Why We Need To Get off YouTube

And I guess we have big news. If you haven't also been watching China Uncensored, which I don't know what the Venn diagram is between this show and China Uncensored. I'm pretty sure there's a 100 percent overlap. Except some people may not have been watching China Uncensored because our views have been mysteriously cut in half. Yeah, it's wild for a channel that just topped two million subscribers. None of our like most of our episodes are not topping one hundred thousand views suddenly. And we've seen some people say in the comments that we're not showing up in their feeds anymore. Yeah. Yeah. So fishy things going on with YouTube. Yeah. Let us know, by the way, if you are seeing China Unscripted and China Uncensored in your feeds or if you have to go manually search us out. Yeah. But this ties into the big news that we have completed our brand new subscription website, China Uncensored dot TV. And this is this is this is big. This is important. This is one going to help us get around like a lot of the crazy YouTube censorship stuff that's going to be going on. But, you know, it also gives us a chance to create new premium episodes. We can talk about things that YouTube would not like us to talk about. I wish we had this during the covid era. Oh, my God. Yeah. Yeah. YouTube censored so much of our stuff and including. Well, basically, all of it was things that turned out to be right. Just a few years later. Or even things just showing what China was doing to people. When they like China's like covid people, like put someone in a box and carried them away, screaming the quarantine. I mean, just the most ironic one was the one that was called the answer to the coronavirus is like it's not authoritarianism. Yeah. Deleted episode from. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Ironic. So this is going to be a big help. And the big news is we're going to be putting this website, this website, this podcast exclusively on the website, which I think is a great idea, because, you know, in particular, next week, we're going to have a a guest who says some very controversial things. I won't say who, but so it's good that this will not be on YouTube. We will, however, still continue to release a few highlights from the podcast here on the YouTube channel. So this YouTube channel will continue. Yeah. And also all 280 podcasts we've done since 2018, including this one, will still be on YouTube. Like if it's if it's on YouTube, we're keeping it on YouTube for you. We're not going to take anything away. But we do hope that you subscribe to our new website, because that is also what will allow us to continue making this podcast and making the show China Uncensored and the rest of our stuff in the face of the insane things that YouTube is doing. Yeah. The goal is to still get as many people as possible aware about China and the CCP. But the only way we can afford to keep doing this is with support on the subscription website. Now that Patreon has decided to screw us over and that's not going to work. Well, to be fair, they were screwed over. Patreon. So Patreon is passing on the screwage to you, our beloved viewers. It's not as fun as that sounds. But we've decided that we will not pass it on to you because I like we do not believe that if you are contributing, say, ten dollars to China Uncensored on Patreon, that three dollars of that should go to Apple plus another dollar to Patreon. That's that's really nuts. So sorry, my phone, my phone was on. Do not disturb. Interesting that your Apple phone decided to interrupt you as you were. Oh, my gosh. So anyway, instead of passing on those incredible costs to you, we have started our our website so we can just, you know, basically have subscriptions ourselves. And yeah, I mean, we're this is just the beginning of launching a new thing. And I think we're really excited about all of the different premium episodes we want to put on there. Like we're talking about, you know, entire series of general hostility that would probably be too a little too niche for the general YouTube audience. But we think our core fans will really enjoy where we look at maybe the rise of Xi Jinping, you know, the some of the history of the Communist Party. Yeah. So a lot of things that would we wouldn't be able to put on YouTube because that would negatively affect us with the algorithm because those episodes wouldn't do well for people like you who really are interested in really understanding China. Yeah. So I think and and also to be perfectly frank about it, you know, we kind of the survival of our company is at stake here because it's a big gamble for us to switch everything over to this new China and censored TV platform. And, you know, we don't we don't just make the show with the three of us. We have video editors. We have writers. We have a lot of people that depend on us as a company to be able to continue. And with the way that YouTube is screwing us over, it's pretty hard to keep doing that without kind of making a drastic shift. So we don't have a lot of money. You can see why I have worn down patches on my suit. We should get you some so you some like arm patches, you know, like the elbow patches, so then you look more professorial. Good idea. I had to do that on the suit I was wearing a week or two ago because I really did wear out the elbow so much. I feel like we're like Charlie Chaplin. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Chris can't even afford to wear suit pants underneath. But we can't we can't show you what Chris is actually wearing underneath. But maybe on our website, we could do that. Hey, now, YouTube would YouTube would like to. Oh, OK. This is this is not only fans again. China and censored TV. So, yeah. So we're excited. We have a community chat where, you know, people can talk. We are going to be doing live streams on their exclusive live stream. We're going to be exclusive guests. Yes. You know, we've talked about doing some more three of us type podcasts. Yeah, that's just for, you know, that website where we talk about. Maybe more world news, not just China stuff. So, yeah, check it out. It is it is just the beginning of what we want to do. And we're also working on an app. So, yes, the app will be out so that we can do this. You can access it all on your phone easily. Yeah. So that's that's slated for early 2025. Oh, and because somebody asked for it, there should also be a way that you would be able to download like an audio file of the podcast. You could listen to it in your car easier. Yeah. Yes. We're looking into figuring out the technology for that. Yeah, that's actually something that one of our premium subscribers asked for in the community chat. And we're like, you know, we didn't think about that. Maybe that's a good idea. So. So, yeah, for those of you who actually subscribe on China Uncensored TV, like we're actually reading your your chats all the time. We're you know, the episode suggestions you have, you know, we're looking into those kind of things. So it's going to be it's a pretty awesome place to subscribe to. All I can see now is the bald spot on my suit. It's better than like a bald spot in your beard. That's true. Looking on the bright side, Matt.