MANILA — They used to be channels their fans flock once the notification bell rings. Now they appear to stand as memorials, a way to remember both Emman Nimedez and Lloyd Cadena by.
The two local YouTube stars died within weeks of each other, leaving many of their millions of loyal subscribers clinging to the years of content that they had passionately put up. “This is no longer a channel,” a comment read in the final video Nimedez had uploaded. “This is a museum of a great person.”
But this begs a curious question: Will this “museum” ever close? Will the videos be deleted some time in the future, given the channel’s inactivity? What does happen to a YouTube channel when its creator passes away?
According to Google, there are two options regarding a deceased user’s account.
One is that Google will abide by the creator’s plans for it, provided they had mapped one up using their “inactive account manager” feature. This is the “best way for you to let us know who should have access to your information, and whether you want your account to be deleted,” Google said.
The other is to have a family or a trusted representative “make a request for a deceased person's account.”
Google wrote about this option: “We recognize that many people pass away without leaving clear instructions about how to manage their online accounts.
“We can work with immediate family members and representatives to close the account of a deceased person where appropriate. In certain circumstances we may provide content from a deceased user's account.
“In all of these cases, our primary responsibility is to keep people's information secure, safe, and private.
“We cannot provide passwords or other login details. Any decision to satisfy a request about a deceased user will be made only after a careful review.”
Three requests can be made: Close the account of a deceased user, submit a request for funds from a deceased user's account, and obtain data from a deceased user's account.
Nimedez passed away last August 16, after a battle with acute myeloid leukemia, while Cadena died this Friday. It remains unclear how the latter died, but its suddenness prompted an outpouring of tributes and calls to support his mother, given how Cadena has yet to pay for their new house.
The house was what Cadena really wanted to give his mother, who was an overseas Filipino worker, as a retirement gift. Prior, they had lived in the slums.
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MANILA -- Spotify has launched its first Asia-led original podcast and it stars Nuseir Yassin, more popularly known for his Nas Daily vlogs.
Titled "Nas Talks," the weekly podcast will feature the Israeli vlogger tackling "a variety of personal, timely, and controversial topics," according to a statement released by Spotify on Wednesday.
In the first few weeks of the show, Yassin will be joined by Filipino-American vlogger Wil Dasovich and Israeli historian Yuval Noah Harari.
"Going into podcasting makes perfect sense for the Nas Daily journey. It's hard to deep-dive into topics in less than three minutes and I'm looking forward to longer discussions with other points of view," said Yassin, who was tapped by the Department of Tourism in 2019 to show the country's beach rehabilitation efforts.
"Nas Talks" premiered this Wednesday, July 8.
With his new podcast, Yassin now joins the likes of Joe Rogan, Warner Bros., DC, PodcastOne, and The Ringer as content creators for Spotify Originals.
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NEW YORK - Eight-year-old Ryan Kaji earned $26 million in 2019 on his YouTube channel, making him the highest-paid creator on the platform, according to a list published Wednesday by Forbes magazine.
Kaji, whose real name is Ryan Guan, was already the video platform's highest earner in 2018, with $22 million, according to Forbes.
His channel "Ryan's World," launched in 2015 by Ryan's parents, is only 3 years old but already has 22.9 million subscribers.
Initially called "Ryan ToysReview," the channel mostly consisted of "unboxing" videos -- videos of the young star opening boxes of toys and playing with them.
Several of the videos have racked up more than one billion views, and the channel has received almost 35 billion views since its creation, according to data from the analytics website Social Blade.
Recently, the channel was renamed after a consumer advocacy organization, Truth in Advertising, filed a complaint with the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) about it.
Truth in Advertising accused the channel of not clearly denoting which videos had been sponsored, meaning brands paid for the video to feature their products.
The channel has also evolved as Ryan ages, now offering more educational videos in addition to the toys.
In Forbes's ranking, Ryan Kaji surpassed the channel "Dude Perfect," run by a group of friends from Texas who attempt seemingly impossible feats, such as launching basketballs into hoops from the tops of buildings or out of helicopters.
Dude Perfect came in second, up from third the year before, having earned $20 million between June 1, 2018 and June 1, 2019.
In third place was another child star's channel, that of Russia's Anastasia Radzinskaya. At only five years old, she earned $18 million.
Her channels "Like Nastya Vlog" and "Funny Stacy" boast nearly 70 million subscribers in total, with videos in Russian, English and Spanish.
At the beginning of September, YouTube's parent company Google agreed to pay a $170 million fine after the FTC accused the internet giant of collecting personal data from child YouTube users without permission.
According to the FTC, the platform used the data to ensure that advertisers were able to target children.
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