YouTube Making Some Changes
Several days ago, Twitch’s revamped their community guidelines all in an effort to prevent asshats from running amok. Specifically, they wanted to do their best to minimize horrible, harassing and hateful conduct. Now, YouTube has followed suit by formally adopting new penalties which will lay the smack down against creators who post disturbing or violent videos. This all happening the same day it sent internet millionaire Logan Paul into the demonetization sin bin.
The measures include the possibility of suspending offending creators’ participation in advertising, original productions and video recommendations. YouTube seems hell-bent on showing they are serious about curbing offensive content. This all coming after numerous advertisers froze spending last year over hate videos and kid-inappropriate content.
YouTube’s changes are as follows:
- Premium Monetization Programs, Promotion and Content Development Partnerships. We may remove a channel from Google Preferred and also suspend, cancel or remove a creator’s YouTube Original.
- Monetization and Creator Support Privileges. We may suspend a channel’s ability to serve ads, ability to earn revenue and potentially remove a channel from the YouTube Partner Program, including creator support and access to our YouTube Spaces.
- Video Recommendations. We may remove a channel’s eligibility to be recommended on YouTube, such as appearing on our home page, trending tab or watch next.
YouTube also addressed their tendency to drag their ass when it comes to their responses to controversial situations:
“In the past, we felt our responses to some of these situations were slow and didn’t always address our broader community’s concerns. Our ultimate goal here is to streamline our response so we can make better, faster decisions and communicate them clearly. We believe strongly in the freedom of expression and we know that the overwhelming majority of you follow the guidelines and understand that you’re part of a large, influential, and interconnected community. But we also know that we have a responsibility to protect the entire community of creators, viewers, and advertisers from these rare but often damaging situations. We expect to issue these new consequences only in a rare handful of egregious cases, but hope they will help us prevent the actions of a few from harming the broader community.”
What do you think about these changes? Will this help curb some of the Logan Paul’s of the world? Let us know!