Disaster Strikes

According to analytics, my YouTube channel has no demographic data. So…am I safe? Or is it going to be like my bank (which charges a fee on accounts when their balance falls below 10,000 dollars when it was free under the bank they bought out) and find a reason to go after me after the fact? They’re only doing this to recover the costs of their fine in the first place. I’m glad that our complaints are forcing Google to clarify, but it’s still too broad and completely at their discretion. Plus, my brother and I never monetized our channels – only the copyright claims on music do that. So yeah, if that counts, I guess we’re screwed. But Toon Ruins said they probably won’t go after small channels since they know they can’t get anything from them. I have 193 subscribers and my brother had 2, so I'm pretty sure that's small enough. Plus, since his channel's inactive, they could very well just delete it and call it a day if they wanted. Time’s running out to do anything about it, but I’ve just been so busy. Maybe they announced this when they did so that people like me would be too busy to try to defend themselves.

Another reason I’ve been busy is that Sword and Shield came out. My husband caught a shiny (Square?) Stufful and named it Fred Bear. Finally got around to watching the new batch of TTG episodes – did not like the Doom Patrol even more than I already didn’t. And they had to drag Dale Jr. into the two-part Transformers parody. They should sell the Titans-themed cars though. If I had to pick a least-worst episode, it would be the one with Cyborg and Robot Man.

Apparently Marzgurl got banned from Twitter for starting KickVic. I had no idea she was involved with this at all. With everything that happened with Justin, she has good reason not to trust Vic or anyone else. Vic lost his case but won an appeal, so I’m not sure how this will turn out or whether he’s innocent or not. This season of Survivor was horribly edited, and the MeToo storyline that ended with Dan getting removed from the game for touching a female production member makes it the worst season in recent memory. Not that they could’ve predicted his behavior before they started filming, but this should’ve been handled better by production and players alike as soon as it became a problem. The fans called him out on being creepy right away, so how could the producers not have acted sooner? Ratings (and other players using it to their advantage to vote out the original victim, Kellee). Before it was revealed on the editing screen, I thought maybe something had happened to Dan’s son, who’d just been there for the family visit challenge. As with previous seasons, Dan should’ve been eliminated right away for causing problems, but they decided to keep going until it affected production. I’m sure if this was Big Brother, Dan would’ve been told to go to the Diary Room and then escorted out immediately, since those are mounted cameras with no human personnel to fondle. Big Brother keeps the peace.

Things I like about my hometown: the land, Hong Kong Chinese restaurant (and the Japanese restaurant attached to it), East Side Pizza (across the street from Hong Kong), Trackside Pizza (a rail car parked next to an active railroad track!)

Things I hate about my hometown: most of the people who live there (apparently, it’s Trump country - and here I thought we were trying to get away from that past)