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  1. Matt Matt

    YouTube has, like, actually for real completely lost their apple. I'm usually indifferent to any changes they make but holy grape this one is a whopper.

    Thursday, 01-Sep-16 00:31:40 UTC from web
    1. Rarity Rarity

      @mrmattimation care to share what happened

      Thursday, 01-Sep-16 00:35:35 UTC from web
      1. Matt Matt

        @rarity YouTube changed their TOS to redefine the phrase "advertiser friendly". Basically, a lot of YouTubers are getting their videos hit with strikes and monetization disabled because they talk about "controversial topics" or included vulgarity, bad language, sexual humor, etc.

        Thursday, 01-Sep-16 00:38:37 UTC from web
        1. Rarity Rarity

          @mrmattimation there are 3 options for how this goes: 1, people complain enough youtube rescinds the policy. 2, people get fed up and create a YouTube alternative that is successful. 3, google walks it back a bit so it's not so bad and people forget. They CAN'T Be Potato Knishesing hitting people with strikes for language and sexual humor right? That's got to be their algorithm batcaveing up and they will fix it.

          Thursday, 01-Sep-16 00:41:16 UTC from web
          1. Matt Matt

            @rarity It's MOSTLY the "controversial topics" bit that people are getting hit with, but last I heard people are also getting hit with the other ones too.

            Thursday, 01-Sep-16 00:42:12 UTC from web
      2. Matt Matt

        @rarity I THINK this is a result of the reactions to that video of the lady going ballistic on her Lyft driver (which I have not seen). http://rainbowdash.net/url/850715

        Thursday, 01-Sep-16 00:40:41 UTC from web
        1. Rarity Rarity

          @mrmattimation sounds to me like they just won't put certain commercials on certain videos (like family freindly brands on a sailor mouthed person). as for the "controversial topics" thing, I think if you try to monetize and get rich off of a video of violent extremism, death ETC, you're a grade A scumbag and don't deserve the money. monetization for viral videos never made sense for me anyway. Monetization always seemed to be intended for content creators who purposefully WORK on their content.

          Thursday, 01-Sep-16 00:44:05 UTC from web
          1. Matt Matt

            @rarity Well yeah but what defines a "controversial topic"? Videos about how to deal with depression have been hit because they were "controversial".

            Thursday, 01-Sep-16 00:44:52 UTC from web
            1. Rarity Rarity

              @mrmattimation I'm still willing to give them the benefit of the doubt, IF this is an automated system. the kinks are being worked out, just like it was with Content ID, and the controversy before that, and the one before that, etc.

              Thursday, 01-Sep-16 00:46:17 UTC from web