YouTube is Removing Videos - Are You Affected?

[KiddieToysReview]

Man what a thread. I've been living under a rock. Had no idea channels we're getting taken down. I get it though. I don't like my kid getting exposed to some of that questionable stuff. To save your vids, Maybe in addition to removing tags you guys should also change your thumbnails in case any of your thumbnails look a bit wild. Thumbnails are the first thing we see. Don't need to make their jobs any easier with a loud thumbnail.

I'm still having the same monetization request reviews I've been having like a month or so ago. Pretty much every new video I upload gets hit with the demonetizatiom and I've just learned to deal with it and request manual review over and over. It is a bit annoying though. I just wished I would get a notification so I can request review right away. Derral eve mentioned the ai needs a lot of input so I'm just waiting for the ai to learn that my vids are ok. I didn't realize maybe its my tags. But my videos are young kid friendly so im not too worried.

I don't think YouTube is going the way of banning kids channels in general. There are a lot of popular family vlogs with children and I think it would be confusing to determine the rules of when it's ok to have kids in videos or not. I'm pretty sure family vlogs are acceptable to YouTube. I keep mentioning our fav is axel show.

But yeah we probably need to be overly cautious about the material we put up in these sensitive times. On another note, I thought YT was demonitizing only new vids. But I just found like 20 older vids demonitized for I dunno how long. Doh!!! YouTube!!! I guess more stuff for me to deal with.

Man, DHL that rock over here, I would gladly get under it for a few weeks or months till this blows over....

I think everything will be default demonetized from now on, till the boiler room human reviews look through it. I can just see it, dozens and dozens of rows of grey cubicles with heads hunched down reviewing kids videos.

Who was it who said "may you live in interesting times".

 

[FamilyToyReview]

Man what a thread. I've been living under a rock. Had no idea channels we're getting taken down. I get it though. I don't like my kid getting exposed to some of that questionable stuff. To save your vids, Maybe in addition to removing tags you guys should also change your thumbnails in case any of your thumbnails look a bit wild. Thumbnails are the first thing we see. Don't need to make their jobs any easier with a loud thumbnail.

I'm still having the same monetization request reviews I've been having like a month or so ago. Pretty much every new video I upload gets hit with the demonetizatiom and I've just learned to deal with it and request manual review over and over. It is a bit annoying though. I just wished I would get a notification so I can request review right away. Derral eve mentioned the ai needs a lot of input so I'm just waiting for the ai to learn that my vids are ok. I didn't realize maybe its my tags. But my videos are young kid friendly so im not too worried.

I don't think YouTube is going the way of banning kids channels in general. There are a lot of popular family vlogs with children and I think it would be confusing to determine the rules of when it's ok to have kids in videos or not. I'm pretty sure family vlogs are acceptable to YouTube. I keep mentioning our fav is axel show.

But yeah we probably need to be overly cautious about the material we put up in these sensitive times. On another note, I thought YT was demonitizing only new vids. But I just found like 20 older vids demonitized for I dunno how long. Doh!!! YouTube!!! I guess more stuff for me to deal with.

Ok so most of those 20 videos had bad baby gross or attack in the title. So maybe these are new demonitizations. I'm going to keep the titles and request review. We'll see what happens. The videos are not really the "bad baby" kind. I just used the keywords to try and rank in that keyword group.

 

[KiddieToysReview]

Ok so most of those 20 videos had bad baby gross or attack I'm the title. So maybe these are new demonitizations. I'm going to keep the titles and request review. We'll see what happens. The videos are not really the "bad baby" kind. I just used the keywords to try and rank in that keyword group.

i've tried various permutations. I think they locked in changes before the purge. I've had no luck changing t/t/d (like completely cleaned out and minimized) but the videos are not reinstated nor approved.

It's like the Yt manager said (very ominously when I think about it) about a week ago "make sure your metadata very accurately reflects what's in the video".

In hindsight it was a veiled warning don't plug in "bad baby" tags to ride the trends because the Purgepocalyse is coming.

 

[FamilyToyReview]

i've tried various permutations. I think they locked in changes before the purge. I've had no luck changing t/t/d (like completely cleaned out and minimized) but the videos are not reinstated nor approved.

It's like the Yt manager said (very ominously when I think about it) about a week ago "make sure your metadata very accurately reflects what's in the video".

In hindsight it was a veiled warning don't plug in "bad baby" tags to ride the trends because the Purgepocalyse is coming.

If u search bad baby on kids YouTube app there are no results. So i probably should change my titles for SEO purposes. Funny if you search bad baby in regular YT, u can tell a bunch of channels started changing their titles already. The results say bad baby for the video, but when you click on video to get to video page, the YouTubers replaced bad baby with other keywords.

 

[KiddieToysReview]

If u search bad baby on kids YouTube app there are no results. So i probably should change my titles for SEO purposes. Funny if you search bad baby in regular YT, u can tell a bunch of channels started changing their titles already. The results say bad baby for the video, but when you click on video to get to video page, the YouTubers replaced bad baby with other keywords.

I was watching channels in real time - between reloads of the browser titles changed!

But my question is - we know what's happening because we're on this thread all talking and sharing - how do all the other channels not on here know exactly what's going on and what to change? I realise some may visit here incognito without participating, but lots of channels changed titles really quickly, so is there another source of news out there worth monitoring??[DOUBLEPOST=1511167270,1511167184][/DOUBLEPOST]

Have any of you tried that vidme platform?

i have it but it's disabled, it interferes with Tubebuddy - both of them don't share Chrome too well. Since I paid for Tb, gotta stick with it. Why, is there something on VidMe we should be aware of?

 

[RTT]

i've tried various permutations. I think they locked in changes before the purge. I've had no luck changing t/t/d (like completely cleaned out and minimized) but the videos are not reinstated nor approved.

It's like the Yt manager said (very ominously when I think about it) about a week ago "make sure your metadata very accurately reflects what's in the video".

In hindsight it was a veiled warning don't plug in "bad baby" tags to ride the trends because the Purgepocalyse is coming.

I hope that next thing YT will look into is misleading titles in kids channels (Johny Johny Yes Papa for example) and same videos uploaded over and over again (not compilations). Vlad is notorious for doing both.

 

[KiddieToysReview]

I hope that next thing YT will look into is misleading titles in kids channels (Johny Johny Yes Papa for example) and same videos uploaded over and over again (not compilations). Vlad is notorious for doing both.

Yt algo is a self-reinforcing beast. If you have a video go to 6M views in 1 day with a stuffed title, it tells you the algo wants that. You make the next video with same stuffed title and it hits 4M in a day. Reinforces behaviour. Yt algo tells you what it wants by what it does with your videos. The algo needs to change fundamentally. During our channel review wit the Yt manager earlier this year, she said to look at the real time chart in the first 2 days as an indicator of what videos "subscribers react the best to" ie what generates the best signals and what the algo wants to push out far and wide. She said make more of what your subscribers like best, once again, make more of what the algo wants.

 

[FamilyToyReview]

I was watching channels in real time - between reloads of the browser titles changed!

But my question is - we know what's happening because we're on this thread all talking and sharing - how do all the other channels not on here know exactly what's going on and what to change? I realise some may visit here incognito without participating, but lots of channels changed titles really quickly, so is there another source of news out there worth monitoring??[DOUBLEPOST=1511167270,1511167184][/DOUBLEPOST]

Not all channels. I found a couple of big ones that didn't change their titles yet. So they probably haven't figured it out. I'm assuming all bad baby videos have been demonetized. The ones who have fixed titles are probably more in tuned with their channel and YouTube news. This is a long time coming. I remember thinking this might happen back in Feb when advertisers left in droves. So it had to be on the minds of people who changed their titles. I'm just finding about elsagate and I see the subreddit started in July. Elsagate seems to be building momentum. Already a few articles out.

i Actually don't think YouTube jumped the gun or are being proactive. I think they were late to the party again. making changes after it's become a controversy and not before. It's only a matter of time before it's big news maybe. I'm kind of relieved though. There's a lot of garbage out there. Sick people out there exploiting young kids with disgusting content for money. Especially the sexual stuff. YT is Finally doing something about it. If I have to request manual review on every video (ugh) for another month in this fight then ill do it. burn them all down.

 

[Stearmans Toy Review]

Not all channels. I found a couple of big ones that didn't change their titles yet. So they probably haven't figured it out. I'm assuming all bad baby videos have been demonetized. The ones who have fixed titles are probably more in tuned with their channel and YouTube news. This is a long time coming. I remember thinking this might happen back in Feb when advertisers left in droves. So it had to be on the minds of people who changed their titles. I'm just finding about elsagate and I see the subreddit started in July. Elsagate seems to be building momentum. Already a few articles out.

i Actually don't think YouTube jumped the gun or are being proactive. I think they were late to the party again. making changes after it's become a controversy and not before. It's only a matter of time before it's big news maybe. I'm kind of relieved though. There's a lot of garbage out there. Sick people out there exploiting young kids with disgusting content for money. Especially the sexual stuff. YT is Finally doing something about it. If I have to request manual review on every video (ugh) for another month in this fight then ill do it. burn them all down.

Yea get rid of the sick-os then it will make more room for us real creators!

 

[RTT]

Yt algo is a self-reinforcing beast. If you have a video go to 6M views in 1 day with a stuffed title, it tells you the algo wants that. You make the next video with same stuffed title and it hits 4M in a day. Reinforces behaviour. Yt algo tells you what it wants by what it does with your videos. The algo needs to change fundamentally. During our channel review wit the Yt manager earlier this year, she said to look at the real time chart in the first 2 days as an indicator of what videos "subscribers react the best to" ie what generates the best signals and what the algo wants to push out far and wide. She said make more of what your subscribers like best, once again, make more of what the algo wants.

This, or just upload an old stuff with the same thumbnail and get 4M, then next day upload an old stuff again with the same thumbnail again and get 6M, no need to create new videos, life is good