Aug 13, 2025
This is your reminder that if you watch content that YouTube deems "childish" it will restrict your account regardless of account age.
Their ai is monitoring everything you watch/have watched in the past and deciding if it wants to allow you to watch content it deems 18+.
This includes music, if you listen to "childish music" it will restrict you from listening to music it deems explicit.
If it flags your account the only way to get it back is by providing a face scan, government id, or your credit card information. All of these are unacceptable invasions of your privacy as a user.
This has been implemented in the US for the first time but they've been doing this in the UK as well for a while
