your YouTube videos will get monetized faster if you honestly fill in the ad suitability form. Look, my videos will monetize faster. YouTube said I've been doing good work filling out this questionnaire accurately for my previous videos. And after some time for us, it took months. We got this message saying our videos will monetize faster. We will earn more money and save time requesting reviews. Do you do this as well? Answer these questions honestly. Have you gotten this? Keep up the good work when you upload a video in the ad suitability section of the new YouTube uploader. That's a mouthful. Tell us down there in the comments below how long it took you to see this notice. Now let's go over the key points. You have to fill in this questionnaire for every video you upload. And if you answer it honestly and consistently, then you will get your videos monetized faster. All of this is documented on the YouTube help article right here. These are the advertiser friendly guidelines. The link is down there in the description below where I encourage you to read everything carefully about all of these topics to see if they relate to your videos. There is another article, the link is down there in the description below, about rating your content with self-certification, also an official YouTube help article, which talks about similar things. But there is different tips and I recommend you read both articles carefully. This is very important guys because monetization is the key to you going full-time. You want to make as much money as possible from your content and that's how you can follow your passion so that this business will pay all your bills making videos. Pays all my bills. I've been a full-time YouTuber now for many years. I took a different path than most of you. Instead of just focusing on creating videos, I created freedom. The MCN that helps all of us grow together as a family. I was going to say it helps you grow but it actually helps everyone grow together. YouTube hired 10,000 new people two years ago as announced on the official blog to do human reviews of channels since 2018. Now fun fact, I just noticed this, there's a 30 million subscriber channel at youtube.com slash youtube. YouTube.com slash user slash youtube. This is it. Is this a real channel? It says I'm subscribed. I don't remember subscribing to this channel. It might be an auto-generated channel. Tell me what you think in the comments below guys. But I digress. Back to the topic. This is the first time YouTube has ever transparently communicated all of its monetization policies and exactly which content gives you limited ads versus no ads versus full ads. I think this is a great step in the direction of transparency and I hope YouTube will continue updating these policies and telling us when they change in the future. Now let's read some of your deserving comments and I have a new strategy of how I read comments. Every time I pick a comment to feature on the George show, I will also show the YouTube channel who made the comment. Let's start. Retaliate wrote eight hours ago, hey freedom, I've been trying to get verified for nine months now. Let's have a look at your channel retaliate. You have 200,000 subscribers. You are not verified yet. If you want to know how to verify your channel or how we can help get you verified, click that I, which was my last video talking exactly about this topic, YouTube verification. I replied to him, congrats on reaching 200k subs. Sadly, YouTube only allows us to escalate verification badges for channels partnered with freedom. Have you ever been partnered with us? See our website. We do have direct access to YouTube support because we are an MCN. We have a team dedicated to answering questions on behalf of our partners. Sadly, that does not include anyone else outside of freedom, even if we want to. I can refer you to the official YouTube help article. The link is down there in the description below that talks about verification and has a apply link that you can click retaliate to get verified if you are not part of a network like freedom. Oh, and if you want to check out Retaliate's channel, the link to it is down there in the description below, just like every other channel I will feature when I read their comment. Quintus Maximus wrote 20 hours ago, I think you're supposed to gong that bell, George, as I believe. Nold says it. At the end of my episodes, I advise you to gong that bell. And I think you're right, Quintus. I'll say gong from now on. Let's go have a look at your channel. Quintus Maximus. How come you don't have a default video, Quintus? A trailer that introduces your channel for new subscribers. I'm curious. Quintus also makes the Freedom Island episodes. Here they are. And if you want to watch them, just visit his channel and click Play All. CookieHDGamer said, I've heard that employees of an MCN can get verified under 100k subscribers. And I replied that used to be true, but right now YouTube requires 100k, no exceptions. Cookie said he's heard about Google local guides, which got verified as a benefit for posting great content. Is that true? Can you get verified if you don't have 100k subscribers? I've never seen any official documentation about this, so if you have, send us a link down there in the comments below, because I'd love to share it with everybody so we can all help each other grow together as a family. I replied the same, asking the same to Cookie, and I'm waiting for your reply. Let's take a look at your channel, Cookie Games HD. Oh, you don't have any content. Let's check your videos tab. You also don't have any content. Why not? IBM Gaming wrote, nice to see you uploading again, George. I also missed you, Ibi, in the comments. Let's have a look at your channel. Here is IBM Gaming, my holiday teaser. If you'd like to check out Ibi, click the link down there in the description below. ArgonianTV is a new commenter. I haven't seen you here before. Welcome to our community. He said that polls weren't heavily used, but he did give one example of Grace Still Plays, a gaming channel with over 3 million subscribers who had a poll on every single video. His channel was tied to the polls, and when YouTube removed them on June 10th, then all of those polls just disappeared.  And so I asked ArgonianTV, what is the channel or an owner doing instead of polls? Is he using the community tab? And he replied, in his case, his polls had to do with the video itself, so it wouldn't make sense if he did them in a community post. ArgonianTV, let's have a look at your channel.  How come? And your last upload was eight years ago. I think it's time you never gave up and started uploading again, don't you? The music drop wrote 22 hours ago. Hi Freedom Family, we are a music promotion and record label and we work with a lot of music promotion. I asked him, how do you get written permission by email, a website or a custom contract that you wrote when you upload music to your channel? And they wrote, thank you for the heart on our comment. They're talking about this little heart that I gave him because I liked his comment. Then he said, so we usually get in touch with artists through Instagram and ask to give us in writing, which we can use as written proof and it works. It does not always have to be in the form of a contract because the respective artist is always in charge of whether to take down. I actually think a contract is the safest way, not just an Instagram post because those can be faked. How do you know for sure this is the actual artist giving you permission and how do you know the artist isn't subject to a contract with his record label that prevents him or maybe the record label can overrule him based on their contract? So I think it's best to be safe and have contracts for every piece of music that you upload. And let's have a look at your channel music drop. Here it is with 1.1 K subscribers. As you said, you are a music promo channel and a record label. Der Sky wrote 23 hours ago. Nice video. Every user starts with four pennies. He's referring to my daughter Avienda who earned four pennies in the last 28 days that she's very proud of. When I reached 10 pennies, I was very happy and then I reached $1, $5, $12, then $20. And now he's jumped to $48 to $51 a month on his channel. That's awesome Der Sky. Let's have a look at your content. Here's Der Sky with 3.7 thousand subscribers. And if you want to check his channel out, I really like his thumbnails. Very easy to read. The text is very clear. His link is down there in the description below. LW001 wrote one day ago. Always great to see some of the old faces I know from the forums still around here as well. If only the forums had more people again. I wrote, I would love to get more people on our community forums too. What do you suggest we do to revitalize community.tm slash forums? Since we're showing YouTube channels commenting, why don't we show the subject of the comment as well? Here are the freedom forums which I've talked about in previous episodes and encouraged all of you to introduce yourself here on the introduce yourself forum. The link is down there in the description below. Now let's have a look at your channel LW001. How do you pronounce your name by the way? Is it LW001? LW001? Lwall? You tell me. He has 188 subscribers. His channel, well LW, why is your channel four years old? Surely you must have a more recent channel trailer. I encourage you to update it. And if you want to check his channel out, the link is down there in the description below. Let's stop here for now. Do you like this format of showing the channel for each comment that I read? Tell me down there in the comments below. If you do, I will continue it in future episodes. Or if you'd like me to do something else regarding these comments as I read them, I'm open to suggestion. I'd love to hear your feedback, Freedom Family. I hope you found this episode helpful about getting monetized faster. Do you have any suggestions for other videos you would like to see made by me? Tell me down there in the comments below. I have a long list of topics I want to cover. I will try making one new video every single day, but I will be going on a short trip to Atlantis over the next two days. So I may not make videos in the next two days. Sorry about that guys, but I'll have plenty of pictures to show from my short trip. And did you know that I started learning the Dvorak keyboard? This is the Dvorak keyboard layout here. I decided to start learning it because I read that Dvorak, your fingers move very like much less distance because the keys that are common in the English language are much closer to the home row so that you don't have repetitive stress injury. I'm told that as you get older, which I'm getting older, I'm 44 years old now, Freedom Family, that typing on a QWERTY keyboard, which is the standard layout, you can get tendonitis and pains in your wrists, which I have experienced in the past, but they've always gone away because I exercise regularly and I found aerobic exercise is the best form of pain removal. But my point is, I have felt it in the past and I hope that the Dvorak keyboard will reduce the amount of distance my fingers have to travel as I get better at typing. Have you ever tried the Dvorak keyboard Freedom Family? The link to this training session is down there in the description below. And I've now gotten to the last lesson, lesson five, where I can type the full keyboard in Dvorak, but my speed is only like 25 words per minute and my QWERTY speed is like 125 words per minute, so there's a big difference. I haven't had any issues switching between QWERTY and Dvorak, so I think it's just a matter of time before my brain and muscle memory adjust to this layout. The cool thing is I can also just press CTRL SHIFT and you can see I'm now on the Dvorak keyboard and CTRL SHIFT again on my Windows switches me back to the English layout. So it's a very simple way to switch between layouts once you've installed the Dvorak keyboard in your Windows settings, but this website explains all that if you're curious to learn more. And I still need to get my exercise today. I want to go swimming. I have only 30 minutes to go swimming before they close the pool, so I'm going to end this video now and get some exercise. And I encourage you to get exercise too. 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Remember that time back in East Blue when Zoro challenged Mihawk, and unfortunately the smallest weapon Mihawk had on hand at the time was a YouTube subscribe button. So like the absolute legend he is, not only did he defeat Zoro, but he also subscribed Zoro to the Grand Line Review, which to this day still uploads regular One Piece content straight into Zoro's YouTube feed. Want a boss? Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything One Piece, and today it's time to talk about swords, or more accurately, those who wield swords. And I've been holding off on making a video like this because the great shame of Wano is that it has introduced new sword users left, right and center, but I do feel like we have reached a point of solid grounding where we can begin to finally discuss those who may be classified as the finest bladesmiths in the series. And with this list I want to make it very very clear that we will only be ranking characters based on their demonstration of clearly perceived skill in the art of blade work. Just because one character is higher than another on this list does not mean that they should necessarily be considered stronger or more powerful overall. And they do need to make that very clear because people are going to jump to poorly thought out conclusions if I don't. In fact this is the internet so that's probably going to happen anyway, but at the very least I've warned you. Oh and something else I'll say right here and now is guess who is not going to be on this list? That's right, a certain green-haired sword obsessed, sleepy lost alcoholic straw hat. And why do you ask? Well it's simply because at the time of this recording he just has not shown quite enough for me to comfortably put him above all of the profound world figures that we're about to go through. And so maybe he does belong here, but maybe he doesn't. Not yet anyway. Time will tell. Also all swordsmen on this list here today must be canon despite the fact that we are talking about swords rather than projectiles. But with that out of the way let's begin. Welcome to the top 5 best swordsmen in one piece. Number 5. Vista. Starting here today we have the phenomenally moustached dual-blade wielder known as the Flower Sword and the 5th Division Commander of the Whitebeard Pirates. Now Vista comes into this as an extraordinary master of the blade as demonstrated during the events of the Paramount War in which Vista was able to combat many world-renowned figures including the fearsome then Admiral Arcaino, as well as gaining the attention of Senpai himself Dracule Mihawk, who let's not get ourselves is most certainly going to be appearing later on this list. Boilers I guess. And Vista is a great user of both armament and observation hockey which work in tandem with his swordplay however he also has a very peculiar effect that takes place during battle which is the production of various flower petals which we've only seen depicted as rose petals thus far but Vista has stated that he is able to produce other types as well. And you know it's actually very reminiscent of Robin's Devil Fruit which has that petal-like effect when activated so it's entirely possible that Vista is a fruit user and that this flower power is used in tandem with his swordsmanship to make him that much more potent. Although if he is able to produce them through the sheer power of sword alone then that only means that he belongs here that much more. Now if everyone on this list, Vista is the only character I would consider as a legitimate candidate to be replaced by a post-times skip Zoro. Zoro is an undeniable powerhouse with his triple blade business going on that has only become more overwhelming during the events of Wano but it's very difficult to scale him against Vista because we do know that Vista was able to competently fight against Mihawk but as of right now we have not seen Zoro face off against well any competent opponent and so I really feel like I'm left with no choice but to surrender the opening spot on this list to the master of the flower sword. Number 4 Kozuki Oden, the man of the hour of legends is here. Another dual blade wielder as well, having possessed both the Ame no Habakiri and Enma to become a supreme force in this world and if you're not a Manga reader I'm actually going to put in a spoiler warning here because Oden's feats aren't going to be animated for an awfully long time to come I'd say about a year from the publication of this video so if you're determined not to hear anything then please do skip to this time but for everyone else let us continue. So Oden comes into this with a mighty distinction of being the only individual to ever mark the Emperor Kaido with a permanent injury and that is already a mighty step up from the feats that we've seen displayed by Vista. However Oden was also capable of using his supreme sword skill to face off in a fearsome clash against Whitebeard who would come to be known as the world's strongest man as well as at least attempt to go at it with the eventual pirate King Goldie Roger although that particular skirmish didn't go too well for Oden but one of the greatest indicators of Oden's skill as a swordsman comes from the rather simple mastery and his casual use of Enma which is probably the most unruly blade that we've seen in the series to this point demanding an absurd reservoir of armament hockey and forcing it out of its user whenever it is swung or even simply held and that's something that Zoro is grappling with at the moment although he seems to have reached a fine level of usage with the blade which only adds to the fact that yeah maybe he should potentially be on this list but at the moment Oden remains the undisputed master of Enma as well as one of the greatest swordsmen that Oda has ever put to page in One Piece. 3. Silver's Rayleigh Also known as the Dark King and the most trusted confidant of Goldie Roger himself, Rayleigh is also one of the most legendary of names in general within the entire history of One Piece and it would seem that his primary style of combat would be that of sword play which is interesting because more often than not Rayleigh isn't seen with a sword nor does he have a blade that he wields consistently as it did change during the time skip. In any case this does make some sense because Rayleigh is for all intents and purposes retired but that doesn't stop him from taking a casual stroll down the road for some old man groceries and get into a fight with Admiral Kizaru along the way showing that Rayleigh's swordsmanship combined with his exceptional mastery of haki still allows him to fight at the pinnacle of power in this world which is kind of terrifying because Rayleigh himself has admitted that his skills with a sword have very much doubled over the years so if anything it's entirely possible that a prime Rayleigh could have come to top this entire list but even with that in mind Rayleigh is still the beneficiary of time and experience he has far more of it than any other character that we will be mentioning here today and it has earned him an innate mastery of the sword one that can only be overcome by placing that level of mastery in a much younger package capable of using it to 100 efficiency and speaking of number two red head shanks here we have another former member of the roger pirates and while he was never in his prime while Rayleigh was shanks is certainly in that phase of his life right now being a single blade wielder of the legendary Mito great sword known as griffin and while we have never seen shanks in any level of serious combat what we have seen from him in the series thus far all emphasize his skill with a blade one such moment would be during the return to water seven arc where shanks invoked griffin to clash with whitebeard which resulted in the very sky above them splitting open meanwhile at marineford shanks was able to use his sword to stop a certain Sakazuki right in his tracks and go on to end the entire war and this showed that shanks at the very least had a skill comparable to that of silver's Rayleigh being able to comfortably tank an admiral level opponent with a low durability but the greater feather in the cap that is shanks comes from something we've only heard about which is his rivalry with drake your mehawk and knowing that these two used to engage in constant jewels that echoed throughout the grand line makes it very difficult to play shanks any lower than this because if there was any argument to do so it would be that shanks did lose one of his arms in east blue saving luffy which put mehawk off facing him again in the future indicating that loss of an arm did come to significantly impact shanks as a sword wielder which is a great shame in some ways because it implies that had that event not happened shanks may have gone on to be considered the world's greatest swordsman but i guess he'll just have to settle for the consolation prize that is the emperor title though because the former now belongs to number one drake your mehawk so i don't think there was any possible way that i could have made the pinnacle of today's list a surprise i mean when you're literally referred to as the world's greatest swordsman every time you appear then it's hard to generate any form of suspense but with all of that said i think we should take this bit of time to appreciate just how utterly dominant mehawk is in the art of swordplay of every character we've mentioned on this list here today mehawk is the undisputed champion of the sword and in retrospect that's kind of ridiculous because this list includes two former commanders of the world's strongest man the right-hand man of the pirate king and one of the four emperors and yet mehawk is considered to be more skilled than any of them what a profoundly ridiculous existence this man is and that isn't to say that mehawk would certainly defeat them in an all-out brawl but in the game of swords nobody can even come close to his domain with basic feats such as chopping up 50 battleships slicing through an icy tsunami and while this isn't canon in one piece stampede he easily dealt with a meteor that a post time skips are struggled significantly with not at all canon but a very believable depiction of just how far above mehawk is from any other individual and to be honest the only hope of defeating him in this world comes from zora but to be fair that's only because mehawk trains zora himself during the two-year time skip so it's kind of cheating in a way i mean using your immense skill to mold an individual designed specifically to take yourself down one day but i suppose that's just the curse of success when you are the world's greatest swordsman and that pretty much does it for the top five best swordsmen in one piece if you enjoyed this video and the content this channel produced in general then please do consider donating to the ground line review patreon because the support of all of your amazing people is what continues to make this channel possible and if you'd like to see more videos like this but applied to other anime and manga series then please do feel free to check out my second channel in your world review for all of your wider needs and if you'd like to join the fun at any time then please do head over to my discord server where a wide array of shinali retakes place on a daily basis and finally please do comment with your own favorite swordsman in the series this has been the ground line review and i'll see you next time when you watch anime do you listen in dubs or watch in subtitles or does it depend on the dubbing some stuff you watch have the best dubs i have ever heard so yes these days i watch exclusively subtitled anime because i just prefer to have that connection to the original intent of the series some dubs are fantastic but i think a lot gets lost in translation with them plus actors quite rightfully so by the way put their own individual flavors into various characters and most of the time i would just prefer to stick to the original and this might just be because i don't understand fluent japanese but sometimes i just feel that english dubs tend to be a bit cringy especially when any form of localization or attempted colloquial language happens of course that didn't used to be the case though i like everyone my age got into anime exclusively through english dubs of stuff like pokemon dragon ball and the adult swim lineup like dragon full mental alchemist neon genesis and so on and so forth in fact the only real reason why i switched to watching subtitled anime was more out of necessity because the dubbing process took so long and back in the day it was far easier and quicker just to download some shiftily sourced fan sub to material so after years and years and years of doing that my initial preference must have just switched to wanting to hear the original japanese plus something else i'm not so keen on in the english world is that there is a very very small pool of voice actors and that's a problem for me because there's only so many times you can hear a johnnie young bosh on matt Mr performance before you just recognize them as those people rather than the character they're playing it's kind of a kinderd singing Brad Pitt a film you look at him as Brad Pitt rather than the character he's meant to be playing and it does get that level watching subs as well you recognize a lot of voices here and there but i think that the language barrier helps to hide that but japan also has a far more diverse pool of performance available due to the quantity of their output but long story short i like subs