[closed] YouTube's New "Advertiser-Friendly" Policy (all discussion goes here) **

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MarkRodriguez2012 said:
I feel it's going to be the usual double-standard they go with. Since Pewds is a huge channel and their number 1 guy, he'll get a free pass and won't be mentioned or made an example of... it's the rest of us that have to watch the F-bombs from now on.
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That is also very likely to in all honesty. It really is dumb how the little guys have to suffer for really no reason.
 
They should just add the mature content stuff like twitch -_- instead of censoring why not just add the mature content stuff and let people watch the video and if an advertiser wants to do ads on those videos let them be! I'm guessing games like CoD, GTA, Battlefield, Rainbow Six ... heck even lego are going to be unmonetize lol


I haven't gotten any trouble so far and I trash talk in a few videos
 
Just throwing in my last couple of cents about this whole thing.

I'm just saying, even if my channel is still small compared to everyone else's, I'm a Let's Player that likes to use "sentence enhancers" myself, my latest episode of Dark Souls coming out today has me sprinkling on "s**t" and "f**k" quite a lot, even more generously than I usually do, and there's one part where I screamed "f**k" out of frustration, and that video is still in the green for being monetized. Will it ever go yellow as a warning or be de-monetized in the future? Maybe. Will it stop me from continuing my series and channel. NO. Will I end up finding another site that will also allow me to monetize my videos. Probably, times are hard after all lol

P.S. Would you look at that, YTTalk seems to be more censored than YouTube is now.
 
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Ranmaru_Richu said:
P.S. Would you look at that, YTTalk seems to be more censored than YouTube is now.
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See, this is the thing. People are very okay with being told that certain places are curse-averse, but want 100% freedom on things they expect to be paid for. I haven't seen anyone complaining that YouTube isn't letting them post naked videos, but that's been a complete no-no since the beginning. Is that censorship? Nope. And neither is telling creators that YouTube may not choose to monetize some of your content.
 
xingcat said:
See, this is the thing. People are very okay with being told that certain places are curse-averse, but want 100% freedom on things they expect to be paid for. I haven't seen anyone complaining that YouTube isn't letting them post naked videos, but that's been a complete no-no since the beginning. Is that censorship? Nope. And neither is telling creators that YouTube may not choose to monetize some of your content.
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Exactly. I get the feeling this whole thing is suffering from a bad game of telephone. It seems most people are only aware of the situation through word of mouth, either watching videos like DeFranco's and only taking in whatever information he provides in his video or just from social media, like Twitter or what others are saying on forums like this one, without actually reading the actual guidelines and what they stand to mean. Everyone can still say what they want without getting real penalties from YouTube itself, the ad providers, which ARE NOT YouTube but the companies the ads are coming from as a source, are just now given the choice to review a video's content and judge if they want their ad to played on that video.
 
Technically speaking Youtube as a private network can do whatever it wants. I also understand from an advertisers point of view not wanting my ads to show up on channels with bad language or whatnot. But, at the same time it definitely seems like censorship in terms of news or comedy channels where those topics do come up. I think it would have been wiser if youtube maybe allowed their advertisers to opt out of news sites, or specific youtubers even, if they don't want their ads to show on those sites.
 
The weird thing about not talking about controversial topics and news regarding war and whatnot.... imagine if 9/11 happened now instead of back then. Would Youtube really take down all the videos of all the scared people voicing their shock, concern and fears?
 
MarkRodriguez2012 said:
The weird thing about not talking about controversial topics and news regarding war and whatnot.... imagine if 9/11 happened now instead of back then. Would Youtube really take down all the videos of all the scared people voicing their shock, concern and fears?
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No, they wouldn't take it down, that's not what this is all about. They would just not allow you to monetize it and make money on it.
 
To be quite honest, the system seems to only be taking out videos based on tags, description, and title. You can leave those words out that may cause the system to demonetize you. I personally believe that this kind of stuff will blow over in a few months. YouTube has had weird policies and stuff before that they tried to enforce, and then they stopped caring and it went back to being the wild west. This could possibly just be to reign in some of the more extreme channels and then blow over after things get settled.

Also, they are just making it so you can't make money off of them, not actually deleting them. Some people are making it out to be that all of their videos are just being completely deleted, which they are not. Yes I do understand that not making money is almost the same, but still. Most of these creators that had their videos demonetized, removed the tags in the videos that caused it, and appealed it then most of them got re-monetized.
 
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