So you may have heard already, but around two weeks ago YouTube updated its guidelines on "Firearms and regulated goods", and augmented its algorithm accordingly. This is obviously not ideal for chemistry content creators, especially when the changes are not explained, and when most of the "work" is done by AI before being manually reviewed by moderators who probably didn't study chemistry and thus have no clue what they're looking at. As far as how this has played out, I got my video on "Making Ammonium Nitrate 3 ways" removed along with a community guidelines strike. I've also had several other random videos demonetized or age-restricted. I've been talking to other chemistry YouTubers to see if there is any kind of pattern in what the AI is targeting, and so far NurdRage has had a restriction over potassium nitrate, LabCoatz got a restriction over phosphoryl chloride, chemdelic got one over benzyl chloride, Thy labs got one over benzyl bromide, and Chemiolis got one over the bromination of ketones. So yeah I'm not really sure what the logic is here, it does seem like binary nitrate salts and benzyl halides are off-limits now... for some reason. Nitro-compounds seem fine with there still being a dozen videos up on nitroglycerin..
In either case I do really like to make my video titles very direct, and show exactly what the title claims. I do this because I personally really hate clickbait titles, but just for the time being I might make the title of any new upload a bit more ambiguous if its something I worry YouTube's broken AI might catch.. So if you see any uploads from me with a title that doesn't really specify what chemical is being made, you'll know why.
Also I might type out and post my "Top 10 favorite ways to make ammonium nitrate" later out of spite. The idea of blocking videos on how to make binary salts is just so absurd to me.
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So you may have heard already, but around two weeks ago YouTube updated its guidelines on "Firearms and regulated goods", and augmented its algorithm accordingly. This is obviously not ideal for chemistry content creators, especially when the changes are not explained, and when most of the "work" is done by AI before being manually reviewed by moderators who probably didn't study chemistry and thus have no clue what they're looking at.
As far as how this has played out, I got my video on "Making Ammonium Nitrate 3 ways" removed along with a community guidelines strike. I've also had several other random videos demonetized or age-restricted. I've been talking to other chemistry YouTubers to see if there is any kind of pattern in what the AI is targeting, and so far NurdRage has had a restriction over potassium nitrate, LabCoatz got a restriction over phosphoryl chloride, chemdelic got one over benzyl chloride, Thy labs got one over benzyl bromide, and Chemiolis got one over the bromination of ketones.
So yeah I'm not really sure what the logic is here, it does seem like binary nitrate salts and benzyl halides are off-limits now... for some reason. Nitro-compounds seem fine with there still being a dozen videos up on nitroglycerin..
In either case I do really like to make my video titles very direct, and show exactly what the title claims. I do this because I personally really hate clickbait titles, but just for the time being I might make the title of any new upload a bit more ambiguous if its something I worry YouTube's broken AI might catch.. So if you see any uploads from me with a title that doesn't really specify what chemical is being made, you'll know why.
Also I might type out and post my "Top 10 favorite ways to make ammonium nitrate" later out of spite. The idea of blocking videos on how to make binary salts is just so absurd to me.
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