If you thought Vimeo was a good alternative to YouTube and their censorious ways, you thought wrong. Vimeo is cracking down on content creators as well, including channels that they were previously okay with just months prior. One such channel is Shawn Woods’ MouseTrap Monday.
After suffering from massive ad revenue losses due to YouTube’s demonetization, as well as the reduction in viewership due to the recommendation filters being updated to remove or suppress recommendations of what YouTube labels as “borderline content”, Woods’ channel has suffered greatly in result of such measures.
On June 28th, 2019 Woods posted up a video to his 1.1 million subscribers explaining what lengths YouTube has gone to in order to stifle the growth of his channel and practically cut off his ad revenue at the knees with increased demonetization. The video also covers how his contingency of using Vimeo to compensate for YouTube’s shenanigans has also fallen through after Vimeo decided to abruptly terminate his channel.
He originally opened up a Vimeo channel after YouTube’s algorithm changes back in January of 2019. Things seemed to be going well for Woods at first, offering his loyal followers the uncensored videos of his mouse traps via his Vimeo page.
However, Vimeo abruptly sent him a notice indicating that his channel was in violation of their terms of service, specifically that they didn’t allow videos depicting or promoting violent activity, extreme or real-life violence, self-harm, or cruelty toward animals.
If you head to the Mouse Trap Mondey website and attempt to click on the mouse trap videos that Woods had uploaded to Vimeo due to YouTube demonetizing his channel, the videos no longer appear and now you’re greeted with the following message:
With Vimeo no longer a viable option, Woods has decided to stick with YouTube for now but he’s also taking suggestion for another outlet that allows for uncensored video uploads. Most of his followers suggested he check out Bitchute.com.
In the meantime, he has plans on modifying his video editing to remove any of the content YouTube deems objectionable or worth demonetizing in order to keep making money on the content he produces. Another YouTuber has also undergone a similar bit of financial stifling from YouTube, he goes by the handle the “Mink Man”. His name is Joseph Carter and his channel was also demonetized after the algorithm update. He talked more about the demonetization in a recent video but it was deleted. However, he has an older video from April 16th, 2019 where he explains that he had to start uploading his content to Vimeo to compensate for losing a lot of ad revenue from YouTube.
So far his Vimeo content is still up and available over on Mink Man channel, but given that Vimeo seems to be cracking down on content – including banning Project Veritas on behalf of Google – and censoring content creators, it seems like the niche video hosting website is now going down the exact same path as YouTube.
(Thanks for the news tip Animatic)