YouTube Changes Social Media Icons for Gay Pride; Continues to Restrict LGBT Creators

YouTube decided to change their iconic logo to reflect the colors of the Pride flag in celebration of Pride month, and the backlash on social media was disturbing.

Let’s be honest, some criticism of YouTube suddenly showing solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community isn’t without merit. Since revamping it’s platform to be more family friendly in hopes of attracting a wider collective of advertisers, the service actually created a new algorithm that automatically demonetized all content created by LGBTQ+ creators. In one fell swoop, everyone from out musicians like Tegan and Sara to Make-Up instructional videos were labeled as “advertiser inappropriate content” and was either rendered unavailable to audiences who hadn’t confirmed their birth date and minors or blocked altogether from user access. It wasn’t just a few videos, either; It was thousands upon thousands of channels and regardless of the content, despite how many subscribers the user had- Out gay creator Tyler Oakly was affected by the new policy even though he has nearly 8 million subscribers- or how much ad revenue the user was making, their content was unceremoniously axed from…