{"id":1837,"date":"2017-04-08T21:03:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-08T21:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westminsterradio.net\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2017-04-08T21:03:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-08T21:03:45","slug":"youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Why YouTube isn&#8217;t having a great time right now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">YouTube has been criticised for a number of issues in the past few weeks, resulting in public apologies from the video sharing platform, as well as loss of revenue.<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>LGBTQ+ censorship<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The introduction of the new feature \u201cRestricted Mode\u201d, which censors content regarded as \u201cmore mature\u201d from the platform, caused offence in YouTube&#8217;s LGBTQ+ community, because\u00a0the setting\u00a0was inadvertently filtering a large proportion of LGBTQ+ videos.<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>The reaction from\u00a0LGBTQ+\u00a0YouTubers<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">YouTubers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UC_bFJ8wfoYVr-UYgs-JhPpg\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Saskia and Lily<\/a> said in an interview via Skype \u201cwe kind of need that representation because it&#8217;s not like we have it on mainstream TV. It&#8217;s kind of saying it&#8217;s not appropriate, and maybe it&#8217;s something to be hidden or ashamed of&#8230; if you&#8217;re quite young and impressionable, and maybe insecure about your identity, it&#8217;s just sending a bad message&#8230;\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTubers Saskia &amp; Lily (Skype interview) by Gabriel Green\" width=\"500\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F316093477&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=750&#038;maxwidth=500&#038;secret_token=s-uOJV0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Joey Graceffa was another YouTuber to comment. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/7JVMEpBNQqs?t=414\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a>, he said: \u201cI think it\u2019s important for kids to be exposed to learning about what being gay, or trans, or the whole spectrum (is like).\u201d He said in\u00a0a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeyGraceffa\/status\/843550536955658241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweet<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\" style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeyGraceffa\/status\/843550536955658241\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1582\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/04\/Joey-Graceffa-tweet-1.png\" alt=\"&quot;So upset about the LGBTQ+ @youtube filter. Creators have worked to make this a platform of progression + inclusion. This isn't who WE are! \ud83d\ude15&quot;\" width=\"480\" height=\"219\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/04\/Joey-Graceffa-tweet-1.png 830w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/04\/Joey-Graceffa-tweet-1-300x137.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/04\/Joey-Graceffa-tweet-1-768x350.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/04\/Joey-Graceffa-tweet-1-823x378.png 823w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Source: @JoeyGraceffa (Twitter).<\/em><\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Is it going to be fixed?<\/strong><\/h6>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtube-creators.googleblog.com\/2017\/03\/restricted-mode-how-it-works-and-what.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement <\/a>addressing the issue, YouTube said: \u201c\u2026this feature isn\u2019t working the way it should. We\u2019re sorry and we\u2019re going to fix it.\u201d The company have not given a time frame as to when the issue may be fixed, but also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YTCreators\/status\/843613347367079937\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> LGBTQ+ voices on the platform are &#8220;a key part of what YouTube is all about.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Extremist material<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>Google, who own YouTube, were recently\u00a0summoned to the Cabinet Office after governmental advertising was being placed next to extremist material.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1782\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/04\/5423138371_b78aff8f90_z-1.jpg\" alt=\"War\" width=\"480\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/04\/5423138371_b78aff8f90_z-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/04\/5423138371_b78aff8f90_z-1-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Source: Expertinfantry (Flickr Creative Commons).<\/em><br \/>\nThe government have now stopped\u00a0advertising on YouTube, along with\u00a0many companies such as Pepsi, the BBC and O2, who also are concerned about their brands being associated with controversial material on the website. Havas is the sixth largest advertising company in the world, and has\u00a0removed all of its clients&#8217; advertisements. Google said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.google\/topics\/google-europe\/improving-our-brand-safety-controls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;In a very small percentage of cases, ads appear against content that violates our monetization policies. We promptly remove the ads in those instances, but we know we can and must do more.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Are they paying musicians enough?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1804\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/04\/6326331374_583d253786_z-1.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/04\/6326331374_583d253786_z-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2017\/04\/6326331374_583d253786_z-1-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Source: Feliperivera (Flickr Creative Commons).<\/em><br \/>\nMusic streaming on YouTube accounts for up to a third of its viewership, according to some reports, but the Recording Industry Association of America, who represent recording artists in the US, have recently claimed that YouTube\u00a0&#8220;wrongly exploits legal loopholes&#8221; to pay artists less than Spotify and Apple Music. Spotify pay artists a minimum of $0.0025 per stream, whereas YouTube pay an average of less than $0.002, according to data from record labels.<\/p>\n<p>YouTube has not responded officially, but the Head of International Music at YouTube, Christophe Muller, said in The Guardian in 2016: <em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;No other platform gives as much money back to creators&#8230; while there may occasionally be discord, history shows that when we work together, we can create beautiful harmonies.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has been criticised for a number of issues in the past few weeks, resulting in public apologies from the video sharing platform, as well as loss of revenue. LGBTQ+ censorship The introduction of the new feature \u201cRestricted Mode\u201d, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":577,"featured_media":1757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive","category-news-archive","category-first-year-archive"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/577"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/radio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}