I am a new youtuber; been reading on the rules and I found that if you make wow videos, they have to be rated “T” . Anyone know how much this is enforced? Like not being able to swear is kinda lame. Does anyone know and or have experience with this?
With as many videos I have seen of WoW raid/guild voice chat drama full of people swearing I’m thinking not at all.
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Censor bleeps are more hilarious sounding anyways.
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I haven’t heard of this. As far as I know, that would be something for YouTube to decide and not Blizzard.
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Is that in reference to the monetization rules for ads?
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If you’re dropping F bombs everywhere, then you won’t have much of an audience and probably none from WoW.
There are a few soft cuss words that can be used but it’s probably smarter to just pass on the cussing entirely.
I don’t believe in “bad words”, still I have experienced really stupid conversations that I will go out of my way to avoid so I just don’t bother doing anything to start them to begin with.
You may want to consider that. Idk. You do you. GL.
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Yeah, that would be in the YouTube user agreement.
Blizzard can’t control any content you post online outside of things like copyright laws or things like that.
I don’t think I’ve heard anyone censoring the Youtube vids, and there’s more F-bombs in the WoW content creators I sub to than a Priest - Warlock twos team.
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It’s more to do with YouTube.
They demonetize videos when there is cursing and such.
So lots of content creators TRY to avoid it or limit it.
With WoW - related videos.
Most of it, swearing or not, has them be demonetize so the wow content creators rely on other avenues for money.
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Yeah Youtube’s what is and isn’t allowed is pretty much at the whim of whatever Mama Susan thinks at the moment and if you make them enough money.
The Count Von Count knows a thing or two about BLEEPING…
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Damn you… you beat me to it.
I love that video.
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asmon swears a lot in his yt vids and gets paid so I guess its ok
shrug YT has demonstrated several times in the past that there different rules for the different tiers of content creators.
"## Your Production should meet the rating guidelines for “T” rated Productions
To maintain and protect the image of our games, Blizzard also requires that Productions maintain the “T” rating that has been given to its products by the ESRB, and similar ratings received from other ratings boards around the world, and that these standards are taken into account during the creation of your Production."
See what I’m saying.
If you’re making videos for the sake of making videos, curse as much as you want. It’s only something to really worry about if you’re specifically aiming at an audience of children or if you’re trying to be advertiser-friendly to make your $0.30 per 100,000 views in ad revenue.
Guarantee you Blizzard won’t give a single damn if you’re cursing, despite their official policy. But, also, you can swear in T games anyway. Maybe not drop F bombs everywhere, but that aside, yeah.
Provided it’s casual swearing and not like… directed harassment or something, I guess.
Many do not swear… do what many do and add bleeps or quacks or moos
YouTube has guidelines to getting monetized
Well this is YouTube were talking about, so it will be enforced…
...Enforced as well as making sure channels don't get fraudulent copyright strikes because somebody can't take criticism well....
What i’m saying is, it’s not going to be enforced, you will be fine.
Oh, that one. 
Yeah i don’t think this would be enforced very well realistically speaking. Infact, i don’t see any other company doing this, not even Fortnite, though i could be wrong. Maybe Epic Games does that and maybe other companies do that.
Though this does make me question of that a bit because if a company is going atfer videos to protect it’s image, then shouldn’t that logically extend to mods and other forms of medium we gamers take part in as well, or is it that videos are very popular form of medium and very easy to spread around to a point where it’s permanent? Or maybe just another way to use to rid of videos they dislike for whatever reason?.. I don’t know, somebody else can deep dive into this. I just don’t really see a company like Bethesda going atfer Skyrim modders, or EA going atfer people criticizing them via by videos, or Square Enix going after fan artists and that sort.
If i were to hazard to guess when and why this is a rule, it would come around at a time when Overwatch was popular and people using the models in that game for… dubious reasons. 
Add in IF you make it big and have a following, you’re more or less immune to guidelines