Oh god this is awful...

The enemy is inside the gates. Welcome to China Uncensored, I'm Chris Chappell. So something very weird has been going on. China Uncensored is not a small channel. We have over 2 million subscribers. Not to brag or anything. It's a testament to how many people care about China, and how the CCP affects their daily lives. Episodes regularly get hundreds of thousands of views. A fact I'm sure the CCP hates. You'd think with this kind of success, I'd be able to live carefree on a jet ski on my no-communism-allowed private island. But lately, it seems like certain episodes have been capped at just tens of thousands of views. Like, behind the scenes, some kind of limiter had been put on them that said, don't go above this many views. Well, if there is such a thing, it was just aggressively applied. A week ago, I published this episode. At first, it looked like it was doing great. Way better than the average video in grey. But then... Oh. Oh no. Yes, somehow, that episode literally hit a wall, and did not get a single extra view. As if every single one of my subscribers died in a plane crash on their way to a China Uncensored fan convention. Actually, worse than that, after 102 minutes, it only had 6.9 thousand views. And then after two hours, it somehow lost views. Obviously, the only possible explanation is that people were going back in time and stopping their younger selves from watching it. Or maybe, just maybe, someone behind the scenes at YouTube applied that limiter with a little too much gusto. Though I'm still not ruling out the time traveler theory. At that point, on the main page, it said this content isn't available. There should have been no reason for that. YouTube didn't notify me that there was any sort of problem. And here was another weird thing. Look at the like-to-view ratio. 5.3 thousand likes, 6.8 thousand views. That's an absurdly high like-to-view ratio. Even for someone like me, who is universally beloved, and who's never done anything wrong. On YouTube, what's considered an average like-to-view ratio is about 4%. An excellent one is 10%. And this was a 78% like-to-view ratio. That's impossible. Unless more people were watching, but those views just weren't being counted. Now what's really funny, though, is that after I made a big stink about this on X, suddenly all those missing views came back. And now, well, the video's doing great. Maybe it was all just a weird glitch. But here's something perhaps a little more sinister. This post by a former Meta employee says 90% of my coworkers were Chinese, and non-Chinese were routinely excluded, disadvantaged, and targeted for layoffs. The Chinese employees, who were the vast majority, primarily spoke Mandarin at work, and only ate lunch with each other, refusing invitations from non-Chinese employees. Basically, they were part of an exclusive clique that essentially had immunity. No one needed to cook salmon in the break room microwave for this office to spell fishy. By the way, if you search for China Uncensored on Facebook, which is owned by Meta, you'll get this warning. I know I exude raw, unbridled sexual energy. But I assumed I kept it contained enough to not get a parental advisory. Guess I'll have to dial the riz down another 15%. The former Meta employee concludes, I don't have faith that much would change so long as the entire leadership chain, up to the VP level, is dominated by the same ethnicity, language, and culture. So this sounds like a not-insignificant part of Meta has been taken over by Chinese employees. I've heard of a similar situation at Google and YouTube. But thankfully, they're a moral company, and wouldn't do anything so cartoonishly villainous as drop their don't be evil motto, right? Right? But this actually reminds me of something that came out of the testimony of a Twitter whistleblower back in 2022, before Elon Musk took over and made it X. It came out that Twitter was making hundreds of millions of dollars a year from Chinese clients. In fact, China was one of Twitter's largest non-US revenue streams. Which makes sense, because China is a huge market, and it's not like the CCP makes sure that Twitter is banned in China, right? Right? How did Twitter feel about that? Well, here's what the whistleblower said at his congressional hearing. While at Twitter, you raised concerns with their policy allowing Chinese advertisement. What was Twitter's response? In a nutshell, it was, we're already in bed. It would be problematic if we lost that revenue stream. So figure out a way to make people comfortable with it. Yeah, I'd be more comfortable being in bed with a starved wolverine in heat than the CCP. And it turns out the FBI even warned Twitter that it employed a Chinese agent. When the whistleblower told a Twitter exec that, he was told, well since we already have one, what does it matter if we have more? That's like being told you have an STD, then deciding to go out and catch the rest of them like they were Pokemon. Feeling a little demoralized right now. Actually, despite all Elon Musk's China connections, in the days after he took over Twitter, the China Uncensored account suddenly grew by like 50,000 followers. It was like a limiter had been removed. The point is, back then, Twitter had a much smaller user base than Facebook or YouTube. And even they were making hundreds of millions of dollars off China, and had at least one Chinese spy on staff. Facebook, meanwhile, apparently has entire teams that speak exclusively Mandarin Chinese. And Google, the biggest of them all, well, we don't know. We know that being evil is now back on the menu. Maybe that's why Google was secretly building a censored search engine for China. But how deep does it go? I think it's safe to say that if the Chinese Communist Party was so invested in Twitter, they would be at least as invested in the much larger and more influential Google and YouTube. And I wouldn't be surprised if they're the reason Myspace died because those communists heard the name and wanted to change it to OurSpace. Jokes aside, this is a serious issue. If the Chinese Communist Party has control over American social media, they basically control the modern public square. They can control what information Americans get, how we think, especially about China. And if there's a pesky YouTube show exposing the CCP, then that host isn't going to get a vacation anytime soon. This is why I need your help. They're actively trying to put China Uncensored out of business. But we can beat them at their own game. I created my own website, ChinaUncensored.tv. I already have about 2,000 paying subscribers there, but I need a minimum 1,000 more to be able to fully fund China Uncensored. If we can just get these subscribers, they can't censor us. We can just make episodes and upload them around the internet, and the CCP can't stop us. So click this button to join what I call the China Uncensored 50-Cent Army. Besides sticking it to the CCP, the website has other benefits like exclusive episodes, live streams, and a really fun chat community, plus a whole lot more. The link to ChinaUncensored.tv is also below. Once again, I'm Chris Chappell. See you next time.