Trend Report
3rd Week of June
3rd Week of June
The "Black Lives Matter" movement continues until now. On June 12th, another incident took place in Atlanta, Georgia. Rayshard Brooks, a 27-year-old black male was shot by the police and died. After receiving a report that Brooks' vehicle was blocking a drive-through passage at a restaurant, the police arrived at the scene only to find Brooks sleeping in his car. When the police tried to arrest Brooks of DUI, he resisted and ran away. Brooks stole a taser gun from the police and fought back, and one of the police officers at the scene fired a gun at him. Brooks was taken to a hospital but died. The news quickly spread out and people got even more angry. The restaurant where the incident took place was soon occupied and burned down by protesters, and the police officers who were at the scene are currently under investigation. The incident has served as another catalyst for the Black Lives Matter movement, which has lasted more than two weeks.
Destiny 2 unveiled its new extension pack "The Beyond Light," and "Minecraft Dungeons" was released in May. Sony unveiled its PlayStation 5 last Friday(6/12). Many contents related to games made it to YouTube U.S. Trending list this week. In particular, Destiny 2 hosted a YouTube live introducing their new extension pack. According to a report by Unity Technologies, outdoor activities increase and the number of game users decreases as it gets warmer. However, this year, the number of PC and console games increased by 46% and mobile games by 17% daily.
The third episode of the YouTube Originals "The Secret Life of Lele Pons" was released last week. Each and every episode appeared on YouTube U.S. Trending list after its release. Although many viewers support Lele Pons sharing her most personal issues with the public, there are also YouTubers questioning weather the show was fabricated or not. Those YouTubers suggested that the series is taking advantage of the keyword "disability" to form a sympathetic public opinion toward Lele Pons and cover up her past actions and controversies.
As the "Black Lives Matter" movement continues, African American artists are actively expressing their opinion and belief through art. Most of the videos on YouTube U.S.’s trending list are contents created by African American artists. Comedians, actors, singers, rappers and more artists are taking part in this movement through their own ways of art.
Some YouTube channels are keeping their own content and raising funds for the “Black Lives Matter” movement at the same time. Individual YouTubers are posting their own contents rather than completely changing their concept to join the movement. Instead, some of them are donating the entire ad profit to related organizations or using the descriptions box to encourage donations to certain websites. Rather than making up a completely new content on racial inequality, these types of fund-raising campaign indicates that these YouTubers are participating in the movement by means they are familiar with or good at.
YouTube hosted an online graduation ceremony for Class of 2020 around the world, who cannot attend graduation ceremony due to COVID-19 lockdown and social distancing. Related clips topped the Trending list in various countries, including the U.S. and South Korea. In particular, the edited version of BTS’ performance has received 1788 million views as of the fifth day of the upload.
Singer Rain's “Gang” is constantly being reproduced as a meme. Due to the belated popularity of “Gang," Rain, who has recently shot various programs, has appeared as a daily part-timer on the "Walkman" channel featuring Jang Sung-Kyu and Kim Min-Ah. The video ranked third in YouTube Korea’s Trending list. Also, the music video for the remix version of “Gang” produced by AOMG artists, rose to the sixth place in the Trending list.
Lee Mal-Nyeon, a web-toon writer who runs the "침착맨(Chim-chak-man)" channel, explained "삼국지(Romance of the Three Kingdoms)" on Twitch and the full video gained huge popularity on YouTube. The story is known to have a difficult and complicated plot, but Lee Mal-Nyeon explains it easily in his own words. Although each video is longer than an hour, there are many comments saying, "I ended up watching the whole video.”
A review video of steak and Pyongyang cold noodle HMR(Home Meal Replacement) products ranked 39th on YouTube Korea’s Trending list this week. It was uploaded by “Seungwoo’s Dad Daily Channel,” the second channel of cooking recipe channel “Seungwoo’s Dad,“ which is a cooking recipe channel. The “Seungwoo’s Dad" channel introduces easy-to-follow cooking recipes and has more than 590,000 subscribers. Besides the recipe channel, "Seungwoo's Dad Daily Channel" uploads various contents from games to product reviews, and has more than 130,000 subscribers.
YouTube released "Dear Class of 2020," a video of an online graduation ceremony on the 8th. The content was originally scheduled on June 6th, but was postponed due to the ongoing memorial service for George Floyd. The event, which celebrities and top artists around the world attended, was divided into nine parts and lasted about four and a half hours: singers Alicia Keys and Lizzo in the first part, Beyoncé and the former first lady Michelle Obama in the second part, BTS in the third part and so on. Each speaker celebrated the graduation of Class of 2020, expressed gratitude for people around the world fighting against COVID-19, and encouraged people around the world to fight against racial inequality. BTS’s part was filmed at the National Museum of Korea. They shared memories of high school graduation in English and Korean, and made headlines for their final finale performance in the Grad Party part.
"Lots of Glitter And shiii" channel was selected as this week's YouTube U.S. Creator on the Rise. The main content of this channel is to turn recycle trash into fancy interior accessories. The channel has about 34,600 subscribers and has an average of 10,000 to 40,000 views, but the video with the highest views has achieved 360,000 views. Most interior concepts in the video are silver, and videos turning old-fashioned or cheap products from Dollar Tree store into nice coffee tables have reached high views.
Yang Chi-Seung is a Korean fitness trainer who became famous after appearing in "I Live Alone," as actor Sung-Hoon's personal trainer and in "The Boss Has Donkey Ears". He runs a channel named "Yang Boss MakTube", and it was selected as this week's YouTube Korea Creator on the Rise. This channel first launched last March, and currently has about 78,000 subscribers with an average of 250,000 views from 15 videos. He stated in an interview that he named the channel "MakTube" because he wants to do whatever he wants in his own YouTube channel. The main contents are mukbang and workout routines. The video with the highest view is a mukbang show eating beef in the morning, which got 740,000 views in just two weeks. He barely talks in his mukbang videos, and onlyy eats a large amount of food. Half of the comments are in Korean and the other half is in English, from which we can infer that Yang Chi-Seung also gained much popularity from audience outside of Korea.
History channel's "King of Pain" program was listed on YouTube Korea’s Trending list this week. "King of Pain" is a program in which the casts experience the pain from a wild animal’s attack, from wasps to piranha and cobra. The final episode received 400k views over the past six days. History channel currently has 516k subscribers, which is quite high considering that it is an official YouTube channel of an organization. Another similar example of this is Discovery Channel Korea, which has gained great popularity last year. The channel added Korean style memes to programs aired on the official Discovery Channel, and now it has more than one million subscribers. In the beginning, many viewers seem to be confused by the fact that an official YouTube channel provides such unfiltered content, but soon they were attracted to this Korean style interpretation and reproduction of the series.
#1 george floyd criminal past: Minneapolis police officer Bob Kroll claimed the arrest of George Floyd to be lawful by mentioning George Floyd's past criminal records. Candace Owens, an American conservative commentator and political activist, also aroused controversy by stating that George Floyd was a dangerous man in the past.
#2 greg glassman: Greg Glassman, CEO of the brand "Crossfit," was criticized for posting inappropriate tweets about George Floyd on Twitter, which eventually led to his resignation and the announcing of his retirement.
#3 national best friends day: June 8th was "the national best friends day".
#4 edward colston: Statues of the 18th Century British philanthropist and lawmaker Edward Colston were demolished and damaged by protesters, as it was revealed that he played a major role in slave trade in the Atlantic.
#5 hartley sawyer: Actor Hartley Sawyer was fired from the superhero drama <The Flash>, when his past tweets that contain racism and sexual harassment were exposed.
#6 365 dni: The Polish film <365 Dni (365 Days)>, which was released on Netflix, became an issue due to some scenes with sexual content.
#7 adam rapoport: Adam Rapoport, editor-in-chief of <Bon Appétit> which is a gourmet magazine that has been under constant controversy over its discriminatory treatment of employee of color, resigned as such controversies were raised again.
#8 jk rowling: J.K. Rowling, the author of the <Harry Potter> series, recently was criticized for not recognizing transgender woman as a woman on her Twitter and leaving hateful comments about it.
#9 colin powell: Colin Powell, the first African American to become the U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor, made an announcement criticizing President Trump and supporting Joe Biden.
#10 ufc 250: Amanda Nunez and Felicia Spencer's title match at UFC 250 took place on June 6th.
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#3 천안 계모
#4 히요비
#5 대구 날씨
#6 สภาพ อากาศ ("the weather" in Thai)
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Four United States senators have called on the Federal Communications Commission to take a “fresh look” at Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a rule that protects websites from liability for user-generated content. Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Josh Hawley (R-MO), Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), and Kevin Cramer (R-ND) signed a letter to FCC chairman Ajit Pai, asking the agency to “clearly define the framework under which technology firms, including social media companies, receive protections under Section 230.”
The message reiterates a demand from President Donald Trump, who signed an executive order against “social media bias” after Twitter added a fact-check to his false claims about voter fraud. The order is probably ineffectual and legally dubious, and it’s already been challenged in court for violating the First Amendment. But this letter backs up its central point: that the FCC should sidestep Congress and the courts to create its own, more politically favorable definition of Section 230.
The letter argues that websites should assume legal risk for user-generated content when they “blur the lines between distributor and publisher by favoring one political point of view over another,” but it complains that “judicial expansion” and “a lack of clear rules” have allowed them to maintain broad protections.
In reality, Section 230 applies to any “interactive computer service” regardless of whether it has a political slant or produces editorial content of its own. Courts have taken an expansive view of Section 230, but they’ve also interpreted it fairly consistently over the past couple of decades. The FCC can’t simply redefine the accepted scope of a short and straightforward law — serious changes would need to come through Congress, where lawmakers have proposed several changes to Section 230, including one “anti-bias” bill from Hawley.
The letter comes shortly after Section 230 co-writer Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) published an op-ed in CNN Business defending the rule. “Social media — as a direct result of Section 230 — has been a huge megaphone for people who want to challenge those in power,” he wrote. “Trump’s attempt to abolish Section 230 is essentially a way of bullying social media companies so that he may post what he wants without any challenge.”
Over the last few days, a furor has been brewing on Twitch: out of the blue, streamers started seeing copyright takedown notices appear in their inboxes. The claimant was listed as the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and the infringing material was mostly recorded clips of old live broadcasts. And that’s a problem because it’s stated very clearly in the Twitch terms of service that if your account is dinged with three of these strikes, you get permabanned from Twitch.
The clips themselves were sometimes years old, too, which is a bigger headache because streamers who have been on the platform long enough have accumulated tons of these and now have a backlog rights holders can mine to file takedowns. Twitch doesn’t have the tools yet to let creators bulk delete clips, let alone sift through hundreds at a time that may or may not contain copyright infringing content.
Clips are an integral part of live-streaming culture: they’re short videos from a stream, no longer than 60 seconds, and they’re generated by viewers instead of the streamers. They usually contain the punchiest and most pungent moments from a stream; because they’re so short, they travel well outside of Twitch, which means they’re useful for introducing new audiences to a channel or streamer. (Clips don’t really go viral on Twitch. It’s not part of the platform’s design because of its lack of a traditional algorithmic feed.)
That means the streamers affected by the recent flurry of takedowns are theoretically in a lot of trouble. The notices have been sent, and now Twitch is required to take action — even if that isn’t fair at all to streamers. But because these notices are sudden, myriad, and targeted, it’s not clear exactly how this is going to play out. Twitch says it is now building new tools for streamers to use to take down infringing clips, which will help.
YouTube offered more transparency into which videos can run ads and which can’t, including pranks and videos that fall under hateful content, in a breakdown of its monetization guidelines published in May. One of the most important subjects addressed is when YouTube allows advertising on videos that contain “hateful content.” YouTube will allow ads to run on news videos about topics like homophobia, on “artistic content” like music videos that use “sensitive terminology in a non-hateful way,” and on “comedic content that includes jokes at the expense of marginalized groups in a non-hurtful manner.” What that means, exactly, is less clear. The Verge has reached out to YouTube for more clarification. There is some precedent to try to make sense of it, though.
The clarification seems to come in response to an incident last June, when right-wing YouTuber Steven Crowder defended a series of homophobic comments he made about former Vox host and YouTube creator Carlos Maza as “harmless ribbing.” YouTube’s executive team decided the comments didn’t break rules that would require the videos to be taken down, but Crowder lost his ability to monetize his channel as a result. Since then, YouTube has instituted a series of changes to its content and advertising guidelines. Crowder’s comments are not only prohibited by YouTube’s new content guidelines, but also clearly fall into the “ineligible for advertising” section outlined in YouTube’s guide to monetization. The more detailed guidelines aim to help creators “understand more clearly the types of content that advertisers may not wish to appear against,” YouTube writes. Creators are often confused by why they can’t run ads on certain videos they believe are advertiser-friendly, creating a back-and-forth between YouTube and the community. The detailed list seems like another attempt in YouTube’s quest to be more transparent.
There’s also been confusion around when YouTubers can run ads on videos about sensitive topics, particularly stories in the news. For YouTube, sensitive topics span subjects including wars, suicide, and terrorist attacks. Many videos that center on a sensitive issue are ineligible for advertising, but news organizations and channels deemed by Google as sources of news are sometimes exempt.
YouTube now says that “fleeting references” to sensitive subjects made in videos by creators are okay — for example, a video that references a sensitive subject but isn’t the focal point is likely fine for advertisers. YouTube’s guidelines also state that “an event must be relatively recent if it’s going to be considered a sensitive event such as the New Zealand Mosque Shooting.”
Many of the advertising guidelines outlined are pretty obvious. Sexually explicit videos, anything with heavy profanity, and content that glorifies dangerous acts including pranks that could lead to death aren’t allowed to run ads. Some of the content described as ineligible for advertising is often barred from YouTube by the company’s content guidelines — meaning creators can’t upload the video in general, let alone monetize it. Pornography, for example, isn’t allowed on YouTube and is also listed as a type of content ineligible for advertising.
The full chart of what’s acceptable, what isn’t, and the gray areas that YouTube moderators examine on a case-by-case basis are on Google’s Support forum.