Over the last few months YouTube has been completely demonetizing True Crime content and creators on their platform. This has made many True Crime creators lose ad revenue. Many of these creators depend on these funds for their livelihoods. 

If you are a fan or watcher of True Crime content on YouTube then you know how much time these creators put into these cases in research, video production, editing, and replying to our comments. Every week they post a video they become the researcher, writer, newscaster, videographer, editor, and spokesperson for these cases. Bringing many unknown, unreported, under reported, and forgotten about cases to the forefront and into the spotlight giving these victims a voice. They serve a very beneficial purpose on YouTube and the internet.  

They deserve to be paid for this and not punished for it by having their hard work demonetized. By doing this YouTube is saying that every case/video they demonetize is not important, that the True crime creators don't deserve to be paid for the time, energy, tears, research, and passion they put into these videos, but even worse, that the victims of these cases don't deserve a voice or the publicity that these creators are giving them. 

Please sign this petition letting YouTube, Google Inc., Susan Wojcicki CEO of YouTube, and the many advertisers on YouTube know that these videos deserve monetization and a place on the YouTube platform. 

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