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> * A recurring pattern with Google and YouTube: Someone achieves virality through controversy. They are promptly de-monetized, deleted, or frozen with no reaso
by PhasmaFelis 7y ago
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A recurring pattern with Google and YouTube: Someone achieves virality through controversy. They are promptly de-monetized, deleted, or frozen with no reason given. When the period of viral opportunity has passed, typically in about a day or two, the account/monetization is reinstated with no reason given.*
Do we have a partial list of videos that followed this specific pattern? I'm curious what the agenda(s) might be.
- cameronbrown 7y agoThis happens a lot in political commentary videos. Almost none of them receive ads anymore.
- wastedhours 7y agoAlso because a lot of marketers were royally taken to task for letting their ads appear on political videos. Part of it might also not be that Google demonetised them directly, but allowed us the tools to opt out of having our ads shown on those types of videos altogether. We now have a load of hoops to jump through to justify spend on YouTube advertising - and political videos are a strict no-go area.
- cameronbrown 7y agoCan I ask why advertisers care? You do realise everybody understands that YouTube videos are tailored to them and not an endorsement of the content, right? It's having the horrible side effect of destroying independent journalism which has nowhere else to go but YouTube (and neither does anyone else).
- PhasmaFelis 7y agoHm. Is that to suppress a particular set of ideas, do you think, or just cynically pandering to controversy-phobic advertisers? Not that either one is good, but that latter at least seems even-handed, I guess.
- cameronbrown 7y agoThe latter.