Why I got banned

[@XxXenoZzZ]

This wouldnt happen if you were a scam bot.

[@jzlazy1057]

Scam bots rise up! 🤖

[@MaestroColucci]

WHEre aRe EriC ParkEr rEaL fAnS?

[@TechnoMinded-qp5in]

RUMBLE is the only answer let's ditch this platform.

[@barteqt]

@@TechnoMinded-qp5in why are you on here smh

[@AsheLucia]

@@TechnoMinded-qp5in ah yes, the fascist neo-nazi platform

[@Nyan4Eon]

Extremely extremely common KZbin L

[@Crosbie85]

Common neal mohan L

[@Luigi_bros4321]

Air type of common L for KZbin

[@clementpruvost8670]

I find that very sad a security researcher is getting banned for his job while bots and scams are let off the hook. KZbin is evolving backwards.

[@THUNDERBOLT-rv7fs]

dude its an american company what did u expect?

[@مقاطعمترجمة-ش8ث]

Let's say that YT, some long time ago got infect with some of 3rd world moral diseases.

[@gooniesfan7911]

Eric is a security researcher now?

[@JNJNRobin1337]

@@THUNDERBOLT-rv7fs maybe that they'd rush to being one of the early 'employeeless companies'?

[@gairisiuil]

always has been.

[@chadvanderlinden9548]

They STRIKE you and never, ever, ever, ever tell you why. Perusing the "Community Guidelines" is pointless. It's a game they play and they're not going to let you win.

[@TechnoMinded-qp5in]

[R][U][M][B][L][E] is the new KZbin fuck Googles Nazi adolf hitler bullshit!

[@james-m-8285]

It’s what happens when KZbin notices you’re in a channel-size sweet spot where they can make a lot of money cheating you out of revenue without upsetting enough people to attract mainstream attention.

[@kueacybtguicyregfibubkueacybax]

Yeah its pretty much up to them, there is no legal or financial repercussions so it will just keep happening

[@figsaregood]

they don't need to. It's on us as consumers to use a different product

[@Pharozos]

Obviously he was banned because mercury was in retrograde.

[@PowCards]

you get banned for this but all the bot and scam accounts on here STAY here when i report them dozens of times how has youtube stayed this consistently terrible

[@Dan01-01]

Trash platform really

[@какойтошизик]

Remember, big tech's platforms aren't made for users. They are made for advertisers and investors.

[@michaelcurry3795]

Because we keep watching their ads and paying them money. As a society we've given up on capitalistic civic duties in exchange for comfort and ease. Given that, KZbin has no reason to change their moderation system to be effective.

[@nikkiofthevalley]

​@@michaelcurry3795If there were other options, I'd use them. All other platforms just aren't as good in a variety of ways, even the paid ones.

[@TechnoMinded-qp5in]

The report button is a SCAM time to boycott KZbin!

[@GreyMaria]

Reminder that you have NOT been in contact with a real human being AMYWHERE at KZbin until you have created a PR nightmare for them on Twitter.

[@Nyan4Eon]

If you go on KZbins twitter a lot of their posts are the same post with the same/similar phrasing, likely duplicated

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

Nobody cares about Twitter any more, you mean Blue Sky

[@Gyropathic]

​@@thewhitefalcon8539 keep crying, even Jack Dorsey realized Blue Sky was a sinking ship long ago and came back to Twitter

[@Brixster]

@@thewhitefalcon8539No, Twitter is the only place in the entire world where actual people at Team KZbin seem to respond to complaints. No other platform, not even YT itself, is nearly as effective as Twitter at solving a KZbin policy problem with a channel

[@arcturuslight_]

they hadn't had a real human look at most appeals for like a decade, it just goes to a bot with a little bit more compute time. They technically do still have people look at it regularly, but only a few, reviewing 0.01% of videos, just to train the networks.

[@xzeuii]

it’s crazy how joel over on vinesauce can do the “download everything” thing yearly for the funny hahas and get specially coded viruses made for it but you can’t do it in an educational manner because that’s too dangerous not blaming vinesauce, more blaming youtube’s double standards

[@clementpruvost8670]

@@xzeuii yeah it's crazy how someone can do it but not another person. KZbin really needs to check their standards.

[@namesurname4666]

I think it's because not all of his videos are about that, meanwhile youtube does it on channels that focus on tech

[@capt_nugget]

There are tutorials telling you how to decrypt sms logs (very illegal) but clicking every download button is a step too far 💀

[@AraiDigital]

@@capt_nugget There are literal piano channels where the thumbnails are basically porn but nothing happens against them lmao, youtube is fucked

[@Octol1ng]

one dollar.

[@krcsirke]

Reporting rule breaking ads - AI is sleeping Someone upload a normal video - AI takes down.

[@test-rj2vl]

Based on my observation of how AI takes down or not take down my comments - for most of time AI has no understanding of context at all. It simply has very large list of word combinations and if you hit any it will delete it no matter the actual meaning.

[@JNJNRobin1337]

@@test-rj2vl they should probably set its 'deny' list to an 'allow' list, then clear it

[@Beth_0477]

@@JNJNRobin1337 sounds all so simple and easy to do but isnt, and you wont understand it.

[@JNJNRobin1337]

@@Beth_0477 then they should simplify it into a "pay 500 dollars a month to be able to publish videos" system

[@dimitralex1892]

omg its not ai. the filters are in place for a decade or more now... its a black list. dont call everything ai ffs

[@Cloud67TR]

no one can make me believe that a single real person is reading appeals,they are just don't read anything and just reject every single appeal

[@TechnoMinded-qp5in]

[R][U][M][B][L][E] TAKE OVER EVERYONE ABANDON KZbin!!!!!!

[@NicoTheCinderace]

@@TechnoMinded-qp5in Good luck with that.

[@elrymoe]

@@TechnoMinded-qp5in Sure hahahah

[@TechnoMinded-qp5in]

@@elrymoe Have fun staying on communist KZbin then everyone already is on Rumble.

[@TechnoMinded-qp5in]

@@NicoTheCinderace Why are you guys stuck on this Nazi platform that doesn't care about you?

[@gregtasi]

Please backup all your videos!!

[@CChip50434]

This is why I hate KZbin

[@nameless4637]

Why can't we boycot the platform. I want a platform that is simular to KZbin but, doesn't censor content

[@darukutsu]

​@@nameless4637grayjay follow creators not platforms

[@Dollar_CoinYT]

​@nameless4637 well there aren't any others that google hasn't taken down

[@TechnoMinded-qp5in]

@@nameless4637 You can it's called [R][U][M][B][L][E] they HATE when people recommend that site because it's anti-communist.

[@penguin86bitals]

​@@nameless4637there is no other youtube, as it would be murdered immediately (some tried and were). But there are other platforms. They are all different, serve different niches and are very much not youtube. Vimeo, Odysee, Peertube, etc.

[@discussions.]

Hate when companies remove the box for explaining when appealing or something similar. Discord did this with reporting messages and it’s sometimes not possible to report a message accurately because there is not *Other* section.

[@DedmenMiller]

I used to report alot of ban evasion on discord. In the old reports i could submit the IDs of the same persons account, and proof message ids and screenshots that show they are the same person. Now you can just report their join message as ban evasion. I talked to discord staff and he said to just report them and theyll figure it out. Yeah hell no they wont. How are they supposed to find context hidden between tens of thousands of messages.

[@morph-the-cat]

Eugh this is depressing. There are so many examples of KZbin punishing unique and innovative channels

[@saturnxii]

this platform has made no progress to ensure stuff like this doesn't happen.

[@mxjeonsgw]

People say faith is the last thing to ever lose, but regarding KZbin actually complying with their own made rules equally... yeah, we can lose that faith, that'll never happen.

[@RadikAlice]

If anything they actively work to make it easier for it to happen

[@какойтошизик]

Oh geez. How didn't i notice you getting banned? Glad you're back.

[@Skillnoob_]

Similar happened to Enderman, which was also a completely BS situation from youtube. Their system is majorly broken.

[@Cloud67TR]

yeah,it even happened to me as well luckily, @teamyoutube youtube on twitter helped me but i guess they are ghosting eric? they didn't respond to him

[@SLZeroArrow]

​@@Cloud67TR Well since they do not like what he is doing, they're gonna start cracking down on these malware analysis channels in a bit to let more ad revenue in which is what the scammers/hackers are taking advantage of just so the money can flow even faster. There has to be laws that specifically ban this kind of turning a blind eye on an ISSUE that you should be responsible for COMBATING.

[@swedishbatman]

KZbin's priority these days are to kill accurate information if it means pushing mindless content instead. Why do you think they removed the dislike button? They hate "to-the-point" informative content that doesn't trigger immediate pipelines of binge watching. Here's some advice on making PROPER content to follow their guidelines: Trim it down to 30 seconds, make it less informative, flip it to a vertical video, put in lots of cuts, shout loud emphasized keywords, paint it with big colorful autogenerated captions and it would have gone on trending instead of getting a strike. 😂

[@Ethorbit]

It's hilarious how literally anything is a violation on KZbin. I hope Google loses its dominance in the video sharing space one day.

[@fivezies]

Well the government might be making them sell something so they might sell KZbin

[@localdeer1171]

KZbin needs competition

[@SLZeroArrow]

Probably not gonna happen for the next several decades, because trust me, Google's not going down without a fight. They will do anything they can in their power to maintain an iron grip on every field they can touch.

[@Sparronator9999]

That's the problem, alternative platforms _do_ exist, but the problem is that none of the big youtubers are uploading to them, or uploading to the paid ones (floatplane/curiositystream anyone?) Yes, it's only like 2 dollars a month for access, but some people either can't, or won't pay for content they can already access for free.

[@TomJakobW]

⁠​⁠@@Sparronator9999see, that’s the common misconception about all of this! OP is absolutely right: YT needs competition, because right now it does *not* exist. All these side-platforms are in no way actual competition. It has nothing to do with KZbinrs not uploading there. They couldn’t ever scale up to YT if they wanted; *tons* of servers and content - an infrastructure - in sizes you cant imagine. KZbin is a dangerous monopoly (like chrome), and regulators and the general public haven’t understood how big this problem actually is, yet! Boomers don’t understand the internet and it’s critical impact on *everything* today.

[@TechnoMinded-qp5in]

It already exists it's called Rumble.

[@steeviebops]

@@TechnoMinded-qp5in I don't have a Rumble account but I just went to the homepage now and most of the videos it was recommending to me were conservative US political content. As someone who doesn't live in the US, it doesn't interest me.

[@Weissenschenkel]

I vote for incompetence. They're just looking for profit and minimum maintenance.

[@neptune._]

You pretty much nailed it on the first half, its an automated "ai" powered moderation bot that basically just flags videos, they removed the reason box because the bot is dumb as bricks and cant reply and they dont want to bother checking every single video that gets flagged by the ai. Again the bot is really stupid and even just a video thats named in a way the bot will find words on the title and corelate it to a list of banned keywords, in these cases it could of been "click every download button", "discord grabber", both of those are very likely on the instant ban list.

[@engineergaming4872]

It's really sad seeing good tech channels like yours or endermanch's getting struck for making good content.

[@soul_maestro]

another reason: ppl abusing the reporting system as the backend goes "oh too many reports within a certain timespan, prob something really wrong, lets (temp) ban it to be safe and sort it out in the appeal system" this is happening alot in certain games as well, i wouldn't be surprised if this also happens on youtube.

[@edgibbs2794]

This is entirely possible considering the type of enemies Eric must be making with his content.

[@infinity1281]

KZbin trying not to be the most hostile platform challenge (impossible)

[@GlobalEl1te]

i used to interview programmers on the wrong side of the law on a small youtube channel with 12k subscribers during covid I got 3 strikes before lockdown was over and being fresh out the army at the time i wasnt a social media user at all to avoid any issues with work so i had no chance of help using twitter being a nobody. so basically my youtube channcel was taking off after a couple years of time invested and i had no way to turn the strikes around and lost my channel because I garbled voices, blurred faces, and zoom chatted with people who took OG name accounts. Was great content too these guys explained alot and I had to chat with some of these guys during jail visits. I hope you are able to fight this process as you are someone who brings me joy through knowledge.

[@cosmosheesh]

feels like everything is suddenly regressing 💀 glad to see you back!

[@Cable._]

KZbin looking at free hacks and obvious scams: 🤑🤑 KZbin looking at ACTUAL educational content: 😨😨😭😭😰😰😱😱🤬🤬

[@wChris_]

A warning will never get removed! You should not give up on removing the warning. As for further proceedings, legal actions are the only effective and long lasting way to get a video reinstated. But it is also the most expensive way to do it.

[@KenPryor]

Oh how I wish a good alternative to YT existed. Yes, there are other options but I haven't found one yet that I really like.

[@mxjeonsgw]

As other two comments said: 1.- "This wouldn't happen if you were a scam bot." 2.- "Extremely extremely common KZbin L." Both extremely extremely true. Not even wanna mention that happened to a lot of KZbinrs with this similar content scope. Is kinda sad how KZbin can do whatever the fuck they want without giving a slight semblance of a fuck, they know we get annoyed at their shitty behaviour and way to proceed, knowing how little our annoyance will affect KZbin finances if it gets even affected because there's still no actual competition against KZbin. :| It's sooo messed up.

[@KickRiZZle]

Are you german?

[@mxjeonsgw]

@KickRiZZle No but what does it have to do? LMFAO

[@KickRiZZle]

@@mxjeonsgw nothing :D. I just thought i sensed german grammar habits in your english.

[@mxjeonsgw]

@@KickRiZZle Nice try though:3

[@Rizouge]

All jokes aside, I believe you're helping the vast majority of people who click on your videos. Others who want to stay safe online, etc. etc. From what I've gathered from this video, your ban wasn't warranted at all. Wish you the best of luck on avoiding future infractions from KZbin!

[@HannoImmelman]

Miss the days when KZbin banned people for being an nuisance instead of KZbin being the nuisance.

[@Filipqt]

ive had multiple appeals to fake bans and they rejected all of them withen pure minutes, kinda mad but kinda not. it honestly helped my growth but it also made me a bit mad. youtube appeal system is just shit

[@kekitech]

there was likely not a single human involved. they probably go off transcript and we know how reliable that one is once it goes through an llm or two

[@kekitech]

i guess you could try to put some king of disclaimer in there mentioning the right keywords, educational, don't do crime, etc etc

[@Akahigep]

Literally I just saw an sc4am ad in KZbin. Everything is so broken here

[@Mystixor]

KZbin once again proving what a shitty platform it is

[@Crosbie85]

Neal mohan

[@halfsine]

@@Crosbie85 even susan was a much better ceo

[@Zylenxx]

< generic scam comment that somehow everyone reports but then still sits there for 10 years >

[@rahallde]

Doing KZbins job and getting punished. Normal behavior!

[@jumpingSpiders]

Educational videos on youtube have always been targeted for some reason. It’s like they don’t get the meaning or context of “educational”.

[@ChloekabanOfficial]

youtube please let us learn stuff i beg of thee

[@Slawa_Saporogez]

It's because since 2021 onwards educational content on YT has been abused for not safe content to put it lightly. Individuals who are outside of the entertainment portion of YT cannot know it unfortunately.

[@Stratxgy.]

This also happened in the “minecraft hack client” community. tons of people were unfairly struck, and it was because some ai microsoft started using that was supposed to “stop piracy” - which obviously targeted the wrong people.

[@Velocifyer]

"which obviously targeted the wrong people." Or they intended on taking down cheating videos.

[@Stratxgy.]

@@Velocifyer have you heard of minecraft anarchy servers?

[@Velocifyer]

@@Stratxgy. Yes, but what i was saying is that they intentinaly made false takedowns becuase they dont like cheats,

[@halfsine]

i will never understand why youtube hates any and all computer security related things

[@halfsine]

i hate how this platform can actively hurt users and creators without losing any money. it's like boiling a frog, they know that they can't just make a bunch of greedy changes immediately, they have to slowly make the changes over time and everybody adjusts to it

[@_gspj]

KZbin has Andrew tate's site security moderation

[@Patterner]

i've been blocking one of the dating sites at least 30 times. and reported it for being falsely "home audio". so i always see ads i don't care about at all but never see anything that is interesting.

[@MalwareCube]

Ugh that’s the worst. I’m seeing this more and more in this space, sadly. KZbin needs a complete revamp of their appeals.

[@halfsine]

they won't. they don't give any care to anything that doesn't make them money

[@hanifarroisimukhlis5989]

The worst part about "community" guidelines strike is it's _very_ inconsistent. Like 2 of similiar video, one got striked, and the other is left alone. And don't get me started on "age restriction", which YT on it's infinite wisdom blocks anyone from viewing it unless they're logged in. There used to be _loophole_ that allows bypassing it, with difficulty. But now YT want non logged-in user experience to be degraded to heck and beyond.

[@division7732]

I just had this happen to me, unlisted video taken down for promoting violent criminal activity (I do videogame gameplay video's) appealed and they denied it in 8 minutes (13 minute video) Now my monetization is gone forever, good one KZbin.

[@swagmuffin9000]

disputes have become the stupidest and most useless process. good luck finding a company that doesn't automate it against the user.

[@zpat3819]

youtube has always been a shitty platform, its just impossible to compete against

[@Crosbie85]

Neal mohan big ah ruined it

[@jer1776]

The DOJ should force Google to sell KZbin too.

[@DavidJCobb]

youtube isn't actually profitable, and can only stay afloat if it's subsidized by money made elsewhere. (this doesn't stop Google from _trying_ to wring money out of it to our detriment, of course.) in other words, KZbin is public infrastructure, but funded by ads and corporate greed rather than taxes. splitting KZbin off would destroy it

[@Genielamp25]

I'm convinced that youtube has done away with human review. You're not the first to have a video "reviewed" for significantly less thsn the runtime, only for it to be rejected again. They need to bring back human reviewers again.

[@gizzywizzy6475]

Sorry to hear that happen to you, glad your back YT

[@Rovsau]

This reminds me of that guy whose video was taken down because he stated he was drinking "hydroxic acid", which is literally just another word for water.

[@SickHedgehog777]

i got a community guidelines strike (something about discrimination in the email) for my favorites playlist half a year ago (one of those locked default playlists). this platform is something else lol

[@matfax]

The same applies to KZbin's comment filter. It doesn't technically remove our comments but they are hidden in the default view, only visible if you look at the comments via the "newest first" view. And the algorithm is completely arbitrary. You aren't notified. I think it even applies to channel owners. You never know if your own comment is shown to anyone and why (not). A randomness generator would do a better job.

[@DavidJCobb]

hidden comments aren't generally visible in Newest actually. sometimes there's a delay before your comment appears, in which case it may appear in the time it takes to change the sort, but if you _do_ get unpersoned by the site's buggy filters, your comment should only show up if you view your google account's privacy records

[@CybersecPat]

You’re getting screwed but you clearly have a positive outlook on things. Wishing all the best for you. Keep it up

[@TrizziEhgan]

this shows how much youtube has been on a downward spiral

[@GregFRDT]

"What happens if we Upload EVERY Appropriate Video to KZbin?"

[@مقاطعمترجمة-ش8ث]

Either YT or all Google services are fair in any sort, since decades, ppl got banned from AdSense (for false clicks) while they did nothing, and many others google services you got automated ban without chance to appeal.

[@christhorney]

The world's biggest tech company is only contactable on a competitors platform, brilliant

[@rogo7330]

Can it be that they fired a lot of people who was supporting the infrastructure for human support to be able to swiftly process messages, its performance somehow degraded (because they put those who know nothing about internals in charge), then they proposed to basically replace human who would wait for hours for message to be presented before them with other services (bots) that don't get bored of waiting 24/7 for a page to show up, and this is where we are now?

[@elexbeats]

Almost 2025 and youtube is getting more and more censured. I wonder how far can youtube still go like this.

[@brutalistconcrete25]

ever since the dislike button was removed the platform went into the dumpster

[@Leahi84]

I'm curious about what is going to happen to things like youtube if/when Google gets broken up.

[@SlimeeosGames]

Try to backup all things on Odysee too.

[@KasperskyFan2111]

KZbin shouldn't ban you when they literally let scam bots thru their platform they should keep you on their platform and instead ban those scam bots

[@Nyan4Eon]

From what a different KZbinr said, mentioning the H word that means to cheat in a video game greatly increases your chance of the video being struck

[@Pro_Triforcer]

A COMPUTER CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE THEREFORE A COMPUTER MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

[@manan67891]

and youtube recommends me literal scams and "ch34ts"....

[@Flyguy6025]

I love KZbin for their creators but hate when they get banned for reasons unknown.

[@_U_n_n_a_m_e_d_]

It's always the automated system and a half competent support team, every fucking platform.

[@taukakao]

I think KZbin needs to notify the user if a channel they subscribe to gets banned. I didn't subscribe to the KZbin algorithm, I subscribe to people and I feel like its my right as a user to know if KZbin is keeping information of a user from me.

[@dimitralex1892]

incompetents ends very often up in censorship, the only different is the intend.

[@ericm301]

4:11 You should make and post a video of the training. For, you know, training purposes.

[@mesalytic]

why rumble, it ain’t available in my country :/

[@buntizz]

I remember liking that video so I can watch it later and then when I couldnt find it I thought I was going crazy

[@justinhamilton8647]

HOW can that video possibly violate guidelines???? It’s just clicking download buttons!!!

[@Moziilla.Firefox]

Google Ruined KZbin & internet

[@jer1776]

KZbin shouldve either stayed independent or became a non profit like the Internet Archive.

[@unguidedone]

a community strike is not a "ban" its more of a restriction. bans are perm, while restrictions are temporary.

[@CheeseInZulu]

every big company is incompetent

[@isoettes]

Most normal KZbin moment.

[@JauRan123]

Is there any new Platform we all can move to? I am fed up with this.

[@Dennis-ur4zu]

ody7see (remove the 7)

[@nolanmales]

"Now of course 2020 was a long time ago..." 💀💀😭😭

[@test-rj2vl]

You need to sue them - that costs them money and therefore they will make a real human look into that.

[@Nyan4Eon]

And what about the clause that they can get rid of you for any reason they deem fit?

[@Sypaka]

Under "harmful or dangerous content" I assume things, which could *potentially and physically* harm someone _or_ someone else. I doubt downloading viruses for analysis is either of them.

[@_R11_]

Why is a pattern forming First endermanch Then Eric Who's next?

[@Sparky_Bunny]

I really miss the 2007 youtube when it was better than the current youtube.

[@dimoniysh5075]

7:17 - i think it just a bit cheaper to remove the human element from equasion. Likely one of the efforts for everlasting increse of efficincy all corparations feel victum to

[@Rivizar]

Make a backup channel and ill be the first to support

[@Sparronator9999]

He has a Rumble channel, but as far as I can tell, it only has deleted content from YT (including the video that got him the community guidelines strike).

[@ericm301]

1:33 . You committed the MostEgregiousSin™ in the title. You mentioned an external site.

[@laciachan7244]

I think odysee is still worth exploring besides youtube as well

[@danamir4798]

I'd suggest trying Odysee as a backup maybe?

[@ThatGuySnagz]

The only thing I can think of is adding a disclaimer at the beginning of each video saying you don't support anything in the video and it's for educational purposes only. Hopefully when a human skims the video, he'll see that immediately and possibly the lightbulb will click in his head.

[@mirahles]

Also consider that since 2019 yt shorts have exploded meaning there are more short form content on the platform.

[@ripplerxeon]

I think if you say loud and clear in the video "This is for Educational purpose Only" , maybe you can avoid the Automatic removel by bot. I am not a youtuber so cant say for sure but i think youtube Listen to the audio so maybe this work.

[@Garbagevideoplatform]

Have always despised Google's monopoly within the content creation sphere. Never knew you were even gone, I assumed the alg0rithm choked again

[@EIRE55]

AI is and will be a curse on rational thinking due to one vital aspect of the human condition.....reality.

[@Hugo-zg5kr]

Everything about hacking content scary Google, always has been like that

[@johnboyboy919]

mans got yeeted and I didn't even notice

[@ultimatesigmagamer]

This is the exact reason i despise youtube.

[@J0hnn7s]

Google should've been forced to sell KZbin as well