Wheel of Stupidity, turn, turn, turn, which company shall induce third-degree burns?

Oh? It's not Reddit? Huh. Well I guess that means we have one option left, and that's our favorite video-sharing site, YouTube. Now apparently there is some decent content ^[[citation needed]]2 on this garbage fire of a website. But irrespective of the multitude of YouTubers pissing off or on any other YouTuber who threatens $0.30 of their CPM, there is another entity which manages to make bone-headed moves like clockwork.

Yes, this time YouTube Heroes advertiser-friendly content some safeguards that are to "protect creators" are killing YouTube. Granted, these safeguards are safeguards that protect creators in the same way that deleting the Windows folder prevents your Mac from getting viruses, but that dosen't really matter to Google.

But I don't want your uneducated and probably racist opinion on YouTube? What is actually happening?

I didn't ask what you were thinking, but here is an excerpt from the blog post (and its really the only line that matters in the fluff article):

Starting today, we will no longer serve ads on YPP videos until the channel reaches 10k lifetime views.

Yes, this means that anyone under 10,000 lifetime views across (what seems to be at the moment) does not get any ad-revenue at all from YouTube videos. The problem with this as /u/MatPatGT (creator of the show that makes fanatical Undertale fanboys send him death threats because he made a theory that many didn't like) points out on Twitter is that:

[...] Unmonetized videos get LESS algorithmic promo, making it harder for new creators.

• @MatPatGT - April 7, 2017

This hurts smaller creators who have less than ten thousand videos who have made reactions™ to it, with the most notable being PewDiePie's reaction and this news article, where the term for this drama came from. Of course, according to H3H3 and probably half the fucking internet, the Wall Street Journal killed YouTube. Twitter is most-predictably blowing up about it.

Now it seems the 10,000 limit and the other "safeguards" for advertiser-friendly content might be a good thing, but the problem is that even if you reach the not-hard-to-climb-to threshold of 10,000 lifetime viewers (I have 5000 on my personal YT channel with lazier content and an upload schedule more sparse than CGPGrey) still rejects people if they have any content that advertisers would deem unfriendly which Jim Sterling AKA Jim Fucking Sterling Son in a YouTube video eight months ago talked about by saying this (paraphrased):

People started sniffing a problem when they realized some of their videos being demonetized [...] with YouTube citing 'advertiser friendly' concerns. This led the YouTubers to the terms of service which lays out [...] the rules [which] are as broad as they are vague...

The page shown at this point in the video outlines what is advertiser friendly content. Like this subreddit at many times, people are flipping the fuck out, crying of censorship, free speech, and while this likely won't be the death of YouTube, it may give rise to more people using a service like Patreon as creators like Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell, Red Letter Media, and many, many others have recently started doing.

However, the algorithm does disfavor content that makes YouTube less money, probably because ad-bots that bid probably don't bid on content are understandably wanted to be shown less often.

So yeah, par for the course on YouTube.