Video bloggers are sweeping the internet and have become the new norm, and some even make it a career. Whether by using Vine, YouTube or Twitter, everyday people are becoming famous on social media with hilarious, stupid vines, creative YouTube videos and relatable tweets. Things are changing for already successful YouTubers, but they may not be for the better.

Recently, YouTube made changes to its policies that challenges its YouTubers from making profit on videos.

“We value diversity and respect for others, and we strive to avoid offending users with ads, websites, or apps that are inappropriate for our ad network.

For this reason, we don’t allow the promotion of any of the following:
–hatred; violence; harassment; racism; sexual, religious, or political intolerance, or organizations with such views
–content that’s likely to shock or disgust
–content that’s exploitative or appears to unfairly capitalize at the expense of others”

YouTube has a feature called Adsense that allows creators to make money off its videos either by advertising products or letting ads play before or during their videos. Or at least that’s how they used to make money.

Because of the new policy, any videos that YouTubers create that may break any of these new rules can not receive money from Adsense, thus cutting the money they earn to almost nothing. Some of their most popular videos that used to rake in money can no longer make profit because the YouTuber “might have said a bad word” or “talked about politics which could be taken as offensive.”

Some can’t understand how everyday people are getting millions upon millions of views every day on simple videos that they post to the fast growing video site.They can make roughly $100 a year to $1 million a year.

Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, aka Pewdiepie, is currently the number one most subscribed to YouTuber with more than 47 million followers on his main YouTube channel. He makes roughly $6 million from his YouTube videos alone.

Jenna Marbles is the number one female YouTuber with more than 16 million subscribers making roughly $1.1 million a year just from YouTube.

Other famous YouTubers like the UK beauty vlogger Zoella and the funny American comedian Miranda Sings also make millions just from YouTube.

Almost every video on YouTube has some type of violation in them which means some YouTubers have now lost their only income. And the worst part is that they don’t even know which of their videos will no longer receive ad revenue because it doesn’t tell them. There are even extreme cases that some of their videos are even blocked from any viewing.

The worst thing is that YouTube is now putting limits on creativity and expression. In a way, they’re saying “You can still be creative and make money on your videos…if your creativity follows these guidelines.”

Many YouTubers quit because what’s the point of making videos if they’re not true to you. It’s limiting one’s ability to express them self how they please. If you find a certain video offensive then simply just click out of it. Find something else to watch. YouTube is full of videos so find one that doesn’t offended you and your high standards. Grow up and mature a little and stop finding every little thing offensive. YouTube already has an option to make videos 18 and up to view so that should already be enough to censor out content that they feel should be censored.

People have already been protesting YouTube to change back to their old policies with the #YouTubeisoverparty that was the number one hashtag on Twitter for two days. Some YouTubers have also spoken out about it on their channels saying how unfair it is. But only time can tell what YouTube will decide to do about this situation.

You should never have limits on creativity as long as it does not put yourself or someone else in danger. YouTube needs to act fast because pretty soon another video site will come about, and the company will regret its mistake once it’s a thing of the past.