Nerd City

About

Nerd City is a YouTube channel that reports on internet culture, producing video media commentary and education.

Online History

On June 26th, 2015, Nerd City launched on YouTube. That day, the channel launched its first video, "Ask The Devil: 'SHOULD I UNFRIEND MY EX ON FACEBOOK?'" The post received more than 62,000 views in less than five years (shown below).

On January 28th, 2018, the channel released it's most popular video "This Youtuber is Destroying Cities on Instagram!" The video received more than 3.1 million views in less than two years (shown below, left).

Several months later, on May 18th, they released "THOT PATROL: SSSNIPERWOLF," which received more than 2.4 million views in less than two years. The video is part of a series of videos about exposing streamers who lie online, in their steams and Instagram.

YouTube's Biggest Lie

On September 29th, 2019, Nerd City released the video "Youtube's Biggest Lie." In the video, Nerd City reported the findings from a study conducted, which revealed that YouTube demonetized any video that contained LGBTQ related words regardless of context. The study analyzed 15,296 words and phrases and replaced words such as "gay" and "lesbian" with "happy" and "friend." The post received more than 1.1 million views in less than three months.

Jake Paul Videos

On September 1st, 2018, Nerd City published a video entitled "PARENTS' WORST NIGHTMARE: Jake Paul." In the video, Nerd City accuses YouTuber Jake Paul of exploiting his young fanbase. He also asserts that the content is "illegal to broadcast in the U.S., U.K. and E.U."

One year later, the Federal Trade Commission issued a fine of $170 million against Google for violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which requires a minor received a parent or guardian's permission before using the service.^[1]

Following the announcement, some online blamed Nerd City for the update. Twitter^[2] user @InternetUnwind pushed back against this reading of situation. They said, "Im still confused as to why people are going after nerdcity as if this happening is his fault. As far as i can see jake paul and nerd havent been mentioned by anyone official in this entire thing. This happened because ryans toy reviews was heavily advertising and not being clear" (shown below, left).

On November 12th, the YouTube Creators channel published a video about complying with COPPA. The video explains that creators must mark whether content is made for children (shown below, right). They say that this content will effect YouTubers monetization. "From January, we will limit the data that we collect on Made for Kids content to comply with the law," they say in the video. "This means that we will disable personalised ads on this content (which affects revenue for creators making content for children), as well as certain features like comments, notifications and others.

Redditor ^[3] DepravedMutant wrote, "nerd city did a video that showed how the pauls target underage viewers which apparently is one of the reasons for YouTube's new regulations (The manipulative targeting of kids in general)."

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