YouTube has announced new policies to remove "low-quality kids' content" from the social media platform. The goal of the Google-owned company is to give parents more peace of mind when they allow their children to watch programming uploaded to the channel, versus having to worry about questionable or flat-out inappropriate content coming across the screen for impressionable minds to see. And if they have to take money away from content creators to make that happen, the company will do just that.

Last week, YouTube announced that it was going to be making some big changes to YouTube Kids. Specifically, setting a "higher bar" when it comes to what content is allowed onto the platform, according to the YouTube Official Blog.

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According to the Director of Product Management, Kids and Family, James Beser, the removal of content that relies highly on self-premotion, promotes bad behavior in kids, or uses beloved characters in odd ways will no longer be a part of the YouTube channel, per the publication.

If the content on the channel is deemed "low-quality," according to Engadget but does not specifically violate the rules of what is acceptable content for YouTube Kids, the company will begin to demonetize the content. As such, creators will no longer be eligible to make money from their original programming placed on the platform.

Those who do not heed the warning and make their content "age-appropriate, enriching, engaging, and inspiring content," according to Gizmodo, will be permanently removed from YouTube Kids.

The company has reached out to creators who are in violation of their YouTube Partner Program to allow them to fix their content so that it falls in line with what the standards are for the social media giant. Those impacted users have until next month to make the appropriate changes in order to remain part of the YouTube Partner Program and not have their content removed in its entirety.

While changes to YouTube Kids has been evolving over the recent months, in wake of other social media companies coming under fire, like Facebook and its handling of negative content on Instagram, according to Gizmodo, YouTube is now moving more swiftly to effect change immediately versus being laxer in its handling of questionable kids' content.

The first stage of handling this was breaking down YouTube Kids into specific sub-channels to provide programming that was more age-specific to different age groups. As such, according to Engadget, new "parental controls" called "supervised experiences" were implemented that allow parents to choose one of three categories for their kids to choose programming from.

Broken down into "Explore," "Explore More," and "Most of YouTube," according to Gizmodo, parents can determine if they want their kids to watch shows on the app that are appropriate for those ages nine years of age and up, 13 years of age and up, or have access to virtually everything on YouTube that has not been deemed only appropriate for particular ages. The hope of doing this is that parents have the ability to better restrict what their kids are watching, especially if themes may be too mature for their age.

YouTube is hoping to get out ahead of the apple cart and make changes before its reputation is further soiled by inappropriate content that has been found on its platform. And by taking away creators' ability to make money on their programming if it does not meet the standards, the company may have found a way to do just that.

Source: Gizmodo, Engadget, YouTube Official Blog