Comment on YouTube suspends monetisation of Russell Brand's channel
AphoticDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
They aren’t making more ad revenue off of his channel, because demonetized channels do not display ads via Google. It doesn’t mean shit if he’s innocent. The court of public opinion is the only court that matters to marketing departments, and he’s hot enough right now that no corporation is going to want to be associated with him.
smeg@feddit.uk 9 months ago
If they’re not displaying ads at all now then I guess that’s slightly better than I initially assumed, thanks for the clarification
Rambi@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Maybe you should edit your post as not to misinform more people given that you stated something as a fact that you basically just fabricated.
smeg@feddit.uk 9 months ago
OK, I’ve edited it, no need to make it sound malicious
Rambi@lemm.ee 9 months ago
You’re right I should have worded that better, so apologies for being rude. I just think they demonotised him because it’s actually pretty clear he is guilty (even if it is just to protect themselves) and your post was kind of adding to the narrative that it’s just a witch hunt when demonotised videos don’t even have the ads anyway.
But I understand you were just making a point about private companies having too much power over the livelihoods of creators etc which I agree with. I’m sure you didn’t have ill intent so like I say I’m sorry for jumping to conclusions.