Why YouTube? Whyyyyy?

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What does that little yellow dollar ($) sign mean? It means a YouTube algorithm deemed my content not suitable for most advertisers. I've requested a review from an actual person, but because I originally published my unboxing video as public, it won't get that review unless it gets 1000 views in the next 7 days. If I had just scheduled that video instead, I could've gotten a real person to view it right away and see that there's absolutely nothing in my video that could be deemed as "not suitable for most advertisers".

I mean, SERIOUSLY!! It's an unboxing video for wholesome, family-friendly art pieces based on My Little Pony! I'm not cursing, I'm not using video or audio clips from copyrighted sources, and I'm not showing anything dangerous, violent or even remotely controversial! What gives?
 1grrrr by A-Bright-Idea
It'd be too much to ask for most of my subscribers/followers to give my new video a watch so that it gets up to 1000 views in the next week just so that I might have the video reviewed so I could THEN get a few cents on the video from that point onward, so I'll just chalk this up as a lesson learned and that until YouTube gets their act together, I'll have to schedule my videos at a later date when I upload them so that I can get a manual review from YouTube carried out much faster and so I don't get surprised like this.

Just....dang it YouTube. Why you gotta be like that?....Why?
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gLItcHyGeAR's avatar

Full automation, without human oversight, doesn't work. That's a fact at this point, plain and simple. I get that you want to make more money by hiring less staff, but you're doing this at the expense of quality control which is to say at the expense of a larger and more prolific userbase; full automation only works even in a theoretical sense for precision jobs, AKA something that is basically the exact same every time like nuts and bolts or toy assembly, but even then you would still need to hire real-life people for the purposes of constant quality control or else you can have disasters on the level of trillions of dollars lost... just because a principle or moral (like digitized automation) works in theory doesn't mean it works in practice, that's the same logic that's caused mass political strife worldwide - it works that way in my head, it makes perfect sense (to me), therefore it must work that way in the real world. That's sadly not the way things shake out, in fact it's more commonly the case that something which doesn't work in theory (and is altogether unintuitive) is the way things work in practice; no one man, or robot, possesses all the answers (or even can).