Faced with “threats” and criticism, the CNC suspends its support fund for content creators on social networks

The National Center for Cinema and Animated Images (CNC) announced on Wednesday that it was suspending its Fund to Aid Creation on Social Platforms, endowed with 3 million euros, due to attacks and “threats against members of this commission and agents” of the institution.

This fund, intended to support content creators present on YouTube, TikTok or Twitch, is accused of bias after comments made at the end of March by the streamer Ultia, since ousted from this commission, affirming that she would veto any file “deliberately proposed by someone from the extreme right”.

“If there are projects carried out by people that I like, it is absolutely obvious that, if I find the project relevant, I will saucer the project,” she also declared, provoking an outcry on social networks.

Right-wing controversy

The CNC put an end to Ultia’s mission due to “serious ignorance of its ethical obligations”, indicates its president Gaëtan Bruel in a press release.

The controversy, however, continued, relayed by political figures such as the far-right MEP Marion Maréchal or the elected LR François-Xavier Bellamy.

This “continued to grow in intensity on social networks and in certain media, until it reached an unprecedented level of aggressiveness, including in the form of threats against members of this commission and agents of the CNC,” adds Gaëtan Bruel.

“In this context, it appears that the commission of the Creation Assistance Fund on social platforms is not able to deliberate calmly on the projects which have been submitted to it.”

“A gift to the far right”

This decision is “a setback for many content creators who need support systems to develop their projects,” lamented the Umicc (Union of Influence Professions and Content Creators) in a press release to AFP. “The CNC is giving a gift to the far right,” criticized content creator Gaspard G, vice-president of Umicc.

The suspended fund had replaced at the start of the year the CNC Talent fund, canceled at the end of 2025. The latter, created in 2017, had helped content creators on the basis of an editorial project, without necessarily visibility on the content created.

Channels committed to the left such as Zawa Prod, Histoires Crépues or StreetPress were also able to benefit from aid ranging from 50,000 to 150,000 euros for the production of documentaries or programs broadcast on the Internet.

The CNC had decided to exclude from its new system all projects relating to political information and to concentrate aid on projects “presenting artistic heritage value”.