EDIT: So restricted mode is only part of a larger problem involving YouTube's new AI tool that is restricting thousands of videos while trying to determine your age based on the videos you watch. No one knows the criteria for what it deems restrict-able. It's not the usual age-restriction or demonetization practices that YouTube already has in place.
Therefore, many channels are seeing a drop in viewership and their videos are not being recommended to wider audiences. In fact, they're being completely hidden. Unlike previous YouTube-pocalypses, this one affects not just creators but viewers too. There's really nothing any of us (creators or viewers) can do about it except get loud. Bother YouTube on social media, express your outrage. This is censorship at an insidious level.
ORIGINAL POST: If you haven’t heard, YouTube has a new “restricted mode” they quietly rolled out a few weeks ago. This feature hides potentially thousands of new videos from you. If you look at my channel in restricted mode, I have 2 videos available, both from over a year ago.
They’ve made it so this setting needs to be changed on EACH DEVICE you use YouTube on as well. Maybe it’s on for you, maybe it’s not. Seems to be random for most people and for each of their devices. So tap that gear icon and check your general settings to make sure it’s off.
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EDIT: So restricted mode is only part of a larger problem involving YouTube's new AI tool that is restricting thousands of videos while trying to determine your age based on the videos you watch. No one knows the criteria for what it deems restrict-able. It's not the usual age-restriction or demonetization practices that YouTube already has in place.
Therefore, many channels are seeing a drop in viewership and their videos are not being recommended to wider audiences. In fact, they're being completely hidden. Unlike previous YouTube-pocalypses, this one affects not just creators but viewers too. There's really nothing any of us (creators or viewers) can do about it except get loud. Bother YouTube on social media, express your outrage. This is censorship at an insidious level.
ORIGINAL POST: If you haven’t heard, YouTube has a new “restricted mode” they quietly rolled out a few weeks ago. This feature hides potentially thousands of new videos from you. If you look at my channel in restricted mode, I have 2 videos available, both from over a year ago.
They’ve made it so this setting needs to be changed on EACH DEVICE you use YouTube on as well. Maybe it’s on for you, maybe it’s not. Seems to be random for most people and for each of their devices. So tap that gear icon and check your general settings to make sure it’s off.
New video in a few days.
Stay chill, everybody.
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