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YouTube changes verification policies, multiple gaming YouTubers now unverified.

Lant_War

Lant_War

Classic Anus Game
The Fallen
Jul 14, 2018
23,601



YouTube fucking over their creators, what a surprise lol.

Edit: New rules

. Why are we making this change? Through our research, we found that people often associated the checkmark with an endorsement of content, not identity. To reduce confusion about what being verified means, we're introducing a new look that helps distinguish the official channel of the creator, celebrity or brand it represents. The new look will also be displayed more consistently across channel pages, search and comments and is more difficult to replicate so that viewers can be sure of a channel's identity.
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. What is the new criteria for channel verification come October? Under our current eligibility requirements, channels with more than 100,000 subscribers can be verified regardless of need for proof of authenticity. Our new criteria prioritizes verifying prominent channels that have a clear need for proof of authenticity. We look at a number of factors to determine if a channel meets this criteria, including:
Authenticity: does this channel belong to the real creator, artist, public figure or company it claims to represent?
Prominence: does this channel represent a well-known or highly searched creator, artist, public figure or company? Is this channel widely recognized outside of YouTube and have a strong presence online? Is this a popular channel that has a very similar name to many other channels?
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https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/14793658?hl=en
 
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Dyle

Dyle

One Winged Slayer
The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
30,120
Going from a checkmark, a symbol used for the same purpose on multiple platforms, to a barely noticeable grey background is pretty absurd
 
Htown

Htown

Member
Oct 25, 2017
11,347
So what are the changes and why are the new requirements difficult to meet?

There's a ton of missing information here.
 
MrOblong

MrOblong

Member
Oct 27, 2017
264
Daytak said:
"multiple"
*only 2 I haven't heard of*
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Oh well if you haven't heard of them, I guess it's cool that they get de-verified? Because you're the ultimate verifier? Stow your shitty attitude.

As it happens I do watch Jimmy Broadbent, old Jimmers. He's a passionate, non-shithead (AFAIK) creator. So do hundreds of thousands of others, so your whole post is dopey.
 
ShyMel

ShyMel

Moderator
Oct 31, 2017
3,483
Prominence: does this channel represent a well-known or highly searched creator, artist, public figure or company? Is this channel widely recognized outside of YouTube and have a strong presence online?
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This seems like it would disqualify most non-company/famous person channels from being verified.
 
Weebos

Weebos

Member
Oct 25, 2017
7,060
What was the problem they were trying to solve with this change? Too many people were verified?
 

KoolAid

Member
Oct 25, 2017
6,687
Does the verified tag on YouTube really matter, like, you can just look at the sub count and see if they're the real one lol
 
Daedardus

Daedardus

Member
Oct 25, 2017
931
The new verification procedure is to ensure you are of questionable reputation regarding racism, human rights and conspiracy theories so you are inline with the rest of Youtube policies.
 
El_Chino

El_Chino

Member
Oct 25, 2017
3,123
Not a gaming channel but one of my favorite channels was hit with the same thing and they have nearly 2 million subscribers.

 
Kyougar

Kyougar

Cute Animal Whisperer
Member
Nov 3, 2017
9,416
It#s a shitty thing, but verification lost its meaning years ago
 
Blayde

Blayde

Member
Oct 27, 2017
1,690
Kentucky
google really sucks.

google stadia: "sorry indie dev but your game didn't sell 10 million copies, so, we will no longer show your game to anyone on our platform and do our best to hide it"
 

Ed.

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
652
What changed in the eligibility criteria? How did people get verified before?
 
Mafro

Mafro

Member
Oct 25, 2017
8,382
Weebos said:
What was the problem they were trying to solve with this change? Too many people were verified?
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Why are we making this change? Through our research, we found that people often associated the checkmark with an endorsement of content, not identity. To reduce confusion about what being verified means, we're introducing a new look that helps distinguish the official channel of the creator, celebrity or brand it represents. The new look will also be displayed more consistently across channel pages, search and comments and is more difficult to replicate so that viewers can be sure of a channel's identity.
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Meatwad

Meatwad

The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
3,653
USA
  • Authenticity: does this channel belong to the real creator, artist, public figure or company it claims to represent?
  • Prominence: does this channel represent a well-known or highly searched creator, artist, public figure or company? Is this channel widely recognized outside of YouTube and have a strong presence online? Is this a popular channel that has a very similar name to many other channels?
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This sounds like if you're not a celebrity or one of the top YT channels then you can't get verified at all
 
Karak

Karak

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
2,088
Same got hit. This is also on the heels of something else going on in the background where a number of my vids are not only demonotized but if they are ever monotized they are instantly adult restricted. Even prior to going live. Been happening for about 4 months now.

Also their email states to go to a particular link to fight the change then the page says you can't fight it lol. If you go to help and put in a ticket they actually ask clearly if its about verification and state there again you can't fight it.
 
SolidSnakex

SolidSnakex

Member
Oct 25, 2017
23,576
  • What is the new criteria for channel verification come October? Under our current eligibility requirements, channels with more than 100,000 subscribers can be verified regardless of need for proof of authenticity. Our new criteria prioritizes verifying prominent channels that have a clear need for proof of authenticity. We look at a number of factors to determine if a channel meets this criteria, including:
    • Authenticity: does this channel belong to the real creator, artist, public figure or company it claims to represent?
    • Prominence: does this channel represent a well-known or highly searched creator, artist, public figure or company? Is this channel widely recognized outside of YouTube and have a strong presence online? Is this a popular channel that has a very similar name to many other channels?
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Sounds like they're going to only hand them out to celebrities and creators that are just super popular and have name recognition outside of Youtube.
 
HardRojo

HardRojo

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
26,231
Peru
Lant_War said:
Yeah I don't get the changes at all. Why ask for a big presence outside of YouTube to get verified... on YouTube?
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It makes complete sense, you are well-known outside of YT, so when people see the check on YT they instantly know it's you, what's stupid is taking it away from people who already had it and not being clear about what being well-known means.
 
mael

mael

Avenger
Nov 3, 2017
16,964
The Algorithm God has spoken and the Rule has changed randomly.
Bow To The Algorithm.
 
8byte

8byte

Attempted to circumvent ban with alt-account
Banned
Oct 28, 2017
9,880
Kansas
Amazing that there's no process to request verification, only to appeal getting unverified.

So basically it's YouTube picking and choosing who they want to be verified.
 
Meatwad

Meatwad

The Fallen
Oct 25, 2017
3,653
USA
Youtube

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FormatCompatible

One Winged Slayer
Member
Oct 25, 2017
12,071
"Fuck the regulation of racist, bigoted channels. We at youtube got bigger threats to take care of, like those DAMN CHECKMARKS!"
 
Neutra

Neutra

Member
Oct 27, 2017
988
NYC
so instead of a videogame-style achievement, youtube verification is going to be more like twitter verification? that sounds fine to me.
 
captmcblack

captmcblack

Member
Oct 25, 2017
5,098
Looks like they are doing this so that they can have a separation between "this subscriber has huge numbers, is killing the algorithm, etc" and "we, YouTube, co-sign this content *because* this subscriber has huge numbers, is killing the algorithm, etc".

The next time some big YouTube name does some questionable shit, they can say it wasn't a verified channel, and if it's someone big like PewDiePie, they don't have to bear the brunt of the blame/shame for it because *all media* co-signed the rise of that creator.

...or they're just trying to fuck creators, lol
 
Zoidn

Zoidn

Member
Dec 23, 2018
1,718
That's ridiculous. Jimmy Broadbent is one of the best things on gaming youtube, also like one of the biggest sim racing channels.
 
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