Did you know dog meat is served in restaurants in South Korea? I didn't. In the United States and most western countries, Fido is a family companion and while it's not ethical to judge another culture by our standards, anyone who doesn't at least (humanely) butcher the animal first is acting without proper care. South Korea relies on western consumerism for their economy and needs to be aware that we do not accept the practice of skinning and boiling dogs alive. Originally shared by April Benney Over 6,000 restaurants in South Korea are still serving dog meat even though it is now illegal. In many Asian countries dogs are boiled alive or skinned alive when slaughtered. It's an unbelievably horrendous & torturous way to die. I know a lot of you hate seeing this kind of posts on G+, but the Asian industry slaughtering dogs & cats is how I first got involved in animal rights & it will always be my main animal welfare concern. It's intolerable what is happen...
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It's basically Twitch.tv (which Amazon bought), but built on the YouTube platform (with it's billions and billions of ready-made views).
Subscribe to a channel, and you'll get a notification as soon as they start a live stream. This will be useful to me and some other people I know - even though I'm a Fulltime RV Dweller, and not a gamer. We host periodic Hangouts on Air, and right now the only way to let the people who enjoy watching them know is to schedule a Google Event ahead of time - but even then, you can't invite your whole subscriber base to the event, you can only send an invite people that you have circled. Having your ALL your subscribers automatically notified that you've gone live will be a tremendous boon. Right now, those of us that have 1500-20,000 subscribers will see maybe 20 people show up to scheduled weekly Hangouts on Air. In addition, We’re also creating single link you can share for all your streams. will be massively helpful, since there will only be one URL that subscribers would use to tune in.
It'll take a while for non-gamers to figure out how to bend the tech to their desires, but it'll happen, and it'll be good for the internet ecosystem.
When people want to know something (GTA V Reviews, The Witcher 3 Walkthrough "quest name", "How to replace spark plugs BMW R1100RS") etc, they go to Google. YouTube is Google - so with the launch of gaming.YouTube.com, as streamers migrate from Twitch.TV (or as they start to stream to both, somehow), that content will become infinitely more 'googleable'. The streams (and streamers) will show up in Google results, which will increase the discoverability of entertaining content, which will increase view counts.
There are already a handful of fulltime RVers who are generating enough AdSense revenue from their YouTube Videos that "YouTubing" is their job description, and those people have only 20k-ish subscribers, in a very, very niche interest.
If they can set up gaming.youtube.com so that gamers/streamers can monetize with AdSense, parents around the world will have to eat some "You can't make a living playing games, Billy (Hans, Yuki, Karen)!" crow.