Popular YouTuber and streamer Charlie "MoistCr1TiKaL" has expressed his displeasure with YouTube's recent contentious decision on how to serve ads to its users. In a video titled, Youtube's War on Adblock Got Worse, the content creator criticized the Google-owned platform's decision to serve ads to its users during a video's pause screen.
He said:
"YouTube loves ads more than P Diddy loves baby oil. They have made so many decisions that all revolve around feeding people as many ads as possible, and in as many ways as possible. I'm sure all of you saw, a few days ago, they announced that they're officially fully rolling out the ads experience while a video is paused."
While throwing shade at YouTube calling this feature "The Pause Experience," MoistCr1TiKaL remarked:
"So, when you pause a video, you can be served an ad. They call it, 'The Pause Experience.' I love that nomenclature. That is so f**king silly! 'This is the Pause Experience, that's why we are serving you a Dunkin Donuts ad.'"
MoistCr1TiKaL speculates YouTube has a "dedicated" team that determines how to get users to subscribe to YouTube Premium, claims the internet is "unusable without ad blockers"
At the four-minute mark of the video, MoistCr1TiKaL speculated that YouTube has a "dedicated" research team that determines how to get netizens to subscribe to its subscription service, YouTube Premium, and to "break" various ad blockers available:
"I do think YouTube is probably having, like, an entire dedicated fish tank, all focused on brainstorming how to break uBlock Origin and every other ad block to force people into either paying for YouTube Premium or allowing ads on the site."
Timestamp: 03:55
Furthermore, the 30-year-old believed that the internet is "unusable without ad blockers." He explained:
"What I do know, for sure, is that the internet itself is unusable without an ad blocker. Period. Full stop. I'm not being exaggeratory. It is, literally, not possible to use the internet without an ad block. Go to any mainstream journalist website, try and read an article without an ad blocker, you will find, maybe, two sentences that are broken up by five ads, an auto-playing ad, a banner ad, audio ads that play in the background. You can't get any of the content on the internet anymore without an ad blocker."
MoistCr1TiKaL is a renowned figure in the livestreaming and content creation communities, best known for his Just Chatting, commentary, and gaming content. He joined YouTube in 2007 and now has an impressive 15.9 million subscribers on his penguinz0 channel.