Ok I have a request for a channel that is getting videos either limited monetization or denied monetization as soon as they upload them to participate in an experiment. I can't do it myself because there's a possibility my channel might be whitelisted or not part of the demonetization sweep yet. Get one of your videos. Very very slightly edit one of them (if you upload 2 identical videos Youtube will not accept both of them, you have to slightly change it so, edit out like 1 second of it or something) so you have 2 almost identical copies of a video. Upload both videos. For one of these videos, use a thumbnail with a person obviously holding a gun. An easily recognizable real world gun model would be best. For the other video, make a thumbnail with only text, something like "An adorable cat".

If the one with the gun thumbnail gets denied monetization and the one with the text does not. We have found one of the automated triggers for demonetization.

Send screenshots of the results as a reply to this tweet, let's see if we can find out a little bit more about how this works.