i'm not sure if you guys have heard, but toy company boss fight studios has been releasing their own bucky o' hare figures that are far better than the original 1991 toys. you can check out their listing here. i might grab one myself next month!

Wow. No one's heard from Bucky in years!

Those are good looking figures Ben. 

COPPA has taken effect on youtube, here's a copy of the update email youtube sent:



Last September, we announced a series of changes that we’d be making to better protect kids and their privacy on YouTube, and to address the concerns raised to us by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). 

Specifically, that all creators would be required to designate their content as made for kids or not made for kids in YouTube Studio, and that personal information from anyone watching a video designated as made for kids would be treated as coming from a child, regardless of the age of the user. 

Starting today, we will no longer serve personalized ads or support features such as comments, Stories, live chat, notification bell, and others on videos designated made for kids. 

We know these changes may have significant impact on creators making kids content, so we’re committed to helping them navigate this new landscape. We continue to engage on this issue, including by participating in the FTC's open comment period. We know many creators have provided valuable feedback as well. 

If you haven’t already, please ensure you have set your channel (or individual videos) as made for kids or not, as this will ultimately determine how your content is treated on YouTube. 

Creators know their content best, and should set the designation themselves. We also use machine learning to help us identify this content, and creators can update a designation made by our systems if they believe it is incorrect. We will only override a change if abuse or error is detected.

Thank You 

The YouTube Team

the last sentence is very important, the "machine learning" bots they use can potentially change one or more of your videos to a young audience option if they see fit to it, so be careful. again, i'm setting all of my videos to "not for kids" by default to be safe.

Oh the videos the bots have flagged are a riot. Without going into too much, a lot of stuff not meant for kids, Youtube bots see as meant for kids. 

Benjanime wrote :

COPPA has taken effect on youtube, here's a copy of the update email youtube sent:







Last September, we announced a series of changes that we’d be making to better protect kids and their privacy on YouTube, and to address the concerns raised to us by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC). 

Specifically, that all creators would be required to designate their content as made for kids or not made for kids in YouTube Studio, and that personal information from anyone watching a video designated as made for kids would be treated as coming from a child, regardless of the age of the user. 

Starting today, we will no longer serve personalized ads or support features such as comments, Stories, live chat, notification bell, and others on videos designated made for kids. 

We know these changes may have significant impact on creators making kids content, so we’re committed to helping them navigate this new landscape. We continue to engage on this issue, including by participating in the FTC's open comment period. We know many creators have provided valuable feedback as well. 

If you haven’t already, please ensure you have set your channel (or individual videos) as made for kids or not, as this will ultimately determine how your content is treated on YouTube. 

Creators know their content best, and should set the designation themselves. We also use machine learning to help us identify this content, and creators can update a designation made by our systems if they believe it is incorrect. We will only override a change if abuse or error is detected.

Thank You 



The YouTube Team

 

the last sentence is very important, the "machine learning" bots they use can potentially change one or more of your videos to a young audience option if they see fit to it, so be careful. again, i'm setting all of my videos to "not for kids" by default to be safe.

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So an update from me, I'm pretty much setup for college. Just got a placement test to do and to wait till I can regester for summer classes. I got a few article drafts being worked on too. Kind of slowing things down for now and being more selective with doing social stuff to focus on schooling and whatnot. 

An exciting time TDitH! College will be a whole new world for you!

ThatDudeintheHoodie wrote :

So an update from me, I'm pretty much setup for college. Just got a placement test to do and to wait till I can regester for summer classes. I got a few article drafts being worked on too. Kind of slowing things down for now and being more selective with doing social stuff to focus on schooling and whatnot. 

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Rush drummer Neil Peart died.

i wonder what retrosnob has to say about that, she's a rush fan.

I'm sure Retrosnob's at a loss of words right now.