- So YouTube have just made some sweeping changes
to their Community Guidelines which affect
everybody as of now including you if you've been naughty.
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- The YouTube Community Guidelines cover
a multitude of sins video creators might break
be it nudity, harmful, hateful, violent content,
harassment and bullying, spam and so on.
You can quickly find yourself
in a very deep rabbit hole on any of these topics.
So for more detail check out the link
to this very page in the video description.
And with that in mind here's an interesting question
I want to pose to you.
How many video creators do you think actually
break these Community Guidelines?
I'll let you know later on in the video.
Now, given that there are many Community Guidelines
there's also many different places
where you could potentially break these guidelines.
'Cause you see it's not just through the video content.
It could be through titles, thumbnails even livestreams.
We've recently discovered that comments
could actually break Community Guidelines on your videos.
And in the past, the punishment may differ depending
on where the crime was committed on YouTube.
It might be that you lose livestream privileges
or that you couldn't post videos
for a certain length of time.
The rules were somewhat chaotic.
As a result of this general confusion
YouTube, in their infinite wisdom,
are now attempting to streamline the way breaches
in the Community Guidelines are dealt with.
So, as of right now, there is a brand new
Community Guidelines strike system in place
and this is basically how it works.
Super important thing to remember first,
the following applies to Community Guideline strikes
not copyright strikes.
They work off a completely different system
because they potentially break the law
rather than YouTube's own rules.
So if you were hoping for any help
on your monetization woes,
you'll have to save that for a future video
which we will, of course, make.
Okay let's answer that earlier question
of how many video creators break the Community Guidelines.
And the answer is 2%.
It doesn't sound much but when it's one in 50 video creators
and there are millions of video creators,
that's a significant number of people.
And what YouTube is very keen to do
is not punish these first time offenders
as video creators understand the Community Guidelines.
As a result, all channels will receive a one-time warning
the first time they post content that crosses the line
with no penalties to their channel
except for the removal of that content.
Consider this your reprimand, your slap on the wrist,
that moment when your Dad says to you,
I'm not angry I'm just disappointed.
The good news is that this one time warning
applies to all channels so even if you do have
an existing strike you still get
this warning before further penalties.
This warning makes a lot of sense because,
according to YouTube, of those 2% who do break
those Community Guidelines the first time
94% of them never do it again.
So now let's move on to the strikes.
To make it really easy to understand now,
it doesn't matter where you break the Community Guideline
whether it be on a thumbnail,
video content, playlists, comments,
the penalty is always the same.
Now I'll apologize in advance because this video's
on quite a serious topic and it should done
in a really professional way
but I can't take this next part seriously.
Strike one!
The second time you break Community Guidelines
will be considered your first official strike.
That will result in your content being removed as before.
On top of this all your YouTube content
posting privileges will be frozen for one week.
This includes videos, livestreams, YouTube stories,
and community posts but not posting video comments.
You can still do that.
After a week you will get all of the posting features back
but the strike remains on your account for 90 days in total.
Strike two!
If you commit another Community Guideline violation
within a 90 day period this is your second strike
with the same penalties applied except
that instead of a one week ban
you get a two week ban on publishing content.
- Strike three! (crowd cheering)
- And if you are stupid enough to earn yourself
a third strike YouTube ain't fooling around
at this point, you're outta here.
I mean your channel will be terminated.
Another criticism of the strike system in the past
is that YouTube hasn't always been clear
in terms of what guideline you violated,
and specifically, how you can address that.
To that end, YouTube promised to be more transparent
with the guideline that you violated.
They promise to be more specific with information
about that violation, communicate it to you
through notifications and emails
and make it more accessible through the Creative Studio.
And let's not forget sometimes YouTube does make
one or two mistakes and so there will be
an appeals process in place as there was before.
In general summary, I applaud all of the changes
that YouTube are making here.
I think that the first time warning is a fantastic idea
because many video creators get terrified over making
any strike at any point in their YouTube journey.
I think a consistent penalty system
makes it very clear to the user.
It also eliminates the extremely harsh
90 day livestream penalty
there used to be and I suppose, in one sense,
you are getting an extra strike out of all this.
But really after your first warning
you shouldn't be making any strikes on your YouTube channel.
Now we are aware of the big YouTube news story
that's going around at the moment surrounding comments
and advertisers pulling out of YouTube
which has overshadowed
these new Community Guidelines completely.
We'll address that in another video
so I'd love to hear your thoughts on Community Guidelines.
Do let us know in those lovely comments below.
I'll leave a couple of links to extra resources
about Community Guidelines in the video descriptions
if you follow them, you will stay safe.