YouTube suspends NELK Boys for \u201ccreating large public health risk\u201d NELK Boys[jwplayer smynPnSq] YouTube has suspended the NELK Boys from the Partner Program after viral videos showed the group participating in massive parties that created \u201ca large public health risk.\u201d While the video publishing platform typically has no problems with the NELK Boys\u2019 brand of content, the YouTubers have been found to encourage behavior that goes against social distancing guidelines across the country due to the ongoing public health crisis. \u201cIf a creator\u2019s off-platform behavior harms our ecosystem we take action to protect the community,\u201d the Team YouTube account wrote. \u201cWe suspended the NELK channel from the Partner Program because they encouraged large numbers of people to disregard social distancing guidelines, creating a large public health risk.\u201d Among other things, the Partner Program lets YouTubers take full advantage of the site\u2019s content creator features as well as a bevy of monetization schemes including ad revenue and channel memberships. If a creator\u2019s off-platform behavior harms our ecosystem we take action to protect the community. We suspended the NELK channel from the Partner Program because they encouraged large numbers of people to disregard social distancing guidelines, creating a large public health risk. \u2014 TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) September 12, 2020 A suspension from the program cuts right into the net gains that a content creator could stand to make with every upload. YouTube\u2019s ruling is in relation to the videos that emerged on September 9 of an enormous party at Illinois State University. Videos show crowds of students filming, drinking, and generally avoiding the town\u2019s social distancing mandates. Read more: What\u2019s Brewing? Week\u2019s biggest drama: Charli D\u2019Amelio reveals eating disorder, Ninja returns to Twitch & more – A few \u2018pop-up parties\u2019 were dispersed on the night the NELK Boys were in the area, according to the town of Normal\u2019s Chief of Police, Rick Bleichner. Local authorities found at least three different sites where crowds gathered throughout the night, with about 200 people at the final location, per The Pantagraph. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LJP7jJuxaoY Normal Mayor Chris Koos, Illinois State University President Larry Dietz, and Bleichner agreed that identified students involved in the parties would have to face some sort of action for their involvement. Additional details weren\u2019t disclosed but the NELK collective might also face consequences from the town for inciting the large gatherings, according to Koos. The NELK Boys were also previously criticized after forming large \u2018gym protests\u2019 to open up Los Angeles facilities. YouTube briefly banned the channel from uploading videos for a separate incident that found one of their uploads to violate the \u201charmful and dangerous\u201d policies of the site. The infamous party boys have been facing a few infractions to their name, and while some people think NELK can\u2019t ever be canceled, they\u2019re starting to rack up penalties from their main platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
YouTube suspends NELK Boys for \u201ccreating large public health risk\u201d NELK Boys[jwplayer smynPnSq] YouTube has suspended the NELK Boys from the Partner Program after viral videos showed the group participating in massive parties that created \u201ca large public health risk.\u201d While the video publishing platform typically has no problems with the NELK Boys\u2019 brand of […]<\/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-65749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65749","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=65749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}