No escape, no greater fate to be made

[matt1993]

One hour to go.

Dear everyone who has told me, or their YouTube followers, or whoever, that the YouTube COPPA thing is nothing to worry about:

There's enough of you by now that I can KIND of take your word for it. But I am going to be SO MAD if you turn out to be wrong and this is the end of YouTube as we know it after all.

Comments

[pathvain_aelien]

You are being silly. :)

[matt1993]

But it IS something to worry about. Because, if nothing else, it's already led to a LOT of people already leaving YouTube, making their old videos private, deleting their old channels, etc. And a lot of them have been forced to disable their comment sections (though so far that doesn't apply to most of the channels I wanted to watch). Also the majority of the channels I wanted to watch haven't uploaded anything this decade yet, so I still don't know if they're going to continue uploading or not.

This sums up why I'm still worried about it:

[pathvain_aelien]

No, it isn't. They will come back when they realize they freaked out about nothing.

[matt1993]

Also, in search of as much news about COPPA as possible, I've ALSO come across a bunch of controversies about particular YouTubers that have me worried