Creators are freaking out after youtube just admitted that they are demonitizing videos
based on other people’s comments.
Dude I can’t even tell you how many things are wrong with that sentence.
Not grammatically I mean morally, ethically, unfairly.
Lets go with that.
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By the way tessa there are a lot of screengrabs for this video but they should all be in the
comments folder.
Youtube, youtube, youtube.
What have you gone and done now?
YA GONE AND DONE AN OOPSIE THAT’S WHAT.
Jessica Ballinger, sister of colleen ballinger, tweeted at youtube because she wanted to now
why an innocent video of her son doing gymnastics has been demonitized.
The tweet said.
MY 5 year old son does gymnastics and is a happy, sweet, confident boy.
Youtube: not advertiser friendly.
This happened yesterday.
I find the timing on this very disheartening for the youtube community.
She shared screenshots of her backend that was filled with yellow dollar signs.
Team youtube then responded with these tweets.
Hi there---for reference, over the past few days, we’ve taken a number of actions to
better protect the youtube community from content that endangers minors.
With regard to the actions that we’ve taken, even if your video is suitable for advertisers,
inappropriate comments could result in your video receiving limited or no ads.
Let us know if you have any questions.
Umm…HI?
I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS?
WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON.
Jessica ballinger actually does her best to monitor her comments section.
She said in response with this tweet.
I have a highly monitored comments section and many say it is the kindest on youtube.
This makes NO sense.
Remove the few comments and ban the user.
To which team youtube responded, just to be super clear, we’re not saying anything is
wrong with the actual video and thank you for doing a great job moderating the comments
section.
These recent actions are due to an abundance of caution related to content that may endanger
minors.
Look dude, I understand that youtube is trying to take action about the problem on youtube
who gather in the comment section and share their contact information, links to child
porn and timestamps to where the video shows a child in compromising positions…But this
was not the solution I had in mind.
I guess one way that creators can solve this problem and protect themselves from demonetization
is to disable the comments completely on certain videos.
No inappropriate comments, no demonetization.
Another way around it is not to upload content that concerns or includes minors.
But still!
Why is it that if other people write inappropriate comments, the creator is punished?
Its not the creator’s fault that some people take it upon themselves to voice their inappropriate
opinions.
And whats more is, this new update could definitely be used maliciously by people who want to
see creators burn.
WHAT THE ACTUAL . Ugh I cant right now guys this is just a whole other level of reeeee.
So a little update from phillip defranco.
He reached out to team youtube.
They don’t have an official statement at the time of this writing.
But 1, it sounds like this isn’t policy for every video on youtube and 2, its likely
comment disabling will be preferred over demonitization.
He followed up with another solution and said.
If this is our new reality, we’re going to need the ability to retrict comments from
accounts under 1-4 weeks old.
Sounds like this is prime for weaponization.
Also it would probably be best to have an official blog post instead of my tweet as
a reference for this change.
So naturally the whole community is up in arms over this.
To be fair, youtube is scrambling to solve issues to keep advertisers happy so both the
company and youtube creators can continute on this platform.
They have disabled comments on tens of millions of videos, they’ve terminated 400 channels
for the commetns they left on videos and reported illegal commetns to law enforcement.
But I swear youtube should be employing actual youtubers to make these decisions.
How did they not see this coming?
Anyways guys that is all I have for you on this.
Please let me know down there in the comments what you think about this, for now I’m going
to lighten the mood with some comment features.
Keith Cox – You should wear a suit in more of these videos, you look great wearing one.
Thank you I definitely will.
Makes me look kinda profesh eh?
Pewdiepie Took The Kids – have you ever wanted to work with pew news before?
I mean…duh.
Batmanfanforever – I love charlotte’s type of humor.
Never change.
Alex Otero – Are you Canadian.
Born and raised.
Io is based out of Toronto.
Model aps – why do you call yourself potato queen.
because the fans of IO are called potatoes and I am their queen.
I actually did a video on my personal channel about where the potato thing came from, definitely
check it out.