Rollo Tomassi

And, uh, I, I thought it was interesting because it was exactly what I was going through, but he was talking about it from a different perspective.

It was, it was, um, conservative, um, uh, media outlets, I guess, were under the same kind of scrutiny where they were having their traffic deliberately redirected using us taxpayer dollars to do so.

And so like, wait, we, it was us too.

It was us first.

Crazy.

Um, so it was, um, it was an eye opener.

Um, I've always known that I've been shadow bands.

It's one thing to get shadow band.

It's another thing to like have, uh, have the monkey around with your traffic.

Um, you and I were talking earlier off camera and I was saying it's primarily an effort to get you to quit.

That's what it is.

It's not about, I mean, if YouTube wanted to delete you, they can just delete you anytime they want to.

Um, but they do that too many times and then people go, okay, well you can't get it.

Like who can make money on YouTube, right?

Why bother?

But thing is, is now is rather than, um, rather than delete you or just take you out entirely, they just cut off your oxygen until you just quit until it's not no longer worth it for you to, to bother.

Yeah, YouTube is no longer what it used to be, I don't think.

Not like the Mr. Beast days.

If you got in earlier, you're an early adopter or something like that, you probably did pretty well.

You did PewDiePie and stuff like that.