Video summary
Kyle Forgeard opens his reflection on Stevewilldoit's ban from YouTube by expressing deep confusion and sadness over the situation, noting how odd it feels to play their balancing game without Steve present. He acknowledges that while an official reason was given for the channel takedown—specifically regarding a gambling link in the URL—he believes this explanation is merely a pretext covering something more significant. Forgeard suggests that at the time of the incident, Steve had been heavily supporting Donald Trump and engaging in dark humor that YouTube's algorithms likely flagged as risky content, creating what he describes as a "ticking time bomb" for negative press regarding YouTubers. Drawing from his own past experience with a manual warning email during the COVID-19 era when they were filming at a college without posting anything themselves, Forgeard argues that YouTube is primarily driven by financial interests and fears of advertiser backlash rather than genuine content moderation fairness. He recalls receiving an unprecedented direct message telling them to watch their "off-platform responsibility," which served as a final warning before potential deletion. This history has led him to conclude that the current ban on Steve was likely strategic, using the gambling issue as a convenient excuse to remove someone whose jokes were flying too close to the sun and potentially attracting unwanted attention from advertisers or regulators. The controversy extends beyond just the removal of Steve's channel; Forgeard highlights the specific restriction placed on his appearance in NELK videos, which he finds particularly unfair compared to other creators who can feature controversial figures like Tate without immediate deletion issues. He notes that while their own channels have had content removed involving Trump or similar topics, they were uniquely targeted with a permanent filter preventing Steve's inclusion in future productions. Forgeard emphasizes that Steve is not malicious and genuinely wants NELK to succeed financially as Happy Dad grows into a billion-dollar company; his ultimate goal was always to help build the brand up rather than sabotage it. Despite the current restrictions, Kyle maintains that Steve should eventually be allowed back on YouTube once enough time has passed for the situation to de-escalate. He advocates for lifting the specific ban on featuring Steve in NELK content immediately, arguing that such a permanent exclusion creates an unnecessary and strange dynamic where one partner is effectively unpersoned while others remain free to collaborate with similar figures. Ultimately, Forgeard hopes that YouTube will reconsider its stance, allowing both Steve's channel to return and reinstating his ability to participate in the group's videos without fear of their entire network being deleted by editors on the back end who must now permanently apply a "Steve filter."
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talking about YouTube and stuff is it
weird having Steve Ian we bumped into
Steve this morning in the gym is it how
odd has it
been playing that balancing game now
where it sucks bro I mean you know Ste
like neel's not the same without Steve
like there's no and you can't show him
on YouTube there's no question about it
I mean Steve will do it was like he was
like the biggest one in NK I mean like
he was like he was more he was bigger
than me like at the time too like so
yeah it's it's a very weird situation I
I don't quite understand it I
mean I guess he was banned for like
putting a gambling Link in his URL but I
don't know I think I think that was just
an excuse something deeper going be
honest yeah I think I mean he was
repping Trump pretty hard at the time
and that that was a different time back
then too and then Steve is just like a
lot of people I don't know if people
know but he is one of the most like
naturally like funny guys in like his
own way like he has like very dark humor
and like I I personally love his dark
humor too like I think it's hilarious
but I guess there's just certain [ __ ]
that you just can't say on YouTube you
know what I'm saying so I think YouTube
was seeing like some of his dark humor
[ __ ] and they're like this is a ticking
Time Bomb waiting to happen and one
thing I've learned from YouTube too is
they don't YouTube doesn't like negative
press about about YouTubers YouTube
because that's gonna [ __ ] their right
right like their advertisers don't like
that press too so I know we learned that
um during Co during covid we were like
kind of traveling still making videos
and we showed up to a college um to film
something and we didn't even post
anything ourselves like we just like
went to the college and we were filming
but other people were taking Snapchats
of us and through that it gained a huge
crowd so it looked the all the Articles
were YouTubers host Mass Gathering
YouTubers this YouTubers that and we got
like a manual email from YouTube which
you never get you always know when it's
like automator right and this said like
hey nek boys which is like nek boys is
not even on our Channel at YouTube at
all it's like nek so and it was a custom
email that said you guys need to watch
your off off platform
responsibility which basically means
like
we're giving you guys one last warning
before you we delete you or they're like
or your Channel's deleted so at that
time this was and we're like Jesus like
we're walking on eggshells so I think
since I've had that experience it's kind
of
the at the end of the day they're just
trying to make money in that YouTube
office right so if they're looking at
Steve and they're saying this guy's
making a bunch
of crazy jokes close to the Sun flying
and like probably flying in the sun he
flies in the straight through it yeah
like his videos were hilarious like the
and the jokes that he makes are [ __ ]
hilarious so he was flying in the Sun
for sure probably right in the center
and I think I think they just used the
gambling thing as an excuse to be honest
yeah and
then I think Steve knows probably he
probably could have handled after the
the strategy of after getting deleted he
probably could have handled it more
diplomatic a bit more diplomatic and
strategic but still I think I mean for
them to take his channel down is just
like all of them is [ __ ] crazy and
then not only that to tell us that we
can't even have him in our videos so the
editors or or our channel will be
deleted the editors on the back end must
permanently have this Steve filter well
then it now it's created this weird
thing where it's like Steve also when I
met when it's like created this weird
thing where Steve's around and he
obviously wants you know he wants Neel
to be successful too and he wants Neel
to keep going he's not the guy that's
like yo put me in the sh put me in the
[ __ ] that's not him right our ultimate
goal was Steve when I first met him I
feel like was to just kind of like help
them and make them financially
successful and our main goal was to
start this happy Dad so that's Steve
Steve mind's ultimate goal is to build
happy Dad up into a billion dollar
company so Steve wants obviously nek to
be successful he wants us to keep
pushing happy Dad but yeah I really
think that they at least need to start
with letting him be in milk videos or
something else and it's weird because
he'll go on other people's
channels and like they won't pick on
they won't pick on those channels but
for some reason like why why is it only
us that you were told specifically that
he can't be in videos yeah we were told
very
specifically that's on the like on the
it's like a I know it's like somebody
being
unpersoned it's [ __ ] yeah and I I
think you could even bring Tate on you
know the most Tate gets deleted on our
[ __ ] too okay which is weird maybe you
can't yeah full s podcast Tate got
deleted but um I know what you mean yeah
it's just your Trump one got taken down
as well right the first one yeah but we
need I think we need in closing to that
we need to like they should let his
channel come back I think eventually
it's been long enough and then to start
they should let him be in like or they
like they don't let him be in Bradley
Martin's content like it's [ __ ] like
they got to let him be on YouTube now a
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