I’m having my comments I made the past few days receive zero engagements. It’s not just me losing the early bird lottery too; my replies to a highly engaged comment has zero likes, while several comments immediately after me has double digits. It’s nothing incendiary at all, just normal people’s comments. But something just tripped the enigmatic AI and thenceforth I’m shadow banned.
Why you should know this?
Because YouTube is being a thought police between creators and their communities. It feels to me like 99.999% of creators on YouTube have no idea that this is happening, that honest to goodness people’s engagements are never going to reach them on the platform; they’re being silently silenced, by an AI that is figuratively a black box.
Look at this screenshot. If that’s not damning evidence you tell me what is.
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The comment is straight up gone when viewing with a logged out tab. I’m definitely 100% shadow banned right now.
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This is coming out of my orifice but I think this also affects creators in that once people like myself know we’re shadow banned we will not be posting comments because, you know, what’s the point? And that is a deduction in engagement, and reductions in engagement affects the creators in visibility in equally vague ways (because opaque black box ML-AIs are driving both of these actions).