Pokimane calls out YouTube as her Oscars Will Smith slap video gets flagged YouTube: Pokimane, The GuardianTwitch star Pokimane is pleading with YouTube for help after the platform flagged her video reacting to Will Smith\u2019s viral Oscar slap as \u201cinappropriate\u201d for advertisers. The internet still can\u2019t stop talking about the moment Will Smith walked on stage at the 94th Academy Awards to slap Chris Rock after the comedian made a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith. The moment took social media by storm, spawning a slew of reactions from high profile celebrities and fellow comedians like Joe Rogan and even Jim Carrey. While tons of influencers have posted their takes on the situation online \u2014 including full footage of the slap, itself \u2014 Twitch streamer Imane \u2018Pokimane\u2019 Anys is experiencing some difficulties sharing her thoughts about the matter. Anys pleads with YouTube for help over flagged Will Smith Oscars slap video Anys notably uploaded her reaction to the slap on YouTube without issue on Monday, but says that now, her video has been flagged as not advertiser friendly. The issue is completely befuddling her, as other creators have uploaded the slap to YouTube with ads enabled without any problems. Now, she\u2019s reaching out to the platform and other creators for help. \u201cMy video was flagged as non-advertiser friendly, even though there\u2019s lots of videos with millions of views that talk about this topic with ads,\u201d she wrote on Twitter. \u201cAnyone have any idea why?\u201d Anys attached a screenshot of an email she\u2019d received from YouTube, which said her video is \u201crunning limited or no ads due to content identified as not suitable for most advertisers.\u201d https:\/\/twitter.com\/pokimanelol\/status\/1508871840520880149?s=20&t=-2_-y5B71GIU0DcvCdhTng While most commenters theorize that the slap was considered too \u201cviolent\u201d for advertisers, others question if her video wasn\u2019t specifically targeted by internet trolls \u2014 something that recently happened to steamer JustaMinx, who was banned from TikTok three times due to mass reporting. Luckily, Pokimane\u2019s video remains viewable. Anys said that Jada\u2019s alopecia was a \u201cs**ty thing to joke about,\u201d but ultimately called the situation \u201cconfusing\u201d as Smith appeared to be laughing at Rock\u2019s joke at first. Will Smith has publicly apologized and he is currently being investigated by the Academy due to the slap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Pokimane calls out YouTube as her Oscars Will Smith slap video gets flagged YouTube: Pokimane, The GuardianTwitch star Pokimane is pleading with YouTube for help after the platform flagged her video reacting to Will Smith\u2019s viral Oscar slap as \u201cinappropriate\u201d for advertisers. The internet still can\u2019t stop talking about the moment Will Smith walked on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}