Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “All of your content is now for kids”.
Your content, it’s actually for kids, says youtube. Um, youtube’s ai is doing some really fun cool things. There’S a channel called local 58 tv that found that his explicitly 18 plus horror content was suddenly changed to made for kids and he was unable to change it back without going through an appeal process. The video was labeled as inappropriate for kids manually by him before it was changed by youtube. It took nearly 40 hours from when the creator went public on twitter, so so much for the standard appeal process with his complaint for the change to be reverted. Why youtube would automatically lower the age range for content as anyone’s guess, especially when youtube kids is supposed to be this? Like kind of like safe content, safe space for kids? Are they supposed to be manually curated for those youtube? Kids, the whole idea, because back in the day there was already that problem with those weird like really weird, like spiderman elsa things, yeah yeah, so they were supposed to fix it after that uh clearly not a thing. What garbage i don’t know what else to say about it, other than that i mean it’s, this isn’t just harmful to the to the platform and the user.
This is extremely harmful to the creator. On the one hand, you can get a ton of views in youtube. Kids, because you’ve just got these like zombie children, some of which don’t even know how to use the phone just staring at whatever the next photo: pops up, yeah, well, their parents, cook dinner or sleep in on a weekend or whatever the case may be. And so you can rack up a ton of views but um. If your video is getting served to the wrong audience, it can actually be extremely damaging because if it will increase abandonment from the video which can de-rank you, so other creators, like your movie sucks, have also been affected and without any kind of manual fix for something. Like that, which i sincerely doubt they would have, this could result in long-term damage to their channel, which raises lots of interesting questions like i don’t think anyone’s ever actually been able to prove that google delisted them or de-ranked them, but if they could does that open? Does that open them up to a potential lawsuit? Could you do it for damages yeah? I think i think i would be very interested yeah.
I don’t know because what what recourse is there for a parent who’s been assured that youtube kids is all family-friendly content and then there’s 18 plus horror content which, like could actually like, really mess with a small child depending on what it is um. I don’t know. That’S spooky, i i i’m assuming they’re trying to stop ad abuse uh, because i think you get more lucrative ads. If you make content that isn’t for kids or if you flag, it is not for kids, but then it starts like trending with kids.
I think you get better ads on it, so i think they’re trying to stop that, but in trying to stop that they served horror, content to children, yeah and but like, and i mean okay, here’s a question: what difference does it make if you do allow your Content to be viewed by adults, if you want to pull it out of youtube kids, it just means you will get less views to kids, okay, i don’t really see why they wouldn’t just allow you to do that. Then .