Why is Youtube shadowbanning 90% of my comments?

[Thadeus]

This is just downright stupid at this moment.

I don't make offensive comments, I don't have insults or slurs, yet my comments are shadowbanned.

I did a few tests. It seems that if the word "Woke" is in the text, the comment gets shadowbanned. If the word "Karen" is in the text, the comment gets shadowbanned. If the word combo "modern audiences" is in the text, the comment gets shadowbanned.

If I write "I like pie", the comment is fine.

So basically absolutely anything that would be even a tiny little bit critic of the Left and Leftwing themes, just gets removed.

WOW!

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Their platform their rules.

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

it's specific to the channel you comment on , there are different setting with the filters.

, someone who own a channel can also put specific keyword on a black list where all of the comments containing this word will be put on hold and will have to be approved by the channel owner before being displayed.

[chickabumpbump]

Or just care less about politics and “ culture war “ nonsense. Get a personality and stop being tribal or assuming anything and everything can be attributed to some one or the other mentality. It’s sad and I wonder how people cope with going through that everyday

[Thadeus]

Originally posted by 🍋 Lemonfed 🍋:

it's specific to the channels you comment on , someone who own a channel can put specific keyword on a black list where all of the comments containing this word will be put on hold and will have to be approved by the channel owner before being displayed.

That's just it, I only really post comments on Youtube channels that also criticize the Left, so it's not against the channel's...theme.

[Tristin]

So then just talk about pie.

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

a youtube channel owner can also manually shadownban you or certain specific comments.

I don't think that even youtube own default strick filter option would pick word like woke as being innapropriate.

[Netaris]

There is no need to talk about them, just ignore them as being anti-woke / anti-left feed them in reality. Just let them be what they should always have been : extremists talking to each others in their own echoe chambers.

[De Hollandse Ezel]

no idea.. they do that to me all the time too.

posts just disapear upon posting.. I press post... they show in the list.. I refresh and they are gone.
so they are basicly removed as they are posted.

-I noten that this is linked to
**lenght of responce + certain channels
(some channels autoremove all comments longer than x but without giving you a message)
**content (especially clear during the covid scam but also there is a clear woke agenda being pushed.. as even by channel owner liked posts are getting removed without the channel owner being involved.
**channel (if you post the same post in another channel it will just work)
**account (if you create new account it will work while with another it will not)

usually posts get however removed as they are posted automaticly.. so you won't get a warning of you cannot post this.. and it will show as posted.. but it just get delited without notification as it is posted.

[Moogal™]

Originally posted by For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge:

Their platform their rules.

[Blunt Raps]

Google has also offered to handle vaccine passports for the US gov, and then AGAIN offered to handle digital ID for them, once it was rebranded.

Google is no better than twitter was. Thats not even mentioning PRISM either, which effectively makes it a branch of the NSA.

[MinionJoe]

Because attracting users who interact on their site would start earning them money.

And YouTube hates earning money. It would mean they would have to pay taxes.

[Thadeus]

Originally posted by MinionJoe:

Because attracting users who interact on their site would start earning them money.

And YouTube hates earning money. It would mean they would have to pay taxes.

Yes and no.

Mainstream and big tech in general absolutely want customers who are basically sheepish and milquetoast and like to talk about pie and the weather.

However they don't want...shall we say "controversial" subjects being talked about, be those politics or gender issues etc...because they have advertisers on the platform and those advertisers don't want to have their ads associated with "controversial" content, so Youtube does its best to remove comments and users who engage in political discourse that offends the advertisers because the advertisers are the real pay pigs, they are the VIP users, not you as the peasant and content consumer, so Youtube doesn't give two ♥♥♥♥♥ about you and, yes, Youtube doesn't want you interacting on their site if you won't stick to just "I like pie" comments.

"So what is considered controversial content?" you might ask? Well besides the obvious offensive content that should be controversial, simply expressing a Rightwing opinion is considered "controversial", hence why all these political Youtubers and critics of Hollywood companies are demonetized and don't get money from ads, but only from tips and donations and their own merch.

[Apteryx]

I'm a small YouTuber and we have the ability to block someone, which means their comments only show up on their end. The channel you are commenting on may also have blocked keywords that hold any comments containing said keywords for manual review by the channel owner and moderator(s). Hope this helps.

[Apteryx]

Originally posted by De Hollandse Ezel:

no idea.. they do that to me all the time too.

posts just disapear upon posting.. I press post... they show in the list.. I refresh and they are gone.
so they are basicly removed as they are posted.

-I noten that this is linked to
**lenght of responce + certain channels
(some channels autoremove all comments longer than x but without giving you a message)
**content (especially clear during the covid scam but also there is a clear woke agenda being pushed.. as even by channel owner liked posts are getting removed without the channel owner being involved.
**channel (if you post the same post in another channel it will just work)
**account (if you create new account it will work while with another it will not)

usually posts get however removed as they are posted automaticly.. so you won't get a warning of you cannot post this.. and it will show as posted.. but it just get delited without notification as it is posted.

Don't forget that some channels have moderators, and those moderators sometimes have their own agenda. I made the mistake of allowing a certain person to moderate my channel and they nuked the comments on my most popular video, killing it in the algorithm

[Yavin Shikanoko]

Good for them, I'm glad YouTube is cracking down repetitive and braindead comments, most of them repeat the same thing over and over again.