YouTube allegedly demonetises videos with 'gay', 'lesbian' in title

Three YouTubers, after testing over 15,000 common words and phrases on YouTube's automated systems, claimed that the platform demonetises videos with words like "gay". "Gay" and "lesbian" when replaced with "happy" and "friend" in video titles changed the videos' status to advertiser-friendly, the YouTubers claimed. YouTube said that there is no list of LGBTQ words that trigger demonetisation.