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title: 'YouTube Has a Problem'
source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=SOTAHavMQ8Y'
video_id: 'SOTAHavMQ8Y'
date: 2026-08-06
duration_sec: 876
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# YouTube Has a Problem

> Source: [YouTube Has a Problem](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SOTAHavMQ8Y)

## Summary

In this video, the creator, Jacksepticeye, discusses the frustration of having a video in his Resident Evil 9 series age-restricted by YouTube, despite no clear or consistent reason. He highlights the vague and contradictory explanations from YouTube, the negative impact on video performance, and the broader issue of inconsistent moderation across creators.

### Key Points

- **Introduction to the Problem** [00:03] — The creator explains that he doesn't enjoy making complaint videos but feels the need to call out inconsistencies in YouTube's moderation, specifically regarding his Resident Evil 9 part 4 video being age-restricted.
- **Age Restriction and Limited Ads** [00:30] — Part 4 of the Resident Evil 9 series was age-restricted and had limited ads, which typically kills a video's performance by cutting off views and features like suggested and homepage.
- **Inconsistency in Moderation** [01:43] — The creator points out that the age restriction was initially attributed to profanity in titles/thumbnails, but there was none. He swears in all parts, yet only part 4 was flagged, showing inconsistency.
- **Appeal Process and Vague Reasons** [03:06] — After appealing, the reason changed to 'violent or graphic visuals' without specific examples, making it impossible to know what to fix, unlike copyright claims which point to exact timestamps.
- **Impact on Views** [05:10] — The age restriction caused a noticeable drop in views for part 4 (1.4 million) compared to other parts (1.8, 1.7, 1.6 million), and the creator notes that age restriction is like 'video homicide' killing momentum.
- **User Experience and ID Requirements** [08:48] — Age-restricted videos require sign-in and in some regions (like the UK) ID verification, which the creator finds obnoxious and a privacy concern, especially for a gaming video.
- **Inconsistency Across Creators** [10:19] — Other creators playing the same game (e.g., Cory) are also getting age-restricted, even though they don't swear, indicating the issue is with the game content itself, not the commentary.
- **Desire for Clarity** [12:54] — The creator wishes YouTube would provide specific examples of what triggered the restriction, as the vague reasons make it difficult to adjust content and frustrating for creators.

### Conclusion

The creator emphasizes the need for YouTube to provide clearer and more consistent moderation guidelines, as the current system is vague, inconsistent, and negatively impacts creators' work and audience experience.

## Transcript

watching this video and you see in the title and the thumbnail, you know what And despite what you might think, I don't actually enjoy making these videos. I don't want to complain. I don't want to sit here and talk about
to play games and get on with my life and have fun. But sometimes you need to stop and call out some of the that is happening before you. So recently when I was uploading Resident Evil 9,
I uploaded all the parts and everything was fine, but one video, part four, as many of you know, got age restricted, which means that you have to be over 18 or above an age threshold to be able to watch the video. It got age restricted
and it got limited ads as a result of that. So limited ads normally means that subscribers. It'll still go out to where it needs to go. I don't know the metrics works. But whatever happens
with age restriction is that it usually kills a video for you. If you get Age that you can get on a YouTube video because it just completely cuts your can still see the video. You don't need to sign in. You don't need to do XYZ to
actually see the content. If it gets to browse features, suggested, homepage, I I Actually, maybe somebody else could do a deep dive on that stuff because it is happen to your video can affect how it performs. The reason that this is really
annoying, don't get me wrong. Evil 9 series that I did did incredibly well. getting enough views. I'm not here to bemoan that the episode four did like so badly and I should deserve better. What's pissing me off about all of this
is the inconsistency everywhere across the board with it. So the board with it. So when I got age restricted first, it said I had limited ads and I was age restricted. And they told me, as you can
see here, it was inappropriate language, profanity in title, thumbnail, or usage in the content. Okay, I don't have any profanity in titles or thumbnails ever because of this. I I know for a fact that it'll get claimed every single time
or it'll get limited ads on it. But and normally I'm like, okay, I swear a lot in my content and it says here, YouTube selection, moderate profanity like in the title or thumbnail. Again, there's no profanity anywhere in the
title or thumbnail. Focal usage of profanity throughout a video such as profanity used in the title or thumbnail, or of music or stand-up comedy content. Now, I do swear in my content. It's not something I'm going to
was like, maybe I shouldn't swear in my content anymore cuz it'll perform It felt weird to do that. It I'm someone who just swears in my day-to-day language already. But I didn't swear any more than any of the other videos. Parts
1, 2, 3, and 5 all had swearing in them as well. And it seemed to be fine. I anything, there's some other videos where I swear way more. Not only that, but it's a big video. It's like 2 hours and change, maybe. And the amount of
swearing per minute in that video, I don't think is that bad. But what got worse for me is that I tried to get it appealed. I I put it in. I talked to my rep about it. And I'm lucky enough that I do have a rep at YouTube that I can
to put it forward to try and get a bit more detail on it. Sometimes things happen like I show a game where there might be a hanging body in it. And I think they usually age restrict for that as well now or hit you with some
sort of flag. That I can understand a bit more because it is something very dangerous to show on camera or to show on screen in a lot of ways, but on screen in a lot of ways, but swearing's not so bad, you know? And I
put it out to my rep and they went looking for it more, and within I don't know, within a few hours, maybe, I got this back. age-restricted. While we found your content was age-restricted because of
community guidelines, content that shows violent or graphic visuals, certain medical procedures, animal abuse, or some cases of gaming and scripted video age-restricted if it's not appropriate for all audiences."
So, what's frustrating to me in all of this is that first you told me that I was getting hit by all of this because of language. I got limited ads because any other stuff. It was just super vague, and if anything, most of it was
vague, and if anything, most of it was wrong about where the the swearing ended up being. But, it's super vague. I don't know what you mean by that. I like point to an example. At least when you get hit by a copyright claim, it points exactly
where it is. You can cut it out, move on. There's an editor on YouTube. For know about it, you can literally go in and re-edit a video after it's gone up. So, if something in the video is deemed inappropriate, you can pull it out, it
gets reprocessed, and then that flag gets taken off your video. It's a great with music. If you have music in it and it gets copyright claimed, you can just cut that section out, and then the copyright goes away most of the time.
But, then to come around and tell me afterwards that it's because of graphic visuals and violence in the game, while also not pointing to any of it. violent." Like, obviously, it's a Resident Evil game. All of them are
violent, and this one, I guess you could argue it's more violent than some of the happen in it are absolutely ridiculous. I didn't really see happen in that game. And part four, I can't exactly
think that's the part where I'm in Raccoon City. I don't seem to see any part of that video that seems to be like way above anything else that's like oh children can't be watching it. It doesn't make any sense to me. It's also
really vague. I don't know what you like where in that video you're pointing at. I wish I could know. Maybe YouTube has a reason. I'm not everything's bad. Sometimes they have a reason and they can't say it publicly
and I find out in private and I'm like oh actually that does make sense why you wouldn't be allowed say that publicly. I don't know in this case. I don't know what happened. The appeal got rejected. I my video ends up age restricted
anyway. The reason age restriction is so bad is you can see it here. Now don't get me wrong. The views on the Resident Evil 9 series are absolutely amazing and I'm very very happy with them. This is more for educational purposes more so
than me bemoaning what happened to me. But you can see that episode 1 all we Episode 2's are usually like half the views. That's just how let's plays are. start of gaming on YouTube. But it's
pretty consistent then. 1.8 1.7. For some reason then 1.4 on part 4 and then 1.6 on part 5. Normally what ends up happening is that it's high views and on. Everything ends up rising but that curve
is usually the exact same across all of them. The titles are all fine. Where's the profanity? Where's the Where's anything like that going on in that video? For the limited ad section of it or the age restriction of it. I don't
that because that got age restricted now it cuts off a ton of views. And again 1.4 million views is still an incredible amount and I'm very happy happens it kills a video completely. Like this would be at 800k or something.
It would completely decimate the views on it. Age restriction is like video homicide. It just kills any momentum that a video has and you can see it in don't know which videos these are but if anything this should prove it even
better because this is the graphs that you normally get again when you're doing you. The top of this graph, this sort of like gray cone, is the high average views you normally get. The lower part of it is the lower end of the average
views you normally get. Resident Evil big series, one of the biggest ones I'm loves Resident Evil and it always does really well. It goes above the average because it's better than all the rest. People are really engaged in it. People
whenever whenever I upload it. Then you have another video. Again, I don't know probably tell by the views that they have. But again, top side of it, it's going up above and beyond. Then another one,
above and beyond. And then you have part four which is like smack dab in the middle of your averages. It definitely has an effect on this stuff. Normally what would happen is that this graph, this
blue line, ends up just flatlining if you get age restricted. I'm lucky enough that it's Resident Evil. People are really into it. They want to watch the series anyway. So people by and large are still pumping the numbers into that.
But what ends up happening is that so many people I've seen went to that video that day. They're watching first three parts normally. They sit down for their and then suddenly it's telling them to sign in. But it's worse than that
because now we live in an age where you don't just have to sign in, you have to upload ID in a lot of places. The UK especially has gotten really really bad at allowing you to engage with any sort of content that is deemed
I don't know, censorship worthy. It just it reeks of censorship all across the board and trying to get people to input their IDs to be like, "Oh, you're above it. Absolute This stuff gets taken over and there's been breaches
before where people's government IDs and government names and addresses and whatever have all been leaked. So a system that is asking for more of that is just bad. You shouldn't have to input that to
watch a YouTube video. Especially for a gaming Jacksepticeye Resident Evil video. It's absolutely obnoxious. But again, what's really bothering me about everywhere across the board. Telling me that it's swearing, telling me that it's
graphic violence. But what's worse is that everyone's playing the same game. We're all playing the same scenarios. Granted, there's a bit of deviation in terms of where people go and what they see and the grab attacks and the
finishers that people are seeing. But by and large, 75% of the game is the exact same across multiple videos. It's the commentary that changes it, but the same cutscenes, it's the same story, all of that. But a lot of other people aren't
thing. I wouldn't be I wouldn't even make this video if I got age restricted videos that played the same section and they were all getting age restricted. I'm not saying everybody should get age restricted. I'm not trying to get
YouTube then to go out and age restrict everybody's video that played Resident ends up happening because of this, I'm so sorry. That's not the intent behind it. The intent is to call out how
it is to get one way and then another way and back and forth and flip-flopping and then not being consistent. I did see some people because Cory has been uploading Resident Evil 9 now. He just started a couple of
restricted. Apparently, I when I watched it, it didn't show it. Normally you can click the description, ignore my part four and guidelines. I didn't see that when I checked it on my phone, but I looked at
it incognito then and it was like, yeah, you have to sign in to watch this video. So, he got hit. But it I don't he didn't get to the Raccoon City section in his first video. Like his first video isn't where I am in my fourth video. So, I
don't know what's going on with this series, why it's being deemed so much more violent than all the others. Maybe it is, I don't know. I would love to see this. Sound off in the comments if you're
watching this video because I'm really curious about where this is landing. There's certain games that this has happened to before where Mortuary Assistant was a big one because there's a scene with the girl's mom hanging. In
going to get age-restricted." But it's necessary for the story beats, so I don't want to cut stuff out just because then I'm in the clear and I get green and more money and blah blah blah. I don't really care about that aspect of
don't really care about that aspect of it. What I care about is people just The fact that you have to sign in, but in some ways some people have to give over their ID. I don't think you should be doing that to watch one of my videos.
of my control and I don't like that. But in the case of the Mortuary Assistant consistent across the board that everyone started to get hit by it. I've had this type of video before. I've talked about this. I brought up Cory
talked about this. I brought up Cory before cuz he had a really good claim his channel when he came back. And he's getting age-restricted. Cory doesn't even swear. Cory's like notorious for not swearing
at all in his content. So it's just the gaming side of things that's getting age Cory doesn't care that it got age-restricted. I care about how inconsistent it is. That's really all it is. To tell me one thing, then tell me
another thing, then to go back on it, and then not be consistent across the It makes it really annoying to do your job. To sit here and upload content and not really know where you're going wrong. To not If If they came back and
violent section right here." Like maybe it's a 10-minute section. an hour worth of the video. I have no idea. It's super vague. It's super inconsistent. I don't like it. And I wish there was more clarity on it.
Anyway, it was bothering me the last few days. I was I was trying to see what start happening across the board with It doesn't seem like it is from the videos that I've been looking up. Maybe
I'm wrong, but again, I would love to know what other people's experiences are with it. And again, I'm really sorry if YouTube's solution to this is to go sand, and then just start age restricting everybody that's playing
That's always the sort of Streisand effect that you run the risk of with this thing. Maybe the rest of my videos will all start getting age restricted. restricted out the gate. You could age restrict it now, probably wouldn't have
restrict it right out the gate, you kill all the momentum that that video had. It was number one on trending for gaming in my area, hot singles. It just stopped then immediately. Like right after it got age
like it started to go flaccid a little bit. guys think. Uh again, any other YouTubers that are involved in this or anything, I just I want more information. I want clarity. I want
and back up any of this stuff cuz I don't know what's happening. I don't get it. If I did, I wouldn't be making this video.