Stripped of advertising revenue by YouTube's automated systems — demonetized — as the word that entered the creator vocabulary in 2016 and became, with a yellow dollar-sign icon, the platform's standard punishment for saying an unlicensed word. The record notes the term is now also a joke: a creator who swears may add 'demonetized' as a caption, which is a small act of defiance and also free.
Seen in a 2018 video: a creator bleeping the word 'suicide' in a video about suicide prevention, then explaining, unbleeped, that this was for the algorithm. The record notes the explanation was also demonetized.
Correction: the source line credits the wrong place. It was already circulating in a smaller community before the platform on file picked it up. Attribution follows attention, not origin.
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