Obviously, making a video or comment that discriminates a person, group or organization may result in a decrease of the karma as that kind of action is really bad. For the recent update from YouTube, making videos or comments that discriminate a person, group or organization based on race, gender, religion, etc. may result in actions taken against you for violating this updated policy. Video removal or even worse, channel termination as a result of this consequence can be punishing. Oh, criticisms are still welcome in the videos and comments as long as they sound professional though.
There were already recent cases of channel termination of some of the YouTubers over the Leafy Content Cop thing after the updated policy took effect recently. I don't know the proper reason for that happening but from some official tweets coming from YouTube themselves, the humor/satire part seems to be questionable. You need to make that the video of yours about someone doesn't seem like a free pass to the harassment. Sure, you can make a gaming news video about the dirty game developers like you've prepared evidence and criticism against them which is some kind of stuff Sidalpha does. Of course, there were times when he got attacked by the greedy game developers as if they thought that he was trolling or cyber-attacking them with the videos of his instead of addressing the criticism thrown at them. There were even worse times that some of the YouTubers were sued by the greedy indie game developers like the famous time when Jim Sterling was sued by Digital Homicide at that time. So it looks like such incidents already happened to those YouTubers even before the recent update of the Harassment Policy on YouTube. But then again, those kinds of videos fell under YouTube Gaming news videos or something, talking about all sorts of gaming topics, ranging from upcoming games, controversies that already pissed people off as well as the concerns of unacceptable features.
There are other videos I had seen as well like the diss-track videos about various YouTubers or even the MAD videos which are sort of artistic as well. So what's bad about making MAD videos of someone famous in the first place? The only bad things are that when the MAD video you make is poorly done and/or contains something disturbing in some portion or the entirety of the video that is bound to turn me off like I already was by certain videos.
About troll comments thrown at your videos on YouTube, you can try to remove/flag them and even report and block the ones typing in such non-professional comments but the problem is that they will come back and do the same shit to you with different/sock-puppet accounts. Another problem is that private messaging section on YouTube in which even if you block and report the user annoying the hell out of you a lot with troll messages, they will continue on with sock-puppet accounts.
I don't know if the updated harassment policy is the right step in the direction or a controversial one. What if someone false-reports your videos for harassment under this updated policy for LOL or some sort? Will that anger you and the other viewers in which the online search for the culprit starts? This kind of shit isn't funny and the good viewers should know better seriously as making false-reports against someone on YouTube over harassment when their videos don't cause any harm whatsoever is totally wrong. And by the way, those making kids cry or rage online in the making of such gameplay videos of whatever game they play may need to think twice before making such videos due to the updated policy as I don't know if such actions may result in violation or not.
One big concern from people is that when YouTubers make such videos of themselves ranting about greedy game developers for instance, we don't know for sure if such videos will be falsely flagged and/or taken down or some sort as if YouTube isn't siding with us or something. But of course, criticism isn't equal to trolling or even hate-speech for sure. You should instead find solutions and strategies that will help you to address such criticisms and see if you can do any better.
