If you've ever found yourself suffering from a particularly bad hangover, you will almost certainly know the name Dr Pimple Popper.
Professionally going by the name Dr Sandra Lee, the dermatologist has become something of an internet sensation in recent years.
She deals with all manner of skin issues, from spots and blackheads to giant tumours and cysts, sharing footage of her procedures to Instagram, TikTok and YouTube.
But despite gaining millions of fans, Dr Lee says her YouTube channel has been demonetised because her content is too graphic - she's even had to put some content behind a special 'member's only' wall.
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Speaking to Insider, she said that between 2014 and 2016, she was making $100,000 a month from her posts.
But she was contacted by the platform and told that that would be coming to an end.
A chart seen by the publication reportedly shows how Dr Lee's revenue took a nose dive after 2016.
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However, she claims that her videos were not simply to shock people, they were supposed to be educational.
"I'm really proud of the fact that kids know what a lipoma is now or they know that you can't just squeeze a cyst – you have to remove the sack entirely to get it removed," she said.
"We're teaching people about psoriasis or hidradenitis, but if you're not motivated to get that content out, how are people going to learn?"
Adding: "There's a fine line between what's dangerous, what is just shocking, and what is educational."
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Dr Lee believes that YouTube and others don't like it when pages get too big.
She said: "They [social media platforms] grow big because of all these new posters, but then they wait until they get big enough that they can sort of clamp down on it and make restrictions."
UNILAD has contacted YouTube for a comment.
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Speaking to LADbible previously, Dr Lee said she was shocked when she realised just how pop-ular her videos were.
"I started an Instagram page at the end of 2014, to show a 'window into my world' as a dermatologist, with intentions of showing all types of things dermatology related," Dr Lee said.
"Early on, I happened to post a "pimple popping" video. I noticed it got a little jump in views. So I did it again, and it happened again.
"Then I put a blackhead extraction video on my YouTube channel and that got more and more attention, and it led me to discover that there was a whole community of people on the internet who just like to watch shared videos."
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Dominic Smithers