For those not familiar with age restriction, this means a video was deemed unsuitable for viewers under 18. While YouTube claims this only prevents that audience from getting those videos recommended to them, other content creators say it makes it harder for any viewer to discover the video.
Cory appealed the decision later that day, but a human reviewer doubled down on age-restricting the video. YouTube’s policy team reversed the decision after Cory’s partner manager sent a clip of Markiplier’s video, which had the same scene that triggered the age-restriction.
Four days later, Cory’s playthrough was age-restricted along with Markiplier’s.
“You realize how bad this looks for you, YouTube,” he says. “I, in all my years, have never seen a video get age-restricted, de-age-restricted, and age-restricted again. Have any of you seen that happen before?”
The controversy got worse when the video was temporarily taken down within minutes of its upload. According to a pinned comment from Cory, the video, “was immediately flagged for ‘Ad suitability.’ I wonder why. Surely it isn’t because it’s YouTube being shown in a poor light? Surely not.”
YouTube is really on that bs right. Cory went for they necks and they silenced him hella quick. This is absolutely ridiculous. It’s like they’re giving him a reason to actually quit YouTube. #coryxkenshin pic.twitter.com/pmLkB9hBDF
— PAST (-_•) (@AlphaSquad187) August 24, 2022
The content creator says he’s been feeling “mistreated” over the decade he spent building his channel, especially when he sees big success.
“Every single time I come back to YouTube, I’m No. 1 trending for a few days and then they find some arbitrary issue… something to incriminate me for and try to push me down,” he explains. “I would’ve just hope that the playing field was fair, and hey, if I did something bad, then everyone else who also did that thing should also get punished, too. Is that unreasonable?”
The video has wracked up over 3.5 million views in under 24 hours and is No. 1 trending in the gaming category as of Thursday morning (August 25).
YouTube has yet to respond to the allegations.
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