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Just in case you do not have Disney+ Beyoncé has released her music video on her YouTube page Brown Skin Girls ENJOY!
Instagram beauty influencer slammed for ‘blackface’ photos: ‘I am disgusted’
A professional make-up artist and beauty influencer has been criticized after she shared photos and a video that followers accused of containing “blackface.”
Ghadeer Sultan has more than two million followers on Instagram who have been left shocked by the video, which she uploaded to her page on New Year’s Eve.
The Kuwaiti woman is lip-syncing to We Are the World 25 for Haiti sporting a variety of different colored wigs and skin tones, from light to dark.
“No matter where you are from or what you believe in, we are all children of this world, and we all share it together equally,” she captioned the video.
“Beauty comes in all shapes and colors, so let’s love each other and celebrate our unity. I love u all, happy new year #happynewyear #happy_new_year #2020.”
However, not many people were impressed by Ghadeer’s efforts and shared their outrage at her choice to darken her face.
“Darkening your face, regardless of the context or the circumstances, is always unacceptable because of the racist history of blackface,” one wrote.
“Black face really??? I am disgusted,” another said.
“This is just a straight up black face, which is very offensive and as an educated make-up artist you should know better about that, you want to show your abilities or talent on black skin USE A BLACK MODEL !!! Period,” another stated.
“This is the most offensive thing I’ve seen. You can portray togetherness without disrespecting an entire culture. So uneducated, this is beyond unnecessary and unacceptable,” someone else wrote.
Many begged the social media star to delete the video, branding it “crazy” and “offensive.”
“This is crazy. Delete it!!” one said.
“Black face ain’t cute, delete,” another agreed.
“This is so stupid,” one added.
The social media star responded to the heat by posting a photo wearing the dark make-up, captioning it: “I am not racist. I hate racism. What I’ve done is only to show what I am capable of … I love you all.
“Life is meant for living … living with love and passion for every one without thinking of what they are could really change your life … Think 2020 and live with passion for all peoples. Happy New Year.”
Ghadeer has refused to take the post down and continued to defend herself by sharing a video of a BBC News report on the controversy.
The initial clip appears to be inspired by the celebrity charity video made to raise money for the victims of the earthquake that devastated Haiti in 2010.
The song is a cover of We Are the World written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie in 1985.
Article via FoxNews
The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash (Official Documentary)
YouTube Originals presents The Gift: The Journey of Johnny Cash. Johnny Cash stands among the giants of 20th century American life. But his story remains tangled in mystery and myth. This documentary, created with the full cooperation of the Cash estate and rich in recently discovered archival materials, brings Cash the man out from behind the legend. Taking the remarkable Folsom Prison recording as a central motif and featuring interviews with family and celebrated collaborators, the film explores the artistic victories, the personal tragedies, the struggles with addiction, and the spiritual pursuits that colored Johnny Cash’s life.
PewDiePie pulls $50,000 pledge to Jewish anti-hate group after fan backlash
In a video uploaded today, Kjellberg said that he didn’t know much about the ADL when he made the pledge. It was only after uploading the video and seeing feedback about the organization that he admitted he “didn’t know a lot of things that surfaced throughout this whole thing about the charity.” He made the original announcement during an unboxing of a special YouTube Play button to celebrate surpassing 100 million subscribers.
“I made the mistake of picking a charity that I was advised to instead of picking a charity that I’m personally passionate about,” Kjellberg said in the video. “Which is 100 percent my fault.”
Kjellberg previously addressed the criticism against his donation in a recently deleted tweet, acknowledging that “making a donation to the ADL doesn’t make sense to everyone, especially since they’ve outright spoken against me.” A spokesperson for the ADL told The Verge at the time that they learned about the “potential donation when everyone else did: when he made the announcement on his channel yesterday.”
The original announcement about his donation to the ADL comes after Kjellberg stated he wanted to move past his former controversies. Kjellberg first drew global criticism for paying two men on Fiverr to hold up a sign with anti-Semitic imagery in February 2017. He was then caught using a racist expletive during a gaming live stream on YouTube. Most recently, he tried to distance himself from a popular meme, known as “Subscribe to PewDiePie,” after it was used in the Christchurch terrorist attack in New Zealand earlier this year.
Kjellberg said he’s still going to donate the $50,000, which he received as a sponsorship from Honey. He hasn’t announced which charity will receive the money, but said he plans to take his time with it. The Verge has reached out to Kjellberg’s team for further comment.
Update (September 12th 1:40pm ET): A representative from the ADL pointed The Verge to the organization’s previous statement, given yesterday. It can be read in full below.
“ADL learned about the potential donation from Felix Kjellberg when everyone else did: when he made the announcement on his channel earlier this week. We have not received any communication from him beyond that.”
Article via TheVerge
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Youtube’s AR Beauty Let’s Viewers Try On Makeup
Makeup tutorials and reviews are some of the most popular content on YouTube, as they help people learn about new products as well as how to apply them. YouTube is now kicking that experience up a notch with the introduction of a new AR feature for virtual makeup try-on right from the YouTube app. Called AR Beauty Try-On, the feature is designed to be used in a split-screen experience while YouTube viewers watch the makeup tutorial.
When available, the YouTube makeup review or tutorial video plays at the top of the screen, with a stream from your own front-facing camera below. Here, a YouTube viewer could access a palate of colors — like new lipstick shades, for example — and tap to apply them to their own face while the video plays above.
The feature is currently in the very early stages of development — alpha testing — and is being offered to YouTube creators through Google’s in-house branded content program, FameBit. Through this program, brands are connected with YouTube influencers who market their products through paid sponsorships.
YouTube says it already tested AR Beauty Try-On with several beauty brands, and found that 30% of viewers chose to activate the experience when it was available in the YouTube iOS app. While that’s not a majority by any means, those who did try the feature were fairly engaged, spending more than 80 seconds trying on the virtual lipstick shades.
M·A·C Cosmetics is the first brand to launch an AR Beauty Try-On campaign, which includes the ability for the brand to see real-time results from the try-on activity.
AR Beauty Try-On is the latest of several AR initiatives from Google, including also the recent launch of AR in Google Search and updates to its developer platform ARCore.
However, Google is not the first to offer a virtual makeup try-on experience. Beyond the fun makeup filters in various social networking apps, there are a number of AR beauty apps offering a similar experience to YouTube’s AR Beauty Try-On, including YouCam Makeup, Sephora’s Virtual Artist, Ulta’s GLAMLab and others. L’Oréal also offers Live Try-On on its website, and partnered with Facebook last year to bring virtual makeup to the site. Target’s online Beauty Studio also offers virtual makeup across a number of brands and products.
The difference with YouTube’s AR Try-On is that it’s really more about offering an AR-powered ad campaign, not just a fun consumer product or a tool for on-site e-commerce conversions.
The AR ad format launch is one of several new ad products Google announced today.
The company is also introducing a new immersive display format called Swirl for the mobile web that lets consumers view products in a 360 format. Swirl allows for rotating a product, zooming in and out, or playing an animation.
The format is only available through Display and Video 360, says Google. Brands will be able to use a new editor on Google’s 3D platform Poly to create their Swirl display ads. If they already have 3D assets, they can build a Swirl ad using the 3D/Swirl component in Google Web Designer instead.
Perfume maker Guerlain is using Swirl for ads that animate to capture consumers’ attention.
Another new format in Display & Video 360 lets brands run their YouTube live stream content in display ads, which can also be built with Google Web Designer.
The new tools will be available to brands and advertisers this summer, Google says.
Article via TechCrunch
‘Mars on Earth’
If you’re curious about what it’s like to live on the Red Planet, Google will now let you explore Devon Island, also known as “Mars on Earth,” right on your computer screen.
Google Street View recently added images of Devon Island, a giant uninhabited island on Earth, to its picture collection,” Fox News reported. This island, which has been deemed “unlivable” and is located in the Canadian Arctic, was nicknamed “Mars on Earth,” because its weather and terrain are the closest environments to Mars on our planet.
Google created a cool website dedicated to Devon Island, and noted how the, “polar-desert climate and barren, rocky terrain,” work well for researchers who visit the area each summer and would like to prepare for future Red Planet explorations.
The tech company collaborated with Haughton Mars Project (HMP) researchers to teach people about Devon Island. According to the project’s website, it studies different types of strategies, technologies, and training methods for future Mars missions. HMP also focuses on deep space, the moon, and near-Earth objects, which HMP says are, “key stepping-stones in the exploration of Mars.”
One of the most important areas HMP is studying is the 23-million-year-old Haughton crater, which HMP says, “resembles the Mars surface in more ways than any other place on Earth.” The Haughton crater, which was once occupied by a massive lake, has a 12.4-mile-wide impact structure and was caused by an asteroid. Due to Devon Island’s mostly cold and dry climate, the crater hasn’t suffered from much erosion damage. According to Google Earth’s Devon Island website, the crater is known as one of the best-preserved impact structures on our planet.
You can explore “Mars on Earth” and learn about Devon Island research with this Google Earth guided tour.
YouTube reportedly canceling original series as it moves away from premium content
Article via TheVerge
YouTube has canceled two of its biggest original series, and it’s not accepting pitches for new scripted shows, according to sources who spoke to Bloomberg. The sci-fi series Originand Overthinking with Kat & June have both reportedly been canceled, and YouTube no longer plans to compete with the likes of Netflix, Amazon Prime, and, soon, Apple on original programming.
The news comes as Apple is gearing up to make its own push into original content with today’s expected launch of a new streaming TV service. Apple plans to spend as much as $2 billion on original content this year from established Hollywood figures like Oprah Winfrey and Chris Evans. Initially, the service is expected to rely more heavily on third-party shows from channels like HBO, Showtime, and Starz as Apple builds out its own original programming.
At one point, Google had very different plans for its streaming service, which it hoped would offer original content exclusively to paid subscribers. However, late last year, reports emerged that the company would be shifting its focus away from subscriptions and instead focus on sponsorships and ad support for its future shows.
YouTube Premium (originally called YouTube Red) is expected to continue to be available, but its focus will be on music rather than premium original content. Along with including music-focused features such as background playback, YouTube has also commissioned programming about emerging music artists. Although original video content will continue, it will increasingly be made in collaboration with YouTube creators rather than Hollywood stars and studios.
Taco Bell employees captured on video beating up complaining customers are fired
Article via Yahoo News
Working in the service industry is undoubtedly a high-stress job, but there’s a big difference between begrudgingly accepting that “the customer is always right” and fighting customers in the street when they’ve complained too much.
On Sunday night, Feb. 24, a fight took place outside of a Taco Bell in the Center City district of Philadelphia, and the confrontation between employees and customers has resulted in terminations. The shocking altercation was captured on video.
ABC6 reports that Bryan Reese, a customer who was attacked in the video, had several employees follow him out of the fast-food restaurant after he complained about waiting for 45 minutes for his and his girlfriend’s taco order. He told the news outlet that other customers inside the store were complaining of wait times of nearly an hour as well.
Reese said that the employees were claiming they were busy with GrubHub orders and were not able to fulfill walk-in customers’ orders.
Eventually, three men working behind the counter became so bothered with the complaints that they hopped the counter and followed Reese outside, where his girlfriend was waiting. Both Reese and his girlfriend were attacked.
“I backed out of the store,” Reese told ABC6. “They continued to follow me. They put me on the ground, and I don’t really remember too much else. Except for when I got up my girlfriend was on the ground being beat, too. She wasn’t even in the store at the time.”
According to Reese, after he filed a complaint, the chain gave him a $20 gift card, but would not release the names of the employees involved so he could press charges. Eventually, they did release the names, but it is unknown if Reese has pressed charges for assault yet.
In a statement to MSN News, Taco Bell said: “We’re shocked and disappointed to see this situation; we and our franchisees do not tolerate this behavior. The franchisee who owns and operates this location is retraining its staff, and all team members involved have been terminated.”
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Putting its foot down… again — YouTube updates policies to explicitly ban dangerous pranks, challenges
Stunts like the inane “Bird Box challenge” are getting the ax
Pranks and challenges have always been popular on YouTube, but now the Google-owned company has set stricter guidelines for such content. A new YouTube support page details the company’s updated policy surrounding “harmful and dangerous” content to explicitly ban pranks and challenges that cause immediate or lasting physical or emotional harm.
“YouTube is home to many beloved viral challenges and pranks, like Jimmy Kimmel’s Terrible Christmas Presents prank or the water bottle flip challenge,” the FAQ post says. “That said, we’ve always had policies to make sure what’s funny doesn’t cross the line into also being harmful or dangerous.”
The updated policies page now highlights three specific types of videos that are prohibited:
- Challenges that encourage acts that have an inherent risk of severe physical harm
- Pranks that make victims believe they’re in physical danger
- Pranks that cause emotional distress to children
These are included with content like “instructional bomb making” and “hard drug use” as content that encourages or promotes dangerous and/or illegal activity. As with most YouTube policies, the examples given are not an exhaustive list, meaning that YouTube’s moderators will decide what is considered a harmful or dangerous prank when they review individual videos.
Channels that produce prank and challenge videos have two months to “review and clean up” any content that might violate these new policies. After that period, any videos that were posted before these new rules came into effect will be removed, but channels will not receive a strike. Going forward, YouTube will treat offending videos as it would any other video in violation of its Community Guidelines—multiple offenses in a short period of time can result in a channel’s ban.
Driving while blindfolded and ingesting detergent
YouTube is likely acting now in part due to the popularity of the “Bird Box challenge,” which dares people to wear blindfolds and navigate the world similarly to how Sandra Bullock and others do in the new Netflix movie. Numerous adults (and children) have been hurt trying to complete the challenge—one teenager in Salt Lake City, Utah, even crashed her car while reportedly attempting to drive while covering her eyes.
Prank channels were some of the most popular on YouTube a few years ago, and some continue to be popular today. Popular creators like Jake and Logan Paul often ride on the latest trends, creating one-off prank or challenge videos that get millions of views. The Bird Box challenge is just one of many potentially dangerous stunts creators attempt for views. Last year, YouTube pulled many “Tide Pod challenge” videos after adults and children filmed themselves eating the tiny detergent-filled sacks.
Prank and challenge videos have the potential to harm children and young viewers the most. Some professional pranksters are known to fake their stunts, but they’ve done well enough that young viewers don’t understand that what they’re watching isn’t real. These revised guidelines are YouTube’s way of telling these creators that this content isn’t welcome and they risk being banned if they don’t clean up their content.
In addition to the new rules surrounding pranks and challenges, YouTube updated its custom thumbnail and external links rules. Creators can no longer promote their videos with custom thumbnails that contain prohibited content such as pornography or graphic violence. Creators also cannot include external links that drive viewers to content that violates YouTube guidelines, such as pornography, malware, and spam.
Article via Arstechnica