The Future of Vaping, BluCig, and YouTube’s Broken Moderation System
On November 7th, 2025, at 6:31 PM, I received a notification from YouTube that one of my oldest videos “The Future of Vaping ~ The BluCig” had been removed for violating community guidelines. Along with the removal came a formal warning against my channel. But here’s the Thing: the video was from 2016. And it was satire.
Let me give you some context. In 2016, I uploaded a video titled “The Future of Vaping ~ The BluCig”, a satirical piece that raised a simple, uncomfortable question: “What happens to vaping if we don’t push back against corporate influence? and FDA’s Epidemic?” The answer, I posited, was a future dominated by sterile, lifeless devices from Big Tobacco like the BluCig. It wasn’t an endorsement. It wasn’t a product placement. It was a warning.