Nov. 10, 2017 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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| So yesterday I discovered that YouTube has something called locked privatization on videos, which is where a video is locked in private mode when no one else can see it, and I can't unlock it. | |
| And I discovered this because my video Existential Corrections, after having 21,000 upvotes and 243,000 views, was placed in this state. | |
| So I looked into it and apparently this happens when a video is violating their policy on misleading metadata. | |
| So I was like, okay, that's a bit strange. | |
| I didn't think my metadata had been misleading. | |
| So I looked at the metadata best practices. | |
| I do use my metadata to provide context. | |
| I don't put tags in my descriptions, I only put them in the tag section. | |
| And even then, I only have like five or six tags that are automatically put in there with my upload defaults. | |
| And I don't think my metadata was misleading. | |
| And their example is, if you make a video about baking a cake and your video is not at all related to a popular singer, you should not include that popular singer's name in your tags or description. | |
| Doing so may cause your video to be removed and given a strike if it is flagged. | |
| As far as I can tell, this is surely something that has to be done manually. | |
| So that would imply that, I don't know, maybe a group of Corey's fans have decided to false flag my video because they didn't like it. | |
| But no problem, YouTube is usually rather fair about these things. | |
| How can I fix this? | |
| I can remove any unrelated or misleading tags from the description and tag sections of my video. | |
| And then submit the video for review by clicking the locked as private appeal button in the video manager section. | |
| You can only file one appeal per video. | |
| So I decided to look at the tags and this is the entire video information. | |
| As you can see, the title isn't anything misrepresentative of the video. | |
| I was indeed correcting an existential comics comic. | |
| I've got no tags stuffed in my description. | |
| And the actual tags I have are interesting, funny, comedy, hilarious, current events and politics. | |
| I don't see how they are misrepresentative. | |
| I think the subject is interesting. | |
| I do think it's hilarious, funny, and it does come under comedy because I had spent quite a lot of time trying to make it funny. | |
| And it was indeed referring to current events and politics. | |
| So I don't see what I'm supposed to take out of this. | |
| None of this seems unrelated to the video itself. | |
| So I appealed the video in good faith, and I can't remember exactly what I wrote because it didn't occur to me I'd need to write it down. | |
| But it was something like, I think all of these tags are relevant to the content of the video. | |
| Something along those lines. | |
| And it came back as confirmed by manual review, which means someone at YouTube has looked at my video, looked at the tags and decided that the tags are for some reason misrepresentative. | |
| I have not been contacted by YouTube regarding this. | |
| I do not know why they believe these tags be misrepresentative. | |
| And I don't know what my options are from this point onwards. | |
| I don't want to simply re-upload the video because even though I can't find any information about this in their best practices and in their help section, it may somehow be a violation of the YouTube terms of service if I was to simply re-upload the video with no tags. | |
| So I don't want to do that. | |
| So what I've done is I've left a link to the video on vid.me, which is currently uncensored, and you'd be able to watch it there if you would like. | |
| Bit disappointed as this video took me a week to make in total and I put a lot of work into it. | |
| So rather surprised by all of this. | |
| Especially on part of YouTube. | |
| I'm genuinely, genuinely surprised. | |
| And honestly, it looks like another sign of the times to me. |
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