On September 4, 2019, YouTube announced its changes to creators who make videos that have toys, games, characters, or themes in the videos. These changes are taking away comments, notifications, money, and more things from creators who make these types of videos. This is such a big problem for creators who make these types of videos.

Comments being taken away from creators hurt the creator’s analytics and the creator doesn’t get to interact with their subscribers. They don’t get to hear their subscriber’s opinions on the videos that they make or what they think about a product that their video is about. Taking away comments, limits the creator from making different kinds of videos. For example, a creator does a video asking their subscribers to ask them questions for an upcoming Q&A about different kinds of toys. If the comments are taken away, the creator’s subscribers won’t be able to comment questions on the video for the Q&A. Another video that a creator might do is reacting to comments that they have received on different videos. If the comments are once again taken away, then creators won’t be able to make reacting videos. 

Taking away notifications from creators also hurts the creator’s analytics and hurts their subscribers from viewing their video. If notifications are taken away from these creators, subscribers won't know when the creator, that they love to watch, uploads new content for them to enjoy. Notifications also will affect the creator's eligibility to be in YouTube's moneymaker program. Which brings us to taking away these creator's money. 

Taking away the creator's money really hurts the creator. Some creators on YouTube, heavily rely on YouTube's moneymaker program. Creators sometimes use the money that they make on the platform to support themselves in life. They may use their money to buy food to feed themselves, pay their house payment, pay bills with, and more. Some creators use their money in a way to pay for their projects. For example, a creator might pay for their merch line with the money that they have made off of YouTube. Also, creators might have a team who works and helps the creator with videos that the creator makes. The creator most likely pays the people on the team with some of the money the creator got fromYouTube. If the money is being taken away or isn't coming in as much as it was, creators might not be able to support themselves, their team, or their upcoming projects that they have worked hard for.

Taking away all of these features does have an impact on creators and it’s extremely disappointing for creators to have things taken away when the creators did nothing wrong. Creators are simply doing what they love and being punished for that, is incredibly heartbreaking.

There are creators on YouTube who are really impacted on this, that they are moving there whole channels on other platforms just to support themselves. Creators moving to other platforms decreases the number of creators on YouTube and the number of views that YouTube as a whole actually pulls in. Less and fewer people will go on and be on YouTube just because of that one and many others moving their content to other platforms. Other creators, are staying on YouTube but are changing their entire channel. Some creators are now changing their videos to be about something that isn’t related to the normal videos that they usually do all because of the new YouTube rules.

YouTube is taking away features and making it harder for creators who make videos about toys, games, themes, or characters because YouTube thinks this is protecting children's safety. This isn’t protecting children's safety, this is only hurting YouTube themselves and the creators on the platform.

The Solution:

It's easy. YouTube needs to not take away any features for creators who make Toys, Games, Characters, or Themes videos. They need to not take away and not put in place the new rules for Toys, Games, Characters, or Themes creators on January 1st, 2020.  

Signing this petition, shows your support for Toys, Games, Characters, and Themes creators on YouTube and will show that you don't want YouTube to put these new rules in action on January 1st, 2020.