YouTube Is Changing Its Monetization Policy

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Google has announced that it’s making a major change to YouTube’s monetization policy that could impact thousands of channels on the platform.

In an update posted on the official support website, YouTube says that it will be updating the monetization policy regarding “original” and “authentic” content. As of July 15, YouTube’s policy will target content that it feels goes against those guidelines.

“In order to monetize as part of the YouTube Partner Program (YPP), YouTube has always required creators to upload “original” and “authentic” content,” the statement reads. “On July 15, 2025, YouTube is updating our guidelines to better identify mass-produced and repetitious content. This update better reflects what “inauthentic” content looks like today.”

With this new policy, channels that have become known for quickly posting AI-generated videos, copy-paste videos, and, in some cases, reaction content, could find themselves demonetized. That said, it’s currently unknown what YouTube truly deems as “mass-produced” or “repetitious” content.

Insider Gaming has reached out to YouTube for clarification, and will provide an update should a response be received.

This policy change comes not long after YouTube also made an update to its live streaming policy, limiting users under 16 from going live alone on the platform.

Maybe I'm just an optimist but reactors btfo? Show me your "oh no" faces now, thieves.

 

[PhoBingas]

Honestly, I hope this will kill all the retarded click bait channels with stick figures and the wild stories like "a toilet cleaner stole 20M from the cartel and avoided the FBI" kind of bullshit.

I've seen so many of these bs made up stories in the past few weeks.

I doubt the react content will be affected, it's good for YT to monetize the same shit twice over. They don't care who gets the money.

Those videos and the videos of Ai reading reddit posts over mobile games or random stock videos. I swear I block about a dozen channels every day and every other short is still a Microsoft Sam tier Ai voice reading totally real reddit posts.

 

[Sooty Soot]

Can you find English channels on Kick? Every time I check it out it's foreign language channels only.

There's this English language podcast I listen to on Kick from time to time, but it's pretty obscure

https://kick.com/madattheinternet

 

[Make Wraith Wraithy Again]

Can't wait for the female react channels to make crying break down videos over this.

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

So basically they are going to decide what content, falling within the rules, they are going to allow creators to make money on and which they will just keep all of it instead... based not on views or rule breaking but what they decide. Can't die quick enough.

 

[Barry Williams]

mindless content with low educational value

Total Cocomelon Death

 

[AndSothisIsChristmas]

This is a good step, and should hopefully get rid of jeets and people just reading off Reddit posts. I think the more pressing issue, though, is the search algorithm giving nothing but shorts and completely unrelated videos that I’ve already watched.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

Those videos and the videos of Ai reading reddit posts over mobile games or random stock videos. I swear I block about a dozen channels every day and every other short is still a Microsoft Sam tier Ai voice reading totally real reddit posts.

Let's hope that leaves Vaush and Xanderhal (Vaush Jr.) our of a job since all they do is read Wikipedia and Reddit posts.

 

[Safir]

lmao
Jewtube will not ban anything retards actually watch. They're not on a mission to better humanity, they want advertiser money. They're going to try to get rid of the stuff that looks bad to advertisers (bot videos watched by bots). The slop that human retards watch is top tier content as far as jewtube's concerned cos they click on the ads and buy the garbage.

 

[SITHRAK!]

B-b-but muh reddit text to speech stories and muh reddit text to speech stories with shitty mobile gamepaly on half the screen stolen by jeets.

The number of ‘4chan greentext’ stories without post numbers is off the scale, too. Meanwhile original content like Lotus Eaters gets demonetized.

 

[Stab You in the Back]

lmao
Jewtube will not ban anything retards actually watch. They're not on a mission to better humanity, they want advertiser money. They're going to try to get rid of the stuff that looks bad to advertisers (bot videos watched by bots). The slop that human retards watch is top tier content as far as jewtube's concerned cos they click on the ads and buy the garbage.

Exactly. "React" content is, by-and-large, advertisements for the products being reacted to. Why would advertisers want youtube shutting down channels driving people to their goods?