(Citation: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2801964)
TLDR: YouTube updated the Harmful/Dangerous policy to include endorsing/glorifying eating disorders. This includes metadata and video content.
This affects all content - videos, playlists, stories, comments, community posts, etc.
If we work together, we can stop COPPA from destroying Youtube
https://www.change.org/p/google-inc-stop-coppa-from-affecting-youtube
I had finally made my video on why I left the MLM after about 4 years. It was deliberately released during the DoTERRA convention. It’s long and I left out a lot. Making that video was hard. I actually really adored my team and while they aren’t perfect, they were still my friends (or so I thought, but that’s a different story). The video isn’t perfect. Regardless, after about 20k views I received a community guidelines violation and a strike on my account citing being “deceitful, scams, and soliciting”. It was none of those things and I felt like I was being hushed. YouTube doesn’t give a lot of room to type in why you’re appealing the video but I made it a point that I was confident followed their guidelines. Less than 4 days later it was reversed and put back up. That was Tuesday. In just 24 hours after going back up it got nearly 7k views.
I don’t give a crap that it’s not perfect or that I wasn’t totally clear. The comments lead me to believe at least some people needed to hear they weren’t alone in their feelings about the “cult” and have decided to leave because they saw my video. A really good friend of mine actually works at corporate there and sent me a screen shot today that my video came up on his suggested videos. I’ve been supporting his decision to leave the company for some time now. Yes, even the guys at corporate hate their job. They say it’s hard to find another one because seeing DoTERRA on your resume is a bad thing.
Anyway, you guys are a big reason I forced myself to make that video and speak out. I’ve gotten a lot of backlash for it but at the same time, knowing we saved at least one person from continuing to feel pressured into it is enough. Leaving an MLM is hard because they make you feel like you’re a quitter, you’re not strong enough to handle the “hard work”, or you don’t believe in the product. It wasn’t any of those things but I did make the title include the words “I quit” so they knew I wasn’t going to let them call me a quitter-I fucking KNOW I quit and I’m proud of it!
If someone you know is stuck in an MLM and you want to see them out of it, here’s my suggestions:
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Be supportive but do NOT support the company. You have to be firm. Absolutely not, and your friendship shouldn’t rely on it.
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Ask them to calculate their net income. What did they spend on the products? What did they spend on marketing? Advertising? Gas? Training? Looking at the bottom line isn’t easy but they need to.
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Ask them about their f
I'm from Taiwan and most videos I watched are in Mandarin(Chinese).
Today, I found one of medical youtuber, who is actually a doctor, says he will use other platform to talk about coronavirus cause all of his video related to coronavirus got "yellow icons". After some search, I saw this problem happened to many Mandarin youtubers and there's even a Petition on We the People about this.
I hope to know how broad this (getting "yellow icons" on coronavirus topic) happens.Do youtubers outside Asia suffer it? Does anyone heard about any news like this?
"We'd like to inform you that due to repeated or severe violations of our Community Guidelines (https://www.youtube.com/t/community_guidelines) your YouTube account has been suspended.
After review we determined that activity in your account violated our Community Guidelines, which prohibit spam, scams or commercially deceptive content (https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2801973?hl=en).
Please be aware that you are prohibited from accessing, possessing or creating any other YouTube accounts. For more information about account terminations and how our Community Guidelines are enforced, please visit our Help Center.
If you would like to appeal the suspension, please submit this form."
Got this email this morning, and it seems like I am not the only one. I was shocked that my account was suspended because I couldn't think of a single reason that my account would be suspended. It just seemed so out of the blue. Then after seeing a massive amount of comments, I realized YouTube spam detection was "bugged" and a bunch of accounts have been wrongfully suspended. Not only that, but for the people who have recovered their accounts after getting wrongfully suspended, all their playlists of videos collected through countless years on YouTube has all been removed.
So in other words, YouTube is punishing people who have supported YouTube for many years because YouTube's spam detection was "bugged" and banned accounts that have done nothing wrong by accident? Not only is that a huge problem, but you then get the most useless email that tells you that you were suspended, without giving any information about what you actually did to get your account suspended.
They can just say "Hey you are banned for doing nothing wrong but we don't have to explain any of our reasoning. Oops! It's our fault? Too bad for you I guess". What can we do? I guess we just have to sit there and take it as YouTube punches you in the gut because there's really no way to fight back.
This is a bigger problem for smaller creators but I'll always see trap town clones spamming 'do you want to be youtube friends' on smaller videos and I'm not sure why the spam filter is so inconsistent. Youtube wants to cut down on sub4sub so I'm not sure why these clones are even allowed to exist.
Listening to music via Android TV Youtube app is where you'll expect to see a short product ad or two, it's completely normal and I'm happy if I can support content creators this way.
But just now, after playing a death metal cover of Thunderstruck, Youtube decided to play an 8-minute Chinese anti-Hong-Kong-protest propaganda documentary as an ad.
Is this a normal occurence nowadays? Is it expected? Do I need to watch stuff like this to support artists?
YouTube should be a natural experience about YOU, what you want to create, what you want to watch; so why is it becoming this platform for companies and advertisers essentially control what people do and don’t get to see?
Could we create a free YouTube? A YouTube for the people, by the people? Isn’t that what it’s supposed to be? Now days, youtube has become just “the place with the videos.” It’s a mess, and I don’t think google should be be controlling it, or I suppose they can at least do a better job. The billions of individuals viewing youtube are the ones carrying out the activity, they’re the ones to correspond with— not advertisers trying to protect their reputation by creating a certain image, using your content.
Also, I didn’t know what tag to do, auto-moderator didn’t like my drama tag.. Maybe there should be a tag for how google runs YouTube and whatever, for what it has become; feelings about youtube as a whole.. Which, these days, seems like just another Facebook, Instagram, tumblr type of business.
So, like a lot of YouTube creators, I've been trying to understand how the new COPPA rules will affect us. Which is why I spent the weekend doing research and gathering facts.
I then wrote a blog post detailing the impact that COPPA compliance will have on YouTube and YouTube creators using FTC press releases and official statements as well as other sources to compile a simplified explanation.
I have seen countless YouTubers mis-understand how this will affect them, especially in the toy community.
I think this post might help clear things up.
http://tiffanybliss.com/coppa-compliance-on-youtube/
Special Thanks to u/LightCodeGaming for allowing me to post a link to my blog.
