You know that saying don't bite the hand that feeds you well what happens if that hand is
trying to feed you a big fat steamy pile of diarrhea down your gullies yeah unfortunately
this is my current situation with YouTube with a video that got age restricted I'm sure this
is something you guys are all familiar with I'm sure it's either happened to you or you've seen
other YouTubers talking about their videos getting age restricted if you're watching this video I'm
pretty sure you've either experienced it or you've heard about it before and I needed to sit down
and talk to you guys about this and make a video covering this because recently I had a video get
age restricted and demonetized in the most BS way ever so I figured I'd sit down and make this video
so that way I can explain exactly what's going on and also break down in depth why it's unfair and
unjust but even though I'm gonna break all of this down and show you guys exactly what's going on I
also wanted to make this video to just simply ask you guys should I just re-upload this video with
some certain Cuts here and there so that way you can view it more easily really the reason I'm so
frustrated is because this video in particular is a series that I do pretty much every single
year I put tons of hours sometimes even days of effort into this particular series of video and
quite frankly it sucks so much to see this video just come completely go to waste when this kind
of stuff happens it obliterates its chance in the YouTube algorithm it can pretty much not make any
money it just poops your hard work away so let's talk okay so the video in question here that got
age restricted and demonetized is Rip Vanguard basically every single year I either make a rip
or goodbye video for the latest Call of Duty game now I know I waited a long time for goodbye Modern
Warfare but literally right after making rip Vanguard I knew that I wanted to make a closer
for Modern Warfare 2019 so I actually just made goodbye Modern Warfare 2019 and I grinded that
video out got it out in two days but that's beside the point we're talking about the video that got
age restricted here which is Rip Vanguard I put so many days into this video and I was so excited
that I actually wanted to try out something new I decided to Premiere the video on YouTube it's
essentially like doing a live watch party for a YouTube video it was actually a really fun
experience the video was fully monetized it didn't have the age restriction everything was good until
about 24 hours later and completely out of the blue the video got an age restriction but here's
the thing my rip Call of Duty Vanguard video got age restricted for nudity and sexual content
what kind of sick joke is this anyone who actually sat down and watched this video knows that there
was not anything remotely close to that in the video rip Vanguard is basically just a
video talking about my opinions of Call of Duty Vanguard and how it kind of fell flat for Call
of Duty players and I also had a compilation of my favorite moments of playing the game over the
last year That's all folks this had to be one of the most BS age restrictions I've ever seen on
YouTube now I've had videos get age restricted before and I actually agreed with some of those
age restrictions because the videos were either pretty vulgar they had some bad stuff in them
whatever this was 100 not one of those cases and if you're watching this video and you're wondering
Eric why isn't age restriction so bad I will explain it to you there's three main reasons why
an age restriction is not a good thing on YouTube the first and most important reason is that people
have to be logged into a YouTube account that is 18 plus in order to watch the video which makes
it very hard for people to actually come back and experience and enjoy the video and that's
why it makes it even more frustrating for this series in particular because this is something
that I do yearly it's usually a pretty big video project and people love to come back
and watch these videos the second reason is that it completely obliterates the video's performance
I mean as you can can see by the analytics here this video's performance is completely flatlining
because it got the age restriction if we compare rip Vanguard to goodbye Modern Warfare you can see
that this video's performance is still going up because goodbye Modern Warfare 2019 doesn't have
any restrictions on it at all and the third reason for why age restrictions suck is because you lose
monetization so if you've literally spent days of your life working on a video project but it gets
an age restriction you're probably not going to make any money off of it so obviously since I felt
like this age restriction was completely unfair and unjust I went ahead and I appealed the age
restriction and here's the thing I've watched other YouTubers talk about unfair and Bs age
restrictions on their videos in the past so I knew something bad was going to happen typically the
way these things work on YouTube is that there's basically going to be like an AI or robots that
will automatically make these decisions like age restrictions but what can also happen is someone
can manually report your video and then YouTube has to review it to see if it breaks any of their
rules or guidelines to be perfectly honest since rip Vanguard didn't have anything remotely close
to like nudity or sexual content and then I just went ahead and appealed because in that moment
I felt pretty strongly that rip Vanguard did not break those specific Community guidelines
and here's the thing man rip Vanguard is a 26 minute long video I went ahead and I did the
appeal on YouTube and within 10 minutes my appeal was rejected it was denied when you're on YouTube
and you put the appeal in for an age restriction someone from YouTube is supposed to manually go
through and watch your video and then let you know if it actually broke any rules or not that did not
happen here no one actually sat down and watched the entire 26 minute video because it got rejected
within 10 minutes sobious I tried handling this entire situation with YouTube and nothing came
from it so naturally like most people I went to Twitter to make a big stink about it yeah here's
my tweet I said hey at YouTube creators my video rip Vanguard just got age restricted for sexual
content nudity and the video literally has nothing like that in it and then I included the link it's
a 26 minute video and my appeal got denied 10 minutes after submitting it please help hashtag
framework uh and this is what was really weird about my age restriction the video itself got
age restricted but it was still running with limited ads it actually still had the green
monetization sign it didn't change to Yellow but unfortunately it only survives for less than 24
hours after making this tweet because then I posted this update saying my video went from
limited ads to demonetized at Team YouTube at YouTube creators please help the video does not
break the guidelines for sexual content nudity at all after a little bit of back and forth they said
we'll have our team look into this again and we will let you know what we find note that it may
take a few days for you to hear back thanks for your patience and ultimately what happens after
an ample amount of time is they gave me an update they said after careful review we've reviewed the
video you appealed and determined that it's in violation of our vulgar language policies and
has been age restricted more info here bro what are they allowed to just change what the age
restriction was for I mean initially the video got age restricted specifically for sexual content or
nudity and that's what I put my appeal in for I didn't know that I had to appeal for vulgar
language because that's not what the original age restriction was for this is what really pisses me
off like how is that even remotely Fair now by the time this video is up it's already going to
be about a week after all of this has happened I've kind of calmed down I'm trying to maintain
my composure here because getting mad and upset about it is not going to solve anything either
which is exactly why I kindly replied on Twitter saying can you please provide time stamps to where
the vulgar language is in the video I would have no problem removing whichever parts of the video
break the guidelines using the built-in trimming tools assuming the video can be fully monetized
afterwards and the appeal will work about 24 hours after sending that tweet I got no more
responses from Team YouTube so I followed that up with another tweet saying again I have no
problem removing the sections of the video in order to get the video on age restricted and
restore monetization I want my viewers to have an easy time finding slash watching the video I'd
appreciate any and all help dude ever since isn't sending that tweet I have not gotten anything back
from them at all which is exactly why I'm making this video I have absolutely no clue how I could
possibly get any more help with this situation my appeal has been rejected by YouTube I haven't
gotten any more tweets from them I could maybe try to reach out to YouTube chat support but I
mean at this point my expectations for anything to actually be changed or resolved for this issue
is completely non-existent I think it's also worth mentioning that since YouTube did not reply to my
tweet I don't know exactly what part of the video I should cut or take out I provided a clear-cut
solution on how we could fix this without having to re-upload the video I mean all I'd have to do
is just trim out certain parts of the video If YouTube would tell me what parts actually broke
the guidelines but they didn't do that so now all I can do is just make an educated guess since this
entire thing happened you know I re-watched rip Vanguard and there were maybe a couple of
questionable moments here and there but in the original videos that I got the compilation from
none of those videos had an age restriction or anything like they were all fully monetized videos
with no issues so it should be safe to assume that if I include any parts of those videos in a
compilation video it should not get age restricted I know I'm probably shooting myself in the foot by
saying that because now someone from YouTube is probably going to go back through all of
my Vanguard videos and find that one particular moment and then age restrict that video I swear
that will probably unfortunately be my fate after making this video but I had to talk about it I had
to bring some kind of awareness to the situation which brings me to my final point would you guys
be okay with me re-uploading rip Vanguard with a couple of cuts here and there so that way the
video won't be age restricted it can be monetized and it will be very easy for everyone to watch I
know that personally I hate the idea of having to re-upload a video that I already made because you
guys have already seen it you've experienced it but with all the BS that I've been dealing with
on YouTube for like over a week now I just you know I'm curious to hear from you guys I want to
know what you guys think regardless of the fact that rip Vanguard got nerfed into Oblivion I do
want to thank you guys so much for the amazing support on the video at least for what could be
supported because you know you have to be 18 plus and logged in to even watch the video and even
though I'm pretty sure we could all agree that this age restriction on the rip Vanguard video
is complete BS I don't want anyone to go after YouTube everyone makes mistakes and we need to
learn how to forgive and forget and that's what I want to do I want to be able to move on from this
and just have the video be viewable for everyone I do my best to work hard on my videos and put
my best effort and passion into them and I just want things to be fair so with that being said
Thank you guys very much for watching I hope you guys enjoyed listening to me rant about this BS
happening on YouTube if you guys did enjoy this video and you think that I should re-upload Rick
Vanguard with a couple of cuts here and there make sure to drop a like I'll see you guys later