Fucking YouTube

[gwyn]

I'm trying to set my vids up so I can post them after they premiere at VVC, and I just had my Premieres vid, to Titanium for Peggy Carter, "blocked in all countries" and I can't test it out in public spaces to see if it's really completely blocked because I have to keep it private. I spent hours working on credits and a custom thumbnail for it and this vid was a major, major hassle to make what with my computer dying and getting the files, and now I can't even use it. I have been meaning to try to get a Critical Commons vids site, but there's no real control over the thumbnails and that's a hell of a lot of time wasted. And people really aren't going to even see it there, because all the traffic for fanvids is on YT these days. I hate them, but I feel like I'm just stuck there if I want anything to be seen.

The thing is, there are other vids to that song on YouTube, so this is just…arg. I learned a long time ago that filing a dispute does nothing, because whatever box you check, they say "that doesn't give you the right to use copyrighted work." Usually when I get a warning, I just do the "acknowledge third party content," but there's no option to do that here, it's just totally blocked.

I'm not actually sure what to even do here. This is so discouraging and frustrating. I don't have the spoons to deal with this, I really don't. (Add to this the fact that some people have been kind of snotty about Wasp Nest, and I just…why do I do this?)

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[gwyn]

If I can't embed the video, it won't get views. The video has to come from somewhere to be put into here/tumblr/AO3. Almost no one downloads the vids from my site. And I'm having trouble just finding out how to get the damn CC account, let alone get one where I can embed a video.

[cathexys]

Oh I see. that sucks! i'm so sorry. And I hear you on the embed, though I always d'load, so I didn't even think of that...

[gwyn]

Yeah, and even though I'm trying Vimeo, they've been banhammering everyone too and if it's banned on YT, it'll probably be banned there. And I was really pleased with it! Of course.

[cathexys]

Well, *I* get to see it on the disk but...yeah. That really sucks!!! I very much hope you get it up somewhere. I hate the randomness of YT!

[cesperanza]

You can embed from critical commons - nobody will go there to see it, but there'll see it at AO3.

THere are instructions at AO3 here: http://transformativeworks.org/projects/critical-commons

[gwyn]

I opened up an account but won't have time to learn the interface. And I mean, if things aren't on YT, for me, they don't get seen (not that they're seen much there, but at least sometimes they do)--almost no one watches my vids on AO3, I don't even know why I go to the trouble to post them there, honestly, there doesn't seem to be much of a point. I'm trying to see if/when Vimeo will banhammer me in the meantime. I leave tomorrow so I just don't have a lot of time for all of it.

BTW, they say hello. ;-)