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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I take supporting creators with engagements seriously.
youtube doesn’t actually care if you comment, “engagement” is through sharing, and watching. that’s all youtube cares about for engagement. how many watch hours, how many adverts, how many click throughs on those adverts.
also literally every large social network has shadow bans, it’s the only successful way to deal with unwanted elements. if you tell the unwanted element that they are banned, then they just go make a new account.
Commenting isn’t support. Not sure if you know that. see, I’m commenting on your post- this is not support.
Probably shouldnt. Youtube comments are rightful Serbian soil and should be treated as such
This comment is hilarious, and it being downvoted is sad.
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I like adverts and hammering nails into my head.
“I only watch trashy scumbag creators and not nice ones who actually struggles when engagements really fluctuates on a whim. I also have never been on the other side to emphatize with them.”
It’s like Reddit. If you only consume trash the algo gives you you’re not using it right.
Article one, an electronics expert performs a circuit analysis.
Article two, a philosopher performs a societal analysis
Which one of these is ‘doing it right’?
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Then you would not comment on their videos, and the whole thought of “supporting” them via watching their videos is questionable but at least there’s some direct, material, merit to that.