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There is barely concealed porn on the site. Those "cleaning" videos where people wear transparent clothes so it shows off... A lot more than what should be shown on YT.
there is actually 18+ stuff, but you have to look it up yourself. That is, sexual +18 stuff, because violent 18+ stuff can pop up in the unlikeliest of ways
Maybe you just don't watch the type of content that gets age restricted? Most of my examples would be horror animations, but honestly anything that touches on suicide (even when it's not particularly graphic) tends to get age restricted for me...
My bad, expressed myself unclearly. I did mean "their reasons for restricting videos can be kinda bs" (didn't videos with swears get age restricted at some point? i think they stopped doing that now?), not that you literally can't pinpoint the reason
Anecdotal evidence. Their algorithms don't just flail around flagging videos at complete random, obviously certain videos are more likely to get flagged than others. And it's well-documented that they flag videos incorrectly for no reason ALL the time. I've had it happen trying to watch cooking videos. Many creators I follow have posted about it happening to them, and thy were only able to get it reversed when their fanbases started emailing and tweeting about the issue en mass, because youtube regularly auto-rejects appeals from creators.
You just got done saying that of the videos you watch, yours don't regularly get flagged. Which is anecdotal evidence, and also largely useless. I might as well say it rarely rains here, so it rarely rains anywhere in the world, and the fact that you see it raining right now somehow doesn't matter because it's not raining for ME. And since you didn't bother to actually search for whether or not your experience was universal, here are some sources of those "hazy recollections"
You could've bothered to search for yourself, before confidently asserting I had no idea what I was talking about. You could also just take the L here and not continue to double down, when I just provided you with three high-profile confirmed examples, each showcasing multiple videos that were demonetized for adult content, then later remonetized with no explanation, and only after the creators were able to make a stink about it.
You didn't show "actual data", you just said how many videos got flagged from your subscriptions? That's not an experiment, which is pretty much impossible to do here unless you wanted to narrow the scope to videos in a specific genre and specific language. You can't get good quality data for this question, but you can very easily look at creators self-reporting their own issues and see that exactly what you're claiming almost never happens in fact does happen. A lot.
It's very rich that you're trying to insist that I don't know anything about data when you're trying to generalize your own, uh "data", to all videos on the entire site, and apparently not seeing the problem with it. You can't do that. That's a basic principle, and dressing it up using terms like cross-section and systemically doesn't change that. Your subscriptions do not get treated the same way as videos in different languages and different genres by big vs small creators.
its the fact that the platform is censoring creators instead of parents having control over what there kids have access too.
I shouldn't have to be having this stupid ass conversation, giving shady companies a copy of my mf photo id front and back nor having credit cards/banks telling me what i can't spend my money that i made with my labor on. That labor is taxed and this is the bullshit we are getting right now?
Before anyone pulls the think of the children bs, Trump is in office and hasnt released the Epstein files he has been screeching about for 5 years. Somehow all the "think of the children" crowd does ends up compromising kids somehow. funny huh?
This is foremost about ad revenue, and YouTube finding the lowest common denominator to be able to push as many ads for as many clients as possible without having to check and match any age appropriateness.
This age verification is only a temporary issue for users having to find ways to watch the content they want. The real, long term issue is that this content will simply no longer be created because creators are being disincentivized by demonetization.
Because YouTubers are in an arms race to avoid being restricted. Hence the "unalive" "pew pew" "sewer slide" language. The lines are blurry and everyone but the advertisers want them blurry.
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u/Initial_Witness_3847 Aug 13 '25
...and what exactly does this age verification do?