YouTube; A place full of unlimited amounts of information for the world. A place where people can find entertainment, information or even a place to “work”. Thousand of people rely on YouTube for a source of income.

However, YouTube’s update of their terms of use for their content creators, isn’t making too many people feel the creative freedom they went to YouTube for. A channel called SuperMega, run by Ryan Magee and Matt Watson, made a podcast talking about the issue with the new reinforcements. With these new rules their life could be impacted deeply. Their humor tends to be crude and the regulations say that if humor is not advertisement friendly, then the content creator will not receive income for that video.

This leads to YouTube Heroes. A program that YouTube has started to get the community involved. You become a YouTube Hero by signing up online. What you would do as a Hero is flag content that goes against guidelines, add subtitles or captions, or helping users. Students like Jarod Gossett who is a sophomore here at Kearns, don’t agree with the program. He believes that people will go out of their way to get a channel taken down or to overall make it suffer. “I think I wanted it back before the change, but now people who are making a difference are getting demonetized. It sucks because I’ve already seen one channel get taken down because of it.“

Madison Carlow, or DayeVlogs on YouTube, isn’t quite being impacted yet, but she fears it. “At the moment I don’t think the regulations are affecting me at all, but in the future if I get bigger it will definitely make some difference.” She worries that her future as a YouTuber could be impacted. Right now she is at 120 subscribers and is expanding every moment. All we can do is hope that she gets the success she wants.