i know its bc of youtubes monetisation restrictions but i lose a non-negligeable amount of respect for people who censor words in their videos lol
The thing is that there's ways to evade demonetization that don't involve bleeping yourself or using cutesy TikTok euphemisms. There's a million fairly normal-sounding ways to say someone passed away, their life ended, their injury was fatal, etc... before you get to "unalive."
I hate to sound like my high school teacher saying "swearing means you aren't creative enough to say it another way!", because the monetization rules are fucking stupid. I know it's harder to filter for hate speech than for single words, but it's so goddamn insulting that Nazis get to quibble about "um but it's my sincerely held belief" and yet saying certain synonyms for "make love" or "go to the bathroom" is beyond the pale
but at the same time, from a position of being unable to change those rules... I do think saying "f*ck" means you aren't creative enough to say it another way, because c'mon, there's so many options available to you
I found this Google Sheets list of words that get you demonetized on YouTube, and it's not 100% reliable because the rules aren't public or consistent, and I realize "demonetized" isn't "banned," they're just advertisers not wanting their content to appear on a video about cancer or how to use a condom...
but even so it's still very strange that according to this list, some topics you could not monetize are:
- My Favorite Shows To Binge Watch
- How To Dye Your Hair Blonde
- Recipe for Hot Sauce
- Why Jews Celebrate Purim
- A History Of LGBT Scientists
like, again, these aren't forbidden, they're just "controversial," but how fucked up is it that if enough people hate you or have a fetish for you, it becomes controversial for you to mention yourself
"unalived" and similar tiktok vocabulary is also pretty ineffective in the long term when applied to multiple platforms, because you did all that work of standardization but now you're easier to censor than if you were using the collection of common euphemisms!
