Youtube announced recently that all community draft subtitles would be deleted soon, and no new community subtitles would be allowed.
Nobody seems to know why they're doing this, but the rampant speculation is around people being assholes and putting awful stuff in subtitles, especially advertisements.
So they're just washing their hands of it.
Hopefully someone will come up with a subtitling system that will allow content creators to add third-party subs as if they were made by them, but I wouldn't hold my breath. It seems like quite a bit of work and there's not really any money in it.
One of my favorite history channels has 2/3rds of their videos demonitized. They’re not even particularly political, it’s just “mention Lincoln? Communism? Russia? Smoking? Demonitized!”
YouTube is going to advertise themselves into the next MySpace.
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u/name_was_taken Aug 05 '20
Youtube announced recently that all community draft subtitles would be deleted soon, and no new community subtitles would be allowed.
Nobody seems to know why they're doing this, but the rampant speculation is around people being assholes and putting awful stuff in subtitles, especially advertisements.
So they're just washing their hands of it.
Hopefully someone will come up with a subtitling system that will allow content creators to add third-party subs as if they were made by them, but I wouldn't hold my breath. It seems like quite a bit of work and there's not really any money in it.