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I sign in relief because my small person's attitude has increased as she has discovered there is just as much content in comments as the videos. Too bad that she doesn't use YTKids, she has favorite gamer channels that are adults streaming and discussing.
To me it seems pretty obvious that individual accounts need to be tagged as "child" or "not child" (not visible to the general public, but in the code.) Youtube could base the tags partly from the self-identified age attached to the account, and also based on the account's behavior, and ALSO by searching for Youtube comments left like "I'm 10" which I see all the time on Youtube. ("I'm only 10 but I still like 80s music" or whatever.)
Well, it looks like YouTube is simply killing my channel and the complete doll customizers community in total by their new YouTube Kids policies. Starting from January, 2020 all the channels that use toys to make their content will be moved from YouTube to their new YouTube Kids platform where will be no comments, no likes, no notifications and no personalized ads 🤐 It means we all will have to work for free (not completely for free, but there will be a drastic monetization drop and we will have to find a full time job to be able to pay our bills and it means there will be no time for dolls and video's) and there will be also no way for us to communicate with our audience, no feedback, no doll requests in the comments, no discussions, no support and we will not be able to know even if people liked the repaint, nothing. Just me sitting making dolls in a complete silence and getting a complete silence back. I don't even know how to react and what to think. I understand they want to protect kids from disturbing content but the fact is that Jake Paul and Co will keep going, but for us the only way to stay on a normal YouTube is to start repainting garden furniture or to draw fruits and vegetables in their glory because remaking a toy will be punished with demonetization and removing comments and likes. And the most annoying part is that I have mostly a very adult audience (90% of my people are 18+), and kids are watching my repaints with their parents because let's be honest, my video's are not that entertaining for little kids (for YouTube kids are people younger than 13 yo), my video's and dolls are rather art for art lovers than kids content. But since me, Hextian, Dollightful, Moonlight Jewel, Anastazia Custom and many many other adult artist have chosen doing our art on 'kids toys' we will be punished, demonetized and locked down on a kids-only platform 👍👌 One of the sweetest and kids friendly channels on the entire YouTube - Myfroggystuff - have already changed their names and they are also changing their content completely to become not kids oriented anymore to be able to stay on a regular 'big' YouTube. I don't know, dear YouTube, I have a strong feeling that you are punishing wrong people and moving a completely wrong direction. We will know more later of course, there's no real information regarding doll customizers but their general message is quite clear - everything children and toys related will be put to the muted and almost demonetized YouTube Kids reservation
I just hate how the whole Internet seems to be getting more patronizing and obsessed with protecting children at all cost
Maybe content like comments shouldn’t be available without being signed in as a verified adult.