He currently makes money from t-shirt sales, as well as from a paid content-sharing agreement with Ben Shapiro’s the Daily Wire, Media Matters reported.Ĭrowder’s demonetization comes hours after YouTube unveiled a new policy to ban “videos alleging that a group is superior in order to justify discrimination, segregation or exclusion based on qualities like age, gender, race, caste, religion, sexual orientation or veteran status,” the company said in a blog post. Their goal is to completely get rid of people.” “It's been a bit of a whirlwind day,” he said in a video on Twitter. In a statement shortly after his demonetization, Crowder declared partial victory. It’s because it is unsustainable for us to participate in speech platforms where abuse is not regulated at all.” “What YouTube is doing is creating an environment where bullies can push people out of the public sphere out of concern for their mental and physical well-being … It’s why so many queer creators leave YouTube and Twitter. “It’s essentially saying to people of color, to LGBT people, that the cost for participating on YouTube is that you have to accept hate speech and abuse as part of participation,” he said. Maza said YouTube, which is currently promoting Pride Month, is making LGBT users sitting ducks for harassment I’m asking them to enforce the policies that have been on the books for a long time at YouTube, and that use to convince reporters and advertisers that they have some handle on their platform.” “I’m not asking YouTube to create some massive, complicated new policy to deal with this person. Those policies state that content that is meant to humiliate or dehumanize a target based on characteristics like sexual orientation and ethnicity violates those policies,” Maza said. “YouTube has explicit, clear policies against harassment, bullying, and hate speech. Shortly before the announcement, Maza told The Daily Beast that YouTube’s policies should have already led to Crowder’s outright suspension. YouTube did not immediately return a request for comment.