YouTube’s gaming community pushed back against the company this week after some creators saw their old videos demonetized out of the blue.
The culprit is a new policy that the company introduced back in November in order to make certain kinds of content more advertiser friendly. That change, made to YouTubes’s advertiser-friendly content guidelines, overhauled the platform’s approach to profanity and violence.
The good news is that while we don’t quite know what the company will do yet, YouTube is apparently listening to creators’ concerns.
“In recent weeks we’ve heard from many creators regarding this update,” YouTube spokesperson Michael Aciman told TechCrunch. “That feedback is important to us and we are in the process of making some adjustments to this policy to address their concerns. We will follow up shortly with our creator community as soon as we have more to share.”
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