In an irony so apt it's farcical!

Yahtzee's video about how YouTube is using AI to auto-age restricting videos... got auto-age restricted.

September 04, 2025 - 15:29 UTC

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It gets weirder. The views are trickling in at a snails pace and yet the likes are over 7000, over 3000 more likes then views. And yet strangely, the views are consistently much much slower.
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Does that restricted mode thing apply to the front page only or to your Subscriptions tab as well?

Because I'mma be frank, I shut off my watch history on YT because of the algorithm, it broke my front page, but my subs tab works fine. Never miss a SW upload.
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I wonder how much of the drop in viewership is because a large number of YouTube viewers don't even have YouTube accounts and are being driven away by Google demanding you prove you're not a robot by uploading government documents? So they just go over to TikTok to get their stimmy fix?
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This is infuriating.
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There’s a music reviewer I follow who’s had like 75% of his reviews from the past few months get restricted, including some of the biggest album releases. It’s absolutely ridiculous!!!
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You guys could look into @nebula.tv. It would probably actually be a good fit or you.
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Assuming all our eyes started rolling at that reveal.. bleeping algorithm.
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Is there a real alternative to #YouTube? This looks so damn bleak.
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There are a couple. Nebula.TV has already been mentioned. Then there's PeerTube.
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I wonder if this is an issue for general YouTube users, because I pay for that awful fucking platform and still see everything that is supposed to be restrictive.

I also pay into the Second Wind patreon, but you guys can't keep me from seeing PragerU ads at 4AM, so Google has to get a few bucks.
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