Hot Topic Demonetization / "under review" (**DISCUSSION HERE ONLY**)

I start 75% of my videos with "welcome back to my f*****g channel" amongst other vulgar things and have never been demonetized for cursing.. I do not think it's that. Are there any visible brands/music playing in the video that could be claimed?
 
Brandon said:
I start 75% of my videos with "welcome back to my f*****g channel" amongst other vulgar things and have never been demonetized for cursing.. I do not think it's that. Are there any visible brands/music playing in the video that could be claimed?
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Nope. I usually use royalty-free music but didn't use any in this video. Unless ambient forest sounds count? No visible brands as well.
 
sshers1 said:
It is still happening and it looks like we have to accept this change however guys I did contacted youtube and sent them a email but they haven't got back to me so I contacted BBTV network that i am already in and ask them what is happening exactly and they told me this.

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Interesting... I wonder if posting videos a day or two ahead of time as unlisted, then switching them over would work? I might not have the problem, but it could be good for people who do. It might not work if a manual review and 1k views are required, as the video wouldn't get any views, but one could switch their video from unlisted to public and once the required 1k views are amassed switch it back to unlisted until after it's approved manually, then switch it back to public again. Actually makes you wonder how long it'll be before someone makes an add on that automatically switches videos from public to unlisted when the videos are demonetized.

@xingcat made an observation earlier that YouTube is implementing a new system and it has to learn by mistake to become more accurate. Which is when it occurred to me, Eric Feinberg (the guy behind this whole problem) tried to get Google to buy his program for finding unwanted videos and Google refused, saying it would make it's own program. This whole mess... is Google implementing that program and trying to work out the bugs. Kinda blew my mind when I connected those dots.
 
It seems i am not getting demonetized, some of my videos that were demonetized are now monetized.
 
Another wave hit today, about 15 additional kid-friendly videos were marked as not suitable for advertisers. Alarmingly, several were ones that were already hit last time, ones which had already been manually reviewed and re-instated with full monetization. So, they're creating more work for us and themselves, and no video is ever safe, even if it's been reviewed manually, they'll just have to manually review it again.

They really need to fix this or stop doing it altogether, it obviously isn't ready for the real world.

Can you imagine testing products on your customers and forcing them to be your guinea pigs, and making them pay for the privilege? That's essentially what's happening here with YouTube and creators.
 
I uploaded a personal vlog about my trip to a family cemetery and a famous store in New York last week and received this response from Youtube.

"Your video isn't being monetized because it contains content that might not be appropriate for advertising."

There is nothing controversial, offensive, vulgar, copywriten,or political in this video and I'm wondering why they did this. The video is on my youtube page titled Cemeteries and New York. Anyone have any ideas why they would do this?
 
Welcome to the club lol. And I bet it's because cemeteries are involved, and therefore, death. Which is dumb. Maybe you swore or something. The littlest things trigger demonitization. Google Adwords will block you from making ads for the same reasons. But it's dumb because I have a video that starts right off with Recoome from DBZ flicking someone off in a parody of the "who's that pokemon" commercial cutaway.... thing. Skynet needs some work still.
 
It’s actually very simple butvalso arbitrary and unfair. To decide which videos get demonetized, youtube applies auto captioning to videos and if the captioning picks up certain banned words, the videos is deemed unsafe for all advertisers. The captioning system is far from perfect so your video can get hit even if you didn’t utter one of these words during the video.
 
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