YouTube plans to modify profanity rules that prompted creator backlash

YouTube plans to modify profanity rules that prompted creator backlash

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https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/14/youtube-plans-to-modify-profanity-rules-that-prompted-creator-backlash/

YouTube’s gaming community pushed back against the company this week after some creators saw their old videos demonetized out of the blue.

The culprit is a new policy that the company introduced back in November in order to make certain kinds of content more advertiser friendly. That change, made to YouTubes’s advertiser-friendly content guidelines, overhauled the platform’s approach to profanity and violence.

YouTube plans to modify profanity rules that prompted creator backlash

Jan 14, 2023, 8:33pm UTC
https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/14/youtube-plans-to-modify-profanity-rules-that-prompted-creator-backlash/ > YouTube’s gaming community pushed back against the company this week after some creators saw their old videos demonetized out of the blue. > The culprit is a new policy that the company introduced back in November in order to make certain kinds of content more advertiser friendly. That change, made to YouTubes’s advertiser-friendly content guidelines, overhauled the platform’s approach to profanity and violence.