
This is hopefully my last post about the truly ridiculous lengths YouTube will go to to avoid saying, āDonāt show men below the waist.ā
YouTubeās Nudity & Sexual Content Policy (and its use of the subjective āsexually-gratifyingā language) desperately needs an update. Hereās my suggestion:
BOOBS WITH BARELY-COVERED NIPPLES ARE FINE AND DANDY.
WOMEN ARE EYE CANDY.BULGES BIGGER THAN KENāS BETTER BE IN CARGO SHORTS.
MEN ARE HANDY, NOT EYE CANDY.
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Hereās the latest in a series of stupid emails from their team of bots and tools.
Frankly, Iām unsure if thereās a living/breathing/thinking human in the mix.
āSubstantialā nudity? Shut the front door, YouTube. And they can shut the fuck up about āsexually gratifyingā too because it literally doesnāt mean anything objectively.
No matter how many times they repeat it, it's just legalese and corporate jargon thatās a meaningless, nonsensical word salad. People can and do get off to literally anything and everything. I would say Google it, but make sure your SafeSearch is turned off first. And donāt believe everything Google Gemini says. Itās full of shit too.
Itās also nice to see the reviewer/bot speaks Dutch. Copy-paste fails are fun.
The last time I checked Netherlands has some of the most liberal, progressive views on nudity, sex, and sexuality in the world. But not YouTube. Youād think this was the 1950s instead of the 2020s. To them, Iām not making artistic montages of found footage and photos. To them, Iām making porn. Or at least porn-adjacent.
If I was making porn, I like to think Iād make more dollars than AdSense pays.
But who the fuck knows. Not that thereās anything wrong with it, but I donāt want to make porn. I want to make the montages Iāve been making. I want to focus on making better conte. Not making content āsaferā from YouTubeās dumb bots and tools.
Like most companies (and people frankly) instead of tackling real problems, YouTube throws itself at manufactured problems. Instead of fixing their Content ID system, for instance, they worry about whether a manās bulge is too prominent.
If itās not abundantly clear, Iām SO OVER this bullshit. Iām SO OVER YouTubeās Email and Chat Support and their tendency to make problems worse not better.
So to minimize my interactions with the platform, Iām now:
Paying for a subscription to Epidemic Sound. This ensures I donāt have to fight bogus copyright claims on Creative Commons and Public Domain music. The price isnāt too steep and allows me to focus on making better videos instead of crafting better copyright disputes.
Including a disclaimer on every video. Whether it needs one or not, it provides ācontextā about the intent and purpose of the video is. Even if the audience understands what theyāre watching, the bots obviously donāt.
Crossing my fingers that YouTube just leaves me the fuck alone from now on.
Yes, Iāve used the word fuck a lot in this post. Itās because YouTube has worked my last fucking nerve talking in circles like they do.
I just want to make and publish montages that my subscribers (and others) enjoy.
Thatās it. I want this to be over. While I hate them and their policies for giving into puritanical prudishness, Iām too tired to fight with them anymore.
Not like Iād win anyway.
Google and YouTube are two-headed monsters, parent and child monopolies too big to control. In my mind, theyāve become corporate bullies. Similar but in some ways better than Meta. While I can do without Meta, Google/YouTube is a necessary evil.
Where else can my little gay montages reach so many people so fast?
TikTok? No thanks.
Itās time to put this saga to bed. Hopefully for good.
Thanks for readingā¦and, if you celebrate, Happy Independence Day!
Clint
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Yeah, it's totally subjective and stupid. There were similar problems about covering the invasion of Ukraine. YT has equally bizarre and arbitrary policies about what could not be shown about war when war is the actual topic of the vid! Ex. No buildings blowing up when the explosion was the point.... Even more ridiculous, one channel would repeat the same video in multiple languages throughout the day. A bot picked them up as 'copying content' when all were in the same channel! Anyway, one guy figured out how to make sure an actual human saw channel owners' rebuttals. He posted a video explaining. I'll try to find it and post the link here.