YouTube is Removing Videos - Are You Affected?

Youtube has removed 2 of our videos. It appears the problem is widespread with major kids channels being affected.

Like a thief in the night - there was no email, no warning, no transparency. The only way I found it was scanning through Video Manager - Video - something I do daily now to see if Yt has changed anything without notifying us.

Are channels on here affected?

The videos that were removed - one was from Feb 4 2017, the other from Dec 11 2016. One had views of about 6M, the other over 62M. Apparently the video have been appropriate for about 1 year, and today suddenly became inappropriate.

Are you affected? Is this hitting kids channels only, or the start of a widespread cleanout of the platform?

Demonetization is drastic - what about deleting videos without consultation or notification, especially when YouTube has been promoting those videos for a year?

Why not age-restrict to those under 13 if YouTube so wish. Certainly the videos are appropriate to those over 13. There's a lot more edgy stuff than those 2 videos that 13 year olds watch on Yt.

More questions to ponder - what is "appropriate" - who judged this - one man's s**t is another man's treasure.

It's like someone breaking into your home while you sleep, stealing some of your prized possessions that you worked hard to obtain, and throwing them in the garbage - the only way you know about it is when you take out the kitchen trash in the morning, open the wheelie bin, and see your stuff inside.

 

What? I'm checking, I can't find the main Toy Freak channel too?? Their other channels show now videos under that tab.

 

Yep just finished reading that article on medium. There are valid points in it certainly. However I felt the author had an old rusty axe to grind with that article. I do recall watching Elmer and Bug Bunny and The Road Runner cartoons that had more violence, not to mention Elmer Fudd shooting bugs Bunny point blank in the face, when I was younger. Those seem much more violent than the "wrong heads" video the article's author had an issue with. Anyways...

Getting back on track, I'm bewildered a channel like Toy Freaks would be taken down. I find their videos are fine for 13+, certainly for 15+. Surely Yt can age restrict them and similar videos across the board. Demonetize them if need be, but leave the content up. Taking a whole channel down is overkill. It's like Amazon and Barnes&Noble suddenly deciding to remove all Stephen King books because of the scary clown and paranormal themes. Make them MA15 or R18, don't kill everything off.

 

I would so agree with that. I would be happy to opt out of the kids app for our channel and make us clearly a 13+ skits channel. As long as things are clear and transparent, I'm very easy to get along with. If they can then give us a set of kws and topics they don't want videos to revolve around, I'll be dancing on the rooftops. Just make it crystal clear what you want and don't want on the platform, and I'm sure 99.8% of us kids channels will be only too happy to oblige.