Comment by SpelingBeeChamp | Hacker News Reader

Comment by SpelingBeeChamp | Hacker News Reader

SpelingBeeChamp

Hold on. Soft White Underbelly has NOT been demonetized by YouTube.

Some of the videos that Soft White Underbelly creates are demonetized, or as YouTube puts it, found to not be suitable for all advertisers.

Creating content on YouTube has been my full-time job for more than five years. There is a HUGE difference between a channel being kicked out of the Partner Program and videos being 'demonetized.' (Namely, that in the latter case, all of your other videos, past and future, can still earn revenue.)

Honestly, this just seems like the guy is trying to encourage people to pay for his "members only" content. I don't blame him for that, but afactual alarmist titles are not the right way to help him along.

YouTube's policies regarding advertiser friendliness are annoying, but they are mostly clear — and as far as I know, they have not substantively changed recently.

What I've understood from other content creators, some of whom have actually showed their video management page, is that it's highly infectious. They get every new video they post demonetized instantly, even if they are still in the partner program. One example is Preach gaming, a fairly middle of the road channel which gets all its videos demonetized on upload for unclear reasons.

“Some” in this case make up over 70% or so of his collection due to sexual content. I think that hits the demonetized territory.

1. So he says. I hope you realize that the creator has an enormous monetary incentive to lie about that, and that it is impossible to verify his claims.

2. "Demonetized," when describing a YouTube channel, means one thing and one thing only: that the channel has been kicked out of the YouTube Partner Program.

I don't know why you would adopt your own, materially-different, definition of a word whose definition is widely accepted. Doing so creates unnecessary confusion, and — particularly in this case — is highly misleading.

Have you ever watched a Soft White Underbelly video?

Yes. How is that relevant?

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