no more youtube comments

society has moved beyond the need for youtube comments, etc.

Signed-off-by: Xe <me@christine.website>

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+title: YouTube Comments Discontinuation
+author: Xe
+date: 2021-11-27
+---
+
+Hello,
+
+I have disabled the ability for people to comment on my YouTube videos directly
+on YouTube and the rest of this will explain why. If you want to contact me,
+please email me at me@christine.website or any of the other contact methods
+listed at christine.website/contact.
+
+I use YouTube as a glorified file host for my videos. I use YouTube for this
+because YouTube seems to have the longest staying power and seems to be stable
+enough that I can rely on YouTube being the only copy of some of my older
+videos. As such, I don't totally actively monitor YouTube beyond what I get
+emails about. I'm thankful for the amount of support and for most of the
+comments I get on YouTube, but there are also some other things that come up
+that make me have to change my stance.
+
+Being a visibly transgender person on the internet is a chore. I've managed to
+extract myself from online spaces with people that actively abuse me and I
+adjust settings aggressively to prevent future harassment. My Twitter account
+has an app attached to it that mutes everyone I don't follow in an effort to try
+to curb the hate I get that way. I think my Twitter blocklist is almost at 2000
+entries now.
+
+I recently got a YouTube comment that I am going to quote in its entirety:
+
+> Nice video, you he she furry cunt.
+
+This is the kind of abuse that transgender people get on the internet, and I
+really really don't want to be in a position where I have to moderate this. I
+also don't want to have to have anyone I know moderate it. So my only real
+option is to close the YouTube comments on my videos in an effort to stop
+further hate. It is sad that I feel like I have no other option, I have gotten a
+vast majority of positive, topical and otherwise insightful comments. However
+YouTube comments are an environmental sacrifice zone. I do not want to propagate
+hate in my inattention to what random people do to a social aspect of a filehost
+that I just happen to use for videos.
+
+If you see something that I say in a video and want to comment on it, please
+contact me through other means than YouTube comments. If I don't reply instantly
+on Twitter, I'll reply once I do a regular review of my lockout folder in Block
+Party. The more reliable way is going to be to email me though.
+
+Be well to eachother, and please do what you can to avoid letting hate propagate.
+
+I have one extra aside for the author of that comment I quoted: If the author of
+that comment is watching this video or reading this article: making those
+comments at the expense of other people is not funny. It is not edgy. It is not
+cute, and it is not a good way to get yourself known and it is a fantastic way
+to end up alone in life.