I am extremely concerned over the recent plan announced by @YouTube for disabiling and demonetizing “kid focused” content. @NerdECrafter did a great video breaking it down https://youtu.be/c-dBsV5Yawo
This is going to kill so many art, crafts, and more feminine channels. 1/11
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The new machine/software that will be tasked with scanning for child friendly content will be hitting videos with: - colorful thumbnails - characters or toys in your background - using a character in a video (like drawing a cartoon) - colorful content in general 2/11
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- content using kids focused materials (ie slime, clays, craft kits) Just speaking from my standpoint, I draw not super realistic art. Mine is somewhat cartoonish and I use a lot of colors. Hell my background is filled with character posters. 3/11
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I will potentially have to change my look and content to avoid the machine even though my content isn’t targeting kids. My audience is mostly 18-24 year olds but Youtube has stated that it will still treat the views as if they are children if your content gets matched. 4/11
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@TeamYouTube@YTCreators with this new policy and filtering, you will be killing a lot of creators. Arts, crafts, sculpting are meant for all ages and all walks of life. Not just kids. I urge you to consider a new method to help with kid protections on the platform. 5/111 reply 1 retweet 29 likesShow this thread -
@TeamYouTube@YTCreators instead of punishing creators, we could think of ways to add better age verification to the platform. Maybe additional 2 step verification from parents to let kids watch or treat kids accounts like red accounts without ads to prevent data collecting 6/111 reply 3 retweets 30 likesShow this thread -
@TeamYouTube@YTCreators I understand there is no easy solution to this. It’s hard to verify ages of viewers and I understand why steps have to be made. I am concerned that this method though is a somewhat quick fix that will hurt creators. 7/111 reply 1 retweet 27 likesShow this thread -
I urge others to please educatd yourself on this current issue and message youtube. Tweet at them, message them on other socials, email them. And all else, support the creators you love. We have until January 2020. Watch the heck out of ones you love while they are here 8/11
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Consider supporting your favorite channel in other ways. Like if they have a patreon, the amount of one coffee a month or ever just a dollar a month can help. Give your support in anyway you can to the creators you don’t want to disappear. 9/11
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If shit hits the fan, your support could be life changing. If art channels get hit by the system, you being their for your favorite creator could truly make the different. Whether that in binging their videos now or supporting them by other means, do what you can. 10/11
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I hope that this doesn’t turn out as bad as so many of us fear. I pray we don’t loose to many talented creators on the platform because of this.... let’s hope @TeamYouTube @YTCreators figure out something that won’t kill so many wonderful channels...
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