Quote from: 3dOOm on Today at 11:40:29 AM

What would you think of organizing a contest for the banner and the logo for the YouTube channel?

I think it's a really good initiative! I've touched the subject on my first reply to the thread - see section Fun ideas that could be good(or not] - but this has been a recurrent suggestion, in one way or another:

Quote from: Halab on July 27, 2021, 08:31:48 AM

In addition to what has been said, making small games/contests (price prediction, art contests, etc...) can be nice to win a small handful of BTC and/or why not a special badge (don't yell at me). As I'm evil, participants will have to post their answers on a dedicated topic on Bitcontalk (to avoid alts on YT and be at least a Jr Member or more to (almost) avoid alts on Bitcointalk).

Quote from: Hasan905 on August 05, 2021, 10:04:43 AM

Well if the BitcointalkForumYouTube channel can bring some content like them, I believe it will create a bigger kind of promotion online. Or maybe similar content, arrange a contest on any type of topic here in this forum (technical, content writing for BitcointalkForumYouTube, graphics work for BitcointalkForumYouTube channel, etc. which can be helpful for this forum and community) and put a big price for the winners. It can help you bring out some new talent, also help people show off their skills to the whole community here. Then broadcast the full competition on the BitcointalkForumYouTube channel. It will bring in both educational and entertainment content

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Quote from: Cyrus on August 04, 2021, 11:12:24 PM

We're also working on the channel's artwork. We'll likely need more materials so if you know any crypto artists that would feel inspired by the idea, point them here!

I don't know how can I help in this one, but I'll just try to ping some winners of the previous art contest that I've mentioned on my reply a page or two ago : @Meddzs , @RiseX , @horagames, @1Dq , @Karmakid are you guys interested or know someone who may be?

Nice idea, just let me add two other graph-savy users: @xhomerx10 and @jayce (fancy a Bitcointalk.org YT channel signature?).

I think that already a (shall we say) "modest" userbase can really benefit us regarding the amount of ideas that could come from it - and since this is for sure a channel that will be focused on the community as well, what better way to "celebrate" this "union" by showing a banner and logo made by one of our member or members? I'm sure that there's demand from one side (our as members) and we've seen in the past that we can came up with pretty interesting designs.

Quote from: funsponge on Today at 12:27:28 PM

(snip) Google has proven before that they do not care about freedom of speech and will only allow content that they agree with. The InfoWars example is the best demonstration of their ability to remove anything they want without any backlash because he was universally hated by most people. I suggested that this should be a concern because it has been done before and we are not thinking of any alternatives.

Here is one of the articles about the ban (https://www.npr.org/2018/08/06/636030043/youtube-apple-and-facebook-ban-infowars-which-decries-mega-purge?t=1628512317300) Alex Jones was banned off Facebook, Apple and Youtube in the same day. They cited "glorying violence" as a reason why he was removed but if you have watched Alex Jones he might be a bit crazy but he never encourages or glorifies violence.

I fully agree on that point of view - and we should be cautions with any kind of centralized platform but I also think that the current support that crypto (and especially BTC has) has far more reach and a support line that for sure would demand justification for the ban of crypto related causes and this is something that Google for sure will think twice before even stepping the foot on the measure itself (at least that's my point of view).

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Quote from: OgNasty on August 05, 2021, 11:38:12 PM

That's aiming pretty high, but if it ever were to happen I would love the chance to be able to donate something for the video or be involved somehow. Would love to meet Jimmy and the team. My current support has been confined to ordering Mr Beast Burgers and merchandise. It's absolutely amazing what they've been able to accomplish using YouTube. His philanthropy channel continues to grow and support more and more food banks.

Yeah, it was more in jest than anything. We are relatively small timers I guess, and I don't watch enough of MrBeast's content to know if he's even interested in Bitcoin? I only know of him, and the type of content he does. I believe he puts in almost all of his sponsorship earnings back into the channel, and that's why he's able to give away thousands, and sometimes millions of dollars per video.
Mr.Beast business model is quite interesting in fact - if you've got 10 minutes to spare you can learn more about it here[1]. Basically it's a "vicious" loop - he gets tons of brands interesting in his videos who, in turn, give him a lot of money to do something in his videos and he basically chooses to invest most of that money into the video itself making him : A - Attract a great amount of leads to due to how huge the amount of money he gives away in the video (which he always makes a focus to) and this kind of exposure makes even more brands wanting a "dip" of the recipe. Rise & Repeat ...

Going back a bit on the art contest idea - I think that if we want to have a launch / first teaser around September, we could use this month of August to run the contest - we can even make it in more than one phase, where in each phase a set of contestants advance to the next one and others are "left behind". This, of course, would be more applicable if the amount of submissions / participants were fairly large (which I'm sure will be). And we must remember that the summer is a period where in some parts of Europe there are people in holidays, and we could get a slight less number of participants due to this (which I don't think it's a considerable amount to postpone this event)

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CV0jN0P0Zi8