Royal Nonesuch: ‘YouTube is dead to me’

By Ben Philippi

Royal Nonesuch at SHOT Show in January 2017 with his closed-bolt blowback-action RN/GG “RN-9”. (Photos: Chris Eger/Guns.com)
Royal Nonesuch, a 21-year-old YouTuber from middle-Missouri who builds ingenious homemade guns and risks life and limb shooting them, chalked up nearly 321,000 YouTube subscribers in three years.
But he stopped making videos recently. It’s not because he lost interest, but because YouTube introduced new content policies in March and April of 2017 aimed at censoring questionable content.
These policy changes were in response to major advertisers pulling their ads from YouTube after they noticed their ads playing alongside extremist content, such as videos promoting terrorism or antisemitism.
As a result, YouTube began removing extremist content and banning the creators. But it also started demonetizing many other videos it considered dangerous or harmful based on it’s a new set of guidelines. By demonetizing videos, creators can’t make money on their videos. They can ask YouTube for a formal review to get their content re-monetized, but this can take several days or even weeks, and there’s no guarantee that it will work.
Google currently uses a mixture of automated screening and human moderation to censor its video content. When you consider that over 100 hours of video is uploaded

Source: Guns.com