Documentaries like true crime or history will now blur the entire screen for certain scenes. I've just started noticing "over blurring" in recently uploaded videos by popular channels.
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They overblurr so they don't get demonetized.
Youtube is ONLY about money now. Even my favorite Youtuber only cares about it now.
It's not even about just the money --
Blokes like Arthur Kwon Lee, SyntheticMan, or Gerbert's Void just try to inform people and they still have to self-censor A LOT just so they don't get hit with community strikes or channel bans. If you check Arthur Kwon Lee's community posts, he gets hit with these strikes all the time, and he's constantly talking about the Jews, etc.
He doesn't even care about the monetisation (since he makes his money selling some awesome art), he's just trying to wake people up and still has to self-censor to avoid the strikes.
Beyond the demonetisation there is also YouTube just outright hiding your content, or striking it because of some nebulous form of "hate speech".
SyntheticMan's Battlefield 6 video got struck because he made critical comments about a black Shaneeqa character and had to upload it to Rumble.
Thanks for the new channel recommendations!
This is their alternative to a soul less corporate job.
Tbf i cant really blame them.