YSK that YouTube shadow bans people (for a time) + implications to creators
YSK that YouTube shadow bans people (for a time) + implications to creators
I'm having my comments I made the past few days receive zero engagements. It's not just me losing the early bird lottery too; my replies to a highly engaged comment has zero likes, while several comments immediately after me has double digits. It's nothing incendiary at all, just normal people's comments. But something just tripped the enigmatic AI and thenceforth I'm shadow banned.
Why you should know this?
Because YouTube is being a thought police between creators and their communities. It feels to me like 99.999% of creators on YouTube have no idea that this is happening, that honest to goodness people's engagements are never going to reach them on the platform; they're being silently silenced, by an AI that is figuratively a black box.
Look at this screenshot. If that's not damning evidence you tell me what is.
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The comment is straight up gone when viewing with a logged out tab. I'm definitely 100% shadow banned right now.
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This was a hard post to read.
You're not shadowbanned from YouTube. The creator you're commenting on has simply "hid" you from their channel. Which ironically is a shadowban, just on a creator level.
The level of panic and outrage you've displayed here despite not having a clue as to how the mechanic you're discussing works is remarkable.
That's incorrect. Here is a decent video explaining it https://yewtu.be/watch?v=48ObNiT_hpM