This led to Crowder’s channel being demonetized and the #VoxAdPocalypse – which saw thousands of channels deleted or demonetized for ‘hate speech’. In another followup tweet, the account clarified that Crowder would need to "address all of the issues with his channel" in order to have the monetization reinstated.YouTube banned the channel of a creator with half a million subscribers the day after he released a video decrying censorship and criticizing Vox’s Carlos Maza.Įarlier this month, Maza whipped up a firestorm of outrage after accusing Steven Crowder of using gay slurs against him. To clarify, in order to reinstate monetization on this channel, he will need to remove the link to his T-shirts.- TeamYouTube June 5, 2019 In response, the hashtag #VoxAdpocalypse became the #1 trending topic on the platform. Shortly after, the Twitter account replied that Crowder's monetization would be reinstated if he "removed the link to his T-shirts" (shown below). We came to this decision because a pattern of egregious actions has harmed the broader community and is against our YouTube Partner Program policies. Update on our continued review–we have suspended this channel’s monetization. On June 5th, 2019, YouTube posted a follow-up tweet announcing they had "suspended this channels' monetization" (shown below).
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Īlso on June 5th, Maza posted tweets about YouTube's new policy against supremacist content, accusing it of being a "smokescreen" and that "they don't enforce any of this shit" (shown below).
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Meanwhile, others pointed out that Maza had previously called for political opponents to be "milkshaked" in public. Journalist Michael Tracey posted a thread stating that while he found Crowder to be "obnoxious, unfunny, and politically appalling," he was disturbed by the trend of journalists demanding that large tech companies remove content that violated their sensibilities (shown below, right). The Twitter feed posted a graphic with the slogan "No Pride in YouTube," claiming that YouTube had capitalized on Pride as a marketing campaign (shown below, left). On Twitter, many were divided on YouTube's decision. We’ve included more info below to explain this decision:- TeamYouTube June 4, 2019
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(2/4) Our teams spent the last few days conducting an in-depth review of the videos flagged to us, and while we found language that was clearly hurtful, the videos as posted don’t violate our policies. Later that day, the official Twitter feed posted several tweets to Maza announcing that after an "in-depth review," they found Crowder's videos did not violate their policies although they "found language that was clearly hurtful" (shown below).
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The same day, the LourderWithCrowder web site published a blog post compiling all of the rebuttals to Maza's Vox videos. The following day, Crowder uploaded a Louder with Crowder episode titled "VOX is Trying to Ban This Channel," which accused Maza and his employer Vox Media of attempting to use claims of "online harassment" in order to take down the Crowder YouTube channel for being a competitor (shown below). In response, the official Twitter feed replied to Maza that they were "looking into it further" and had sent him a direct message (shown below). Here's a sample: /UReCcQ2Elj- Carlos Maza May 31, 2019 Every single video has included repeated, overt attacks on my sexual orientation and ethnicity. Since I started working at Vox, Steven Crowder has been making video after video "debunking" Strikethrough. On May 30th, 2019, Vox writer Carlos Maza posted several tweets accusing Crowder of "online harassment" and attacking his "sexual orientation and ethnicity." In the Twitter thread, Maza included a montage of video clips featuring Crowder mocking Maza (shown below).