For queer creators, especially those who create sex education videos, YouTube’s content policies make it near-impossible to make money on the platform. Queer YouTubers have been fighting with the platform and its policies for years, and now a group of LGBTQIA YouTubers filed a class-action lawsuit against YouTube for unfairly restricting and demonetizing their videos. To fund sex-ed videos, many YouTubers have turned to sponsorships with sex toy companies, which supposedly violates YouTube’s rules against “content that contains nudity and is meant to be sexually gratifying.”
One of the affected YouTubers shared the email they got from YouTube, in which a YouTube spokesperson admitted “we incorrectly issued strikes on videos with links to an adult toy site.” They added, “When this was brought to our attention, we worked quickly to resolve the strikes for all affected creators.” Mistake or not, as the class-action lawsuit indicates, some LGBTQIA YouTubers feel that their videos are placed under unfair scrutiny.
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