YouTube Has a Problem
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- UA-cam has problem with unfairly disabling comments on many channels. It seems to be mainly affecting smaller creators, and no one is really talking about it. This is my entire sequence of dialogue with UA-cam support over the past two years about this issue and what I've learned so far. I'm hoping that this will bring awareness to the problem and hopefully actually get it fixed!
So far the problem is on and off for me and I've only noticed it on shorts; it doesn't seem to affect my long-form content and it sometimes stops happening for months at a time only to randomly start happening again.
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00:00 Intro to the Problem
01:38 Quick Warning
02:21 Initial Dialogue with UA-cam Support
03:14 Why is UA-cam doing this?
04:29 Why this is concerning
06:36 Timeline of initial events & more UA-cam support "help"
11:33 Started happening again 8 months later
13:50 Old shorts had comments disabled
17:16 Suspicious analytics & questions about recommendations
22:55 Started happening again a year later
26:22 Current status
27:22 Concerns about biases
28:04 How can this be improved?
30:08 Conclusion - Розваги
This video is a bit different than usual, but it felt important to share. From what I can tell, this issue appears to mainly be affecting smaller creators, so I'm hoping this video can help in some way. If you've ever experienced this issue, please leave a comment! Thank you!
you can when you upload a video switch sort "sort to newest first". default is top comments. large channels with hundreds of comments have this problem too. and with top comments yt censor at will. this is at least usefull as reason that i not pay for yt this censory of youtube start extrenme heavy in feb when war begin. yt creators should write they do disable sort of top comments because yt censor too much.
easy fix. put a fake mustache to convince youtube ai you are a grown up
When you post a video, do you mark "content is made for children" or "not made for children"? You should mark not for children if it's not specifically made for kids (It's not the same as saying adult content, it just means not aimed at children). Maybe that will fix it? Good luck!
You're 30 ? I thought you were 18 😂
@@prisfrank Yeah I do mark all my videos as "not made for children". Unfortunately hasn't helped so far, but it does seem like it should!
So sorry you had to go through this. It is frankly unbelievable how little support YT is extending to its creators.
Just over and over from so many different channels I hear the same problems and UA-cam literally NEVER fixes it, like for years ... the same problems ... never fixed. And no consequences. It's so disappointing :(
Many have their second channels on Odysee.
When you have a monopoly, you can do basically anything you want (or don't want) and everyone is stuck with it. It's cheap for UA-cam to just not do anything.
Google doesn't make much money if any from YT. Doesn't surprise me theres a lot of issues that doesn't get fixed.
The absolute worst thing is UA-cam flagging channels for "child content", in a weird way to protect children, even though if it WAS for children or didn't want comments, they could just flag for either.
Theres so many ways to make content for kids, but Child Content disables comments AND makes it harder to search for.
You Tube is failing really bad.
UA-cam’s A.I is failing 🥴
YT introducing Shorts was the failure.
It's been failing ever since *_Google_* bought *_UA-cam._*
@@Rick_Cleland And google is pretty much useless as a search engine now ... All you get is mainline propaganda if you're trying to research anything of substance. I feel like I might as well turn on cable news for that kind of garbage. 😂
@@Fiveash-Art Yep; very true.
I just want to say that as a 32 year old minor I feel safer already. Thanks UA-cam! -.-
This is ridiculous... I'll finish the vid now but thanks for sharing in advance Rachel, this needs to be pushed out there more.
As a 400 year old miner, i do not have wi-fi
This never ending back and forth without results seems like a common thing for youtube creator support. It’s almost impossible to reach a person who can actually change something unless you have millions of subscribers (and even then..).The automatic algorithm systems they have in place are a double edged sword.
Pretty much. It's like if you have issues it's just... That's it, deal with it. UA-cam is so big they dont and havent cared about the creators or ones who keep the site alive for years. Unless it's late night shows.
UA-cam was so much better in the last decade…. Their algorithms and abundance of ads sicken me nowadays. At least, the enjoyment I get out of the videos of my favorite creators still makes it worthwhile :|
The best thing the UA-cam creators can do is this: show up, in person, in front of UA-cam Headquarters, in the THOUSANDS so that you can DEMONSTRATE against all the ways that UA-cam has done you dirty. Mass-demonstrations are the REAL way to get things DONE! Petitions are just a waste of time and money.
Obviously! Have you ever tried to get help from Google support as a user? Even a paying user? There's no fucking way to contact anyone that can help about anything. It's a never-ending labyrinthe of pages with hints and small lists of how to do this or that, and when you give up and finally try to contact help by asking a question in the void emptiness and hoping an answer will come eventually, you learn at some point that NONE OF THE DUMBASSES THAT WILL ANSWER YOU AND SUGGEST POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS ACTUALY WORK FOR GOOGLE! It's all a big network of users with more experience and time to waste trying to help other users that don't even realise they are not talking with a Google employee, because it's not stated, my even hinted and even when told that this is the only help you can get, it looks so much like the way you would contact actual service from a company that many users never even compute that they never spoke to anyone that has the power to help them about anything and there will never be any possible way to do so. Except maybe fly to California and show up at Google hq with a baseball batt. And even then I bet they will get another google user to try to fight you off campus. Fucking bunch of assholes
The problem is that they don't want to have people working on this but move all decisions to AI which we all can see is not really working well. But they get along with it. Question is, for how long.
UA-cam has so many issues. I hope you get this resolved soon, Rachelf. I always look forward to your videos. You're awesome!
This is what happens when big corporations refuse to invest in human moderation approaches for their social media platforms, and more streamlined approaches - sorry you're going through this :( thank you for sharing this
Are you kidding? It's actually worse when they invest in human moderators. That's been obvious in the case of Facebook and Twitter for years now.
Why has that been a problem?@@user-dx1jb4zq9e
How you were able to keep yourself from responding in all caps by week 2 is a testament to your patience.
I can't imagine how infuriating this would be.
Haven't had this problem yet. Not sure why though. ;) JK. I hope they can just flip a switch for your channel and fix this issue soon. Sucks feeling strung-along and not really knowing if a human is actually responding. :(
My life has been a complete and total misery ever since Bigfoot stole my precious girlfriend in the middle of the night. 😒 He even took all her clothes and the T.V. 😔
I've been a subscriber for a long time, and really enjoy your vids. It's a shame, that YT has taken this path. You have NEVER posted anything that would be unfit for anyone of ANY age. We've got your back, and we'll support you, no matter what! KEEP ON ROCKIN'!
Adding a comment bc I'm a creator and understand how important it is to the almighty algorithm. Hope you get this resolved!
According to my youtube history, ive been subscribed to you since March 2017.
I see roughly 2-3 of your uploads in my subscription every few months and 0 of your google shorts, despite having all notifications enabled for you. I've been following your guitar journey for a very long time now and you would think UA-cam would recommend it to me more often..
*Commenting to appease the algorithm *
It sucks that you have to deal with this headache.
I have been watching your videos since the beginning.
You have a good energy about you and that smile can't be beat.
I wish you success in your war against the UA-cam overlords. :)
Automation is useless without an rapid support/appeal system for errors. Its insane. Commenting for more boost 😊
Unfortunately their response/reply/"resolution" system is automated too :(
Share values respond well to this kind of stupidity.
You're young at heart ;)
Edit: Fun and jokes aside this is actually pretty disturbing they obviously have no clue as to what putting minors at risk means....
Ergh, that does seem incredibly frustrating. What gets my goat about it particularly is that very often the issues creators face don't really seem get looked at seriously unless a big stink is kicked up by very large youtubers, which really shouldn't be the way things are. I think I would've run away screaming after the amount of barely real-person-non-responses you've had to deal with over the last few years. Really hope this takes a different turn for you because I really enjoy your channel and you deserve the views!
Wow Rachel that is too frustrating. Good on you for making the video I am sure it will help other's with the same issue at least to bring awareness. I personally couldn't deal with it.
Thank you, I'm hoping it does! I imagine smaller channels than mine would have an even more difficult time getting help, and I haven't been too successful so far either 😅
UA-cam does not care about this unfortunately.
If this issue affected their own revenue they would fix the problem immediately.
Their automated system are so flawed and it is both unfair and unfortunate that this affects your ability to make a revenue on the platform.
I hope this issue will be resolved someday soon.
A platform is nothing without the creators and they need to realize this.
Every step of the way through this video, I’ve been through the EXACT same thing. It’s so exhausting having creator support reply with copy and paste replies and completely ignoring what I say. This is not only damaging to small creators but mostly women. It’s so beyond unfair that our videos are hurt and quite literally “held back” because of how we look naturally. A big change needs to be made
Your attitude towards the whole situation is surprisingly positive despite having gone through such a frustrating experience.🙂🙂
As a fellow creator there is nothing more frustrating than having to reach out to UA-cam support for issues for reasons like this. There whole system is devoid of actual human support. Even the emails, are crafted to appear as if they are from someone but really as you pointed out and as emails I have received, are automated themselves. Your specific issue though would drive me nuts. I hope you can get it resolved!
This is so fucked up, I'm sorry that you're having to deal with this. I realized something similar might be happening to my UA-cam channel as well actually (not this one, this one is a burner/priv acc). I hope that UA-cam fixes their automation bs or at the very least make it so their support is much better so people who are dealing with their automated system punishing them like you and I can hopefully get it fixed/reverted. Keep pushing through though, we're here to support you
Wow. What a nightmare. Sorry you (and likely so many others) are experiencing this, and glad you made this video calling it out. I hope it brings the issue to the support team in a way that truly escalates and changes what's wrong, and with priority for timing. Having worked support (not YT) myself, I can agree that it sounds like the staff are unfortunately only going through the motions that are allowed, which are circular and useless, and agree with you that the structure of support is therefore broken since it's useless for resolution of issues on the platform. I hope the issue gets genuinely resolved, instead of the multi-year runaround that you're getting now.
I'm just learning to play guitar and your videos have always been inspirational to me🤩 I wondered where you disappeared to !!! Glad to see you back!!! And I've resubscribd👌👌to make sure I get updates on your content !!!
Never stop doing what you love to do!!! Follow your highest excitement and it will always bring you to where you need to be. we are all very proud of you!!! We’ve seen you get so much better on guitar and overall better on just making videos in general. Rachel keep going don’t let YT negatively affect anything video you go going on. We will always stand behind you!!!
Sorry you have gone through this. I was impacted and made aware of this when I wrote a song in memory of my daughter who passed away. I made a video that showed her throughout her life, and clearly this showed pictures of when she was younger. Now for me I wasn't chasing views on this video due to its meaning, but did note the impressions were halted despite high CTR..so know youtube was suppressing it. Hope you resolve it soon!
I'm approaching my 3rd birthday of learning to play guitar, and I absolutely owe it all to YOU. Your progress video (think it was your 3-year one) resonated with me and finally made me stick with this beautiful instrument I had been misfiring with for 25 years. I hope you get this issue squared away, because you are one of the good ones.
Outrageous! You have a good channel & hope you get all this straightened out!
Well... Being 29 years old myself, it is kinda flattering being perceived as younger. But being perceived as a child? Eh, no, thanks UA-cam.
I mean, you said everything that needs to be said tbh.
Yes, protecting minors is important, especially on a platform so big and open as UA-cam. But that is a process that just can't be automated while casting this wide a net.
And your experiences with their support just shows something I have been saying for a while. UA-cam is not a platform for creators anymore, it is a platform for brands. Brands big enough with an impact to actually reach somebody at the other end of the support page.
I still really hope they adress this problem at some point. I am not affected as a creator (20 subs and never showing my face lol), but many creators whose work I enjoy might be, so... This just sucks.
Good luck Rachel! May the odds be ever in your favor. 😆
And have fun with being thirty later this year. I still have till November, then I'm officially OLD. 🤣
I kept getting carded for liquor until my beard lost its color at 50+.
@@tactileslut My friend, I am so sorry. But it's also kinda funny, not gonna lie.
Your video came up in my feed (I am not a subscriber... yet) so maybe a lot of people are watching. Hopefully your issues get resolved 👌
I'm sorry your having this problem. I started watching you when you first started playing. Watching you get better and better was really amazing. I'm also amazed that you are almost 30. You still look so young. Good luck on fixing this and I look forward to your future videos.
Awesome channel! Hope it gets sorted out for everyone! When I was a minor learning guitar I would have been totally lucky to watch this channel and learn some guitar things! Wish UA-cam was available when I started jamming! You can learn a lot on here!
Sorry you have to go through this. :( Not to make you feel "old" but it's like you posted your 1 year progress video just yesterday. Hopefully this is resolved soon!
This is the second channel I follow that's posted a video today about UA-cam's overzealous algorithms. Clearly UA-cam is not okay. I'm sorry for your troubles, Rachel.
It's all about control; they must control the narrative and control your life. 😲
looking amazing for almost 30, congrats!
I've been subscribed to your channel for a couple years at least. I don't pay attention to the shorts, but always enjoyed your full length stuff. I had noticed a while back, that your content wasn't showing up in my day to day feed and I would only see a video from you on rare occasions. I just figured other life issues were at play and you weren't creating as much content. But I can verify that the amount of exposure I had to your videos dropped significantly over the last year or so. I'm sorry you've gone through this and hope it does all get resolved soon.
Sorry to hear this has been your experience. I'm a long time subscriber and yours is one of my favourite YT channels. I hope you have a positive resolution as soon as possible. Love what you do Rachel. Stay strong! ❤️👍
Thank you! :)
UA-cam is making their own downfall.
This helps me understand why some other channels i watch have comments randomly turned off 🤷🏼♀️
Sorry that youve been dealing with this. I hope the video helps to get the issue resolved for you, i think youre awesome and have inspired me to use my daw a lot more which has been huge for me. Thanks for the content and good luck! ❤
Hi Rachel! I am a subscriber of yours and enjoy your videos. I am here to tell you that this problem is not confined to smaller channels. I have 420K subscribers and I have been having some of the same issues. I have reached out to UA-cam support about this problem several times and the problem only got worse. It seems the larger my subscription base gets, the number of views decreases. I feel like I am being punished for bringing it up. I was getting more views at 100k than I am getting at over 400K. I have decided not to make a video about it because I have seen others do so and nothing changed. I liked your video and will share it on my channel. Good luck to you and keep up the good work! Hopefully things will change in the future.
BTW, I believe that many of the very small channels(under 100K) get better viewership is because many of them are not monetized and UA-cam gets 100% of ad revenue generated by them.
Ive been a subscriber to your channel for a few years now and watched it grow alot..Not always had time to comment but always a thumbs up .keep doing what you do...when your 50 you'll look back on this and laugh and love this because you do look younger than 30 lol maybe because you smile all the time ..Which you should never stop doing...Go Rachel!!! 😀
I noticed a while ago a bunch of videos from small folk music creators were disappearing from playlists/watch later. Also noticed that some of them when I came across them again, as well as some similar music content - were flagged as directed at kids. A creator that I follow on Twitch also said they'd been having problems with YT flagging their content as directed at kids.
YT content directed at kids doesn't have comments and can't be saved to playlists, in itself this nukes the algorithm recommendation of content but I also suspect impacting SEO. I came to the suspicion that a lot of these disappearing videos weren't being taken down, they were being lost because of algorithm auto-flagging them inappropriately.
This seems to be a problem that most substantially impacts smaller and independent creators that don't have clout for YT to take them seriously which is devastating for growth potential for the creator, and makes it really hard for me to keep track of content I enjoy as someone in the audience.
Really disappointing to hear that YT just don't take it seriously, give you the run-around for trying to fix it and just trust that the algorithm makes the right decision without questioning the system in place which is demonstrably not fit for purpose. I guess the only thing you can do is swear profusely in your content so it won't get flagged as targeted towards a young audience.
I do find that I have to literally go to your page to see your videos as UA-cam won't post them to my newsfeed! Its aggravating!
Wow, although i haven't watched the whole vid yet, im glad you have been proactive in your investigation into this matter. I know pf many content creators who complain about the issue but dont pursue it long enough to reach a resolution. I might me able to refer them to this vid after i watch the whole thing. The UA-cam algorithm can be so detrimental to growing channels and really hope they get it fixed. I hope takes the necessary actions to rectify this problem for you and everyone affected. Thanks for sharing your experience. Im sure it will shed some light into the process and expedite the remedial actions.
Thank you! I'm hoping that it can help others get a fix for this as well. I kept hoping I could get this resolved by speaking with creator support directly, but it didn't seem like it was going to be possible to get a clear answer/fix.
Rock on Rachel! I love watching your content. You seem to really enjoy what you do, and you have made incredible progress.
Amazing guitar solo and vocal attempts for you there.
This is simply unacceptable. I'm adding my comment here to boost your video in hopes that it will help to finally fix the issue :(
UA-cam creates problems that quite literally NEVER get fixed. They care very little about fixing stuff.
Here's an example that affects viewers (not creators). If you Cast videos to a TV, VERY frequently Ads will mysteriously turn Captions on. The Ad will turn Captions on, all by itself (no human involved). If you toggle them off, later Ads will turn them back on. When it turns the Captions on in the Ads, that carries forward to the actual video.
I've watched playlists of videos cued up 20 at a time and literally had to pick up a remote (or my Tablet being Cast from to the TV client) after EVERY Ad to turn the Captions back off.
There's a Tip about turning the Caption setting off under the same account in the Windows UA-cam Browser mode (so a non-mobile browser) instead of just on the Android/Tablet client and/or the TV client This inhibits this behavior with the Ads for a few hours... then it all happens again.
My point here is if you search Reddit youll see this has been an ongoing issue people have been complaining about for about FIVE years. But never fixed. UA-cam literally doesnt care. In fact, because its probably forcing people to buy the Ad free UA-cam (to get rid of Ads that are doing this(, UA-cam probably WANTS the bug.
Summary: THEY DONT CARE.
A facial recognition algorithm is likely triggered by some facial feature you may have. Have you investigated that aspect? Maybe use a face mask as a test to see its effect while keeping other parameters the same? You can also play with makeup to see its effects. I doubt its your voice or de words you choose. One by one, changing a parameter at a time foe each test video may be faster than interacting with the support teams. Don't know if you've tried these ideas. I feel for you 💜
This would be my guess too. You might consider casting this as an issue of sexism: it seems highly unlikely that the algorithms would confuse a 29-year-old man with a child. And if makeup or dressing differently is required for a woman to be seen as a woman by UA-cam then 😬.
One of the parameters it has likely picked up on through its training data is verticality of video, with minors more likely to post vertical videos, hence, more likely to mis-identify your Shorts as including a minor. But since that was never explicitly programmed by anyone, UA-cam developers can legitimately say "Shorts use exactly the same system as other videos".
She shouldn't have to hide her face to please an algorithm, period.
I feel your pain @Rachelf I'm 42 and look 22 . The struggle is real. Also Love your videos , been a fan for a very long time ! keep up the shredding !
Looking 22 while being 42 is barely a struggle lmao
oh it really is though@@TheWalkingRaven530
awesome job on making a video about it. You will be heard! We love ya Rach!
Sorry about the issues that you have experienced, but I have watched your videos from your first year progress, to the most current videos. Thank you for taking time to make these videos, as they are very helpful and inspiring to say the least.
I am stunned that she is 29 years old. I incorrectly ‘assumed’ she was 16 or 17.
youtube human algorithm detected :D
Rachild
😂
@@RachelfGuitarI think I heard your “DOH!” upon reading that.
for what its worth this was the first video of yours ive seen, and i found it on the homepage. I hope that they sort this out!
I've had a similar issue. For some reason they think I'm a talking goat.
In any decision process, even using humans, there are false positives and false negatives. The equilibrium depends on where the decisor put the weight on one or the other.
A downside of the UA-cam's paranoia about minors (a general problem in current US culture) is that they assume that false positive identifications are not so bad, so they are not worried about it.
As Aristotle said, the virtue is not in the extremes.
I hope you get a solution soon!
I genuinely wonder if the cause of this repeated issue is because the automated system thinks you look too young🫣 I’ve been following your channel for a few years now and thought you were a teenager until you said you’re 30 (you’re elder than me hahah!) I do hope this gets resolved though, people like you motivate me to pick up my guitar every now and then❤️💪🏼
Yes, doubtless her appearance closely matches what the black-box AI thinks a kid looks like, and posting the videos vertically is probably also characteristic of something kids tend to do, which is why it happens only on Shorts.
This is absolutely wild. Like the copyright system, this is some machine learning algorithm that technically cannot be fully understood, so UA-cam employees don't actually know what is flagged for what reason and yet, they don't have a system to correct things if they go wrong, not even after correcting single cases once (like re-enabling comments).
Do they have a verification system for your age like banks do (WebID or whatever) or do they just take the age you entered in your account? I also find it pretty wild that to watch content that has been flagged inappropriate you just have to login. Also, more often than not, "inappropriate" content is a 90s dance videos showing women in bikinis.
Playing guitar is a huge part of my life, and I watch a TON of UA-cam but I’ve never seen your channel before. I don’t know if I’d like your content or not, but I’m subscribing to help you out, because I know that UA-cam is broken (or there’s something more sinister or troubling going on). Let’s hope things improve and I wish you more success in the future.
This would be hilarious if it wasn't so tragic
Infantilizing women is a societal problem and as an IT specialist I always knew that it was eventually coming to this point. Algorithms and therefore programs reflect the real world and the programmers' biases. That's also the reason why facial recognition software identifies black women as black men and generally identifies women less accurately than men.
Jesus dude. Go touch some grass!
Yeah, those Indian and Chinese programmers sure are sexist and racist
They use machine learning so, no.
Happy hump day Shred Goddess! Sorry you're dealing with this crap. I despise so much about UA-cam. Unfortunately, it's the only place to really find the content that I enjoy, such as yours. I do hope you get it sorted. In the meantime, I hope you keep rocking and shredding as gloriously as you always do. 🤘🏾🔥
Just saw that SailingflyingConey (a couple that restores an old ship) under a new video had pinned a comment about having troubles with YT. That YT based on stats seems to have stopped showing their videos to new people, so the growt of the channel have suddenly stopped.
Hi Rachelf.
UA-cam thinks Rachelf is a loli smh...
sorry to hear this. keep rocking Rachelf.
The problem at the base of this mess is that you're not UA-cam's customer, you're their product.
Reality:
1. She smiles all the time.
2. She has fun in her videos.
3. She inspires people to practice more and improve themselves.
4. She invented a genre... "Smile-core".
5. She ages really well.
YT's best idea:
"SHUT.. HER.. DOWN!!!" (for her own 'protection' [trademarkYT])
Sad... her smile is legendary!
Yay! AI!
It seems that the creator support consists of people not much brighter than the AI itself, lol.
Just imagine much more aspects of everyday life being controlled by AI... what could go wrong? 😱
Btw. i really admire your patience in this whole matter.
Being an IT Product Manager myself I am schocked by the amount of negligence on Alphabet's part.
Amongst many other solutions, they could have made a live session with you where you upload a Shorts video and they check live what the algorithm is doing and identify the content that it flags.
Hoping somehow that this can be figured out. I watch a lot of your videos. In fact, you were one of the people that inspired me to finally pick up the guitar in the first place. I was always nervous about how difficult it would be for me to learn guitar on my own (with my online help, of course). But you really mapped out my expectations with your videos highlighting your beginners journey. That may seem silly, but I really had a good idea of how long it took for someone like you to learn. I knew I couldn't dedicate as much time, but it did basically help me understand the incremental improvements I might make over the first couple of years. So yeah, I consider you a strong influencer in the guitar world. And your videos and your wisdom is far more approachable to someone like me because you learned the same way I am, and you don't have a decade and a half of guitar playing experience like some of these people. They're great as well. But your channel helps to keep all that grounded in my mind.
So yeah, all of the automation here sucks. I hope UA-cam can figure it out. I consume a lot of UA-cam Content, some from people that may also have similar issues (young looking, but not a minor). Good luck, Rachel!
Your gonna be 100 and look 25....so that's not too bad! LOL
Also, you don't look thirty.👌🏻
I would have given up writing to support just to get the same boilerplate texts back over and over again far earlier. What a mess.
That's frustrating even to listen to, hope this get resolved soon. I am glad you keep your smile up, I would grind my theeth like Udo did in Balls to the Wall.
You certainly don't look 30. You should embrace being young and adorable. :) That said, YT Shorts are a cancer and a mistake. Not one person I know likes them. I actively block them as I can't stand to see them cluttering my subscriber feed. If I hadn't found a chrome extension to block them, I was ready to give up on YT altogether. Make great YT videos. Ignore Shorts completely. That 's my 2 cents.
Grow a beard, you’ll look older.
😮
I haven't had a video recommendation from Rachelf for a LONG time. Yeah, about two years - I had just assumed Rachelf had stopped posting.
I’m wondering how many of your videos I’ve missed. Your videos used to always show up now hardly. Not only can you play good but your beautiful smile when playing is infectious.
This sounds really frustrating! I remember talking to some UA-cam folks at a panel once. They said that even with manual review processes, they don't actually watch entire videos. It seems that there is some software that shows them at a glance some key frames and they make a quick decision, I think perhaps spending less than 30 seconds? Maybe even less than that. So it could be that they are just seeing some key frames and agreeing with what the algorithm said, instead of actually watching the moving video. I understand why they have to do it. There is so much stuff to review, they do it quickly and are trying to err on the side of caution. Though you'd think after so many times, they could take a few more minutes to actually look into it. Especially if it's escalated to an internal team and bugs were fixed. I think they'd perhaps have some time to watch videos and test things out and all that. I noticed in that one video with the guitar, the thumbnail could be construed as being a minor. But that seems to be the crux of the problem. Only evaluating based on video frames, rather than the actual video in motion.
I don't have a youtube channel, but I've seen many of my comments get deleted over the years although none of them had foul remarks, etc. UA-cam is a mess. However, don't give up; you are absolutely one of the finest UA-camrs who I subscribe to. Maybe, the finest. No one hits the mark and puts a long lasting smile on my face as you do. Please do not go away!
Glad you found the issue and mentioned it so it hopefully gets some attention. Google is infamous for having zero support for anything.
UA-cam algorithm hasn't suggested your vids to me in years. Makes sense. I've been subscribed to your channel for over 6 years (since before your ghost covers at least). I wish you good luck.
Thank you!
IDK...I'm almost 60yrs old and find your videos creative and and inspirational. I've watched how you've progressed over the years...keep up the good work and keep your head up.
now you mention it i never have recommended videos of yours yet ive subbed for years
Sorry to hear you're having this frustrating issue with YT. Some other channels I watch have issues with UA-cam support as well, regarding copyright strikes (that aren't valid)... Google just trusts their all-knowing algorithm, heck with the actual support engineers they employ. Good luck in getting some resolution, but if not, have you considered alternate platforms for your content?
‘Don’t Worry Rachelf Your Doing Right.”😉👍🏻
UA-cam did this to my channel back around 2018. Same BS reason. Was a motorcycle repair channel. Drove me insane. Finally one day the channel went back to normal.
How frustrating this is for you, and yet, you transmit an image in peace and in control , very well done!… their AI is definitively confusing you with a minor, … don’t get discouraged, I LOVE your videos !!
First they came for Alex Jones, but I didn't say anything because I wasn't a conspiracy nut. Then they came for T Robinson, but I didn't say anything because I wasn't a rossocist. Then they came for Carl Benjamin, but I didn't say anything because I wasn't a Classical Liberal. Then they came for me, but there was noone left to speak for me.
Keep doing what you do Rachel we all love the channel! You are a genuine person 😊
At this point I would consider fighting automation with automation. It would be perfectly possible for someone to write a script that checks all the videos on a channel, and if any of them have comments disabled, automatically re-enable comments, and notify the user of the script or log it to a file. You set up such a script to run automatically on your computer every day, every hour, or every 5 minutes if you like. The only potential problem I can see is UA-cam accusing you of hacking, or something ridiculous like that.
UA-cam is weird. I've had issues myself with copyright and that was annoying. I hope they really get their act together
It sounds to me like there are several analytic engines at work here, and they're doing different things and not in the same way nor updating each other that a video has cleared for risk content. Seems like when in the doubt the whole system will default to the disabling activities that you're seeing. It also seems like the responses from support aren't even from people, feels like its auto responded from text analytics. Clearly, this is a systemic issue that is affecting you and others. I think it's awesome that you're bringing it up. The issue needs to be escalated from support side. It's possible they've done so already, but if there's a myriad of engine analytics in play, no one knows the single spot where they integrate. That's just my two cents, keep up the good work. I really enjoy your videos and have followed your channel for several years now. A crazy idea, find a gandolf costume or something to look 300 years old. See if that beats the system !
That sounds incredibly frustrating, especially with the constant repetition of the canned responses and completely ignoring the actual requests for clarification. Especially when it's happened so many times!
Interesting to hear about the video tint bypass though! Would be a lot nicer if the system just worked instead of having to turn the flawed flagging system back in your favour though
Yeah, I have no idea why that small change actually worked in that case! I did actually try similar changes in other cases to no success, so it may have just been random luck. But yeah, not something creators should have to experiment with to get past this.
Great info!!! I hope its gonna help
If it's any comfort, the algorithm brought me to your channel just now. Though, a time may come when you grow to regret that. But oh well, life is unpredictable, donate blood.
When dealing with companies, you usually get a better response if you inquire about how to contact their legal department. Maybe that would help in this case?
Power to you on speaking up.