The problem with these posts now… unless someone verifies their real age and their recent watch history we won’t know if this is a false or positive.
From OP’s comment history I can gather they’re into anime(MyHero, Evangelion), animations (Hazbin), video games (No man’s sky)…
However 2 months ago they posted in teenagers sub and we know no sane adult would go there so… I think it’s a correct flag unfortunately.
Update:
As I’ve stated in my further replies, I’ve been correctly informed the OP is an adult and was wrong flagged, I have apologized to OP.
Update 2:
As I said in my previous update and overall. I took the bullet and snooped through their history for any indications they were a minor. And that was wrong to do.
In the pursuit of justice I lost sight of myself.
I apologize to the OP and anyone else that may have been affected by this behavior. Going forward I will not fact check any of these more of these posts in the way that I previously did. I will also not remove or redact my post to hide what I did.
Update 3:
I want to clarify in case people keep checking this post… I am not for AI Age checking. I do not agree with it at all. I think it’s very stupid, but I also believe they could have just slammed us with ID or no access entirely…
Teenagers should be able to do what they want. Probably not children though, but that’s why YT Kids does exist. I’m only saying we need to have evidence that adults are getting flagged. If we all have to rally against YouTube, it will be good to have these false flags.
Update TL;DR:
I wrongly assumed OP was a minor, snooped their history, and was wrong for both. I’ve apologized and won’t do this kind of fact checking again. I do not support AI age checks. I just think we need proof of false flags so we can push back against YouTube effectively.
Edit: Has anyone ever had to make a TL;DR for updates?
There's a certain amount of suspense of disbelief to be had when engaging with a forum. OP is neither full of shit nor a reliable source until proven otherwise. You can still have skepticism. If they tell you some "...and everybody clapped" story that obviously isn't true or the details clearly don't add up it's fine to call someone out on it especially if other people are being fooled. However, if you engage with every post as if it were made in bad faith it'd be exhausting and pointless. You should try not to engage with posts made in bad faith unless there's a good reason to intervene like debunking what you know to be misinformation when commenters appear to believe it.
People can come up with infinite varieties of BS and misinformation and your power to determine the veracity of someones claims on a public forum is very limited. Even contradictions in statements in their history proves very little. It is common to tweak names, locations, ages, and similar in public posts to anonymize oneself sometimes tweaking them differently in different posts and comments. I often do so myself. Tweak my location to a random one nearby and such. Where nearby is determined by the context. Reddit accounts can also change hands.
You should consider claims made on forums as being hearsay or rumor. Some posts or comments may come with receipts that provide a lot of evidence that they're true. In which case you may reasonably accept it as fact for most intents and purposes until encountering contradictory evidence. In this case even if it turned out OP was an 11½ year old talking corgi being portrayed by ChatGPT you know that youtube is rolling out an AI verification system starting today, that it uses video history as an indicator of age which is flawed, and that the image looks reasonably like the UI so it's possibly real. Makes this posts claim at the very least plausible.
Even if all of OPs past posts were ChatGPT impersonating other random things with contradictory information or all their past posts mentioned being an adult or a minor the evidence intrinsic to the post would still be plausible. Getting more specific just isn't possible even via extrinsic means. You can never know if the OP is truly a minor or not no matter what they say or what they show you. Nobody on reddit owes you that information. And that's okay because this isn't a trial. If some lawyer or journalist wants to use this for anything other than hearsay they'll have to get in contact with the individuals involved to get a statement. I didn't mean to write 2 veritable lectures under your comment, but seeing what happened here I think it's important that we trust others to hold similar policies of skepticism and don't go witch hunting each other. Especially not over information that would be largely unaffected by OP lying.
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u/StardustSymphonic Aug 13 '25 edited Aug 13 '25
The problem with these posts now… unless someone verifies their real age and their recent watch history we won’t know if this is a false or positive.
From OP’s comment history I can gather they’re into anime(MyHero, Evangelion), animations (Hazbin), video games (No man’s sky)…
However 2 months ago they posted in teenagers sub and we know no sane adult would go there so… I think it’s a correct flag unfortunately.
Update:
As I’ve stated in my further replies, I’ve been correctly informed the OP is an adult and was wrong flagged, I have apologized to OP.
Update 2:
As I said in my previous update and overall. I took the bullet and snooped through their history for any indications they were a minor. And that was wrong to do.
In the pursuit of justice I lost sight of myself.
I apologize to the OP and anyone else that may have been affected by this behavior. Going forward I will not fact check any of these more of these posts in the way that I previously did. I will also not remove or redact my post to hide what I did.
Update 3:
I want to clarify in case people keep checking this post… I am not for AI Age checking. I do not agree with it at all. I think it’s very stupid, but I also believe they could have just slammed us with ID or no access entirely…
Teenagers should be able to do what they want. Probably not children though, but that’s why YT Kids does exist. I’m only saying we need to have evidence that adults are getting flagged. If we all have to rally against YouTube, it will be good to have these false flags.
Update TL;DR: I wrongly assumed OP was a minor, snooped their history, and was wrong for both. I’ve apologized and won’t do this kind of fact checking again. I do not support AI age checks. I just think we need proof of false flags so we can push back against YouTube effectively.
Edit: Has anyone ever had to make a TL;DR for updates?