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YouTube's Fake Animal Rescue Ring

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As much as people might avoid him, or dislike him as a person, PayMoneyWubby did an episode on these and actually managed tot ake some of these channels down.

These fake animal rescue channels are just one example of creepy content. The subliminally sexualized family videos on YouTube are even worse.

Isn't most of reality TV fake, and this is the natural extension of that.

Seems like par for the course.

Those videos are disgusting and obviously fake. It’s incredible that YouTube would not only turn a blind eye but actually verify it as legit.

I've seen "verified" channels which were obviously posting freebooted content (like copies of other users' popular videos, or compilations of those videos) for ad revenue. I'm not sure what YouTube is actually claiming to have verified, but it obviously isn't very thorough.

I can believe it. I once stumbled across a series of vlog entries, on Youtube, by some disheveled guy shouting in his pickup.

They were all rants about how Youtube was blocking his content, and they got progressively scarier. Near the end he was shrieking things like "Oh, Susan Wojcicki! You think you're sooo smart! You'll pay for this, you globalist scum! You think you can get away with this, but I'm armed and dangerous, and I will NEVER roll over!"

It may sound like standard Alex Jones content, but this was just some random nut, screaming at his cheapo phone, day after day, in an old pickup truck. So... concerning.

I reported the video. It took them two weeks to take the content down. Even then, they didn't ban the Channel, just the one video (out of several) that I reported.

If Youtube can't take prompt action to protect their own damn CEO, I don't expect them to handle any issue effectively.

To be fair, that could have been deliberate. When you've got an unhinged dude screaming about how you're oppressing him by blocking his videos, the last thing you want to do is prove him right by blocking his videos.

That's a possibility. I can imagine a scenario where the issue bubbled up the chain a couple levels, with the junior employees not touching anything in the meantime, so as to avoid making things worse.

Another possibility is that the employee the system tasked with my report wasn't familiar with the CEO's name yet, and so couldn't follow the gist of the video. It's less likely, but the thought amuses me.

I still lean towards it being run-of-the-mill bureaucratic dysfunction. That's partly because it seems in-line with their spotty moderation, and partly, to be honest, because I'm just biased against Youtube.

This world we live in...

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