Apparently YouTube wants to be like broadcast TV now.
As I'm sure your aware,YouTube rencently "clarified" what videos may or may not be monitized. Aka, like a Local TV station manager,Google can effectively " control content". Which they obiviously have the right to do. The web is currently heated about this. Many say this is censorship,or something very close. Here's the thing, I have read YouTubes Terms of service. Read it way back in 2009. All these rules were there then. Back then I made one video. A Call of Duty World@War Let's play. It was not good. It had less than a hundred views. And was demonitized after a week by YouTube. I took it down after and gave up on being a creator. But my reason was terms of service. It was (even then) clear to me that anything I posted needed to be very PC. It's kinda "fishy" to me that this issue has only now become a thing. I can't be the only one who read the terms when I signed up. I was job less and thought "Why not" and got smacked hard with that reality stick. But I've ranted about this long enough. It is now your turn. Are YouTubers really suprised by this? Will this change anything? Do you care? thx and be kind dragonfire out!
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It will affect the livelihood of some Youtubers who rely on monetization and focus on controversial topics and it's a form of censorship, whilst I can understand why they might want to be politically correct, how necessary is it, really? Won't this influence less viewers and less content creators and in turn less cash flow for Youtube or are they just going to leech money off the demonetized videos?
A stupid move by YouTube. I can't believe they actually did that. Now that makes the content creators of YouTube cause to do forced content. They won't be able to express their feelings/opinions freely on anything. No entertaining content anymore, only stale jokes from now on (rip Papa Franku).
Never expected YouTube to fall that low. Lmao can't wait for the #YouTubeIsOverParty.
I guess we'll all listen to country now.
Have they actually done anything yet?
None of the people I follow or have interest in are worried at all.
Some are far from kid-friendly viewing either.
I haven't looked at the internet in general for comment because, as a whole, they seem to forget one thing: Yes you have certain rights of speech and expression. No, you don't have the "right" to do it on Youtube's platform. I really hate when that argument is brought up.
Yes, they have. Scarce, Phil DeFranco, IHE, h3h3 and Girbeagly have all been hit by this, and many others as well. I got hit too. They demonetized my entire Walking Dead playthrough and then removed around 15 of my videos.
IHE is amazing.
I don't even understand what you're trying to say. Are you saying you showed too much game content? Or "anything I posted needed to be pc" as though Call of Duty restricts freedom of expression? Or is it another cry of "well, I posted a major portion of copyrighted content's work on the internet and they took it down, let me blame the SJWs and claim victim points!"
Things like 'let's play's continue to be in a very ambiguous area in terms of copyright infringement. There are far too many people who like to cry out 'free speech' (a mantra with usually very little argumentation behind it) when they are significantly damaging the intellectual property of another company. Usually, that company has every right to take down that video as it significantly damages that property and isn't a legitimate criticism but is simply a showing of the property 'plus commentary.'
I'm sorry for making assumptions here, I'm just saying, too much outrage for too little explanation.
Agreed.
That's one of the biggest issues here. YouTube isn't explaining anything, and that's why we're all outraged. They put these new bullshit rules into play and started destroying YouTube channels and their videos not only without warning, but without explaining what any of these rules mean, they're vague and could mean literally anything. And as far as people have seen, it's not a good thing.
(ignore the title, the video itself is the joke I'm making)
I don't know why anyone is surprised by typical corporate bullshit like this anymore. Is the average person just so optimistic that they are shocked if anything bad happens to them? Or am I just so pessimistic that I'm shocked if anything good happens to me? Probably both.
Bluedrake getting one of his Squad gameplay videos demonetized because youtube considered it 'war journalism' is fucking hilarious to me though. It just shows you they have bots going around flagging keywords so they can keep all the ad money.
And yet clickbait assholes still run the show, huh YouTube?
Taking into consideration that most of their policies are bullshit, I wish them the best of luck.
Seriously.
They are going to need it.