YouTube says 'no' to swearing in the first seven seconds of your video, even if you uploaded it before the rule existed.
) last year are demonetising videos that use profanity in their title, thumbnail, their first seven seconds, or"consistently throughout the video," whatever that means. It's impacting streamers who play mature games and, incomprehensibly, even affecting videos that were uploadedMaking things even dicier for content creators on the platform, YouTube has now decided to treat all curse words as basically equivalent.
Understandably, more than a few YouTubers are up in arms about this sudden and poorly-communicated threat to their livelihoods. Aon his RTGame channel details a saga in which a bunch of old videos were abruptly demonetised by YouTube. When his appeals were rejected, YouTube support only told him"As you are aware, all content available on the platform must follow these guidelines, regardless of when they were uploaded or when the policy was implemented".
That Condren—who has nearly 3 million subscribers—had to fall down a rabbit hole of appeals and demonetisations before he got an answer directly from a YouTube rep is mind-boggling. Evidently, YouTube's communication around the new rules has been less than stellar, and Condren is far from the only one with complaints. On his ProZD channel, voice actor and YouTuber SungWon Cho ran a kind of informal experiment.
Despite the fact that Cho's profanity occurred after the first 15 seconds of his video and made up a small percentage of the overall script, he says the video was
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