Hi all... Was browsing around and stumbled upon this here thread. Glad to see it exists. Couple months ago, I joined YouTube as a creator and trying to work my way up organically. Basically I got fed up watching half-baked reviews that left me asking more unanswered questions than I went in. Thus decided to test and review devices from the perspective of a real world user, offering deeper insights to help people decide if that device is really worth it, before you shell out your hard earned cash. Since I've got some tiny IT skills as well, I make tutorial videos showing how to fix or setup stuff. It's all been going reasonably well. Except that for some reason YouTube recently started age-restricting some of my videos. Here's the thing, I NEVER use profanities in any of my videos, my content are 100% original, I also make it clear what the videos are and include disclaimers for some. I don't do click-baits or even show myself in my videos much less nudity. So it boggle my mind why there are being restricted. Hundreds of thousands of way more violent, gory, profanity-filled, etc videos are up on YouTube and not age-restricted. None of my videos are targeted at kids and I make sure to tick that box specifying that during the upload. I need help on this guys.. What am I doing wrong as it is pretty demotivating to pump in hours and hours of sleepless nights only to face such outcomes.

Let's take this video as an example.



Excuse the high noob-ness, just began then and still improving with each upload. I have watched it a few times and can't seem to spot where I was wrong. This is not a ploy to simply get views.. I genuinely want to solve this issue. It is fine now as I'm not yet monetized. But eventually when I am.. I would prefer to have my work clean and left up for all to enjoy. I appealed the restriction last night and woke up to an Appeal Rejected email. I'm bummed..

Thanks chrisseow for setting this up, kindly add me to the list on the first page.. I would appreciate the community here subscribing to my channel as well. Take a swing by my channel and you might fancy a video or 2 to watch as well.

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This post has been edited by voncrane: Dec 15 2020, 09:56 AM

Yeah...unfortunately, I don't think I can do anything about the rejected appeal. The AI is just being overzealous. I just uploaded another tutorial and while in draft mode, (i only uploaded the video, custom thumbnail, and title)... Their system has already age-restricted my video..



I mean, this is really insane and demoralizing enough that I'm not going to hit the publish button tonight.. Just going to sleep instead. Hopefully, the AI rights itself in a day or 2. Scared to submit an appeal again only to get rejected without reasons. I just spent half the day crafting and editing this video only for it to be "pulled" even before it's out in public? Given my earlier experience, I was quite careful with my wordings this time. I feel like just quitting and deleting the channel altogether. Perhaps find an alternative platform, a more welcoming platform for my videos. Any other decent options?

Done subbed to you both... My link is included down below in my signature.. Do reciprocate.. Thanks.

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Hi Gamer Travels... Done subbed to you as well.. Do check my signature for my channel link..

Really? Weird as it works on my end... Here you go...Should work.

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