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Ash Hardell
Ash Hardell (born Mardell) is an American author and YouTuber.
They focus on being a voice for the LGBTQIA+ community and creating education content about sexual and gender diversity.
Hardell started video blogging in 2009. Their videos focus on their own experience in the LGBTQ+ community, as well as educational content on different identities and orientations of the gender, romantic and sexual spectrum.
In 2017, YouTube came under scrutiny for censoring LGBTQ content. After wide criticism, YouTube apologized for mistakes in their censorship of restricted mode that mistakenly censored LGBTQ content and mentioned Hardell's channel as one of the examples where their algorithm mistakenly classified their content as restricted.
In 2019, YouTube came under further scrutiny for their weak response to harassment of LGBTQ content creators. Hardell was quoted in The Guardian that they received little support from the company despite years of harassment. Hardell talked about hoping that YouTube revamps their harassment policy and more specifically lays out their rules.
Hardell took a break from posting videos at the end of 2019 and returned to posting content in 2022 after a two and a half year break in their video titled Trauma. Transphobia. And the Internet. (why I left for 2.5 years) in which they talk about the extensive harassment they received from social media audiences as well as other transphobic content creators and their followers.
They also sometimes post on their second YouTube channel titled More Ash and Gray that focuses on more personal content, alongside their partner Gray.
Hardell published the book ABC's of LGBT+ in 2016, which has been widely cited for its in-depth definitions of LGBT+ terms. The book was a #1 best seller on Amazon. The book was based on a videos series of the same name that Hardell created on their YouTube channel in 2014.
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Ash Hardell
Ash Hardell (born Mardell) is an American author and YouTuber.
They focus on being a voice for the LGBTQIA+ community and creating education content about sexual and gender diversity.
Hardell started video blogging in 2009. Their videos focus on their own experience in the LGBTQ+ community, as well as educational content on different identities and orientations of the gender, romantic and sexual spectrum.
In 2017, YouTube came under scrutiny for censoring LGBTQ content. After wide criticism, YouTube apologized for mistakes in their censorship of restricted mode that mistakenly censored LGBTQ content and mentioned Hardell's channel as one of the examples where their algorithm mistakenly classified their content as restricted.
In 2019, YouTube came under further scrutiny for their weak response to harassment of LGBTQ content creators. Hardell was quoted in The Guardian that they received little support from the company despite years of harassment. Hardell talked about hoping that YouTube revamps their harassment policy and more specifically lays out their rules.
Hardell took a break from posting videos at the end of 2019 and returned to posting content in 2022 after a two and a half year break in their video titled Trauma. Transphobia. And the Internet. (why I left for 2.5 years) in which they talk about the extensive harassment they received from social media audiences as well as other transphobic content creators and their followers.
They also sometimes post on their second YouTube channel titled More Ash and Gray that focuses on more personal content, alongside their partner Gray.
Hardell published the book ABC's of LGBT+ in 2016, which has been widely cited for its in-depth definitions of LGBT+ terms. The book was a #1 best seller on Amazon. The book was based on a videos series of the same name that Hardell created on their YouTube channel in 2014.