MeVue

MeVue is a video sharing platform what was created as a YouTube alternitive for content creators and watchers.

MeVue, is a video sharing platform originally created by Brandon Belcher on New Years 2020. The platform was created in order to combat YouTube's new very restricted terms with COPPA and copyright with the simple slogan of By Creators for Creators. After several months of MeVue running it was found out by Kenneth Cox that MeVue was not built off custom code made by Brandon himself, but was purchased PHP code for under 100 USD$. After a month of this infromation MeVue was no longer a video sharing website.

MeVue, is a video sharing platform created by Brandon Belcher on New Years 2020. The platform was created in order to combat YouTube's new terms.

Conception
Brandon Belcher's idea about the then called  'Project MeVue', was for a safe place to upload content and monetize it without having to go through YouTube's problems. Belcher himself, as a content creator with 25k subscribers, got demonetized by the platform.

YouTube, in recent years, requires 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 hours of watch hours in order to monetize, and is likely to demonetize videos and channels for the smallest of reasons. It also can't allow people to sell access to videos, only corporations.

Creation
Belcher created 'Project MeVue' as a Kickstarter campaign on October 7th 2019. The campaign has since been cancelled and hidden for privacy by Belcher when no one backed it.

The Kickstarter has been noted for not having proof of a working prototype and launching in no more than 2 months. The ability to sell videos at any price as an individual has been

Launch
Despite having no backing from the Kickstarter, Belcher still went on with MeVue, launching on January 1st 2020. As a MeVue creator, he still uploads videos to YouTube, but also uploads them to MeVue a day earlier

Influence on other social media platforms
On January 5th 2020, the MeVue subreddit was created by The Anonymous Frog. It has over 20 members as of February 19th.

Two weeks later, on January 19th, Kenneth Cox created the Discord channel, which as of February 19th, has 116 members.

Overview
MeVue is a relatively small platform, compared to competing platforms such as YouTube or Dailymotion. Many videos on the platform barely get over 100 views during the first month of operation.

MeVue appears to have been created using bought code, which allows anyone to make a video hosting platform with some assembly required, which Kenneth Cox also used to make PVC