>RE: not sure if she had any legit grievances...
Well, there's legal, common sense, and situational grievances. (Yes, there are just insane people too.)

But from what I understand is;
1)She was making videos and posting to Youtube.
2)She was making money on advertising.

Then some things happen like:
1)Some of her videos got "Age restricted" (lowering the possible viewers) because she was doing workouts and someone reported them as inappropriate and Youtube agreed.

But she was able to point to multiple examples of things that were very probably much more inappropriate that were not flagged , like Nikki Minaj videos where she's shaking her tits and ass all over the place.

She felt that with that evidence that it was unfair for her videos to be restricted.

Youtube being Google there is no way to actually argue your point - they have all the power and they provide VERY SHITTY anti-consumer support - UNLESS you are making them A LOT of money.

2)Then Youtube unilaterally decide to change the rules on which channels could be monetized and it affected her income by making it nearly 0. And even before this google's alogrythms for paymouts was pretty crazy. But let's say her 300,000 view video used to net her $300 dollars - she posted that it now only netter her 10 cents.

Now, we know (because we are smart and not angry as fuck) that Youtube and Google are shit-heels that don't give a fuck about you - they just want their money. they've structure everything completely in their favor and you have nearly no legal mechanism to affect it.

That's why I don't try to make a living by posting videos.

But to someone who was doing that - the loss of income (think of a hard-working steel mill worker who is laid off so the mill owners could take all of his money) and not having any avenues for relief could make someone really angry.

And some people get angry and depressed and that can lead to them doing a workplace murder. Seems like there's between 400-600 of these murders a year.

I'd say 99.9999% of the murders should not happen - and it's definitely not helping anything- but this seems more like a mental health issue more than anything else.

"Real" employers have HR departments and programs to try to prevent these situations - but they still happen.

I think you can see how these divergences might be legitimate (shooting people is not the remedy to this.)

>just seems wild to shoot up the spot over your videos.
Yes, but it seems she was doing it because of her money being cut off.

I agree - she should not have shot up the place.

But this type of thing happens hundreds of times each year - and its a problem that's likely to move to new technologies too.

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