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WCPW is a wrestling promotion run by people from the listicle site WhatCulture. Many of their shows are put out for for free on their YouTube channel, with costs supported by advertising.

Until very recently, that is, as YouTube's new guidelines have just blanket labelled all wrestling (yes, the entire industry) as inappropriate content. In the 90s this might have been true, where the wrestling world had much less safety regulation, more "edgy" content and TV-MA rated products. Nowadays many promotions have returned to family-friendly, Saturday morning cartoon-esque roots. The vast majority of WWE programming is rated PG. Chikara actively courts a youth audience with its colourful characters.

All of these promotions are

I'm sharing this with you because it is personally important to me and I want people to understand exactly how YouTube's approach in tarring a whole industry with the same old brush is deeply affecting entire companies' ability to advertise and make money. Even if you think wrestling is stupid (many of you probably do, and to be honest, it often is), I'm sure you can appreciate that these rules may be similarly affecting your favourite channels because of similar vague prejudices against their content which have no basis in fact or examining the content in detail.

So no more john cena?

I don't really think that WWE will take damage from this because they make enough money but this will be horrible for independet wrestling

If your channel isn't about make up, top 10 lists, or hosted by a multi-billion dollar corporation, youtube doesn't want you on the site anymore.

Oh, and "toy review" channels, cause nothing is appropriate like Spiderman having sex with Elsa while Peppa pig gets shanked by needles by the joker. You know, cause that's good for kids to watch. But wraslin? Nooooo, you gotta go with that stuff.

Maybe they should try twitch, that subscription services could help keep them afloat as well as having ads from youtube.

When all you wanted Youtube to do is to take actions against that cringy Spider-Man & Elsa channel, but it ends up affecting anything else instead.

It's sad that now about once or twice a week I'll check the happenings on Youtube and think to myself "how did Youtube fuck over the community this time."

It's like a new thing once a month where Youtube will enact some bullshit policy that actively hurts the community or just outright ignore other aspects that need dealing with (for example, the fetishistic Spiderman and Elsa toy review channels).

I still feel like Mr. McMahon will get mad at the idea he's not making even more money through YouTube, because I seriously wonder just how much of him is a character and how much is 100% genuine.