Some figures in the controversial “GunTuber” community are fleeing YouTube after the platform began cracking down on machine gun videos and the marketing of firearms on the app. At least four large YouTube channels devoted to firearms have announced they’re quitting the platform and moving to rival services with looser rules.
“We have a ton of people who watch my videos who do not have YouTube accounts,” he said. A video with an 18-and-over age restriction, he said, “gets less than half the views, like 40% the views, because most people are not logged into an account.” YouTube says it will make some exceptions to its machine gun rule for films and news content, and Carriker said in his video about the rule change that he’ll try to use those exceptions. “It’ll be artistic content such as a film.