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To YouTube or not to YouTube, that is the question. And it’s no longer a hypothetical question! That’s right, the YouTube overlords have decided to allow The Corbett Report once again. Whoopie? So, what should be done? I have my own thoughts, but I want to hear yours. Let it rip in the comment section (registered members only).
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SHOW NOTES
Mission Accomplished: The Corbett Report Removed From YouTube
The Cultural Conditioning Conspiracy | James Corbett | Ripple Effect Podcast #544
Dan Dicks gets his YouTube channel back
False Flags: The Secret History of Al Qaeda
Your Guide to 5th Generation Warfare
How BlackRock Conquered the World
The 8th Annual Fake News Awards
REPORTAGE: Essays on the New World Order by James Corbett
Episode 477 – REPORTAGE Book Launch
The Corbett Report is NOT on YouTube
So, what do YOU think I should do with this channel? Corbett Report members are invited to log in and leave their vote for one of these five options in the comments below:
Option #4.
Option #4 AGREE! 👍
Make an catchy annoying jingle for corbettreport.com and just upload it 10 times a day until you get banned from jewtube…
Imagine finding solo cat here. LOL I say four with a mixture of one. Highlights and tidbit teasers from missed episodes.
I want to say get some cash out of the system before they shut you down again but your conscience is all you can live with I apologize I’m a lazy clown and struggled to find out what the last episode on tube was now I know I’ve signed up to membership have the book and have a few years of post to catch up with on your website gonna be a fun ride seeing your post come true thanks james as much info as you can get out the better.
I think if your goal is to reach as much people as possible than you should pick option 2. As much as we all hate YouTube we all have to recognize that it is a powerful tool and we cannot just scoff at it like that will solve something.
I think you can salt your videos with corbettreport.com adverts. Make em tacky and silly.
Anyways this is just an opinion.
Option 3. To lure people in with the most important, hardest punching stories, to teach them the big picture, as an entrance point, upon which they can expand elsewhere. I feel the full catalogue is so vast, that it could distract from the bigger picture, which is THE message to get across first.
I seem to be in the minority here, but I go with Option #5 – Post up the “I’m never ever ever posting here again” video and have done with it.
I use YouTube daily but suddenly seeing you back there after swapping exclusively to this website for the past several years seems to cheapen the experience somehow. If maximum viewership is a high priority, I get it. But if you’re doing alright as-is since The Big Scam, I say keep it rolling exclusively on Corbettreport.com (with uploads to Bitchute etc.).
#2 is the best way to grow this community.
The videos you’ve made over the past four years could help a lot of people navigate life in the 21st century.
They sure have helped me!
I agree with avalanche.i
#2 would help a lot of people
(though I suppose one could say I am a little biased as I am featured in a couple of the videos 🙂 )
But seriously, uploading all the content from the last 4 years may trigger Alphabet Corp’s Algocracy to censor you again, however, those videos that do make it through could be that seed that helps many thousands embark down a path to co-create a better future for themselves (and future generations).
Perhaps some youtube admins are fans of yours and they are taking in the role of “white hats” (to use hacker slang) in re-activating your channel (despite the fact it may piss off their bosses’ bosses’) and whether or not that is the case this “glitch in the matrix” could offer a great opportunity for helping people that are busy chowing down on matrix steaks and chasing the woman in the red dress.
Whatever course you choose I hope it results in many more people holding a physical copy of your book in their hands so that the truth and knowledge you have gathered will have a high likelihood of persisting into the awareness of future generations.
agree with avalanche. Don’t look just at the past (I get you’re quite annoyed on old members who just stuck with the CensorTube). People come of age constantly (there are always new, young people to reach). The query box in CT is a strong tool and gateway. You want a young person that is querying for the first time an issue where you’ve videographed about, to fall on your content in some way. The path you’ve chosen is unfortunately very similar to the ordeal that Sisyphus had to go through.
Would you take my virtual hug into consideration (if it would make you feel better)?
Agree, #2
I would lean towards this with a mix of option 4. Maybe don’t upload everything but the most important stuff to bring in people to the website more. Since it should be the ultimate goal of the youtube channel.
Indoors I watch most stuff on my telly, usually through a firestick. I’ve had to sideload Bitchute which doesn’t really work properly. I need a Bluetooth keyboard and mouse to navigate it and a VPN to access it as I’m in the UK. So much hassle. YouTube on the other hand just works. Most people make decisions based on convenience, hence why people eat shite.
So #2 because everything comes with YouTube already installed.
I stumbled upon you via your video about the food pyramid of all things. On YouTube.
#2 – use this channel like all the other ones, don’t censor or hold back or redact any episodes for YT (let’s see how long the channel persists). Maybe as an add-on specifically for youtube: record a little 30sec intro to be put at the beginning of each youtube-uploaded episode prompting people to watch any of other or upcoming episodes on your official website, but still I think it makes sense to put them out there!
+1 to Option #2, as I am one of those idiots who usually just queue up YouTube videos on a separate display while working on my main one. I agree with others in these comments who have pointed out you’re most likely to get the boot again if you do Option #2. Yes, I make the effort to absorb your content elsewhere when I can, which is usually via podcast in odd hours of the day and night, and I’ve watched most all of your content on corbettreport.com at some point, some multiple times. If I could queue it up on YT while I work my day job, it would be immensely more convenient, but not required. I’m still a devoted follower and supporter no matter what you decide.
If you prefer to lower your risk of getting the boot again, try Option #4 for a while. I assume your priority is to get more people to come to corbettreport.com
Post on youtube your best highlights but underneath it make sure to write down your website and tell your viewers to leave youtube or visit your website instead.
Option 2, as much as it sucks to give in. It’s a good opportunity to reach more people and direct new traffic to your website. They have no problems canceling you at their convenience, and it is very likely that you will be canceled again, so you should have no problem using their “truck lines” as someone else so rightfully wrote. Anyway, the truth is not for everyone.
It’s not giving in.
It’s just using a tool. #2
If James feels it’s not damaging his soul.
Option #5 James. Why would you waste time on Goo tube.
Love your book by the way.
Well, I’ve read so many comments that basically amount to: go back on YouTube to grow the community. My question is: What type of community do you have if it’s occupied by people who haven’t done a basic search to find you? Or will only watch because they pay for this or that service? Are they the folks who would watch your documentaries in such a long format?
I use YouTube only for music because I’ve been too cheap to subscribe to Spotify. That, too, will draw to a close as the advertisements are nauseating. Reminds me of Banksy, the street artist, who reminds us that the advertisers bully you and laugh at you with their ads and leering billboards every day. They don’t ask for your permission. But you have to ask for their permission by explaining yourself for content violations.
Thus, I’d go with 5, but if you’re feeling charitable I wouldn’t invest more energy than 4. People who care and are curious don’t need shorts.
What? You don’t want The Corbett Tick Tok show??
9/11 explained in 30 seconds?
lol 🙂 you do make a good point
Corbett’s 9/11 in 5 minutes video was what opened my eyes to Corbett’s work, one of the best videos ever.
There is a whole new generation on Youtube who have never heard of James and would never know to look for him.
#4.. YouTube will let you reach more people with shorts. Then you can draw them to the website.
Mostly agree with Option #4. I will continue listen/watch “direct”, but see little harm in directing traffic to the Corbettreport on James’ own terms, in that if the channel is nuked again, so be it. At least while it’s live, it gets infront of more people and knowing it could disappear again, at least some proportion of viewers who would otherwise not likely have discovered the main site will be encouraged over there… here!
I admit that I watched him on YouTube mainly until the accounts were taken down. Technically I watched on NewPipe, so add free and Google doesn’t get that data from me. And I still normally won’t know a new video is posted until I see it uploaded to the Corbett Report (UNOFFICIAL) account on my feed. I always watch on the website when I want to follow links, or like this time I will get on to comment; but I’m guilty of still watching on NewPipe if I’m just trying to throw it in my ear real quick.
Option #1 – to possibly catch genuine people who are only now ready to listen to what you have been saying.
Option 2 is the way to go but continue to encourage people to follow you elsewhere…
if spreading the word to as many people as possible is the goal this is the only option. If you’re censored again, no big deal, everything is already in place.
Your audience is already here, following along, joining the conversation and putting their own work in… Converting ‘normies’ seems important enough to me to warrant putting everything you can, in full on YouTube but maybe I’m wrong?
Make some shorts as well?
Option #2!
Option #2.
Option #3 with a special disclaimer at the beginning/end of all the videos. A quick blurb about getting the hell off of YouTube.
Your content is tremendous but in my opinion the most potent aspect of your work is converting new people to see the light. People who are asleep or just becoming old enough to actually doubt the standard narrative aren’t on rumble or Odyssey. They’re on YouTube. A small intro outlining how you’ve been banned before and will likely be banned again when the cultural pendulum swings back that encourages people to embrace alternate platform or better yet, your personal site shoehorned before your standard into seems ideal.
If option #2 is selected, what are the chances that people who are currently listening to and viewing content on corbettreport.com will now, for the sake of convenience, begin to use YouTube instead? Is there a chance that hard-earned corbettreport.com traffic will be lost to YouTube? Is this not the intention of YouTube, to offer content that can be found elsewhere on the web just as easily, but to essentially brand it as their own, and thus steal the web traffic?
Yes, I agree that option #2 is a pretty good idea because 544K subscribers are nothing to turn your nose up at. Those were hard earned subscribers, and now they’re back. Corbett paid membership is very important, but getting the message out into the world is even more important. Anyway, the more people on YouTube watch Corbett videos, the more likely it is that some of them will remember how good the content was 4 years ago. Some of them will not want to lose touch a second time, and so they will make their way over to corbettreport.com and perhaps they will even become paying members.
I honestly do not recall where I first heard of Corbett. Maybe someone linked to a video on Telegram.app (it might even have been a YouTube video!) I seem to recall the warnings of account cancellation due to censorship, and that’s why I started using corbettreport.com.
Anyway, it’s not important how I found The Corbett Report website. What matters is that it has changed my life. I’ve watched the important documentaries, and for some years now I have not missed a single episode. Yes, I also offer a monthly donation. The work is highly valuable to me, and I do share it with others on a regular basis.
By the way, if you haven’t already, check out Media Monarchy with James Evan Pilato. Morning Monarchy is a blast.
Cheers ~
We first heard of Corbett while watching Sibella Edmonds and Boiling Frogs. We dumped her, but stayed with James! What a disappointment she turned out to be!
I would go with# 5.
Option # 2 &&& Continue with your main channel http://www.corbettreport.com. Many people prefer the ease and convenience of access to their favorite podcast hosts (James Corbett, Glen Greenwald, Kim Iversen, Tucker Carlson) with the convenience of staying on the same channel (YouTube or Rumble) particularly those of us that may be driving and don’t want to risk an accident by changing channels while driving.
Option #2
#3, hook people with the best videos to get normies interested and drive them to your site for the deep dives and full deprogramming.
Agree with #3- we won’t be waking anybody up by rejecting them for not being here already.
Agreed as well. Caveat, delayed release of videos on YouTube. Utilize paywall mentality, except it’s free everywhere else and with access to complete library everywhere else. YouTube only gets limited/normy-friendly content with appeals to free access of all content immediately everywhere else!
Option 4, most definitely!
Give them nothing, take from them everything ✊✊✊. Spread the word and tease them with content on your site.
For those who can’t be bothered to look further than YouTube, wtf! I pity them, but it just proves that ignorance is bliss.
What I really want to know is how long until you’re invited on Rogan? And if offered would you consider a similar pole?
Agree, 3 is a good hook 😊
Imagine finding solo cat here. LOL I say four with a mixture of one. Highlights and tidbit teasers from missed episodes.
Option #4. Just post teasers and link to your other platforms in the notes. Don’t give your ad dollars to the YT censorious bastards.
I tend to lean more toward the 2nd option. While it is true that many people or at least it seems that way, mainly consume your content as infotainment, it is still better than denying people who rely on YouTube access only to your valuable information.
What matters most is that you and your team are able to benefit financially from your work, so that you can continue creating and improving high-quality content. Your efforts absolutely deserve fair compensation.
If YouTube however decides to withhold all payments from you, then I believe the 5th option would be the best course of action. In that case, I would stop publishing content on that platform altogether.
Option #2.
Option 2
May as well use the platform to highlight it’s downsides . As much as I would love you to stick two fingers up at the establishment platform. It’s a great opportunity to gain a greater following . It will educate many who are beginning to question many things .
Option 2, 544k subscribers is a massive reach, more and more people are waking up now, YT is not the best I agree but your work is too important, we have to appeal to the lowest common denominator sometimes, it’s ok for us in the know who have always loved / followed your work, but the reach of YT is too wide to ignore.
option #2
option #4 because I discovered CorbettReport.com from another podcast which had a clip which led me to your website. I am extremely grateful for that, otherwise who knows how long it might have been before I found this site.
Option #2
Option #4 even though you dont need to proof to any one that you had been and still doing an amazing job with deep diving into the deceptions while unfolding the truths and that is why the teasers will give a sense to the sheeps that they can become wolves only if they listen to the common sense and act against the endless lies…!
Be aware of the traps that they may drag you into by them pretending that they are now becoming the nice guy without any appology and without any compensation to valuable podcaster contents wich they had censored and blocked for over 4 years and without giving any undertaking for not repeating such illigal acts…!!
I like option (3). Just add a quick addendum only to your gootube posted videos and show notes or what ever gt calls there OP show notes that you expect the channel to be censored and deleted shortly and that you highly recommend that one should prompty make a habit of getting your CorbettReport.com content directly from that address.
I would recommend against uploading all of the missing four years because it would just tie up your time with little real advantage. When the time comes to censure you again, I would simply follow their appeals process with one liners as you have in the past.
Option #2. Get the information out any way possible.
Option #2 is the best choice to raise overall awareness.
#4
Option #4.
Or, do whatever you think is appropriate… it’s your show and you’ve been doing great for a long time!
On one hand more people seeing your stuff is IMHO a good thing which would lead me to support #1.
On the other hand when I have a choice I watch content anywhere but youtube as I tired of not only their censorship but their GUI, their fight against downloads, their poor transcribes, etc. Particularly for meaty content downloads and ability to do my own transcribes make the content MUCH more useful and convenient to digest.
So overall I like Option #3 and pointing people to better alternatives.
Option 2. I’m canadian and have been donating a paltry three dollars u s a month for many years, but after you were no longer on youtube I rarely went to your website even though I greatly appreciated your content. I’ve been a YouTube premium subscriber, 4 or 5 or 6 years now and love the service.
In the last couple of years, there seems to be very little perceptible censoring of the content..
I haven’t been able to keep up with all of the great content on youtube that I want to consume.
I doubt that they will censor your content going forward.But, of course, it is always possible.
I want you back on youtube for my convenience but also because I think it will greatly increase the reach of your great content
If you come back on youtube, I am sure that I will from time to time share particularly good videos that you produce with friends
I am sorry, I have missed the great. Documentaries that I think you have produced in recent years when I only visited your website every several months or longer.
All the best to you whatever you decide
Option 3, even though YouTube is not an ideal platform. #2 seems like too much work. The more your content is out there, the better…
Hi James,
I totally get the urge to “Screw YouTube,” completely but I think Option #4 is the best way forward. Since all your content is already available on your website, uploading everything to YouTube again seems like unnecessary work—especially for a platform that’s already censored you and will do so again.
Thanks for including us in the decision!
I can’t help but wonder if there’s an ulterior motive behind YouTube suddenly restoring your channel. My theory is that it’s about data gathering and surveillance. By bringing you—and your followers—back onto their platform, they can more easily monitor who is engaging with your content, analyze viewing habits using AI, and potentially flag or profile users. It’s much easier for them to “listen in” and keep people contained within their ecosystem than to have everyone scattered across independent platforms.
Just something to consider as you weigh your options.
Thanks for all you do.
“….By bringing you—and your followers—back onto their platform, they can more easily monitor who is engaging with your content, analyze viewing habits using AI, and potentially flag or profile user….”
I’m pretty sure everyone who does anything on the net is monitored.
Unless you signed up by sending cash in the mail and only sign in via TOR, at a coffee shop, on a Laptop you do nothing else except Corbett Report on….. they know who you are.
If you sign into YT on the same computer as you watch CR on your cookies or whatever are probably report back to a database already…..people should be more secure in their web activity but also not let the psyop of being “watched” all the time scare them.
You’re right that online activity is widely tracked these days, but there’s a big difference in how easy it is to monitor and profile users depending on the platform. When you’re logged into YouTube with a Google account, your identity, viewing habits, and interactions are directly tied to your personal profile, making it much simpler for Google to link everything together and analyze it using their powerful AI and data tools. On an independent site like CorbettReport.com, tracking is far less direct and more anonymous.
So while total privacy is hard to guarantee anywhere online, being on YouTube while connected to their ecosystem, does make it much easier for Big Tech to monitor, flag, and profile you compared to just browsing an independent site. You will be highlighted as a follower of James Corbett, after which MI5 will open a file on you.😁
Don’t for a moment assume that you have to login into any google services for google to recognize you. Give it a bit of time, use the service as you would normally and they will know who you are.
Even if you’re using a VPN, Google can still track and identify users so, you’re right—it’s tough to be truly anonymous online. My original point, though, is that it becomes much easier for them to monitor and profile us if everyone is using YouTube, where most people are logged in and not using privacy tools. So, you’re basically handing your data to them on a silver platter. On Big Tech platforms, tracking is far more direct and centralized compared to scattered, independent sites.
I agree.
yes, Option 4. Just give Them a taste and they will come
Option 4.2
Teasers and a “human decided” random episode to tweak the algorithm. I bought 3 of your books and am sharing.
Enjoy your day, your family and your life and the great outdoors and thank you for being a counterpoint to the doomsday policy makers and media!
The comments you read are so disheartening. Lazy and wriiten by people IMO who don’t really want to be informed and should be embarrassed. Why would James Corbett who has opened do many peoples eyes put his research on hold waiting to be invited back to a platform who worked to silence do many truth tellers. I am so grateful for what you do. What is so difficult about going to your website?
Optioneel 5# James
Never again on a controlled platform.
Waste of time
Option #4
Yes just teasers to get people going to your great WEB site !!
Maybe I’ve become too cynical, but I am wondering WHY the powers-that shouldn’t-be are allowing the Corbett Report back on YouTube…….will watch this development with interest.
Miriam.b
It’s a honey pot for identifying bears, misanthropes and social misfits to self identify with their written opinions.
Wrong-thinkers. It’s been a valuable asset in collecting intelligence metrics. Optical character readers and Ai can gather large amounts of data in minutes if not seconds .
We live in a security state world. Macro to micro in seconds.
Having worked in the courts I saw it only is used against you , not available to you if you need that Intel for some defence of an issue.
Gbw
That’s true but there is no need to get you in YT to do that.
Unless you take super paranoia level of being anonymous on line you are in no way hidden from the Intel agencies…..you can certainly make yourself harder to profile pretty easily but if your opinions are ones that actually matter in the big picture your activity online is transparent to intel (but not always advertisers)
For example in doubt that the NSA cares what websites I visited this week, but they probably have Mr Corbett’s online history. On the flip side the NSA probably DOES Have very comment you have made on a public Internet forum saved in one of their data centers which probably mirror the whole internet…..but again how probable is it they are gonna care enough to collate for YOU or ME?
Even AI can’t think of everything at the same time.
Hey Duck
You seem to suggest a false since of security. It’s not done at the same time . It’s a data collection center for future use. You tube is easy, it’s a honey pot .
It will be of interest only if you do something. Like buy a gun in a parking lot . Then brag about it in anyway. It’s a self incriminating system. It won’t be accessed for your defence in anyway, shape or form. It’s addictive and it can program you. To buy in on every conceivable angle, or anything or everything… It’s there to tighten the legal noose and remove obstacles or any objections to their way of thinking. Like the Molotov throwing guy in Colorado. It’s automated ,no one cares to stop whatever it is you are planning to do, cause that serves their purpose also. They can track you down later , which is fun for some of these militaristic nutjobs hired here in this county. They hunt and it’s a game. People don’t realize the monster they helped create.
https://datacenters.google/locations/mayes-county-oklahoma/
This Google center has doubled in size since 2019. It use to be a quarter mile wide and a half mile in length. It’s now 1/2 mile wide X 1 mile long. No public tours . This is Stazi Central secret police headquarters All for your internet safety.
Meta is working on making face book more than YouTube. More everything.
I am not sure that it’s a mega sneaky plan as much as a slow grinding system with a dolop of AI mixed in.
The scenery is changing as the boomers die off and the economic and demographic situation changes so their probably working on creating a new normal worldview and it’s pretty clear that allowing some dissent is part of that process
Mr Corbett is certainly important, but how much personal attention does he warrant from the Global elite?
Option #6 – Tell CommieTube to eat your balls.
That’s what I’d do.
Don’t tell them that….considering the kind of people in power they might take it literally. 🙁
Option #4
My first thought was 5 because why bother with you tube. My daughter had a you tube channel that kept getting strikes for nothing and she won’t go back to you tube ever but her videos weren’t what you have James. I think you should go for the gusto #2 but if it happens again then back to 5 this time for good!!
Option 1. As much as I hate YouTube, I feel like now, there are more people who are looking for truth more than ever, that will probably never know about CorbettReport because they don’t leave YouTube. The more people James can reach, the better. I feel like the “Rebuilding Trust” initiative by the Globalists is in full swing, and the independent media landscape is flooded with limited hangout charlatans. At least Corbett being there to counter the narratives or be the unlimited hangout open source, could help more people out of Plato’s cave. I don’t want James to be a gatekeeper, we already have plenty of those. And yeah I get there are a lot of lazy people who like James but never left YouTube. But there is also a whole generation of younger people who are more open minded to the truth who have never been exposed to any of James work. Maybe reaching them isn’t worth it to the mass of CorbettReport subscribers, but I think it is. It’s at least worth a shot. James will probably get banned again, for telling too much truth, so might as well go out with a Bang!
Option # 3
Option #3
The best of both worlds. Loads of new people is waking up.
Nothing wrong using YT to promote your work while you can.
Option 4
Hearing the poo toob comments. Sounding very bottish. So if there are any real people, give them a taste of real journalism. Let them give back in gratitude.
P s. What about doing some comedy material there. Like your incredible Klaus and get Ryan Christian to do a version of Alex Jones.
Well at least when I asked chat gpt, that’s what it told me to say…..
Hi James. I started a podcast called “RB Ham : Beyond The Pale a year or so ago. I consciously decided to NOT upload to YouTube. I made it Rumble exclusive (although I do post it on a dedicated FB page and on X). Maybe I’ll try YouTube now?
Anyway, thank you from a fellow Canadian and a persecuted freedom trucker!
Keep up the good work!
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#2 plus #3 and #4 on secondary channels including Shorts. 3 chances to get new viewers and reviews of your “greatest hits for longtime members.
If you are monetized on YouTube, go to #2!
Yep Option 4 Jimmy. The only way to get people to check out the website and the massive archive, is if they “actually” want to know/hear more.
I remain unsure. One thing for sure don’t bother posting any of the last 4 years NWNW, they are irrelevant now due to their topics.
Agree option 4
Option #1, make it easy on yourself. Past content can be found as you say in so many other places.
Option #2.
Hi Corbert,
I think option 2 is best, and deservering. Not everyone is fully awake it’s upto us to give them the information and let them decide the path they want to follow. Love your work. Thanks 😊 H
Option #5
Being deleted from a platform during one of the biggest scams in history (what was obviously one of the reasons) is more than enough reason to go NEVER BACK AGAIN.
I think you should make use of YouTube as a way to reach as many people as possible! Don’t be self-defeating like some people on here want you to be, although they probably wouldn’t think of it that way but nonetheless it is self defeating. My first choice is option number two. Put all of your content on here. Otherwise option number three, highlights. But if you do option number three I suggest lots of highlights! But like I said preferably option number two. Let’s reach as many people as we can as quickly as possible! Thank you James!
I want more normies to find James, but I cannot pick the first option.
Option 4 gets my vote.
I would not engage with YouTube at this point because, even if it is a small presence in my brain and consciousness, it does take up space, taunting me from time to time. I would not want to be bothered with that.
Agreed, Option 4
Option #2
Option 4. Only way to make youtube not so dominant in the video space is to stop using it. Those who are unwilling to go elsewhere for the quality and type of information you provide are not all that important anyway in the great scheme of things, especially since you didn’t just disappear but gave warnings and they didn’t listen.
#2! ALL THE WAY!
Agree on no. 4. Everyone should train themselves away from letting YouTube serve up their news and info.
Option#4
#4
Option 3 or 4
I think you should go option 1. Only because it will be done at the same time as your other platforms.
Stuff ’em if they can’t be bothered finding you, it’s not as though it’s hard.
Don’t waste your time putting everything from the last four years up because it’s highly likely that it will ALL be taken down again.
I think Option #4, with a direct link to relevent corbettreport.com page.
Option #2 could get you nuked again immediately, what a waste of time that would be.
Option 2 – Your work needs to reach as many people as possible.
Option 4 – I totally agree!
Imagine you’re on a game show hosted by the Universe. The prize? Evolving as a decent human. The challenge? Choosing your way of responding to chaos. Here are your 5 sparkling options:
Option 1: “The Spiritual Ostrich”
Stick your head in the sand, breathe deeply like you’re meditating, and just keep walking like nothing happened. Super zen, super blind. No change, no growth, just vibes.
🧘♂️ + 🙈 = ☁️ “Namaste and no lessons today.”
Option 2: “The Overfunctioning Servant”
Now you’re in the trenches doing more for less. The others? Still sleeping. You? Still serving — with a smile. This is empathy in toxic mode.
🫖 “Yes sir, I’ll fix your neglect and shine your shoes.”
Option 3: “The Lost Messenger”
You’re doing bonus tasks to awaken the people… except we don’t even know who you’re trying to awaken or why. It’s like sending postcards into space with no return address.
🚀 “Effort without aim: a spiritual cardio session.”
Option 4: “The Sacred Tease”
Now we’re talking! Teasers! Baits! Breadcrumbs for the curious souls! Those who have just enough life force to crawl out of apathy might just follow the trail.
🧠 “Move an inch? You win. Stay stuck? Enjoy the teaser, honey.”
Option 5: “The Ego Fortress”
Here’s the opposite of awakening. This one’s all fire, no warmth. Angry, prideful, and allergic to cooperation. Zero effort, zero curiosity, and definitely zero growth.
🧱 “If I don’t benefit, let the world burn.”
🔥 “Compassion is for the weak — now hold my grudge.”
Option 4.
It allows new or existing subscribers there to find your work there and give them an extra reason to find your website. If people are not teased by it, well then them watching the full content on YouTube won’t do anything but waste their time.
Just upload teasers and shorts to YouTube to remind people I’m not dead.
#4 will save some people
Option 2: the world needs to have access to good quality info and the popularity of YT unfortunately necessitates it’s use in the information war — this is not about Google — it’s about the people.
P.S. I would also suggest making some sort of effect even if it us automated to delete the antisemetic comments on all your comments sections across all platforms left by spooks to discredit your work — your regulars listeners know what’s going on, but inexoerienced newbies might be deterred away from your content by fear of association.
Tough decision but I lean toward option #3 followed #4.
#4 – I Agree – but I would add the odd full-length episode too….
A mix of 2 and 4. I say post old content and lure people to your site with new stuff. most important is to grow and spread your message. As much as YT sux its great you’re back on it. and it is a sign that perhaps they realized they fuked up.
Option #1 or #4
Option #4
1) Taking advantage of this opportunity
2) People who do not follow the teaser will probably never look for you the next time your channel is removed.
At least option #4, as many casual social media users find channels by watching shorts these days. Though, I dislike the format and would prefer option #3 and #1, which should help reach the right people that will listen to and learn from your content.
Hi James,
This feels like the carrot before the final stick moment or Faustian forgiveness scenario.
These platforms, the resources behind them, the people who supported censorship should never be given legitimacy or undeserved street credit.
My suggestion would be to make entirely sure you have all videos pulled from YT, archived (which we all know you do) and then only in the form of Option 4 – Post a type of Short summary with clear links to the full video via other platforms of preference.
This way you can continue to coral and slowly move over those unaware and extremely slow adopters of alternative platforms.
Option #2, I follow you on lots of different platforms and with many devices. If I’m at my desk I go to the website and/or Odysee. But using my TiVo I can only use YouTube. Of course I originally found your YouTube channel during the scamdemic, and from there found you in the other places, so I think others in the future might find you the same way. The more content you have in more places the better the chances people will find you, so option #2.
Option #2 – I’ve been following you on other platforms, but I think you should leverage the reach of YouTube to get your work in front of these sad people who can’t work out how to find other channels.
Option #2 – 1 The more that hear you and James (MM) the better. TubeYou has more people that need your insights and investigations than any other platform. Please be kind to them, do not let them succumb to the machine without having a chance to see through the cracks in the curtain.
Good luck James, you are a beacon for those that are lost in the electronic media (propaganda) age.
True! They need it the most.
Option 2 – particularly upload your big documentaries as they may go viral. You don’t have to respect youtube to realise pragmatically it can be very useful for getting the message out and attracting more fans.
Option 2 – I agree with the reasoning of the last four comments. Your number one priority is to get your valuable informative out there to as many people as possible while you can.
Some folk may struggle with the simplest of technology but that does not necessarily make them idiots. Instinctively they know we are being lied to by governments, media, health authorities, etc, more than some people who have all manner of advanced technological skills. (I have a few friends like this – technologically challenged for sure, but whose strengths lay elsewhere and who seek the truth.)
Make it as simple for them as you can. And use this opportunity to keep trying to direct them to your website. I’m regularly telling people in the community about your work and give them the website address, but no doubt they go home and try to YouTube it.
James, you have more wisdom and integrity than sticking to your Option 5 guns through stubbornness and pride just to make your point.
I’m interested to know… it is a huge job to implement Option 2?
Exactly!
Number 2 for sure.
I agree fully on every argument for number 2.
I would deactivate reactions, as trolls and bots are always active on sites like Youtube and cause a possible distraction.
Maybe at the end, or at the beginning of each episode, you can place standard lines like:
“Data can be censored.
For uncensured broadcast, please visit http://www.Corbett.com,
where you can read and post comments”.
Option #4
Your are far away from supporting the agenda agents again
Option 3
YouTube, The return of the prodigal son.
1/2 million viewer’s potentially can’t be sneezed at.
The censorship reversal tipping point has arrived l, hopefully to stay.
I followed you on the website but often had to remind myself, to “I wonder what James is saying” and then log on.
There are these technologies called RSS and email subscription. Not very advanced, but robust and simple for use. They will prompt you with with new content, there’s no need for you to remind yourself. As long as you use email on a regular basis.
#2 there are people new to the truth, get that information on there brother!
Option #4, for each video you would upload, instead upload a video with links to other platforms, stating how Youtube censors videos, and promotes climate change agendas, bioweapon injections, etc. I could automate the whole thing for you, even building the videos, just have a powertool where you just run it and it does all the dirty work. Clearly they are trying to suck people back into Youtube, clearly this means you are a success. So many YT channels with multi millions of followers are so blatantly propaganda, the people behind them usually don’t have any type of screen presence or delivery, it makes one wonder (not me) how they got so popular, but then you see them spewing the climate change propaganda (as “science”) etc.
SlaveSpeak – I agree that they’re trying to suck people back into YT (and other platforms).
However, I believe they’re doing it because we working people are clearly getting decentrally organized and they canNOT track us in their AI surveillance loop. They’re “concerned”.
I say we give them nothing – #5.
I continue telling people about CorbettReport, as I’m sure you & many of his readers/listeners do, and word-of-mouth can be much more effective long term as James will get people whose eyes & minds are already opened.
Hi James!
When we went to de-google our phones, the guys said, beat them with their own weapons. He used google to google how to de-google a specific Motorola type phone.
So I would say, go for it! I think Option 1 and Option 3, then maybe go for Option 4 as well if the overlords decide to let you stay.
And if you decide to monetise on YouTube, you can use it to build the greatest video platform ever? Or send it to me and I will build you a nice cottage on our permaculture farm in Kenya 🙂
Take care,
Caroline
Caroline,
Great to hear you are on a permaculture farm in Kenya. That’s probably my dream after living there for a couple of years in the past 😊
I have a variety of close friends living around Kenya but doubt they are that ‘awake’. But you never know. I think many people don’t even want to broach certain subjects as haven’t got the energy anymore to try and share info on real life stuff. I am certainly one of those these days.
Good luck with it all and have a Tusker baridi sana for me.
Option #5. Why on earth would you ever again want to patronize an organization that failed the integrity test of the past five years. Does not seem like such a move would be in alignment with your core values.
Agree Option #5
YT overlords only want you back SO THAT they can track people. Many have already disconnected and they’re “concerned”. They need to herd us back into their disgusting low-life loop.
Agree! As others have said, it’s all about devious motives, the cancelling the truth, centralization of powers with AI. No way Facecrack is doing this for a positive reason. Ignore the money, ignore the lure. Stay the course.
Option #6. Fuck’em.
I agree. Option #6. Don’t post anything new to Youtube. Your time is extremely precious. I would say, don’t spend any more time thinking about this. Here are a couple of reasons why:
First of all, you see 500K+ subscribers you want to reconnect with. This number is not real. This like so many other things on Youtube is generated. It is a lever, a manipulated data point. It could be 5 million subscribers, it could be 50. You don’t know, you will never know.
Second, Youtube is a black hole of AI entrainment. What videos are people being directed to AFTER they watch one of your videos? I rarely go on Youtube anymore, but when I do, I’m horrified by the “content” that I see. Most of it is computer generated, mind numbing, mind altering crap. Do you want to help to draw viewers into that? When you show up in a Google search, that will direct viewers to a search results page on Youtube that is populated by lots of other videos. How many of these videos are specifically there to divert people from your message(s) or to taint your message — guilt by association — they control the associations.
Third, you are not the only content producer who has sworn off of Youtube. I’m not the only content consumer who avoids Youtube. Youtube, Google, government, or really, our wannabe slave masters, need numbers — REAL numbers. Most of the viewers and consumers on Youtube are not real, they are computers. AI needs real content. It feeds on real humans interacting with it. I can say with absolute certainty that I will not be looking at any of your content on Youtube.
Thank you James for all your hard work. As someone said earlier in this thread, you are a beacon. Shine on. Don’t willingly step back under the Youtube basket.
I was pondering this same point regarding the actual number of subscribers. There are three subscription options and the vast majority of YouBoob users are completely unaware of them. With all banning and shadow banning going on, it is likely impossible to determine one’s reach on that contrived platform.
Based on what I have seen here in these comment sections, there are two (2) confirmed CR subscribers who have been prompted by the new video being uploaded to YouBoob. Myself and another subscriber, kalih I believe is the screen name. I did not get a notification, but the CR video dropped on the home page.
When I search for “corbett report” on YouBoob, I get the extras CR channel and the unofficial CR channel, but the “deleted” channel is not there. I guess it was not relevant for a long while and was thus completely deranked, if not still shadow banned from the search, as it was for a while before the channel was “deleted”.
My experience with YouBoob is that it somewhat tailors the recommendations based on your viewing history. I am not at all surprised that people who do not use it on a regular basis will find themselves under a deluge of mind rotting content in the feed.
Similar results here. I’m not logged in or subscribed to anything on Youtube (never will be again), when searching from a private page, I don’t see the deleted account. I see the extras CR page and the unofficial channel. The header image for the unofficial channel says “Piratestreams” – 29.9K subscribers apparently – arrr matey – James’ potential revenue ends up in Davey Jones locker.
I believe James never took one single cent from that beast.
I’m sure you’re absolutely correct.
However, there have been many thousands of views of the videos on that channel, and no doubt, many thousands of ads have been pushed through that channel. Somebody (Google) is making money with James’ content.
It looks like that channel was created Mar 18, 2022 and has been allowed(sigh) to post the same videos that James was not permitted to show. The same content.
So, I’d like to come back to how you started this thread – Fuck’em.
There’s no arguing against evil, it has to be extinguished.
Well said !
Hahahaaaa, good one!
Yes, I’m onboard with Option 5 or 6!!
They’re just trying to track us & suck more info from us for their AI bs.
Lol this one for sure!!!
Option #7: Start a YouTube cooking show called “How to Roast Big Tech,” featuring a tasting menu of banned keywords served with a side of spicy demonetization sauce. 🍽️🔥
Dear lord, this is fantastic idea for a spin off show.
Glad you like it! And the best part? James already has the perfect theme song—“Screw YouTube”—so all we need is Chef Corbett in the kitchen, rocking a snarky chef hat and serving up truth with a side of sass, with that anthem blasting in the background. 🍳🔥🎶😁
https://youtu.be/rmWDIzEocpc?si=oeA-kZ1wcM8ZmUfq
You said you would NEVER,EVER,EVER, post again on YOU TUBE. It seems to me you already answered the question.
Agreed!
I agree with mkey. Option #5 & 6. Have nothing to do with them. Maybe they are losing too many views to other channels and are so sorry for losing viewers. (I’m Sorry! Not really. HA HA. Jokes on you.) Plus of course Google tracking data. “Dear, YouTube. #6 You.”
I’d be happy with a combination of options #3 & #4.
I catch you on all platforms and occasionally here.
Though, a broader audience that includes the YouTube only numpties can only be beneficial to the messages you have to tell.
Kindest regards,
A surfer of light and sound.
Option 3. Reach the wider audience while you have the chance, but only upload the big docos that are missing. Leave the four year gap as a monument. Btw I never knew who you were before you got kicked off YouTube. Possibly would never have found you or any of the other alt media I now follow and support if I hadn’t been forced to look on alternate platforms for the truth by all the censorship, so it really backfired in my case.
Option 4. YouTube still has reach, but it is a monster. It is best not to feed the beast. I’ve been watching James Corbett for years and while I may have watched a video or two on YouTube, I have never sought them. I always accessed James Corbett videos through The Corbett Report and could not fathom that YouTube was preferable. I also found it astonishing people had difficulty accessing Jame’s videos when YouTube was down. I am not and never has been a YouTube member, which means I cannot like or subscribe, I am happy with this because YouTube cannot profile me. Why anyone would watch YouTube in favour of the plethora of better experiences is beyond me.
Let people know you are on The Corbett Report, where they can see your complete corpus and even become a subscriber. Other wise they can see you on a host of streaming services. You should help people break with a dirty habit. If quality content moves away from YouTube, they might eventually up their game. YouTube is a filthy censorship monster and a hideous watching experience with nasty advertising blitzing. Let people know you live and your voice has never gone quiet. People too lazy to shift are too far gone to help.
I didn’t shift right away watching. And there is a wider audience that can be reached through FB and other social media platforms. You would be surprised at how little people know.
Look, the conservatives think Trump, Vance and Musk are American heros and Thomas Massie and Rand Paul are crackpots.
Ksmen
To be fair Ron Paul IS a crackpot…the fact that he was right doesn’t change that.
Crackpots are the extreme version that drives people towards an achievable goal. Stallman is a crackpot too, but without him we’d never have open source software even as good as it is.
Option #2 but just the highlights. So people still have to go elsewhere to see the full thing
Keep up the fight
I can’t help thinking that there has to be an ulterior motive behind the reinstatement of your channel and others. Dragging the increasing numbers of ‘alternative media’ consumers back to a more controllable centralised platform seems to me not beyond the realms of fantasy.
Personally, I have never used anything else but Corbettreport.com to access your content and genuinely can’t see why others would not choose to do so also. I believe any of the first 3 options would ultimately be counterproductive. However, I do understand that disseminating the important topics you cover to an ever-wider audience has significant merit.
With those thoughts in mind I would therefore probably suggest option 4. Only brief introductory clips with closed comments, leading people to the full content on your own platform. That said, I would be very tempted by option 5 and tell them to go **** themselves!
ATB
Who cares? Youtube is not a person and you don’t have a relationship with that non-person, so no need for feelings. It’s a means to an end, if you can use that means to reach more people with an important message, you should obviously use it. It’s a no-brainer. Holier than thou brings nothing to nobody, it’s as if you stop talking to statists coz they voted. So anything except option 5, and if you can get some of the people to transfer to odysee, that’s a nice bonus. (I said “bonus” hehe)
I agree with Hughsername
James, as an English teacher you must be aware of the 18th century English phrase ‘Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face’. It describes a self-destructive act done in pigheadedness that will harm the person more than their intended target.
We all make judgments based on our current set of circumstances… as ’twas the case with ‘I will NEVER EVER post on YouTube again’ back in 2021. But those circumstances have changed. As such, it is time to reconsider and reevaluate that statement, which is exactly what you are doing now and asking for opinions. “In a multitude of counsellors there is safety”.
The vast number of people are suggesting Options 1 to 4. All of which have merits that have been expressed with insight.
This is not about winning a battle against YouTube when you would have nothing to gain and heaps to lose.
If I thought you were an inflexible person who would ‘Throw the baby out with the bathwater’ or ‘Shoot yourself in the foot’ in the mistaken belief that you had to ‘hunker down’ to maintain your previous position, I would not be a Corbett Report subscriber.
As such, I am confident you will not choose Option 5. Rather, as I see it, any other Option must fit in with what is feasibly possible, time wise, in your already busy schedule.
Hi James. I just subscribed to your webpage for the first time after following you for the last four years. So far the only money I’ve given you for all your work was whatever meagre percentage you get from a copy of your book.
I didn’t know about your channel until I got pissed off with all the Covid censorship and started using Odyssey. I swore never to use Youtube again and, but for a couple of music videos someone has been sending to me, I’ve stuck to my promise. I would like to thank you. People like you saved me from a profound depression at the height of the Covid nightmare.
Despite that, I would chose Option #2 in the poll. Why? Because nobody gives a fuck about Odyssey. 99% of the people I know don’t even know it exists. Many know about Bitchute and the other platforms but, since they have been told they are all far right, they will never venture into that territory. Not everyone is an “initiated”, everyone has to start with something and, for some, it takes years, if not decades, to understand the truth about the world. Not many years ago I, an old time admirer of Epstein-friendly Noam Chomsky, was convinced that all 9-11 truthers were crazy conspiranoics…
People like that –millions– are not going to find you outside Youtube. Not to mention the vast number of completely indoctrinated teenagers who could some day, by pure chance, find any of your old videos on a topic they happen to find interesting and –who knows, that may change their lives and the lives of those around them forever.
Take the chance, swallow your pride –which, I admit, would be very difficult for me, if I were in your position. This is more important than any of us. We cannot miss any opportunity to reach as many people as possible. The important thing is that your remain true to your principles in the content of your videos.
And, anyway, if you end up uploading all those old videos you may very well get your channel shut again, so you won’t have to do any more thinking on whether you chose to remain on the platform…
Hi
Option #4 seems like the best option to me as youtube can go eff themselves
For anyone who didnt try to find your work on another platform or here at corbettreport.com imo are not really worthy of your in-depth research. having teasers on utube hopefully kicks them in the u-no-what to actually find info elsewhere. Thanks for all u do
GooTube provides higher visibility, a better opportunity to reach normies & puts extra bucks in your pocket. Go on take the money & run James. Option #2 – Option #1 + I upload all 4 years of back content.
I shamely agree here, but I did like my jingle idea 😛
Option 4 James.
Option #2
The censorship hasn’t stopped, just shifted, imo, to user content; ofc, an army of chatbots can now be expected to muddy the waters.
Most of my comments on YT get shadow banned, they aren’t visible outside my IP address, but do often get a solitary thumbs up. Some of the content creators that I emailed with a screen shot of the hidden posts seemed genuinely surprised about the censorship.
It may be interesting to suggest to those who post comments on your YT uploads, to post the same comment on the corresponding corbettreport.com page. It’s probably a case of Willy Wonka courting Alice in Wonderland.
A wee aside to end here, James, that you might find interesting, if you haven’t encountered it already.
https://poms.ac.uk/search/?index_type=person&q=corbet&min_date=1093&max_date=1371
Perhaps ancestors of yours? Some heavy hitters there!
If so young Raven, Corbet, singular of Corbi (I believe), were your ancestors originally of the Logan family? I’m intrigued, being a Logan on my mum’s side, and given that ‘Logan’ appears to me, from my own research, to be the most banned/erased name in written history.
Big claim, I know; however, this rabbit hole just keeps going, and imho will blow even your socks off into another dimension.
Cheers!
Martin
Option #2 – Option #1 + I upload all 4 years of back content
With the proviso you put a smart ass disclaimer at the end of every video saying something like “This content could be compromised or removed at any time, it is also posted on Odysee, Bitchute etc. YouTube itself is a tool of the deep state and should never be trusted”. Cheers James you rock
Option #4:
It’s pragmatics vs principle.
Use them pragmatically to advertise teasers for your stuff; but on principle do not upload full content.
Maybe the occasional complementary video to please the lazy.
Infinite respect for your work.
take an option (3 ? ) with a clear banner at the start of the video that this one was banned in the past due to cencorship by Youtube, not because the content was false but because it was true
Option #5. Stick to your guns James! GooTube will take your channel down again once the next scam/hoax calamity occurs that the ruling oligarchs create. Don’t give the technocrats what they want by having your intelligence and intellect back on their controlled platform. Some people simply can’t be reached, assuming those YouTube comments are even real people. See “Dead Internet Theory”. Thank you for all the excellent work SINCE being deleted from ThemTube!
Yes!
I’m hoping for Option #2. YouTube is a tool I see no reason not to use. A larger audience is always better, especially when your work is too important not to be shared through every available channel. If they strike it again – so be it. Just treat it as another platform to help the information reach as many people as possible.
Option #5. Don’t feed the beast.
Option #2. Why wouldn’t you take the opportunity to put your information in front of potentially hundreds of thousands of new people? The internet itself as well as Bitchute, Rumble etc are all tools belonging to someone else anyway where a switch could be flipped at any second. So why not make the most of every facet of communication while you can?
I’m for #3. YouTube still has many listeners who could learn. And some of the bigger items, especially documentaries, would be good. For me, there’s also several times when I can refer hormones to YouTube.
Option #3 Although your book event filled all seats, how ironic that so few people were there. (Mindless celebs fill stadiums.) The awoken are as few as the righteous in Sodom. Thus, we must do everything possible to save souls, even if it means using the Beast Platform. (Frank the bassist)
Option #1
As another channel to stream, it makes sense if the added work is minimal — as Option #4 would involve a lot of unmerited extra work chopping up those teasers.
The will to tell YouTube to go f*** itself is high. But the wider the reach, the more people could at most have the option.
Yes, maybe the YouTube audience isn’t the most willing to change, or at least question things, but it will still put a glaring hole in the fabric of consent that YouTube claims to champion!
Have mercy for the normies!
Option #4
Option 2+1 Many older people are not very tech savvy, not that you really need to be, and what they know how to do is where it stays. The thought I come back to is this, I have gained so much from all your work and have probably watched most of it and putting it all back out there gives the timid, the people who go no farther than YouTube a chance to see what they missed. Maybe some new people will search the topics you cover too. So what if they take it down again? In this day and age getting as much true information out there and is easy to find is critical. You can’t even google for info anymore. I say get it out there while it is an option. Thanks for all you do.
It’s got to be Option #5 – The self respecting Corbett Report would not under any circumstances partake in waggy tail dogging back to the censors.
I also feel it should be option 5. I am of the opinion that the people who are meant to listen to you will find you. Going to your website is really not that hard and whoever won’t do that, well, too bad. Yes, as mentioned above, self-respect.
Hello iris ,
I just wanted to say that I found James on you tube .
That was the only way I saw it . I did figure it out when no new videos were uploaded and it was made to look like nothing happened. Also that the website was clearly visible…. Idk , it could be good to show there are other places to go .
option #4
keep up the great work!
Option #2. Knowledge is power. Make it available to the greatest number of people.
Option #2!
Option #3
No harm to make it available to the wider audience – and always the chance that others will discover the truth.
Option #2. YouTube is one of the best ways to spread information if that is what is important to you.
I want to say Option 1, but I vote for Option 4. That way it minimizes the chances of censorship as much as possible, people still get access to your content on YouTube, and a lot of people get their info from shorts and clips. Plus, it’s still a good way for you to advertise that your work is elsewhere
I understand your frustration with YouTube and the people who will only follow you on there, but this is a war we are in, and you and your work are major assets to the freedom movement, and I think I can remember you saying a couple of years ago, “now is the time to push any button you think might slow the NWO down.”
If I were you, James, I’d nuke them back and drop every truth bomb I could on them.
I think it’s principled to choose option #4 or #5 but wise to do #3 or #1. I think the demographics shift in political views and consensus, as dumbed down most normies’ takes still are, will be more receptive to your content. And it still remains important to keep campaigning” on the platforms where your voice is most likely to remain heard. Either way, don’t put too much effort into managing different platforms in a different way. #2 leads to an explosion of content that would tune out most people from your channel. Remember that the average Corbett report subscriber is going to be very different from your average youtube viewer which don’t leave behind comments.
Option #5, but not before erasing youtube’s restored inventory of your videos. YT doesn’t deserve your valuable content.
Where’s the “like” button? 🙂
Completely agree. Maybe leave a single video excoriating YT and directing those interested to your many other locations on teh interwebz.
Alex
I disagree with the idea of deleting it- even with the algorithm directing people away from it why make it impossible (rather then just let it be difficult) to stumble across?
YouTube basically pays money bro store every video…. It people hate YouTube they ought to get a thousand people to upload a hundred hours each of boring video no one will watch so Google has to pay money to store it for no gain.
Taking it down doesn’t hurt YT , nor does leaving it up help them
Since this is 5th Generation Warfare, there are more minds to be won over. Your non-self-censored thoughts are needed out there, though I’m not going to hold my breath that “the algorithm” is going to send your stuff viral. It’s already evident that comments are filtered and ordered according to statist standards on some topics. For now, I vote #3. Works like Media Matrix are worth sending out to the sunshine patriots as well as young minds out there. But if you choose #5, I wouldn’t be surprised one bit.
Considering Dan’s advise I wanted to suggest #4.
However since posting to yt is getting to be the same as feeding AI, I vote #5 instead.
Pretty sure AI is already eating EVERYTHING you post on the web.
Google is killing websites by sucking up their data and serving it as AI summaries – destroying the add click revenue of thise sites. I don’t doubt that AI has eaten up the internet archive, Google books (inc the ones they keep offline because of copyright issues) and if they feed it YT they probably feed it odysee and bitchute too. Maybe they feed it podcasts these days, the auto transcription is good enough to do that now.
The days of free content are probably coming to an end soon for that reason- websites that depend on add click revenue won’t make articles and how to’s and the web will be nothing but AI slop. They will have to feed AI synthetic data, which hopefully kills it.
I was playing with SUNO ai music, getting it to write about web people like Richard Grove, jay dayer and Mr Corbett and it’s songs showed it knew at least whi they were and what they did. I’d bet money Google feeds it better stuff then SUNO does, whoever runs that one I don’t know TBH
#2, maybe #3
Option #2
YouTube, or the world, is going to act however it does and to take it personally and refuse even a temporary opportunity to get the truth in front of more people doesn’t seem completely reasonable. What you do is, I believe, very important. I found your work on YouTube and am now a paid subscriber.
Thanks for everything
Option 2 or 3. Choose the option that is the least labor intensive for you. I suspect the overlords will still shadow ban, throttle, demonetize and whatever shenanigans they are so good at. The overlords get the turbo cancers so maybe they are softening up a bit.
Hi James,
Option 3 for me.
Take care !
Option 4
Option #4 or #5 – Integrity matters. Even if it helps build your reach or helps your family financially, would you really ever be comfortable aligning yourself and your work with Alphabet again? If yes, then use YT as a means to an end. However, I don’t think that you would deep down. Plus, you’ve curated a core audience & business model that seems to match your core values. The YT audience, on average, is obviously in some level of tension with that.
Dear James!
With option #1 to #3 you give Youtube AI a very convenient way to learn from your work. Maybe that’s the main reason why you (and other people) got back your (their) channel. But for sure that occurred to your mind already.
I have a harsh opinion on the people who where not able (or willing) to follow you to your homepage (or other platforms): They are not the ones who will make a change in this world. So they are not worthy of your efforts at enlightenment.
Confucius says: Advanced knowledge can be transmitted to those who are above the average, but never to those who are below the average.
So in my opinion there are only the options #4 and #5 left.
Thank you for your great work!
What about people who have never been exposed to James’s work? It’s just leave them behind because some people who knew about him before, didn’t follow him to the website? That seems so judgmental and vindictive. We get enough gatekeeping from the globalist blob, really think it’s a disservice to emulate their behavior and deprive people of knowledge because or assume they are too lazy/stupid to part of the “movement” based on what platform they are using for information.
Hi Iris.L
YouTube and other platforms like it are Dangerous. They are Not on our side, and if they are letting James and others back on suddenly, there is a nefarious reason for it. Why give them all of James’ information to feed AI and to keep tabs on people like us and what we are interested in? I wonder how many awake/smart people still use YouTube as their main source of info… I don’t know that James would touch a lot of lives of the ones that still hang out there. Just my opinion though.
Please note that there is still option #4 for the people you refer to.
Option #3✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
Option 4#, because it’s important to expose as many people as possible to your content. OTOH, it’s also important to not fall into the same trap again a few years (or months?) later.
I’m convinced this recent “unban wave” has a lot to do with the anti-trust case against Google as well as the FTC taking a closer look at de-platforming from previous years.
I believe that this ‘reprieve’ is entirely temporary as you point out and that at some point in the near future it will all begin again. The new paradigm definitely seems to be “speech not reach”, and those who can’t handle visiting a different website are arguably quite culpable for this.
It’s possible that YouTube itself may not even survive the long term impacts of the anti-trust case, what will all the GooTube viewers do then?
My guess is that they’ll just move to “Green YouTube” (Rumble) or X.
I’m biased towards 3/4
Option 1. Dan is right, you don’t get many second chances. There is big audience out there that has never been exposed to you. This is an opportunity to a wider audience. I’ve been with you for many years, long before the YouTube ban, but I found you on YouTube.
Who wants or needs a second chance from the censorship overlords? You act like it is some sort of privilege. They were the ones who were privileged to have you as a creator, and it would be a better argued not to give THEM a second chance
Option #4. That way you will constantly be redirecting people to your website, and your YT channel will (probably) not be taken down (depending upon the content of the teasers, of course).
I would say a combination of #3 and #4. Load up to YT the most important videos that you have made over the past four years so that the ‘normies’ can see them. Then, post teasers and the beginnings of your new videos with the links in the description on where viewers can watch the entire video. Many ‘content creators’ are doing this in order to still reach those who use YT by default but still promote alternative, less censorious platforms.
Option3. Maybe some of the normies will come to Corbettreport.com to watch full documentaries, interviews and posts. There is a good chance many of them will become supporting subscribers.
Option #2
What negative effect can come of having the lazy get these important messages, even if only temporary?
Why not give as many people as possible the means of finding you, the same way many of us found you all those years ago?
What real effect can come from the “preaching to the choir” method that is effectively what has been forced on you for the past few years?
Dear James, I am always happy to report that I deprogrammed with you 10 years ago. I began supporting you the minute you and Pilato made off line support possible. In March 2020, the instant they launched Operation “Covid”, I became your most avid promoter. It was my daily mission to spread your name EVERYWHERE on them-tube, advertising The Corbett Report as a sanctuary for Truth. 10 years ago, I began wishing that you would write it all down, and at last “Reportage” (of which I am a proud owner). I am a fan, advocate and supporter.
I am so grateful for your work. But now I must ask you to focus your brilliant spotlight on the plight of the political prisoner Dr. Reiner Fuellmich. It appears that so many in OUR media have remained silent on his persecution. I can NOT understand this.
Oh James! Please help!
Option 5 I see this move across a number of platforms as similar to Twitter to X. Just another way to get access to data on freedom loving people. I have not gone to Youtube either as a quest or signed in for many years now and see that platform as one of the many viruses in the media world. Thanks James for all the work you have done!
Welcome back James!
I opt for #2 BUT I wouldn’t just dump all the old programs you’ve made at once. Time them appropriately to match current events if possible.
I have followed you in your website from time to time and always go back to obtain links to suitable programs when in a discussion but I do not catch all the programs you produce. Here I must confess that I’m among the lazy ones who watch mostly YouTube.
Here’s the reason: the amazing variety of subjects available, from tutorials about gardening, 3D printing, car repair, etc. programs on history, philosophy, news from all sides, audio books, films and so much more which I don’t find in other platforms, BUT the MAIN reason is that it’s the only platform I know that has a feature to make a queue to view/listen to the programs. I can make my queue in my iPad, place my earbuds and go out in the field to work without having to stop and search for the next program every time the end of one is reached. If Rumble or BitChute had this feature I would watch/listen there.
I’m not familiar with the RSS technology. I’ll be checking your site for that info.
But for now, thanks for coming back to YouTube and hopefully will help to broadcast your very vital thoughts far and wide.
https://corbettreport.com/really-simple-syndication-solutionswatch/
I think this is what you want?
RSS works great for podcatchers too and the RSS feeds on this site grabbed almost all the podcasts on here when fed into gpodder, even ones from waaaay back
Option #2 i agree with dan and i hope you bring Pilato too
Option #2 – people will come around eventually!
Hi James, option #5.
Maybe I am a loony but this sudden switch in their decision smells like a slide of hands to me, especially in the era of AI explosion. Who knows really why they do it and how they can play with that information? When I go to corbettreport.com I put all my trust in truthfulness of the content, unlike with anything on YouTube. Which is a reason I do not go there looking for truth. Besides never means never in my world.
So #5 supported by lovely #6.
Thank you for all your lovely work.
What does James Corbett really want.!
You drew a line in the sand back then and I respect that.
I don’t see going back has anything to add to what you have now created.
GOOD LUCK with whatever you decide.
You have our support ….. onwards
F & M (Melb, Aust)
I lean toward Option #3, but:
(1) It doesn’t matter to me personally, and I don’t imagine it does to many Corbett Report members either. So in my opinion you can do whatever you think is best, regardless of what anyone says (though of course you’ll take their opinions into consideration). And:
(2) This may be an original proposal, I don’t know. Option #2 using volunteers to do the uploading. It’s a big job and I’m sure some people would be happy to help you with it using a temporary password or passwords. In order for you not to have to send them the files (which would be as much work as uploading them to YouTube), they’d need access to your Substack and/or corbettreport.com website as well as to your YouTube account.
SolutionsWatch suggestion given this video’s topic: don’t forget about bookmarking
You know, all these people talk about subscribing to the channel, and then they complain that people are not getting informed that they’ve uploaded new videos. Personally, I like the fact that apparently everyone just forgot that you can bookmark someone’s home page. You don’t have to rely on a site like YouTube (or any other site) to keep a list of places you want to check, you can just cycle through things in your browser! What an invention. Man, I wish I knew about this before sites like YouTube existed.
And you know what else? If you don’t trust your browser, you can save those bookmarks to your desktop! You can even put them all in a little folder on your desktop! Man… the things people come up with…
By the way, you can even bookmark sites by their IP addresses in case their URLs get nuked.
Hi James,
I vote for option #2. Anyway you can get the info out is good. I have been following you on your channel and love the work you do,
Thanks
Options 2 and keep posting. Spread info far and wide. Hopefully you can score income as a result. I’m a pod cast listener mostly cause rss feeds and I love being able to get your content in audio and as I need visit/watch video via your website but I found you on YouTube and many people use it. The more reality checks the better. They don’t get shadow banning still! lol
The answer to your question, James, is based on the following questions:
– Who do you want your audience to be?
– What attention do you want?
– What needs would be met?
You know, for me, I guess calling myself an author now, I don’t want to be famous and rich and all that. So, when it comes to telling people about my books, I tend to occasionally tell people about how I specifically don’t want to be rich and famous, and ask them to consider that should they like the books and want to tell others about the them. At the same time, I recognize and utilize that I am a small voice in a sea of noise and have times where I will freely tell people about my books with the goal of being drowned out with the other noise.
This is all to say that, when it comes with what to do with your YouTube channel, weigh the odds and place your bet, because that’s all you really can do.
#3 Vote for option 3 in short term, and then maybe after 1 year of not being canceled again, slowly start uploading the rest.
IMO there is no reason for uploading all that was made, for example few people will retroactively watch NWNW
but I think its good to use YouTube to reach as many people as possible, while it works.
#2 Get info out anywhere and everywhere.
A vote? Haha, good one James. Let’s all vote harder guys to push our idea on someone else!
BTW, have you considered youtube might be auto-generating those comments?
Option #4 is my choice.
Btw, this box should be on top of the comments, not all the way below 1000000
Comments! lol
If you click the “comments” link under the article title at the very top of the page, it’s going to take you to the comment box, that is to the bottom of the page.
Lol 😆
I would encourage option #5. They are not letting you back on for your benefit or to help the cause in any way.
Well, don’t post anything, not even a “goodbye” video.
#2. Literally for the exact reason that Dan gave is what I thought yesterday when I saw that you were back on YouTube with the main Channel. Most of us commenting here have never stopped watching you anyway and a lot of us have been watching you since damn near the beginning. You can keep swimming in your own pond or you can try to bring new people into this space which is beneficial for not only the Corbett report Channel but for society as a whole.
Do the opposite of what the authoritarians want.
#1-#4 are all great.
#5 was good to make a statement at the time, but now is a time for a different one
Option #2. This seems like tmost exposure for your work with the least amount of effort. As you make new videos, continue to tell people to subscribe through your website or RSS feed.
Option #3 works best for me
Option #3 works best for me.
I only go to YouTube because they have CC and I’m sorely hard of hearing. Substack has CC and that’s where I listen to the CR. I like what Dan Dicks says. It’s an open, all-inclusive remedy for this situation. That being said, I opt for #4. It gives people insight into the work you’ve been doing off YouTube and might help steer them to a wider range of platforms rather than allow them to remain in their comfort zone of incuriosity.
Option #2 or #3:
First, I think Dan is dead-on. Yes, there were very good reasons for you to decide not to upload on YT any longer although your Corbett Report Specials channel had suddenly reappeared. But now the situation is a little different: Back when your channels got deleted, I was sure that many people wouldn’t want to deal with the “inconvenience” of following your work at other Video-platforms or at your website directly – at least not as regularly.
So, frankly, I was shocked how many people in the YT-comments apparently had no idea that you have even produced any content in the last 4 years. I mean, you had talked about the possibility of a channel-ban more and more frequently; you refer to your website in your standard greeting-phrase which is heard in almost every single video, for God’s sake! Still, although those well-meaning people apparently did watch your work on YT on a to some extent regular basis, given that they were still subscribed and quick with their “welcome back”-remarks, they never even bothered to look up your name with some search engine – even Google might have sufficed.
It seems that while it is definitely not redundant to try bringing those points across (there are “Corbetteers” who did get the message and followed you to other websites), there are still many people who might at least watch your videos and even share some ideas or gain some knowledge but who are still too hung up in their “convenient” ways and habits – that is not to say that those people can never become more aware and ready to explore new decentralised sources of information or at least realise the dangers of a too centralised information grid.
Those are the people who could benefit if your videos would again be accessible through YT (in addition to those who have never seen a Corbett Report Video in their lives who can be reached there much better as well). The channel has more than half a million subscribers – that is still a very big potential – who would see your new videos in their subscription-feeds. Some of those would click, some of those would watch your channel regularly and some of those would at some point decide to use your website (e.g. for browsing through the thematic categories etc.).
I think it would be a realistic as well as beneficial choice for the purpose of your work (as I see it: sharing important, often little-noticed information) to upload to the YT-channel again – just the way you upload to those other platforms (BitChute, Odysee, etc.). Uploading at least the highlights from the last view years in addition to that could also draw some people to the website to follow up on those topics.
“….So, frankly, I was shocked how many people in the YT-comments apparently had no idea that you have even produced any content in the last 4 years….”
Would bet a lot of those are autobots (or decepticons? lol) that YT runs ti make comments on videos. They probably have a script to run thru of things to say depending on what the video description says or other stuff
It’s got be Option #5 or Option #6 (Ignore them / do nothing). Why would you consider going back to a platform that shat on you in the first place? Anyway, I would think it’s unlikely that hordes of new Corbetteers are lurking on Yuktube just waiting for the tip-off that you exist. Anyone who is interested in conspiracy-realist content will know about you already or find you via one of your co-conspirators.
Agree Analog Man. Plus, the overlords are clearly distressed trying to corral us all back into their centralized AI surveillance system. Why take the bait? We’re all more intelligent than that.
We must keep building & strengthening our own working people’s movement, decentrally organized.
#2 is my vote. I’ve never had a ‘gootube’ account and only see anything on that channel if it is from someone else sharing or posting it. I did not find you 15 years ago on U-tube…but a friend sent your own link and I was hooked from then on! It is normal for me to see and clink my email everyday when I see it. I am active on ‘fascist book’ and post many of your shows there….and have actually had 8 people that I personally know that began following you…..and many many more I’ve heard about. Spreading the word is what we as Activist do…and you’ve made your valid opinion loud and clear about gootube! GREAT!…Now send it out to MILLIONS! Can’t wait!…and LOVE your book, btw!
Hi James . I like #2 . Years ago i found you on you tube. And you changed my life . So if you can take the blindfold off of just one more person with youtube the that is one more broskie ?
Love you man.
Seems a lot of work to do loads of teasers, I don’t think that would work as they might watch that one video but then just revert back to YT for the rest.
As you say though it is a shame that they won’t have viewed your documentaries so perhaps do some adverts for those – people are always looking for longer content and documentaries, audio books, etc.
I would say also that I’d be more inclined to push subscribers and setting out the benefits of that.
Wonder if they’re putting banned platforms back up because alternative platforms are being used more….just a thought.
I think they’re putting banned platforms back up because too many of us go directly to the source now, and they canNOT track us. They’re trying to centralize us again to feed their AI surveillance system so they get better at dragging people back in or keeping them there.
Technically, it would not be such a big deal, not as big as it sounds.
I haven’t watched the above video yet, but upon just reading your question, I recommend option #3.
There is still a very large audience on YouTube that *never ventures out onto those other platforms* (I am one of them), and I see more people wising up to the fact that MSM cannot be trusted.
One would think that all those who ought to know the above fact would have already figured this out before now, but I’ve been following several YouTube channels that focus on pop culture justice who care about truth & justice and are either losing or have already lost faith in Hollywood, legacy media, and the legal/court system and they are turning to independent content creators on social media (particularly YouTube for longer form content) for their information.
I highly recommend tapping into that market.
But then also, don’t dwell there (or bother putting *every*thing on that platform). Instead, drive traffic from there back to your website. Use that platform as a “lead magnet” to lead those from the masses who are looking for truth & sound wisdom and authenticity that comes through real human beings (as opposed to all the AI generated cr@p) into your domain here at CorbettReport.com.
But I’d put more than just teaser videos out because I think there will be those who prefer to stay/dwell on YouTube (rather than venture off of it let alone continually check in with a website).
I think it’s worthwhile to at least house some of your content on that platform since YouTube has made it very easy to share its content.
YouTube will never be a bastion of truth. Do yourself a favor, get out of the echo chamber, and take the time to look elsewhere. For your sake, for humanity’s sake
YouTube is a free open channel for the average person to express themselves and disseminate information.
While there may be a lot of fluff, nonsense or falsehood being spewed on that platform & a lot of self-serving hacks and fake personas on display, there is also some good content on there — being put out by good people — independent people whose sole interest is to somehow make the world a better place.
And the fact of the matter is, people from all walks of life and levels of understanding continue to go there to watch & listen to what interests them.
Of course, I fully recognize the powers behind that platform are controlling, and it’s continually getting harder to get truthful messages out through it, but nonetheless I do see a certain level of value in that tool.
I wouldn’t suggest investing a whole lot of attention, time & energy on putting content out there on it, but I do recommend investing some of it — and be highly strategic about it, because like I said, I think there are positive aspects to it (such as the convenience & ease in sharing its content across a variety of platforms) and positive returns to be had through its use (such as getting this info in front of more sets of eyeballs and potentially gleaning more recipients of James’ highly valuable work).
Maybe, on second thought, option #4 would be the better choice.
OBVIOUSLY, option #5. Why is that NOT the consensus among your subscribers here? Don’t waste your time with the dingbats that expect their uncensored information to arrive from that despicable platform. Unless uploading to that “platform” is little effort VS the income you could earn from the views, I would surely respect that decision but Youtube is just a junkyard for mindless drones. Much better platforms, especially your actual website.
Not everyone who watches YouTube is a dingbat. However, I can see that it’s not worth James’ time to put all of his precious pearls on that platform. But depositing a few gems here and there with a link back to this goldmine of a site might not be such a bad idea.
Option #2 without a doubt. You don’t want your assistant to run out of things to do now, do you!
For a more serious reason – 550k subscribers is a hell of a lot of people, and they can learn something from every single one of your videos.
That’s what I’d do, anyway.
#3
Ride any horse to get you to heaven, even Satan himself
Total content dumps eg. Ricky V’s stuff, are overwhelming and easier to ignore
#4! This is a sign of propaganda machine malfunction. Youtube wants credible material as bait to reel people into their propaganda net. Just post a teaser video each day, followed by “Hi, I’m James Corbett from corbettreport.com. I post videos about (teaser vid subject) and many other topics, and I link to my resources and source documents, so you can check them out for yourself. Please find my work on corbettreport.com.”
Solves the problem of censorship, weeds out the empty-headed scrollers, draws people to your work, and denies youtube any more bait than absolutely necessary for your purposes.
Agree Isja! except even a teaser video gives them credible material to reel or keep people in their AI surveilled propaganda net.
Option #5 is the one that keeps THEM OUT.
Right on: for James’ purposes, not Gootube’s.
James, this is a dilemma. I totally understand and agree of washing your hands of YouTube. You don’t want to support the Beast, but there are untold millions of people who are waking up and who have woken up these last five years that may never have heard of you and your honest reporting, content and point of view. There are very few like you.
I am a firm believer in “You don’t know what you don’t know”. For instance, I might’ve believed in this worldwide lie had I not been sent “Event 2O1”. I thank God for courageous people like you.
For humanity’s sake, I vote option #2
I would say for humanity’s sake we need to keep everyone from searching for information on YouTube, just like Google. As long as people are going to places like YouTube and Google for “facts”, we will never live in a world of TRUTH
James, what kind of people “listened” to you on YouTube, yet made no attempt to “actually listen” to you on YouTube? Those people remind me of these people:
“And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? He answered and said unto them,…because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive: For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart…”
The people Jesus is referring to actually took the effort and time to go and listen to Jesus. Just like those YouTubers who actually subscribed to your YouTube channel.
No, James, I do not consider you to be like Jesus. However, I do consider the YouTubers who didn’t understand that they should follow you over at corbettreport.com to be just like the people that Jesus described above.
Perhaps, you should start a corbettreport “parables” channel instead. In fact, you might just have a good time doing it.
W.F.F.
That was well said. Almost French like. How?
Well like this…” The prison was a horrid and squalid place . The gailor cruel in all forms of torture . Daily before the suffering the Warden of Zion would proclaim to the wrecked body ” You but need to close your eyes to this, seal your ears from this blasphemy . And remain silent to this absurdity. For this you can be bathed, cleaned, walk freely and eat cake.”
The ones with strength to stand raised themself, the remaining spoke, whispered , added to the returning roar , unanimous.
” Let them eat cake I’ll have dogfood.”
W.F.F., That is a great suggestion!.
Give a writer a reason to write. A videographer a reason to video. And Bobs your Uncle.
That may have deviated from the direction James was shepherding us too, but it’s a great idea
Now to join the PAYING aristocrats. Lay the mine/
( mind) field for any steers who just wonder around. Like me some 15 years ago .
Option # 2
Option #5.
The overlords are just looking to suck more “online habits” from us so they keep perfecting their AI surveillance system.
I never go to YT anymore, nor FB, etc.
We need to stay “decentrally organized”.
Keep building our own working people’s movement. Period.
Option #4 – During the Scamdemic censorship, I noticed quite a few of the channels I subscribed to just uploaded “watered down” and shortened versions of their videos and then redirecting people to their alternative platforms where they could view the entire video. I think this might be a good way to go. That will at least give you some presence on YouTube and hopefully people will start to follow you on your other platforms (but perhaps not, if the comments on the previous YT video showed us anything). I would disable the comment section on those uploads though. Another way to force people to migrate if they want to participate in discussions.
Or… Option#5. You’ve been getting along just fine without YouTube for the past few years, so screw them. They absolutely are going to censor again when the next big medical tyranny false flag rolls out. I’ve had no problem following your content on your website. I literally type in the letter “c” in my web browser and it pulls up your website address every time. They’ve only conceded now because the controllers realized that forbidden information was still circulating out there via alt platforms, despite their censorship. They would rather have everyone lumped into one place where it’s easier to monitor and have people forget about all the other highways to the same content.
Could it be that the re-enstatement happened because it doesn’t matter if any of the information is out there or not, and that the powers that shouldn’t be are so confident that their end goal will be reached?
I think the FTC is looking into things that took place during the scamdemic. That may be part of the sudden change.
I want to say #6 – do nothing. But, I am reluctantly attracted to #2. People are starting to wake up and you might reach a new audience. Any of your options are justifiable and principled. It comes down to hierarchy of principle.
#2 – People who have never heard of you need you. Simple as that. I give out your website address every chance I get. People are hungry for information – accurate information – after realizing how badly they’ve been lied to all of these years. (It’s a movement in society right now – capitalize on it.) I trust you to be their source of information more than I trust any other soul on this planet. So, for that reason, I hope you’ll take the stance of ‘hell yeah and why not’. (just don’t answer the why not part..lol)
I wholeheartedly agree with this. So many people are desperate for the truth and right now they are getting that half truth from limited hangout people like Candace Owens or Tucker Carlson, who give them just enough truth to earn their trust but never delve deep enough to let them see the big Picture. People need James, to teach them how to cut through media/state narratives, just like many of us did when we started our journey out the darkness.
Assuming the above mentioned option 6 isn’t realistic, definitely option 5.
They’ve probably just fine tuned their manipulation tactics to the point where they know they can use you as a tool to lead people to other ‘controlled opposition’ figures or discredit your message using bots in the comments. Personally I think its a trap. No other explanation makes sense. Plus why waste the energy when you know they won’t hesitate to pull the plug anytime they want.
I think that option four should point them in the warm embrace of the home of The Corbett Report. I’ve been on the website before I subscribed to the YouTube. I was shocked to see it back and I thought it especially strange that the number one censorship platform of all was actually pushing your videos to me. Good to see the channel back but I prefer the website. I think it is easy to use and nothing gets brushed under an algorithmic rug. That is my two cents. Thanks for all you do. I’ll keep supporting it!
My Vote – Option #2 – Option #1 + I upload all 4 years of back content.
Your work must be spread by any and every means possible – youtube happens to be Huge Means and it always helps
Option #1.
I think you should do as your conscience dictates, James. I will continue to follow your work regardless of what you decide.
Option 6 (let’s call it Option 6B from Outer Space): Just ignore it. Ignore Youtube. Treat them as irrelevant.
Option 4 — upload periodic, funny “Vacation — I’m away from my desk” videos directing them to your other platforms. . unless you think you’d greatly benefit from an increased bottom line by staying and uploading past/future content to Youtube. . I know you have a family to support. .for myself, I appreciate using your website for access, as I do now for so many others.
Option #3
Alternatively, “Option 7Q from Deep Under The Sea”: Create a 90 minute old-style, in-depth documentary specifically focusing on how evil Youtube is and make that your one and only video on Youtube.
We need to reach as many minds as possible. If that means we use enemy trucks to bring our trojan horse behind enemy gates so those minds can be freed I’m all in.
Option 3 seems like the most optimal way initially.
I would append “how to find me” on all new videos you post there.
What if I told you, they reinstated your channel in order to easier data-mine users who watch the content?
Option 4, fuck youtube and their pretentious horseshit.
Well, this is an ironic one for me. Over the years you’ve admonished me to follow you on your website in lieu of even Odysee or the other alt video platforms. So now, I’ve finally taken your advice…just when you have been resurrected on YouTube!
I’ve watched you exclusively on Odysee over the years of your ‘disappearance.’
There is one edge that YouTube has over other platforms (including even yours), and that is the option for closed captioning. Years of Rock & Roll has had its effect on my hearing, and, while you do speak loud & clear, I like having the ability to see the captions in case I miss a word or two.
God knows, I’ve begged the admins at Odysee to please, please start using captions. As in most things internet, all I was doing was yelling at clouds.
I’m leaning toward a combo of 3 & 4 (If only because I’d like to see ‘The Smartening Up of Music’ on YouTube. I uploaded it onto my channel and got a very humbling 163 views and 14 thumbs up.) But selfish intent aside, I think that both featured videos and teasers to redirect viewers here would be a nice balance.
Option 2 Please!
#2
Buuuut, you have an educational opportunity to regularly remind (10 seconds at the end of each video) using a tag video encouraging subscription and other platforms and RSS feeds to stay connected.
My fear now is that They/Them/Those, that won’t leave us alone, need the YouTube viewing data for the next round of control mechanisims.
Controvercy creates commitment, and the more accurate information available to the most people is a better alternative than spite and revenge,… but an end of video reminder of YouTube’s lack of credibility and a tool of T3 would be useful.
I agree. Complex, because maybe it (posting all Corbett’s content) would teach Gemini a tiny bit of truth (probably not, but it’s nice to think of AI being trained on Corbett’s content anyway). I advocated for a limited content release, with a delay on YouTube; and a to call join other platforms/corbettreport.com, either as a banner or disclaimer). I like the idea of a “fact-check/community note” banner educating of YouTube’s lack of credibility and solutions to it as well.
I (mostly) agree with the esteemed Mr. Hancock! You need to consider cost vs benefit: Whatever you decide should not detract (or take time away) from your main gig of producing your great content. My (humble) suggestion is that _every_ piece released on gootube should contain a short segment informing people of gootube’s perfidy of censorship of your content for 4 years, as well as directing them to your main site. That segment should be placed only on pieces released on gootube (never on pieces upload to other sites) and should be inserted randomly in the video (always putting it at the end would be too easy for T3 to cut it off).
I “vote” for either #5 or a variation of #4: while standing in line some place, make 2-minute videos about how great corbettreport.com is, without discussing any content or topics. Even just record audio and have a static image for the video. I think they detect when something is clipped and also if it is original content (in addition to the usual content moderation).
I wish we had some sort of inside knowledge on why they do this stuff. Twitter did the same thing and then did some exceptional shadow banning and now is just straight censoring and probably shortly to start closing accounts again.
Rumble is just as bad as YouTube as far as who runs the thing, but I’ve found most content not available on Odysee/BitChute is on Rumble and YouTube, in which case I watch on Rumble. Over the past 6 years, YouTube has seen me go from a regular, though not logged in (I use RSS), user, to maybe once a month watching a video on YouTube.
The only platform that seems like it has been consistent is facebook in that they have remained the most repressive platform. I do wonder if there is also a marketing aspect, in that facebook remains nearly impossible to replace, but videos and tweets can be put out anywhere.
OPTION #4 — YT pushes Shorts. That’s all you need: quick highlight/teasers.
Should include a static graphic band above or below with your website address. “Find Out More…CorbettReport.com” w link in description.
Easy Peasy – the people just beginning to wake up will follow…
Option #5 Because you aren’t breaking the promise to yourself to never post anything ever on YouTube if you post ONLY that single solitary “go fuck yourself” video and be done with it and never look back. Instead you are posting an anti-post, the very opposite. James, you know as well as I it’s a trap, a ploy to lure you back into the self-censorship clutches of the beast and ultimately dilute, distort, taint, and otherwise deface your hard earned reputation as a legit for real bona fide digital warrior journalist (a dying breed). Stick to your principles and keep out of the tar patch bro. There is more than one scripture in the bible that for sure applies here which I concatenate, paraphrase & summarize :
“Come out of it (the beast) and stop touching the unclean thing if you don’t want to receive your portion of her plagues”.
– ’nuff said
Succinctly stated, and with conviction.
mspann, Mkey.
This really bothers you? Integrity? You must know the rules of never say never. Hubris, ego and trying to out wit the devil. Never is only used against a God like idea. Not devil, not man.
Monetize it ! I say.
, and take the burden off us tired overburdened pack animals for truth. I ‘ll offer salt for that shit sandwich made from ” never”… Regret is eternal and a man is a man , imperfection… Get over it. Use the money in a righteous way.
James made a conscious decision to not take YouBoob money and to not censor his work so that it would maybe somehow meet the glorious community guidelines. I don’t see what’s left for discussion here.
They maybe wanted to test whether JC can be ruined without their youtrash. He couldn’t. They need him more than he needs them. People who are stuck on there will be stuck for ever more.
Mkey,
“They need him more than…”
Yes, that’s why monetizing the Chanel would rub their face in doodoo. Especially if he spent all that revenue on a counterintelligence campaign. The kinda campaign like those early years when ” the shadow knows” shows that were so radio-active to the listeners.
He has proved them wrong and them funding a continuation of documentaries that support volunteerism with anti communist anti Zionist politics is a bonus, an award for taking the licks he agonized over by being censored. In America getting bit in the ass only hurts if it bits into your wallet.
Are the censored content returnees non monetized only ? Are censored monetized channels returned?
Siue the sons-abitchs? Take their money one way or another.
Maybe you haven’t noticed they kept demonetizing (as well as demonizing) videos from various non MSM outlets over the years? Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
No I have not noticed. I don’t know how it works on that side of the counter.
Intel for the Honeypot of ” what do you really think, politically and socially. That’s the only thing I noticed.
Agreed.
Option #3 for a starter
Option #3. Right now, YouTube is the largest platform in the world. That may change in the future.
Use this opportunity to grow your flock.
Option #4. “They” can shut it down anytime still without warning. No need to waste hard work knowing it can all go poof.
Option #2! If you can use your platform to change the thinking of just one person, especially YouTube normies, than using YouTube will not be in vain! If you have something as powerful as your message and reporting, don’t just hide it away for those that already agree with/know about you!
Option # 4. Please let people who use YouTube know you are still broadcasting, your topics and how to get your full content. Don’t bother with more because they will just delete you again.
Option #2 – Option #1 + I upload all 4 years of back content.
Your information is too valuable not to be shared.
4, you need to be the Neo of the Youtube Matrix, and try to recue people from the hands of Google. Always promo the other platforms on your videos.
#5. Going back would be like taking back an abusive spouse. Don’t trust them.
Option #5 – Post up the “I’m never ever ever posting here again” video and have done with it.
YouTube is Google. Google is part prostitute, part spy, part pedophile, part assassin.
If the zombies can’t think their way out of YouTube to alternative platforms, they’re certainly not going to do anything constructive with the information you provide in your media.
Best to stop thinking and speaking of YouTube as if it were a good thing. Best to stop acting like more is better. It’s not.
A handful of dedicated, consciously participating members is far preferable to legions of thumbless, mouth breathing normies who on occasion like to listen to that weird conspiracy guy for a good laugh.
Oh, and by the way –
All those YouTube comments? The subscriber count? The view count?
Can we say, “proprietary algorithmic bullshit generator”?
Evil corporations are motivated by evil.
Anything that appears to mimic kindness, generosity or magnanimity is actually just the opposite.
James – this is your work, your livelihood. The same folks who are advocating that you jump back on the YouTube train are the same people who (furtively or openly) outsource their thinking and offload their choices and responsibilities to AI. Their ethos:
More is better
Bigger is better
Easier is better
More convenient is better
This is the value set of weakness and servitude.
Don’t even raise the middle finger.
Don’t post a “follow me elsewhere” video
Don’t post highlights, clips, updates, or old videos.
Send a letter to your subscribers and tell them you’re officially done with YouTube and Google, and never speak of the situation again.
To do anything more is to keep feeding the beast.
option#4, I think as many people as possible should be exposed to your work and if they value it enough, they will follow the links and if they don’t, they don’t deserve the benefit of it.
Option #1 works for me
Hi James,
Option #4 definitely! I bumped into you somewhere (not sure where) and got straight into your CorbettReport site, but if I hadn’t seen you there, I might never have found you, Just stay with them to make newcomers aware of your site, and I believe more and more people are going to join you. We’re not all hypnotised 😀
And you’re right, don’t talk about any of these things I bumped into today, they would really freak out!
James Delingpole and Matt Landman’s: Chemtrail, the Most Evil Conspiracy of All?(https://jamesdelingpole.co.uk/Writing/Articles/2025/25-04-25.html)
and FRANKENSKIES FULL LENGTH DOCUMENTARY DIRECTOR’S CUT | by Matt Landman
(https://youtu.be/Z_TNrUZ3lhU)… sorry for that!
And as always, thank you for what you do.
Nathalie
Option #3. Perhaps the most efficient use of your time which will allow you to capitalize on this YT ‘window of opportunity’ while encouraging the audience to migrate to other less censorious video hosting platforms. Cheers and all the best from southern Alberta.
SUBVERT ENNEMY INFOWAR PLATORMS !!
Option #2 – Option #1 + I upload all 4 years of back content.
Option #4
Best way to constantly keep reaching out to the casual viewers while not conditioning people to keep thinking maybe the website is for “later”.
Also, how many of these comments are organic in the first place. Best not to give too much thought on the comments and semi giving up the channel mentally might be the healthiest option not just for the content creator, but also for the rest of the audience, as everyone will be more independent from AI influence.
Option 2 sounds good. Jab injured people still trust pharma!
Option #1. Use the opportunity to spread your message for as long as you can.
Hi James,
As you pointed out in the video — and as the comments you highlighted confirm — many of your YouTube subscribers (I’d argue the majority) made no effort to find you elsewhere during your ban. Now that you’re “back,” why should you and Brock (sp?) go through the labor-intensive task of re-uploading the mountain of valuable content you’ve created in the meantime?
Is it unfair to assume that people unwilling to visit a website, subscribe to updates, or use an RSS feed are also unlikely to shoulder the responsibility of participating meaningfully in a locally focused Voluntarist effort? Put simply: if they can’t be bothered to look beyond YouTube, they probably lack the desire for true independence and self-preservation as free individuals — and, to be blunt, there’s little wisdom in casting pearls before swine.
That said, I cast my vote for Option #4 — specifically for the segment of your audience willing to take that extra step to visit your site and engage directly. If you go this route, I hope you saturate the channel with shorts and trailers that point to the full documentaries and new content ahead.
Hello dicom,
I am one of the people that came from you tube and became a subscriber. I bet there is a bunch of people like me . I wouldn’t know about James except I saw it on you tube . Please don’t think I am in support of you tube . My comments are constantly erased and or shadow banned. It’s vulgar . But I discover new people with off site content .
Dear James please choose any option which seems good to you; if old ladies like me can and do receive your emails, pick up your RSS feed, visit your corbettreport.com website regularly, and enjoy buying two copies of Reportage so one copy can be gifted to a family member, then I think all the youboob users can manage one of these alternatives if they actually want to.
Also if they get a VPN service (and don’t use a US server) they can watch youboob without adverts by accessing FreeTube. How much easier can it get?
All the best, whatever you decide, and thank you for educating and informing me.
Option #5… do you really want to feed the beast?
Option #2
#1 or #2. Inform as many people as possible. Isn’t that the whole point of this work?
I must say I enjoyed getting a peek at your algorithmically selected suggested videos on YouTube… as a fellow musician, I would have clicked many of them!
Just upload this video and then stop – or Option 5
Option 4 because as you covered in your intro, many are scrolling for infotainment, or just until dinner is ready… if there are many more really missed your content but couldnt work out how/where to find you, probably worth giving them a clip of ‘corbettreport.com’ in largest font size, once a month or so, until you are bored, or 30% of subscriptions have increased. Then announce YOU are going to censor YT in a few months and they should get over to another platform soon, because YOU are going to close the platform,,, for all the reasons you want to tell them. Their invasive ads policy alone is enough dirt in my head to get off there.
Note, on the matter of subs, I am artist, dont have subscribers, just sales of work. Feast and famine type of earning, building up a cash buffer for winter… I note many on substack etc restrict comments to subscribers only, yet also often ask for ‘cup of cofee’ one off sub, which I choose because my tastes are very broad, and cant afford monthly subs everywhere. I want to suggest cupofcoffee supporters should always be given comment space, or its only cash has a worthy opinion? Note that when a blogger gets lots more subs, his opinions dont necessarily get more profound, or better fitted to the zeitgeist…
My own sales follow no laws of supply and demand, full page magazine ads make no difference, it is much more the mood of the moment catches the spontaneous energy of some like soul. Perhaps musicians, being both entertaining and often pushing a truth, are closer to the dialogue you are having with the public, than selling lumps of sculpture as I am. Still, folk get it, or not, need some more explanation or dont want, walk round in a minute or take an hour, and still walk out empty handed. Cant tell nobody nothing methinks
Option #3. Lot’s of potential freedom lovers out there in youtube land just waiting to stumble upon the right video.
I’ve noticed some other channels coming back online on youtube and less censorship all of a sudden. What purpose does it serve big tech to put your channel back on?
Do you think your content is helping them make money? Is your ability to reach people more of a benefit than them making money off your content (if that’s actually why they put your channel back up)?
What should you do? It might be an opportunity to pull some people out of the “Matrix” especially young people who are just encountering this kind of content.
I wouldn’t want them making money off my work and I’d be irritated and angry about the back and forth. I’d try to figure out how many new subscribers came to your website since your youtube channel is back on and I’d research if youtube is making money off your channel and if you think it helps big tech more by posting on youtube versus keeping your content off the channel.
You can make a pro’s and con’s list and see if it makes sense.
Were you right the first time to say you’d never post on youtube again, or were you pissed off and frustrated with the censorship and gas lighting and the decision was made in anger?
I’d think about why I made the decision recognizing that first instincts are often correct and I’d go with my gut.
In short, I don’t have enough information to say with confidence what I’d do in your position.
Cu.h.j
“…What purpose does it serve big tech to put your channel back on?…”
Someone above posted something along the lines that it may be because if they feed anti trust cases going in vs Google- they may be trying to look better before the judgment rather then censorious.
(Bryan lunduke talks about the case a bit but its kinda quiet in the msm news as far as I can see)
I thought maybe dismantling the scenery and worldview of the normies for the next firmware update , but the poster may be closer to the mark
When Mark Zuckerberg started to sell his Meta smart glasses, which supposingly only reads from our nerve signals but not our brain waves, and declares himself a libertarian at around the same time, it would seem like he is stepping into the freedom orientated market to gather data. Also, his company seems to like to develop products all situated near the brain.
I think this new grant of “freedom” is towards the same direction. Maybe the coming world war, or simply lockdowns, will give politicians or bosses the excuse to mandate wearing such ECG devices to monitor for enemy sympathizers or work productivity while working from home. They would definitely not want to exclude freedom lovers’ thinking patterns, while consuming content on platforms that can synchronize with their devices 😉
Also, through massive AI posting in the comments, they might be able to influence the content creators thought directions, and effectively, the audience as well.
Option #2 if you want people to find your videos when they do a Google search. Google prioritizes YouTube videos. Also, you have so many subscribers that’ll probably never see your content if you don’t Option #2.
Option #4 seems like a good option but that’s extra work and I’ve noticed a lot of content creators frequently fail to go to the effort to use the juicy part of the full video for their shorts/teasers so I didn’t bother watching their full videos because I didn’t think it was worth watching but later watched a few just out of curiosity and found out I was missing out because their shorts/teasers didn’t do the full video justice.
Option #3. But, monitor to ensure they don’t alter/distort content, or practice intermittent censorship, e.g., delete episodes based on content. As for YT threats to banish you, warning with intent to induce self-censorship, that is an opportunity to expose their low morals, using their platform.
I wondered why YT/FaceBook could change so much, simultaneously? I was astounded when I saw Larken Rose.
Could it be that X led the way?
I suspect it’s because they’re putting a concerted effort into pushing an internet ID. I have a podcast, and I was going to upload it to a new GooTube channel. But I was asked to either provide ID, or the alternative is I have to upload several videos before I’m considered worthy to upload the podcast.
Last year I lost my Fakebook account because I have a degoogled phone, and when I had to send it away for repair, FB suddenly started demanding ID. When people ask me why I’m no longer responding to their Happy Birthday wishes on FB, and I explain, they say “Oh, I had to upload ID a while ago…”.
I think this is where it’s leading.
Someone sent me a TikTok yesterday warning about “fake AI bots pretending to be human”. Oh dear – who knows who’s real and who’s a bot now… the only solution is internet ID.
Problem, reaction, solution.
Option #1. Because all publicity is good publicity, and ultimately it’s for a good cause. But make frequent referrals to the “missing” videos and where people can see them.
I’ve been detoxing from YouTube for the past few weeks. Yes, I did continue to watch it – mainly for climbing videos, as I’m slightly obsessed with rock climbing. And the alternative platforms have very little rock climbing. They also have very few “how to” videos, which is the other thing that YT is great for. Such as “how to fix your car boot/printer/sewing machine”.
Why am I detoxing? Because I was watching too many rock climbing videos, obsessively. And because of the increase in ads. In the old days, I used to deliberately watch the ads in an attempt to reward creators I liked – in fact, I naively thought it was a great collaborative system.
But with ads being served up every 4 minutes sometimes, I was starting to feel like a 1970s zombie watching cable TV. Something had to change. So a few weeks ago I went cold turkey. My sleep improved dramatically. I now occasionally download YT videos I want to watch.
I wonder if GooTube was trying to manipulate me into paying for an ad-free subscription, which I would never dream of doing, as Google is not a company I like or trust. Maybe it’s trying to win back our trust by letting some creators off the “naughty step”. Too little, too late for me.
The adds in YT are probably a sign that the 2nd .com bubble is going to burst. YT must burn millions of dollars on its servers and data centers and I don’t believe they have ever broken even. I don’t care if they say they do, Enron was “doing great” until it wasn’t too.
At the end of the day how much is a YT add worth???? How many adds would it take to pay to host one 30min video?
I doubt that one in a hundred uploaders makes more for the platform then they cost it. Unless YT is funded by money laundering I don’t imagine actual investors will keep giving them money to burn.
I recall before the 2008 pop we were getting reams of credit card and home equity loan offers in the mail….it got craziest just before the pop.
One final thought someone mentioned above about integrity that is worth more than money. Most of the time, when I say I’m going to do something, I stick to it and don’t go back on my word. If you think that by posting your content, you’d be doing that, I’d say option #5.
Option #1
Option #3 – I think unfortunately many people don’t use a computer anymore to watch videos/news/get information, but just use a smart TV instead. And there they only have YouTube and Netflix easily accessible via app. At the end of the day I think it’s better to spread the word where people can access it…
Gwen
If they don’t use a computer AT ALL and just suck up whatever their smart TV brings them they are already lost.
It doesn’t matter what you tell them because they are under technocratic control already.
People who are already lost, under technocratic control, are who needs James the most.
Stewart h
Nah, it’s too late for them in the whole. Their cooked. At best they will be slaves, maybe they will just die.
What are they gonna do???
Without the means to be independent and without the will to take control of their own info feed (of which computing is a big part) they CANT ever do anything because their already in the pod.
Not saying it ti be an asshat, but people who are happy to depend TOTALLY on things outside their control and don’t even TRY are basically livestock for the system.
If they have reactivated your YouTube account, it is probably also to spy in the audience with the help of AI who and what people really think about the reality around us. In order not to make life easy for them, in my opinion option #4 is the best. The important thing is to turn off the ability to make comments, so as not to give the enemy useful information. That way you have an opportunity to reach new listeners, hopefully waking up more people.
I lean toward Option #3, especially going forward. However!!! Treat YouTube like you would as if you were going to rejoin Twitter. Don’t be a conduit for people to offload alternative platforms and justify a convenience-migration back to Themtube. Continue to release select videos and then ONLY AFTER a delay. Similar to what paywall advocates do, except it’s still free and accessible everywhere else, immediately. Hey, even Media Monarchy utilizes this method to garner listens of NewWorldNextWeek. I strongly suggest a curated and much delayed release to YouTube with continued calls to view other platforms for all content and early release of videos.
Option #2 — Your content is important and will reach maximum audience that way and will also draw more attention from other big podcasters and so hopefully spawn more guest interviews with others. And I also want you to cash in on the higher revenue you will likely generate on Youtube, and I want you and your family to do well financially.
Just do you.
I vote for any of the options between 1 and 4. The reason I found you all those years ago was through youtube. I think it’s important to keep building the community and spreading your knowledge
Option #2 is what I prefer. We have to spread the ideas somehow. Alphabet Inc. engages in censorship because youtube has become so effective for spreading ideas. Leaving youtube achieves nothing. We are nearing the bitter end… the Parasitic Divergence (https://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/694) is progressing. Just put it all out there (youtube as well as this site and other sites). Don’t self-censor, and let youtube “ban” you again in the future. Nothing we can do but put material out there people can use to change their lazy, indoctrinated minds that are the foundation for the end of humantiy. If more people choose to change their minds using your content, then maybe humanity will continue and end the the power of the Rothschilds and their friends.
My opinion on each of the options –
Option #1- Makes the most sense to me because at any moment Youtube can just ban you or
censor you at any time. Why put in extra effort on a platform that terminated your channel with so
many views without a proper explanation? One that can do the same thing again at the drop of a hat?
Option #2- Too much work to upload and get wiped out. On top of that people would see all those
new videos on their feed and probably unsubscribe or mute the channel. Hard No on this option.
Option #3- Personally this is my 2nd choice. Upload your most meaningful pieces for your
subscribers that thought you disappeared years ago and didn’t make the jump to your website. Then
upload as you would on the other video websites.
Option #4- Maybe a waste of time since for years you told people time after time to come to this
website and they didn’t. If they have a short attention span that the only way they could digest
important information is through a short, then they more than likely wont be able to sit through a
30min video, much less a full documentary.
Option #5- Its your Channel James, and I respect everything you do including if you choose this
option. But you have 545k subscribers and the video you posted has 19k views in 9 hours, that’s a lot of
people that you have reached in such a short time.
Whatever you decide to do a lot of us will still be here. Salud.
– Benjamin Ortega
Option #2: If nothing else, posting on YouTube could provide a good barometer regarding what it might censor in the future.
Option #1 or #4 it depends what is comfortable for you. 🙂
#4 It will familiarized people to your website.
#4. I’ve actually been a paid member all along, but I just don’t have the time to visit dozens of different platforms, so I’d greatly appreciate a little 30-second YouTube teaser for each new video.
If brave search’s ai bot chooses Option 2, am I less likely to change my answer?.
No. I choose Option 2 , and I didn’t ask brave search’s ai bot either.
Although, it did occur to me, They Them Those might just be lazy and penny pinching, sick of having to program their bots to go to corbettreport.com to collect, catalog, analyze, and process your videos to keep your dossier ledger perpetually current, realized that if your complete catalog were once again centrally available with an existing deep state partner who already does all the required processing by default, it would represent a significant kWh savings, a verifiable value easily comparable to… I don’t know… several dozen eggs? 10 or more rounds at golf at any one of Gaza’s new TBD resort facilities? All they needed to do was reinstate your channel and bet you would upload the backlog. I just wasted three minutes of my meditation time composing the previous paragraph. I will never get it back. Thanks for everything you do! 🙂 – Trubbs-n-Exile
If you pick #2, then people will go back to their lazy habits. I probably will, because, let’s face it, your website is circa 1990s.
Ksmen
“….your website is circa 1990….”
I wish…. 1990s websites loaded way better then new ones, were more personal and interesting and had cooler layouts.
I liked the pre-update site better, The update made the site kinda jankier.
#4 – Please upload only teasers with unmissable references to the full episodes on less censored platforms. You could stay somewhat true to your promise to never post again, yet still use your renewed reach against Gootube by planting seeds of truth and trying again to get as many people as possible to ditch it. Please don’t reward Gootube by pretending nothing has happened and doing business as usual.
#2
Option 2
I say that because this will drive more membership to your site when they see your insightful takes on the last four years. A lot of people are still asking questions about what happened these past four years – while do do birds want to sweep it all under the rug…
You’ll serve those people – the ones that are still asking questions.
Option #4 Those shady folk are not worthy of benefiting from all of the dedication, hard work and time that you and Brock and all your guests put in. I’ve noticed lately they’ve stopped giving me a notification if somebody responds to any comment that I made, I suspect that’s because I’m not parroting the kind of narratives they are complicit with. I’ll still be coming back here anyway.
Put me down for option #4
I was strongly in favor of option #5, but Dan Dicks softened my heart a little.
Don’t cast your pearls before swine, but there might be some salvageable human beings in that youtube mass and we need all the help we can get.
Or there are new people completely unaware like a lot of younger folks just encountering this type of material. That should be a consideration.
Option #5 of course. Stick to your guns James and keep up the fantastic work you’re doing!
Option #2 because it would get your work out there to more people and get your revenge on YT for censoring it for all those years.
Option #3
I think youtube is great for outreach and it would be a shame not to use it. Reuploading highlights will allow YT audience to catch up at least on the most significant topics while minimizing the risk of triggering automated strikes on the channel. Also leaving the shownotes on the website could bring in more people here.
Option #1. Maybe Option #2 if it takes less than 15 minutes of your time to upload. Don’t waste any of your valuable time on Youtube. The half million number of followers is probably a fake out to entice you to get back on. Presently, in this post COVID Era of deception, some people are realizing they have been lied to and are secretly becoming more open to new information. Even if only a few people find you on Youtube it is worth it. People need to be emotionally ready before they can hear or become curious about information contrary to what they “know”. Newbies are on Youtube. I still suggest Corbettreport.com if anyone asks.
I’m 57 years old and from England and I have watched many interesting programmes such as Panorama and World in Action back in the 70’s and 80’s and your reporting reminds so much of the great journalism of those times that’s why I subscribe to your website and bought your book Reportage
Option #5 of course!
Of the options provided, perhaps understanding the goal of further participation with youtube might better inform what of the provided options is optimum.
If it is to have the maximum effect of to the extent youtube shows your content to new people that would otherwise not access outside of youtube then likely option 2.
If the goal is to drive youtube viewers away from youtube, then perhaps option 4, informing of the nature of content they can get elsewhere and force them to go elsewhere—also to the extent possible, and if you even would consider as an anarchist, perhaps consider policing your copyrighted content on youtube to control at least full copies of your work with no fair use concerns and ensuring that your content doesn’t exist their to supplement the platform. Or Option 5, as well if you don’t want to test whether subject to goals there might be some benefit to continued youtube participation.
Additionally perhaps you might consider option 6, of Option 2, but insert video (possibly change it each time or frequently to keep the algorithms happy) before all new youtube content stating: 1. you were silenced in the past, 2. now they admitted the silencing was inconsistent with their silencing rules, and 3. re-emphasis for people to use your website/rss/or another platform that functions exactly like youtube, and perhaps a graphic with a list of other people on some competing platform they can find that regularly publish. Perhaps also have a graphic of all competing platforms you are on with your handles be shown.
Additionally, perhaps option 7, of option 6, but as informed by MLK jr’s discussion of organizing consumers to quickly improve their lives via Operation Breadbasket in his last speech to SCLC “Where Do We Go From Here,” actively start calling out this serious issue that the silenced you, now admit it shouldn’t have happened, (perhaps include silencing of others perhaps in Missouri v Biden) and demand youtube give a promise to users to never engage in arbitrary censorship again, and perhaps monetarily compensate those the silenced and harmed growth of followings while permitting those who stay on the leash of the narrative are not silenced if not promoted—to help repair the on going harms to the public sphere that youtube seems to now admit by conceding they should not have silenced you.
Option #2
Your friend is right about second chances. Ultimately the message of truth reaching people is the objective and the people who need to hear it most are those still reliant on YouTube. If it’s not entirely cumbersome to achieve option #2, I think it’s the optimal outcome. It might enlighten people just to see how much had taken place behind their blinders with the deluge of content they missed.
prob if reposting old content, could be good to state the original date posted, possibly the time elapsed since then that youtube viewers have missed out on the content, and perhaps even a slice of the narrative at the time the content was posted that was totally ignorant of points in the content, that if it was a full open network of ideas may have been different had youtube not silenced you and presumably many others questioning lies of the Overton window.
#5 people can whatch your older content on your yt channel, if they really want to support you, they have to switch to corbettreport.com and whatch it there. so you can keep and extend your high quality audience on they spaces you have under control. i always love to read in the comments of well educated an sophisticated viewers/listeners. it´ś the hard way but definitely a trendsetting step in the right direction.
Just leave teasers on YouTube, it’s free advertising for your website. You have nothing to lose. It will also give a nudge to those of us who are easily distracted and are already subscribed to go and watch your important content.
Option #4. Lead the way James.
I would humble suggest Option#2 but make sure you re-read all their, likely updated, terms and conditions. They might have added some weird stuff.
Why #2?
It will allow people to see what they missed in context of what was happening in the world when the content was created.
It’ll allow people to watch hours of interesting, provocative and dare I say: life-changing content. Think of it as some people will be binge watching (as many tend to do with “series” type content).
It’ll expose new people to 1st class, unapologetic, investigative journalism
That’s my two, or maybe a little more than two, cents anyway
Option #4 – Just upload teasers and shorts to YouTube to remind people I’m not dead.
In the past 1-2 years, YouTube has increasingly, more by the minute, restricted videos to those who must login to view anything (at least on my Linux systems). Continuously pressing F5 to Refresh the page worked for quite some time but less and less up until this week actually (for me, anyways). This week I’ve been able to watch videos without logging in, so SOMETHING has changed.
My guess is that YT has lost TONS of viewers because of its insidious practices, most everyone who would be non-partisan or semi-awake to the clown world we inhabit. So… it would surely be in its best interest–much like MAGA corralled otherwise awake people to welcome Technocracy Inc. to run the world–to coral us back onto that platform in a similar way to MAGA.
We should all resist at EVERY cost becoming part of that platform. That said, teasers and constant reminders to stop supporting YT might be in order, at the most (IMO).
I would DEFINITELY NOT go back on your word by uploading new material that would encourage people to support that platform in any way.
Drum unit
I don’t think YT can possibly be making any money considering how much server space it must go thru for the pittance advertising brings….and even thats going away soon probably when advertisers realize it’s a waste of money.
I was listening to myth20c epp “pirates of Silicon Valley” and one of the chaps said he thinks online advertising must be some kind of money laundering scheme.
I kinda think YouTube and a lot of free internet is going away soon thru lack of funny money investment
Since data is the new economy, Duck, according to THEM, I think the assholes that own YouTube and their AI can benefit greatly in the knowledge imparted by the opposition (Corbett and others like him) and follower information alone. This is all IMO.
Option 4!
I heard the good news on Media Monarchy.
I was still surprised to see you on the FRONT PAGE of my YouTube.
Amazing how things work.
I’m sure it’s all part of some bigger plan…
Good to see it, though.
Option # 1 or # 2 or #3 or #4, probably in that order. I really appreciate how you’ve enabled me to sharpen my thinking about the circus of the worlds fiction and how I used to be like a dog chasing after its own tail.
So I think that enabling and spreading your “mind virus” to others so that they may in turn send it to more souls that need it and can use it. Like cool, fresh, clear water, in the middle of the desert.
And this will eventually work against the Overlords themselves.
But t t t, I can’t help thinking that there is a reason they are allowing James Corbett and others back in through the gates of the fortress to spread the poisonous truth, and allow it to be heard.
Maybe an AI will take over and embody the Corbett Report and others and slightly shift the message over time, a better mouse trap.
Of course, the other alternative would be for CorbettReport to send in an undercover, super secret agent into the goo tube inner sanctuary and report back exactly what they might be planning for conquering this world. Keep us posted.
“….I can’t help thinking that there is a reason they are allowing James Corbett and others back in through the gates of the fortress to spread the poisonous truth, and allow it to be heard…..”
You need to take the scenery down before you can stage the next act if the play.
That they allowed the internet to exist probably has a reason, that they allow more dissent probably has a reason….but a swordsman who thinks too much about what the other guy is going to do rather then what HE is going to do tends to do nothing.
#3 #3 #3 #3 #3 #3 #3 #3 #3 #3 #3 #3 #3 #3 #3 #3 #3 #3 #3
Yooooo, glad to see you see you back in the overlord’s zone of terror (youtube).
I believe your best course of action will have to be option #3!
That is so you only upload the most significant videos that people will most definitely watch and stay tuned for the future.
The other options might leave you astray, and that I’m almost positive.
So I’d suggest to upload those videos uncensored (BlackRock, 5hr Al-Qaeda doc., mass media etc…) and just upload once every month (while splitting those videos into several parts) or so, and this way you’ll be guaranteed to either reach a WAY bigger audience or get SHUT down again, not like it already happened before lol.
So the decision goes down to you Corby
They put the left wing in, they pull the left wing out,
They put the right wing in and they spin it all about,
We do the hokey-pokey and they turn us all around,
That’s what it’s all about. 🙂
Hey James , I choose option#2, the important thing is getting the message out so make hay while the sun shines cos you know they will be blanketing it out as some point in the future. 🙂
Option 2, and possibly comments off, to encourage discussion on Corbett Report .com , much love ❤️
Option #2 (and allow comments) – “Keep your friends close and your enemies closer”.
I DONT think he should allow YT comments because people willl then feel their getting “the full” Corbett Experience.
Much better IMO if they feel like 2nd class viewers until they come to the actual Kingdom of Corbett. 🙂 lol
Option #3. It sounds like the way to get the most people informed with relatively less effort to potential gain compared with some of the other options.
I don’t mean it rudely in any way to them, but I don’t know that people stuck wondering where you were for 4 years are necessarily the most dedicated or attentive, so I’m not sure how beneficial the full 4 years of backlog would be. Plus, it sounds like it could be annoying to some more casual users, trying to remember who this James Corbett guy is coming back after 4 years and flooding their subscription inboxes (or however it works on Youtube now). While obviously, you know your own audience better than anyone, as one part of it I say to “know your audience” over there in particular; my guess is it’d be most effective and informative to share just the best, most important and relevant highlights and documentaries, along with all new work going forward. If people want to see the full backlog, it’d offer a good incentive to take a peek away from Youtube.
What about all the people who were 16 at the time and not paying attention and are now 20 and might be more interested?
“…..don’t know that people stuck wondering where you were for 4 years are necessarily the most dedicated or attenti…….”
I would suspect a lot of those are not human people, YT is full of bots….i dont have an account but I did sign up a while back to post one comment on a video….then when I went back and looked (signed out and cleaned) the comment was still there BUT ALTERED- I mentioned a book and where to get it and that but was sliced out of the middle of my comment.
Pretty sure I’m not crazy 😉 but i really think the AI is being used to alter comments and shape what people can see on a very personal basis (since comment was there in full when I was signed in)
Upload everything you upload on Bitchute also on youtube. In addition, upload everything you have uploaded after the closure with a 4 year delta. It means if the youtube channel survives 4 years, it will have caught up.
I know its tempting to be a stubborn old man, but if we are really living the SolutionsWatch spirit, we want to reach as many as possible. Fine, preach to the choir is noble, but imagine the potential that lies in reaching these brain washed half wits on youtube. Its bigger than our pride, so start posting.
I vote Option #3
It seems to me the whole point of The Corbett Report, Media Monarchy, LAV, Solari Report, etc has ultimately been to wake people up. As someone who was completely asleep until about 8 years ago, then fully woke up in 2020, I would’ve never woken up unless James was diversifying his uploads and planting those seeds of truth everywhere he could.
I think Option #3 is the best because it welcomes in the open-minded newbies who might still be piecing things together.
And we all know Youtube will re-ban James eventually so might as well flood the algorithm with some truth!
Option #4 – Just upload teasers and shorts to YouTube to remind people I’m not dead.
#2 Great content needs to be shared with as many people as possible 🙂
Option 4 with links to the other sites. If YT blocks the links, jump to option 5.
I usually go to your site directly, where I can actually read, click links, and learn like a grown-up. I’ll admit (maybe a little sheepishly), sometimes when I’m cleaning or just want noise in the room, I flip on YouTube.
Today, there you were. And yeah, it surprised me.
I know the platform’s a mess, and I get why you wrestle with whether to be on there at all. But I just wanted to say: there’s still some value in the noise cutting through. It’s not perfect, but what is?
Therefore, my vote is #1 and maybe the content that was not uploaded in the past few years will be a hook that gets people to corbettreport.com.
Let your message get through even on imperfect channels. It is because your message is so valuable that I think this is the way forward. Reach as many people as possible, because everyone is a work in progress.
I try to make sense of a world that’s kinda senseless. And I think it’s okay that the signal sometimes comes through imperfect channels. It still counts.
In a messy world there is value in meeting people where they are at.
Gratefully,
Julie
Side note: when you popped up on YouTube today I heard that voice in my mind, questioning in the most Corbett way… ”WHY is THIS being put in front of me right NOW?” lol
Option #1 – take advantage of the increased reach from YT, but always encourage people to go to the website to find more. YT is not worth the effort to upload previous videos, especially if the channel is suspended again, so just add it to the list of options for new content. If Option #1 wins out will NWNW also go on YT? That’ll help out MM as well..
Option #4. By all means milk YouTube for all they are worth, by uploading teasers and shorts. But if there is to be any hope of weaning the populace off of dependence on such a controlled, untrustworthy platform, we all of us need to bite the bullet and post our good stuff–whatever it is–elsewhere.
Would it be possible that in the near future all content on YT gets frozen/owned by them? There has to be lawfare in the works which will criminalize those who speak freely. Is it possible that AI will assess your content and put you in the “must go to gulag asap” category in the very near future? The FB reinstatement has a deep state stink about it. Protect yourself. Wouldn’t it be the absolute height of tragic irony if you, the guy who’s been a pillar of resistance, succumbs to these dawgs? What a coup for them.
Also, biometric data, retina scanning, facial recognition, who knows what else. Your audience count is worth a great deal, for advertising and for surveillance capitalism. I have a sense these days that there’s a layer behind the screen that I’m seeing–where they want me to look, what action they want my eyes to follow–the visible screen is a pretext, a loss leader, for the accumulation of data. I hope this comment makes some sense. 🙂
Option #2 because that would allow you to reach more people with all of your content, which is your goal after all, right?
Thank you for all that you do for the cause of liberty, James!
Option 4
James,
Your work slices through digital illusion like few others can. You expose not just the façade, but the machinery behind it. That matters — especially now.
But what I see — and what I believe you see too — is that the real danger isn’t censorship.
It’s something far subtler: absorption.
The system doesn’t need to silence you.
It only needs to feature you — just enough.
So that your independence becomes part of its landscape.
Not erased, but enframed.
Use the platform. Post your critique.
Get compensated — and rightly so.
That’s not the issue.
The issue is: the more essential your message becomes, the more valuable it is to them — not as resistance, but as reinforcement.
A pixel in their algorithm.
Not because you agree — but because you’re visible within their architecture.
This isn’t defeat by force.
It’s neutralization by inclusion.
And that, could be a the trap?
James,
It’s Your party, your rules. But the walls still belong to them.
Options 3 and 4
Upload videos that are of interest to/ are click bait for people from the last few years.
Then post every 2nd or 3rd video you do and make reference to the other ones “that are too good for YouTube!” To lure people to your website. Forbidden videos are much more exciting for casual watchers.
If your YT humans have to work a bit, even if it’s opening a new website, to see part two of your cool documentary they will be more invested and value it more. You can watch view counts on your site ti see if it’s working too.
The reasons for “click bait” it that
A) probably a lot of your YT subscribers are bots and you might get new human people watching if a title grabs their algorithm
B) It makes people wonder what super secret conspiriTainment your showing else where.
IMO you should also turn on monitization on YT because you won’t change your behavior in any case and might get some free money off Google. Money does not stink, unless you do something bad to get it. Iirc you said you never monitized YT in the past, apologies if I am wrong.
Bryan Lunduke has a pretty good model of handling YT, and was well ahead of the looming death of making money online…..that said if you DO make a goodbye video to the platform it should be funny enough that people pass it round like a good advert
In the great scheme of things people getting unbanned on YT is probably some weird AI thing…..either that or the new normie firmware update requires them to believe certain chosen conspiracy theories. Or maybe enough people are actually following you and others elsewhere and they want you all back in the bag?? Hence posting ALL your stuff would be a mistake imo
O#4! It allows you to keep your word on the posting of informaiton on Youtube, while also helping to incentivize people away from YT.
Also, glad to see Shaun in the background! 😉
Hi James. As I sit here contemplating your ‘to YouTube or not dilemma’ I keep hearing you say I am never ever ever posting to YouTube again. I am a stickler for standing by my word but the old saying cut off your nose to spite your face comes to mind. I agree with what Dan said and in order to get around the ‘never ever’ you could have Brock or Shaun upload your content. I am drawn to option 4 as hopefully this will engage more people towards going to the source (of the source). But then the comments you mentioned in relation to your recent YouTube post makes me think what’s the point. I am sure you will choose a direction that maintains your integrity but also stays true to your endeavors in helping others and creating solutions. All the best 🙂
Option 5 or maybe 4? As you stated in your recent book launch it’s Important to know where, you draw the line, only you can answer that. I left all social media 5 plus years ago, and still get tempted to go back, to see pics of events and gigs I was a part of, but thats a slippery slope for me as there is so much ugliness there and i don’t want to be sucked into it again. Love your work James.
Option #4
Whatever you do, I would align your choice with your strategic objective, which is to teach as many people about Conspiracy realism and make it stick. So use YouTube as your tool to direct as many people as you can to your site. It’s an opportunity not to be missed. So every time people on YouTube encounter yet another teaser of your content with a link to your site, they eventually might take the leap to your site. YouTube access will likely vanish in the future, so in the meantime you’ll hopefully woken up more people and got them over to your site.
So: upload teasers and shorts with a link to your site. But I would minimize the extra time spent on production of these teasers and shorts. YouTube is not worth to put much extra production time in it. Perhaps you could just cut-off a new video uploaded to YouTube at the 2-minute mark and then after that refer to your site.
Which has the additional benefit of reminding people what a crap place YouTube is.
And this way, you still retain the possibility to – if you ever feel the need to reach as many people as possible on a particular subject (let’s say a new Covid type false flag arises) – you can still choose to upload a particular video in it’s entirety.
Option #2 – The rest of the world needs Corbett.. also – what about duplicating on X?
Option#2 – Not enough people are awake, more progress is needed.
Thanks for all you do!
Some considerations…
What does YouTube gain from having you post there?
Money per view?
Data collection?
Does YouTube rise to your expectations regarding ethics, integrity, and right use of power?
If no, why feed a corrupt system?
I vote for you to do your best to be the change you want to see in the world. Take the high road.
That’s why I subscribe to you – and for the humor:)
Besides, your website has everything James Corbett in one convenient location.
Thank you!
Option #5
James, fuck YouTube or Twitter (X), Instagram, Facebook and all Corporate Media platforms they are all Propagandist. Your YouTube “viewers” don’t care of the dedicated work and stress you put yourself through in order to provide well-sourced quality reporting. YouTube Viewers are just bots they just see moving pictures. You gave them plenty of times 4 Years to follow You to the CorbettReport.com and subscribe. YouTube doesn’t deserve your time. Ten, Twenty, or whatever minutes James you take from You life to be in front of your computer in order to please the “YouTube Crowd” by uploading your videos can be used elsewhere such as spending more time with your family or doing other projects. Hell You can take a siesta rather than wasting time feeding YouTube. Screw YouTube!
Option 2. Too important to reach more people now before the final 2030 phases. Interview Celeste solum
Option 2 would be best to reach the most people but if too much work option 1. Sad fact is too many people go for convenience and have the YouTube app on their phone or tv/device and watch recommended videos from YouTube. They may visit your site every now and then but forget for awhile when distracted by YouTube algorithm. But even if not highly censored for now as you say it will highly likely be censored or put down the algorithm in future.
2! for the 2nd nuke!!
I’d opt for reaching and disrupting more people and more of the people that need to be reached and disrupted. 500k followers is a lot to turn away from. Go for it I say, options #1 through #4 all have merit, I’d probably go with #2 or #4.
Option #5: The game has changed. It’s no longer about censorship, it’s about deception. Every minute of creative work you upload to YouTube will be used to train a machine learning model which will then be used to create a fake James Corbett.
If you do decide to continue adding content to YouTube, perhaps you could offer it with 64kbps audio at 240p resolution.
option 1 or 4!! this weirdness is great 🙂
Considering the number of subscribers you currently have on YouTube, I would continue to use that platform to promote your work
Maybe just a monthly “YouTube only” upload with snippets of videos/articles that you’ve released over the previous month followed by a link to your website and/or other platforms
Option #4
I’ve long thought that YouTube is best used as an advertising vehicle due to it’s high level of traffic which can be used to direct viewers to more hospitable platforms, or of course to The Corbett Report website.
Option 5 for those who enlisted for the duration; Option 4 if Sunshine Patriots are of value.
Option #1
My heart of hearts says #5 – its called integrity.
I had an abusive partner relationship years ago, I will never look back on ending the relationship. That platform was an abusive relationship.
Nor would I subject anyone I care about to track & trace the abusive platform uses or usng yourself and viewer profiles for AI programming
If the 1/2 million supposed subscribers means so much, then one post, consisting of one screen which reads: “you can find all my postings at corbettreport.com”. That’s it. They’ll know where to find you.
I also vote for #6 mentioned above and am fully on board with #7, Chef James
I get emails from corbettreport.com when you post new material. I watch/read exclusively from your website.
Thank you for who you are and what you do !
I vote #3 just so you can get some cash. But it’s prob gonna be pearls before swine
Option # 1 looks like lots of work, but if feasible I think many people who are just waking up would benefit greatly from the full archive. My choice.
Option #4 is my second choice. A type of education about how easy it is to access uncensored content and a reminder that YouTube is evil 😈
I have already said my two cents worth. But, I am Impressed by the feedback and by people i rarely, or have never seen post in the comments. You have an audience for sure, Brilliant! The Corbett site is the most important source to me. Although it was a random vid I found on youtube years ago that led me here. Tricky question. Good luck, I’m sure you have a good compass!
Option #4 (or #3, or #2, or even #1). UTube Sux, and their “Community Guidelines” is a smokescreen for censorship. At the same time the voice of Corbett is needed more than ever today. Those UTube slug listeners may someday slip their heads out of their arses and actually wake up and graduate to corbettreport.com. James, please do not allow your justifiable ire of YouTube to cloud your otherwise fine judgment. Reportage is a terrific read and you will surely sell many more from the lazy UTubers. To all who have read it: buy another copy or three and give to friends as an early XMAS present!
If your goal is to wake as many people up as possible, youtube, I feel, should be used with one twist on Option #4
Option #4 + upload select highlights from the past 4 years .
Is the account monetized or still demonetized and does that affect how strict they are in their policing? Is the account banned from being monetized? Does taking money from them matter to your operation or your ethos? Can you use the money to expand the operation or somehow reach more people? For example, hiring translators to translate your episodes to another language for example. The Corbett Report Spanish edition ^_^ Then monetize your accounts with the above option.
Monetized or not, I’d imagine over time you will still probably get banned but perhaps the above option would give you another good boost to people coming to the main site in the mean time.
Otherwise Option #4 as you have suggested it.
Option 2 to get the word out to those who may need to hear it most.
I like option #1. New viewers you acquire on YouTube will look for, and find your website. I found you a few years ago on Bitchute, and did exactly that. I mean, it’s not like you never mention it in all your videos. And lately YouTube’s algorithm has been pointing me toward content that would have gotten censored not very long ago. I wonder what that’s all about.
Option 4 to drive traffic to your website. They have ‘shorts’ to suit the modern attn span and I imagine if your clip is compelling, watchers might follow an included link. Maybe.
#4
Thank you for all the work you do!
I cant wait to read your book when it arrives:)
Whoa I’m late in posting. Not scrolling up as I can’t remember all options. Although 5 aligned I think. Basically I found your content on fb when it was allowed years ago. I had already woken up quite a bit years prior, too many kids and grandkids slowed up my process but i loved your content so I figured it out where to find you.
That said Im sure there are many more like I was back then. Being no fan of any Google products except shopping and diy, I, not necessarily willingly but kind of logically, recommend posting on that crap tube. Too many people still go there and there’s opportunity to wake people up still. They’re just too narrow minded yet and sadly focused on keeping a roof on their head a food on their table, in Canada at least. Saskatchewan is where I’m coming to you from.
But caveats and redirects are definitely necessary. Trouble is you probably, not sure how that works, have to pay them somehow. Hope not.
You do make a difference.
I would vote either 1 or 4, whichever is lowest effort. YouTube can be a vector to push people towards the truth but expanding your presence on YouTube is not worth expending extra time and resources that could be directed to producing new content.
Option #3 –
Highlights will create the strongest available selection of videos which will increase viewership on your platform.
Since people don’t always watch until the end — ALWAYS mention at the ***beginning*** of every episode that they need to go to your website now – bookmark it in their browser — and expect the channel to disappear at any time.
I would take this chance to reach a larger audience, including those who were unaware of your work when your channel was taken down.
Thank you for all your diligent and inspiring hard work + ongoing commitment to truth and a better world. You’re the best!
It was option 2 i was thinking of I. scrolled up. My recommended option was in previous comment built on option 2 it seems. I hate multiple choice questions btw.
Option 3: I’d love for more people to get to know you. I also think it’s important to leave a record of the censorship. If you upload everything, it might look like they never censored you and other journalists.
OPTION 4
Option #2.
At first I was leaning towards the teaser method. But then I remembered the amount of time it took for me to really begin to understand the situation we find ourselves in around the 2010-11 time period. I had seen James around before, I had watched a few videos, but I couldn’t LISTEN. Give people the water I say. Let them decide to drink it. Treat it like just another channel to upload to after that until they do decide to move on.
I am of the same mind that The Last American Vagabond has on the subject. More people than ever are willing to listen. So bring them the info so they can have their self epiphanies NECESSARY to make the change with the information provided.
One thing to note about the 500k subscribers, at least some of them are actually watching your content elsewhere. I am subscribed to your YouTube channel and have been since 2016 or so, but I watch everything here. I can’t be the only one.
Hello James. I am here commenting on your website because of YouTube… sad to say. It was bittersweet to see you show up in my feed. I am bitter at the YouTube Overlords, yet happy to see your face streamed on my big screen.
I financially support you because I believe in your message. Yet, I only listen to your podcasts when they appear on my phone in the car. I am totally not getting my money’s worth 😉
I think of you as a car buddy.
But I want you back in my daily life “streaming” with the other mix of people I follow: Jimmy Dore, Glen Greenwald, Due Diligence, Kim Iverson, Candace Owens, Whitney Webb, Max Blumenthal, Aaron Mate, Saby Sabs, Neil Oliver, etc., etc. etc.
So, as you can see, it’s quite a mix of GREAT PEOPLE doing great work, and you NEED to be a part of that daily feed, outside of an RSS feed.
HERE IS MY SUGGESTION:
Pursue OPTION #4. I know this is more work, but create an edited version of your videos, specifically a 7-12 minute version, as a hook to encourage viewers to watch the entire episode on your other channels.
THINK OF YOUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL AS A SPACE TO PLACE ADS (teasers) TO GET PEOPLE TO YOUR WEBSITE.
I would give that a try.
OPTION #2 is NOT a viable option. I do not want to risk losing your channel by you uploading all your past videos.
OPTION #3 sounds nice…if you have the time.
That’s all I have to say. I hope to see more of You.
Love You!!!
Robert S.
Option 4! So you can direct more users to corbettreport.com
Option #3.
I offer this as my vote speaking as somebody who only discovered your content by accident. I was (un)fortunate enough to watch a video unravelling the COVID narrative disappear in real time off of YouTube. This caused me to actively seek out a repository for “banned videos”, leading me to BitChute, where your video on Japan’s lockdowns was on the front page.
Dan’s right. There are so many more people who don’t even know they’re about to become your next biggest fan, and in my opinion, the most likely way to gain their attention in the first place is still YouTube.
My vote comes with caveats: it’s still important to move people off of YouTube towards other platforms/this website, and you can do that through frequent, clearly stated instructions in each video. Also, I recognize that uploading ALL of the content from the last few years is probably unrealistic, and it’s also helpful to have something for folks to seek out on these other platforms, should they take the leap. That’s why I vote #3 over the other similar choices.
Just my 2 cents. I think this is my first ever comment as a member of the Corbett Report community, though I’ve been an enthusiastic supporter since 2021. Thank you for everything you do (speaking to James, and all of you too!)
Liam
I say option 2. You can always find new people and help people who wouldn’t otherwise find you encounter your perspective.
Also, I’d love to see your content on Spotify. I have a really weird phone and it doesn’t save any content I try to download via rss, youtube, downloading from your site, anything. It’ll just erase it all because it truly is the dumbest smart phone, but it does save spotify downloads. I love listening to podcasts when I’m out of range driving to trails, camping and hiking, so it’d be nice to have you on spotify so I can access you offline. Totally selfish and not ideologically driven in the least, but still my 2 cents.
Option #5 if you’ve had it with YT tyranny. Option #3 to expand your audience. Keep your primary content on free speech platforms. I found you through Meryl Nass during the plandemic years while I was researching Covid. I have recommended your site to others, including by letters to our local paper’s editor.
Always comments off. I am also for that. Just the video, no “social” comments from accounts with fake names.
My first thought was eff youtube. They need you and the other canceled content creators more than you need them. I wonder if that is a contributing factor to allowing the banned to return. Concentrate these voices back on a centralized platform and regain market share. However, CR is in the media business after all,so I think option 4 strikes the right balance. You can be seen there, and hopefully entice the interested back to your website, but not return to business as usual with these clowns. And as you say, eyes wide open that the plug will probably be pulled again at some point.
I enjoyed James’s falsetto on “Screw Youtube.” Almost Corgan-esque.
#5. But then I don’t have nearly 550k subscribers, hard earned subscribers at that, of which you have certainly earned and definitely deserve any profits they may bring. I support whatever you think is best for you, your family, and your work. It is a tough decision and all the pros and cons have already been listed in the comments. If you do continue with YouTube I think I agree with turning comments off. Just glad I didn’t go 4 years without you, and that you never missed a beat! Love you buddy, keep up the superbly amazing work!
Option #4.
Take the first 2-5 minutes of every video, fade out, show text “link full video in description”. Put link to vid in description.
– This may serve to filter out the sheeple.
– May serve to direct some bankster- money towards you.
Basically it would open up an opportunity to help your cause without becoming dependent on the machine.
Option #4
Option 4
You don’t own a Dsus2.
I vote for option #4. I think that’s an ingenious idea. Everyone gets a taste of what’s next on corbettreport.com. Plus you can still draw them away from turd tube!
I’m glad you highlighted my comment (NorsioNorsius) in the video – I am actually a long term viewer who has been following on bitchute/rumble and also a subscriber to your site. I remember the video you made a couple of years ago highlighting a fake corbett youtube account with other such messages, and was just having some banter.
#1 – No, nothing will have been learnt.
#2 – Definitely not – information overload. If they want, they can watch on the other platforms, and it would be a massive use of your time for the laziness of others.
#3 – No, because of #1.
#4 – Yes, divert the traffic away.
#5 – No, never say never.
But you introduced more variables with the past content option. I would say:
#6 Upload teasers to divert traffic away, and also upload to youtube the 10 most important videos from the past 4 years, with a generic repeated introduction hammering home the other platforms you’re on and where to find all of the content from the past 4 years.
It’s got to be Option #2, as jarring as it may feel.
Option 4
This way you maintain a presence on the platform and can bring new people to learn to use your website directly or the other platforms.
If you download everything on YouTube you may lose the traffic on your website and other platforms. And I don’t like the idea of submitting to YouTube’s whims, I feel it would show a lack of self-respect, or self-love, as some people say.
However, I won’t get upset whatever option you take, and I have no intention of even looking up your channel on YouTube. You won’t gain me as a subscriber there. I discovered your work during the scamdemic and became one of your paid subscribers and use your emails to watch and read your content, and I intend to carry on that way.
Thanks for reading
Option # 5
You don’t need YouTube. YouTube need you now
Option 4.
Reward the channels that didn’t shut you out.
Thank you for providing all the free content in years gone by.
This episode reminded me that we get what we pay for, and I have now subscribed.
You didn’t lose Youtube, they lost you.
Hi James, I would recommend option 2 but … without option 1 in there.
What I mean:
Start uploading content from where YouTube cancelled you and see how that goes, but not yet publish your new content in there.
1. This would be an ultimate test for YouTube censorship policies.
2. You will be faithful to alternative media and their users who followed you all along, by posting there exclusively your new content.
If that goes well, start uploading on YouTube new content again.
Option #3
#2 spread the word
Hi James, I’m inclined to choose option #5. The only reason to post on Goo tube again would be, no, not to reach more people, but to make more money, which I could understand and respect. I have come to view everything in a fatalistic way and feel that no matter what we do, what will be, will be. So, you might as well make some money off of youtube for your sake, in which case I would choose option #2. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love and admire your incredible, hard work, and look forward to every article and video you put out, but I think the 20% of us on earth that have discerning minds will find you, with or without Goo Tube. But please don’t ever stop, we need you! Thank-you!!
I think Dan Dicks is on the money
Option #3 would be my choice James
Hello James
Option 2 (though any of 1-4 would be okay)
You’ll be seen by more people this way and not all of them will be of the type who are too lazy and dilettantish to go to your website and save it. Yes, 80-90% of the people who will watch you aren’t worth the trouble, but no other platform has the potential to attract so many converts and subscribers.
That is the hard truth, unfortunately. Youtube, like all the big controlled platforms, is capricious, infantile, gutless, utterly unprincipled and probably does more harm than good, but the numbers speak for themselves. It is not as if you are paying to be on it; it is letting you back in so why not go back in and keep telling people how despicable it is and to go to your website.
Being too rigidly principled simply isn’t feasible. Consider debt-based fiat money, the bedrock on which the plutocratic system is built on at all levels. Do you give all you have away and use barter or some novel medium of exchange that is a little more equitable? Doing so would reduce you to a subsistence level of living – at best. And then what? Nothing would be gained.
The goal with all centralized means of control should be use it more than it uses you – a goal that is still fairly easy to accomplish on the big platforms, so go ahead, with all the caveats and warnings you like.
There is of course a sixth option – walking away and doing something you really like (like writing). Of course every subscriber wants you to keep producing, but the totality of what you’ve produced so far is monumental. Nobody would begrudge for calling it a day.
Post everything, more people will see your work, It’s got to be a good thing.
Option #5 + post “screw youtube” song, which will probably violate their crappy guidelines and get your channel to be deleted anyway.
Youtube has become a garbage kan. Content creators need to punish platforms as hardly as platforms try to make pressure on content creators. Have you recieved any apologizes? Obviously, no. Why then do you give them the absolute treasury of your hard work so they can promote themselves and propagate their influence on their viewers? They deserve being abandoned.
Recently you have posted a video “you are the power” and I think there is the same priniple in place. Is it truely yours second chance, man? I think it is theirs second chance and they are not even asking nicely.
They are trying to pick bricks of stone falling apart and may be get some people back, both from viewers and creators. And who knows how many dead accounts are there or how many bots are commenting. I wouldnt count on their trackers to be true or that the opinions there are opinions of real people.
This is what I think.
Thanks!
Option #2 – Option #1 + I upload all 4 years of back content.
Why not? If it only enlightens a handful of people, then it will be worth it. And fcuk the parasitic elite and their obsession with data gathering which some are concerned about.
Just taken a look at Youtube and my subscription is now active again. I see that whatever way you type in the search bar for The Corbett Report, the first 4 suggestions are “the Corbett Report (unofficial)” then comes the real deal.
Hi James,
Option #4.
It reaches You Tube viewers, but at the same time it weans them off You Tube.
Best Wishes, Janice.
I say go with Option #2
I followed your advice and now I use youtube for DIY, and music videos.
However, there is clearly a multitude of people who cannot be bothered to make the slightest effort to change their habits.
At the end of the day, the whole point of your videos is to try awaken people to the truth, so I think you should hold your nose, keep posting to Youtube and make sure your back catalog is available as well.
If a YouTube link to your “911 A Conspiracy Theory” ends up in someone’s feed and it opens their eyes, then that’s a Win !
Option# 2 Knowledge is power. Your information is too valuable. Get it by all means possible. Thanks for all you and James 2 do
Hi. Why suddenly is YouTube giving people back their channel? Is it some kind of trap?
When you guys started getting kicked off YouTube a few years ago I stopped using the channel. A few months ago I went back to YouTube to follow again content creator “home of alternative economics and contrarion views”, but he wants people to subscribe to help the channel. I don’t want to register, as it ‘s via gmail. It’s either stop watching or subscribe, a moral dilemna.
Would it cause you more work James, or stress waiting for the inevitable strike or caution? There is that saying, don’t negotiate with tyrants.
Option #2 and see what happens. I suspect they’ll issue a community strike soon, and you’ll need to reevaluate. If they don’t then, full speed ahead.
Option five, good sir. Given 2025’s race to snarf data on everyone, the risks far outweigh the possible benefits of the Corbett Report existing on YouTube.
My vote is #3. As a longtime subscriber, I’ll admit I have a youtube habit (with my morning coffee). The last 4 years Ive mainly relied on my RSS feed for your content, but that makes it hard to share with my predominately normy social circles.
#2 seems like too much work, but either of those are preferable for sharing content. As my farming grandparents would say, “make hay when the sun is shining”
Vote # 4! Teasers with your “Screw You Tube” ditty at the end of each vid.
I’d personally go option 4! Surely people can find your site! And if they can’t then maybe you are better off without them and all the bots that will be commenting silly pointless statements trying to bring you down!
Option #4
Reasons & Considerations:
1. “You are the product”: feeding the YT Beast with options 1-3 makes it easier for it to Digital Twin & whatever else with your content
2. Keep your shorts simple, low overhead, with common reminder or link back to the Extras Channel clip about why. Possibly just text highlights / bullet points of what is covered done in an enticing way
3. App’athy: users may be stuck in the YT app. Make it very easy for users to jump out of YT to a clear link of your content. Possibly have some way of measuring this, even sequestering actual “ack” feedback from users (acknowledge that they heeded your call to leave YT & seek you on corbettreport.com)
4. Stepping-stones: chances of finding the best way forward off the bat are slim & likely to involve a lot of trail & error & measuring. So it is more of a journey than a selection of the “right” option
A combination of 2 and 4 seems the best to me. Atleast show what you have been doing in the last years while instructing people to the other channels and specifically this website. That seems to most interesting to me.
Dear Mr Corbett,
During the four-plus years you were banned from YouTube (presumably for the heinous crime of breathing while informed), I kept up with your excellent work. Quality like yours doesn’t go unnoticed—even when it’s being algorithmically shoved into a dark corner by Silicon Valley’s Ministry of Truth.
That said, even for those of us who know better, YouTube still has a certain gravitational pull. And yes, I’ll admit, part of that is the lure of silly niche content—lawnmower repairs with spoons, piano-playing cats. That sort of thing. We all need a break. YouTube is like a pub we can’t quit, even though the landlord’s a tyrant and the beer tastes like recycled dishwater.
That’s the rub. Proper, gold-standard journalism like yours gets booted, while some bloke unboxing a USB fan gets ten million views and a Netflix deal.
So here’s my feelings: if you’re done with YouTube forever (and frankly, who could blame you), might I suggest just releasing the occasional “safe” teaser video that points viewers to your full content elsewhere? A quick tap on the shoulder for those of us still stuck in the algorithmic swamp: “Hey! You! Stop scrolling and come see something that actually matters!”
Because honestly, that’s the kick up the backside some of us need to pry ourselves away from the algorithmic mush and back into the land of actual news and critical thinking—but between modern life and squirrel-level attention spans, a nudge helps. YouTube may be a dystopian circus, but it still serves as a gateway. And if it gets more people to your work, then maybe it can do something useful for once.
Anyway, just my humble thrupence-worth. Thank you for everything you’ve done, both before the ban and since. Long may you continue to stick it to the madness with style, substance, and sanity.
I hereby declare, with all the pomp I can muster, that this is the option I’m going with:
Option #4 – Just upload teasers and shorts to YouTube to remind people you’re not dead.
Yours sincerely
Option #5 is for me. Love your work. Learnt so so much. Been a subscriber for over 10 years to Corbettreport.com. I don’t use YouTube.
James,
We would vote for #5. You put too much of your time and energy into making the videos that keep us informed about things that the MSM does not report! You probably know that they will find some reason to cancel you again, so why give them the chance?
My husband and I tried to get away from using YT by going to Rumble for the same videos we were watching on YT, Judging Freedom as an example, but we get lazy and just click the YT button, anyway! It is easier to do that, than hook up our laptop to the TV with our HDMI cord. Did I mention we got lazy?
We do, however, go to your website every Thursday night for NWNW without fail, using the HDMI. As retired “boomers” we look forward to all of your content and it really is accessible “all over the planet”! Our favorite way to “listen” is in our car on Bluetooth.
Makes a long drive more enjoyable. Tell the YouTube overlords to stick it!
But, if YT is essential for your platform growth, then do #4, teasers and shorts, but that’s all. Would that be compromising your credibility? (I will never, ever, ever…) Thanks for allowing us to help your decision making. The Emmitsburg Boomers
Option #4
This option allows you to reach out to a larger audience and re-direct them to your website.
Option #2. I would add a warning at the beginning of each videos to tell viewers that youtube is just another platform that you upload to, and put links to other platforms as well. Also warn that due to past experience youtube content may disappear anytime.
Don’t be a Johnny Youtuber James! There must be a hidden agenda for YouTube to reactivate your account that they vehemently banned when you were speaking the truth. With AI and the world leaders all in lock step on censoring free speech, I believe that they are looking to take total control of the internet by labeling your content conspiracy theories and they will shut you down even harder! With “Total Awareness”, we maybe looking at the end of the internet as we have known it! But James you must be a voice, even if it is a voice in the wilderness! I love your work, stay strong and continue to fight the man!
https://rumble.com/v63nvy4-trump-freedom-of-speech-is-for-foolish-people-trust-bill-gates..html
Option #2.
YouTube sucks but what is more important is that more people learn about how the world works.
Option #4, thanks for your work James!
Option #4
For someone who was pulled out after finding you on YouTube I say any option 4 or under is good. I agree with Dan. Option 4 could help to pull people away
Blimey this is popular!
I say#5
James, it happened the same with Sean Hross’ channel. “Giureh”. His old channel was deleted and then he created more channels. Suddenly like 6 months ago, it appeared again his channel!!!!!!
That’s unbelievable, and surprising, as he was harrassed by the Swiss government for his videos, as he said the truth of what was going on in Switzerland, this evil country. In all his channels he has maybe like 1,000 videos, Even he was in jail as political prisoner, the Swiss govt stole his child of 2 years old and he never saw him again, he doesn’t know what happened. The harrasment was so hard and evil that he decided to leave his family and go to France to live alone in a tent, in the forest. He complained with th UN and other institutions with no response, as some Swiss people worked there. He’s disappeared now, we have no news of him…. I hope he’s alive. He lived for like 8 years in the street or forest as it’s safer the countryside than in a city as homeless.
Hello mefig,
Thank you very much .
These videos are beautiful and fascinating.
Option #2
And I say this with the utmost hatred for big tech monopolies and what they have and are and will do. 5th generation warfare is waged by hearts and minds, and at present the theater of battle is where the eyeballs are.
Separately (and crucially) the problem of network effects of platforms should be addressed. But your information is too important and time-sensitive to sacrifice any marginal engagement and impressions.
Cheers, James. Been following with admiration for many many years.
Personally, I found you on YouTube well over a decade ago. It’s an effective way to reach people who may never be exposed to this kind of information. Over the last 4 years I’ve almost exclusively listened to you on podcasts. Going to the webpage only for documentaries, the fake news awards and looking for old info.
I’d say option #2 or #3 just to see how fast they kill your channel again.
Also, if you do #2 or #3 might as do #4. Short commercials for the website. I know a lot of people scroll through shorts.
#5 plus announcements about other platforms and comment on history and perhaps posts in response from supportive protestors like whitney webb, reinforcing disapproval of censorship and interference with content and pointing out unreliability of indirectly hosted material especially in an ai age.
Option #2. Time is running out. We need every possible avenue to maximize awareness. Corby is the best.
I’m inclined to say option 5……I actually discovered you on bitchute about 4 years ago. I used to watch yt but stopped about 4 years ago when they started deleting my comments and censoring channels. I shall not be going back there, on principle.
That being said, obviously you would find more potential new subscribers on yt, so if you did decide to return there then option 2 is probably the way to go.
Option 2.
We are at war with the parasite would be rulers and we need voices like yours James out there us much as possible. Use there own tools to expose them while you can.
I would go with option 5. They are censoring dogs and go against much of what you advocate for. I understand the argument for using it as there are 500k + subscribers, and like you said there are people who only consume your content there. How can these people not even just type your name into a search engine after you ‘miraculously’ disappear. It’s better to stick with your morals and what you advocate for over a perceived benefit of people which claim to be interested but will do nothing to find your work outside of the YouTube space.
#4, which likely will serve as a life-affirming welcome mat for newbies & the recently disgruntled. You have arrived to the place where your influence, whether sought or unsought, has become a necessary social nutrient; post your documentaries also! Just as a willing dupe like Zuck, or an intellectually deprived ex-dupe like Biden, apparently have the power to abrogate unto themselves certain abilities to condemn and reprieve, I hereby grant you a reprieve for any and all prior thoughts, actions, imaginings, and whims (specifically including everything that never happened). No need to thank me. THANK YOU!
I vote for 4 and then say specifically that you have put up full videos and documentaries on the other more welcoming sites like Bitchute and Odysee. That will get some people to check out the less censored sites, hopefully. And if there is any possible way – format a giant middle finger onto every single Youtube post. Because that is what we ALL think of them.
Kinda like a quarrelsome ex allowing you back in their life, despite you moving on. You moved on wonderfully and I’ve been a subscriber before then as your work is top par, academic level with resource references, which should be the norm, but unfortunately is too rare.
So sure, if she wants you back, hang out with her, use her network make more friends, until she gets upset and kicks you off of her platform again, at least you’ve demonstrated that you can live without her, so just roll with the blows, upload everything, and make it a challenge to see when you’ll get censored again, we’ll celebrate. Just don’t work too hard getting back with her, do things at your own easy pace, and don’t loose sleep over her hot and cold behavior, if she can’t handle the truth oh well that’s her drama, at least her offspring (subscribers) aren’t offended by it, and more may decide to leave the nest sooner, or keep uploading your work. Do it for the kids.
So all in all, nothing to loose (except pride perhaps), and more to gain, let her enjoy your company and make a fool of herself when she dumps you again, you’re the real catch.
Like before she’ll likely forget her hurt feelings after a couple of administration turnovers, and if not good riddance.
(I apologize to anyone for using gender specific language, I’m a guy so writing from my own gender perspective, YT could be a him, it, family member or a child throwing a tantrum).
Option 5; don’t waste your time with them; they will cut you off again at the blink of an eye if they ever get a chance.
Reportage is a great read.
Typically, I would say option 5. However, even though you said never again, I would consider option 4. Reach people, but do not give them a reason to keep using ThemTube for watching quality content. Maybe Brock can do something nifty with the stuff that is uploaded there. And talk to other people you know and trust. Maybe they also can upload their content in a similar “nifty way”. You guys might even start a small trend, so quality content creators can do a similar thing to get attention, and at the same time, driving people over to other platforms where people can watch the full content.
Option # 5, obviously…..
“…This above all: to thine own self be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man…
– William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 3.”
I expect nothing, nothing, nothing less from you, James Corbett.
🙂
Hi.
Unusual decision you have… on consideration I recommend Option 5.
Why?
It is the least amount of effort with the most predictable outcome. Everything else is uncertain. Surely you operate along the lines of a business and make rational decisions (e.g. if someone said “burn down your house and stand on top of the roof naked with a banner” you would say no”). Point made.
Your recent Youtube video brought me back to listening to you after about 14 months away (reason = life stuff). That is because I was an existing subscriber to both your old channels and the YouTube settings triggered a notification. You did minimal effort and got max reward (I subscribed to become a member the next day after some consideration).
On an aside… I think its a good sign that YouTube is sensibly sorting out its mammoth task of self regulating. But (1) it is a business making rational decisions in its self interest, (2) you are not on it’s exec board and (3) have no guarantee when new decisions will be made by a human effort or algorithm. Also, (4) past experience screams that similar censorship will happen again.
Feel free to contact me directly if you want to tease out this conversation further (I’m in New Zealand so the time zone better aligns with Japan).
Option #2
Typically, I am allergic to voting and ‘democracies.’
Actually, I consider the CorbettReport to be a benign Republic where I can become a voluntary citizen and play on its turf.
So, with all that said, I think that James should do what James Corbett wants to do.
Long live the Republic.
PS
Please “re-run”
How Big Oil Conquered the World
1.5 million views (1:11:26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySnk-f2ThpE
This should be required viewing in order to graduate High School.
I quote from the Big Oil doc to friends often. Absolutely essential content.
Option #3.
More reach, awareness, members, and book sales!
Option 3 for me. Carry on, with an occasional temptation to come over to Corbett Report and explore what’s been missed. Personally, I prefer the YouTube Comments system, as well. Filtering out dorks, trolls, and blatherers is easier there.
No idea how you manage to read all these comments. I think you should use YouTube, maybe option 1 rather than 2. That way you still reach people. I’m happy to look at people I follow on other platforms but the truth is YouTube is used by a wider audience, it has an app, is easy to use etc. and so even though people have been censored I have still used YouTube to follow the truth-speaking comedians and of course there are other things too such as beautiful music etc. etc. In this day and age where there are so many platforms life is becoming extremely complicated and difficult to manage. I can’t even list all the alternative platforms. So you will still reach more people on YouTube and definitely more and more people are waking up to this stuff. It is then their choice if they want to delve deeper and find more stuff on your website. That’s not an outcome you can control.
You may or may not be censored in the future but even YouTube’s CEO died due to jab? So maybe’s just maybe things are changing a little and maybe just maybe the future we all want can become a reality, the future where we do not have to pander to the YouTube overlords.
My vote is Option #2, there are still some good people out there that deserve to find your content. Even if it is temporary, it is worth the effort to spread this amazing information and perspective. It is how I found the website years ago, and I am very grateful for that opportunity.
Option #2 – and in the beginning of each video give a little reminder for people to follow you or subscribe in different platforms because Youtube deleted your channel for 4 years. You need to grow your base and you need to increase your revenue whether you like it or not. This way you will be able to weather the next censorship crisis better. Increase your followers.
I’m voting for option #3 for the simple reason of greater reach. People won’t become better informed until the message reaches them. However please disable YouTube comments and avoid the toxicity and distractions. Let the YouTube audience come here and subscribe if they want to comment.
Hi James,
if I were you I would not put too much time and effort into it, so option 4 seems too time consuming. Teasers also don’t work, because many people are just to f-ing lazy to do the next click. I would opt for 2 or 3, always adding a disclaimer in the shownotes, that people should not get used to you on YT, but rather subscribe to you elsewhere.
Unfortunately people do mostly what’s convenient, therefore I’d say use YT as long as it’s possible, but don’t waste too much time and effort on it.
Option #2 or at least #3.
If you go with option #3, you could upload the documentaries you have made since then and all of the Solutions Watch episodes!
Option 2; your work is extremely important. Putting it out there even with all the reasons not to, someone might hear or see it that it has a truly profound effect on and they might become one of us. We need everyone we can get.
#4 for a while as an experiment and then, depending on how the experiment plays out, #5.
Reasons: We have a scenario where there are thousands of clueless normies that have been sitting around wondering whatever happened to you and are too brain dead to go find your website. How do you know that this isn’t what the baddies want you to think? Google/ThemTube control the number of views/subscribers displayed. With this carrot, they encourage you to start posting again in hopes of adding to your number of viewers. What will you get out of that? Maybe more subscribers? What will ThemTube get? Advertising, Data Mining, AI Analysis and Training? So post short teasers and see how many real people use ThemTube as a portal to connect to CorbettReport.com. (Please don’t use those annoying tests where you click on all the images that have cars, trees etc. There must be some other way to know if the people watching your videos are real humans.) Also, how many of the formerly clueless people will actually subscribe at the ridiculously low price $12.00 a year? And do any of those new subscribers start posting suspiciously violent or hateful messages that could be a way of sullying your reputation, or will they contribute useful, insightful comments? So yes, use ThemTube to advertise the content on your website and then evaluate if its worth the effort that it takes to produce those short teasers. Also, now that I have asked the question, maybe you could post a video on ThemTube about how ThemTube exploits the people who use its “service”. Or have you done so already?
ACCIDENTS DO HAPPEN !!! upload all your content on YouTube so people can find your channel by accident like I did many years ago. If you get removed again, so be it. BUT IN THE MEANTIME YOU MIGHT PICK UP NEW SUBSCRIBERS FOR LIFE
Option 2
I’m sure its difficult to do after proclaiming never to do so again, but I believe the benefit of getting the message out outweighs a little bit of pride. All of your videos are beneficial and I think many would begin to use your website as their go to.
This is also your career, so if it can be a financial advantage for you and your family, you do it.
I’m a #2
Reach more people.
Dear James,
Although not directly related, your dilemma reminds me of some things we (a group of musicians with influences from across multiple genres) were confronted with and used to consider in the past.
“Music purism.”
Many people we met would be stuck with these limitations, something along the lines of “Hey, I listen to Heavy Metal, I don’t like Kenny Rogers” or insert any other genre and artist combo there, and the person would completely blank the fact that Kenny might actually be one of their favourite band’s heros.
“I hate the radio”
The thing that always got me most was when people claimed that they didn’t listen to anything played on the radio because “they didn’t want to let the radio dictate their musical tastes”. Thereby missing the fact that they were ultimately letting the radio dictate their taste by excluding everything that’s on it.
So, should The Corbett Report be on ThatTube ? Well, what is your goal with Corbett Report?
= Is it informing people and hopefully getting them to see the dangers out there?
= Is it making a point that people who are on ‘the right side’ of the info war, shouldn’t be on that video platform?
I imagine it’s the first, so I guess my answer would be: yes, no holds barred.
Perhaps with a notification 5 minutes in, along the lines of:
“this channel was censored by youtube for 4 years. To see all the material that was not released by youtube, visit corbettreport.com!… corbettreport.com.. never miss an episode again!”
perhaps with a really slick radio-jingle voice over, selling it well!
Good luck with the dilemma!
Another thing to consider:
Is ThatTube desperate and trying to lure back creators and viewers, due to the (although only partly successful) exodus to other platforms?
Who knows?
YouTube is doing to alternative media what Google is doing to GrapheneOS: Embrace, extend, extinguish.
well said!
Option #4 – Just upload teasers and shorts to YouTube to remind people you’re not dead. The ones who are really interested in what you have to share will follow the links to your website and odyssey and bitchute. And maybe some of them wake up to the fact that youtube is and has always been a tool of propaganda and you, James, might trigger a migration to other platforms who knows.
I vote for Option #1. With each video (or documentary) you can let people know the other platforms they can find your work, as you do now. I think it’s beneficial that as many people see/hear your work as possible, even if they are too lazy, ignorant or busy to go to your website, Rumble or Substack. Personally, I’m happy to be able to tell some friends about your incredible documentaries and provide the YouTube link for their convenience (though I have provided links from your website as well).
Option 2: I did not and will not follow you on YouTube. However, I did not and will not follow you on bitchute or rumble or anywhere else than Corbettreport.com anyway which does not mean those options shouldn’t be available for those who use them. You will be canceled anyway.
I echo mkey’s Option #6.
If it were me, I’d assess what actually feels best for myself first. Unless you need more supporters of your work financially, I wouldn’t waste any time on google services. There is so much work to do. The solution is to walk away and do the thing that is right within your means, in almost all cases of all problems within the institutional life. We need to spend as much time on the parallel structure we want to see as our reality. You are doing that. It is inspriring, slow going for sure. I mean, it’s inspires at least me, maybe the rest of this group on your site. And through me, I share with many people what I’m working on in life, and I see it, it inspires them too. We affect each other with our actions, and then sharing the stories of those actions. Truly, being excited about what you are doing is infectious. Creative and productive. If you are excited to be on youtube, do it. Otherwise, in the immortal words of mkey, “fuck em.” Actually I might even take it one step further, and close the youtube account entirely. Walk away. Stop feeding the beast, legitimizing it. It’s garbage trash, you know that. It’s not the solution. The solution is joy. Youtube is depression.
We need more people filling the internet with their own servers and content therein. As you’ve done and continue to do.
With all that said, whatever you do is the correct thing to do, so long as you freely made the decision to do so. Ownership of your actions and your life is so dang admirable. I continue to stand in awe of you, man. As usual, looking forward to future Reports via rss.
Long time listener here on the website. Don’t usually have the time/haven’t prioritized engagement on your website, but I think this is an important opportunity for you, so I got an annual membership just to leave feedback. I whole heartedly think that any option other than option 4 or 5 would be the wrong move.
Option 4 stands out as the clear outlier among all options. Give nothing to youtube and take everything you can. Only use youtube as a way to siphon off as many potential viewers as possible to your website and other platforms you can reasonably trust moving forward. Don’t worry about the “youtube only” people. You are not responsible for holding their hand through how to think and act. If they won’t leave to find your content, that is on them. Draw in those you can. I think doing the same on other major social media sites would also be a good idea. Heck, put your teaser content on pornhub if you have to. Leverage the major platforms as a tool that benefits you, rather than participate on their terms. Basically, exploit the system to advance your agenda. You are not required to play ball with any of them. This is a type of warfare.
#2! ALL THE WAY!
Option 2. I follow you on your own website and has only done that – found your great work during covid times. I want most people to hear your voice and I therefore go for option 2. You messages are too important to not be spread where ever possible. Give a shit in YouTube and what they are going to do at the next ‘crisis’, use the channel as best you can while possible – and make sure to always mention that you have your own channel.
Option #2 – Because you’re a teacher at heart and teachers teach when given the opportunity. Entertainers and their audiences are the ones that care about the venue…
Yesterday I tried to find a Whitney interview conducted by Neil Oliver (well it wasn’t much of an interview, he sat there gobsmacked by the knowledge pouring out of her awesome brainpan). And guess what? Yup, FaceCrack deleted it because it violated their terms blah blah blah.
So…what would the great WW say about your decision…I think I know the answer to that!
Option 6: Sustain the prophecy by deleting your YouTube accounts
Option 7: Monetize the accounts but in Shaun’s name so they’ll kick in his door during scamdemic #2
Option 8: Replace all your videos with Dan Dicks’ videos
Option 9: Install a listening device in your Silver Play Button then gift the thing to Media Monarchy
Option 10: Ask AI what to do
Seriously though, Option #2 is the most strategically wise.
Just make sure Shaun’s finger presses the upload button so you don’t have to renege on ‘never uploading to YouTube again’.
Also turn Science Says!!! into a series that receives a new episode every time YouTube strikes one of your vids.
About option 10: Ask AI what to do… Are you serious???
Watch this: https://www.bitchute.com/video/EG0LvSPGiSo
We hold these sarcasms to be self-evident
Option 5
I think a mixture of options 3 & 4. As you know, there’s a wide range of people on YouTube – some have the attention span of a gold fish who will only watch the shorts to start with, others will watch the full documentaries.
I would like to say just stick it to YouTube and be done with them, but unfortunately, at this point in time, its the best way to spread the knowledge to those whom need to here it. YouTube was where I found your work originally, so I can vouch for this.
Make sure you post a video to the main channel highlighting what happened in regards to your ban aswell!
I like option 3, seems to me that it is the smartest, most creative choice and most aligned with the mission of the Corbett Report, of the 5 options given. This choice gives the ‘tubers’ some guidance and keeps them in the loop as to the truth from the POV of the Corbett Report and its investigative journalism.
Perhaps the second best option is option 2, even though that’s a lot of ‘stuff’ considering how dense the youtube platform is already, and why add to the scrum when the weight of all the features and offerings there already could have a stifling effect on the ‘reloaded’ materials. The popular trends now on youtube seem to be for the short and concise formats that aren’t so lengthy. In this regard, option 3 is a good fit by utilizing the material and style that is more accessible to the users of the platform and thus ultimately more informative, accessible and useful.
1. Half show teasers….for the rest of this story come to Corbett Report. Maybe two full shows a week, the other daily postings would be 1 minute announcements of what is on Corbett Report today that you are missing. 2. The most “eye opening” past shows and doc films go on YouTube to educate the masses. 3. Bimonthly reviews of what you can find on Corbett Report when you join. 4. Weekly reminders that this YouTube wont last accomapnied by new information freedom suggestions, many of which you have done before. This approach seems
civic minded. You are not against the masses, you are against YouTube.
Option 3, new people have to start somewhere, your important work needs the ability to reach even the simple minded 😬
simple minded people are that way because people keep tying their shoes for them. let them get it done.
Option #4 or #5. If the current business model is working without YT third party involvement, best to engage with YT on a low cost / high value basis in future. Take from YT whilst limiting what you give to YT. Personally, I have been perfectly comfortable engaging with content via the website and email reminders.
Option #2
Change nothing for YT, care not for the platform’s chicanery, treat it as just another mirror. So you don’t have to fragment your attention, disable comments for the 4 year archive upload and future episodes.
Anything other than #5. “Available where videos are available, until they are not.”
Personally speaking there have been times when the only platform I had available to me was Goo Tube through the cable package at my parents. If it weren’t for the “unofficial Corbett Report” I would not have had access to any of James’ new content. Also many people who need to see this content only use them tube. If it meant “waking” even one person I would say it would be worth it. Option # 2
Option #3. Honestly, I spend over 80% of my time on Youtube, mainly because I listen to channels that do not post controversial content, like financial/crypto commentary. Or political analysis like Judge Napolitano’s “Judging Freedom”, Ron Paul, Breaking Points, etc. The Youtube algorithm knows what I like and makes relatively good suggestions. Although I have been a loyal Corbett Report fan/supporter for nearly 10 years, I don’t manage to see/read/listen to everything you’ve posted over the years. But I’d like to know the posts that in your opinion are exceptionally important. And if those pop up on my Youtube suggestions, then I will watch them on your website.
#4
Option#2
No reason not to use this time to get the word out to a much larger audience that is on YT that might stumble across your work, this only helps the movement, even if/when the channel gets banned again, get the message out to the vanilla crowd, unless it is very time consuming to do so, then I would do option#3 as the alt choice where just upload the most important topics that people that are still asleep need to know about from the last 4 years, even just to make them re-think and question what they think they know
#5
Option #2, The more places you spread your msg the better, plus keep reminding the people to go to corbettreport.com.
Option #2 is the best one from pragmatic point of view. Youtube is a big platform with better capabilities for getting and handling big audiences. On youtube you also have quite good auto captions, which are relevant for those which are not native with english language.
From non-pragmatic point of view, if you want to enclose yourself in a bubble, than ignore youtube and stay away from it with your loyal audience, but you will achieve nothing by that. It would be easy and satisfying for your ego to isolate from people you contempt, but harder (and more rewarding) to see them as your brothers and sisters which need to see some other perspective.
JMJ
Thanks for asking us, James! If I were in your position, I think that I’d opt for either #1 or #3: there’s still a limit to how much the average person can play on his device[s] of choice (who’s average, though? especially on BoobTube? Who knows!)
Maybe if you choose #1, they’ll search for the stuff from the last half decade; if you go with #3, maybe they’ll begin to wonder why they don’t see any NWNW videos for 4 years (since those are most time-specific).
I don’t think you can “go wrong”, though. No matter what you do, inquiring minds – or at least the open minds – should be able to see that something was up …and that something is still up.
Thanks for all you do: I wish that I had the funds to give more in my monthly donation. When I hit any sort of jackpot, I plan to give more.
God bless you, Holy Mary keep you, St. James guide you. Be well!
Option #4, but only if Corbett has an assistant (human or otherwise) who can take care of extracting and posting the teasers. (Of course, if he does not have an assistant, how will he have time to read and tally all the responses here?)
I do use youtube because some specialized reports of interest to me are only posted there, and the posters might be making a decent living from doing so. But eventually, if they make the ads unavoidable, I’ll use it only for absolute essentials, such as instructional videos not available elsewhere.
I think option 3 is the best. You never know who might listen to something that you said and it opens their eyes. There is too much at stake right now as they are working on their agenda. So many things that you said in the past that turned out to be true. Option 2 would be a lot more work or may be not. May be option three would be more work to go through an select the items you think should be there. Either way, I have been coming to your site and will continue to do so but definitively think that you will reach a lot more people on Youtube who could then migrate to your site after. Thanks for all you are doing.
I was gonna go with #5 Hardnose the Highway.
YiuTube do no evil, it’s a farce. Don’t bother to sign in.
So #4 then, use it as your personal advertising bureau with interesting shorts?
Option #4
– so that you don’t feed the beast (ad revenue for THEM, views, GOOD content..)
– also advantage that short intro content are less likely to be banned (not need all videos, just time to time)
– and I’m fed up with those morons who didn’t UNDERSTAND this censorship thing, so they don’t deserve content, they are no help for us to make a better world
– I switched to BitChute and Odysee as paying member in 2018, based on Dave Cullen’s (Computing Forever) recommendations
– when all my content creator guys were deleted on YT (Cullen, Dan Dicks, Corbett, Berwick, …), I heard it on the alt sites already, so it didn’t affect me
– I don’t even visit YT unless someone sends a link to see
– I registered as CorbettReport member to say this. 🙂
Upload everything from the past 4 years.
Upload censor approved clips/ shorts that encourage people to go to other sites for full story.
Mark Dice does it that way with his Locals account.
Fight the beast with their own weapons to the extent you can.
When you stop posting entirely is when their censorship game win most.
I assume you made your choice as i checked the bluetube site just to see, and noticed your’e posting there again, slightly disappointed! But I kinda get it I guess, not my choice to make. never again? Well maybe.
Option #4 and then some: – Upload teasers and shorts INCLUDING teasers and shorts to ALL 4 years of back content. Then down the road, how about a planned YT exit date? Or exit after you hit 1M subscriber threshold? Thanks for ALL you do and have done!
Option #5
For me it seems to be a trap: yt censorship continues to going on. Maybe not on you for the moment but on other critical voices. Policy didn’t change. So when they open your channel again definitely it’s in their interest, either money or control, who knows? It’s a matter of time when Saurons eye will get focus on you again. So don’t waste time and money as it is quite clear what will happen in the near future!
I my opinion Option #4 is the best compromise. This will force people to leave Youtube and go to your website to watch your video if they are interested.
Also a lot of your videos from the last 4 years are actually already on Youtube but under “the Corbett Piratestreams (Unofficial)” channel. So smaller audience but the video do appear in the search result. I think uploading everything will get you multiple strikes and your channel will then disappear again. At least at the moment people can find your videos on your resurrected channel.
Option #2 – Option #1 + I upload all 4 years of back content.
I agree, use the YouTube platform to get your message and truths out to the masses. Why not? You still own the content and yes YouTube can again censor you, but maybe they won’t. If they do, you lose nothing and probably gain more followers to your Corbett report.com
Option #5
I see that many people like option #4. I think a ridiculously small percentage of those who watch those little videos will come to the website. A ridiculously small percentage of that ridiculously small percentage will watch an entire video. I think virtually everyone will feel informed by the one-minute video and will happily move on to something else.
You could also argue that those few subscribers you gain (assuming you gain any) are worth it. On the other hand, from a less mathematical or numerical perspective, you also have to consider whether you’re doing harm by legitimizing, reproducing, and reinforcing this type of communication (you could also add colorful subtitles, right?).
Hi, James. I think you should post your videos on Youtube. I am a Japanese woman living in New Zealand. I am the Voices for Freedom coordinator in the town where I live. You were interviewed on Reality Check Radio, the radio station which Voices for Freedom started. Voices for Freedom want to reach “Wobbly Middle.” This is the numbers game. So they post Reality Check Radio highlights on Facebook, though they do not like Facebook. By the way, my parter was speaking out about mandates and lockdowns on Youtube, and had his channel removed 4 years ago. I told him that you had your Youtube channel back. He appealed his channel removal 2 days ago and today he got his channel and subscribers back. Thank you for the information.
Option #2. Get your information in front of as many people as possible. Make it simpler for those who follow you to do so in as many ways as possible, so they can continue to support you and share your work with others who don’t know it yet. Information and knowledge need to be shared to be preserved, even if it means wrinkling your nose while you do it.
wow. what a list of comments!!! if it were me sitting where you’re sitting i’d choose 5. but this is you’re livelihood. you don’t sell vitamins or anything else. (thank you) so i think i’d pick 1 and accept the next banishment.
I think #4 is the best option. It seems to be the trend of most who were banned/censored. No point in providing full videos on youtube just for them to censor…provide enough of a teaser with a clickable link in the video if possible for those who only know youtube.
#2 – A little late to the party, but I think this is the best way. As bad as YT is with censorship, its an easily accessible platform and the reach potential is too great to pass up. If they nuke your channel again, so be it, the new listeners gained from the uploads makes it worth the trouble of posting there again. Thanks for all you do, James!
P.S. We all love that other censorship platform, Twitter/X, at least I cant help myself, and would love to see you back on there too!
Option 4. Teaser to show them the benefits of getting good content not on youtube. This is a good opportunity to show people why they should get off youtube and on to good info.
#4 with short teasers but just for the rest of 2025.
Who not get it until then will not understand the 3rd; 5th …… xth chance.
What ever you decide, I’ll continue following you on Odysee 😉
Option #4 sounds like the best option.
Hi James, option 5 would be fine with me. Option 4 would be a concession to interested parties who have never heard of the Corbett Report.
But honestly, the viewers the Corbettreport has lost without YT, who have now been gone for four years, would they have made a difference? Do you really need those who suddenly disappeared just because Alphabet’s YT turned into a beadle? Did they even understand the content of the channel before?
option 5. make your yes yes and your no no. if i say i am going to do something and find later it is to my detriment it will teach me to monitor my tongue. we are filling out our resumes’ for the position we will apply for after we die. what ever you choose you have my deepest respect.
besides if any of the old viewers see the never never video and still do not get it then it is on them. never care about other peoples problems more than they do.
I like option 3- I think uploading your documentaries would be a good idea. I think they are the videos that are most likely to go viral and make their way to new audiences, and even as stand alone works they are strong enough to make an impression and change people’s minds without them necessarily becoming a follower or subscriber.
Ultimately, I don’t think there is a bad option. YOU will know best what to do and as long as it feels right in your gut and in your heart there is no bad decision.
I don’t want to sound redundant, but I believe that option #2 could be helpful. Yes, there are people that will leisurely watch your videos and may not take it as seriously, or even agree with everything. That is fine, though. You have gained over 500,000 subscribers on YouTube through hard work and dedication. Even if only one person is able to reflect and make profound changes in their life, that is worth it.
Just my 2 cents.
I vote for option 3.
do not underestimate how many people may find you on YouTube. most do not bother to follow a link below a teaser.
It is also clear that the content will be shadow-banned, the old times of the first and early decade of this century won’t come back. but still.
option 2 -cast broadly!
Full disclosure – I could not read through all the prior comments as there are many (which is great), and I really have to watch the kids.
And now I’m going to make a seemingly useless comment. But bear with me because I will progress to something more useful, and quickly. This is a very tough choice. I think the choice is likely predicated, for we, your commenters, upon a moral stance or “heart posture”, whereas I think also to consider is your reality. how much resource do yourself and your dedicated associates have and desire to pour into YouTube. I understand little of technical things, but I can tell what a hefty amount of work it would be to get years of work into the platform.
The subversive angle actually makes me think go all out, option 2, put everything up and sod them (YouTube) and their idiocy – maybe you can reach even one or two or a few people and change their lives and make them nose around away from the cyber lowlands.
The other side of me says 4. Little titbits and ‘good grief get your arse to my website, like I haven’t told you before!’
I guess even if people are culpable fools, we don’t cast judgement or sentences, right? From that angle give everyone all the chances you can without doing harm.
But then again – I have seen that really encouraging agency can awaken the same in those whose apathy can otherwise take over. Anyone actually interested in your work who is still waiting for you on YouTube has displayed great apathy, and a shove now to DO something (type in an independent web address! O shock horror!), is likely what they need. But we don’t know all the stories and neither do they, apparently. Ball in your court, James. I say 2 or 4 but either way, with the hefty dose of saltiness to the whole situation, that you have already displayed.
Hey James
I choose option #2 even if it seems like you are caving in.
When I got going on information from you and others like you I was avidly looking follow the pathway that was laid down by the continuous stream of episodes. I must admit I was disappointed when I found myself completely up to date with all available postings.
cheers
raddysh
Option 4 – shorts on Youtube, Instagram, TikTok, and X are unfortunately where the next gens are at.
Option #4. That way you get the YouTube audience, don’t really support or deal much with YT, and tell your viewers to go to better platforms, all in one short teaser.
I thought this thread got a lot of comments! I once again checked your youtube channel, amazed at the amount of comments on recent posts. Will James at some point explain his choice to engage in a platform he said never again about? anyway, whatever works i guess. I just want a bookend to this thread. Peace.
Option 4 + Telegram teasers …YT is losing good content creators given their stupidity, so don’t rescue them.
Many of us, look for alternate sources of information and Telegram is one important alt channel. IMHO having reminders there on your existance, is key.
Option 3
option #5
punish that youtube, do not associate with such bullies, why would anyone want to help youtube get more traffic?
Option #4 – Just upload teasers and shorts to YouTube to remind people I’m not dead.
I think if you did a combination of #3 and #4, it’d be the best of both worlds. Sure, you might see a little uptick in your income from the highlight videos, plus moving fwd if you use youtube to drive people to your own preferred site, then you will win in the long run too both ethically and monetarily as I’m sure it’s nice to be properly compensated for your hard work. It might be worth looking at Russell Brand’s savvy play of driving youtube viewers to Rumble which regardless of what you think of it has been successful based on the numbers of his Rumble subscribers.
Option 3 but turn off all YouTube comments a) for your peace of mind and b) to encourage people to subscribe if they want to comment.
If the aim is tease people away from youtube, by all means option 4. Anything else will keep the audience entrenched to the controlled platform.
As tempting as option #5 may be for the ego, I’d personally go with option #2 — along with a reminder at the end of each video to visit and bookmark your website, just in case the channel ever gets taken down again.
Had your channel not appeared in my recommendations at some point, I wouldn’t be as well-informed as I am today — and I’m truly grateful for that.
Let’s make sure others get the same chance.
Option 1.
It will be easy for you to do, and people can go to Corbettreport.com for the stuff they didn’t get. If they didn’t move over during the four years, they don’t deserve a free handout. If they realize they value it enough they will come on over.
If it wasn’t for an initial mainstream platform, I am not sure I would have found you, so there is value in that.
If YouTube turns into an advertisement for your website, it will annoy people and they won’t find value in becoming a member.
The only point of being on YouTube is to reach people, and there is a lot of potential there to do that. When people realize the value that you offer them, they will finally move over, especially if they realize that they have missed years worth of valuable content.
I personally prefer your website to consume your content over all the other platforms. You have done a good job.
When YouTube begun the censorship I thought that the solution should be every “risk” channel, in a coordinate and simultaneously action abandon YouTube and create a new independent platform while you were strong.
But you didn’t.
Instead many of you started funding campaigns.( Money talks)
And were slowly hunted by YouTube one by one.
I myself follow ( and I’m not exaggerating) more than one hundred of amazing channels on YouTube many hunted, many others still active, Its not only painful, but impossible to visit hundred of websites and watch YouTube videos to see what’s going on.
James is one of my favorites and many of his contents – like documentaries – are “exclusive” content, but there was hundreds of others great channels.
I still think that the solution is the creation of a independent platform.
But while it didn’t happen, I hope you keep your YouTube channel. Posting entirely every new content.
#4 – will make most sense to reenforce the fact that other channels are the preferred ones
What is the best way to reach the most people?
Option 3.
Nobody is going to watch teasers. Only use that option with controversial video’s.
Option #4 😉
reasoning: https://corbettreport.com/in-praise-of-sheep/
option #1
why give youtube special treatment and extra effort? doesn’t make sense to me. doesn’t deserve it.
give those sheeple special treatment? hmpf.
your website and mission I don’t think is just about funneling as much money or viewers. If you were TomWoods you would contemplate about what works best on which category of viewer, what attracts, who spends in the end etc. pp.
I mean his podcast is just a hobby too and he doesn’t care much about the numbers, – so:
I don’t think you either, thus go with the most convenient option: #1
no spite (#5) needed, nor treatment as children (#4), which you very often lament: that the dinosaur media doesn’t treat us as adults at all
mielia
Looks like the typical democracy victory with James choosing #1.
https://www.youtube.com/@corbettreport/videos
A mix of 4 & 5? Maybe simply upload a teaser/short video to YT once a month (even bi-monthly? the less work the better), to remind old and new subscribers that you are not dead. But instead of the ‘I’m never ever EVER posting here again’ message, just practically share a similar message each time, that:
– interestingly enough you are reinstated but you could disappear again,
– you have lots of great content that they have missed…
– and to go to corbettreport.com to see it all there where it is waiting for them.
Instead of wasting your valuable time having to create shorts all the time just for YT on top of all the rest you do. And if people can’t click on an easy link to your website below the video, to check out all they have missed, then I guess it is not that important for them to see it.
I’m sure you could make a short enticing and funny video to say ‘this way…. over here’ that helps them click on corbettreport.com.
Thanks for the invite to take part and share thoughts and for all the great invaluable content you create.
All the best finding the best choice that resonates the most with you in the end.
Option #3. Plus make sure you automate video uploads to all platforms you use, including your own site, with simply the option of being notified where it fails and the possibility to retry – this way you simply don’t care. By the way, if tech help is required here, please reply back here with no hesitation!
Option #3 sounds good! after I guess that making teaser is extra work – and does youtube deserve such extra treatment??! On the other hand: #4 makes sense in a way to lure people from youtube to a more trusted platform.
Option #2
#4
I understand completely if you choose option 5, but before you listed the options I foresaw option 4.
I am late to seeing this show. My choice is #5. There is no reason to encourage people to use You Tube unnecessarily.
Option #3: I think you can reach out to people that still doesn’t know your work better this way. At the same time you could keep directing your audience to your site and the other platforms.