I'm really not a fan of the policy, and it would be a real shame if it wasn't changed. But it would also be a shame if it was changed because of a shooting. It shouldn't have come to this in the first place.
I don’t know what caused her videos to be demonetised, but she’s not wrong - it does seem pretty much arbitrary with no proper channel for disputing it.
We've heard loads of stories of people getting AdSense accounts shut unfairly and without recourse, for example. If that was your entire income, you already felt hard done by, and were so inclined, I could see how you might go off the rails.
Most people would leave such a “job” or try to game the algorithm, but killing the boss does also look like an obvious (if wrong and probably unproductive) option!
Well I put this 100% on the greed of Alphabet/Google. Building up a huge base of creators on your platform over the course of a decade, only to bow to advertiser pressure over a slim minority of your videos and demonetize algorithmically is terrible, straight up inhumane really. Youtube represents some of these creators livelihoods, and they don't seem to recognize that; I really think that the salary levels in the Valley insulate people here from how much more money is worth literally everywhere else. Honestly I've been waiting for something like this to happen, it only seemed like a matter of time to me and unless distribution platforms are much more careful about how they demonetize going forward, I don't think it will be the last. They should be promoting a campaign to shame their advertisers for acting so rashly and putting this front and center. "See what happens when you force a major overhaul of advertisements? People lose their livelihoods and lives. People think less of you on Youtube because we can't control our creators calling you out for demonetizing, it's bad PR and we're gonna make it worse because these actions resulted in this tradgedy."