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It has been roughly 23 days since YouTube’s decision to demonetize most of the active first amendment auditors on its platform and one day since multiple unconfirmed reports surfaced that the majority of the auditors impacted by the demonetization received payouts for August. If true, the payouts would likely prevent a number of threatened lawsuits by various big names in the auditing world and would also give some breathing room for those auditors to establish themselves on new platforms. The call to file lawsuits came as YouTube cut off most of the impacted auditors from monetization on August 30, 2026. This was technically the end of the month for YouTube and came as those creators had amassed their usual tallies for the month, bringing in revenue for the platform as well as themselves.