Profanity or crude gestures
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DemonetizationHow serious: Worth fixingFacebookSwearing and crude language
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What triggers it
Profanity, derogatory words, sexual words, innuendo, crude gestures or vulgar motions, spoken, written or shown.
What Facebook says
“We define “strong language” as "profanity, derogatory words, or vulgar sexual language."”
We last checked this against Facebook's page on .
How to fix it
Bleep or cut strong language, especially in the opening, in monetized videos.
Good to know
Count and locate swear words; frequent or early profanity is the main risk. Hateful conduct is restricted from monetization.
Can FYProof spot it?
A full check of your video looks for it in what's shown, what's said, the words on screen and the caption. What a check finds is an estimate, not a guarantee.
- Video: looked at for this rule
- Speech: looked at for this rule
- On-screen text: looked at for this rule
- Caption: looked at for this rule
- Hashtags: not for this rule
Sounds other than speech, such as music, aren't checked.
Related Facebook rules
Platforms change their rules often. This page sums up what Facebook publishes; it isn't legal advice.