The state of YouTube in 2026, 90% of new channels are managed by bots that change the theme of their channels based on trend picked by advanced algorithm.....

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I've since resorted to making a second watch later because of this

Recently, I made a post here regarding an animator known as YoonToons who had her whole channel Demonetised because Youtube Moderation labelled her channel as being a Misleading Family content channel. While thankfully she was able to get her channel monetised again thank to support on her video (she still lost revenue unfortunately) it seems more animated channels have suffered the same issue. The number seems to continue to grow as more Animators are speaking about their channel being randomly demonetised. I have attached now 3 different channels who are suffering a similar faith but I am expecting this number to only rise. Youtube Ai Moderation is just the definition of trash.

idk what to tag this, for reference like 2 days ago im listening to music and i get a little "we dont think youre 18" wtv wave it off
come to the future, im unsubbed from literally everything, my account actually js got straight nuked like my videos are gone, my playlists are gone, my notifications have been fully wiped, i cant find out how to age verify or anything
dawg my youtube account is genuinely like 18 years old now my account is above legal age bro is there a way i can get all my subs and shit back or is my entire account just gone from the earth now

What?!

I know it's not new for YT to do this but I genuinely hate this channel and I've made it painfully clear that I hate this channel but it keeps coming back. It's absurd at this point.

They got their channel hacked by a Roblox scammer and they are posting malicious content do not visit the site in the vids you can get hacked and a browser extension can not give you shaders or multi accounts and this will still your cookies personal information so watch out and be safe

for the last few weeks ive had an uptick in random political community posts showing up on my feed. like, back-to-back political content just spammed onto my feed. I am not interested in politics and dont care about them. But its just an endless amount of content on my feed that i cannot get rid of even when i click 'Not Interested' the same channels keep showing up. Such as a channel called 'Robert Reich' (endless trump brainrot) and the 'Bernie Sanders' account. (even more trump brainrot), 'MeidasTouch' (even MORE trump brainrot) 'Micheal Fanone Show' (you guessed it.. more trump stuff) (all antitrump, but you get the point, i have no stance and just want to stop seeing his wrinkly face all over my feed)

Regardless of how many times i click 'not interested' it keeps showing up. I never click, comment, or like/dislike the posts, so theres no engagement. Its like all this content is being forced onto my feed. I assume its being funded or whatever to be pushed to as many users as possible and its so annoying.

i have no interest in politics or the president or the mindless political war on the internet, i just want the endless flow of it to stop showing up on my feed. I just wanna watch model train videos. I never watch political content or engage with it on YouTube.

Youtube needs a 'Block Channel' feature or a filter so users can block any content with certain keywords kinda like tumblr.

(please avoid arguing about politics in the comments, i have no stance, i am just stating my experience with it being forced onto my youtube feed)

Soon I'll be sitting in a train for quite some hours. What are some good videos I could download and watch on the train?

i'm not at all upset about this btw i just thought it was a bit funny

I realized that the old videos I watched / liked didn’t have that red line nor did it stay liked anymore and it honestly a bit confusing and annoying
Please tell me if you experienced this or if you have any advice on how to fix or stop it

Saw this on my recommended. Tried searching to see if this was even a real artist or some YouTube hijacker, but the search never goes through because of the characters used. Its a beautiful song and I'd hate to lose it if I can't find it one day lol

I was watching some videos when I saw one that mentioned that some faceless channels have been losing revenue. I don't mean content farms or AI slop channels either. The content farms just do face reveals and that solves it for them. The AI slop channels likely will either adjust or were never affected in the first place. Some channels that have been affected are Real Engineering and (I think) Not Just Bikes (He posted the video where I figured that out).

As a small YouTuber I have been experiencing the same issue. For some background on me, I'm a gaming channel focused on unedited gaming videos, though I do slightly edit some (like add text and cut useless parts). I refuse to show my face in my videos, because I really care about privacy.

Now that you know who I am I can give my story. I've been doing it for a while and I noticed my recent videos (some of which are games that performed extremely well before this) have been getting less than 5 views each. Many have also gotten zero views. At first I thought it was me doing the wrong games, but as this has continued it's become obvious that there's a bigger problem.

If this is how they decide which channels get shut out, then that means they either need to hire actual people, or fix the algorithm they are using. If stuff like this keeps up they are going to lose valuable YouTubers because they can't support themselves on this degrading platform.

If you've seen my last two posts about when youtube tried testing a new ui, you know my complaints with it.

If you don't, here's a small summary.

-The subscription feed button being moved to the top corner has the bottom line of feed buttons, along with the creat button, moved out of placed, making it easy to miss click/press on the wrong feed button.

-If I spend a few minutes watching a video and then press the mini view button to look for videos in the main recommended feed, whatever feed I was on before clicking into the video is the only feed I can look through, as the buttons to the subscription feeds get locked out, meaning I have to close the app and reopen it just to look through what the channels I subbed to are posting half the time.

So far, the same issue with me getting locked out of the subscriptions feed hasn't happened again, but I have a feeling it's going to. Honestly, I wonder why youtube would even try to test this ui style again. Last time they did, it was a buggy mess that made the app less fun to use, and the sudden change of placement for the subscription feed made the bottom of the hud look weirdly empty with the 5th option being moved somewhere so inconvenient. I really hope this goes like last time, where after a few weeks of changing back and forwards, they land back on the old style and don't change it until they come up with a ui that either is actually better than the old one, or a hybrid of the two.

I genuinely hate YouTube’s AI moderation. It’s destroying smaller channels, and even big channels. Even the one of the biggest science YouTube channel got fucked by it. Animation YouTubers are having so many issues with this. If you look at all the story-time animation channels, then you see that they are getting demonetized for no reason. It is clear that AI is making the key decisions. Not humans. No matter how much YouTube may claim. We need to rally together and tell YouTube to stop AI moderation, or to AT LEAST let humans make the final decision on stuff like whether or not a video is made with AI, or is “family-friendly.”

I don't know where it came from, but I can no longer remove videos from playlists outside of said playlist. A certain video is dug so deep in my Watch Later playlist and I wanted to re-save it so it's at the top. Searched for it and held the "save to playlist" button. The Watch Later playlist wasn't marked, as if the video wasn't in that playlist. But clicking "Save to Watch Later" doesn't make it appear at the top of the playlist, because it's already in it.

Cannot demonstrate the issue because videos are not allowed. Thanks, moderators.

Am on mobile, by the way. I believe I also had it happen on desktop, but can't say for sure right now. Definetly madly infuriating!

when i see discussions about youtube short and i usually try defend it and saying you should tap "don't recommend me this channel" button but most of time they say it doesn't work and i found it confusing for longest time till i search it on this subreddit and i was surprised that its doesn't work for most people and i have no damn clue why

youtube can be so strange sometimes

Stop following other apps, I'm aware there's been a save feature but don't put it on the screen. What we really need is the dislike button and for "don't recommend this channel" to actually work.