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No.
In fact they've made it objectively worse by restricting what you're allowed to make videos about.
The state of True Crime is abysmal.. it has gotten to the point where censorship is stricter than Cable TV, as the names of various felonies have to be bleeped out in order to not catch youtube's wrath.
Yet Far Right Political Channels are free to drop whatever slurs against transfolk they like.. and openly accuse whatever drag performer they want of being a kiddie diddler even though true crime channels get a content strike for saying "pedophile" even though it's in the context of someone literally tried and convicted as one.
Ever wonder why the kids are saying "Unalive" so much? It started as a cute 4th wall leaning cover for death in a Deadpool/Spider-Man crossover...
Now it has regular usage because direct references to death (Again, Regardless of context) is against Youtube Terms of Service.
It's so bad that a close friend of mine who is a streamer, despite not posting to youtube, has had to train himself to exclusively say Unalived so that clips of his streams can be safely posted to youtube, his livelihood cannot risk him using the "d" or "k" words.
It's absurd because a reason web content became so popular is that it wasn't restricted to the same kind of censorship the FCC puts on Cable TV.. We can have an Angry Nerd drop as many F Bombs as he wants while talking about something as innocuous as Super Mario 3...
But thanks to Youtube.. not anymore
I was recommended a gaming video on Starfield where the youtuber in the first few seconds of the video shows a male character speaking of his husband, says out loud the character is gay and then murders said character. I reported it and YouTube didn't do shit. I won't pay them or watch their ads. May Google rot.
They want to look like they're against bigotry, but don't actually wanna be....
Shit just watch SML, it gets censored by Youtube all the time for incredibly minor shit (Like a parody of Momo, or showing blood), but the blatant transphobia and racism? Perfectly fine... I mean it's comedy and nothing's meant by it (Unlike the Starfield video)
God, now I'm remembering all the people who used Kung Jin as a Fatality Dummy in MKX, which became a trend when the writer revealed Kung Jin was gay.. (The game said he had a "forbidden romance", but he's a monk, so that could have easily been a woman since monk's are celibate, which is why a writer had to clarify)
What really sucks is all the "fans" whining that this was shoving Kung Jin's sexuality in the face of the fans....
This is the same game where Shinnok, the MK Devil, is threatening to end all existence, and right when his right hand man Quan Chi is in custody so that he can potentially bring the cast of the previous game back to life... but wait, can't talk about that now, because Johnny Cage and Sonya Blade have to bring the whole game to a halt to scream at each other about their failed marriage....
But it's KUNG JIN's sexuality that fucks up the game right? Strangely it's never the straight people bringing the show to a halt to talk about how "Penis will touch vagina in a big and exciting way" who get accused of "Shoving their sexuality in people's faces", even though that shit happens all the time.
Look Hollywood, your action movies don't need a forced romance, especially if it's a woman who will be competent in the first fucking scene and be a dumbass every other scene.
Not really a problem MK has (Female Representation is in a pretty good place), but a beef I had in general.