This page only contains fuckups Youtube(and Google if relevant) did, all wrongdoings of Youtube towards creators and viewers
*most of these are what I remember since 2009,being on Youtube
**Only facts are presented and common sense is utilized
To be reviewed, if relevant according to title above, will be used.
https://mashable.com/article/youtubers-mad-at-youtube-over-viewership-drops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25wZoyULlcI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhrgmJbu98A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22foV0xrSFA
https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/YouTube_Adpocalypse
https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/youtube-adpocalypse/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/googles-youtube-has-continued-showing-brands-ads-with-racist-and-other-objectionable-videos-1490380551
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/6cyuva/what_is_the_youtube_adpocalypse/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_F0ZZbcugc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdkMrDmODtw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4AeoAWGJBw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLJQ0gFHM8s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_ZiyhR1DfI
Youtube and Google of course, hire different companies to review their content including videos for them, at lower prices.
List of some companies are : Lionbridge Technologies,Appen,RaterLabs,ZeroChaos,iSoftStone.
Here you can read that RaterLabs pays 10$/h , same job at Google is 15$/h minimum altho I found information that says its even 25$/h or 29$/h. (for comparison, Appen pays 9$/h)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-raters-paid-to-teach-algorithm-204308901.html
Just recently their salary was increased to 14$/h :
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252529176/Unionised-contract-workers-who-train-Googles-AI-win-pay-rise
You can see how its way cheaper for Google to hire third parties at lower prices.
To be added :
-Youtube doesnt care about your safety, removes videos that expose dangerous content/challanges and similar, but does not remove actual dangerous videos
-Even if you are not partner, they put ads on your videos
https://odysee.com/@eevblog2:4/new-youtube-shorts-monetisation-t-c:d
-People lose time,they stress, some lose homes because of Youtube and their bad management/staff/company
-Content creators hit by false claims, Youtube does not care until major uproar starts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAgAfo7l4E8
https://youtu.be/Mz14Ul-r63w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ489KjPqlc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuGPvlCVsqo
https://youtu.be/Tn46t8NksX0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj8n78AuN3w
-2017-Youtube treats TV personalities,celebirities and "approved" news channels different to regular channels/Youtubers - Youtube wont allow anyone except few select "approved" news channels to talk about news like corona virus or some shooting or war or any tragedies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj8n78AuN3w
There are just some of the first hints that Youtube has political agenda and is controlled by certain political figures/groups
-To get help from Youtube, you have to contact them...ON TWITTER !
-Paying for Youtube premium to not get ads, you still get ads
-Before you would see 1 ad, now 2,3, 7, and many are unskippable.
-Youtube made a change that allows them to profit off of viral videos-There are many new channels that just pop up and upload 1-2 videos that go crazy viral.Youtube found a way to profit off this.
There is 1000 subscriber threshold, and 4000 hours of watch time threshold, once you cross both of these, then you can apply to start earning money from Youtube ads and share the revenue on 45-55 split, and it takes time for the to accept you once you apply, but until then, guess who takes it all ?
This is great business to capitalize on viral videos
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/18/youtube-will-now-show-ads-on-all-videos-even-if-creators-dont-want-them/?sh=5c2160584913
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2475463?hl=en
-If there is a lawsuit or anything against Youtube, Youtube will do anything to make it stop, even if it affects creators a lot
-cca 2006-2007 - They take all benefits, and don't care about YOU - Youtubers are not contracted by Youtube at all, so there is no employer-employee relationship, meaning you get no benefits, HOWEVER, Youtube does, and everything coming their way, they will redirect to creators so they get impacted the hardest.
Example, cca 2021, USA government decided to tax the world for every view coming from USA even though creator does nto live in USA, is not citiczen, taking 30% tax but not giving you any benefits.
Youtube did not give any subsidization to those creators.
-2010 - Star rating removal - Example #1
--Youtube channel Awards / Honors - example #1(look left for award badge and awards listed next to it, its inside "smosh Channel" box)
-cca 2010-2011 - -Youtube applies rules retroactivly, and by doing so, deceives creators.
Long story short, creator makes a video in 2010 following rules from 2010, few years later come 2020, new rules are created, now that video from 2010 is judged by rules from 2020 and its removed as it does not follow new rules, but how could the creator know what rules would be in the future ?
Creator is not a psychic/seer.
Creator simply followed rules that he knew at the time.
This is without a doubt, unfair practice of highest degree.
-2012-2013 - Watch time > Views = bye bye animators = welcome 10:01 minute videos - In aforementioned years, Youtube decided views don't matter, watch time does.
Because of this decision, mindless, low effort and low value but high quanity content started to flourish.
Longer videos, specifically ones above 10 minutes were being promoted and gained more views automatically, so everyone released 10:01 minute videos.EVERYONE.
And if you uplaod every day, that also gets you tons of more views.
But because of this change, animators, who need few weeks, to make 2-3 minute videos, got hit hard, and were basically, driven off the platform.
Read here
-2013 - personalized channel layouts replaced with "One" channel layout (example), looks sterilized and bland, example of old , example of old #2 , example of old #3 , and here is one Youtuber making a video, I timestamped it at 4:35 , and here is Smosh from 2009(look at that glorious cardboard design)
-2016 - Youtubers report lower views count - This ties up to sub box not working(its not working again or it was tampered with) - Article here
-2016 - Youtube demonetized creators since 2012, doesn't tell them about it until 2016 - Article #1 , Article #2
Its actually happening today too, there are vague rules how you can't say anything sensitive in first 30 seconds, now in 2022-2023 its actually "you can't even remotely hint to something sensitive or even say fuck in first 8 seconds" or it will be instant demonetization, no contest.
-2016 - Demonetized = no money = NO VIEWS
For many Youtubers, its not a big deal to get no money from videos as many make them as a hobby or are passionate about a project.
However, if your video is DEMONetized, you also don't get views and THAT is the big problem here.
Because its demonetized that means no ads, and because no ads that means Youtube won't earn money, so Youtube will not care about that video at all as in, the video will not get same fair treatment as monetized videos do.(Remember, Youtube has something like a 45:55 cut, meaning Youtube gets 45% of money a video earns)
-cca 2016-2017 - Subscribers not being notified about new videos - Not just 2016 or 2017, but after and before(if I recall, this dates back to 2010), many times viewers reported to Yotubers that they did not see their new videos in sub box or were not notified about new uploaded videos at all - Video from H3H3 productions titled "Youtube is not being honest with us" showcases just that. Here is one more video from 2014,PewDiePie at the start confirms it and here is that full video from PewDiePie from 2014.
And Here is an article too, Jesse Wellens from PrankvsPrank says he finally understands why he gets 500k views when he has 10m susbcribers.
It is because Youtube also promotes channels that upload often.
And they use algorythms for everything, to play on viewers habbits and manipulate them into watching more addicting content.That is how algorythm is programmed, so when they say
"A YouTube representative later confirmed on Twitter that the decision to stop notifying all subscribers at once was implemented because it best suited what viewers wanted."
that just means "we noticed people spend more time on website if algorythm feeds them videos and thus, earn us more money so yea we will use algorythm"
If it was for "best suited what viewers wanted" then subscribe would work.
But Youtube wants to promote the "suggestion" system, because thats what brings in most views, that is how you program people to watch more enterntainment, mindless, low value, "watch now and never again" content.
Thats why in 2021 they started "Shorts".
And guess which videos are top 3 disliked ?
Here, have a look :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-disliked_YouTube_videos
*hint, its a shorts video
Wonder what most viewed video is when we are on the subject of "suggestions" and mindless viewers ?
Here have a look :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-viewed_YouTube_videos
*hint, its a video for children
-cca 2016-2017 - Youtube unsubscribing you from channels - Once again, video from H3H3 showcases that, he got a message from PewDiepie and here is actual news from 2022, meaning its still happening
-2017 - Deleting real subscribers - Youtuber talks about this - News article about it
-2019 - Removal of "Broadcast Yourself" - It used to be about regular people, You, but now its about money and TV personalities and celebrities, sorry, no one cares about YOU
On April 30, 2019, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki put out a post on YouTube's creator blog where she acknowledges that independent content creators and alternative media members were censored by YouTube even though they didn't violate any of YouTube's rules, guidelines, and policies, and she offers zero apologies and shows no remorse about it. YouTube also recently took the old "Broadcast Yourself" motto off of YouTube's official blog.
-2019 - Full subscriber count - Long story short, its not 12,546 subscribers, its 12k subscribers instead - Read about it
-2019 - Pedophilia on Youtube facilitated by their algorithm - News here and original video has been blurred and it does not show up on Google, but here is the full uncensored video
-cca 2020 - Started showing recommendations, sections like "you might also like" or "for you" (and ads?) inside search results - Showcase video and how to remove it
2021 - Dislike button removed - Made website more dangerous, especially when wanting to learn something new
*This list is not full but includes some major fuckups by Youtube
**List of more removed features can be seen here
***You will notice that many of these decisions made by Youtube were to increase money flow for the company with little care to creators, let alone viewers, many "issues" ,"bugs" etc. happened but its interesting how all of them favor Youtube in a sense that they bring them more audience to watch more videos, example, if subscriber box is not working and people who subscribed to you don't know about your videos, they will not stop and use their free will to watch your video, instead they will mindlesly wonder on the website, consuming anything that Youtube recommends/suggests
That is the reason why search itself also has suggestions sections.
You can view this as some conspiracy theory but is it really ?
Think about it, would suggestion system work if subscriber box worked ?
Let me put it this way, would "suggestion" system work If people just watched only what they wanted and it was actually being served to them ?
When you use your head, it's not looking like a conspiracy anymore is it ?
I actually found a website which, in a creepy way, attacks your character on this very subject :
https://tube.cadence.moe/cant-think(litle funny if you ask me, but hey, whoever wrote this, is right, I want to think for myself, what about you ?)
https://mashable.com/article/youtubers-mad-at-youtube-over-viewership-drops
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25wZoyULlcI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhrgmJbu98A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22foV0xrSFA
https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/YouTube_Adpocalypse
https://www.dailydot.com/upstream/youtube-adpocalypse/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/googles-youtube-has-continued-showing-brands-ads-with-racist-and-other-objectionable-videos-1490380551
https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/6cyuva/what_is_the_youtube_adpocalypse/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_F0ZZbcugc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdkMrDmODtw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4AeoAWGJBw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLJQ0gFHM8s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_ZiyhR1DfI
Youtube and Google of course, hire different companies to review their content including videos for them, at lower prices.
List of some companies are : Lionbridge Technologies,Appen,RaterLabs,ZeroChaos,iSoftStone.
Here you can read that RaterLabs pays 10$/h , same job at Google is 15$/h minimum altho I found information that says its even 25$/h or 29$/h. (for comparison, Appen pays 9$/h)
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-raters-paid-to-teach-algorithm-204308901.html
Just recently their salary was increased to 14$/h :
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/252529176/Unionised-contract-workers-who-train-Googles-AI-win-pay-rise
You can see how its way cheaper for Google to hire third parties at lower prices.
To be added :
-Youtube doesnt care about your safety, removes videos that expose dangerous content/challanges and similar, but does not remove actual dangerous videos
-Even if you are not partner, they put ads on your videos
https://odysee.com/@eevblog2:4/new-youtube-shorts-monetisation-t-c:d
-People lose time,they stress, some lose homes because of Youtube and their bad management/staff/company
-Content creators hit by false claims, Youtube does not care until major uproar starts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAgAfo7l4E8
https://youtu.be/Mz14Ul-r63w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ489KjPqlc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuGPvlCVsqo
https://youtu.be/Tn46t8NksX0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj8n78AuN3w
-2017-Youtube treats TV personalities,celebirities and "approved" news channels different to regular channels/Youtubers - Youtube wont allow anyone except few select "approved" news channels to talk about news like corona virus or some shooting or war or any tragedies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pj8n78AuN3w
There are just some of the first hints that Youtube has political agenda and is controlled by certain political figures/groups
-To get help from Youtube, you have to contact them...ON TWITTER !
-Paying for Youtube premium to not get ads, you still get ads
-Before you would see 1 ad, now 2,3, 7, and many are unskippable.
-Youtube made a change that allows them to profit off of viral videos-There are many new channels that just pop up and upload 1-2 videos that go crazy viral.Youtube found a way to profit off this.
There is 1000 subscriber threshold, and 4000 hours of watch time threshold, once you cross both of these, then you can apply to start earning money from Youtube ads and share the revenue on 45-55 split, and it takes time for the to accept you once you apply, but until then, guess who takes it all ?
This is great business to capitalize on viral videos
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/18/youtube-will-now-show-ads-on-all-videos-even-if-creators-dont-want-them/?sh=5c2160584913
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2475463?hl=en
-If there is a lawsuit or anything against Youtube, Youtube will do anything to make it stop, even if it affects creators a lot
-cca 2006-2007 - They take all benefits, and don't care about YOU - Youtubers are not contracted by Youtube at all, so there is no employer-employee relationship, meaning you get no benefits, HOWEVER, Youtube does, and everything coming their way, they will redirect to creators so they get impacted the hardest.
Example, cca 2021, USA government decided to tax the world for every view coming from USA even though creator does nto live in USA, is not citiczen, taking 30% tax but not giving you any benefits.
Youtube did not give any subsidization to those creators.
-2010 - Star rating removal - Example #1
--Youtube channel Awards / Honors - example #1(look left for award badge and awards listed next to it, its inside "smosh Channel" box)
-cca 2010-2011 - -Youtube applies rules retroactivly, and by doing so, deceives creators.
Long story short, creator makes a video in 2010 following rules from 2010, few years later come 2020, new rules are created, now that video from 2010 is judged by rules from 2020 and its removed as it does not follow new rules, but how could the creator know what rules would be in the future ?
Creator is not a psychic/seer.
Creator simply followed rules that he knew at the time.
This is without a doubt, unfair practice of highest degree.
-2012-2013 - Watch time > Views = bye bye animators = welcome 10:01 minute videos - In aforementioned years, Youtube decided views don't matter, watch time does.
Because of this decision, mindless, low effort and low value but high quanity content started to flourish.
Longer videos, specifically ones above 10 minutes were being promoted and gained more views automatically, so everyone released 10:01 minute videos.EVERYONE.
And if you uplaod every day, that also gets you tons of more views.
But because of this change, animators, who need few weeks, to make 2-3 minute videos, got hit hard, and were basically, driven off the platform.
Read here
-2013 - personalized channel layouts replaced with "One" channel layout (example), looks sterilized and bland, example of old , example of old #2 , example of old #3 , and here is one Youtuber making a video, I timestamped it at 4:35 , and here is Smosh from 2009(look at that glorious cardboard design)
-2016 - Youtubers report lower views count - This ties up to sub box not working(its not working again or it was tampered with) - Article here
-2016 - Youtube demonetized creators since 2012, doesn't tell them about it until 2016 - Article #1 , Article #2
Its actually happening today too, there are vague rules how you can't say anything sensitive in first 30 seconds, now in 2022-2023 its actually "you can't even remotely hint to something sensitive or even say fuck in first 8 seconds" or it will be instant demonetization, no contest.
-2016 - Demonetized = no money = NO VIEWS
For many Youtubers, its not a big deal to get no money from videos as many make them as a hobby or are passionate about a project.
However, if your video is DEMONetized, you also don't get views and THAT is the big problem here.
Because its demonetized that means no ads, and because no ads that means Youtube won't earn money, so Youtube will not care about that video at all as in, the video will not get same fair treatment as monetized videos do.(Remember, Youtube has something like a 45:55 cut, meaning Youtube gets 45% of money a video earns)
-cca 2016-2017 - Subscribers not being notified about new videos - Not just 2016 or 2017, but after and before(if I recall, this dates back to 2010), many times viewers reported to Yotubers that they did not see their new videos in sub box or were not notified about new uploaded videos at all - Video from H3H3 productions titled "Youtube is not being honest with us" showcases just that. Here is one more video from 2014,PewDiePie at the start confirms it and here is that full video from PewDiePie from 2014.
And Here is an article too, Jesse Wellens from PrankvsPrank says he finally understands why he gets 500k views when he has 10m susbcribers.
It is because Youtube also promotes channels that upload often.
And they use algorythms for everything, to play on viewers habbits and manipulate them into watching more addicting content.That is how algorythm is programmed, so when they say
"A YouTube representative later confirmed on Twitter that the decision to stop notifying all subscribers at once was implemented because it best suited what viewers wanted."
that just means "we noticed people spend more time on website if algorythm feeds them videos and thus, earn us more money so yea we will use algorythm"
If it was for "best suited what viewers wanted" then subscribe would work.
But Youtube wants to promote the "suggestion" system, because thats what brings in most views, that is how you program people to watch more enterntainment, mindless, low value, "watch now and never again" content.
Thats why in 2021 they started "Shorts".
And guess which videos are top 3 disliked ?
Here, have a look :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-disliked_YouTube_videos
*hint, its a shorts video
Wonder what most viewed video is when we are on the subject of "suggestions" and mindless viewers ?
Here have a look :
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-viewed_YouTube_videos
*hint, its a video for children
-cca 2016-2017 - Youtube unsubscribing you from channels - Once again, video from H3H3 showcases that, he got a message from PewDiepie and here is actual news from 2022, meaning its still happening
-2017 - Deleting real subscribers - Youtuber talks about this - News article about it
-2019 - Removal of "Broadcast Yourself" - It used to be about regular people, You, but now its about money and TV personalities and celebrities, sorry, no one cares about YOU
On April 30, 2019, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki put out a post on YouTube's creator blog where she acknowledges that independent content creators and alternative media members were censored by YouTube even though they didn't violate any of YouTube's rules, guidelines, and policies, and she offers zero apologies and shows no remorse about it. YouTube also recently took the old "Broadcast Yourself" motto off of YouTube's official blog.
-2019 - Full subscriber count - Long story short, its not 12,546 subscribers, its 12k subscribers instead - Read about it
-2019 - Pedophilia on Youtube facilitated by their algorithm - News here and original video has been blurred and it does not show up on Google, but here is the full uncensored video
-cca 2020 - Started showing recommendations, sections like "you might also like" or "for you" (and ads?) inside search results - Showcase video and how to remove it
2021 - Dislike button removed - Made website more dangerous, especially when wanting to learn something new
*This list is not full but includes some major fuckups by Youtube
**List of more removed features can be seen here
***You will notice that many of these decisions made by Youtube were to increase money flow for the company with little care to creators, let alone viewers, many "issues" ,"bugs" etc. happened but its interesting how all of them favor Youtube in a sense that they bring them more audience to watch more videos, example, if subscriber box is not working and people who subscribed to you don't know about your videos, they will not stop and use their free will to watch your video, instead they will mindlesly wonder on the website, consuming anything that Youtube recommends/suggests
That is the reason why search itself also has suggestions sections.
You can view this as some conspiracy theory but is it really ?
Think about it, would suggestion system work if subscriber box worked ?
Let me put it this way, would "suggestion" system work If people just watched only what they wanted and it was actually being served to them ?
When you use your head, it's not looking like a conspiracy anymore is it ?
I actually found a website which, in a creepy way, attacks your character on this very subject :
https://tube.cadence.moe/cant-think(litle funny if you ask me, but hey, whoever wrote this, is right, I want to think for myself, what about you ?)