The Struggle is Real: YouTube's Community Guidelines and their Impact on Creators

In an educational video, a creator shared his experience with YouTube's Community Guidelines. The video was about inspecting element, a password reveal technique that can be used to reveal sensitive information. However, the creator warned that just because the little dots appear in a password field doesn't mean it's necessarily secure. This sparked a conversation about the importance of password security and how it can be misleading.

Unfortunately, YouTube took down the video for Community Guidelines violations, despite its informative content. The title of the video mentioned "hacking," which likely triggered the automated system to flag it as spam. However, the creator's intent was not malicious, and his video did not violate any guidelines. The problem arose when the appeal was denied, causing inconvenience to the creator.

The scenario is a common issue faced by many YouTubers. YouTube relies on automated systems to scan through thousands of videos, flagging those that appear suspicious or spammy. This can lead to inaccurate conclusions and unnecessary strikes against channels. When a video gets flagged, it's sent to a human reviewer, who may not always have the time or resources to thoroughly examine the content.

In this particular case, the creator had 600,000 subscribers, which is a significant number that warrants attention from YouTube's moderation team. However, even with such an influential channel, the creator faced a denial of his appeal without any explanation. This lack of transparency and oversight can lead to unjust strikes against channels, causing creators to lose trust in the platform.

One of the main issues with YouTube's Community Guidelines is their application to all channels equally. While big channels may not face as much scrutiny, smaller creators like this one are often held to a higher standard. It would be beneficial for YouTube to have specialized teams or more comprehensive appeals processes to ensure that strikes are made on a case-by-case basis.

YouTube has billions of viewers, and handling such a large volume requires automated systems. However, these systems can be flawed, leading to mistakes like this one. The platform's reliance on algorithms means that creators may not always receive the attention they deserve when their content is flagged or denied.

The incident highlights the need for more transparency and accountability within YouTube's moderation process. While appeals are often denied without explanation, it would be helpful if creators could have a clear understanding of why their video was removed and how to appeal effectively. This would allow them to better navigate the system and advocate for themselves when necessary.

If you're a creator who has faced similar issues with YouTube, share your experiences in the comments section or on Twitter. Your feedback can help raise awareness about these challenges and promote positive change within the platform. In the meantime, consider supporting creators like this one by watching their videos, subscribing to their channels, and sharing their content with others.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enyou might be wondering what I mean by the title of this video how could you two be broken well you might have heard of a couple of instances recently about some big youtubers who had issues with their videos being taken down for Community Guidelines violations when it was completely nonsense these specifically where I hate everything who does these review type videos and then eli the computer guy who does tech videos and basically both of them had these different videos that were automatically removed for violations of community guidelines and they weren't violations at all and basically what happened is YouTube messed up and put their channels in jeopardy gave them strikes and then of course they made some big issues about it and they got posted on reddit that sort of thing and sure enough soon after that the tension made it so that their videos were restored but it kind of reveals a bigger issue about YouTube that I thought I would talk about and that is that even though YouTube provides this amazing platform for people to put up all these videos even making careers out of them and jobs like I do this is my full-time job it always sits in the back of my head that YouTube has the power to wipe it all out in an instant with really no consequences at all we have very little power over our channels now copyright strikes are easy enough to deal with because it's a legal thing and if someone provides a false copyright strike you can literally sue them for perjury but for Community Guidelines strikes it's a bigger issue because it's always a youtubes discretion and if they disagree with you then you really can't do much about it in the case of eli the computer guy he had a video that was talking about how to hack a password field it wasn't even really hacking but it was just in educational video saying hey you know if you do inspect element you can reveal this password you just typed in and the whole point was to say that you know just because the little dots appear in a password field doesn't mean that it's necessarily secure and YouTube for some reason took down that video for Community Guidelines violations probably because it said hacking in the title and no other reason and then of course he appealed it but the problem was that appeal got denied even though it clearly was not about malicious hacking or anything like that it was not against the vile the community guidelines didn't violate anything and it still got denied and what I think happened in that case is the algorithm for YouTube scans through all sorts of videos and saw hacking or something like that and the title flagged it didn't necessarily take it down and then when a video gets flagged then it gets sent to a real person to review it at YouTube but they probably have to go through thousands of these spam videos he probably saw hacking in the title thought you know what it's probably spam took it down without even thinking about it not really doing his job properly but I'm not going to speculate too much and then of course that means that he has to go and appeal it and cause all sorts of hassle for him and then when you appeal something usually YouTube is a lot better at bringing it back if it does genuinely follow the guidelines but in this case it was like a Saturday night and it got denied what I expect might have happened is when he filed that appeal it was a Saturday night maybe whoever was reviewing it is going through seeing hacking hacking video denied didn't even watch it was being lazy and then you know this guy's channel was put into jeopardy six hundred thousand subscribers this guy had just because maybe potentially some guy YouTube was too lazy to even watched the video or didn't understand what he was watching if he did and I think that's really one of the main problems with YouTube is someone at YouTube who's doing reviews could look at your video and be feeling a bit mad at that point in time and decide to strike your channel which has real consequences in the case of eli his video was restored probably because it was brought to the attention of someone at youtube but for people who don't have access to make that kind of awareness about your problem they don't really have much to fall back on for example you might not be aware of this but if you're a creator and you get 15,000 watch time hours / 90 days can actually look at that in the analytics then you actually do have access to youtube support you can contact them via email and say hey what's going on why did this get taken down so you do have a little bit of extra access if you get enough viewers but that doesn't stop a headache from happening in the first place and I think the main issue is YouTube applies the same policy to all channels I'm not saying that the big channels should be held to a lower standard what I'm saying is that you know if you have a million subscribers and a video is about to be taken down maybe they should have a special team or at least call you up and say hey this huge channel they would really be a problem if it got taken down we might want to look a little bit more into this before doing it not saying they shouldn't take it down but you know what I mean I'm not pretending to have all the answers obviously YouTube has a lot of crap to deal with they have billions of viewers and there's literally no way to handle that many people without using automated systems and maybe being a little bit lazy sometimes but I do think that there should be alternative ways to appeal these things and get a little bit of help if you are someone who really is going to have trouble if you get a strike or something like that but I guess you know that's enough for my chatting if you guys have any ideas yourself you let me know in the comments section i'm curious what you guys think about all this maybe you haven't heard or maybe you don't care either way if you like this video be sure to give it a thumbs up so i know you enjoyed it if you guys are interested in supporting me for no cost i have a video talking about how you can put my amazon affiliate link as your bookmark and that way it would really help me out whenever you go shopping on amazon doesn't cost you anything if you want to continue watching I've got some other videos on the right hand side you just click those or look in the description for the same length like if you're on a phone and if you want to subscribe I make new videos monday wednesday friday so i think it should be worth it i'm looking forward to hearing from you guys either in the comments section or on twitter so thanks for watching I'll see you next time have a good oneyou might be wondering what I mean by the title of this video how could you two be broken well you might have heard of a couple of instances recently about some big youtubers who had issues with their videos being taken down for Community Guidelines violations when it was completely nonsense these specifically where I hate everything who does these review type videos and then eli the computer guy who does tech videos and basically both of them had these different videos that were automatically removed for violations of community guidelines and they weren't violations at all and basically what happened is YouTube messed up and put their channels in jeopardy gave them strikes and then of course they made some big issues about it and they got posted on reddit that sort of thing and sure enough soon after that the tension made it so that their videos were restored but it kind of reveals a bigger issue about YouTube that I thought I would talk about and that is that even though YouTube provides this amazing platform for people to put up all these videos even making careers out of them and jobs like I do this is my full-time job it always sits in the back of my head that YouTube has the power to wipe it all out in an instant with really no consequences at all we have very little power over our channels now copyright strikes are easy enough to deal with because it's a legal thing and if someone provides a false copyright strike you can literally sue them for perjury but for Community Guidelines strikes it's a bigger issue because it's always a youtubes discretion and if they disagree with you then you really can't do much about it in the case of eli the computer guy he had a video that was talking about how to hack a password field it wasn't even really hacking but it was just in educational video saying hey you know if you do inspect element you can reveal this password you just typed in and the whole point was to say that you know just because the little dots appear in a password field doesn't mean that it's necessarily secure and YouTube for some reason took down that video for Community Guidelines violations probably because it said hacking in the title and no other reason and then of course he appealed it but the problem was that appeal got denied even though it clearly was not about malicious hacking or anything like that it was not against the vile the community guidelines didn't violate anything and it still got denied and what I think happened in that case is the algorithm for YouTube scans through all sorts of videos and saw hacking or something like that and the title flagged it didn't necessarily take it down and then when a video gets flagged then it gets sent to a real person to review it at YouTube but they probably have to go through thousands of these spam videos he probably saw hacking in the title thought you know what it's probably spam took it down without even thinking about it not really doing his job properly but I'm not going to speculate too much and then of course that means that he has to go and appeal it and cause all sorts of hassle for him and then when you appeal something usually YouTube is a lot better at bringing it back if it does genuinely follow the guidelines but in this case it was like a Saturday night and it got denied what I expect might have happened is when he filed that appeal it was a Saturday night maybe whoever was reviewing it is going through seeing hacking hacking video denied didn't even watch it was being lazy and then you know this guy's channel was put into jeopardy six hundred thousand subscribers this guy had just because maybe potentially some guy YouTube was too lazy to even watched the video or didn't understand what he was watching if he did and I think that's really one of the main problems with YouTube is someone at YouTube who's doing reviews could look at your video and be feeling a bit mad at that point in time and decide to strike your channel which has real consequences in the case of eli his video was restored probably because it was brought to the attention of someone at youtube but for people who don't have access to make that kind of awareness about your problem they don't really have much to fall back on for example you might not be aware of this but if you're a creator and you get 15,000 watch time hours / 90 days can actually look at that in the analytics then you actually do have access to youtube support you can contact them via email and say hey what's going on why did this get taken down so you do have a little bit of extra access if you get enough viewers but that doesn't stop a headache from happening in the first place and I think the main issue is YouTube applies the same policy to all channels I'm not saying that the big channels should be held to a lower standard what I'm saying is that you know if you have a million subscribers and a video is about to be taken down maybe they should have a special team or at least call you up and say hey this huge channel they would really be a problem if it got taken down we might want to look a little bit more into this before doing it not saying they shouldn't take it down but you know what I mean I'm not pretending to have all the answers obviously YouTube has a lot of crap to deal with they have billions of viewers and there's literally no way to handle that many people without using automated systems and maybe being a little bit lazy sometimes but I do think that there should be alternative ways to appeal these things and get a little bit of help if you are someone who really is going to have trouble if you get a strike or something like that but I guess you know that's enough for my chatting if you guys have any ideas yourself you let me know in the comments section i'm curious what you guys think about all this maybe you haven't heard or maybe you don't care either way if you like this video be sure to give it a thumbs up so i know you enjoyed it if you guys are interested in supporting me for no cost i have a video talking about how you can put my amazon affiliate link as your bookmark and that way it would really help me out whenever you go shopping on amazon doesn't cost you anything if you want to continue watching I've got some other videos on the right hand side you just click those or look in the description for the same length like if you're on a phone and if you want to subscribe I make new videos monday wednesday friday so i think it should be worth it i'm looking forward to hearing from you guys either in the comments section or on twitter so thanks for watching I'll see you next time have a good one\n"