YouTube Round-up | Ayy, Must Be The Money

Enough lemons to open a lemonade stand.
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Well, it's been another banner week for YouTube! With a sense of timing that's as impeccable as ever, YouTube announced their new plans for dealing with "bad actors" on the site -- a threshold of 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watched hours a year that cuts off 90% of all channels from the partner program -- aka, monetisation. Said bad actors (meaning bots) are actually a serious problem on the service that only serve to greatly piss off advertisers who don't like giving away money for nothing, but in the wake of Logan Paul this move hardly went down well, making it look like YouTube were doing this as a response to that and punishing the majority of their userbase for the actions of the elite. Needless to say, things aren't great.

And yet, there's still plenty of good stuff to be found -- and as ever, it's time to highlight it here. A whole host of excellent YouTube videos that have been posted over the past seven days for you to gawp at. So free your mind from whatever's bothering you, and enjoy!

  • Stop Skeletons From Fighting, AKA Derek Alexander, is always a good bet for some solid reviewing fun -- and today he's put out a video concerning The Evil Within, a modern survival horror affair that missed its mark in some ways, but wasn't exactly boring for it.
  • Kelsey Lewin has a new video out that takes us on a little tour of the National Videogame Museum in Frisco, Texas. One of the most personable collectors out there on the tubes, and always worth watching.
  • When they aren't busy having people's lives over their low quality let's playing, Retsupurae often cast a wry eye over lousy games from the past. They've just started a new series on a gloriously funny yet often overlooked PS1 Resident Evil clone by the name of Overblood. Vote for Raz Karcy in 2020.
  • The thoroughly cracking My Life In Gaming lads have started a new series looking at Video Game Commercials! Their first entry gives us a look at gaming adverts from 1994, which I'm sure you'll agree is one of gaming's best years.
  • Nintendo have been wowing a lot of people with cardboard this week, but not the Top Hat Gaming Man. He's out here wondering how comparable the Labo is to the much-mocked Power Glove. Is it badass, or so bad?  

  • Super YouTube food channel Binging With Babish scored a much deserved 2 million subs, and has celebrated it by recreating the Every Meat Burrito from Regular Show. This process involves spending a ludicrous amount of money to create a frankly putrifying concoction, and is certainly worth a watch.
  • On a similar note, Super YouTube drinks channel Cocktail Chemistry recreated the One of Everything from The Office (US version), possibly the only drink that could be paired with an Every Meat Burrito as they are similarly disgusting. A fine companion piece.
  • LGR's got another classic PC on the go! A Tandy 1000, with a CM-11 Monitor. Just typing that out made me tingle a little, I have to admit.
  • A rather interesting little music video: YouTube guitarist/bassist Rob Scallon has decided to do his usual brand of harsh, djenty 8-string slinging metallic action. Only this time, he's recording it using 100 year old equipment that's more used to genteel crooning and light snare brushes. You don't see this every day.
  • Finally, there's nothing quite as relaxing as a good, long and simple Game Room Tour. As has become tradition, SeeJayAre is giving us his annual look around his Game Room, one that he would put up against any similar room in Canada. It's all good, but can he play NHLPA Hockey 93 on a 50" HD screen in composite?

And that'll about do it for this week! Hopefully there's plenty here for you to enjoy, and hopefully next week's YouTube round-up won't come with a preamble going through all the embarrassing shit that YouTube's done over the past seven days. Enjoy the videos!