YouTube finally allowed a human being to reply and it was an "all your fault" response. Laughable...

Before that, the company enabled AI moderation which banned over 12m accounts in a couple of months.

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Oh, YouTube finally died

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YouTube finally allows you to opt-out from awful AI-enhancements for both video and audio. It only works from the creator side of things and on per-channel basis.

Settings > Channel > Advanced settings (and scroll down)

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#AI@GameDEV

YouTube team decided that banning 12 million people in a few months and generally ruining search was not bad enough. So a few days ago they removed search by date from the UI!

This sketch is getting more and more relevant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUncEiyXIT4
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#Google@GameDEV

YouTube is fighting Ad Blockers again, cutting off the signal if your browser is cutting off the ad. Can be fixed by F5, but still a bit annoying.

Funny enough, YouTube employees were not initially informed last summer about this trick, so YouTube-Julia created a support forum topic where she said they are investigating the issue and will fix it. Now the page only exists in an archive. Because it's intentional. Dumbasses!

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YouTube is acting weird again: this time they remove custom subtitles from videos! No, not due to violations, they even remove them from tutorials and from officially uploaded anime (without a warning or backup).

Some suggest that it's done to make people use AI dubbing (no one is using or praising). But it's too early to say for sure.

UPD: They are not removing the basic plain text ones, they remove all the fancy formats that supported decorations and other media features. So it's not AI, just a simple enshitification.

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#WTF@GameDEV

Good job

#AI@GameDEV
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#Internet@GameDEV

Meow meow meow meow
Meow meow meow meow meow...

YouTube removed several AI channels completely, including top rated ones. Fake religious channels, fake bloggers, and many others are wiped out for good.

Oh, Google stands for quality? No, they simply received the metrics: this shit seriously ruins their income. ADs in these videos are getting dirt cheap and serious businesses don't want to buy slop spots.

#AI@GameDEV
#YouTube@GameDEV

Everything in the YouTube studio now shows you AI-something. BRAINSTORM VIDEO IDEAS YOUR ASS, Google...

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Fortunately, the test of this "new feature" is limited. Do not fall for it, never turn off ad blocking on YouTube (saying this even as the person who technically monetizes videos).

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#Google@GameDEV

YouTube earned $62 billion in 2025 and still pretend that ad blocking you do kills them. That's more than Disney, Paramount, or Warner Brothers.

#YouTube@GameDEV

YouTube is getting worse and worse

- They can detect 3 seconds of music
- They can't detect scammers in his comments
- So, let's remove 13.8m subs channel!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXO1RMn8qBs
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#Legal@GameDEV
#Music@GameDEV

Italian TV channel La7 does it all the time and YouTube (at least before) gave zero fucks: they use videos made by other people (and downloaded by La7 from YouTube without consent), then upload them to copyright system and strike EVERYONE. This time it was NVIDIA.

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YouTube level of math 😏

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#WTF@GameDEV

Last year a YouTuber won his case against Google. They failed to prove he violated anything, despite initially claimed strong evidence on their side. Then they... ignored the court rule and still pretend it never happened.

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LOL

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You can no longer properly evaluate YouTube engagement on your own videos (without plugins). YouTube studio removed likes and dislikes.

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#WTF@GameDEV
#Google@GameDEV

Oddly enough, you can find Likes and Dislikes (after they were removed from YT Studio), but obtaining such a sacred data now requires a dozen of clicks. You have to:

- Switch to Analytics - Advanced
- Set the Date Range
- Set the Metrics (Likes, Dislikes, Ratio)

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#SocialMedia@GameDEV
#Google@GameDEV

Kind reminder for all YouTube channels' owners to disable these three toggles. They can be found in a YouTube studio (bottom left corner, settings).

PS. I already posted about it but a lot of people missed it somehow.

#AI@GameDEV
#YouTube@GameDEV

YouTube is still doing most of it moderation with AI which among other things claimed Kurzgesagt to be AI-generated:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Sr7xLhxgMo
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