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Honest question: on what basis can you or anyone here make that claim? You can say that you wouldn't call that screenshot "adult" (using your own heuristics to

Honest question: on what basis can you or anyone here make that claim? You can say that you wouldn't call that screenshot "adult" (using your own heuristics to determine what "adult" means in this context), but unless you've run some kind of survey of "people in general," this just feels like massive overgeneralization of individual tastes. It's as valid as someone else coming in to say "Generally most people would call that screenshot 'adult.'" What's the rebuttal either way?

dekhn 5y ago
The basis is that I'm familiar with norms shared in a large part of the world, especially her audiences. in general, the term 'adult' is used (in the western world, more specifically the US) to refer to pornographic content. That's what youtube means, it's what advertisers mean, etc, which all matter here because that's what demonetization is about (advertisers avoiding a channel due to its content). Really, the term youtube uses here is 'explicit content'. The content on her channel is not explicit.
- happytoexplain 5y ago
  >Generally people would not call that screenshot "adult". That's not my experience. Again, criticize advertisers for taking ads away from such tame content all you want, or YouTube for making it even possible - I agree (mostly with the former). But it seems pointless to try to make a semantic argument that excludes her content from any reasonable definition of the word "adult". >in general, the term 'adult' is used (... in the US) to refer to pornographic content As used in the US, the term "adult" can mean porn, but can also refer to sexual content much more broadly. It's contextual. >That's what youtube means, it's what advertisers mean I can see the word "pornographic" being used in the most generic, clinical sense possible to describe any kind of content intended to sexually stimulate, in which case, yes, her channel has pornographic content, but you're obviously using it more colloquially, in the more normal sense that would exclude her channel's content, but then of course that's demonstrably not what they're referring to. This all seems moot. They explicitly state their definition of "adult", and it is far from porn, and her channel is far from porn, so... what does porn have to do with it?

dekhn 5y ago

The basis is that I'm familiar with norms shared in a large part of the world, especially her audiences. in general, the term 'adult' is used (in the western world, more specifically the US) to refer to pornographic content. That's what youtube means, it's what advertisers mean, etc, which all matter here because that's what demonetization is about (advertisers avoiding a channel due to its content). Really, the term youtube uses here is 'explicit content'. The content on her channel is not explicit.

happytoexplain 5y ago
>Generally people would not call that screenshot "adult". That's not my experience. Again, criticize advertisers for taking ads away from such tame content all you want, or YouTube for making it even possible - I agree (mostly with the former). But it seems pointless to try to make a semantic argument that excludes her content from any reasonable definition of the word "adult". >in general, the term 'adult' is used (... in the US) to refer to pornographic content As used in the US, the term "adult" can mean porn, but can also refer to sexual content much more broadly. It's contextual. >That's what youtube means, it's what advertisers mean I can see the word "pornographic" being used in the most generic, clinical sense possible to describe any kind of content intended to sexually stimulate, in which case, yes, her channel has pornographic content, but you're obviously using it more colloquially, in the more normal sense that would exclude her channel's content, but then of course that's demonstrably not what they're referring to. This all seems moot. They explicitly state their definition of "adult", and it is far from porn, and her channel is far from porn, so... what does porn have to do with it?