Every so often, the subject of Pokémon being for kids in addition to everyone comes up, sometimes with interesting situations or issues. Recently, that has been the case, though that will be discussed in this post a little further on. In the current situation, the situation or issue involves how grown-ups enjoy the same Pokémon things as kids... or perhaps not, as the things that are enjoyed may be totally specific to them - and that's the segue into the situation or issue.
That situation or issue involves "sum", the animator that I brought up in a YouTube Pokémon highlight close to two years ago. Since then, the animator has been especially productive in Pokémon animations in different settings, sometimes in rather sensual ones... and so has YouTube itself. Against the will of the animator, YouTube has gone through many of the artist's videos and marked them as being for kids, severely limiting their social function for those who aren't as well as their monetary function, and this is regrettable.
It has been posited that the law has something to do with the situation. According to U.S. law, YouTube is not supposed to collect revenue from videos that are directed for kids, including if they contain something like Pokémon, which is in some ways directed to kids. As such, it hunts down videos with (what may be deemed as) "kid-safe" material - even if it wasn't marked as such (without knowledge of its entailments) in the first place - and disables the respective functions as above. Even poopooghost, another artist mentioned in the same YouTube highlight, has had experience with this matter and even came up with a way around it.
Personally, I consider this as having the assumption of "if it's a 'toon, it's for kids" at work. The problem is shoehorning everything animated or with kids subjects as being for kids, without consideration of the content itself or even taking into account how older audiences enjoy the content (and are willing to pay for such content). It's an issue that has been around - by my experience - even long before YouTube and may be considered to have taken up another form and presence on YouTube, one that benefits really no one at all.
Still, it cannot be denied that Pokémon continues to be something that kids enjoy, even though many fans like me are arguably adults. That's something that cannot be taken away even with further developments; instead, it has to be managed well so that kids can continue to enjoy the content directed to them, but also so that older, adult audiences can enjoy their content in the ways that best apply to them and the ones that created the content in the first place - for the ones discerned, in either case.
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