During the week of August 29, 2016, Twitter has been blown up with the hashtags #YouTubeisover or #YouTubeisdead but not many people really know why. Recently Youtube has been demonetizing many people's videos (taking the ad revenue from the content creators). They have done this because of a policy involving companies' views on certain channels. So what does this mean for content creators? One of the main reasons for the demonetizations is foul language and videos titled or involving violence in any way. So YouTubers who make videos for a living have been left with a decision: speak how you want to and make news stories or lose your job.In this article, written by Fruzsina Eordogh, she goes into more details and specifics.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/fruzsinaeordogh/2016/09/02/making-sense-of-youtubes-great-demonetization-controversy-of-2016/#5feb483f5b0d
This has been an issue for a while now but it has just now been brought to light because of it happening to larger YouTubers. Its a difficult situation to be in but
it's really interesting to see the
uproar of YouTubers. This has inadvertently brought the community
together which has been a rare sight since the huge development of
drama and it has been really nice to see everyone come together for once.
I read the article and it seems that it was YouTube's policy to prohibit profanity and vulgar material when considering a video for advertisements from the beginning. I agree that it is harsh to suddenly revoke a YouTuber's income, but it was policy, whether it was strictly enforced or not.
ReplyDeleteI think it was wrong of YouTube to enforce these rules suddenly because so many people are making careers out of YouTube now. Not all people have a clean mouth and talk about appropriate subjects which is also why YouTube has such a large and diverse audience.
ReplyDeleteThis is quite an interesting topic. Many youtubers act like themselves and they do go against the policy, but of YouTube thinks about it who helped make YouTube famous and allow it to be used all over the world? Those people who use it,some people are just that way and mean no harm while others it's a different case.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy seeing topics like this covered. It's so interesting that something that specifically affects the online community can be covered as national or even international news these days. I think this demonetization issue is very important, especially since these people's livelihoods often depend on the money they get from ad revenue. It especially targets news channels who cover controversial issues, which is considered to be anti-advertiser-friendly, essentially censoring the once very open YouTube community.
ReplyDeleteThis really affects the YouTubers that are making a living off of their videos. YouTube is so popular that this policy is drawing bad attention to YouTube as a company because of all the social media uproar...if anything I think they should dial it down.
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