My Xvideos Ending Story
2 years ago
Hi,
I think that quite a few people have already noticed that something is wrong with my page on Xvideos, so, in short, they have adopted new hidden rules (these rules are not in their official list), which from now on is furry content prohibited on their website. And the funny thing is that I received this information not from their support (they have been ignoring my letters for 2 weeks), but from open sources on the Internet.
Can I consider this as disrespectful to my person? I don't know. But what I do know is that over the past 3 months they have almost pushed me with the fact that I had to create a Sheer page on the site of their official partner, and then... I become a beta tester of this platform against my will, with finding a lot of errors in it's work, and informing their support about such (the site is generally quite raw, and support team where is clearly not professional, so, as a matter of fact - they did not answer me on any of my requests normally - they could not even add tags to me, which I asked several times, even as in the rules of their site is said that if I need additional tags - they will give it to me (all correspondence is saved, both in video format and screenshots, just in case)).
In response, for all the time I spent, I got what I got - my page on their site, in fact, is dead. 40 million views are hidden from my profile, as well as my videos, which will most likely be deleted in near future.
So my question is - WHY? Why did they do this to me? I don't know. But I'm definitely disappointed in everything that happened. I've spend a lot of my time with thinking that I'm doing right thing and my page will be fully safe after that. But about what I should think now?... Maybe it was just an attempt to collect my personal information, and I should contact a lawyer? ... Maybe.
Perhaps this is exactly the feature that will put an end to my work on creating videos. I don't know. I have had bad situations in the past (DMCA SPAM in past on Pornhub), but fortunately those were fixable situations. Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to influence the situation, which did happen now with Xvideos. But still - I can talk about it.
But I don't know what else to say. On the one hand, I am grateful to them for the certain popularity that their site brought to my content (although they made money on it, but nonetheless), but on the other hand, I feel that I was not treated fairly. After all, they didn’t even bother to answer me - what’s going on, although they took a lot of my time over the past 3 months (and in these 3 months I've had to re-edit and re-link in sony vegas all my 150+ video projects with adding small changes in them (who do working with sony vegas can guess - how long it is to relink about 150+ vids, if each vids lasts more then 30-40 minutes and has a lot of special effects), and reuploading them back on Xvideos also as Sheer as well. And one of the most *funny* moments - I've only did asked to add promotional link on my Sheer page (for some reason I couldn't do it myself - it's giving me some sort of vierd message, that link is already exist (even it's not), so I've had to contant their tech support with fix that. But instead of this fix - they just link both pages in one, which bring me a LOT of positive emotions and I was needed to remove a lot of my vids with hoping that they will fix my page after. But they did NOT. ))
In general, there are many different ideas. And I haven't decided yet which ones to focus on. Perhaps this is a great opportunity to take a break from everything and think about moving to the next level. I still have the ability and knowledge to keep doing a game project, and maybe I should focus on it. While of course - I have such an opportunity.
I also still have a Pornhub page, and although there is actually not much income there anymore - maybe I still shouldn't forget the first site that once brought me some popularity, and maybe that's not all, and more videos will be made in the future. In general, time will tell. And while I'm not in the best mood right now, but I think that when I come to my senses - perhaps - I will find the right solution and even benefit from this whole situation.
Thank you for your attention and support,
Your ShineSL
I think that quite a few people have already noticed that something is wrong with my page on Xvideos, so, in short, they have adopted new hidden rules (these rules are not in their official list), which from now on is furry content prohibited on their website. And the funny thing is that I received this information not from their support (they have been ignoring my letters for 2 weeks), but from open sources on the Internet.
Can I consider this as disrespectful to my person? I don't know. But what I do know is that over the past 3 months they have almost pushed me with the fact that I had to create a Sheer page on the site of their official partner, and then... I become a beta tester of this platform against my will, with finding a lot of errors in it's work, and informing their support about such (the site is generally quite raw, and support team where is clearly not professional, so, as a matter of fact - they did not answer me on any of my requests normally - they could not even add tags to me, which I asked several times, even as in the rules of their site is said that if I need additional tags - they will give it to me (all correspondence is saved, both in video format and screenshots, just in case)).
In response, for all the time I spent, I got what I got - my page on their site, in fact, is dead. 40 million views are hidden from my profile, as well as my videos, which will most likely be deleted in near future.
So my question is - WHY? Why did they do this to me? I don't know. But I'm definitely disappointed in everything that happened. I've spend a lot of my time with thinking that I'm doing right thing and my page will be fully safe after that. But about what I should think now?... Maybe it was just an attempt to collect my personal information, and I should contact a lawyer? ... Maybe.
Perhaps this is exactly the feature that will put an end to my work on creating videos. I don't know. I have had bad situations in the past (DMCA SPAM in past on Pornhub), but fortunately those were fixable situations. Unfortunately, I don't seem to be able to influence the situation, which did happen now with Xvideos. But still - I can talk about it.
But I don't know what else to say. On the one hand, I am grateful to them for the certain popularity that their site brought to my content (although they made money on it, but nonetheless), but on the other hand, I feel that I was not treated fairly. After all, they didn’t even bother to answer me - what’s going on, although they took a lot of my time over the past 3 months (and in these 3 months I've had to re-edit and re-link in sony vegas all my 150+ video projects with adding small changes in them (who do working with sony vegas can guess - how long it is to relink about 150+ vids, if each vids lasts more then 30-40 minutes and has a lot of special effects), and reuploading them back on Xvideos also as Sheer as well. And one of the most *funny* moments - I've only did asked to add promotional link on my Sheer page (for some reason I couldn't do it myself - it's giving me some sort of vierd message, that link is already exist (even it's not), so I've had to contant their tech support with fix that. But instead of this fix - they just link both pages in one, which bring me a LOT of positive emotions and I was needed to remove a lot of my vids with hoping that they will fix my page after. But they did NOT. ))
In general, there are many different ideas. And I haven't decided yet which ones to focus on. Perhaps this is a great opportunity to take a break from everything and think about moving to the next level. I still have the ability and knowledge to keep doing a game project, and maybe I should focus on it. While of course - I have such an opportunity.
I also still have a Pornhub page, and although there is actually not much income there anymore - maybe I still shouldn't forget the first site that once brought me some popularity, and maybe that's not all, and more videos will be made in the future. In general, time will tell. And while I'm not in the best mood right now, but I think that when I come to my senses - perhaps - I will find the right solution and even benefit from this whole situation.
Thank you for your attention and support,
Your ShineSL
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This is a shame as where I live had pornhub banned. Seems most of the sites I use are either banning users for wrong think or trying to remove content on their site..
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shittification
Here is how platforms die: First, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.
Really life getting shitty enough as is.
I found out about you through xvideos.
I was wondering what happened after searching for one of your videos..I'm sorry they did that to you..it's more of less just dumb they did that
Example this one: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/41799659/
In the description where it links to videos there you go.
Update: ok why the hell does that work..so they are there just hidden..
First I do think these hidden rules are complete bullshit. No site should ever hide its rules. It's one thing to change them and announce, but not hide and spring them onto the users. What's worse is that this applies to furry content no longer being allowed on their site. And I totally get why this is a bad thing in your case. All of your SL are furry so this is going to be a major hit. This also is a bad thing to other users there with videos I have saved links to, but also another group I can think of who might be posting their content there. Which is why I'm going to share this journal with them so they know.
That said, it's strange but the links that I have saved and that are linked in the description of what you've posted (All the images, including the stills I've done), they all still go back to the video on the site. So maybe they're hidden but still accessible just now harder to do. That is unless they get deleted. For now, they're still on there but only time will tell if they will stay up. If they can't be accessed one day even after clicking on the link, we have to assume they are deleted.
That said I think the way they tricked you is very underhanded and dirty. Whether it's by terrible luck you were picked or another reason, it doesn't matter. I think your channel being a lab rat for testing this is not cool. I really don't think it's fair at all your channel was chosen at all.
I don't blame you feeling disappointed, discouraged, or however you're feeling, When you work hard and loose all that stuff/progress, it's not a fun feeling. I know others who have gone through that, where suddenly all their stuff was wiped out or hidden. It's not a fun feeling as this has happened to me. Great example was writing a real good long chapter. Forgot to save and lost it all. Had to re-write it again but it was not a fun feeling.
That said, I'm wondering if there was a way this could have been avoided. It seems with other examples I'm seeing on the site, this was always going to happen. Could something had been done to avoid this? Maybe, but we'll never know. I would suggest a lawyer just in case as information stolen is never a good thing and should never be taken lightly.
Again as to why you got targeted, I can't say. It really is hard when all the work you put in just goes up in an instant. While the internet as a tool to share in general is great, it really hurts when all that hard work can be wiped out in an instant and with no warning or say. Especially when three months of your time was wasted on something that ended up in this happening to you.
Now then the question is what to do? While I'm no teller of the future, I can only give my best advice. Does this mean videos from you should stop? I don't think entirely. The good news is that even if X-Videos will no longer allow Furry content, the great thing is there will always be a place online for it. Pornhub is still available. I even know of some other places as of recent that might be a new place to start and to grow and thrive there.
On the other hand, I can also understand this situation certainly is not the best and why it would affect you negatively. I myself have had many setbacks in life with things, art included. It was tough pills to swallow with each situation but it gave me chances to reflect and think and plan. Taking breaks to think things through, talk to others, and plan are the best things a person can do.
All I can say that stepping back and taking breaks while focusing on certain area and things have helped. Doing so has allowed me to find new areas to explore and excel. Then the growth slows but it has helped me enjoy myself and then plan ahead like always with a much clearer picture. Either way I can say this. Take as long as you need to figure things out. Don’t rush back into the videos. When the time comes to do more, you will know as I do when it comes for certain things from me. Also as well if more needs to be discussed we can talk more by DM if need be. The important thing to remember is that while this is a heavy and unpleasant setback, there are ways to make it work for the best. And other places to post and show your stuff. I hope all of this has helped at least.
And yes, I understand that each site has the right to create its own rules, and can, for no reason, start this or that content that they want. But I believe that since they have entered into an affiliate program with someone, they should have at least a little respect for this person. They didn't do well with my content. Yes, they let me earn money and achieve a certain popularity, and in general, if before this whole idiotic situation with the Sheer, they would have written to me and said that they had decided that they could no longer support furry content - I would understand this. Yes, it would be sad, but in general - everything would be clear.
But what happened as a result? Three months of idiocy, constant twitching and experimenting with my page, which I so wanted to protect, which is why I went along with their desire to start a page on their new partner site (sheer), and then, instead of just adding a link to this new partner in my profile - they broke my entire account on xvideos, without any warning at all that they were even planning to do something like that. Then I faced complete non-professionalism on the part of their partner's technical support, where they could not even explain to me how exactly their Internet resource works, and how to fix errors that occurred when trying to edit the description of the video (the status was stupid - add a model, and do it It wasn't possible since they don't seem to allow virtual models (although it's funny that they also have them registered there, for example - anime characters). Then I completely found an error that, according to the new tags that they told me to use - the video that is imported from their partner to xvideos - stupidly does not match the selected category, and everyone falls into the same zone, from which an error is made, because, to For example - videos for gays cannot be placed in the section - for straight people. Well, in addition to all of the above - I had to re-upload more than 300 gigabytes of video (with adding the fixes in each video, with relinking them all once again in sony vegas, and it's takes TOOONS of time), and then delete them, due to the fact that, again, without warning, both pages were stupidly mixed up, and many my videos became duplicated. And after all those experiments - they continue to ignore my messages... And all of this after they received my personal information, and I have screenshots where they directly answer me that my content is suitable for their site and does not violate any rules...
And by the way, yes, these rules are also not written anywhere on xvideos, what is it all about - HIDDEN rules? For 8 years they were making money from my work, and somehow everything was fine before everyone else, but, again, if for some reason they decided to remove the furry content from their site, they probably still needed to show a little more respect, and just warn everyone about it?...
Anyway, I will have plenty of time to think, I have already saved both in video type and in screenshots all the correspondence between technical support of both platforms in case it is needed in the near future.
You're second statement with the site rules, 100 percent agree on that.
Yep that three months of pulling teeth, idiocy and for what? To have your channel take this huge hit? Yeah not cool. It's complete bullshit. Which I'll add on a side note anime characters being added as models is complete bullshit they aren't that in my eyes. Now using as a tag so people can find the stuff (Like on sites), say it's that. Don't call them models. Because some anime characters are far from models and horrible you'd never want to fuck.
Anyways, back on topic. Yeah and the hurtles to go through with error after error; god what a pain in the ass. And on top of that just ignoring you. And then somehow after 8 years now these new rules get implemented instead of announced to give people warning? Yeah not cool. At least FA and e621 as examples did it better but at least letting users know way in advance (Even if the guidelines people might not like them).
It's good though that you saved the stuff. Never hurts cause it might be needed.
know that I'll happily throw some money your way when you should consider making, like a "Best of" DVD of your older videos and, maybe offer it on Etsy or ebay.
Or here.
In any case I'm sad as people like you vanishing from video porn platforms basically means that I have no reason to frequent them any more.
I hope you will keep on making videos.
And then I'll happily buy a DVD or maybe there'll be the Shine Vixen or Anubia Plushy - anatomically correct !
Awful to hear that SL furry content creators are discourage to make videos cause things like this.
For what it's worth, I do hope you get something sustainable that you also love doing that doesn't screw you over like this.
...I mean, seriously, the hub and Xvids are porn sites, you'd think they'd only ban actually criminal stuff...
But if you need a break, just tell people and take it. If they are fans, they'll want you at your best.