This is actually kind of funny...because I turned off AdBlock, started up the official trailer for Sausage Party and BOOM! Advertisemnet!
Now, I know even the trailer for Sausage Party is full of sexual jokes, profanity, and even a clip of the Sausage smoking some ahem "medicinal herbs"...but somebody is getting paid the ad revenue for such an "advertiser unfriendly" clip, and if YouTube is applying their rules fairly across the board, it isn't Sony.
Of course we all know if that were really the case, Sony would have a C&D letter on YouTube's doorstep faster than you can say "Revenue Banditry".
[–] MaunaLoona ago
I'm sure they'll apply the rules fairly and won't be biased towards the left in any way.
[–] RayoGundead 1 point 1 point 2 points (+2|-1) ago (edited ago)
It looks like they found a way to stifle free speech without taking down content
If you want free speech, do it for free.
http://tweetsave.com/johnscarce/status/771098477732454400 :
Scarce on Twitter: "@Pamaj a lot of people who make videos on "controversial subjects" are getting a lot of their videos demonetized rn https://t.co/NzyXM5kdxq"
[–] CM30 [S] 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Or in other words, they don't want you to monetise anything that's about:
So in other words, it looks like GamerGate videos are now basically unmonetisable.
[–] CM30 [S] 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
It basically means anything by h3h3productions is likely not going to be monetisable, since they do investigative reporting about Youtube 'celebrities'.
Political conflicts is vague, but could easily mean everything like the recent US elections, black lives matter, the recently finished EU referendum, etc. So no news sites monetising political coverage then.
And war... well, better not cover the situation in Syria then, because apparently advertisers don't want to be associated with war correspondants and people reporting on events in a war zone.
Tragedies? Okay, guess no one's gonna be discussing crimes or attacks on Youtube in the future. Great way to shut down amateur journalists reporting on things like say, the recent events in France.
Harassment could easily be exploited for anything discussing Feminist Frequency, GamerGate, that Korean GamerGate thing, the Alison Rapp firing, etc.
Violence I worry could easily be applied to games, TV shows, films, etc. Which means few reviews of M rated games like say, Call of Duty. Or Hatred, Manhunt, Mad World, Five Nights at Freddy's...
Inappropriate language can easily mean... well, anyone swearing in a review or Let's Play. Poor Angry Video Game Nerd.
So yeah, lots of stuff.
[–] Interlapse ago
It seems they're "demonetizing", as in not paying the creators, while they keep the ads on the videos, at least I got one in one of the supposed demonetized videos, which makes the whole "we'll only put adverts in advertiser-friendly videos" utter bullshit, they just want to control the narrative. This probably has something to do with that Annalise Nielsen secret group for
unstable and crazywomen.