last night i tried to watch a video on my ipad, which is my only device without adblock installed, and the FIRST ad was a fearmongering, misinformation-ridden, transphobic political ad... this platform is literally unusable without adblock if you value your sanity 💀
Omg yes. The freaking comic sites and erp games that CONSTANTLY show up in my ads no matter how many times I report or change my preferences. The bots and those gross ads have shown up on kid shows even. Like I was watching adventure time or powerpuff girls or something and it switched to RUclips kids and I STILL got those ERP games. Or those channels that upload other shows in the several hour long videos of the same shows are just bombarded with the Mr beast bots. I swear it’s like RUclips is intentionally trying to gr**m kids. There’s no reason for s*xu*lly explicit ads to get through on the kids side of it at the very least. I’m also a survivor of this time of ab*se and I’d rather not have it constantly shoved down my throat when I’m trying to enjoy some cartoons, or watch smosh, or listen to my commentary faves.
nearly everyday i see this one “draw to remove” ad that is just several photos of women in hijabs having their chests exposed by the app. it’s disgusting
Even if reporting isn't enough, DO NOT interact with bots. Don't reply to them, don't @ them, & beware their sketchy links. And the PAID ADS in banners & video playing before, during, & after videos (pre-roll/mid-roll) - "vetted" by Alphabet Inc., Google claims. So is that "vetting" how the same clip of fake game footage is actually from 3 different games _and_ an upcoming WB series _and_ several new & "classic" anime series? And all on dodgy webhosts & sketchy versions of real ones? And why even seemingly normal ads for the new season of a Netfux series or a soon-to-release blockbuster movie [with the dried-out IP] or even big-brand paper towels linked to sketchy urls? I like the ones that end abruptly, clearly cutting into a proper clip cos scammers couldn't be arsed. But suuure, "vetted" MY FOOT! Also not a fan of the "in the field" testing being done on viewers, pushing maximum ad tolerance. It's already gauche, like getting FOUR ads in a row (or even the usual 2, then a split-second back to the video, then JOSHIN' YA! ANOTHER AD!). Extra classy while advertising for RUclips Premium. We get it, ads could be gone, and for only 5x the price it was before the ad testing, just a bit _more_ than Netfux?! (The one with the commercial films and series, and at least some unions!) P.S. RUclipsrs, create a union! o/
I won't be shocked it's also another one of those languages RUclips drops the ball on with their moderation algorithm (seems like there is certain languages it has more difficulty with)
Or they cover a topic that’s actually important like war, genocide, covid, etc; & they’re fcked. Like even talking about serious topics like rpe has just spawned new words like grape and everyone between 10 & 55 knows what you mean. Like even ppl who want to transvestigate or spread some batsht q!anon sht just change their language, but everyone knows what they’re talking about. And the reason why this problem exists is the exact same reason a lot of other problems exist, YT doesn’t want to spend the $ on actual human moderaters. And those ppl need to be paid incredibly well bc i remember the stories about human moderaters literally developing PTSD from the sht they saw. They also need expensive healthcare bc they almost all end up needing long term therapy. It’s an incredibly fcked up situation but making the entire thing be handled by algos hasn’t solved the actual problem. But platforms like YT get to pretend they’ve done something so advertisers feel safe. Again it’s capitalism that’s the root of the problem.
In another contente creator's comment section, I was warning people not to interact with the bot and to R e p o rt it instead. My comments were deleted, but the bot comments were left.
reminder: you are not the FBI. even if you had no genuine intentions of "enjoying" cp, the mere act of searching for or trying to find it IS A CRIME. do NOT interact with the bots or try to ""uncover a rabbit hole""
THIS NEEDS TO BE A TOP COMMENT! viewing a CP video will permanently stay on your digital footprint, even if you remove it from your watch history, or delete the account you watched it on. It will stay!
something similar happened on instagram several years ago and they wiped it off their entire website like same day it was posted because people got wind and told them. it fucking sucks youtube isn’t doing anything about this, but that should tell you that seeking out the videos to report is also not gonna do anything except traumatize you and potentially get you in trouble.
I have a weird question, what happens if I do interact with them? Do I get on a watchlist? Does it give me a virus? Do they target my videos with those comments? Like what happens lol This is like some weird ass Scooby Doo mystery....involving cp 💀 Nah but actually pls respond 🙏 Thank you bro
@@RonKobeson it can affect hiring processes, like if an employer or something checks your footprint and on it, it shows your watch history and everything you've done on the internet. From what I know, those kinds of comments won't target you, nor will you get a virus. I'm not totally sure about the watchlist thing though.
the translation they're gonna get is DON'T DO YOUR FUCKING JOB. SO WHAT IF THIS IS FUCKING DISGUSTING AND SICKENING? YOU SHOULD FOCUS ON BLOCKING THOSE AD BLOCKERS INSTEAD OF ACTUALLY CLEANING UP YOUR PLATFORM man. why is youtube like this. :(
It's tricky, as the CP isn't on RUclips per se but rather offsite (e.g. in Discord groups). But these fake bot accounts contain links in their bios to such locations. No, one of the issues on RUclips/Google is that there are no controls over creating accounts. Facebook has an even bigger problem with this. And of course, those sites are disincentivized from making the creation of accounts harder to do.
It's not on RUclips and you know it why be disingenuous and not be honest?be And the government don't care one bit! Are you really that ignorant and blind?!?!?! give the government power and the abuse it, I'd rather not give them even more power to use and abuse, they would DESTROY RUclips AND YOU KNOW IT what is it with you weirdo's and giving the government even more power to ruin what we love!!?!?!??!?!!!
I've noticed that the bots are often the earliest comments on a video. I mean, within seconds of a video going up. Is youtube actually behind the bots to make it look like a new video is trending?? Remember, they're a soulless corporation owned by google that exists to make money. I don't think they're above bad behavior.
I kid you not, some guy was calling me slurs because I am autistic and have adhd, so I called him out caliing him "an edgy 13 year old" and my comment was removed INSTANTLY, yet this guys comments calling me multiple slurs is perfectly fine and is still up. It's like RUclips actively supports bigotry dude
and it's not like that it didn't register my reply for some reason, I wrote the same comment twice with different wording and both times it was removed immediately
it's really a shame that some people also don't consider the r slur to be an actual slur. when i tell people to stop saying it they act like i'm being a baby.
I refuse to believe that RUclips Studio, which can recognize a ten-second snippet of a song, is incapable of also recognizing and flagging CP in a timely manner before allowing it to go public. They just don't consider it a priority because fighting CP doesn't make them money.
I agree that absolutely there MUST be a team dedicated to removing/preventing these comments immediately. however, they recognize copyrighted music because its being compared to a database that contains the music. they would have to store the CP for comparison to flag it like music which obviously isn't possible lol
@@banquetoftheleviathan1404 Nah. F that. It should take down ANY videos with little kids. They have no business on the app regardless of the reason, and they are ALWAYS used nefariously by creeps, no matter how innocent. It is pure foolishness to expose a minor to strangers. Have you not heard about the deepfakes featuring underage kids/influencers? They are not old enough to deal with the trauma something like that causes. Other social media moderation teams have an ai flagging system, so the ones who do not are inexcusable. Reminder that RUclips fired their entire moderation team - so them training the AI is imperative.
YES!!! Fantastic idea!! Let's use AI in a helpful way that will enrich our community!!! I'd love to see AI being put to *actual* good use, instead of stealing and mining data for companies that don't need the money!! I hope RUclips reads this comment section.
for once an actual good use for replacing a human job with ai because humans having to screen through those types of comments can be emotionally scarring. but will google do anything about it? probably not 😑
I just reported two violent and child endangerment comments from your comment section. This video has only been up for a minute. I hope there is change from RUclips ASAP.
it’s crazy how if you slightly insult someone you won’t be able to comment for a day, but these nasty ass bot comments get allowed 😭😭 (like i remember telling this racist to stfu and i couldn’t comment for a day.. because it was “bullying”.)
@@hcneymoonhilarious how they’ll put you on cyber bully bans if you slightly insult but people can have their channel names as straight up racial slurs and it’s always the N word. Never fails
@@hcneymoon Same here. My claim was due to"harassment", when the person I was "harassing" was calling women murderers for getting abortions. Like, RUclips is on crack.
@cyerk No kidding. I mentioned how a shirts leave was too clean, and it was deleted for misinformation or conspiracy theory or some other stupid ironic reason.
I hate that we can't even block these accounts. It's crazy RUclips removed showing dislikes to protect creators' feelings, yet there's still no simple block feature that can do so much for our sanity.
I thought there was a block feature? Last time i checked was like three years ago, but it was a thing. It only stops users from commenting on a persons channel though, Don't think it blocks them across the platform.
It doesnt block the person, you can still see their comment in other comment sections, plus, you can avoid having someone interacting with your channel ONLY if you have a creator account
The worst part is you can no longer block people at ALL. The block feature was REMOVED! Truthfully, the content creators are the only reason why I am still on this hellsite.
@AVesselOfFlesh Yeah I tried to block a channel that was impersonating a larger creator and I searched for almost 20 minutes trying to find a way and the best I could do was “don’t recommend this channel”
a block button is a requirement for all social media platforms, especially ones on the app store and google play store. twitter got told off for trying to remove the block button, why can yt get away with it?
RUclips should be held liable for hosting child pornography. Maybe these platforms would actually allocate money into effective moderation if they were made to suffer any kind of consequence for their negligence
What's so annoying is that THIS is a good example of AI having a role to play. It could be a an auto-mod, automatically translating the comments to check them, keeping a running stockpile of known spam messages and variations, checking the age of profiles to see if they were created recently or have links to spam sites, doing "are you human" checks of other activity on the site, checking edits... ... rather than leaving it to individual creators to do all of this themselves.
Especially since being a content moderator on social media is known to be one of the most traumatic jobs just because of how much awful content needs to be sifted through. Obviously humans still need to be involved to some extent to ensure the AI doesn’t go off the rails or miss things, but genuinely using AI in this way would save so many people’s mental health.
That's exactly what I was just thinking! This is a perfect example of where ai would be really useful, since unlike humans it cannot be traumatized by reading vile stuff all day and can go much faster and be more reactive.
They have no issues blocking my comment agreeing with you though. The robot are mad at me because I left comments in pro p videos in support. But they don't moderate this nonsense. Make it stop.
But RUclips can't make tons of money off of selling the data from that!!!!! They can make tons of money off of the data they get from trying to organize comments by topic!
BTW the language 5:24 is Zulu from south africa. I've never imagined that I'd read something like that in our language. It's honestly so disgusting and horrifying. This world is honestly going through the most tbh
I was going to say that it also sucks for people who speak Zulu because that is probably one of very few Zulu comments on most videos; i cant imagine how i would feel seeing my language be used that way. Its so horrible :(
This is also common on Tik tok! Because you can’t put a face to an African languages like Zulu. It’s so scary! (Edited) As a native Zulu and a person who translates English documents to Zulu for a living, the lack of punctuations and the last phrase sounding so unnatural makes me believe that they too used google translate to write this horrible text in Zulu! Yoh! I’m angry that my mother tongue is used for such evil!
I can't help but think that it's not coincidence that they're leaving these horrific comments in an African language. Putting the words in the mouths of Black people lets them share horrific content and promote racist stereotypes at the same time.
Can the FBI do anything if the illegal behaviour is not coming from a person within their countries? Like if someone in Nepal spammed comments like these, what could the FBI do?
I mean they prob couldn’t personally do anything about the poster themself if they’re in a different country aside from reporting them to that country’s government, but RUclips itself is a US based company and can be investigated for allowing it on their platform
@@danielasofia6786 Yes, that's true. But its a shame that the people making these comments may get away with a couple banned accounts and continue their life as if they didn't commit crimes.
The bots are (I believe) interacting with RUclips via the standard user interface - that is, someone has created a program that presents itself as a web browser to RUclips, and creates user accounts, then comments from those accounts, via the same communication methods that your browser or mobile phone uses, when you navigate and post on RUclips (as opposed to using the RUclips API to interact with the RUclips system). If true, what this means is that RUclips treats those bots exactly as though they were people - they have a 'recommended' feed, which is subject to the standard algorithm. Why does this matter? - well, for one thing, it's a possible explanation as to why some channels get hammered with these bot comments and others seem to get left alone - the bots are probably trying to comment on stuff they are presented in their individual 'recommended' feed - which will tend to be videos that are related in some way, either by theme, or by associations that are audience driven. It's probably also a good reason why interacting with the bots is a bad idea. I don't know if responding to a comment means that one of my videos might get recommended to that person later, but if so, and you do that to a bot...
I remember when JacksepticEye's father passed away, and he discussed in a video, and as soon as he posted the next video, there were dozens of bots comments talking about how his father was r*tting in h*ll or other graphic disturbing stuff like that, and it was so... soul crushing... what a horrible thing to see at your own video, making you re-live your grief all over again...
And it wasn't just SeptocEye they targeted! They were a giant wave that swept over the site for at least a year. Those bots appeared over and over again, always screaming in all caps with so many personal variations of "[RUclipsr]'s [dead friend/family member] is in hell experiencing [insert horrible, short and graphic torture here, usually involving SA]." Like they had to be diving into each YTber's personal stories in order to set up these horrific bots. But one of the worse I saw was one of these on the channel of a creator who was black - there was no attack on his dead family or any horrific SA threats to his partner or sick friends, but instead they were just racist in the most visceral way. Something about jungle homes and the word "monkey", I don't remember the whole spiel now I just remember how disgusted and enraged I was as I tried to report the stupid things (there were multiple all screaming the same thing under his funny video).
Given that RUclips isn't doing anything about it, next time you come across a CP channel, tell the FBI. Seriously. Even if the bot is from another country, Google is an American company and should be held accountable.
Dude, it sucks that I’ve had to do that several times in the past few years, and it’s not even from RUclips. Certain GAMES I play even will get people spamming CP links in the text chat, and I literally link their account to the FBI tips site. Of course though, the FBI couldn’t give a fuck either. Just look at this recent shooting lmao.
@@BobbyBasketball19999 Even if you think the FBI might not do anything about it, it can never hurt to report and there is a chance that it WILL be used as evidence for the FBI for investigation. Also there is a specific unit within the FBI specifically for CP and trafficking, so you shouldn't assume that the FBI will do nothing here just because it didn't act in a different kind of situation.
@@fligglebobbin Exactly. Even if I’m pretty pessimistic on it, I definitely did still report those guys every time I saw it. Thankfully it’s been a long time since I last saw it in that game at least tho.
An entity doesn’t have to be the publisher of CSAM to still be held accountable. It would have to be proven that YT / Google had been made aware of the issue or knew of the events and failed to act in a timely manner. If that’s proven, IMO, they’re at minimum, hosting CSAM. Depending on jurisdiction, that can be a party-to-the-offense issue or, if the evidence is compelling enough, conspiracy to distribute. *just my thoughts*
@@doktorhabilitowanystanczykidk if the same thing OP is talking about, but for a while all the book review channels I watch the ads would be aggressively anti-trans and intentionally selected for those shows/vids because I didn’t see those ads on the random goofy/art vids I watch. Insta has (or did) a way to mark an advertiser as not relevant/offensive and at least semi block them. I reported those anti-trans ads every time for misinformation (it was disinformation technically, but close enough) and still saw them for weeks. It literally encourages hate crimes
i would really try find an adblocker that works for you if you know it’ll be a trigger, there are also chrome extensions (or if you’re a bit techier, browsers like Arc where you can customise the layout of specific websites) that turn off comments for example - as annoying as it is to not be able to access a pretty key part of yt, your mental health is Way more important
youtube banned me from commenting for 2 days after i got mass reported by taylor swift fans for agreeing with a commentary channel that i don’t like the last taylor swift album. But cp is okay
YT has gotten so much worse since the new CEO took over. The guy is just like Musk politically and just as infective(malicious) at running a social media site.
Hope all those people who spammed sexist shit about the previous CEO when she left are happy their godlen boy is fucking up youtube the way only a man can. :)
Yea, like even if they dont show dislikes, if it gets a 1% like to dislike ratio that would work... If there werent bots Bots would abuse that and remove yt landmarks, any comment they dont agree or do agree with etc. Every comment with less than 100k likes would probably be erased
back in the day like till about 15years ago we had something similar to that on youtube. it said something like: this comment has been hidden due to too many dislikes, would you still like to show it?
But then 2:11 would get removed. ITS NOT EVEN A BOT COMMENT!!! Seriously! Matpat is the worst youtuber ever who makes bad ragebait videos!!! Why are you all so blind to see he does little to no research for his videos!!!
Thank you for addressing this. It’s been insanity. I’ve seen so many gross bot comments, and as much as I do not interact and only report, nothing ever seems to happen.
@@0x5D Oh, I'm fully aware where it came from and I HATE it. Platforms forcing people to use humiliating wittle baby talk about serious topics or not say anything at all (if it's even the platforms doing this, which I highly doubt) is absolutely nightmarish.
@@clementinedanger it downplays the harsh reality of things. this ACTUALLY happens to people and they choose to censor things that NEED to be spoken about.
@@xygetsgirls Exactly. I've been told again and again by therapists and survivor groups that I need to name the thing that happened to my husband and talk frankly, and what happened for sure wasn't an unaliving due to neurospiciness as a result of grape. Are you fucking kidding me? That's how people want me to talk about his life? Of a person I miss and respect? Fuck on off outta here. And I do think it's people pushing this Newspeak the hardest now, not platforms. Call me crazy, but I think TikTok cottoned on to the "unaliving" scheme with a quickness.
Here's your extra credit for today: go find the most distasteful comment you can find in any comment section anywhere on the platform, make sure that the CHANNEL name is not visible if at all possible, and watch that video until you get an ad. Then screenshot that ad next to the worst comment you've seen in your life, and then ask the company on Twitter (or wherever) why they're advertising next to comments like that. Make "this company advertises next to bot comments about doing these things up children" viral, that's what the company advertises on. Not the channel, they want their name next to comments about &@#$ing children. They are SO concerned with the video content, they had BETTER be concerned with the comments too. That's what I think of them every time the advertise on videos with those comments. They like it. Otherwise they'd be pushing RUclips to do anything about the problem.
As a CSEM Survivor, thank you so much for deciding to speak out about this. RUclips really need to get its shit together and protect children. Both those in the videos from being retraumatised and the poor, innocent kids who may be traumatised by witnessing CSEM.
Unfun fact: Early this year, I reported a bunch of comments and channels to RUclips (which included homophobic content and animal exploitation content), and RUclips penalized *me* by "limiting some of [their] more powerful features" to my channel, so I couldn't pin comments, add external links to video descriptions, embed live streams, or "Get higher daily limits for live streams, Shorts, and video uploads". I'm pretty sure RUclips just took all the reports as spam (even though the email they sent said it was because I didn't have "sufficient channel history") and I have no idea if anything was done to those channels/comments. (The quotes were from the email they sent me.) To get this restriction removed, I either had to wait, or show them my ID!! Which is insane!! I just waited, and the things listed returned sporadically for about a month, and has been fully back for 4 months. This shit is SO stupid man
they did that to me too about a year ago. i still don't have access to those "advanced features". the difference in my case though is that i genuinely don't know what i did
Wait they did that to me too. I thought that was just some stupid update. You telling me they did that because of the vids I reported where they beat the shit out of an innocent rabbit?
They constantly show me ads that are scams with stolen footage or sexualized chat invites, even tho I report all of it. Makes me so mad. Like is Google lying about the tech they have or how they use it?
Because they don't care. Punishing people for silly things like using certain words is easy, and they can point to advertisers and go "see? We're family friendly!" But actually putting in effort to protect kids? Nah, that's too hard.
I’m glad I don’t often hit the translate button. For anyone living with PTSD from SA, CSA, and abuse this is even more frustrating. These things can cause flashbacks, severe panic attacks, and dissociative episodes. RUclips needs to protect its users.
This is also an issue on Tiktok. I've seen racist and illegal type of comments fly under moderation because someone translates their bigoted views to languages like Ethiopian Amharic. I hate seeing my language used in that way, it's sick.
Im sorry. People who don’t know better would probably think that it’s people from 3rd world countries… and coming from a 3rd world country myself it’s disgusting and sick.
@@youre_totally_right_but_Oh, trust me, no one but a complete idiot would actually think any genuine user of those languages would make such vile comments. We all know it ain't you guys, it's always bots set up by bastards.
Instagram doesn’t have a translate comment issue but it does have a child/animal sexual exploitation material issue. I can’t count the amount of times I’ve reported accounts like that. Edit: spelling error
I have only reported people on tiktok when they're being outright and undeniably racist, homophobic, transphobic, whatever. But not once have they ever done anything about it, not even the 2 comments saying both variations of the f slur, UNCENSORED, nor the account of a literal neo nazi who was ALREADY BANNED IN THE PAST. Major corporations either don't care about this stuff in the slightest (surprise surprise) or outright WANT this kind of stuff to spread. Hell my tiktok account has a pride flag in the username and I get people replying or commenting about it literally daily, and almost always negatively.
5:02 that's IsiZulu, one of the 12 official languages in South Africa. My home language is IsiZulu and randomly reading that was so disgusting and upsetting. these bots are vile.
@@Alicja09 fr a few years back (i dont remember the name of the language)but I do remember that it was an Icelandic language, and was pretty much saying everything you'd expect
They (Google/Alphabet - the owner of youtube) needs to be antitrust sued to the point of offloading RUclips. They (Goog/Alph.) also need to do something about the abusive usage (the offensive comment usage) of Translate.
@RUclips needs to be reported to the FBI for promoting CP; because at this point, not deleting a reported video or comment that clearly shows CP is @RUclips saying that content is okay to post, which is @RUclips promoting CP. Only when RUclips gets in serious legal trouble will they actually do something about it; it has to hit their wallet or they don't care.
there are laws which basically mean youtube is not responsible for what people post on their platform, and i seriously doubt they would allow that on the platform if they were aware of it, but in reality any policing of the content uploaded to youtube is a courtesy rather than them being forced to take it down (besides it benefits their image if they take down illegal/hateful/adult content) (this is just from my own memory lol it could be different)
I've been saying this exact thing for a while now! If RUclips isn't doing anything to remove this content, it's because RUclips is completely okay with it, they're actively allowing it, I bet they're all pedos themselves
@@maladyLshare holders and advertisers would probably be dismayed with this at the very least. Same goes with investigative groups, who are known for taking down platforms that show CP. even if RUclips didn't upload it, they are still responsible for doing very little about it. Or else CP websites could say that "We tried to delete it all"
@@maladyL I see what you mean, the laws are new and were put in last year. That's a shame. But from what I did read, "These two decisions may convince Congress to take Section 230 on themselves. Members of Congress from both parties are already pushing criminal and civil online safety legislation that would implement restrictions for internet platforms and social media companies. The debate is unfolding against the backdrop of growing concern from Congress and the Justice Department for the safety of minors online." Hopefully the laws are soon changed for the better.
RUclips is a public sphere. Just as much as a forum, or a community center, or a coffee shop. This is equivalent to posting physical CP in a public space, or shouting slurs to promote violence. RUclips, the company, has an obligation to protect this public sphere for the sanctity of itself and the safety of users.
That comparison is beyond wild and WRONG The CP ISN'T ON THIS SITE AT ALL AND YOU KNOW IT God why are you people making me defend this cancerous site?? It's offsite, still scummy but a HUGE difference and completely invalidates your trashy comparison Plus people shout spurs to "promote violence" all he time every day in public and on socials, what is even your point? Make good points if you are gonna make one at all, this beyond suxxxxxx, it's absolutely not like a community centre or coffee shop, last I checked you couldn't blast music or watch people get battered and shot in a coffee shop or community centre on an hourly basis They do have an obligation to tidy their site, but you have an obligation to not be so disingenuous and making ridiculous comments that don't even apply it make much sense at all
Remember y'all: if you (God forbid) come across illegal material, prioritize reporting to the FBI or your country's law enforcement. it probably won't do much, but it is 100% better to be safe than sorry
thank u for the reminder, I have a reminder of my own that I hope you don’t mind my sharing. next time, push away thoughts of “it probably won’t do much” because why buy into this mindset? people feel too comfortable having little to no influence, when we remind each other that we are each other’s influence, and in constantly doing the right thing regardless, we give each other power. it is up to each and every one of us to actively do the right thing, such as upholding the law when others, like youtube, refuse
I mean I have had cops visit me over having an upside down cross on my door or the fbi visit me cuz my ex landlord found a picture of an isis flag. they had to visit me knowing these things are not even illegal. the police usually have to respond even to stupid claims. I think the truth is people are more likely to see it through if it's personal and petty but don't keep that same energy for actual crimes that don't affect them.
Which reminds me. If you want this to stop happening, do a screenshare video showing the adruns to videos, with the unmoderated comment section full of this heinous stuff underneath. Share it directly with the brands that are running ads. Let them know what their brands are being associated with, and how youtube isn't doing anything about it.
Considering some of the brands can be pretty bad themselves (looking at you, BetterHelp), I don't know if that would work. But there may still be enough that could pull back for RUclips to finally take notice. The usual normal people talking about it doesn't matter to them, because they'll always have users who don't know using RUclips. But companies that give them money? _That's_ the place to hit. RUclips doesn't care unless holes are being poke in their pockets.
This included an entire team dedicated to identifying, taking down, and reporting comment or video description links to exploitative content of children.
I'm gonna assume it's because it is the last language included in the google translate list at the very bottom, and it's probably not that known by most of humanity, so it works as shock content
This is happening on tiktok too. There’s terrible content that blatantly goes against their “guidelines” yet every time I report something it’s “no violation” they just don’t care
same on instagram. women & men have FULL parts out. send in a report & they don't find anything wrong. but may the goddesses forbid i post a picture of my sleeved elbow so they can immediately take it down
Yuppp! I've reported so many bot accounts on Insta, sometimes the profile pic is just a nekkid ahh, but Insta is like "no issue here, shut up". I stopped trying. Makes me think they're being paid good $$$ behind the scenes to make this continue.
One of my favorite tik tok creators got their video removed for “sexual content” when she was fully dressed and making a video about healing from mental illness ????? But then they just let vile bots have a field day 👺
@@jaycanpaint2533I can't believe a human would look at that and find that it doesn't go against guidelines. Further proof of AI moderation failing us.
RUclips and Google needs to be investigated by the FBI and Federal Government. How can they possibly allow LITERAL CSAM ON THEIR PLATFORM? Is it intentional grooming? The FBI needs to get on their ass NOW!!!
@@emilyr8668yes! The fbi has an anonymous tipping website. They have specific forms for specific types of crimes but if you google fbi tips its the first result that shows u
An absolute insane part of this is you can block a spam channel BUT that doesn't stop them from replying to genuine comments on your videos with MORE SPAM!! There's one I've blocked and reported 100+ times over the last TWO YEARS and it's still able to reply to comments from real people on my video. It's insane.
Maybe the bots that are spewing random names are trying to find your real name. Usually a youtuber has his name blacklisted on their channel to protect their identity, so by spamming random common names they can see which comments get deleted and thus find your first or last name. With this information it gets easier to blackmail or crack your password.
Wasn't like the BIG thing on RUclips (before copyright) no nudity or porn? They take action on HISTORIC works like paintings and statues featuring naked people in a non-sexualized way, but CP going unchecked gets to stay up on RUclips???? This is a disgusting new low.
Hey, just a reminder that cp isn't the term, and literally nobody uses it except actual pedophiles trying to make it seem like children can consent like normal porn and csem is the actual term
I think I have upwards of 200 keyphrases and specific character strings blocked entirely on my channel to keep most of the more overt NSFW stuff at bay, but there is ALWAYS more and they increasingly require closer inspection which is becoming frustrating.
i knew about spam bots trying to “click here to see naked moms in your area” bait and shit, but i had no idea that THIS stuff with the translate and child exploitation was going on. it’s so??? just beyond horrific and disgusting. this needs to be youtube’s priority
Yea cause most people will never encounter this . I srsly think he took the ball and ran away with it for big views . As you can see from other comments here , theres not a single bot comment here . not even onlyfan stuff . His own channel is already clean and most people never saw this and still doesnt see it so yea, my guy really feel in love with the everyday video paycheck i think because as he said in the beginning there can essily be more negative coming out of saying where people can find this stuff . Really wondering if this video was a great idea/ cmpletely justifiable
@@charlescantin3280the vid paycheck is definitely an incentive, but I've /definitely/ seen the same comments he's shown. His channel (at least from what I've seen) has been safer from it, but for others (like pewdiepie) it's almost impossible to find any comment without another spam one underneath until you're half way through. Maybe I just watch too much yt tho lol so I hope other ppl don't see them as much, but I'm glad a big creator is talking about it directly at least
@@charlescantin3280 I have literally encountered this comment in every commentary channel I have watched the past several months. I first noticed it in Gabi bells comments, I then saw it in Harry J Miller, I saw it here! I’ve seen it ALLLL OVER and I have been tagging and reporting it for months now. So yes it’s very real, u might just be viewing heavily moderated comments or u aren’t watching as much RUclips as I do lol
These types of bots are even more disgusting. They're using child exploitation under a foreign language so people will accidentally see that shit? Man I wish when bots would simply say "hot milfs in your area"
A lot of people have talked about this. Namely JackSepticEye, Charlie, Markiplier, etc. Almost each of them have atleast 2 videos on how RUclips needs to fix this within about 5 years. Hell, Terminal Montage even made an animation on the issue.
It's crazy to me that these bot comments can get past the shadowbanning with words like that, but then us humans have to rewrite our innocuous comments multiple times if they contain some unknown keyword that has been flagged otherwise they just don't get posted with no notice to you.
Funny a Bot is saying this blatantly false statement EVERYONE and their dead gran has talked about this, the Bots are blending in well I see This is a Bot comment people
I literally saw a bot promoting a CP video in Nick Crowley's video of an Instagram predator a few days ago. Reported it as soon as I saw it. Honestly, RUclips has hit a new low. Allowing bots to promote porn, CP and violence? I hate YT so much sometimes.
actually abhorrent the comment section is used in that way, especially on that vid considering its subject and all the creepy kid and fetish stuff hes got going on. actually just rubbing salt in the wound
@anamelessbird yeah that's happened to me before too! I literally don't get it. You get it a bunch on those videos where a person is just at the bottom of the screen and it's a tv show scene. The comments are FULL of racists
yes insulting an overt nazi calling for genocide has gotten me temp banned. the ai cannot tell what "G the J now" means but can tell that "screw you nazi" means smth rude.
they removed the block button too😭 the fuck is "hide user from my channel"?? im starting to think youtube genuinely cares more about removing adblockers than the actual problems here.
Report these comments, the accounts, the links they post to the FBI. do not internally report. Report to the FCC and FTC and FBI. Please. Report the the FBI before you go to RUclips. They do not care, the FBI doesn’t take these things as lightly.
This. I think when it's not just spam, but CP as some people say (never met those, thankfully), you need to report directly to authorities. Unless YT has a clear policy for investigating these accounts aside from just banning them as they pop up.
@@hannahboebanna They’ll listen especially when it comes to CP or things of the sort, I’m not sure how to report but I would imagine it’s pretty easy to look up. And from what I have seen most of the links posted links to absolutely horrible things, similar to what the worst of the worst ai spam comments elude to. It’s not only a crime in of itself to film and create such content, but it’s also very illegal to spread and post especially in public spaces ESPECIALLY when children have access to said places.
The longer I live the more massive the CP problem seems. It seems like a genuinely massive amount of people are depraved enough to be involved. It’s very soul crushing. It’s not something my brain can comprehend either. I’m horrified for the children of our world.
Oh my god, I'm so glad someone prominent is finally talking about this, it's been driving me crazy seeing people just ignore these guys. It's been bad for so long and reporting them doesn't do squat, RUclips really don't care.
I've reported the same bot at least 50 times. I see the same name on every single video, specifically in commentary RUclips. Still replies on 15-20 comments on every video. They really do nothing but hide the specific comment from the one that reports them.
I have never commented on a youtube video seriously before but this time I just had to. That comment you translated at 5:40 is written in my home language and I still can't phathom why a person would write that. It's insanely disturbing and it really hit home for me seeing that I rarely see Zulu speaking people on international youtube but once I do it's something like this. All of the comments shown in the video are horrible and I hope @RUclips actually does something. Thanks for making this video D'Angelo.
I wonder if Zulu was chosen because RUclips doesn’t have back end moderation for that language yet? I’m sorry your language has been co-opted for something so disgusting. I hope RUclips is held accountable immediately
Thank you for making this video!!! I saw the really awful CP accounts under penguinz0 video and I was so disgusted by them and was so disappointed at RUclips even after I reported those accounts they still didn’t do anything.
D'Angelo, you said you're in contact with numerous other creators about this... I would suggest the group of you going to the mainstream news about this. RUclips might shape up if a news outlet embarrasses them. At the very least, it will alert more parents to what's going on in the comments sections of the videos their kids are watching, which might lead to advertisers pulling support down the line. This is the only thing I can really think of to force RUclips to take action...
bruv thank you for this, i accidentally translated one of these comments and it was about csa - safe to say i cried for like half an hour it was so disgusting. i cant even call someone a loser without it popping up about community guidelines but these bots can post absolutely despicable and disturbing comments and thats cool?? alright youtube, one useless website
I wanna talk about something somewhat personal related to this. My 8 year old brother had a RUclips account where he would post stuff about football, his art, and his favorite cartoons. He would show his face on his videos and everything. My parents and I had no idea about his channel but when I found out about it I checked his comments first. Some were just other kids his age commenting, but most of them were bots talking in a different language about harming children. One had videos of small children being harmed, I was so disturbed by it I genuinely cried and panicked. I explained this to my parents and they made him delete his whole account. I’m really worried that these bots might also be targeting young children on RUclips. I had nightmares about those videos I saw.
That’s horrible! I’m so very sorry your brother had to experience this! Good on you for being there for him and explaining the situation to your parents. There are so many monsters out there 😭
I guess that explains, why "videos intended for kids" are not able to have a comment section on youtube since a few years ago. I know, it wasn't the main reason at the time, and it doesn't actually solve anything... but it does explain it a little.
@@Faefire when youtube began restricting those videos from having comments this bot issue didn't really exist, the bot stuff started happening like a year or two later
i generally don’t scroll though comment sections unless i’m curious about audience feedback on a topic, but even so i’m (pleasantly) surprised ive never seen horrific comments like that.
I'm so worried that there’s Actually people trading illegal content hiding behind everyone assuming they’re bots. Just out in the open bc no one assumes they’re real. edit: oh there straight up Is! RUclips is such a good website
How’d you find out it was real???? (I’m still in the beginning of the video, if he talks about it then sorry for being dumb) Edit: WHAT THE HECK OKAY I GOT TO THE PART HE TALKED ABOUT IT OMG IN PLAYLISTS ON RUclips????!!!?!?
@@GwynzyGG some of them are actually posting abuse material- while they probably are bots it looks like they were set up by actual predators to both traumatise people and trade abuse content :/ d'angelo does mention it later on but I can totally understand not being able to make it through this video it’s rough
Really disturbing :( I have a young sibling with unsupervised RUclips access and I always worry what he will come across. And it’s only been getting worse
It is genuinely so hard to keep kids safe online without becoming overbearing. I worry about my younger sibling all the time... I really hope that something can be done about all this. No one should be exposed to that kind of content.
@@fermentedstrawberryit really scares me. It’s far too easy to find disturbing and sexual content, especially when it’s as easy as clicking once on a RUclips comment
@@pbee.njayay444 Exactly, watching RUclips with my brother I often find overt sexual content within. Usually hidden in the middle where parents aren’t likely to notice. These videos are for children. RUclips will censor creators for nothing and will leave content like that on their platform alongside these egregiously disgusting spam comments? It makes me sick
I remember getting ads for s*x toys, adult content sites and even racist ads as well and they've been under things like speed paints, kpop music videos and even cartoon clips! It gets to the point if I'm watching RUclips with someone else I turn ad blocker on because of how constant it is
This is such a huge problem, many schools who use laptops for research don’t have RUclips accounts and RUclips ads for non account users are so s*ex filled and it’s all “date Ukrainian women!” With a huge woman with honkers and the fact that s*x toys are allowed to be played in ads in the first place is awful although I feel like advertising s*x toys isn’t bad it is when it’s on a platform this big at any time of day ☹
in the past youtube showed me a lot uhhh ads I clicked not to show me this one, and they continued I just want to watch a video, I get recommend this and I don't want to watch it anymore because I'm disgusted
Removing the ability to block is the most clear sign that they're in support of this content, imo, because now a creator can't even block the people spreading bad material from commenting. I can't think of any other reason for that change. But then a RUclipsr I watch has a video where now RUclips has this "this video may be inappropriate" at the start of the video, and age-restricted it. It was a video about crossover ships with, at worse, some swearing. But actual harmful material, stuff a kid may even stumble on, is allowed. RUclips is actively complicit in this stuff, yet nothing is going to happen to them unless their piggybank took a hit because of this.
I saw that they removed the block button and it made me super paranoid because I've had my stalker blocked for years and now they can find me easy again.
@@abrasivesoup No! But...but...removing the block button is for YOUR joy and safety! For the kids! Why would you ever want to block another human!? On a serious note, I'm sorry you have to go through that. RUclips sucks so bad right now.
@@abrasivesoup That's my issue. There's nowhere else really to watch longer videos, at least not for free or actually feel as virus-free (barely) or well known. It's like they're purposely seeing how far they can go with crumbling the site just because they don't really have competition
I haven't finished the video yet but there's a page on Facebook that used to post actual content but it either got hacked or the admin sold it to someone. It randomly popped up on my feed and I was HORRIFIED. Besides the soft porn photos and videos, it also posted very inappropriate videos of children - mostly videos of them being breastfed but the women were wearing little to no clothing, being filmed in a very sexual or provocative way, and really just sexualizing the hell out of breastfeeding. It genuinely made me nauseous. I reported it to Meta - several times! - and I always receive the "content did not violate Meta's guidelines" response. HOW???? How is Meta okay with this??? This is so sick.
@@gabeparks8173that’s an idea.. youtube, at this point is condoning the behavior. so if it takes the threat of them being shut down for it to stop then so be it
@@caleosun i feel like this could create a chain reaction since so many youtubers' livelihoods depend on the income from their youtube videos. so once the threat of youtube possibly getting shut down were to be considered, many (big) youtubers would speak up and pressure google to do something about it imo.
Zulu is a beautiful language that I grew up hearing very often and it really breaks my heart that is is being used this way and I’m so sad for any native Zulu speakers that have to read those comments and see their language used in this way
@@LyricAndCompany This is the annoying part about trying to report bot comments. In the time it takes me to go through and report 5 of their comments, they've already posted 20 more. From my experience if you flag several of their copy paste bot comments in a row, that's basically the only time youtube has ever emailed me back saying they took action against the account. Sure it took them 2 weeks to delete that one bot but what about the thousands of new ones that were made in that time. I for sure wouldn't want to be youtube in this situation
I stopped reporting them. No matter how much I reported, the comments were either still there, or new ones appeared sooner than they were being deleted. It just seemed pointless and like a waste of time. Regular human users can’t win over bots, that’s why we really need YT to take action
Yes, but never for the right people. I sent EDP445 a death threat on his new channel and INSTANTLY got a 24 hour ban for harassment. I've seen plenty of death threats and other messed up shit directed at completely harmless people and still be up hours later.
@@chesspiece4257i Think spam is better as their filter is better at seeing it be spam instead of child abuse even tho its both and honeslty ive had the same thought
Hi I’m a person, and I approve this message. Thank you for speaking up D’Angelo, and thank you to everyone who I see have reached out to news outlets. This needs to be elevated to force @youtube to take action on cp and other horrendous atrocities being committed on this site
RUclips is probably too busy fighting adblockers to be bothered dealing with any legitimate moderation for this.
Literallyyy
Actually tho
Yup, that and pushing the weirdest videos/channels as "suggestion"
It’d be great if RUclips could remove the very obvious soft core CP videos.
last night i tried to watch a video on my ipad, which is my only device without adblock installed, and the FIRST ad was a fearmongering, misinformation-ridden, transphobic political ad... this platform is literally unusable without adblock if you value your sanity 💀
Wild how RUclips doesn't do their job unless they're publicly embarrassed into doing it.
They’re just like the police 😭
I sure wish we could do that with like anything else...
And even then, they do the bare minimum
@@ukelsele oop
And they like to call us unwashed masses lazy 🙄
THE ADS. THE SEXUAL AI CHAT BOTS, SEX STORY GAMES ITS SO GROSS GOOGLE PLEASE STOP THIS BS
and the csam
Omg yes. The freaking comic sites and erp games that CONSTANTLY show up in my ads no matter how many times I report or change my preferences.
The bots and those gross ads have shown up on kid shows even. Like I was watching adventure time or powerpuff girls or something and it switched to RUclips kids and I STILL got those ERP games.
Or those channels that upload other shows in the several hour long videos of the same shows are just bombarded with the Mr beast bots.
I swear it’s like RUclips is intentionally trying to gr**m kids. There’s no reason for s*xu*lly explicit ads to get through on the kids side of it at the very least.
I’m also a survivor of this time of ab*se and I’d rather not have it constantly shoved down my throat when I’m trying to enjoy some cartoons, or watch smosh, or listen to my commentary faves.
The ads are rapey to say the least. Really inappropriate.
@@randomy2bhandle there are so many ads like this about "finding single foreign girl" Jesus
nearly everyday i see this one “draw to remove” ad that is just several photos of women in hijabs having their chests exposed by the app. it’s disgusting
I messaged NY Times about this. RUclips only gets off the couch when mainstream media outlets start covering their issues.
Love it, thank you, very wise and idk why I forgot journalism exists
Great job! More people will need to do this though, before they actually write an article.
tweet these stories at talking heads from any news organization and someone will eventually want the scoop.
RUclips is getting more bad… I remember RUclips in 2019, what happened?
Thank you ❤
do NOT interact with the bot comments. REPORT report *report* them. every time.
boost !!
Not that it ever does anything. RUclips is too busy blowing advertisers to run a functional platform
RUclips doesn't care, even if you report them the comments and bots are still there.
reportinag doesn't do anything. i reported this same bot everyday and it is still able to make comment
Even if reporting isn't enough, DO NOT interact with bots. Don't reply to them, don't @ them, & beware their sketchy links. And the PAID ADS in banners & video playing before, during, & after videos (pre-roll/mid-roll) - "vetted" by Alphabet Inc., Google claims. So is that "vetting" how the same clip of fake game footage is actually from 3 different games _and_ an upcoming WB series _and_ several new & "classic" anime series? And all on dodgy webhosts & sketchy versions of real ones? And why even seemingly normal ads for the new season of a Netfux series or a soon-to-release blockbuster movie [with the dried-out IP] or even big-brand paper towels linked to sketchy urls? I like the ones that end abruptly, clearly cutting into a proper clip cos scammers couldn't be arsed. But suuure, "vetted" MY FOOT!
Also not a fan of the "in the field" testing being done on viewers, pushing maximum ad tolerance. It's already gauche, like getting FOUR ads in a row (or even the usual 2, then a split-second back to the video, then JOSHIN' YA! ANOTHER AD!). Extra classy while advertising for RUclips Premium. We get it, ads could be gone, and for only 5x the price it was before the ad testing, just a bit _more_ than Netfux?! (The one with the commercial films and series, and at least some unions!)
P.S. RUclipsrs, create a union! o/
I’m so sorry for all the Zulu speakers having to see their language used for such an evil purpose 😢
Thank you, i was thinking this too.
i’m not gonna lie, it feels very much on purpose, and for racist reasons. that these bot comments are in zulu specifically
I hated reading such. It’s sick
I won't be shocked it's also another one of those languages RUclips drops the ball on with their moderation algorithm (seems like there is certain languages it has more difficulty with)
@@randomtinypotatocriedthat’s absolutely how it gets past moderation
it's actually disgusting how youtube can allow ACTUAL CP to fly, but god forbid you swear one too many times
Or they cover a topic that’s actually important like war, genocide, covid, etc; & they’re fcked. Like even talking about serious topics like rpe has just spawned new words like grape and everyone between 10 & 55 knows what you mean. Like even ppl who want to transvestigate or spread some batsht q!anon sht just change their language, but everyone knows what they’re talking about. And the reason why this problem exists is the exact same reason a lot of other problems exist, YT doesn’t want to spend the $ on actual human moderaters. And those ppl need to be paid incredibly well bc i remember the stories about human moderaters literally developing PTSD from the sht they saw. They also need expensive healthcare bc they almost all end up needing long term therapy. It’s an incredibly fcked up situation but making the entire thing be handled by algos hasn’t solved the actual problem. But platforms like YT get to pretend they’ve done something so advertisers feel safe. Again it’s capitalism that’s the root of the problem.
Literally, got warned for swearing in a comment section but CP comments run wild, the hypocrisy
You also can't make a video about the issue or call out someone who's promoting, consuming or producing CP.
@@awetistic5295yeah like “you want to expose horrible predators? Nuh uh. How about I smite you instead?”
In another contente creator's comment section, I was warning people not to interact with the bot and to R e p o rt it instead. My comments were deleted, but the bot comments were left.
reminder: you are not the FBI. even if you had no genuine intentions of "enjoying" cp, the mere act of searching for or trying to find it IS A CRIME. do NOT interact with the bots or try to ""uncover a rabbit hole""
THIS NEEDS TO BE A TOP COMMENT! viewing a CP video will permanently stay on your digital footprint, even if you remove it from your watch history, or delete the account you watched it on. It will stay!
something similar happened on instagram several years ago and they wiped it off their entire website like same day it was posted because people got wind and told them. it fucking sucks youtube isn’t doing anything about this, but that should tell you that seeking out the videos to report is also not gonna do anything except traumatize you and potentially get you in trouble.
general you of course not like “you” the poster
I have a weird question, what happens if I do interact with them? Do I get on a watchlist? Does it give me a virus? Do they target my videos with those comments? Like what happens lol This is like some weird ass Scooby Doo mystery....involving cp 💀 Nah but actually pls respond 🙏 Thank you bro
@@RonKobeson it can affect hiring processes, like if an employer or something checks your footprint and on it, it shows your watch history and everything you've done on the internet. From what I know, those kinds of comments won't target you, nor will you get a virus. I'm not totally sure about the watchlist thing though.
hey youtube! translate this: DO YOUR FUCKING JOB. THIS IS FUCKING DISGUSTING AND SICKENING. THERES NO WAY ITS NOT BY CHOICE AT THIS POINT
I am so tired of these companies. I am exhausted.
@@radishfest i know right the world is turning to shit and these shitheads are the cherry on top
NOT RUclips. The ceos name is NEAL MOHAN. corporations are not sentient, the people running them are.
Hey YT translate this 🗣 🖕
the translation they're gonna get is DON'T DO YOUR FUCKING JOB. SO WHAT IF THIS IS FUCKING DISGUSTING AND SICKENING? YOU SHOULD FOCUS ON BLOCKING THOSE AD BLOCKERS INSTEAD OF ACTUALLY CLEANING UP YOUR PLATFORM
man. why is youtube like this. :(
I’m sorry CP on RUclips??? And RUclips didn’t even do anything??? Holy shit the gov needs to hold RUclips accountable for these despicable bots
Omg, right? horrific stuff. They won't let you show a tiddy but CP is all well and dandy apparently 💀
It's tricky, as the CP isn't on RUclips per se but rather offsite (e.g. in Discord groups). But these fake bot accounts contain links in their bios to such locations.
No, one of the issues on RUclips/Google is that there are no controls over creating accounts. Facebook has an even bigger problem with this. And of course, those sites are disincentivized from making the creation of accounts harder to do.
Also how is the FBI not on this? Isn’t there a government agency that’s only job is to find CP and try to find the kids and delete the videos??
can we like mass report RUclips to the fbi lol
It's not on RUclips and you know it
why be disingenuous and not be honest?be
And the government don't care one bit!
Are you really that ignorant and blind?!?!?!
give the government power and the abuse it, I'd rather not give them even more power to use and abuse, they would DESTROY RUclips AND YOU KNOW IT
what is it with you weirdo's and giving the government even more power to ruin what we love!!?!?!??!?!!!
RUclips is fucking complicit in this if not willfully allowing it
At this point your right they’ve allowed it
Absolutely this.
I believe they allow it because they make more money. It’s disgusting if it’s true but I wouldn’t be surprised unfortunately considering Google.
I've noticed that the bots are often the earliest comments on a video. I mean, within seconds of a video going up. Is youtube actually behind the bots to make it look like a new video is trending?? Remember, they're a soulless corporation owned by google that exists to make money. I don't think they're above bad behavior.
They’re most certainly allowing it.
I kid you not, some guy was calling me slurs because I am autistic and have adhd, so I called him out caliing him "an edgy 13 year old" and my comment was removed INSTANTLY, yet this guys comments calling me multiple slurs is perfectly fine and is still up. It's like RUclips actively supports bigotry dude
oh ewww thats so gross im sorry that happened
and it's not like that it didn't register my reply for some reason, I wrote the same comment twice with different wording and both times it was removed immediately
it's really a shame that some people also don't consider the r slur to be an actual slur. when i tell people to stop saying it they act like i'm being a baby.
@@RaelExplodes Yeah but it's not even that, he knew I was disabled and very specifically used the word against me
@@primalpeashooter yeah i was just bringing up another thing that was related to the topic
I refuse to believe that RUclips Studio, which can recognize a ten-second snippet of a song, is incapable of also recognizing and flagging CP in a timely manner before allowing it to go public. They just don't consider it a priority because fighting CP doesn't make them money.
exactly!!!
I agree it's crazy
I agree that absolutely there MUST be a team dedicated to removing/preventing these comments immediately. however, they recognize copyrighted music because its being compared to a database that contains the music. they would have to store the CP for comparison to flag it like music which obviously isn't possible lol
Because it's allot easier to recognize a specific song or content ID than it would be for an algorithm to understand and identify random csam
@@banquetoftheleviathan1404 Nah. F that. It should take down ANY videos with little kids. They have no business on the app regardless of the reason, and they are ALWAYS used nefariously by creeps, no matter how innocent. It is pure foolishness to expose a minor to strangers. Have you not heard about the deepfakes featuring underage kids/influencers? They are not old enough to deal with the trauma something like that causes.
Other social media moderation teams have an ai flagging system, so the ones who do not are inexcusable. Reminder that RUclips fired their entire moderation team - so them training the AI is imperative.
RUclips when you wanna use curse words in your comment: 😡
RUclips when bots use racial slurs and tall about child r*pe and murder in the comments: 😴
I am so glad I have never seen this 😭
@@TheNinjapancake14me too. But being woke to this is insane now. Making me sick.😣
i unfortunately seen this too much
youtube gave me a ban for saying how much I hated these bot comments
Literally tho I don’t understand how they can be so lazy with the comments
Hey @RUclips - since everyone is so obsessed with AI right now, how about we train one to detect and report these awful bot accounts? Thanks!
YES!!! Fantastic idea!! Let's use AI in a helpful way that will enrich our community!!! I'd love to see AI being put to *actual* good use, instead of stealing and mining data for companies that don't need the money!! I hope RUclips reads this comment section.
Right?! Make AI actually worth something and train it to do something so you don't have to pay real people to cycle through all this drivel.
ngl they probably are 😭 he mentioned 12/13 minutes in where they said smth about blocking certain words but they keep swapping languages
for once an actual good use for replacing a human job with ai because humans having to screen through those types of comments can be emotionally scarring. but will google do anything about it? probably not 😑
Literally !
Why can't we have Optimus Prime and his Autobots. Instead we got Sloptimus Crime and his Naughtobots.
This is hilarious lmao
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I just reported two violent and child endangerment comments from your comment section. This video has only been up for a minute. I hope there is change from RUclips ASAP.
it’s crazy how if you slightly insult someone you won’t be able to comment for a day, but these nasty ass bot comments get allowed 😭😭 (like i remember telling this racist to stfu and i couldn’t comment for a day.. because it was “bullying”.)
@@hcneymoonhilarious how they’ll put you on cyber bully bans if you slightly insult but people can have their channel names as straight up racial slurs and it’s always the N word. Never fails
@@hcneymoon
Same here. My claim was due to"harassment", when the person I was "harassing" was calling women murderers for getting abortions.
Like, RUclips is on crack.
@cyerk No kidding. I mentioned how a shirts leave was too clean, and it was deleted for misinformation or conspiracy theory or some other stupid ironic reason.
@@hcneymoon Say "you're stupid", get banned for 'endangering' the community. see someone talking about child r@pe? allowed and encouraged by youtube
I hate that we can't even block these accounts. It's crazy RUclips removed showing dislikes to protect creators' feelings, yet there's still no simple block feature that can do so much for our sanity.
I thought there was a block feature? Last time i checked was like three years ago, but it was a thing. It only stops users from commenting on a persons channel though, Don't think it blocks them across the platform.
It doesnt block the person, you can still see their comment in other comment sections, plus, you can avoid having someone interacting with your channel ONLY if you have a creator account
not having a block button is a huge mistake on youtube’s part, tbh. i don’t see why they got rid of it
@joshua_the_guy also, if you can get someone blocked by your google account, it doesnt traslate on all your account
i wish there was a way to block accounts!
The worst part is you can no longer block people at ALL. The block feature was REMOVED! Truthfully, the content creators are the only reason why I am still on this hellsite.
I literally didn't even know this. And had to check right when I read this. That makes absolutely no sense, I seriously don't understand that decision
@AVesselOfFlesh Yeah I tried to block a channel that was impersonating a larger creator and I searched for almost 20 minutes trying to find a way and the best I could do was “don’t recommend this channel”
a block button is a requirement for all social media platforms, especially ones on the app store and google play store. twitter got told off for trying to remove the block button, why can yt get away with it?
The do not recommend the channel button is so useless. Especially the shorts are unwatchable.
The “hide user from your channel” bs is so irritating
RUclips should be held liable for hosting child pornography. Maybe these platforms would actually allocate money into effective moderation if they were made to suffer any kind of consequence for their negligence
What's so annoying is that THIS is a good example of AI having a role to play. It could be a an auto-mod, automatically translating the comments to check them, keeping a running stockpile of known spam messages and variations, checking the age of profiles to see if they were created recently or have links to spam sites, doing "are you human" checks of other activity on the site, checking edits...
... rather than leaving it to individual creators to do all of this themselves.
Especially since being a content moderator on social media is known to be one of the most traumatic jobs just because of how much awful content needs to be sifted through. Obviously humans still need to be involved to some extent to ensure the AI doesn’t go off the rails or miss things, but genuinely using AI in this way would save so many people’s mental health.
That's exactly what I was just thinking! This is a perfect example of where ai would be really useful, since unlike humans it cannot be traumatized by reading vile stuff all day and can go much faster and be more reactive.
Yep. AI can be useful for a LOT of things but unfortunately people tend to focus on the kind that steals from creatives.
They have no issues blocking my comment agreeing with you though. The robot are mad at me because I left comments in pro p videos in support. But they don't moderate this nonsense. Make it stop.
But RUclips can't make tons of money off of selling the data from that!!!!! They can make tons of money off of the data they get from trying to organize comments by topic!
BTW the language 5:24 is Zulu from south africa. I've never imagined that I'd read something like that in our language. It's honestly so disgusting and horrifying. This world is honestly going through the most tbh
Agreed, the phrasing is so graphic it made my skin crawl
I was going to say that it also sucks for people who speak Zulu because that is probably one of very few Zulu comments on most videos; i cant imagine how i would feel seeing my language be used that way. Its so horrible :(
im so sorry your beautiful language was used in such a disgusting way
This is also common on Tik tok! Because you can’t put a face to an African languages like Zulu. It’s so scary!
(Edited)
As a native Zulu and a person who translates English documents to Zulu for a living, the lack of punctuations and the last phrase sounding so unnatural makes me believe that they too used google translate to write this horrible text in Zulu! Yoh! I’m angry that my mother tongue is used for such evil!
I can't help but think that it's not coincidence that they're leaving these horrific comments in an African language. Putting the words in the mouths of Black people lets them share horrific content and promote racist stereotypes at the same time.
Reminder, if you see actual illegal child content on RUclips, report it to the FBI (or your country’s equivalent)!
Can the FBI do anything if the illegal behaviour is not coming from a person within their countries? Like if someone in Nepal spammed comments like these, what could the FBI do?
I'm guessing it's supposed to pressure yt through the govt of a country
I mean they prob couldn’t personally do anything about the poster themself if they’re in a different country aside from reporting them to that country’s government, but RUclips itself is a US based company and can be investigated for allowing it on their platform
@@yesitsmeagain5511Im not sure, but RUclips can be held accountable because it’s an American company.
@@danielasofia6786 Yes, that's true. But its a shame that the people making these comments may get away with a couple banned accounts and continue their life as if they didn't commit crimes.
The bots are (I believe) interacting with RUclips via the standard user interface - that is, someone has created a program that presents itself as a web browser to RUclips, and creates user accounts, then comments from those accounts, via the same communication methods that your browser or mobile phone uses, when you navigate and post on RUclips (as opposed to using the RUclips API to interact with the RUclips system).
If true, what this means is that RUclips treats those bots exactly as though they were people - they have a 'recommended' feed, which is subject to the standard algorithm.
Why does this matter? - well, for one thing, it's a possible explanation as to why some channels get hammered with these bot comments and others seem to get left alone - the bots are probably trying to comment on stuff they are presented in their individual 'recommended' feed - which will tend to be videos that are related in some way, either by theme, or by associations that are audience driven.
It's probably also a good reason why interacting with the bots is a bad idea. I don't know if responding to a comment means that one of my videos might get recommended to that person later, but if so, and you do that to a bot...
1 like no reply atomic shrimp reply? Let me fix that
yup. this was really helpful thanks :]
I remember when JacksepticEye's father passed away, and he discussed in a video, and as soon as he posted the next video, there were dozens of bots comments talking about how his father was r*tting in h*ll or other graphic disturbing stuff like that, and it was so... soul crushing... what a horrible thing to see at your own video, making you re-live your grief all over again...
They did *WHAT?!*
I saw those, it kept going months after he'd come back from grieving. It's probably still happening now, I doubt every single bot has been reported.
And it wasn't just SeptocEye they targeted! They were a giant wave that swept over the site for at least a year. Those bots appeared over and over again, always screaming in all caps with so many personal variations of "[RUclipsr]'s [dead friend/family member] is in hell experiencing [insert horrible, short and graphic torture here, usually involving SA]." Like they had to be diving into each YTber's personal stories in order to set up these horrific bots. But one of the worse I saw was one of these on the channel of a creator who was black - there was no attack on his dead family or any horrific SA threats to his partner or sick friends, but instead they were just racist in the most visceral way. Something about jungle homes and the word "monkey", I don't remember the whole spiel now I just remember how disgusted and enraged I was as I tried to report the stupid things (there were multiple all screaming the same thing under his funny video).
and it was the same bots that told me to "remove" myself back on June 29th.
i did not comply, 2 months later
i won, i think
absolutly deplorable.
Given that RUclips isn't doing anything about it, next time you come across a CP channel, tell the FBI. Seriously. Even if the bot is from another country, Google is an American company and should be held accountable.
Dude, it sucks that I’ve had to do that several times in the past few years, and it’s not even from RUclips. Certain GAMES I play even will get people spamming CP links in the text chat, and I literally link their account to the FBI tips site.
Of course though, the FBI couldn’t give a fuck either. Just look at this recent shooting lmao.
@@BobbyBasketball19999 Even if you think the FBI might not do anything about it, it can never hurt to report and there is a chance that it WILL be used as evidence for the FBI for investigation.
Also there is a specific unit within the FBI specifically for CP and trafficking, so you shouldn't assume that the FBI will do nothing here just because it didn't act in a different kind of situation.
@@fligglebobbin Exactly. Even if I’m pretty pessimistic on it, I definitely did still report those guys every time I saw it. Thankfully it’s been a long time since I last saw it in that game at least tho.
Google are protected by section 230 of the DMCA , they are not legally a publisher.
An entity doesn’t have to be the publisher of CSAM to still be held accountable. It would have to be proven that YT / Google had been made aware of the issue or knew of the events and failed to act in a timely manner. If that’s proven, IMO, they’re at minimum, hosting CSAM. Depending on jurisdiction, that can be a party-to-the-offense issue or, if the evidence is compelling enough, conspiracy to distribute.
*just my thoughts*
RUclips is falling apart all together. The propaganda ads, the manifestos being uploaded, and now CP. It’s crumbling
wait what propaganda and manifestos
@@doktorhabilitowanystanczyk fascists being fascists
@@doktorhabilitowanystanczykidk if the same thing OP is talking about, but for a while all the book review channels I watch the ads would be aggressively anti-trans and intentionally selected for those shows/vids because I didn’t see those ads on the random goofy/art vids I watch.
Insta has (or did) a way to mark an advertiser as not relevant/offensive and at least semi block them. I reported those anti-trans ads every time for misinformation (it was disinformation technically, but close enough) and still saw them for weeks. It literally encourages hate crimes
@starksandrecreation the heritage foundation is propagating anti Trans hate and they're the writers of p2025
starksandrecreation why are you taking your time to defend delusional pdf files?
As a CSA survivor I am TERRIFIED of seeing horrible things like this on youtube wtf
Me too, I'm terrified. I can't fucking believe they're LETTING this happen.
i would really try find an adblocker that works for you if you know it’ll be a trigger, there are also chrome extensions (or if you’re a bit techier, browsers like Arc where you can customise the layout of specific websites) that turn off comments for example - as annoying as it is to not be able to access a pretty key part of yt, your mental health is Way more important
@@ameliag8574 Sorry I'm not super techy, what would an ad blocker do to filter these things?
Sounds like torment. Sounds like a psychological damages lawsuit waiting to happen.
Sorry to hear that happened to you. ):
youtube banned me from commenting for 2 days after i got mass reported by taylor swift fans for agreeing with a commentary channel that i don’t like the last taylor swift album. But cp is okay
That is insane holy 😭
Least insane Swiftie 😭😭😭
I’m also going to agree with you. I think her last album was her weakest. It’s not bad, I just don’t like it compared to everything else
That's so shitty- you should be allowed to share your opinion on a damn mass produced pop album.
Damn, I can only ever get a 24 hour ban
YT has gotten so much worse since the new CEO took over. The guy is just like Musk politically and just as infective(malicious) at running a social media site.
Hope all those people who spammed sexist shit about the previous CEO when she left are happy their godlen boy is fucking up youtube the way only a man can. :)
Perhaps we treated Susan too harshly... RIP to her (yes, she recently passed away)
@@SocksWithSandalsEnjoyer No she was bad too. Neal is just much Worse.
He's an NFT bro, right?
@@steve94183 Yes she was absolutely bad, but yk I don't remember those bots running rampant when she was around.
I had to take a CP bot to Twitter to get it banned. Still took months.
Meanwhile, more than half my comments vanish for no logical reason.
I notice that RUclips really likes not listening to my reports for Nazis like literal Nazis.
Same.
By trying to block bots in conventional way, they made it really hard to write real comments.
Dude, the comments vanishing/duplicating under other videos is soooooo annoying
I remember hearing Musk reinstated a guy who posted literal CSAM. Granted my source is a random redditor but still
@@naranciagaming CSAM? What’s that acronym, and is it child you know what
Imagine a “this comment received too many downvotes and was removed” system that worked. Imagine. Imagine it NOW
Yea, like even if they dont show dislikes, if it gets a 1% like to dislike ratio that would work... If there werent bots
Bots would abuse that and remove yt landmarks, any comment they dont agree or do agree with etc. Every comment with less than 100k likes would probably be erased
it will be abused
someone can order a lot of bots
to delete some comments because they don't like it, just for fun, to be top 1 comment etc.
Well, that's an easy way to censor whatever you don't like.
back in the day like till about 15years ago we had something similar to that on youtube. it said something like: this comment has been hidden due to too many dislikes, would you still like to show it?
But then 2:11 would get removed.
ITS NOT EVEN A BOT COMMENT!!! Seriously! Matpat is the worst youtuber ever who makes bad ragebait videos!!! Why are you all so blind to see he does little to no research for his videos!!!
Thank you for addressing this. It’s been insanity. I’ve seen so many gross bot comments, and as much as I do not interact and only report, nothing ever seems to happen.
I report but it never goes through it gets deleted as soon as I report it’s weird
@@BrideOfChuckyy it likely isn’t deleted, it’s probably removed for review (and maybe only for you, i’m not sure)
a handful at best get deleted but it’s more likely that nothing happens sadly
@@smhivehadenough I got one that was talking about a really gross CP video banned once. An exact same channel and video popped up the very next day
Nothing I report ever gets removed they just hide it from the account
RUclipsrs: "unaliving, grape, corn, seggs"
RUclips bots:
the "unalive" etc euphemisms came from tiktok iirc
@@0x5D Oh, I'm fully aware where it came from and I HATE it. Platforms forcing people to use humiliating wittle baby talk about serious topics or not say anything at all (if it's even the platforms doing this, which I highly doubt) is absolutely nightmarish.
@@clementinedanger it downplays the harsh reality of things. this ACTUALLY happens to people and they choose to censor things that NEED to be spoken about.
@@xygetsgirlsit all circles back to advertising
@@xygetsgirls Exactly. I've been told again and again by therapists and survivor groups that I need to name the thing that happened to my husband and talk frankly, and what happened for sure wasn't an unaliving due to neurospiciness as a result of grape. Are you fucking kidding me? That's how people want me to talk about his life? Of a person I miss and respect? Fuck on off outta here.
And I do think it's people pushing this Newspeak the hardest now, not platforms. Call me crazy, but I think TikTok cottoned on to the "unaliving" scheme with a quickness.
Here's your extra credit for today: go find the most distasteful comment you can find in any comment section anywhere on the platform, make sure that the CHANNEL name is not visible if at all possible, and watch that video until you get an ad. Then screenshot that ad next to the worst comment you've seen in your life, and then ask the company on Twitter (or wherever) why they're advertising next to comments like that.
Make "this company advertises next to bot comments about doing these things up children" viral, that's what the company advertises on. Not the channel, they want their name next to comments about &@#$ing children. They are SO concerned with the video content, they had BETTER be concerned with the comments too.
That's what I think of them every time the advertise on videos with those comments. They like it. Otherwise they'd be pushing RUclips to do anything about the problem.
Exactly!! They only care about capital, and so when you show RUclips they will lose that money, they will finally act.
that’s honestly very effective. once you start hitting its pockets, youtube’s ears will perk up.
This is honestly the most creative tactic that i've seen.
This!! One of my first thoughts was how advertisers should NOT be ok with this, and once you get their attention RUclips might actually do something
smart! for my own very fragile mental health, I will not be reading any of those awful comments but this is a great strategy
As a CSEM Survivor, thank you so much for deciding to speak out about this.
RUclips really need to get its shit together and protect children. Both those in the videos from being retraumatised and the poor, innocent kids who may be traumatised by witnessing CSEM.
Unfun fact: Early this year, I reported a bunch of comments and channels to RUclips (which included homophobic content and animal exploitation content), and RUclips penalized *me* by "limiting some of [their] more powerful features" to my channel, so I couldn't pin comments, add external links to video descriptions, embed live streams, or "Get higher daily limits for live streams, Shorts, and video uploads". I'm pretty sure RUclips just took all the reports as spam (even though the email they sent said it was because I didn't have "sufficient channel history") and I have no idea if anything was done to those channels/comments.
(The quotes were from the email they sent me.)
To get this restriction removed, I either had to wait, or show them my ID!! Which is insane!! I just waited, and the things listed returned sporadically for about a month, and has been fully back for 4 months.
This shit is SO stupid man
they did that to me too about a year ago. i still don't have access to those "advanced features". the difference in my case though is that i genuinely don't know what i did
My old account actually got temporarily terminated after I reported a bunch of the bots back in september 2020
Wait they did that to me too. I thought that was just some stupid update.
You telling me they did that because of the vids I reported where they beat the shit out of an innocent rabbit?
Yk it’s bad when the commentary yter directly tags @RUclips in the title 😭
And THE commentary youtuber lmao, d'angelo is our lord and savior (/j)
He should’ve tagged Susan 🤣
@@BrideOfChuckyy wtf man
Um...😬😬😬@@BrideOfChuckyy
@@BrideOfChuckyy isn't she not the ceo anymore?
how is @youtube out here demonetizing creators for swearing or having adult themes in their videos when there is literal CP on this site ???
LITERALLY WTF same with facebook!
They constantly show me ads that are scams with stolen footage or sexualized chat invites, even tho I report all of it. Makes me so mad. Like is Google lying about the tech they have or how they use it?
The only thing that could explain this situation is that perhaps the ppl at RUclips are pedophiles themselves
Because they don't care. Punishing people for silly things like using certain words is easy, and they can point to advertisers and go "see? We're family friendly!" But actually putting in effort to protect kids? Nah, that's too hard.
@@picahudsoniaunflocked5426yes
I’m glad I don’t often hit the translate button. For anyone living with PTSD from SA, CSA, and abuse this is even more frustrating. These things can cause flashbacks, severe panic attacks, and dissociative episodes. RUclips needs to protect its users.
This is also an issue on Tiktok. I've seen racist and illegal type of comments fly under moderation because someone translates their bigoted views to languages like Ethiopian Amharic. I hate seeing my language used in that way, it's sick.
Im sorry. People who don’t know better would probably think that it’s people from 3rd world countries… and coming from a 3rd world country myself it’s disgusting and sick.
@@youre_totally_right_but_Oh, trust me, no one but a complete idiot would actually think any genuine user of those languages would make such vile comments. We all know it ain't you guys, it's always bots set up by bastards.
Instagram doesn’t have a translate comment issue but it does have a child/animal sexual exploitation material issue. I can’t count the amount of times I’ve reported accounts like that.
Edit: spelling error
I have only reported people on tiktok when they're being outright and undeniably racist, homophobic, transphobic, whatever. But not once have they ever done anything about it, not even the 2 comments saying both variations of the f slur, UNCENSORED, nor the account of a literal neo nazi who was ALREADY BANNED IN THE PAST. Major corporations either don't care about this stuff in the slightest (surprise surprise) or outright WANT this kind of stuff to spread. Hell my tiktok account has a pride flag in the username and I get people replying or commenting about it literally daily, and almost always negatively.
i have a ethiopian family but , why did they have to violate us like that 😦
5:02 that's IsiZulu, one of the 12 official languages in South Africa. My home language is IsiZulu and randomly reading that was so disgusting and upsetting. these bots are vile.
They ALWAYS choose non-popular languages too.. It's sick
@@Alicja09 fr a few years back (i dont remember the name of the language)but I do remember that it was an Icelandic language, and was pretty much saying everything you'd expect
@@victorfromm9355 Just proved my point even further.
@@Alicja09georgian seems to be the most common one
@@marir.s3620 Personally I do not know which, just that's it's ALWAYS the ones most people do not speak. Foul people tainting their beauty
This should be reporter to the FBI. RUclips needs to have a little convo with the government. RUclips is complicit in this. PERIOD
100%.
They (Google/Alphabet - the owner of youtube) needs to be antitrust sued to the point of offloading RUclips. They (Goog/Alph.) also need to do something about the abusive usage (the offensive comment usage) of Translate.
How do you report something to the FBI? Can you also do that if you live in Europe?
@qqqqqqqqqqqqqq7665 the FBI has a tips website where you can submit a digital form about what it is you saw
@@qqqqqqqqqqqqqq7665Alternatively I think you can report this to some kind of EU organization? Since they're stricter about that stuff
Translate, Ingabe ubucabanga ngempela ukuthi lokhu kuzoba amanye amazwana amabi we-bot? Lutho neze! Bengifuna ukukwazisa ukuthi uyathandwa futhi ngiyethemba ube nosuku oluhle. ❤️❤️
AWWWWW :(
the good ending
@RUclips needs to be reported to the FBI for promoting CP; because at this point, not deleting a reported video or comment that clearly shows CP is @RUclips saying that content is okay to post, which is @RUclips promoting CP. Only when RUclips gets in serious legal trouble will they actually do something about it; it has to hit their wallet or they don't care.
tips.fbi.gov/
there are laws which basically mean youtube is not responsible for what people post on their platform, and i seriously doubt they would allow that on the platform if they were aware of it, but in reality any policing of the content uploaded to youtube is a courtesy rather than them being forced to take it down (besides it benefits their image if they take down illegal/hateful/adult content)
(this is just from my own memory lol it could be different)
I've been saying this exact thing for a while now! If RUclips isn't doing anything to remove this content, it's because RUclips is completely okay with it, they're actively allowing it, I bet they're all pedos themselves
@@maladyLshare holders and advertisers would probably be dismayed with this at the very least. Same goes with investigative groups, who are known for taking down platforms that show CP. even if RUclips didn't upload it, they are still responsible for doing very little about it. Or else CP websites could say that "We tried to delete it all"
@@maladyL I see what you mean, the laws are new and were put in last year. That's a shame.
But from what I did read, "These two decisions may convince Congress to take Section 230 on themselves. Members of Congress from both parties are already pushing criminal and civil online safety legislation that would implement restrictions for internet platforms and social media companies. The debate is unfolding against the backdrop of growing concern from Congress and the Justice Department for the safety of minors online."
Hopefully the laws are soon changed for the better.
RUclips is a public sphere. Just as much as a forum, or a community center, or a coffee shop. This is equivalent to posting physical CP in a public space, or shouting slurs to promote violence. RUclips, the company, has an obligation to protect this public sphere for the sanctity of itself and the safety of users.
I mean, fun fact, it doesn't matter if it's a public space or a private space, cp is always illegal.
And meanwhile they show that freaking survey "Is this comment good for you?" in completely normal comments.
That comparison is beyond wild and WRONG
The CP ISN'T ON THIS SITE AT ALL AND YOU KNOW IT
God why are you people making me defend this cancerous site??
It's offsite, still scummy but a HUGE difference and completely invalidates your trashy comparison
Plus people shout spurs to "promote violence" all he time every day in public and on socials, what is even your point?
Make good points if you are gonna make one at all, this beyond suxxxxxx, it's absolutely not like a community centre or coffee shop, last I checked you couldn't blast music or watch people get battered and shot in a coffee shop or community centre on an hourly basis
They do have an obligation to tidy their site, but you have an obligation to not be so disingenuous and making ridiculous comments that don't even apply it make much sense at all
Legally they are protected by section 230 of the DMCA and are not considered a publisher nor responsible for what is posted
Facts @@JanelAdair
Remember y'all: if you (God forbid) come across illegal material, prioritize reporting to the FBI or your country's law enforcement. it probably won't do much, but it is 100% better to be safe than sorry
MAFUYU PFP 🫵
thank u for the reminder, I have a reminder of my own that I hope you don’t mind my sharing. next time, push away thoughts of “it probably won’t do much” because why buy into this mindset? people feel too comfortable having little to no influence, when we remind each other that we are each other’s influence, and in constantly doing the right thing regardless, we give each other power. it is up to each and every one of us to actively do the right thing, such as upholding the law when others, like youtube, refuse
how do you even do that 😭 im terrified of coming across that
@@枒Emu otori ??
I mean I have had cops visit me over having an upside down cross on my door or the fbi visit me cuz my ex landlord found a picture of an isis flag. they had to visit me knowing these things are not even illegal. the police usually have to respond even to stupid claims. I think the truth is people are more likely to see it through if it's personal and petty but don't keep that same energy for actual crimes that don't affect them.
damn i miss when bots were just "pussy in bio" what is wrong with people to escalate it to THIS😭
Real
At least they got to the point.
@@guniverse.5847exactly. What happened to bluntness?
"cat in bio"
is still insane
Which reminds me.
If you want this to stop happening, do a screenshare video showing the adruns to videos, with the unmoderated comment section full of this heinous stuff underneath.
Share it directly with the brands that are running ads.
Let them know what their brands are being associated with, and how youtube isn't doing anything about it.
this this this this
those money grubbers will only care after we do this
This is actually brilliant!!
Adpocalypse 2.0
I was just about to post the same sentiment. Let the advertisers know what's going on here. It will force RUclips's hand.
Considering some of the brands can be pretty bad themselves (looking at you, BetterHelp), I don't know if that would work. But there may still be enough that could pull back for RUclips to finally take notice.
The usual normal people talking about it doesn't matter to them, because they'll always have users who don't know using RUclips. But companies that give them money? _That's_ the place to hit. RUclips doesn't care unless holes are being poke in their pockets.
over a year ago the entire floor where we worked content moderation for youtube was laid off.
This included an entire team dedicated to identifying, taking down, and reporting comment or video description links to exploitative content of children.
@@Mimickolas oh my god
@@Mimickolas They also replaced their legal team with AI if I've heard correctly. We're screwed.
@@PeriwinklePigyou can not replace lawyers with AI. AI can not show up to court for you or file motions with the court. Don’t spread misinformation.
Disgusting lack of management from youtube. I hate companies that do this shit.
My heart broke when I saw the comment was in Zulu 😢 I hate that our language is being used like that
Zulu is so beautiful and it is disturbing to see it being used like that
Disgusting 😢
I'm gonna assume it's because it is the last language included in the google translate list at the very bottom, and it's probably not that known by most of humanity, so it works as shock content
im so sorry 😢😢
That
Love how RUclips can't be bothered to moderate actual slurs and CP but happily mutes me for a day for joke insults and overly blunt comments
I once said G, A, N, & G without spaces and got muted for 24 hours, i also said B. E. AND G and got banned
This is happening on tiktok too. There’s terrible content that blatantly goes against their “guidelines” yet every time I report something it’s “no violation” they just don’t care
same on instagram. women & men have FULL parts out. send in a report & they don't find anything wrong. but may the goddesses forbid i post a picture of my sleeved elbow so they can immediately take it down
Yuppp! I've reported so many bot accounts on Insta, sometimes the profile pic is just a nekkid ahh, but Insta is like "no issue here, shut up". I stopped trying. Makes me think they're being paid good $$$ behind the scenes to make this continue.
One of my favorite tik tok creators got their video removed for “sexual content” when she was fully dressed and making a video about healing from mental illness ????? But then they just let vile bots have a field day 👺
Just straight up live streams of porn. TikTok is insane and I’m glad I got rid of it.
@@jaycanpaint2533I can't believe a human would look at that and find that it doesn't go against guidelines. Further proof of AI moderation failing us.
RUclips and Google needs to be investigated by the FBI and Federal Government. How can they possibly allow LITERAL CSAM ON THEIR PLATFORM? Is it intentional grooming? The FBI needs to get on their ass NOW!!!
is there a way to tip the fbi lol? i feel like if so we should all be sending them tips
@@emilyr8668yes! The fbi has an anonymous tipping website. They have specific forms for specific types of crimes but if you google fbi tips its the first result that shows u
"is it intentional" MAN THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS IT BEING UNINTENTIONAL
RUclips purposefully encourage the bots because they make money of of this
@@emilyr8668you can go to their website, i tipped to the fbi as well
An absolute insane part of this is you can block a spam channel BUT that doesn't stop them from replying to genuine comments on your videos with MORE SPAM!! There's one I've blocked and reported 100+ times over the last TWO YEARS and it's still able to reply to comments from real people on my video. It's insane.
RUclips removed the block button. The fact that you can't even block them anymore Is wild
you have to hide it from your channel in youtube studio (youtube needs a better block feature)
I am also currently dealing with these random name bots. Absolutely terrible how youtube hasn't done anything yet
im terrified that these are gonna invade my channel since the uttp already knows about my channel :(
Maybe the bots that are spewing random names are trying to find your real name. Usually a youtuber has his name blacklisted on their channel to protect their identity, so by spamming random common names they can see which comments get deleted and thus find your first or last name.
With this information it gets easier to blackmail or crack your password.
Wasn't like the BIG thing on RUclips (before copyright) no nudity or porn? They take action on HISTORIC works like paintings and statues featuring naked people in a non-sexualized way, but CP going unchecked gets to stay up on RUclips???? This is a disgusting new low.
Hey, just a reminder that cp isn't the term, and literally nobody uses it except actual pedophiles trying to make it seem like children can consent like normal porn and csem is the actual term
I think I have upwards of 200 keyphrases and specific character strings blocked entirely on my channel to keep most of the more overt NSFW stuff at bay, but there is ALWAYS more and they increasingly require closer inspection which is becoming frustrating.
honestly sucks that you have to do that, especially cuz it’s not working. just know ur doing great man
i knew about spam bots trying to “click here to see naked moms in your area” bait and shit, but i had no idea that THIS stuff with the translate and child exploitation was going on. it’s so??? just beyond horrific and disgusting. this needs to be youtube’s priority
Yeah same :/ soooo incredibly disturbing
Yea cause most people will never encounter this . I srsly think he took the ball and ran away with it for big views . As you can see from other comments here , theres not a single bot comment here . not even onlyfan stuff . His own channel is already clean and most people never saw this and still doesnt see it so yea, my guy really feel in love with the everyday video paycheck i think because as he said in the beginning there can essily be more negative coming out of saying where people can find this stuff . Really wondering if this video was a great idea/ cmpletely justifiable
@@charlescantin3280the vid paycheck is definitely an incentive, but I've /definitely/ seen the same comments he's shown. His channel (at least from what I've seen) has been safer from it, but for others (like pewdiepie) it's almost impossible to find any comment without another spam one underneath until you're half way through.
Maybe I just watch too much yt tho lol so I hope other ppl don't see them as much, but I'm glad a big creator is talking about it directly at least
@@charlescantin3280 I have literally encountered this comment in every commentary channel I have watched the past several months. I first noticed it in Gabi bells comments, I then saw it in Harry J Miller, I saw it here! I’ve seen it ALLLL OVER and I have been tagging and reporting it for months now. So yes it’s very real, u might just be viewing heavily moderated comments or u aren’t watching as much RUclips as I do lol
These types of bots are even more disgusting. They're using child exploitation under a foreign language so people will accidentally see that shit? Man I wish when bots would simply say "hot milfs in your area"
As someone who lives in South Africa and has Zulu as a native language, this is horrifying.
same do disappointed with RUclips
THANK you. Holy shit, nobody talks about this. RUclips DO YOUR JOB.
eh, a lot of creators have spoken out about this - just no actions taken by youtube.
Many many people are talking about this. Where have you been?
A lot of people have talked about this. Namely JackSepticEye, Charlie, Markiplier, etc. Almost each of them have atleast 2 videos on how RUclips needs to fix this within about 5 years.
Hell, Terminal Montage even made an animation on the issue.
It's crazy to me that these bot comments can get past the shadowbanning with words like that, but then us humans have to rewrite our innocuous comments multiple times if they contain some unknown keyword that has been flagged otherwise they just don't get posted with no notice to you.
Funny a Bot is saying this blatantly false statement
EVERYONE and their dead gran has talked about this, the Bots are blending in well I see
This is a Bot comment people
I literally saw a bot promoting a CP video in Nick Crowley's video of an Instagram predator a few days ago. Reported it as soon as I saw it.
Honestly, RUclips has hit a new low. Allowing bots to promote porn, CP and violence? I hate YT so much sometimes.
holy fucking shit
@@Personb-yt7huwhat you said
Yeah and it's the exact same on instagram
Saw that video too, and the damn bots in the comments. It really doesn't help considering how freaky that video was.
actually abhorrent the comment section is used in that way, especially on that vid considering its subject and all the creepy kid and fetish stuff hes got going on. actually just rubbing salt in the wound
I call a bigot trash and get banned, but Child SA is fine. 🥴
thats crazy but also happen to me in tiktok calling horrible people out and get deleted but not the rapey comments.
@anamelessbird yeah that's happened to me before too! I literally don't get it. You get it a bunch on those videos where a person is just at the bottom of the screen and it's a tv show scene. The comments are FULL of racists
yes insulting an overt nazi calling for genocide has gotten me temp banned. the ai cannot tell what "G the J now" means but can tell that "screw you nazi" means smth rude.
i've gotten banned twice from commenting bc of that
"cyberbullying" MY ASS
My comment gets deleted instantly if I say a swear word but thats fine apparently
they removed the block button too😭 the fuck is "hide user from my channel"?? im starting to think youtube genuinely cares more about removing adblockers than the actual problems here.
youtube is the problem
Report these comments, the accounts, the links they post to the FBI. do not internally report. Report to the FCC and FTC and FBI. Please. Report the the FBI before you go to RUclips. They do not care, the FBI doesn’t take these things as lightly.
you should still also report it to youtube, bc there needs to be a way to prove that youtube knowingly did nothing about it.
This. I think when it's not just spam, but CP as some people say (never met those, thankfully), you need to report directly to authorities. Unless YT has a clear policy for investigating these accounts aside from just banning them as they pop up.
Yes, this is important. tips . fbi . gov
How do you do that??? And they’ll listen?!!
@@hannahboebanna They’ll listen especially when it comes to CP or things of the sort, I’m not sure how to report but I would imagine it’s pretty easy to look up. And from what I have seen most of the links posted links to absolutely horrible things, similar to what the worst of the worst ai spam comments elude to. It’s not only a crime in of itself to film and create such content, but it’s also very illegal to spread and post especially in public spaces ESPECIALLY when children have access to said places.
RUclips doing its job would be a huge plot twist
RUclips doing fuck all except actively making the platform worse is literally impossible
"But that doesn't generate revenue!"
@@fungussf “we simply can’t help the creators, we might loose money!”
RUclips is complicit the longer they let this go on. It's disgusting this is allowed.
Exactly. Soon enough it gets to a stage where they'll become complicit by means of wilful neglect.
The longer I live the more massive the CP problem seems. It seems like a genuinely massive amount of people are depraved enough to be involved. It’s very soul crushing. It’s not something my brain can comprehend either. I’m horrified for the children of our world.
all this and youtube is focused on fighting ad blockers..
Ik this is serious but I couldn't help but notice your pfp is Aventurine 👁️👁️
@@virgilhissingatyou Aven is baby gurl
just big and greedy fr..
Because adblockers prevent them from getting ad rev.
Oh my god, I'm so glad someone prominent is finally talking about this, it's been driving me crazy seeing people just ignore these guys. It's been bad for so long and reporting them doesn't do squat, RUclips really don't care.
They stopped caring years ago
I've reported the same bot at least 50 times. I see the same name on every single video, specifically in commentary RUclips. Still replies on 15-20 comments on every video. They really do nothing but hide the specific comment from the one that reports them.
Look people another Bot in the comments
Report it
I feel like the internet is a lost cause at this point. We need like a reset button.
I have never commented on a youtube video seriously before but this time I just had to. That comment you translated at 5:40 is written in my home language and I still can't phathom why a person would write that. It's insanely disturbing and it really hit home for me seeing that I rarely see Zulu speaking people on international youtube but once I do it's something like this. All of the comments shown in the video are horrible and I hope @RUclips actually does something. Thanks for making this video D'Angelo.
I’m so sorry you have to see your beautiful language defiled in this way this made me so sad omfg😭😭😭 something will be done soon!!
its so gross that they would use your language to spread such disgusting messages! im so sorry
That was the first thing I thought when I saw them using Zulu for this horrible disgusting purpose. Its fucked up in every single way.
I know! I got freaked out, and that's just with my fanagalo Zulu!
I wonder if Zulu was chosen because RUclips doesn’t have back end moderation for that language yet?
I’m sorry your language has been co-opted for something so disgusting. I hope RUclips is held accountable immediately
Thank you for making this video!!! I saw the really awful CP accounts under penguinz0 video and I was so disgusted by them and was so disappointed at RUclips even after I reported those accounts they still didn’t do anything.
“Bot girl summer” got me 😂
D'Angelo, you said you're in contact with numerous other creators about this... I would suggest the group of you going to the mainstream news about this.
RUclips might shape up if a news outlet embarrasses them. At the very least, it will alert more parents to what's going on in the comments sections of the videos their kids are watching, which might lead to advertisers pulling support down the line.
This is the only thing I can really think of to force RUclips to take action...
Yeah, I think that is the only way they may try to do something.
bruv thank you for this, i accidentally translated one of these comments and it was about csa - safe to say i cried for like half an hour it was so disgusting. i cant even call someone a loser without it popping up about community guidelines but these bots can post absolutely despicable and disturbing comments and thats cool?? alright youtube, one useless website
I am so sorry for you
@@kfr2745 cheers, thank god for therapy cuz.. 😭
@@ashvikvarghese737child s/ual ab/se
@@ashvikvarghese737 Child sexual abuse
@@ashvikvarghese737 Child (rhymes with vex) abuse
Ich liebe deine Videos.
Ich vermisse das alte RUclips manchmal, aber diese Plattform war schon immer eine ganz spezielle Stufe der Hölle 👌
I wanna talk about something somewhat personal related to this.
My 8 year old brother had a RUclips account where he would post stuff about football, his art, and his favorite cartoons. He would show his face on his videos and everything. My parents and I had no idea about his channel but when I found out about it I checked his comments first. Some were just other kids his age commenting, but most of them were bots talking in a different language about harming children. One had videos of small children being harmed, I was so disturbed by it I genuinely cried and panicked. I explained this to my parents and they made him delete his whole account.
I’m really worried that these bots might also be targeting young children on RUclips. I had nightmares about those videos I saw.
That’s horrible! I’m so very sorry your brother had to experience this! Good on you for being there for him and explaining the situation to your parents. There are so many monsters out there 😭
I guess that explains, why "videos intended for kids" are not able to have a comment section on youtube since a few years ago. I know, it wasn't the main reason at the time, and it doesn't actually solve anything... but it does explain it a little.
@@Faefire when youtube began restricting those videos from having comments this bot issue didn't really exist, the bot stuff started happening like a year or two later
I'm sorry you had to see that content, and hope your brother never stumbled across it.
Im horribly sorry you had to see that content, but you did the right thing speaking up. I hope your brother and yourself are alright :(
Dead Internet theory is slowly becoming reality.
At this point, maybe we should give youtube to them and hide out on tumblr
@@BlueGangsta1958 tumblr also has a bot problem, not saying it's as bad as youtube's current situation but still substantial.
Slowly?? 😭😂 we are already fully balls deep in it.
@@fearwasalwaysanoption at least it’s not always as bad as yt, tumblr takes their NSFW ban a little more serious
@@fearwasalwaysanoptionat least tumblr doesnt have cp bots
5:04 D'Angelo, I'm South African, and the shock I just got from reading that??? These bots are unhinged
so sorry the language u speak is being used for this awful stuff :(
i generally don’t scroll though comment sections unless i’m curious about audience feedback on a topic, but even so i’m (pleasantly) surprised ive never seen horrific comments like that.
I'm so worried that there’s Actually people trading illegal content hiding behind everyone assuming they’re bots. Just out in the open bc no one assumes they’re real.
edit: oh there straight up Is! RUclips is such a good website
yup, no wonder every week theres news about rape and pedophilia oml
How’d you find out it was real???? (I’m still in the beginning of the video, if he talks about it then sorry for being dumb)
Edit: WHAT THE HECK OKAY I GOT TO THE PART HE TALKED ABOUT IT OMG IN PLAYLISTS ON RUclips????!!!?!?
@@GwynzyGG some of them are actually posting abuse material- while they probably are bots it looks like they were set up by actual predators to both traumatise people and trade abuse content :/ d'angelo does mention it later on but I can totally understand not being able to make it through this video it’s rough
@@jamiedoesstuff5871 yeah I got to that part and I’m horrified o.O
@@jamiedoesstuff5871yeah? did you think the bots were made by other bots?
Really disturbing :( I have a young sibling with unsupervised RUclips access and I always worry what he will come across. And it’s only been getting worse
It is genuinely so hard to keep kids safe online without becoming overbearing. I worry about my younger sibling all the time... I really hope that something can be done about all this. No one should be exposed to that kind of content.
@@fermentedstrawberryit really scares me. It’s far too easy to find disturbing and sexual content, especially when it’s as easy as clicking once on a RUclips comment
@@Samzc4yit’s like this by design, unfortunately. The bigger issue is rooted deeper than we realize that’s why it’s getting worse like this
I’m terrified for the iPad kids tbh
@@pbee.njayay444 Exactly, watching RUclips with my brother I often find overt sexual content within. Usually hidden in the middle where parents aren’t likely to notice. These videos are for children. RUclips will censor creators for nothing and will leave content like that on their platform alongside these egregiously disgusting spam comments? It makes me sick
I remember getting ads for s*x toys, adult content sites and even racist ads as well and they've been under things like speed paints, kpop music videos and even cartoon clips! It gets to the point if I'm watching RUclips with someone else I turn ad blocker on because of how constant it is
This is such a huge problem, many schools who use laptops for research don’t have RUclips accounts and RUclips ads for non account users are so s*ex filled and it’s all “date Ukrainian women!” With a huge woman with honkers and the fact that s*x toys are allowed to be played in ads in the first place is awful although I feel like advertising s*x toys isn’t bad it is when it’s on a platform this big at any time of day ☹
Racist ads? What was it advertising specifically?
my brother in christ keep the adblocker enabled
Im not joking i have seen a RUclips SHORT not an ad advertising s*x toys
in the past youtube showed me a lot uhhh ads
I clicked not to show me this one, and they continued
I just want to watch a video, I get recommend this and I don't want to watch it anymore because I'm disgusted
I always say this:
We can put a MAN ON THE MOON! Then I dont wanna hear shit about "omg its too hard to solve the bot problem".
"The RUclips community shouldn't have to moderate itself." Yaaassssss 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Removing the ability to block is the most clear sign that they're in support of this content, imo, because now a creator can't even block the people spreading bad material from commenting. I can't think of any other reason for that change.
But then a RUclipsr I watch has a video where now RUclips has this "this video may be inappropriate" at the start of the video, and age-restricted it. It was a video about crossover ships with, at worse, some swearing. But actual harmful material, stuff a kid may even stumble on, is allowed. RUclips is actively complicit in this stuff, yet nothing is going to happen to them unless their piggybank took a hit because of this.
I saw that they removed the block button and it made me super paranoid because I've had my stalker blocked for years and now they can find me easy again.
@@abrasivesoup No! But...but...removing the block button is for YOUR joy and safety! For the kids! Why would you ever want to block another human!?
On a serious note, I'm sorry you have to go through that. RUclips sucks so bad right now.
@@StarScar-44 I seriously hate that RUclips has a monopoly on long form content cause this website is straight ass
@@abrasivesoup That's my issue. There's nowhere else really to watch longer videos, at least not for free or actually feel as virus-free (barely) or well known. It's like they're purposely seeing how far they can go with crumbling the site just because they don't really have competition
Athena P!!! But yes she had to fight that!!
I GARENTEE you, there is a higher chance of them disabling all comments/ translations (cough cough dislike button.) instead of just fixing it.
"what does strangle mean in zulu so i can ban it" is a great brand new sentence
Corporations shouldn’t be allowed to hold themselves accountable, they’re incapable of it. Absolutely disgusting.
I think Audi only admitted to their part in the Holocaust in like 2007
The bots typing in isiZulu was the biggest jump scare ever. I was so confused as to why I could read it without translating the bot.
The internet is starting to terrify me. It used to be a bridge to connect people and now it’s come to whatever this is
MY CONTENT IS WOSRE THAN YOURS,
KEEP GOING KING
Ps. You dropped this 👑
You don't need to bring yourself down for a compliment, you can just say: "YOUR CONTENT IS AMAZING! KEEP GOING KING".
I'm sure your content is good!
@@Aleiurf thanks!
@@glitchthenooby ywww
10/10. Thank you, I needed a good laugh today
thank you D’Angelo for bringing purpose to the @ function in RUclips titles. this video’s name is SCATHING
I haven't finished the video yet but there's a page on Facebook that used to post actual content but it either got hacked or the admin sold it to someone. It randomly popped up on my feed and I was HORRIFIED. Besides the soft porn photos and videos, it also posted very inappropriate videos of children - mostly videos of them being breastfed but the women were wearing little to no clothing, being filmed in a very sexual or provocative way, and really just sexualizing the hell out of breastfeeding. It genuinely made me nauseous. I reported it to Meta - several times! - and I always receive the "content did not violate Meta's guidelines" response. HOW???? How is Meta okay with this??? This is so sick.
there was a really disgusting blog that showed up on tumblr ~10 years ago that posted similar content. a lot of us mass reported it to the fbi
Meta is too busy jailing people for saying anything less than positive about straight white men.
@@keriiberii I wonder if reporting the CSAM links on these comments to the FBI is what it would take to make RUclips get off their asses
@@gabeparks8173that’s an idea.. youtube, at this point is condoning the behavior. so if it takes the threat of them being shut down for it to stop then so be it
@@caleosun i feel like this could create a chain reaction since so many youtubers' livelihoods depend on the income from their youtube videos. so once the threat of youtube possibly getting shut down were to be considered, many (big) youtubers would speak up and pressure google to do something about it imo.
Zulu is a beautiful language that I grew up hearing very often and it really breaks my heart that is is being used this way and I’m so sad for any native Zulu speakers that have to read those comments and see their language used in this way
Fuck those people who use zulu
Ainda bem que eu não passo mais tanto tempo olhando os comentários, me pergunto se os canais brasileiros também estão sofrendo esses ataques.
Bots went from annoying to terrifyingly illegal and I'm shocked RUclips hasn't squashed this already... So thank you for covering this!
Does reporting comments even do anything? I get that it's difficult to moderate content in a site this size, but jfc youtube, you must do better.
Even if it did, it's like whack a mole. You report one and three more have already commented.
@@LyricAndCompany This is the annoying part about trying to report bot comments. In the time it takes me to go through and report 5 of their comments, they've already posted 20 more. From my experience if you flag several of their copy paste bot comments in a row, that's basically the only time youtube has ever emailed me back saying they took action against the account. Sure it took them 2 weeks to delete that one bot but what about the thousands of new ones that were made in that time. I for sure wouldn't want to be youtube in this situation
I stopped reporting them. No matter how much I reported, the comments were either still there, or new ones appeared sooner than they were being deleted. It just seemed pointless and like a waste of time. Regular human users can’t win over bots, that’s why we really need YT to take action
I’ve reported videos on RUclips that’re seemingly illegal and they haven’t taken them down yet.
Yes, but never for the right people. I sent EDP445 a death threat on his new channel and INSTANTLY got a 24 hour ban for harassment.
I've seen plenty of death threats and other messed up shit directed at completely harmless people and still be up hours later.
The worst is YT took down Spam as a category for reports.
It shows up for me still if I go to report a comment, the bottom one says “spam or misleading”. Is that not a thing ?! 😭
i do “spam” or “child abuse” but once i actually had to debate whether it counted as terrorism so it’s not fun for me
@@chesspiece4257i Think spam is better as their filter is better at seeing it be spam instead of child abuse even tho its both and honeslty ive had the same thought
Spam is there, what are you talking about
wait i just opened the report menu to check and it was there but then i ooened it again and it wasnt there wtf??? holy shit
Hi I’m a person, and I approve this message. Thank you for speaking up D’Angelo, and thank you to everyone who I see have reached out to news outlets. This needs to be elevated to force @youtube to take action on cp and other horrendous atrocities being committed on this site