You may have noticed some grumbling this week surrounding YouTube changing its Terms of Service.
“YouTube stars and their fans have been ranting online about the site apparently enforcing its Terms of Service more aggressively, and removing the revenue-building advertising options for videos the site deems “not advertiser-friendly,” reports Motherboard.
“Over the last few weeks, YouTube has started rolling out a new notification system to let channels know when and why some videos have been stripped of their ads.”
The problem is that some of these notifications are incredibly vague.
Everything from sexual humour to bad language has been flagged, along with controversial topics including anything related to “war, political conflicts, natural disasters and tragedies, even if graphic imagery is not shown.”
Big deal right? Ignore the new changes and keep posting what you always have.
The problem is that when violating these new terms, YouTube will also remove the revenue-building advertising options for videos the site deems “not advertiser-friendly”.
That means your favourite YouTubers effectively need to comply with these new rules or can no longer afford to support themselves.
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YouTube content can’t be trusted to younger kids, making it a big no-no.
Hopefully this will make a difference.
I support this.