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‘The Last of Us’ creators won’t restrict ‘Part II’ to one season of the HBO show
The first season of HBO’s The Last of Us wrapped up on Sunday night, and the show’s creators are already looking ahead to the challenge of adapting the second game. HBO swiftly greenlit a second season after the show became an immediate success, but that won’t be enough to contain the events of The Last of Us Part II, as Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann confirmed.
“No. No way,” Mazin said when GQ asked if the second season would explore the entire story of Part II (the interview contains spoilers for the season one finale). “It’s more than one season,” Druckmann added, though Mazin declined to say whether they’d need two or three seasons to cover the events of Naughty Dog’s sequel. In any case, The Last of Us is only officially renewed for season two, not a third or fourth one as yet.
As if the task of adapting the long, ambitious Part II didn’t already seem daunting enough, Mazin and Druckmann have an enormous new audience to appease. The show has been a huge hit so far. HBO said last week that almost 30 million viewers have watched the first five episodes across all platforms. We’ll have to wait and see if those folks stick around after [spoiler] in the chalet basement, but the show’s creators aren’t too concerned.
“I don’t care. How they react is how they react, that is completely outside of our control,” Druckmann told GQ in response to a question about the TV audience’s reaction to the events of Part II. “So how do we make the best TV show version of that story? That’s the problem that we wrestle with every day.” Mazin added that he’d rather viewers have a strong emotional response than an indifferent one.
Meanwhile (and here’s where we’ll get into some mild spoilers), the pivotal opening scene of the finale was originally conceived as part of an animated short, which didn’t come to pass. According to The Verge, Druckmann said he then spoke with an external studio about making a separate game focusing on Ellie’s mother, Anna, but that fell through as well. The show gave him a chance to revisit that part of the story, which features Ashley Johnson (who stars as Ellie in the games) as Anna.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/the-last-of-us-creators-wont-restrict-part-ii-to-one-season-of-the-hbo-show-150530168.html?src=rss
What Can’t You Say on YouTube? Its Content Creators Aren’t Sure
Whatever it was, it was enough to get the interview demonetized, meaning no ads could be placed against it, and my host received no revenue from it.
“It does start to drive you mad,” says Andrew Gold, whose channel, On the Edge, was the place where I committed my unknowable offense. Like many full-time YouTubers, he relies on the Google-owned site’s AdSense program, which gives him a cut of revenues from the advertisements inserted before and during his interviews. When launching a new episode, Gold explained to me, “you get a green dollar sign when it’s monetizable, and it goes yellow if it’s not.” Creators can contest these rulings, but that takes time — and most videos receive the majority of their views in the first hours after launch. So it’s better to avoid the yellow dollar sign in the first place. If you want to make money off of YouTube, you need to watch what you say….
YouTube operates a three-strike policy for infractions: The first strike is a warning; the second prevents creators from making new posts for a week; and the third (if received within 90 days of the second) gets the channel banned…. Although many types of content may never run afoul of the guidelines…political discussions are subject to the whims of algorithms. Absent enough human moderators to deal with the estimated 500 hours of videos uploaded every minute, YouTube uses artificial intelligence to enforce its guidelines. Bots scan auto-generated transcripts and flag individual words and phrases as problematic, hence the problem with saying heroin. Even though “educational” references to drug use are allowed, the word might snag the AI trip wire, forcing a creator to request a time-consuming review….
[T]alk with everyday creators, and they are more than willing to work inside the rules, which they acknowledge are designed to make YouTube safer and more accurate. They just want to know what those rules are, and to see them applied consistently. As it stands, Gold compared his experience of being impersonally notified of unspecified infractions to working for HAL9000, the computer overlord from 2001: A Space Odyssey. [“They don’t tell me if it’s Nazis, heroin, or anything,” Gold says later. “You’re just left wondering what it was.”]
The article notes that YouTube’s algorithm seems to flag people who are debunking misinformation as misinformation. (One study found that purveyors of controversial content simply stop worrying about YouTube demonetizing their videos, using them to direct viewers instead to their “affiliate” links offering commissions, or to their content on other still-monetized platforms.)
In just the last three months of 2022, YouTube made almost $8 billion in advertising revenue, the article concludes. “There’s a very good reason journalism is not as profitable as that: Imagine if YouTube edited its content as diligently as a legacy newspaper or television channel — even quite a sloppy one. Its great river of videos would slow to a trickle.”
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Online education platform Kajabi helps creators earn money for sharing their expertise
Kajabi, the video education and web hosting platform for content creators to sell, manage and market online courses, announced today that its 60,000 creators earned a combined $5 billion in lifetime gross merchandising value (GMV). The company claims that its GMV has increased by 528% since 2019 and more than doubled since the end of […]
Online education platform Kajabi helps creators earn money for sharing their expertise by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch