The second day of Jose “Chille” DeCastro’s demonetized YouTube stream was not without controversy as the YouTuber premiered a new timer and display of doner’s names that mysteriously timed out, allowing counts of under a minute to freeze extend up to two to three minutes for the goal to be met for the hour.
As previously reported, DeCastro lost monetization last week after being skipped during the purges that happened at the end of August into early September. While his DeleteLawZ clips channel was apparently included in the purge, his main channel remained monetized.
On Saturday, DeCastro returned to livestreaming after being demonetized with an attempt to simulate a pop-up alert that others have used when getting super chats in the OBS software. That attempt worked once or twice before it broke during the stream and helper Friends in Code could not fix it.
Sunday arrived and a new system was in place. This time as donations came in, they populated a top ten list that reflected the goal that DeCastro had in place: 10 donations for $5.00 or more per hour.
There were problems with the system immediately. Early on, it was clear that the system wasn’t set up to handle DeCastro getting more than 10 donations from PayPal, Venmo, CashApp or his DeleteLawZ website at a time.
The numbers never expanded past 10 to accommodate the overage. It simply appeared that anything past 10 never made it to the screen. It celebrated by DeCastro as achieving a major victory each hour, with his excitement amplified each time he beat the ten “super chat” goal.
But then, there was the problem with time.
On more than one occasion, the failed Power Ranger was near the end of the hour and was nowhere near achieving his ten-donation goal for the hour. The timer would simply stop, and he would urge his fans to donate “with just seconds left” until the viewers can through with enough donations to meet his goal for the hour.
This was off-putting as in one circumstance, 10 seconds turned into two minutes as DeCastro pleaded with his audience that the countdown had started and he needed their donations to meet his goal for the hour.
Unlike other auditors, who have only threatened to put advertisements into their videos, DeCastro has also added his own commercials to his broadcasts. Yes, after hours on end of his live commercials for his products, he’s added pre-recorded commercials to fill his hours with advertising for the same products.
Those hours also haven’t changed. The inventor of the jock sock spends up to 10 hours at a time playing often recycled anti-police videos and expounding on what he’s going to do as governor of an unidentified state.
No one seems to believe that he’s ever going to be governor of anything, which is also not new. He also seems to be making no effort to qualify for governorship in any of the states he’s claimed he could run in.
Instead, he continues to share his outrage about the same tired subjects for hours on end.
Most recently, he’s been stuck on the idea that driving while impaired is a victimless crime that deserves no punishment. Instead, those caught should have their vehicles temporarily taken away and be sentenced to have dinner with a different family who has lost a family member due to drunk driving incidents each week.
While claiming that “hundreds” of families would line up to take part in this program, the diminutive pitchman seems to ignore the real lives destroyed by those who make the decision to drive while impaired.
Let alone the very real cost of human lives in the “victimless” crimes.
He also hasn’t changed his stance on freedom of expression, showing extreme intolerance for anyone who doesn’t subscribe to his point of view.
While DeCastro has chastised YouTube for cracking down on his first amendment rights to play violent and disturbing videos, his responses to anyone who questions his viewpoints are dealt with swiftly and without mercy.
DeCastro and his moderators are now notorious for proclaiming opposing voices as “boot lickers” and banning anyone who did not fully subscribe to DeCastro’s point of view. The future governor apparently showing his totalitarian tendencies.
Weirdly, one of DeCastro’s selling points for his newly rebuilt DeleteLawZ.com is that it is free of oppression. For your membership, starting at $5.00 a month, members are supposedly given freedom of expression and are allowed to interact how they see fit when interacting with other members.
It will be interesting to track as DeCastro faces more and more power over his message, his users and his future now that YouTube has very little interest in his product.
Much like our previous reporting, DeCastro’s last GoFundMe campaign, devoted to Oklahoma’s Heather Chandler, who he has all but forgotten, has not benefitted from his new mechanizations.
In perhaps the saddest update possible, our own On-Going Expenses fund won the day with $5.00 in new donations. No other campaigns that we follow saw donations for the day.
DeCastro is expected to go live each day for the foreseeable future. We’ll provide updates as developments warrant them.
This is a continuing news story.
