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.
  • kep@lemmy.world
    495·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • orcrist
      4·
      1 year ago

      How can we tell if the creator shadowbanned or if YT did it? Sometimes my comments are hidden within seconds, and it’s possible the creator is that fast, but I also suspect key word based filtering.

        • BrikoX@lemmy.zipEnglish
          74·
          1 year ago

          Again, you are mistaken. There are plenty of evidence where co-hosts can’t see comments on their own channels made from personal accounts even though comments are visible when they look from that personal account. So unless you are claiming that co-hosts shadowing banning each other and then unbanning when they go back to check then you are wrong.