YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki responds to claims that YouTube rewards drama YouTube: Anthony PadillaIn a discussion with influencer-turned-interviewer Anthony Padilla, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki addressed concerns of \u201crewarding\u201d harassment and toxicity egged on by drama channels. It\u2019s not uncommon to see content creators across the internet complaining about YouTube\u2019s constantly-shifting policies and treatment of traditionally \u201ctaboo\u201d topics \u2014 but one of the most prominent issues that\u2019s come to light is harassment and slander campaigns. YouTube has a rich profile of drama channels, who often report on the goings-on between high-profile influencers and other trending topics\u2026 but some of these channels have been criticized for appearing to encourage harassment against other creators. Longtime YouTuber Anthony Padilla brought up this concern during a June 23 interview with YouTube\u2019s CEO, Susan Wojcicki, who claimed that the platform is working to \u201cdiscourage\u201d toxicity brought about by inflammatory drama channels. \u201cOne of the things that we saw is that people were repeatedly attacking someone, but in a small way,\u201d she began. \u201cThe one person doesn\u2019t feel like the one jab is contributing to this much bigger damage,\u201d Padilla interjected. \u201cThat\u2019s why we actually then started to implement policy around that, and have a variety of different steps, whether it\u2019s demonetization or having a strike, or losing a channel, ultimately,\u201d Wojcicki replied. \u201cWe don\u2019t want to see creator-on-creator harassment.\u201d (Topic begins at 9:11) As for when drama channels actually express legitimate concerns over potentially harmful or illegal activity, Wojcicki claimed that YouTube does \u201cremove [the offending parties] from the platform\u201d if the allegations are found to be true. \u201cThese cases take many different forms, and some people are accused but they\u2019re actually innocent, or they say they didn\u2019t do it but they [turn out to be] guilty. \u2026we\u2019re trying to make sure that we are not having any kind of nexus or connection to illegal activity in terms of things that have happened on the platform.\u201d Ultimately, Padilla\u2019s interview with Wojcicki revealed one thing in striking clarity: YouTube\u2019s inner workings are far more complicated than some critics make it out to be, and the platform does make efforts to listen to its creators on important topics\u2026 even if it doesn\u2019t always seem that way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki responds to claims that YouTube rewards drama YouTube: Anthony PadillaIn a discussion with influencer-turned-interviewer Anthony Padilla, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki addressed concerns of \u201crewarding\u201d harassment and toxicity egged on by drama channels. It\u2019s not uncommon to see content creators across the internet complaining about YouTube\u2019s constantly-shifting policies and treatment of traditionally […]<\/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-65658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65658","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=65658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}