Welcome back to the gun collective, my name is Jon patton.
Guys its been a while since we talked about the fight BUT i FINALLY have answers.
It took forever to get some clarity on a lot of the issues from YouTube but I have answers
to the questions we were all asking.
I'll break it down one by one along with the policies as I see them.
If you aren't super familiar with them, I made a video about them a little while back,
I'll have that linked below.
The short version of that story is that YouTube recently implemented a bunch of policies that
if not followed, could end up getting gun channels shut down in a hurry.
First, the policy about direct links/direct sales... thats the first policy on the page.
Let's talk about that.
The long and short of this is that the real issue youtube has is the links.
I spoke directly with them and got clarification that this does NOT mean speaking positively
about something is going to be construed as intent to sell... the policy is focused in
on the links in the description that everyone uses.
I asked them specifically about verbal call outs to websites from our old videos since
TGC is riddled with that sort of thing and they said the links are the concern.
Beyond that, the ones that are mentioned in the policy are direct sales of guns, and specific
gun accessories like bump stocks and drum mags.
While this eliminates the ability to post direct links to places like Brownells or buds
gun shop and the like... it should not be an issue for accessory manufacturers that
fall outside of this.
So the question remains, what should you do to handle this on your own channel or what
should your favorite channels be doing to tackle the issue?
Well, we've taken the approach and I know a few others guys are doing this as well...
we are sanitizing the channel of links to places that fall into the area of concern.
AKA we are going back and changing out the links and switching them to go directly to
Theguncollective.com.
Any serious creator is going to already have their own website and this is just a simple
path correction for us.
So if you click a link in our description and end up on the gun collective partner page,
you know why.
We are working on a redesign of that page to make it a little easier to navigate but
either way, that's what people should be doing.
Dig into the descriptions and get ahead of this before it becomes a real problem for
your channel.
The next policy was one that was a huge concern and quite frankly could be the downfall of
great reloading channels like Ultimate Reloader.
The policy basically said that you cant show people how to manufacture a firearm, mags
or ammo among other things.
I asked them specifically about this in regards to putting together guns that are completely
legal and showing the install process.
They essentially told me to avoid doing that altogether.
Luckily for us that has not been a big part of TGC leading up to this but there are TONS
of guys that do 80% builds or assemble AR's or like I said, reload ammo... and as far
as I could tell...
YouTube has a no-go policy on that kind of stuff.
Now you can get around that by simply not showing the process in depth, but I know that
that sort of thing isn't always possible.
To summarize, if you're thinking about making a how-to video on reloading ammo, assembling
a gun, or installing some parts... steer well clear of that topic.
You are walking into a mine field and will likely not come out unscathed.
And that actually covers the last part of the policy which says that its not okay to
show people how to install some of that stuff.
Like I said, they have advised me to stay away from that type of content and I suggest
you do the same.
Now, none of this is written in stone.
In fact, I fully expect youtube to expand on these policies in the future so do not
take my word as gospel.
Make sure that if you're going to do something that you understand how it fits against the
current policies and what you may have to do in the future.
I'm really curious to hear what you guys have to say about all of this stuff.
The dust has settled since this first came about so tell me what your current thoughts
are on the subject of YouTube's new gun policies.
As always, there are links down in the description to check out the things I talked about and
of course, thanks for watching!
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