hello and welcome to the very first episode the pilot episode of my new
series YouTube investigator I'm Sam Davis and in this series I'll
investigate the problems with YouTube and it's a regulation of content which
is uploaded to its platform every day you might be asking how can I make a
series on YouTube where I use its platform to criticize it especially
considering that YouTube has a very tough job and that has to regulate what
Google tells me in this search is 5 billion YouTube videos uploaded every
day so how does you choose management fail drastically when they actually have
a somewhat fair excuse of having to regulate that many YouTube videos every
day well in this edition of the program I'll show you one may just stuff up that
YouTube still hasn't figured out and what's so laughable about this is that
it's all too easy to figure out and ultimately regulate this problem is
known as video playback and anyone who uses YouTube on a daily basis and knows
a lot about it will know this issue however YouTube itself seemingly doesn't
know anything about it I'd love to see if you the viewer could correct me on
this as I've never found any articles explaining that YouTube knows this issue
and is trying to fix it so what is video playback well if you type in the search
of YouTube video playback all lowercase on one word you'll see a bunch of
strange videos which can easily be construed or misconstrued as incredibly
pornographic material on YouTube it actually is an overly pornographic but
it's enough to not meet YouTube's code of conduct which they call it the
Community Guidelines and it's clearly not meant to be on YouTube video
playback shows more what you'd call softcore porn and other things that
still don't quite meet YouTube's Community Guidelines maybe some of these
videos could be age restricted but I guarantee you most of them wouldn't
quite meet those guidelines so why is it all that bad I mean these videos aren't
even that pornographic it's not that terrible it's just video playback well
the problem is that anyone can upload whatever they want by simply putting in
the title video playback that is serious issue now of course YouTube's
automated but is easily able to figure out what is heavily pornographic and
they'll just delete it as its uploaded but there are other videos that fall
through the cracks if you look through the videos under the search of video
play back long enough you'll probably eventually find something that
definitely doesn't meet YouTube's Community Guidelines and shouldn't be on
YouTube at all so after all those sorts of videos are listed on video playback
will YouTube even ever bother to get rid of this who knows do they know about it
surely they do millions of people work for YouTube so as you can see when you
type up video playback you get a lot of results of videos that just shouldn't be
on YouTube so will YouTube itself ever figure out that this is a huge issue on
their platform or will they try and pull wool over people's eyes when they figure
it out and say we didn't know about this who knows if they do know about it or
don't know about it all I can say it's a serious issue with YouTube and anyone
can get away with uploading whatever they want all you do is put in the title
video playback now to another issue that's on YouTube
and it's actually not that big an issue however for YouTube standards it's very
tough to regulate there are two particular YouTube channels I quite like
one is called shrouded hand and the other is called horror stories these
videos depict and actually show horrible scenes of death in real-life horror
stories shows all of these as a public service announcement to the viewers to
basically tell them that if you do this you will probably die shrouded hand on
the other hand tells stories of gruesome murders in a series horrible ways to die
the thing is I like these YouTube channels I think they have a great
public service announcement and I think they actually have a great place on
YouTube the content creators work hard and make good content what's the problem
well YouTube doesn't have an accurate classification system so they can't
classify things G PG m ma R so forth like you do with films and television so
all you have is that 18 and older option which any young kid can tick if they're
making a new Google+ account that means anyone of any age
watch shredded hand and horror stories anytime they want this is something that
I can barely stomach even as a 19 year old grown up but if I were to see this
when I was younger my goodness it would keep me up at night
shrouded hand actually did keep me up at night with its latest horror story I
recommend you only watch that if you're incredibly strong stomach and can handle
something that is that gruesome shrouded hands videos depict very detailed in
horrible ways in which people have died watch that if you can handle it the big
problem with all this is that horror stories and shrouded hand are just
people like you and me trying to make a living of making videos on YouTube so if
YouTube was to have a ratings option then they wouldn't make as much money so
what do they do well in my opinion they shouldn't really have it as a business
but the content is so brilliant and gives a great public service
announcement to people who would do the kinds of things that the people in the
videos they depict would do that I think it would be a gross injustice of YouTube
especially a hypocritical injustice if they were to delete these channels
because after all these channels exist all over YouTube horror stories is
probably the only one that can get away with it as much as other channels that
even horror stories has troubles with his videos staying up shrouded hand in
horror stories are too great YouTube channels that I recommend you watch if
you have the stomach for as for me I'm not quite sure if they shouldn't make
money or if they should make money from their practice because after all there's
only two options making money and letting everyone watch or not making
anywhere near as much money and having an 18 years and over age restricted
option it's a tough one to figure out before I go I must tell you
yes--you pointing at you a member of the audience watching this that this show
only has episodes uploaded when I feel that a valid topic must be investigated
I won't just make videos of this on a weekly basis purposefully looking for
things to point out I'll only point out things that you the
audience tell me or that I can find that are obviously huge problems on YouTube
all I can say that it's my job to tear down that wall that YouTube puts above
your eyes especially when something is controversial or they don't want you to
know don't believe everything you see on this
giant of a media platform I'm Sam Davis thanks for watching
you