YouTube's Terminations of Channels

I did alot of human related stuff fetish related but I mainly did speedruns and even let’s play of ‘normal’ games alot, it was very sudden when I was terminated and appeal was rejected on ground of repeated offences of the Nudity/ Sexual activity policy of TOS.

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Oof, I’m really sorry. Variety into other topics seems like a good way to keep that sort of thing from happening, and yet…

I wonder how furry stuff will fare by comparison. I suppose I’ll find out as I go. :confused:

I’d start posting on multiple sites very soon just incase dude. They may come for everyone else too or even cast a wider net.

I already prioritize my Twitch over my YouTube. Losing my YouTube would absolutely blow but I could survive the income loss I believe. Nonetheless, I’m gonna be careful. Thank you for the concern man.

Just an update for everyone, I have made Vimeo my new home and will be joining pornhub soon for NSFW stuff. Alot of my first stuff will be reposts but I am recording this week when I get time spare, speedruns will also be gracing the channel too.

Vimeo link: https://vimeo.com/user159837439
Pornhub: coming soon

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Well, bad news folks. Because I posted 2 videos on Tribal Hunter, My youtube account AzureIceLord, has been disabled. Sucks like hell considering all the other videos I had on it, along with my subscriptions, but I guess it was a matter of time considering other youtubers who made youtube videos on it also got canned.

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The thing that is stupid as of late. That BBW weight gainers have been posting like crazy and none of them are flag as it promotes inner beauty. They are just shaking there ass and tits for the whole video. It stupid that the copyright law is more stronger than the kink one. I don’t mind the videos, just that they get away as it’s there content they are posting and not someone else game.

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Oh, it wasn’t Copyright that got me, it’s the same thing that Axxis got hit with: “Graphic Sexual Content”. On two videos on a cartoon-ish platformer that has expansion as it’s forefront. I sent appeals but they’re pretending that the channel doesn’t exist…

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is it just me or does it feel like there is more pressure to censor “fake porn/lewds” than real porn/lewds on the internet in general?

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Are you considering coming over to Vimeo by any chance?

Was already on Vimeo for a while, but hadn’t had a reason to post on it until my channel got deleted. So far the only thing I’ve reposted from my old youtube channel is the shorter Tribal Hunter video I had posted to youtube.

My biggest regret was not gaining a twitter presence when my channel was blowing up, the rebuild is steady but it sucks missing out on £400 a month, you should go into merch like I plan to soon

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eh, in all honesty if doing videos was going to be my thing I would rather go through Twitch, as scummy that site can be. I only posted videos on youtube because I wanted to.

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I’m honestly so lucky that the Belly Direct didn’t get taken down… I have no idea why it didn’t

I know I’m a little late to come back to here but…seriously? TRIBAL HUNTER got a channel suspended? I haven’t played the whole thing yet but doesn’t it…not have any sexual content whatsoever?

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doesn’t matter to Youtube. If it’s fetish content they technically have the rights to remove it. It’s most likely due to it being “wide spread” enough for youtube to just drop the ban-hammer and then forget about it.

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I have a theory on what might be happening here. Semi-recently I got one of those fetish game channels in my reccomended feed, normally I’m very careful to prune my reccomends to avoid any stuff I dislike or stuff I am not interested in, so to see something like that spring up was really suprising and disturbing. I’m guessing that when these channels show up in people’s feeds and they are so disturbed by them that they report them for something or another, and when enough people do that they get deleted.

Of course this could only be part of the issue, I can’t really say for sure.

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I do indeed agree with this as you only need to search so deep into basically anything niche to find a sizable segment of people tearing it down with vitriol that surprises me. It’s just in some’s nature. It’s unfortunately natural that those with deviant interests will have to deal with things like mass flagging more.

There is something however that you haven’t thought about. This issue, the issue of mass flagging, and assorted other expressions of people’s inability to exercise restraint are nothing new for any of these creators, as they’d likely tell you themselves.

I want to throw in my two cents on the matter why maybe now it’s different.

The Ebb and Flow

I’m not necessarily a very old guy. I’m in my very early 20s, but I do watch a few YouTubers who are veterans of the platform, and you’ll notice something very interesting if you look back into their catalogues.

At one point, you could observe that a good amount of YouTubers censored curse words, and other meek flavors of vulgarity because it was apparently something YouTube cared about deeply at the time, while only a few years later not really caring one way or another, and then only a few years ago it was that you might get demonetized if cursing was in the first minute or so of the video, and now I think it’s different again. It ebbs and flows.

In more recent history The True Crime Community has been under attack on YouTube with Jim Can’t Swim running into multiple issues with YouTube about their content. Small creators covering tragedies are treated differently than CNN, MSNBC, or Fox.

Maybe these are more niche examples though. You’ve most certainly heard of the many controversies and whatnot that have plagued YouTube in the 2010s and beyond. Viacom’s Lawsuit, YouTube “Heroes”, ElsaGate, The “Adpocalypse”, and in most recent history the whole debacle about The Dislike Button… These controversies you’ve likely heard of all have one common theme:

YouTube Hates Itself

YouTube hates it’s original mission statement, for mostly selfish but very occasionally justified reasons. They hate the idea of their platform being used for anybody and everybody to express themselves. Why? Well, because what YouTube really wants to be is what you see on The Trending Page. The squeaky clean stuff that no one could have a problem with. If all content on the platform was like that then there’d be no ___Gates. There’d be no scary fetish YouTubers, or any little liabilities to hurt them.

Yes. Liabilities.

The Ones They Grit And Bare

To YouTube, people like us and things like “Three Little Elsa Hulk Spidermans Jumping On The Bed With AK47s” are the same, if anything we’re worse because that at least brings in a bunch of money. We are things they have to grit and bare, because it’s ultimately people speaking their mind that hold the platform up at the end of the day. So, what to do? What to do when you literally despise the foundation your building; the very skeletal structure of the platform in your mind is rotten to the core?

The Scientific Method

You experiment. Wonder why I brought up YouTube’s wishy washy stance on cursing earlier on in this post? Because it was an experiment. They won’t outright prevent you from posting fetish content on the website, because it’s ultimately a grey area for them. What they will do however is experiment as to what method, what algorithm, what policy, or what change to the TOS is capable of pushing people like us down (sometimes completely off the website) and the squeaky clean TV-grade schlock to the top most efficiently without outright banning what they don’t want to see.

The equivalent of an architect trying to mask a problem instead of upending the whole building because the latter would be way too costly, and perhaps even dangerous if the building is currently being used for something.

What Are We To Do?

In conclusion, I advise anyone who uploads to YouTube to always have many backup plans. To those who enjoy certain small creators, download videos you like, try and find them on other sites. If there was any point here I want to stick it’s that just because YouTube will let you upload whatever you want does not mean that they see you as welcome on their platform, and it’s been that way for a long, long time. There will be exceptions because blanket policies would ruin them. YouTube will always experiment with ways to get rid of us, because ultimately:

The content we like is inherently opposed to their vision of a “perfect” YouTube.

tl:dr
YouTube hates it’s original mission statement and will always try in many different obtuse ways to try and get rid of content that couldn’t be shown in a classroom.

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It stands to reason this kind of content can only survive on a less open platform, where people who don’t want to see it won’t stumble upon it accidentally and with less demanding advertisers. But really I can’t think of that many of them, and none where you could really get an audience. It feels like we are need some kind of a middle-ground here.

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While I myself would support something like this, the problem with this is from the creators’ side. Alternatives including but not limited to direct video upload are avenues for people who just want to share their content with this community, or other communities for example. A lot of the times people have things like YouTube Channels to share their content beyond people who are strictly inside of this or that community, and gain exposure for your project. A more closed platform at a certain point wouldn’t be much better than just directly uploading and embedding a video in a forum like this. Some might say that tagging and whatnot would fix the problem, but anyone who is good with euphemisms knows that the :eggplant: eggplant emoji and the :peach: peach emoji can mean very different things to different people.

“Oh no, son! Thanksgiving’s tomorrow and I haven’t made any stuffing!”

“That’s no problem, dad! Just search it up on NewTube™!

“Good idea son! Let me just search… ‘stuffing video’ on NewTube and see what I… Oh, god, son! What is this!?”

The more eyeballs you could theoretically attract by uploading to a certain platform, the more they’ll want to curtail you so that they can appeal to a more general audience, at least in YouTube’s case. Beyond things automatically flagged by their algorithm it’s all about their reputation. Now, from what I’ve read here Twitch is a little better, but I’m personally not very partial to Twitch so I can’t say much from my end.

The whole reason why they don’t just up and get rid of content like our’s is, like I said because of the fact that their whole platform is built on it, and rocking the boat too much could lead them to fall, hard, and given that they hold the closest thing to a monopoly you can get, they don’t wanna do that.

The sad truth of it is that YouTube has such a big advantage that you would really need some witchcraft to replace the niche it fills. Fetish animators, fetish gaming channels, and whatnot will continue posting to YouTube and they will continue to get struck down in the Ebb and Flow that is YouTube’s hate for the slogan:

"Broadcast Yourself"