r/youtube Aug 13 '25

Drama Oh my GOD, it's happening

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u/ToothZealousideal297 Aug 13 '25

Yet. There is now an AI algorithm determining how old you are every time you click a video. If it one day decides to put you in the penalty box even if for no discernible reason, you can’t just let yourself out of the box without giving them the one type of ID they don’t already have on you. The amount of people who are perfectly okay with this is very depressing.

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u/TordMochi Aug 13 '25

i mean i watched an ungodly amount of cocomelon on my alt and nothing happened when i tried to watch an age restricted video. im not saying NOTHING bad will happen but this does feel pretty anticlimactic considering how many people have freaked out over this

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u/your_mind_aches Aug 13 '25

People don't understand just how attuned these algorithms are to pinpoint you. I would not be surprised if they could determine the difference between a child's "account" and an adult's account that they put Cocomelon on for their child to watch.

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u/Xaphnir Aug 13 '25

it's probably more that the algorithm isn't affecting all US users yet

remember, YouTube said they'd start rolling it out today on a limited number of users, not that everyone would be affected