

"Most of the words are ones we might expect YouTube to censor," Nerd City said in their video. He then manually uploaded short one-to-two second videos with these terms in the titles, featuring no visual or audio content that would be considered a problem to YouTube's bots. The experiment started with a listĪndrew put together a list of over 15,000 common words and phrases, including the most commonly used words in the Oxford Dictionary, popular search terms, and the most read listings on Urban Dictionary. They wanted to test the site to figure out which specific words would lead a video to be demonetized. Popular internet culture commentary channel Nerd City published a video on YouTube of an experiment they put together in collaboration with Sealow, the CEO of Ocelot AI, and Andrew from the channel Analyzed. A new investigation has now raised even more questions and concerns, revealing that words like "lesbian" and "gay" may be flagged by YouTube's content management bots as being non-advertiser friendly, and thus demonetizing them. YouTube has received much criticism from LGBTQ creators in recent months because they believe the platform is discriminating against their videos. Visit Insider's homepage for more stories.

"We're proud of the incredible LGBTQ voices on our platform and take concerns like these very seriously," a YouTube spokesperson told Insider.

