YouTube took to Twitter at the end of Pride Month to apologize to its Lgbtq creators for hosting offensive ads and how it’s “enforcing [its] monetization policy.”
The tweets, published on June 30, start with YouTube noting that it is “proud of the incredible Lgbtq voices on our platform” before going on to add, “We’ve also had issues where we let the Lgbtq community down.”
These “issues” include anti-lgbtq advertisements that have appeared repeatedly on the video platform. YouTube creators like singer Shannon Taylor tweeted to the company back in May to ask for those ads’ removal, which it finally said it did on June 8 in a tweet responding to creator Elijah Daniel.
Around this same time, Lgbtq creators also called out YouTube for demonetizing videos that included words like “trans” or “transgender” in the title. Trans YouTube creator Chase Ross blatantly illustrated this in a May 30 tweet showing how...
The tweets, published on June 30, start with YouTube noting that it is “proud of the incredible Lgbtq voices on our platform” before going on to add, “We’ve also had issues where we let the Lgbtq community down.”
These “issues” include anti-lgbtq advertisements that have appeared repeatedly on the video platform. YouTube creators like singer Shannon Taylor tweeted to the company back in May to ask for those ads’ removal, which it finally said it did on June 8 in a tweet responding to creator Elijah Daniel.
Around this same time, Lgbtq creators also called out YouTube for demonetizing videos that included words like “trans” or “transgender” in the title. Trans YouTube creator Chase Ross blatantly illustrated this in a May 30 tweet showing how...
- 7/2/2018
- by Jessica Klein
- Tubefilter.com
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