#beginner youtuber

Today I received an email from youtube stating this

This seems to tell me that I am losing access to a handful of features such as pinning comments on my videos or embedding links in the descriptions of my videos for one of 2 reasons. Either I don't have sufficient channel history or I have violated a community guideline.

To my knowledge, I haven't broken any guidelines, as I have received no warnings. As for channel history, I have been using the same account since July 7 of 2013 and began regularly uploading to this channel on August 30 of 2024.

So, I decided to look into this further, and this is what I have found.

Under the settings of youtube studio in the "Future Eligibility" section, I was able to find the full list of what these "Advance features" really are.

This includes things such as appealing content ID claims, daily upload amounts, testing different thumbnails, and even your eligibility to apply for monetization.

Now, I can fully understand putting these systems in place to stop the increase in AI channels and content. However, I do not know if this is even the case, as this is what one person told me in a discord server I talked about this in. So I may very well be wrong. However, if this not related to stopping AI, then this is even worse.

In order to access the advance features, you need to do one of the following

either take a 6 second video of yourself, take a photo of your ID or build 2 months worth of channel history. Now, we already established that my channel has existed and been uploading longer than 2 months, so this must mean 2 months from NOW.

Now, while that is annoying, but the other 2 options are downright predatory. They want a photo of your ID that they say they will keep until one of the following.

Either 2 years has passed

Or you meet the 2 months of channel history.

So this means Youtube will have a photo of YOUR ID for a MINIMUM of 2 months.

Now you might be thinking, "Well why not choose the video instead."

Because that is just as sinister when you look into what exactly they are requesting.

They want you to follow the prompts you are given to get a full view of your face. Something that, at least to me, seems very similar to collecting facial information to build a database. Especially because they want you to do things like looking up or down, therefore getting a better look at your face.

This is BEYOND unfair to small channels. This is downright predatory behavior. Under no circumstances should youtube be requesting anyone's ID or videos of their face in order to prove anything. At BEST this is a horrible attempt to root out AI channels and content in order to get rid of them. However, with the current climate of America and the interests of big businesses as a whole, I find it much more likely they are trying to gather more personal data from it's users. For what purpose, I don't know, but this is disgusting nonetheless.

Please, I know I am just a nobody online, but this NEEDS to be seen by more people.

haven’t done this in a bit,, uhhh. kinda hard putting this out bc i’m so self-conscious about the quality but i wanted to start working on my yt again so… Ya!!!

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Nyxxie here is just a prototype until I figure out how to fix and upgrade his design! Or if I can earn and save up enough for the upgraded version of him! I also don't have a webcam for me to use to bring my baby boi to life. ;-;

But at least I've got the photo part of Vroid Studios to maybe help? Idk, I'm tryin'! I'm tryin' to find myself a webcam, since my so called "grandparents" like makin' up excuses to not buy me one. They know that I'm poor and such. They just straight up hate me. They ask for respect, well what 'bout me?! It don't make bloody sense! They got respect and trust backwards, because they're so damn stew peed!

Yeah, they lie 'bout a bunch of shit to the point it shows. My whole family does this, but me and ma sadly. My cousin that I've never wanted through marriage Jenna is such a fat brat. Sayin' that she does all of these different things in school for once her mother is havin' her whole TikTok collection edited to make it look like she's doin' them and editein' her voice to cheer her on in sports that she never does in the first place. She claims to know Judo for once that was a lie, I whipped out karate moves out of bloody nowhere when she fought with me, yet sadly I don't know any martial arts to bloody begin with.