YouTube is reportedly choking out car videos on its platform, or at least select ones the powers that be don’t exactly like. This includes videos depicting automotive racing or crashed, damaged rides in any context. It’s a truly wild time to be alive.
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We’ve heard claims like this made before, but they usually come from some Reddit post or some other interesting source. This time it’s popular car YouTuber TK’s Garage leading the charge.
He claims if any videos are posted that depict racing of any type, as well as drifting, they could be demonetized. Even worse, the videos might be taken down and counted as a violation of community standards, with the person posting them edging closer to a platform ban.
What’s crazy TK’s Garage claims this applies even if the racing or drifting takes place on a closed track or private land. That’s right, you might not have broken any laws or statutes in the making of the video, but YouTube will still punish you.
In fact, he claims Dodge’s video from Roadkill Nights has already been demonetized.
Even wilder is the claim YouTube will do the same for videos that show any damaged vehicles, including content creators walking around insurance auction lots like Copart. It would include YouTubers who have gathered huge followings showing them fixing damaged rides they buy at auction.
Yes, it sounds ridiculous, but from our personal experiences with YouTube, we sadly know how draconian the site can be.
What we want to know is if there’s truth behind what TK’s Garage claims, why has YouTube allowed videos of street takeovers and street races to spread like they have? If it has the power to shut down certain types of content, which during covid we all learned it absolutely does, then why has that been allowed to exist, let alone flourish?
And what about videos teaching others how to boost Kias and Hyundais?
We could go on, but you probably get the point. Maybe all this fuss is being made over nothing, and we honestly hope it is. After all, we enjoy watching racing and salvage car videos on YouTube.
But if it is true, then we expect people will go to other video platforms. Both Facebook and X have been trying to lure people away by pushing the video side of their sites, so perhaps those will become the preferred destination for countless gearheads in the near future?
Watch the TK’s Garage video explaining the alleged wild changes coming to YouTube car videos here.
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