Nolo – Why Minecraft Streamers are Treated Unfairly on YouTube

There is a game you can’t stream on youtube you can set up your stream and press go live but youtube won’t let you you can watch the stream as a video you could even share a link and others could watch it from that but youtube won’t promote you if you stream this game

Despite the fact that this game is one of the best selling video games of all time the game i’m talking about is minecraft as odd as it sounds you will not be treated as equally as other creators when you stream minecraft on youtube If this video is hitting the right people you’re hopefully a minecraft youtube live streamer if you’re not i’ll try to do a good job explaining the problem to you if you’re a good streamer you seek out the competition and see what others are doing better than you or

Worse than you despite them getting more viewers than you first let’s compare youtube gaming to its competitor twitch here’s a screenshot of twitch’s minecraft page set to recommended at 9 45 pm on a monday night this looks completely normal however youtube’s page has some serious issues here’s a screenshot of youtube’s

Minecraft page set to my region at 9 45 pm on a monday night this is their competition this is ours what happened since the beginning of the 2010s shifts and entertainment have been happening left and right this meant a heavier reliance on the internet to entertain individuals as opposed to television and

Radio what this unfortunately meant was that children’s content was necessary as parents relied on the internet to entertain their children youtube was the primary target for this surplus of children’s content creators began to notice the odd nature of this content many videos around the mid-2010s were devoted to exposing these videos

Evicting these creators from the adult side of the platform entirely youtube’s small efforts to remove these creators weren’t enough and before it was too late youtube was in serious trouble in november of 2019 youtube announced that they were making big changes to how kids content is handled on youtube the reason

In variety’s words to settle allegations that youtube violated the u.s children’s online privacy protection act the law bars internet companies from collecting data from kids under 13 something to which youtube turned a blind eye for years what youtube did was add a required setting when you upload a video

You must explicitly decide whether the video is made for kids or not made for kids while complying with the ftc’s requests the made for kids system also acts as a categorical value for videos when you’re an adult account on youtube you’re less likely to come across kids

Videos as they’re not made for you of course this doesn’t apply to these live streams at all children’s entertainment is not what live streams were ever for you press go live on a platform called youtube gaming your expectation is that you’re competing with other gamers not children’s content it’s unfair that

These creators are allowed to call what they do gaming in the minecraft category these streamers are abusing the made for kids system on their live streams youtube still allows live chat playlist saves and miniplayer on their content features that according to youtube’s own compliances with the ftc aren’t allowed

On content that is made for kids youtube even addressed this issue in 2019 saying although games like minecraft might appeal to children what’s important is whether the content you’ve created itself is directed towards kids why would youtube place live streams directed towards kids alongside live streams specifically marked as not made

For kids because these creators don’t mark their live streams as made for kids according to google support if your channel or live stream’s audience is set as made for kids some features will be turned off or restricted this includes live chat comments reminder notifications and personalized ads these

Channels have all of these features enabled on content that should be marked as made for kids which according to youtube’s definition is content that children are not the primary audience but the video is still directed at children because it features actors characters activities games songs stories or other subject matter that

Reflect an intent to target children all things that apply to these live streams youtube contradicts itself in this field youtube stated in 2019 that if we find you’re abusing our systems and intentionally marking your videos incorrectly this may result in consequences for your channel or videos exactly what these streamers are doing

Yet youtube is doing nothing to their channels or videos except promote them more youtube even elaborated on this later in the year when they said we’ll only change your settings if we detect error or abuse this is evidence that these creators are abusing the made for kids system and youtube is doing nothing

About it and remember that means that youtube is collecting data on miners which is something they got in big trouble for not that long ago youtube needs to change the way it filters places and handles children’s live streams on the platform for the safety of the children watching the passion of

The participants creating real content and the legal stability of its own platform i think i speak for a majority of minecraft youtubers when i say that this is not what we are we are so much more than these creators these creators are abusing a system designed to protect

Children as a weapon to hurt creators as one big minecraft community we need to stand up and retaliate against this illegal mistreatment of the content that surrounds us sign and share the petition i’ve linked at the top of the description and comments or go to change.org no more monster school to

Help this cause youtube gaming will always be in the shadow of twitch but if youtube can change how they handle this content maybe some mobs won’t spawn that’s what i would end the video with if the story ended there it unfortunately doesn’t by allowing live chat on these live streams youtube is

Putting the moderation in the hands of the creator along with whoever the creator decides can control the chat a moderator while researching for this video i stayed away from the content i was talking about because i thought i knew all of it i saw the grotesque thumbnails and titles i even watched one

For a few minutes a couple weeks ago i thought i knew everything until i entered the chat upon entering a smaller children’s livestream around 200 viewers to test if there really was a full live chat on a stream that should be marked as made for kids i noticed something a

Red arrow profile picture pointing to a link and a caption that read hot girls and boys video chat this took me by complete shock i never even thought of this until then i was just using the live chat as a hypothetical reason like someone could use this maliciously but

Nobody cares enough to do so so i checked some more jerk off ad wet girls are here and the biggest of them all an automated moderator named nightbot that deleted a message from one of these accounts online strips without clothing but the creator of the stream didn’t delete this message nightbot only

Caught it because the user was spamming and by calling out the user nightbot was doing just as much advertising for the website as the user spamming it as much as i wanted to end this video optimistically as a request to youtube to take care for its creators this is

Much more than that i am concerned for what this means for the platform and the young children that use it if youtube has been and continues being okay with their prominently featured minecraft creators abusing the made for kids system and allowing promotion of pornography to children there is a much

Bigger issue than creator discovery and platform advantages there are child safety laws being broken and youtube could be in big trouble again that’s all i have to say on this topic please sign the petition to forces creators to to enable their stuff as made for kids or just get them off the

Platform entirely because youtube clearly doesn’t care and the ftc could get involved at this point and cause another adpocalypse or many many other things that creators definitely don’t want so if you step up and sign the petition that means so much more than anything at this point i don’t

Know how i’m the only one noticing this but i really hope it changes thanks for watching and please subscribe i even got my english teacher to help me with some of the grammatical issues and and argument errors in the original script that that takes a lot of balls please

Please subscribe oh and i would like to thank literally every subreddit related to youtube streaming and gaming for completely ignoring the change.org petition uh that was desperate you guys i mean moderators guys when you notice something like this can you can you not just say uh this is a dream fan

Subreddit you know we we don’t care about issues related to youtube gaming and you know the future of gaming and where dreams channel is like guys come on come on this is a much bigger issue so so thank you reddit for completely ignoring this issue