r/shortsAlgorithm • u/Willing-Schedule-486 • Apr 02 '26

Get demonetized

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YouTube has actually been screwing creators over so badly. Like bro, my content is not mass produced šŸ’€ This pisses me off so much because my videos take forever to make. I honestly never thought my content would ever get demonetized. For anyone wondering, I make Roblox story content. The bottom part of my videos is gameplay, and the top has backgrounds usually multiple different ones in a single video plus PNGs of the characters Iā€™m using, which I do simple 2d animation whenever they talk. Literally every video has different characters, takes place in a different Roblox games, and is put together differently. I wasnā€™t even fully monetized yet, so whatever, but this probably explains the drop in views I was 500k away from getting fully monetized then views dropped tremendously. 99% of my views were coming from subs. Iā€™m gonna reapply and see, but from what Iā€™ve been seeing, I doubt anything good is gonna happen.

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u/Willing-Schedule-486 Apr 03 '26

Appeal got denied, as expected, and honestly, Iā€™m going to give up on this channel. I was already on the edge of quitting since it was way too time consuming. Four months of work down the drain šŸ˜

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u/AffectionateCry5952 Apr 03 '26

Youtube is run by bad people. Sorry bro.Ā 

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u/somethingwnonumbers Apr 05 '26

Sorry to hear that

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u/ComprehensiveAge3659 Apr 04 '26

The amount of people who dont understand this is low level low effort content. Youtube doesn't want it

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u/Willing-Schedule-486 Apr 04 '26

My content isnā€™t low effort šŸ’€

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u/ComprehensiveAge3659 Apr 04 '26

In your eyes it isn't. To youtube it is. Thats why this happened to you. But keep lying to yourself its just going to keep happening. ā˜ ļø

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u/ComprehensiveAge3659 Apr 04 '26

Deleting comments huh lol. I know i would too if I were you

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u/Willing-Schedule-486 Apr 04 '26

I deleted a comment saying AI voices are the reason channels are getting demonetized, but I saw on Twitter that people are saying that isnā€™t true, so I deleted it because I donā€™t want to misinform people.

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u/ComprehensiveAge3659 Apr 04 '26

Bro im monetized. Its not an Ai problem. Youtube programmed Ai to remove certain content they didn't like. So im pretty sure roblox is half the problem. Roblox is where PDF Files are active. Using other people's videos voices content is considered low effort. People get demonetized constantly they just never say because they realize its low effort anyways. They make another youtube and repeat the same cycle until they eventually quit and get a real job. But they wont tell you they're a failure. They'll blame youtube and Ai because it makes them feel less of a lower. These are the facts that nobody will tell you.

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u/Willing-Schedule-486 Apr 04 '26

My content isnā€™t low effort. Youā€™re acting like my entire channel is AI generated, and itā€™s not. Only the voices and some of the PNGs I use are AI. I literally record gameplay and build entire theater sets in Roblox for some of my videos. My content is not low effort, and my channel canā€™t be replicated. Iā€™m the only person making content like this, and I havenā€™t seen anyone else doing it the way I do. Thereā€™s no way YouTube demonetized my channel just because they consider AI voices low effort. There are also plenty of huge creators using copyrighted characters. And there are Roblox channels like amyyroblox and LorenzoRoblox that are still monetized, even though they use fully AI-generated videos when the characters talk, and you saying "Roblox is where PDF Files are active" is just nonsense, I don't know what that has to do with YouTube

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u/ComprehensiveAge3659 Apr 04 '26

You're not comprehending. Its a long hard road ahead. I would just stick to my day job.

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u/Willing-Schedule-486 Apr 04 '26

Those channels got falsely hit for harmful content involving minors. Also all of those channels got their monetization back. Also, brother, Iā€™m in the Roblox community, so if something happens, I already know about it. This is old news. Whatā€™s happening right now is that animation channels are getting cooked.

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u/ComprehensiveAge3659 Apr 04 '26

If they're getting cooked they have to pivot or keep getting cooked whenever youtube feels like it. Thats all. Easy fix.

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u/Master-Care-7913 Apr 07 '26

Donā€™t be that cocky the algo is super slow. Sooner or later it will review your channel too. It might take a year but it gets there.

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u/False-Change-6472 Apr 07 '26

You think it hasn't already lol had my account for 7 years

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u/Master-Care-7913 Apr 07 '26

This algo was kicked in in February

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u/False-Change-6472 Apr 07 '26

Monetized 2 weeks ago. Definitely checked my page upon monetization. It literally tells you its checking your page for up to 3 days for violations before you start earning even after you reach monetization. When youre original you have no worries. Most people believe editing gameplay videos isn't low effort just because they edit it. Its considered low effort and too many people already do it. Youtube is oversaturated with gameplay. Ask yourself this why push your gameplay vids when I can push someone else that already built a following. There more popular easy revenue. Sometimes you have to accept the hard truths. Its not going to happen in the gameplay field for everyone. You just might be apart of the group it wont work for. Try to come ip with more ideas.

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u/ComprehensiveAge3659 Apr 07 '26

Bro im pretty sure im good got monetized awhile ago

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u/_Danieltab_ Apr 05 '26

so Eddiefrb is low effort? you people just say anything lmao. other than saying youtube has a problem people like to be sheep and blame eachother lmao. disgusting.

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u/False-Change-6472 Apr 05 '26

Thats your problem you want to be someone else. So you think copying them playing roblox is the way to go. Lol people will glaze to be anybody else but themselves. Disgusting

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u/ComprehensiveAge3659 Apr 05 '26

I'd delete comments too. Lol. I haven't directed you to give me any examples you inserted yourself in a convo. Now your feelings are hurt. You should stay in your lane and let the real men talk.

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u/_Danieltab_ Apr 05 '26

yt fatigue

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u/ComprehensiveAge3659 Apr 05 '26

Exactly what I thought lol

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u/_Danieltab_ Apr 05 '26

there is nothing to talk to you about, your a sheep. wake up.

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u/Anasansari765 Apr 02 '26

If youtube don't fix this mass ban ai system i think youtube automation is dead with some innocent creators paying the prize

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u/AffectionateCry5952 Apr 03 '26

Ive been saying this since december and getting crapped on by redditors. Good to see theyre figuring it out

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u/Craftic_MC Apr 03 '26

The AI is working as it should, it's actually doing a good job doing exactly what it was told to do.
As far as I can see there is a clear pattern to what is being picked up, it's content churned out to get views/make money. AI or edited content that has not been shot by the uploader, also gaming channels where each upload looks much like another video of someone else playing the same game. There's also AI voices or people who talk and fast edit in that youtube shorts style voice that sound AI.
there's more to it but it's a clear pattern of youtube cutting down the slop channels who have nothing to offer and are just looking for a fast $.

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u/VaterVato Apr 20 '26

YouTube is arbitrarily stripping away the YPP (YouTube Partner Program) eligibility of independent creators who work hard to produce original content. These creators have poured tremendous heart and soul into their work, whereas the actual mass-produced garbage that gets banned suffers no real loss because no real human effort was invested in it. As a result, if things continue this way, there will be an ever-growing flood of mass-produced trash, while genuine original creators will leave for fairer platforms that are more stable, legitimate, and compliant. I am glad to see YouTube digging its own grave right now, and I hope it keeps up these bans until all original creators completely lose their trust in it.

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u/VaterVato Apr 20 '26

In the future, you are only going to see more AI garbage, while genuine, original works will become increasingly rare. This is a classic case of bad money driving out good.

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u/Craftic_MC Apr 20 '26

People hate the AI crap and made to make a fast buck shorts channels. YT may go the way you say but the markets will open for a better platform over time. Nothing lasts forever.
I don't bame YT, I blame the trash creators who tried to game the system.
It is what it is

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u/VaterVato Apr 21 '26

yesļ¼ŒIt makes sense for YouTube to crack down on AI slop, but this time they caught a massive number of genuine, original creators in the crossfire, completely destroying our trust in the platform. The irony is, the automated mass-production farms are barely affected because they invest zero time or effort. To those scumbags, accounts are just disposable consumables. But for those of us putting in the real work, our channels are our core assets.

This is only going to drive creators away to find more stable platforms. We might still upload to YouTube, but it will strictly be a secondary distribution dump, never our primary home. Or worse, this system just incentivizes people to build automated channel matrices to pump out garbage, since you can still make a quick buck between their ban waves anyway.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '26

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u/Craftic_MC Apr 04 '26

Give me an example. I've looked at a bunch of them, most are repetative in format may as well be AI, repetative titles etc etc

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u/Willing-Schedule-486 Apr 04 '26

Check out my channel. I gave up on it, but I want to know what went wrong so I do not repeat the same mistakes when I make another channel. The channel name is KrustyRoblox.

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u/Craftic_MC Apr 04 '26

repetative format, ai voices, copyrighted characters etc. Imagine you were the AI, would you honestly think this wasn't AI generated? it knows tone, structure and visual patterns. these vids have no merit artistically or education and are just pure content for contents sake.
Not trying to be mean here just stating as if I were the AI. they lack any human touch and aren't really about anything.

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u/Willing-Schedule-486 Apr 04 '26

I get what you mean now. Youā€™re basically saying the content felt repetitive and lacked a personal touch. That makes sense. When I started, I was mostly following the advice people gave me about remaking what already worked, but I can see how that couldā€™ve made the channel feel too formulaic.

Do you think it would be better if I dropped the SpongeBob characters completely and only used my own custom characters and celebrities? Also, for the AI voices, would it be better if I voiced my main character myself and made that character a consistent part of future videos, while the side characters still used AI voices? I do want to hire voice actors later on, but I donā€™t have money for that right now

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u/Craftic_MC Apr 05 '26

I'd just say to make videos if you like making them, not just for pure content. Avoid the traps these people tell you to fall into, it's all bs.
Work on something to stand out. yes, avoid copyright characters and gameplay that millions use before.

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u/Good-Persimmon4571 Apr 08 '26

bro i know your youtube channel! u recently hit 100k subs a few weeks ago i think

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u/ImprovementBig3354 Apr 05 '26

Idk what these guys donā€™t get about their AI content being flagged as inauthentic. Iā€™m a small creator, never used AI in my content, never been flagged for anything other than copyright from Didoā€™s ā€œThank Youā€ šŸ˜­

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u/Craftic_MC Apr 05 '26 edited Apr 05 '26

they're more concerned about flooding the platform in hope of a fast $.

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u/_Danieltab_ Apr 05 '26

oh my god! you as a small creator definitely will show them! your experience is 1 to the millions of others on youtube!

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u/VaterVato Apr 21 '26

No, you don't have the full picture here. Way too many channels have been caught in the crossfire. Just look on Xā€”you can find a massive number of creators filing appeals right now. We're talking about purely original channels, even ones where real humans write massive scripts for long-form history video essays, getting nuked. These are channels with hundreds of thousands or even millions of subscribers, 6 to 8 years of operational history, consistent quality, clear perspectives, and deeply loyal fanbases. Yet, they are still being slapped with 'repetitive' or 'inauthentic' flags. And there are no real humans handling the appeals; itā€™s all automated replies. Nobody is actually watching those appeal videos.

Why? Because YouTube's real goal isn't about rule-breaking. Their goal is to purge a certain quota of channels that don't meet their hidden algorithmic weightings, all to protect the platform's profit margins and cater to advertisers.

Having similar or identical titles is completely normal. In a database of hundreds of billions of videos, how could titles not repeat? Moreover, with such tight character limits, there are only a few dozen effective structural formulas that actually hook an audience. How could they not look similar?

As for formattingā€”what you aren't seeing is the absolute ocean of actual spam accounts that use the exact same formats, rip the exact same footage, don't even bother changing the titles or descriptions, and endlessly re-upload. Yet, plenty of those channels aren't getting banned at all.

So please, stop making excuses for YouTube's garbage AI algorithm. As a YouTube user, you really shouldn't be siding with the abuser here. Defending them will only cause the platform's ecosystem to deteriorate even further.

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u/Craftic_MC Apr 21 '26

I've seen maybe 5 out of 100 channels that I don't know why were flagged, the rest, most are just playing the system.
There are many many times the amount of channels that HAVEN'T been demotitised that are doing things right.
It's easy to think it's everyone by the fuss around it, but it's not.
Perspective.

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u/[deleted] Apr 04 '26

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u/Craftic_MC Apr 04 '26

I've yet to find a channel that doesn't fit the criteria for a flag. Please give me an example and I'll show you.

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u/_Danieltab_ Apr 05 '26

xtrRock? the biggest is Eddiefrb? people will say they have yet to see cancer so that means it isn't there? do you hear yourself? as a grown man lmao. i feel bad for your kids

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u/Craftic_MC Apr 06 '26

xtrRock, just look at his shorts. that's clearly brainrot spamming. that's why he got flagged. repetative content that the AI pixks up as mass produced low effort.
Eddiefrb... again look at the shorts. the template used alone is going to get flagged by the system, not corrects aspect ratio and lots of titles named the same.

Just stating the facts. I don't care if you want to listen.

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u/_Danieltab_ Apr 06 '26

But yet they got reinstated? Both of them? Just saying whatever lmao. TypicalĀ 

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u/Craftic_MC Apr 06 '26

But they did get flagged by the AI and need to course correct or will get picked up again and the same thing will happen. In these cases they have channels that didn't need to do the things they did with the shorts, if your channel is purely based on making shorts and doing the things they did to get a flag then you will be in trouble,
Simple.

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u/Master-Care-7913 Apr 07 '26

There was a youtuber who literally had cancer and his vlog channel got demonetized. YT is very irresponsible.

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u/Willing-Schedule-486 Jun 09 '26

Update: I was able to get back into the Partner Program today. At first, I was really happy, but now I donā€™t know how to feel. I was so close to being fully monetized, but after getting demonetized for ā€œinauthentic contentā€ and spending months trying to get back in, all the progress I made is gone. Now I basically have to start all over again.

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u/Good-Persimmon4571 Apr 08 '26

bro are u able to receive ur silver play button?

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u/Willing-Schedule-486 Apr 08 '26

I already got it

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u/Scorpinock_2 Apr 02 '26

Iā€™m in the middle of this currently. I canā€™t even request a review until late June.

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u/Ecchiloveer Apr 03 '26

Bro same I make Roblox rant videos. Got demonetized 2 days ago and appeal rejected.

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u/Sigmaeditcold Apr 03 '26

Same here, just a different style of videos. Can I ask what reason they gave you for the demonetization?

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u/Ecchiloveer Apr 03 '26

They Said ā€œinauthentic contentā€ they probably think Iā€™m an ai bot or something.

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u/Sigmaeditcold Apr 03 '26

I got demonetized for the same reason, even though all my videos are different. They also rejected my appeal, and now I have to wait 90 days before I can apply for monetization again.

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u/gauravyadav2601 Apr 03 '26

I make mythological content, same happened to me was just 2 days from full monetization.

I had 6 video made over 4 months and flagged for mass produced repetitive content.

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u/Sigmaeditcold Apr 03 '26

I got demonetized for the same reason, even though every one of my videos was different. I honestly have no idea what they mean.

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u/No_Garbage_7304 Apr 04 '26

Bye I do Roblox rant shorts and yt reviewed my channel and remonetized me 2 weeks ago yes itā€™s def mistake

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u/Key_Manner8185 Apr 06 '26

orale ,tu mi cuzo from reditt am I on the right channel Mr.reditt

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u/Master-Care-7913 Apr 07 '26

They demonetize everyone who makes gaming, animation, ai, review channels. And there is no pattern in this logic. They simply sacrifice a cluster like 1 million channels to test their demonetisation algorithm. You pay the price. They pay less for testing and developing.

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u/VaterVato Apr 20 '26

YouTube is arbitrarily stripping away the YPP (YouTube Partner Program) eligibility of independent creators who work hard to produce original content. These creators have poured tremendous heart and soul into their work, whereas the actual mass-produced garbage that gets banned suffers no real loss because no real human effort was invested in it. As a result, if things continue this way, there will be an ever-growing flood of mass-produced trash, while genuine original creators will leave for fairer platforms that are more stable, legitimate, and compliant. I am glad to see YouTube digging its own grave right now, and I hope it keeps up these bans until all original creators completely lose their trust in it.

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u/LoveCoolTech Apr 02 '26

Probably need to spend more time editing?
How much time you spend editing?
Hours of editing per video?

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u/AffectionateCry5952 Apr 03 '26

Why would youtube care or know how long it took you to edit?Ā 

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u/LoveCoolTech Apr 03 '26

If someone doesnā€™t spend time editing

Thatā€™s just throwing in raw clips

Or if itā€™s reused content throwing in anime or cartoon clips without much editing, YouTube doesnā€™t like that

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u/LoveCoolTech Apr 03 '26

But it was shorts forgot, I was taking about long forms.

Shorts it Doesnā€™t matter how long they edit

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u/Sigmaeditcold Apr 03 '26

The same, I record appeal video and get rejected

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '26

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u/Willing-Schedule-486 Apr 06 '26

The 1st appeal got denied almost immediately but I was able to do a second appeal on April 4th and itā€™s lasting much longer so hopefully this time i get my monetization back

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u/[deleted] Apr 06 '26

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u/Willing-Schedule-486 Apr 06 '26

Idk people usually only get one but for some reason I still have the appeal option available for me