Firstly, I really want to thank you. Your videos are the only thing that practically got me started on really using the Axe FX II and configuring the MFC + Mission SP-1 pedals. They've been quite invaluable for me in that sense. And I did always think that you'd been hired by FAS to do the videos, it was a given for me. Turns out you weren't!
It does suck major ass that what's happened, happened. But taking down your videos? I have to say that this is where my understanding ends. You definitely come out as a crybaby in this, who takes away everything after he can't have something. And the bit that bugs me most, is that you didn't even ask for it. Now here's a thing to learn, a thing that's especially been reinforced inside my head as a principle in the business world in my work life and studies; NEVER EXPECT SOMETHING TO JUST HAPPEN IF YOU DON'T MAKE IT HAPPEN! Imagine two workers, employees 1 and 2 at a workplace doing the same job. They've both been working at the same position for 5 years. Now employee 1 asks for a slight pay raise. He gets it, while the other one just keeps waiting for it, hoping it to happen. What do you think, who's more likely to get a pay raise? It's a fact that most often than not, in the current state of the world, you rarely get what you want if you don't seek and ask for it. If you don't ask people to pay for your videos, there probably will not be much cash flow. You'd have to be a Youtube celebrity (hundreds of thousands of subscribers) or a really helpful person to a million people in order to make really some money in the form of Youtube bonuses and donations. The thing that astounds me the most, is that despite WANTING to be endorsed and paid for by FAS, you haven't asked for it. If I was FAS, seeing you do your videos like you do them, I'd think "Hey, that's a nice guy, it's a good thing that he's doing such helpful videos". If I was FAS, READING YOUR MESSAGE WHERE YOU ASK TO BE HIRED BY THEM... I'd think, "Ok, a lot of people like this guy and his videos are very easy to understand, they help a lot of beginners and even advanced users to actually understand the whole thing... Yeah, I suppose we could pay him an X amount of money and endorse him with the Axe gear he needs for doing the videos".
I love your videos and think you deserve to be hired if you keep pushing such quality content. But man. If you want to be hired, you need to ASK FOR IT. Most people, like ME for example, search Youtube for Axe FX tutorials and end up finding your videos, watching them and thinking it was great that such a video existed. But it's pretty much only you who will think how the maker of the video will make a living. The normal viewer will just watch the video, maybe click the like-button and think "well, wasn't that a helpful and cool video". If you'd stopped the video halfway, and put a link to your own video store, chances are you'd made 100x the money you've made this far. It would've included me.
And now, the first logical step here is to quickly erase a mistake made in a surge of emotion, and put back your videos. After this thread, I think a lot of people would've pressed the donate-button, realizing that you never made a cent off of these. But not a chance if you haven't even got the videos online, which would be the reason to donate in the first place.