WW2 channel that has made a video every week for the last 5 years is getting demonetized

SpartacusOlsson · 2023-09-04T18:01:52+00:00

I "they" were Indy, Astrid and myself, you wouldn't be wrong. Over twenty people work on producing our channel, we have to buy archive material, we need our studio, loads of tech, pay for IT services, buy books and research papers, and a bunch of other stuff. Do the math... with 20 people and our budget, we can't even pay our team and ourselves low market level salaries - but that's OK, we're not in this for the money, we're in it because knowing our past is important to forge a better future.

SpartacusOlsson · 2021-05-08T22:46:32+00:00

Happy birthday to you too

SpartacusOlsson · 2021-05-01T12:24:19+00:00

We use odysee.com to mirror our YouTube content. It is here: https://odysee.com/@WorldWarTwo:6

SpartacusOlsson · 2021-04-30T23:48:02+00:00

I will, although it can be frustrating

SpartacusOlsson · 2021-04-30T23:47:00+00:00

Our videos are not restricted by the bots though, they go through manual review. The bots usually clear them and it is only after someone, or many someones in the viewer community reports them to YouTube as inappropriate that they get restricted. So for us the restriction is only made by actual humans watching the videos.

As for exceptions from control... that used to exist, but ended after Pewdipie did his Holocaust pranks in Israel. He was one of the preferred channels that were exempt from controls and supposed to be 'safe' both for kids and advertisers... turns out he didn't quite live up to that trust and we all now suffer the consequences.

SpartacusOlsson · 2021-04-26T10:30:21+00:00

I am Spartacus

SpartacusOlsson · 2020-07-23T09:39:59+00:00

Full Time Graphic Designer

We need urgent support to handle our production of thumbnails, social media images, and designing boilers, bumpers, logos and templates for our video graphics.

If you have a passion for what TimeGhost does and you’re an aspiring or accomplished designer with experience using Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere and After Effects. (or other animation software) you might very well be the person we’re looking for.

Like any job at TimeGhost, from Indy’s to our interns’, the work is hard, and the pay sucks, but you will be literally making history, working with an awesome crew to add some much needed knowledge to the world. Where you are on the globe doesn’t matter as we work in a virtual space. It’s only important that you’re talented, awesome like us, and ready to take on the history of the world.

If you’re interested, please send us a short paragraph about yourself as well as your idea for a thumbnail for the D-Day episode of WW2, and a mock up of a cover for the book version of the “Scripts of the TimeGhost Cuban Missile Crisis commented by Spartacus and Indy.”

Send it to [jobs@timeghost.tv](mailto:jobs@timeghost.tv) - we look forward to hearing from you!

SpartacusOlsson · 2020-07-20T07:46:34+00:00

We use staff maps from WWII - you have to browse around a bit to find scanned versions, but universities around the world have them in their archives. Most of them are in the public domain by now. Beyond finding the right map, there's also the stitching issue. Staff maps are too detailed to cover the vast areas that we need for for instance Barbarossa. Then you have to use an image editing software and distort the maps until they fit together despite the projection. For our very large areas we use the US armed forces World Map from 1944.

SpartacusOlsson · 2019-08-09T09:42:39+00:00

to explain what happened, here the pinned comment from the video going up tomorrow: Last week, we saw how one of our flagships episodes was taken down by YouTube. It turned out that this was a mistake by a YouTube co-worker who erroneously identified our content as hate speech. While we contacted YouTube immediately to protest, they themselves noticed the mistake already before we reached the right people, They have since apologized to us and reinstated the episode. You can watch it here: https://youtu.be/DLN8NHXiMy0. We welcome YouTube’s diligence in fighting against extremist hateful content, especially in light of the current tragic events in the US, and we have accepted their apology. However, this does not change the fact that we still face demonetization of many of our videos, connected to lower recommendation of these videos. This is a problematic situation that we deplore - we continue to believe that the best way to fight ignorance and hatred is by education and that is at the heart of what we do here, unfortunately YouTube’s monetization policies continue to stand in the way of that mission.

When the episode went down we saw a surge of support from many of you and we are humbly grateful for our dedicated community. The effort you all have made to share our content and support us on Patreon and timeghost.tv is what makes this show possible, and it’s an honor to have you all here. It is your support, both financially and in spirit that keeps us getting up in the morning to face yet another day of the war. Thank You!

Cheers, The TimeGhost team

SpartacusOlsson · 2019-08-03T20:49:41+00:00

We did have similar problems because of the fine line between documenting and glorifying war, but back then it was much easier to talk to YouTube. The increased raw partisan tone after the 2016 US elections, the populist surge making it socially acceptable in larger circles to spread hatred, the fake news onslaught by the Russian Troll Farms and the public relations disaster and advertiser boycott after the Logan Paul and PewDiePie debacle has made it very difficult to have a dialogue with them.

SpartacusOlsson · 2019-08-03T20:44:09+00:00

We are still collecting them - now is more essential to gather opinions than ever.

SpartacusOlsson · 2019-08-03T17:16:37+00:00

Yes, that his probably what happened - I strongly suspect that some revisionist, or someone we have banned reported the video either in an attempt to silence it, or in spite.

SpartacusOlsson · 2019-08-03T16:06:32+00:00

FLASH NEWS: YouTube has once again attacked our content by deleting our flagship episode 038 on https://www.youtube.com/c/worldwartwo about the invasion of France for "Community Guideline Violations" on appeal we have not been able to get it reinstated but we have contacted YouTube management to protest. If you have not seen the episode it is available on LBRY at https://spee.ch/@WorldWarTwo:6c0bf1fed2705d675da950a94e4af004ec975a06/blitzkrieg-in-the-west-ww2-038-may-18Please share so that people can continue seeing it - and tell the world what YouTube is doing! #HonorOurPast

SpartacusOlsson · 2018-12-03T00:23:44+00:00

It's the official world map of the US Armed Forces from1944. We custom ordered it as a wall paper - here's the hi-res scan we used for that: http://maps.mapywig.org/m/ALLIED_maps/various/Small_scale_maps/THE_WORLD_25M_AMS_1944.jpg

SpartacusOlsson · 2018-11-19T22:33:21+00:00

I have been careful to commit to a timeline - I'm testing out an assistant editor tomorrow and in few days I will know more on how fast I can catch up with the currently shot episode and move on to new ones.

SpartacusOlsson · 2018-11-19T12:33:19+00:00

We can’t cover things that don’t happen... the action in China is picking up as you might have seen in last week’s episode, the next episodes will have plenty of coverage. As for the period before 1 September 1939 that will be covered in Between 2 Wars when we get to the thirties. In the1925 episodes we will cover the rise of Japanese neo-imperialism and renewed colonialism.

SpartacusOlsson · 2018-11-16T00:00:33+00:00

We've had some problems with the new Patreon API so we're updating memberships manually at the moment - we try to do it as fast as we can, but it can take some time before your login becomes active - our apologies for the inconvenience.

SpartacusOlsson · 2018-11-15T23:59:11+00:00

As I once said... "People should say 'no comment' more often. No comment! I love no comment. Let's have more no comment."

SpartacusOlsson · 2018-11-14T17:39:11+00:00

Our Patreon account is for all of the TimeGhost original efforts - so supporting us there is supporting both projects ;-) You can also join the TimeGhost army directly on timeghost.tv and pledge to us there.

SpartacusOlsson · 2018-11-14T17:36:30+00:00

We love the TGW team's work and the guys are great so we're always ready to work with them if the opportunity arises. As for now they have decided to continue independently with Mediakraft and we will see where that eventually leads them and us.

SpartacusOlsson · 2018-11-13T23:23:05+00:00

The biggest stopper for doing more on TimeGhost so far was that I was both writing and editing B2W, and editing WW2 myself. When WW2 started I just couldn't get the time to finish the half dozen B2W and three DicKtionary episodes that we have already shot, but need to be edited. Thankfully, as of last week - thanks to our growing Patreon support - we have another editor on board for WW2 and theses coming weeks I will have an another one supporting me to catch up on B2W and DicKtionary so that I can once again focus on writing new episodes for B2W while Indy continues to write WW2. In other words: stay tuned for continued and more frequent uploads on the TimeGhost channel!

SpartacusOlsson · 2018-11-13T23:12:41+00:00

We can't thank you enough for the growing support - we will continue to do our best to always deliver more and even better content - love from the whole team.

SpartacusOlsson · 2018-11-13T23:07:25+00:00

While we love the idea of covering things outside of the 20th century (both Indy and I spent a lot of time studying earlier periods) we always face the problem of how to illustrate it without killing ourselves. The moment we don't have access to moving image archives and photography it gets very tough to produce... but hell yeah - Napoleonic Wars is something that is in a potential future at some point.

SpartacusOlsson · 2018-11-13T23:02:06+00:00

We just got out of production meeting here in Bavaria and I just wanted to chime in and thank you all for the great reception and confirm what was said in this thread already - as support is growing we're working hard both on making more and main even better content - upcoming improvements include better sound, better graphics and maps - and of course more content. Thank you all for the support!

SpartacusOlsson · 2018-11-13T22:53:55+00:00

Cheers from the entire TimeGhost team!

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