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Clipping out basic words in youtube clips is pissing me off (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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I watch a lot of the Hasan Abi industrial complex to keep up on the news. There's more and more of these channels skip clipping over words like "killed", "bomb", "war", and even "gun". One of the clips I saw earlier kept the word "missile" too... That's just a bomb with propellant!! I don't get why they keep doing this, it's really annoying. It just feels like yuppy bullshit, I have yet to encounter someone who gets triggered by these words, online or irl.

Thanks for reading my rant, goodnight.

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[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

It's literally specifically to not get demonetized

[–] tactical_trans_karen@hexbear.net 12 points 2 months ago (3 children)

So are they going to demonetize news outlet channels? Also, wtf why? It really is just lib shit.

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 15 points 2 months ago

Possibly, since it's literally algorithms that catch things and demonetize videos for them. Or they're just copying the smaller channels for whom it is a legitimate concern to seem more authentic.

[–] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 2 months ago

ABC, etc. mainstream news don't rely on YouTube revenue. So even if Google is demonetizing them (seems doubtful. It's literally on primetime OTA and cable channels regulated by the FCC. No way advertisers find much to whine about there) it doesn't really matter to them as much as, say, if you, I assume a regular person, made a living editing clips and posting them for the ad revenue.

[–] mathemachristian@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago

They get exemptions from the algorithm

[–] ClimateChangeAnxiety@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

Yeah and the real answer to this is to ban or severely limit automated ad targeting

Ban companies from using automated language detection to determine advertising.

Honestly I’d argue for “Ban any sort of automated ad targeting full stop,” the options are a human looks at a video and assigns a specific ad to play for that video, or the whole website gets a selection of ads that are assigned randomly.