YouTube, the world’s most popular online video platform, has made an important decision regarding content producers in the past months. Within the scope of this decision, swearing in videos would directly cause loss of income. In addition, curses would not be categorized and some words would be excluded from the scope of swearing. Now, there has been a new development on this subject.
YouTube has decided to bend its profanity policy. In this context; Making a new post on the subject, YouTube announced that the current policy resulted in a much stricter approach than intended. As a solution, the platform has switched to a new application that will be restricted instead of completely closing the monetization situation. In other words, content producers will be able to earn money from their videos that contain profanity. However, the earnings on videos that are not cursed will be higher.
The new policy is just as confusing as the old one
The policy, which came into effect last year, prohibited the display of ads in a video if swearing in the first 15 seconds of a video. In addition, if there was too much swearing in the entire video, the ads were stopped. However, there was confusion in this policy. For example, it wasn’t clear how many times swearing was considered “too much swearing”. It is possible to say that the new policy is no different from the old one.
According to YouTube’s new profanity policy, the creator must not swear in the first 7 seconds of the video. There is a point here; The video containing heavy profanity in the first 7 seconds will be restricted in terms of advertisements. In the continuation of the video, there will be no advertising restrictions if moderate or heavy swearing is not pronounced too much. Here is a situation like this; It is not entirely clear what “too much pronunciation” represents. It is not clear whether it is normal to swear 150 times in a 10-minute video. We think it’s best for those who want to monetize YouTube not to include profanity in their videos…
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