They're not banning channels based on swearwords (yet, anyway). They are demonetizing videos with swearing - in the first bit, if too much, maybe other rules, but nobody is getting banned from saying 'shit'.

If you don't want monetization, is swearing in your videos to avoid your subscribers having to watch ads a viable strategy?

(To get around this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/18/youtube...)

Huh, that probably explains... I was in a youtube rabbit hole right around then when some videos suddenly wouldn't load, turned out that I might've been the final viewer of the (small) channel that had had been banned at that moment. I was wondering what the chances were.

edit: Seems like it. The channel[1] name probably raised some new flag, and Google did its thing. Seems fair, it's not like a reasonable moderator would know of a concept of a second chance or anything.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20181123103308/https://www.youtu... https://web.archive.org/web/20220624154617/https://www.youtu...

// Ah, that channel was a pretty interesting part of the rabbithole of net culture-related parody too - rare to see collaboration like that

Battlestar Galactica did it right - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrYdQnz8vJg