Report from the Lab: Another Dead Youtuber
In this third report from my lab in Nepal, I have tragic news of another what I believe to be a YouTube content creator’s demise caused by such an occupation. No, not me, I am not a zombie content creator (yet), but not the first I’ve described before as a personal friend, who glocked herself over the platform. Now another YouTube content creator and her father have fallen from the sky, and not a peep from the Alphabet Corporation.
Now my experience being a content creator is on temporary hold as I analyze some of the data collected and also work on another project posted here, about cults. But I have not stopped my research on being a YouTuber, and this “accident” has inspired me even more to continue to get this word out to parents:
Don’t let your kitties play in the YouTube basket without adult supervision, no matter if your child is 30 years old or 15. Danger lurks there!
I’ve written a guide of sorts for parents here on Medium, but by the stats reports, very few are reading. I tried to get this message to the NYT and WAPO, but they told me that since I published it here, they don’t want to see it. This is from editors that I once worked with, and got paid from.
So obviously, there is very little interest in the fact that YouTube and other platforms where creators work are killing the “employees” of these platforms without even a blink, not even a wink. Just crickets. So there is little point in trying to reference where platform owners explain issues regarding the safety and well-being of the creators that “work” for them. It’s either pure crap or does not exist. However, there are thousands of others clamoring for something to be done, and I won’t list them all; I could not possibly. But we all know the truth, in our hearts, as a parent, and you can feel that truth just ooze out of this parent, Juan, who is someone who knows his shit, both as a pilot and as a parent of a young boy.
What I would want to know as a parent (and that Dad did know, but ignored what was happening) is that this young woman put herself and her father in mortal danger, just to drive up clicks. She was flying to get some new tech installed — tech which appeals to aviators and wannabes alike on the internet, and is sure to garner more clicks, more likes, and more pennies in her Stripe account.
And now she and her father are dead. Slammed into a mountain at incredible force, and perhaps a metaphor for where this is all headed.
In memory of all harmed by evil techBros since 2004.
