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This was posted on Facebook on 21st June @unclejimmy – one of the advantages of half remembering everything I read or see

So we changed our name  🙂

This time last year we announced we were changing our name to OnTableTop  🙂

Today Facebook allowed us to change it here – its still a work in progress and quite the challenge to get the social companies to make the change.

Some folk are asking why so this little post outlines the basics  🙂

About 18 Months ago we started to suspect that we were getting a kind of shadow ban on YouTube, and we did some research with some other YouTubers and found that our name Beasts of War was being flagged as a keyword. (We also tried their ad platform and found every Ad we entered being automatically declined – so clearly something was up)

We suspect we were getting caught up as collateral damage in YouTube’s attempts at controlling the types of content appearing on their platform.

Being a pretty tiny company in the grand scheme of things, as you can imagine getting any help from YouTube was near impossible. We got a big YouTube to back channel for us and finally got some cryptic feedback that ‘We can’t give you a clear answer but a name change wouldn’t do any harm’

To be honest we have been considering a bit of a name change for a while (We had an interesting interaction with a youth religious group that thought we were satanists that took a bit of explaining lol)

While we love the name dearly and still plan on doing some stuff with the Beasts of War moniker we are all about trying to recruit new people to this wonderful hobby of ours so felt we should create a name and vibe that would allow us to do that, without worrying about being caught up in the politics of YouTube content or having to explain to mums and dads that we don’t want to eat their first borns lol

So yes we are OnTableTop and we love games, and we are out to help as many people as we possibly can join our wonderful hobby.

In our hearts we’ll always be Beasts and we know a ton of you will too!

Lots of hobby love folks!

Warren