Popular Youtuber in the fighting game community Caboose posted a video on his YouTube channel recently regarding the unfair Mortal Kombat 11 monetization on YouTube. The point of his video was to bring awareness to this issue that might not be just affecting this particular game.

Caboose is primarily a content creator who focuses mostly on fighting games like Mortal Kombat 11. Since the launch of that game, it has been the game he’s focused the most on. However, his recent video about the unfair practices of YouTube show that not all is going well for him and other creators.

Mortal Kombat 11 Monetization Problems

Though the video does show off his new Crimson Scorpion skin that he got from the Kombat League, the main purpose of the video is to shed light on a major problem that he is facing right now. According to Caboose in his video, YouTube tends to automatically remove monetization from any Mortal Kombat 11 videos.

That, of course, means that he isn’t making any money off of the video at that time. But what makes it even more strange is that YouTube will then turn around and give monetization back to the video in question a day or two later.

Though it’s good that the Mortal Kombat 11 videos get monetization eventually, it hurts content creators like Caboose. If you are someone who creates or just consumes content on YouTube, you will know that most dedicated subscribers will consume the content within the first couple of days.

The only exceptions to that being videos with evergreen content or something that builds momentum and becomes viral, which aren’t common occurrences in the business. For many YouTubers, the views from the same consistent group of people are what keeps their channel alive.

But if they are a subscriber, they will likely view it within the first couple of days it’s online since it will show up early in their feed. However, if there is no monetization on the video during that time, then creators like Caboose aren’t making any money on that video then.

The worst part is that that amount of money could be the vast majority of any money that the creator would have made on that particular video. It’s an unfortunate situation for Mortal Kombat 11 monetization and one that we hope YouTube fixes soon.

It’s Not Just Mortal Kombat 11

What makes it worse is that it does seem like this is a problem that isn’t just relegated to Mortal Kombat 11 content creators either. The extremely popular gaming channel on YouTube Game Theory posted a similar video recently about the overall issues of YouTube, noting that “YouTube is ruining gaming.”

This is a major problem that has been happening to gaming creators for the last several years now with certain videos being not monetized by YouTube without any outright copyright problems and the like. The “demonetized” argument has been huge in the community for quite some time.

The likely issue with videos like Caboose’s Mortal Kombat 11 ones could be with YouTube’s odd policy. It is possible that this game or games like this one bring up concerns over copyright and other issues so YouTube turns off monetization on them until someone over there can check it out.

Once the video has been deemed available for monetization, it is turned back on. If this is the case, it still sucks for content creators like Caboose since YouTube isn’t able to check every video immediately and the creator isn’t able to make money in that crucial period of time.

This is a huge issue that affects the content creator’s livelihood and YouTube needs to respond. It is unfortunate, though, that it remains quiet about the topic even though videos like the Game Theory one are able to trend as viral so there is no way YouTube doesn’t know about it.