Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-3391158-20180914214635/@comment-4010415-20180915215713

Basically, what happens is...

Youtube makes deals with companies that want to advertise on the website. These companies pay Youtube every time their advertisement is seen.

The users on the website who upload videos agree to have these advertisements attached to their videos, for a share of the money that the advertisers pay Youtube.

However, Youtube has decided they want to have most of the money and give very little of it to the people who made the videos.

Additionally, Youtube has been making incredibly stupid rules and policies that allow them to remove ads from videos that don't follow these rules and policies. No ads means no money. Rooster Teeth has even posted a screenshot to show us an example of one of these stupid rules. In the screenshot, one of RT's videos had the ads removed because the video's title had "unusual capitalization". It had nothing to do with the video itself, they just didn't like what letters were capitalized in the title.

Also, I've started seeing people saying that one of the issues RT has had in regards to RWBY on Youtube is that it even affected how RWBY was written. They're saying Miles and Kerry were having to keep Youtube's rules in mind when writing the scripts for Volumes 4 and 5. I have no idea how true that is, though.