YouTube Heroes is essentially a way for the site to bypass actually hiring moderators, with them ostensibly rewarding the site’s community for flagging content, writing comments, or adding subtitles and captions to videos. The YouTube comments section is a notorious cesspit of racism, sexism, and other assorted bigoted rhetoric, but with the new YouTube Heroes program, the video sharing site looks to give the people who partake in making its community so toxic an unprecedented level of power. This led the owner of YouTube’s most-subscribed channel, PewDiePie, to state that the site “ doesn’t care about its creators.” However, now YouTube has stated that it will now offer the ability to converse directly with its employees… to its commenters.
The most recent complaint leveled at the company followed the unveiling of its new “advertiser-friendly content guidelines” which, among other things, stated that the company may remove monetization from videos featuring foul language. For a long time now, YouTube content creators have bemoaned the site’s lack of transparency when it comes to outlining its plans to those who create videos for the site.
