Swearing on youtube is a risky business. And it’s a business where the exact rules on
what you can and cannot say without getting demonetized has been pretty unclear. Until
now. On the creator insider channel, youtube has laid out the exact rules on what profanity
you can use on youtube, and I’m going to tell you everything you need to know, right
now on IO. What is happening good people of youtube,
this is IO where we talk about whats happening on the internet, and that includes this platform
we love called youtube. I’m charlotte dobre, smash that subscribe for daily news updates
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in the description. Alright, I’m going to be real with you guys
for a quick second. On this channel, even though you might not realize it because you
don’t see our backend, we sometimes have issues with demonitization. It is honestly
the worst. Those yellow dollar signs are the bane of my existence. Sometimes we do a topic
and we know for sure it will result in demontization, but we do it anyway because it might be worth
it for the views. But often times we’ll do a topic that we believe is completely advertiser
friendly, and all of a sudden it has a yellow dollar sign next to it and we have no idea
what caused a video to become demonitizied. I’ll give you an example, The video that
we did last week, Scary urban legend about the the boogey man turns out to be true, got
demontitied. But another video we did, scary urban legend about the bunny man turns out
to be true, similar topic, almost the same title, didn’t get demonitized. ITS LIKE
WHY? When this happens, sometimes you can troubleshoot in the backend. Change certain
words in the title, take out some tags. But 90 percent of the time, the problem is the
thumbnail. Youtubes AI will scan a thumbnail and be like ahhh that’s blood, even when
it isn’t. Youtube gets it wrong a lot of the time, even when we request a video for
manual review. This is a huge issue for creators of course, We spend a lot of time, and put
a lot of thought into our content. Well, for the first time ever, youtube has
been relatively, though not completely, transparent on what causes a video to become demonitized.
Haaaaaalellulia, hallelulia. According to youtube, there are three main things that
will affect your monetization status. The video’s title, the thumbnail image, and
how often profane language is used at the beginning of the video. As in, within the
first 30 seconds. These rules are not set in stone, they might change over time.
So here’s some examples of profanity that you can use in a video. You can say those
words as often as you want, throughout your whole video, without worrying about getting
demonitized. Well heck, I’m just going to start saying those words unnecessarily now.
So what about actual swear words. Well the thing is, and this is something that I didn’t
know, you can say words like. Occasionally, you can use words like the word without getting
demonitized. But, not repeatedly within the first 30 seconds of the video. You should
also make sure profane words are not included in your thumbnail or your title.
And words you cant say without getting demonitized? Moderate and strong profanity. I mean, im
kinda worried about saying the exact words for obvious reasons. Its honestly up to the
advertiser. Sometimes an advertiser will be okay with profanity, and sometimes they wont.
Its probably just best to stay away from profanity altogether. I know that a lot of school teachers
show IO in their classes as a way to make current events fun, so we usually stay away
from profanity when we can. And lastly. The words that shall not be said.
EVER. You absolutely cant use content directed at an individual or specific group of people.
It should also be noted that bleeping, will not save your . Of course there are certain
situations where it might be okay. Comedy, parodies etcetera. Context is key. But at
the same time, to be safe, its probably better to avoid using this kind of language entirely,
even if it falls in a grey area of context. Alright guys, I hope that was helpful. I’m
going to wrap up this video with some comment replies from our recent blooper reel. If you
haven’t seen that, make sure you check it out, its clickable on the screen right now.
Uniqueley evil – LOL for some reason I didn’t think id laugh at this but I was dying.
Thedesheanallen – im black, we naturally look serious all the time so this is no sweat.
Mega pelotes – words that mess up charlotte sometimes, anything with a c or an s
Crazy bro – be honest do you have like markers on the floor for where to stand? Cuz you stand
in the center every time. A mark on the floor is called a mark and we actually don’t have
a mark on the new set. We stand in the center of the stage because that’s where the lighting
is best. The editor can move us to the side if they want.
Emotional – wow charlotte please do more. I didn’t now you messed up that often. I
do mess up, just like anybody. I film 3 videos a day sometimes more, and we don’t practice
our scripts, we kinda just get up and do it.