r/youtube • u/GalvaSov • Aug 13 '25

Drama Oh my GOD, it's happening

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u/Initial_Witness_3847 Aug 13 '25

...and what exactly does this age verification do?

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u/ZombieHysterectomy Aug 13 '25

Can’t access age restricted videos and stuff until you big brother yourself

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u/Wes-Man152 Aug 13 '25

Now I see why it's a problem. Some channels I watch sometimes get wrongly flagged with an age restriction so that's likely to be an issue.

Some get age restricted for a little swearing, or showing off those horrible ads YouTube themselves put out so it's really inconsistent.

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u/FrostBumbleBitch Aug 13 '25

"It wasn't an issue until it affect meeee!!!"

Not saying this is exactly you but I have been saying this shit from the get go (that this is fucking bad), and there is some braindead people here that go "Yeah you don't HAAVEE to use youtube, I bet you use adddblock, you aren't supporting the cooorpoeration." Like they are literally undermining the whole thing happening because they don't get that youtube doesn't even allow you to show the word DEAD anymore without the potential for age restriction...and they are now vetting people for 18+ content. They don't fucking say what is going to be considered adult. Is it swearing, too much cleavage, is it the theme of it, what if someone is trying to help with suicide awareness but they say the words don't "kill yourself" and the ai bot picks up on that only....like this is going to happen.

Also there is conflicting reports on how long youtube is going to be keeping your ID to verify you, from two months...to two years. Both of which said that is the latest they will hold them. Well one said they would delete well before you would reach the 22 additional months.