A Conservative YouTuber Thrives By Pushing Conflict With Site
Steven Crowder knows the utility of having a useful foil.
Steven Crowder during his YouTube video entitled “The COVID Death Count is Inflated.”
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A year in YouTube’s penalty box worked out well for Steven Crowder.
Crowder—one of the most popular conservative voices on Google’s video site—was blocked from running advertisements on his channel in June 2019, after his sustained mockery of Carlos Maza, another YouTube personality, drew charges of homophobic harassment and sparked a large-scale debate over the limits of acceptable speech on the platform. Critics, including Google employees, called for YouTube to ban him altogether.