It happened. One of our videos got flagged.

ShoeplayJ · Post by **ShoeplayJ** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 7:37 am

Should've seen coming, I guess. I've seen and heard about it happening numerous times, to other foot people on Youtube, but always thought that our content would be considered tame enough to where it wouldn't happen. How naive of me. After a great turnout, with an increased number of views, for our new videos, I logged in today to find out that one of our videos, (a preview of a video we have for sale), got flagged and removed today. I sure hope that this isn't a sign of things to come, as far as our YT account goes. Is it true, that other foot people spitefully flag those who they view as competition, or that C4S does it? This just seems so petty to me. I'm preparing for the worst...

usuallyright10000 · Post by **usuallyright10000** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 10:17 am

I think the bulk of the flagging is almost certainly targeted, and coming from opportunistic parasites (though precisely what the strategy might be is unclear).

I've remarked on this before, but I call to you attention the fact that for several months now, someone has been uploading other people's videos, consistently on a daily basis, under several different accounts.
How do I know it's one person (or specific group)?

This pattern can be observed simply by searching "shoeplay" and sorting the results by upload date.
What you get, day after day, are a few novel results buried under page after page of videos that have already been uploaded many times before -and indeed are still up. So this is certainly not someone trying to restore videos that have been lost (with a few honorable exceptions like Danglingfan2)

So why exactly is this being done?
It would appear that someone, for whatever reason, wants to thwart or discourage original content providers by saturating the "market" with redundant counterfeits.

I would recommend fighting dirty, and flagging these clone accounts (if and when you've a spare moment) on whatever pretext is convenient.

These assholes clearly aren't fighting fair, so why should we?

One last thing, I suspect the people doing this are not direct "competitors" but rather have descended from the larger mainstream.
Again the motive is not entirely clear, but it is clear that there is considerable labor involved.

ShoeplayJ · Post by **ShoeplayJ** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 2:29 pm

I remember you. It never even dawned on me, to search to see if there were any duplicates of our videos, floating around. I too have no idea, what the point of all of this is, other than to piss off fetish video producers. The other possibility is -going back to what you said about over saturating the market- they're trying to make people tired of these particular videos, so that their own stand a better chance? If that makes any sense.

Ravenstein · Post by **Ravenstein** » Thu Dec 19, 2013 3:22 pm

usuallyright10000 wrote:It would appear that someone, for whatever reason, wants to thwart or discourage original content providers by saturating the "market" with redundant counterfeits.

I remember back in 2006-2009 if you search shoeplay you will find endless pages of original content.

Post by **nyllover** » Fri Dec 20, 2013 12:32 am

Our channels get deleted...periodically. It sucks...but still.... you more or less can't live without YouTube if you want to have a bit of promotion...