{"id":822,"date":"2025-07-30T03:15:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T23:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actutech.app\/youtube-tells-creators-they-can-drop-more-f-bombs\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T03:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T23:15:13","slug":"youtube-tells-creators-they-can-drop-more-f-bombs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.actutech.app\/en\/youtube-tells-creators-they-can-drop-more-f-bombs\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube tells creators they can drop more F-bombs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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YouTube videos with strong profanity in the first seven seconds (words like \u201cfuck\u201d) are now eligible for full monetization, according to a video<\/a> from Conor Kavanagh, YouTube\u2019s head of monetization policy experience. Previously, these kinds of videos were only eligible for \u201climited ad revenue.\u201d<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Changes to YouTube\u2019s inappropriate language policies have long been a sore spot for creators. In November 2022, the company began to potentially limit ad revenue if profanity was used in the first 8\u201315 seconds of a video. ProZD, whose real name is SungWon Cho, published a video<\/a> where, after waiting 15 seconds, he called the policy change \u201cthe dumbest fucking shit I\u2019ve ever heard.\u201d (He later said that the video was demonetized<\/a>.) YouTube adjusted its policies in March 2023<\/a>, including allowing videos with profanity in the first 8\u201315 seconds to be eligible for ad revenue.<\/p>\n

I asked ProZD his thoughts about Tuesday\u2019s change. \u201cIt\u2019s about fucking time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The company originally restricted monetization for videos with swearing at the start of videos to \u201calign with broadcast standards,\u201d Kavanagh says. \u201cAdvertisers expected ads on YouTube to have distance between profanity and the ad that just served.\u201d However, \u201cthose expectations have changed,\u201d he says, \u201cand advertisers already have the ability to target content to their desired level of profanity.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the only specific example of \u201cstrong\u201d profanity Kavanagh provides is \u201cfuck\u201d \u2014\u00a0 he says that YouTube defines \u201cmoderate profanity\u201d as words like \u201casshole\u201d or \u201cbitch\u201d \u2014 \u201cyou get the idea,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

YouTube will continue to limit monetization if you use moderate or strong profanity in titles or thumbnails. Videos with a \u201chigh frequency\u201d of strong profanity are also still a \u201cviolation\u201d of YouTube\u2019s advertiser-friendly content guidelines, Kavanagh says. \u201cYou have to pick and choose your fucks carefully.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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