In Oregon there’s a house bill in 2022 to stop butchering ALL meat includes hunting. The impact will be eat more dirt. I hope our like minded folks are going to some extremes on this one. I’m sure they will put it on social media.
This is the kind of thing I'm worried about spreading through other states, with the same net effect and goal in mind. IF YT is censoring hunting content, there is a reason behind it, and likely a calculated one. They along with other groups will fund political candidates and bills that will in effect limit our ability to do what we love.
In my mind, it looks like there are 2 common schools of thought on this thread - 1) I'm glad they are censoring these people who are introducing unwanted hoards into the lifestyle; I've been inconvenienced, crowded out, and I see the thing I love being diluted, cheapened, and monetized through that exposure. So the less that know about it the better.
And 2) there is a politically motivated campaign against hunting that has been going on for some time now, and more people exposed to the hunting lifestyle means we have more folks to help in fighting against this, and promote access. The more that know about it the better, in order to help ensure it's preserved.
I'm willing to be wrong here, and I hope that I am. I'm technically one of those people who have been exposed to hunting 6 or so years ago, through online channels, mainly here. My father never introduced me to it, and I don't have a family heritage of it, so I otherwise would never have done it. But it seems to me that position 1 above could be short sighted given the political winds shifting more and more against hunting.
But maybe I'm making a lot of assumptions on position 2 being an actual effective way of fighting to preserve our hunting rights.
To the OP.s original question. I notice the decline of content happens at this time every year. Some of the channels are filming hunts now and they hold their content back at this time of year...by the end of October a lot of your favorite channels will be releasing videos every day though.
Apparently the demonetization started on 9/21ish and was reversed by 9/23ish???
I haven't noticed the scarcity being as much as it is this year compared to years past, but hopefully you are right, and we'll start to see this as a minor blip and nothing more.