YouTube has been this arbiter of wholesomeness when it comes to their advertisers and how creator can or should not swear within some made up number of seconds in the beginning of their video or even how much they do within a video. It was back in 2023 that you couldn't (or shouldn't) swear within the first 8 - 13 seconds of your video. You know, those highly influenced kids and teens might hear a no no word (le gasp.)
Creator freedom is continuously being attacked from just about all angles for about a decade, with recent ramping up in just the past few years. I understand that YouTube is providing a free place for all of us to host our content on their infrastructure and with that, we do have to follow their rules. It just come to a point in which the user and even the creator experience is becoming extremely lowered.
“We introduced this guideline to align with broadcast standards; advertisers expected ads on YouTube to have a distance between profanity and the ad that just served. Those expectations have changed, and advertisers already have the ability to target content to their desired level of profanity,” he said.
YouTube has been, and continues to rake in the money from advertisers. To see in how they are beholden to the mighty advertisers, we're going to be seeing more and more tightening of certain content being found on the platform. Unless you're a advertiser who is paying Google to show your pornographic ads or even scam ads, those are perfectly fine according to YouTube.
YouTube has been this arbiter of wholesomeness when it comes to their advertisers and how creator can or should not swear within some made up number of seconds in the beginning of their video or even how much they do within a video. It was back in 2023 that you couldn't (or shouldn't) swear within the first 8 - 13 seconds of your video. You know, those highly influenced kids and teens might hear a no no word (le gasp.)
Creator freedom is continuously being attacked from just about all angles for about a decade, with recent ramping up in just the past few years. I understand that YouTube is providing a free place for all of us to host our content on their infrastructure and with that, we do have to follow their rules. It just come to a point in which the user and even the creator experience is becoming extremely lowered.
From this TechCrumch article https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/30/youtube-loosens-profanity-rules-for-monetized-videos/
YouTube has been, and continues to rake in the money from advertisers. To see in how they are beholden to the mighty advertisers, we're going to be seeing more and more tightening of certain content being found on the platform. Unless you're a advertiser who is paying Google to show your pornographic ads or even scam ads, those are perfectly fine according to YouTube.