. It contains all sorts of dodgy things. I am going to post about my deep analysis of SaveFrom shortly, the results may shock you. Most surprising is that despite having millions of purported downloads, nobody seems to have spotted what they are doing!

Stay tuned…

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