Roy Moore strikes again.
I don't understand why some people would be mad at the content when as you said, it is regularly just videos of kids being kids, but rather more the comments and people themselves. Also, from some papers I read during my Digital Culture and Digital Labor classes, content/comment management is an incredibly arduous thing to take on and if the comments are like the examples that you stated, then they are doing an ok, not great, job at managing them. People put some messed up stuff on the internet and it has been shown that CCM (commercial content moderators) people have had to need therapy from ptsd after what some have seen and some are regulated to only times of something like 6 months or something before they are let go to prevent long term damage. Wired did an interesting article that relates the topic fairly well. https://www.wired.com/2014/10/content-moderation/
People aren't mad at the content in this case. They're mad at the platform.
Yes, comment management is an extremely difficult thing to get right.
But it's also essential, and youtube's efforts on that front have been by and large laughable.
While I do agree with you Psykoma, I would argue that as Micah mentioned some people believe that the content is being exploited and when the content is combined like Ashley states, it creates a larger problem, and thus advertisers pull the money as Youtube decides to not fix their platform and somewhat promote other parts of their site to distract from problems and issues that they have had for a long time now.
This is the first The Know video in several months that I don't think I can finish.
ugh... this is why we can't have nice things.
People are awful. They're never gonna stop being awful or stop figuring out new ways to be awful. Content creators shouldn't be responsible for completely unsolicited awful comments on their videos. Advertizers know this, but they still feel the need to protect themselves from really really stupid people that actually associate ads on videos with off-the-wall comments (I'm curious if there's any statistics on such people). It's just a lose-lose situation.
Ashley: "Why, why would you do this!??"
In a fit of inspiration, I came up with a brilliant (and completely unexpected) theory about why people leave sexually explicit comments about children on Youtube. Please sit down before you read this.
Now this is totally crazy, but I think (I think!) it's because they're pedophiles.
On second thought, this is so improbable that we should immediately go back to being totally perplexed about this. Why, oh why, would someone ever do such a mysterious thing with no identifiable motive??
I think that the easiest method to protect yourself from this disgusting problem is to turn off the comments. There are plenty of other platforms to connect with your audience. Though, to be honest, I don't watch the content that this seems to really affect and it wouldn't bother me if no videos with children were allowed on Youtube at all. Child exploitation is a thing, and not just from creepy commentators, but from the parents that are looking to profit off of their children.
I gave this a view to be supportive of The Know, but this was really hard to sit through. I'm with Mica, such an uncomfortable thing to talk/listen about.
Mirroring my wife's comment... these people are not "gross" they are performing potentially illegal criminal acts... so they are criminals, not "gross".
A Very Unhappy At Everyone Involved Parent
From what I know from watching To Catch A Predator, just trying to get a response from a child for anything sexual is grounds for arrest. As it should be, of course. If not arrest then their door being kicked in and computers searched for cp to stick the arrest. Keep your fantasies in your head, weirdos (if i'm not mistaken, the reason they have them drive to the house is to have the maximum penalties stick)
I honest don't understand why reporting these users can't lead to numerous arrests and a restoration of consequences for doing illegal things... Youtube requires verification of your identity to get an account to make comments, doesn't it? (There was a whole thing about it changing to that at some point, no?) At the very least Youtube could sue these people to claw back some of the advertising money they are losing.
Why doesn't YouTube have a Channel Rating system in place to help decide which adds appear where?
There are so many solutions that Youtube could have had long before now that they don't have, from pressing charges to person and channel rating systems to a report for moderation flag that does anything at all.
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