I’ve been watching videos related to the GTA series. Obviously, a video game series where violence, sex, and drugs are major themes. But YouTubers won’t say words like “kill”, “die”, “murder”, “sex”, “dildo”, “cocaine”, “cannabis” etc etc.
They either use euphemisms or just show the thing on the screen without saying what it actually is. A dildo is a “plastic eggplant” and killing someone is “unaliving” them. Cocaine is “white powder”.
I’m aware it’s related to the algorithm and demonetisation. But I’m so sick of sanitised internet. A video about a game for adults is presented like it’s for children or teens.
Not all of them do. There’s a good handful of creators who make videos for mature audiences, even going as far as letting YouTube put up a warning that viewers have to click to acknowledge that this video contains mature content.
But even those videos have to abide by these dumb rules set out by YouTube. YouTube may not remove your video, but they will make it difficult for your video to be seen, even to your subscribers. So creators of any content, including those who solely make it for mature adult audiences, “have” to use this language to skirt YouTube’s dumb rules.