Petition updateTo YouTube : Halt Ads on Doomsday Videos
Combined total earnings for top YouTube ad supported Doomsday Channels may be over $1 million a year

Robert WalkerIsle of Mull, SCT, United Kingdom
Apr 23, 2018
First thanks for everyone who has signed our petition so far. I thought some of you may be interested in this news, because it gives an idea of quite how much these users are earning from the ads, which might help .
Steve Olsen of WSO just revealed to Metro magazine that he earns $50K a year from his doomsday YouTube channel.
http://metro.co.uk/2018/04/23/doomsday-profits-youtube-nibiru-fear-porn-industry-exposed-7491040/amp/
Social Blade has the upper estimate as $20.7K for his channel. I hadn't had any way until today to judge if their estimates are right or not. It now seems that at least in this one case, it's an under estimate.
It's nowhere near enough data, but the best guess that we have, and so I thought I'd scale up all the other top earners in my list by the same amount and see what it came to. The result was $1482.85K a year
If you add in all the numerous lower paid channels + the ones that have the statistics set to private, it begins to seem likely earnings from ads on Doomsday videos are well over $1 million a year.
The reason this matters is that they make many people scared, with frequent panic attacks, and suicidal. In our Doomsday Debunked group on Facebook, and through PM's we often hear from people who have actually contemplated suicide as a result of fake Doomsdays. Many are young children, in their teens, still at school. Many are young parents with their first child, and some of them contemplate suicide too. It is awful.
When they eventually see through them and realize they are fake, still it has a huge impact on their lives. Some have become scared to leave their house. Many get frequent panic attacks and it can take weeks to months to over a year to get over it. Most are receiving professional help in the form of medication and therapy. And many say they had normal lives before this, and only became scared as a result of the fake doomsdays.
We think that if YouTube was to examine this carefully they would agree that these are not channels that either they or their advertisers would wish to support financially with ad revenue.
Do share the petition and this update, see if we can get some attention.
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