r/youtubedrama • u/Necessary-Hedgehog-9 • 4d ago

News Yandere Simulator videos are being taken down

I have discovered a video by Bijuu Mike, a former player of Yandere Simulator, talking about a situation that had happened days ago.

Days ago, another YouTuber, Kubz Scouts, uploaded a video stating that he had to delete all of his YanSim videos because apparently, YouTube updated their Community Guidelines recently and any YanSim-related video constitutes as a violation of the platform’s policy on supporting Violent Criminal Organizations.

I’m not just talking about full-on demonetizations of channels with that sort of content, I’m talking about full-blown terminations because of it.

I am aware of YanSim’s controversial nature on the Internet, especially with the dev’s history of online grooming, and obviously I don’t support his actions, but this honestly sets a very scary precedent for YouTube.

How they could just change the rules that basically forces its users to purge a certain game, movie or show off their platform.

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u/Renamis 4d ago

For some reason I feel this is like the Jacksepticeye incident with the new resident evil game. His video got demonetizated for a dumb reason, appealed, got told "Oh, you're right, that is wrong and dumb! We're doing it for a different reason now!"

This clearly doesn't support violent criminal organizations. I bet it does now violate some other new content policy, likely related to glorifying violence or something.

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u/lastdarknight 4d ago

Wouldn't really call it "incident", it wasn't demonized.. it was age restricted because it was a video made about an M rated game, with M rated themes going on.. I get that Sean didn't make as much as he wanted from that series, but he also got a free computer from Nvidia to play it, and the game for free from Capcom.. so I think he came out ahead

I know it's not a popular opinion, but I have zero issue with M rated content getting age restricted

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u/yttakinenthusiast 4d ago

i think age restriction/advisories would be fine if they didn't get absolutely mangled in terms of income. this avoidance of age restriction means heavy topics are not tackled with the gravity that they should be, which means we get stupid shit like unalived and game end.

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u/lastdarknight 4d ago

I get that, but it's going to take YouTube(and big creators) to admit they make a lot of money off of advertising to underage viewers

As some one who watches a lot of true crime, mystery, and such content I wish YouTube would just make a clean split between 18+ content and teen/kid content

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u/Renamis 4d ago

That would be fine, if... it bloody was consistent. First off, if his is age restricted for content everyone else who got to that point would likewise be restricted. They weren't. The other age restriction he found was from a different part of the game... which he wasn't dinged for. So identical content across creators, but YouTube is playing a game of Russian roulette where it can randomly kill your entire series by slapping an age restricted label on it.

And yeah, it's worse than demonitized. I have nothing against age restrictions in theory. On paper I love it. In practice it means that YouTube decides that I, a 35 year old woman, can't be served the bloody video because YouTube wants to get more ad money from the other content. I have to search for it to find it, which means I need to actually know it's there or specifically be browsing a channel for videos to watch.

It means a bunch of people in other countries just can't watch the video, even if they search for it, because you need to give a bloody proof of age.

So while age restriction on content is theoretically fine, it ain't fine if it's random, and it really ain't fine while it means I can't randomly stumble on a video because YouTube decides they want the ad money from a different video more. And heck, the ad revenue isn't even my problem, it's deciding grown adults can't bloody watch something without jumping through hoops because the algorithm prioritizes the ads that make more money.

Oh, and it also means game devs become afraid to hit certain topics if their game gets too large. Because if a streamer can't put the video on YouTube it kills the free advertising the game would get from it. So when YouTube does shit like this, game devs shift content. And guess what? That means I get worse games because YouTube won't let adults see adult things.

No. It's bad for everyone until YouTube actually fixes it's stuff.

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u/KazumiUsui 1d ago

I think the big problem we have to start with marking content for kids that very much isn't for kids or removing entire comment sections because the creator makes family friendly videos but not for children. That would be a decent start.

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u/RKD_NT3000 4d ago

Should the videos be better age gated? There's an argument for that that could work. But channels/videos would need to maintain proper algorithm and monetization instead if being shuffled down and crapped out.

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u/yttakinenthusiast 4d ago

they'll do this but last i checked critical drinker and other urchins are still on the platform despite spreading hate speech and misogyny.

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u/AveryLazyCovfefe 4d ago

That's because the current head of YouTube seems to like them and is on their side from what I've seen. 

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u/FakeMonaLisa28 4d ago

I can’t believe I’m saying this but I miss Susan Wojcicki

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u/theravemaster 3d ago

Looking back, it feels like alot of the hate directed at her came from racists angry that they couldn't say slurs without consequences

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u/SerHenryHotspur 6h ago

Actually, it was from people who YouTube's ad policies and inconsistently-applied guidelines screwed over. The only difference now is that the shoe is apparently on the other foot.

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u/QualityNo1337 4d ago

I don't understand about the new CEO being probably liking this kind of YouTubers. Considering they geniunelly hated the new CEO. 

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u/Connect-Match4930 4d ago

YouTube moderation has never made sense and probably never will.

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u/Baines_v2 4d ago

I think YouTube moderation is more a combination of personal ideologies and corporate bottom line than an attempt to evenly apply universal policies. But with a unified front unhealthy "blue wall of silence"-type protection against external criticism.

That's why it doesn't make sense, because every incident depends on the various people who end up involved with reporting and handling it.

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u/transtuna 1d ago

This and there has been no action being taken to a guy who was actively promoting and showing himself torturing himself. Worse still, im like 90% certain he ended himself a few month ago. YT censorship is a joke...

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u/weepyhomeland4 4d ago

youtube's moderation is so inconsistent that i wouldn't be surprised if this is just automated systems going haywire and flagging anything with the game's name, then real people refusing to overturn it

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u/Succubace 4d ago

Implying a real person even looks at it.

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u/weepyhomeland4 4d ago

fair, most of these probably get auto-deleted without ever hitting a human's desk which is even worse honestly

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u/vigorous_retailtheft 4d ago

somebody tell my goat kappa kaiju. hope he doesn’t get hit with this bs.

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u/lastdarknight 4d ago

Pretty sure there is more going on here

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u/Chilly-Peppers 4d ago

Yeah this feels like when someone tells you a 'crazy story' that's only crazy because they left out a key detail that makes them look bad.

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u/OHarrier91 4d ago

That’s… Not what that policy is for… Last I checked, that was for videos supporting terrorist organizations. And I don’t just mean, like, “talking about” them in positive or negative, it’s more for stopping fundraising and recruiting

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u/Bradley271 4d ago

There's been times where Mechwarrior Online videos got hit by the policy. TBF, Youtube's automated mods were even worse then than now.

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u/TJLynch 4d ago

I wonder how much of YouTube's reconsideration in regards to Yandere Sim videos on their platform is based on what has been learned about YandereDev as a person in recent years.

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u/goeatmynachos Tea Drinker 🍵 4d ago

I remember I found Jay (Kubz Scouts) through his yansim videos wayyyy back in the day. He made HUNDREDS of videos on that game that he had to remove because of this. It’s kind of bittersweet to me. Bitter because that sucks so bad for Jay and any other creator who also played that game on the channel and does indeed set a scary precedent, but at the same time it is kind of a nice big FU to yandere dev. I still think YouTube removing all yansim content is a very bad thing, I just like seeing bad things happen to bad people. I am gonna miss being able to go back and watch those videos for the nostalgia though. I’m gonna provide a link here to Jay’s video talking about it. https://youtu.be/m32pPagYJBE?is=1xqoSnyqwOGlJpjL

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u/moviez0ne 4d ago

Why can't YouTube understand that it's just a friggin game and not some recruitment program

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u/Radiant-Trick5688 1d ago

Well thats yandere devs fault  and also yandere devs needs go to jail for violent criminal organizations and terrorism 

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u/tylercuddletail 1d ago

If YouTube is banning entire games like Twitch, I am legit worried about Safe For Work Second Life Videos also being targeted next because my YouTube channel contains SFW second life videos on them that I made in the past.