2019 February: Ali-A Embraces his Meme Status
https://redd.it/au1z9j
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2019 February - YouTube has (temporarily?) disabled the comments on Chadtronic (decently-sized channel with just under 650K subs)'s videos. His channel is also being screened to make sure it's advertiser-friendly (questionnaire before monetisation + manual review during first 24 hours video is up)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A4MGGsaPWPA

https://redd.it/au3gn3
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2019 February - MsBreezy (889k subs) posts video in which she talks about how she feels stuck; she can’t keep up with rent; and has lost a lot of “friends”.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jyKCsm76KpY

https://redd.it/au4ado
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2019 February - Elon Musk and Justin Roiland host Meme Review on Pewdiepie's channel
https://youtu.be/zpWYQ1YtgnI?t=815

https://redd.it/au51of
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2019 February, Sorrow TV's video about him singing to his hamster gets demonetized
https://youtu.be/p4WNxIZM-rY

https://redd.it/au7wsa
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2019 February - PewDiePie, for the first time in a while, makes it to #1 on YouTube’s Trending page.
https://redd.it/aubbtd
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2019 February - If you've ever wondered how over 300 hours of video uploaded to Youtube every MINUTE, this is pretty much why
https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgYIAhABGAI%253D&search_query=oscars+2019+full

https://redd.it/aulskg
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2019 February - Nicholas Oyzon has his Pokemon Go channel Trainer Tips terminated with no warning the day after Matt Watson's "Youtube's Child Exploitation" video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMcQ8NDqMws

https://redd.it/aurbjz
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2019 February - YouTube takes ads off 'anti-vax' videos
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47357252

https://redd.it/aut9u0
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2019 February - YouTube experiences 'no views' glitch
https://redd.it/av2ae7
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2019 February - Duke, the four-time dog mayor of Cormorant Township, Minnesota, has passed away at age 13.
https://abc13.com/pets-animals/duke-beloved-dog-mayor-of-minnesota-town-has-died/5157927/

https://redd.it/av4n0f
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2019 February - Context for the Paul Denino Ice Poseidon "Ponzi scheme" streaming website.

This post will continue to be updated as more information and sources are compiled.

 

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Recently a video clip from Paul Denino's live stream has hit the top of \/r/videos and front page of \/r/all.

\/r/Videos post: "**Live streamer unknowingly admits to running a ponzi scheme, conning millions of dollars from investors**"

>https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/av2c07

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Paul Denino is a livestreamer that began on Twitch, then after being banned from the platform moved to Youtube.

He is known as Ice Poseidon and runs the quarantined (and currently privated) subreddit /r/Ice_Poseidon. There is a second quarantined community that he does not run called /r/Ice_Poseidon2.

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There are claims that Paul Denino has started a Ponzi scheme after a clip from his livestream has begun circulating in which he explains,

>"**In order for the investors to make their money back**, what we do is we grow the company to a certain point, and then **we have other investors come in** and obviously they invest their money as well, hopefully more than 2 million dollars, and then obviously when we get more than 2 million dollars invested, **the ??? investors get their 2 mil back**, and then we have more money for the company."

This sounds like promising investors returns, then paying those returns with new investors' money.

Which would be a Ponzi scheme.

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The prospective company is Scuffed.com, which aims to compete with Twitch as a livestreaming platform.

Paul claims to have received an initial investment of $2 million.


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Keemstar has tweeted a video in which he claims this is **not** a Ponzi scheme.

https://twitter.com/KEEMSTAR/status/1100542901862522880

There are claims that Keemstar is invested in the same company that owns Scuffed.com, named Streamme Inc.

He has promoted Stream.me in the past.


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######Take this part with some skepticism:

There are additional claims that Paul has spent investment money on a renovated 1984 Guerrilla Titan military vehicle and renting a mansion.

Video about the truck:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1IQly4w7n8

Paul claims the mansion is worth $7 million in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7siaf_INqY

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There are additional claims that it is Paul's manager Brent Kaskel that has pushed him into accepting this deal.

 

Additional information with sources is appreciated, just comment them below and I can add them to the post.

https://redd.it/av7gpl
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2019 February - laowhy86 has his comment section disabled without any reason from YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oeI0-ijIotk

https://redd.it/avghfh
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2019 February - Laowhy86, a China travel blogger, has all the comment sections on his channel disabled by Youtube
https://youtu.be/oeI0-ijIotk?t=51

https://redd.it/avjtpa
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2019 February: Don Shipley, a retired Navy SEAL who specializes in hunting down fake military actors, gets deplatformed from Youtube for "bullying".
https://pjmedia.com/trending/youtube-deplatforms-retired-navy-seal-who-exposed-tribal-elder-nathan-phillips-stolen-valor/

https://redd.it/avkkr8
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2019 February - Reezy Resells, an online reseller had this comments disabled and then re-enabled a day after posting "I donated $1,000 toys to kids" (feat. his daughter)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeq8GxD-kFVV5S1i0MCmzTg/videos

https://redd.it/avp0iq
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2019 February - After being terminated by false strikes last month, SiivaGunner's channel has had their channel reinstated and cleared of all current strikes
https://youtu.be/gO1eCLBhOok

https://redd.it/avyoyj
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2019 March - VICE Media remove a gaming channel from YouTube without contacting them because it's called "Vice"
https://youtu.be/JwTYDFiaHh4

https://redd.it/aw3joy
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2019 February - YouTube turns off comments on videos of children amid child safety fears
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2019/feb/28/youtube-turns-off-comments-on-videos-of-children-amid-child-safety-fears

https://redd.it/aw6idd
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2019 February - YouTube begins promoting an ad geared towards teenagers featuring Mia Khalifa on the thumbnail.
https://redd.it/aw7wzz
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2019 February: ROBLOX youtuber Ruben Sim has his chancel scheduled for deletion after numerous false copyright claims.
https://redd.it/aw9in4
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