NDM 29

YouTube's small creators pay price of policy changes after Logan Paul scandal

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jan/18/youtube-creators-vloggers-ads-logan-paul

- The Guardian

This article focuses on the new rules that youtube has set for the creators after the Logan Paul scandal. People who talk about important issues are being flagged for being inappropriate whereas there are youtubers like Logan Paul who post videos of a dead body and doesn't get it taken down until he took it down himself all due to the backlash he received and not the involvement of Youtube. Youtubers like Armsortong has had their ad revenues drop from about $180 a month to as alittle as $30 leading her to give up on monetising her videos.

• YouTube claimed that 99% of channels that would be demonetized under the new policy were already making less than $100 a year.

I feel like this new policy has brought new and unnecessary problems for the content creators that are trying to build up their channels and maybe even try to make a living out of it. This new policy allows the large channels to stay at the top because they already meet all the requirements that the new policy states. Therefore this raises questions on the democracy of the site and whether it gives other creators a fair chance.