Now this, this is a Youtube moment Thanks so much everyone for the support for me during my content issues. This change would not have happened it people didn't share my issues, and actively call out Youtube for what they were doing. Here's hoping we can get Youtube to make conditions better for creators from here on out

Such a Youtube moment.

ok

This is a YouTube moment indeed

you youtube

6:20 is the equivalent of a teacher saying, “I want you to learn and figure it out on your own so you learn it better.” But then failing you and not letting you redo the assignment.

Brilliant description mate, lol

I had this happen with a gym teacher

Mario moment

"I could give you a B instead of a C, but I think this would motivate you more"

It’s like GCSEs in the UK, once you’ve done the test you can either get the marked test back to see what’s wrong with it, OR get it re-marked. Not both.

The entire YouTube swearing policy change, start to end, is the exact definition of a YouTube moment

It’s a loss for content creators the policy shouldn’t exist at all an altered policy won’t help when YouTube change it again in future

@Alphoric It's a step in the right direction for now, now to put pressure on them for changing videos to be up to policy and not flagging old videos in new policies

@Kajanda that’s the problem though you want people to have to censor their older content to fit within YouTube’s narrative YouTubers should be able to say whatever they want even advertisers don’t care that’s why people still get sponsors and if YouTube doesn’t want people to go to the god awful TikTok they should listen to creators more and let them do what they want

@Alphoric reread my statement, I said push for them not to apply new policies to old videos. YouTubers should get away with alot more than they do now, but they shouldn't be able to say whatever they want eithe

​@Kajanda if a YouTuber says something that you don't like, then dislike the video and move on with your day. There is no reason to censor channels. These people are simply trying to "broadcast themselves", they don't want to be a mouthpiece for the narrative norm.

So glad to hear everything is starting to get better!

👍

Every time I see your account I think its a snail

GOOD

Cool

Cool

Youtube has been such a Youtube lately, it's nice to finally see some positive progress. Let's keep this going, everyone!

ok

Betti my beloved :O

Thanks for your thoughtfulness and your feedback, Daniel, before, now, and always!

ok

ok

ok

ok

ok

Daniel has turned YouTube from a YouTube to a YouTube, truly inspiring

youtube is still a youtube, just slightly less so

Youtube is being a youtube, which results in Youtube being less of a youtube, which makes them more of a youtube. Truly a youtube moment.

sorry, just Youtube decided to be a youtube again and sent my reply 9 times

Best comment

Truly an unexpected outcome. I rate it a YouTube/YouTube.

RTGame without his cursing is an odd feelings and I honestly miss it. It’s good to see it back!

ok

We did it! Even if we only won the smaller piece of the medal for now, I say this a huge win for our community here on YouTube!

Probably not it’s YouTube we’re talking about all their policy changes and policy implementations have backfired for the creators

@Alphoric Might as well find loop holes and troll and confuse the hell out of them just so they can do something.

Dan is one step closer to become the leader of the first youtubers union, what a time to be alive

Even when he says YouTube normally now I flinch a little. It literally feels like a swear word now

I appreciate Daniel so much - he was such a YouTube for pulling this off and getting YouTube to stop being a YouTube and pull its YouTube together. Congrats, Daniel!

This man single-handedly destroyed the metaverse and changed the minds of a complete YouTube. He is becoming too powerful.

He's beginning to believe

And he shall become even more powerful before he leaves

Correction: He's not powerful enough

He changed their hearts…

A temporary solution to the editing problem is taking the original video, copying it, and then putting the copy onto YouTube. You can then have the copy evaluated to find the problem, and put all of the changes into the original video. I don't have any experience on the creator side of YouTube, so I have know idea if there is any way to actually do this. Just something I thought up while watching the video that I thought might be helpful.

The issue with that is these policies aren't applied evenly. The copy might never get flagged even if the original was. Or it could get flagged, evaluated, and reinstated where the original isn't. I've seen this happen so often.

Soo he could just copy the videos with the edits with a slight different title, delete the old videos, and get them back that way?

The problem with that idea is the first impressions the copy got (views, clicks, likes etc) would be gone. Viewers would have to be asked to re-watch the second video when they probably already watched the first. Sure, fans will, but a good chunk of those first viewers won't.

@Kiyoshia it's better than nothing, at least.

Youtube also tends to get cagey when you upload duplicates, at least in my experience, but otherwise that's a solid idea

Everyone just share the video where you can and spread the word, the more we get people to talk about this the more it's likely to make change happen

I'm so happy that the Elden Ring video was monetized again, I literally watched it three hours ago. Thank you for creating entertaining content Dan, keep it going.

So so so pleased for you Dan!! (and of course other creators too) You put so much effort into your videos and what they were doing was completely outrageous!

I really hope that we keep using "youtube" as a slang despite the positive changes. It's literally one of the most youtube ideas someone ever had

Nah

Agreed. Not only is it hilarious, but when Youtube inevitably youtubes their guidelines again (because all they can do is panic react, never plan) he'll be completely prepared to deal with their youtube by continuing to censor with "Youtube".

@Oracle who asked you? nowhere in the original comment did anyone ask your opinion.

@no 64 And why exactly do you start harassing him because of that now? Nobody asked for the opinion of the actual comment writer either so where is your point? It is his personal opinion that he would rather hear normal swear words instead of "YouTube". And if you ask for MY OPINION i couldn't care less if we continue using "YouTube" as substitute or regular swear words. Let people have their opinions jeez.

it is a very youtube idea

This is so awesome to see! I can’t believe they finally listened a little! It’s a step in the right direction

As bad as the policy is on old videos regarding swearing, it's absolutely a huge win for people going forward. I've definitely seen a lot of creators mention they're purposefully trying to swear less or avoid saying swear words in a screenshot because they were so unclear on the policy. It's good to know going forward people will be more aware of the guidelines and be able to swear more freely with less paranoia about getting demonetized.

This is amazing progress, RT. It’s still not the best, but it’s a step in the right direction. Let’s hope YouTube will come up with a solution soon. I’m really happy for you though❤

Words cannot describe just how happy I am for you and other creators. There's still so much that needs fixing, but this is such a big step, and I am so proud of you and this community for all the effort made.

We love you Dan, you do such a Youtube job!!

i love rtgame and his content, hes such a youtube

Hell yeah!

Man I love Dan, he is such a YouTube .

Such a YouTube YouTuber. The only one I watch on YouTube for his YouTube moments. Glad to see him making big strides on the YouTube platform

Its kinda youtube of you to even mention something so obvious !

RTGame is (almost) singlehandedly improving youtube more than the complete staff working on it

so much still needs to be changed, but i’m so glad your videos got restored!! also, congrats on getting on the trending page! i’m glad more people are getting to see this

this is absolutely amazing, the way you speak and get the points across definitely helped in this situation, i know it was hard to stay mature and calm while your livelyhood was being taken away. you have helped the whole platform. youtube moment

Glad to know the situation has gotten at least a little bit better I hope it continues to improve throughout the year Thank you for your many hours of joy you have given me ❤

What they did was such a YouTube, I’m glad they changed it

is was such a YouTube move to change it

is was such a YouTube move to change it

The y tube is finally changing

is was such a YouTube move to change it

it was such a YouTube move to change it

Incredible work on behalf of everybody on this platform. Glad to see your issues will be generally resolved in future, though I hope we can get second reviews next.

You’re easily one of the most important creators on YouTube. Genuinely helping you fellow creators by doing this. Challenging YouTube with charm and grace.

I am absolutely elated to see this happen! It's not perfect by any means, but it is a huge step forward! I'm so proud of what we've done here

Attorney tom was using youtube in the way you described in that one video 😂. I love that the community caused this change. I am so proud of this change we've caused ❤

Legit got up and danced for this news man. Congrats Dan. And to everyone else who was unfairly impacted by the rules that have since been refined. Hats off to all fellow supporters too. Time for RT comeback tour woooo

YouTube is usually a huge YouTube, but it's good to see them actually being a YouTube for a change

One small step for an Irish man, one giant leap for all content creators.

Irish YouTubian Army

Arousing

People don't realize how much power we have if we just stand up together.

I hope this vid also gets 1 mil views. Thanks for sticking with these YouTube times

Congratulations, RT! I'm glad to hear that you're able to benefit from many of your older videos, again. I have several swear-heavy creators that I follow, so this overturn of rules has helped a lot of creators that I enjoy watching and supporting! It's always so frustrating trying to determine whether or not I should even bother letting commercials run, because if I'm getting ads on a video that's been demonitized... why even bother allowing it to run? However, as a very poor person, I often find allowing ads to play to be the only way I know of that I, personally, can put a few cents into a creator's pocket... and that sucks. It sucks because 1.) I have no way of knowing if a video is monetized or not, as a viewer, and 2.) It's probably only ever going to support a creator by a few cents here and there.

Wow, so glad for you Dan that things are starting to look up! Hopefully the people at youtube will continue to use their brains and fix their messed up system. I wish you continued luck on getting your content restored!

Here’s to hoping your impact on the system doesn’t stop here. You’re changing the game for everyone ❤

The footage of Gromit loosing a game of rigged tic tac toe in the background for a portion of this intentional or not is metaphorically hilarious

But yes this is a massive w lets go even further

@Sp00pyWhiskers :} hmmmm… I don’t know how the programming works, but the chicken starting in C2 could be followed with A1 or A3. If I’ve simulated it right, and assuming it chose a square at random from there, you’d have better than chance odds of winning from that point. I think A2, B2, B3, and the opposite C-square (i.e., C3 if we choose A1) by the chicken all lead to player wins, while the matching C-square (C1 if we choose A1) is the only winning move for the chicken. That’s assuming the player plays optimally from that point on, too.

@FyreStryder I'm sure it's programed to force the player ether to lose or stalemate, because the in game solution is to use chicken feed to make the chicken choose squares you want it to choose.

@TheKenyonSquad Yeah, that wouldn’t surprise me. What does surprise me, then, is that it chooses the *least* optimal starting square… maybe it’s to make you think there’s a chance? Interesting stuff at 0440 on a sleepless night xD

@FyreStryder "maybe it’s to make you think there’s a chance?" it's ether that, or to make it seem random.

Yes! I’m so proud of what you’ve achieved!

SO happy to hear that! Thanks for all your hard work addressing these issues and showing solutions

The idea that it's a one shot of getting the video right is absolutely insane.

They called him the policy change king back in college. But seriously Everyone working to fix this is incredible, Dan and the other creators working on this, truly Youtube of them

This is such a YouTube moment. Thank you, you absolute YouTube!

I've been watching your videos so much that every time you said "YouTube" I instinctively thought you were blurting a swear. I genuinely think you should continue to do so in further videos just out of safety and hilarity!

I love him blurring swears with "YouTube" lol a channel I follow did that for a bit awhile back before they decided they didn't care about what YouTube thought, although they'd just use random everyday words instead of "YouTube"

I thought the same thing! It truly shows how language is a construct and how stupid it is for YouTube to make a witch hunt out of something so maleable as swear words. Truly a YouTube moment in YouTube history

Honestly this censorship of swearwords actually made me realize how "much" RT swears. Before that, I kinda thought he barely ever did, and I don't think he does it too much, or that it's shocking, I'm not a youtube, but it forced me to HEAR that he does, it made me focus on it. So that was kinda dumb...

RT I'm so happy for you! Been watching simce the TF2 days and I genuinely wish you all the success in life.

Good job, Dan. You're the hero we all needed

Thank YOU, Daniel, for being so vocal about the issue. I do hope that this initial change leads to the next one, of being able to edit and re-appeal a video properly.

Content creators and their viewers need to have more collective organisation to deal with this sorts of thing more effectively.

I'm so happy to hear about this RTGame! I have barely watched your videos but I've followed your problems due to this policy ever since I stumbled upon your first video about it. I hope youtube further fixes it's policies, best of luck and bless you!

WE YOUTUBE DID IT! JESUS CHRIST ITS FINALLY HAPPENED!

Here’s hoping YouTube corporate gets YouTubed. Frickin YouTubes these days

​@benjiross1 yea YouTube has been such a YouTube, but hears hoping that with this they become more of a YouTube

WOOOOOOOOOO

that's not how you use the word youtube you youtube

So happy to see this movement with the policies. And so proud of RT for standing up for themself. Youtube really needs to allow creators to edit their content. They literally already have the tools, let people use this platform for their careers.

on an additional note; i think if youtube were to sit down and try to explain the policies (like they did with the recent change) and why they're in place would help everyone, too. they own a platform that spreads all kinds of information around the world; letting people continue as things should be, not as they are. things change, people do too. don't punish the people that built your platform to the level it is, and then say 'tuff' to them when they try to solve the issues you've set before them. I'm in total agreement with RT.

Congrats RT on the policy change hopefully YouTube will allow you and other content creators to edit their content to allow them to be monetized. Best of luck on future videos

While YouTube is still incredibly broken for creators, I'm glad to hear this big win!! Congrats RT

Appreciate u as always brother I will never forget what u did to those lads in the maze that 1 time but we need people like you to keep the world together as we know it

I would like to note that YouTubes official stance on their main video sharing platform is that its still not for children (and parents need to monitor their kids use) and yet videos have to be appropriate for children in order for you to get total monetization.

Right? It's lunacy. "Hello grown adults making content for other grown adults, your content has to be appropriate for children so we can push ads directly into their young, impressionable, developing little minds -- though please remember this platform is not for children!" is such a youtube take. It's insidious how much of the internet is curtailed and limited because of the spectre of fictional child viewership. Youtube Kids literally already exists, to boot -- why not keep the kid gloves on that platform and let adults have a smidgen, an iota, an atom of leeway to make the content they actually want to make without having to worry about a fictional child that, under youtube's own policies, shouldn't be viewing that content in the first place? (I know the answer is because youtube is an ads delivery network first and a content creation platform second, but that doesn't make it any less aggravating.)

And then there's youtube kids. Somehow.

@Rox Wolf and that still goes for videos you manually mark as not for children

The reason for this is because a few years ago, Youtube had the bright to show off how many people watch at what age group, the majority having been children from 12-17, which is why the government stepped in and also why advertisers kept pushing for kid friendly content BECAUSE majority of users are so young

​@Worse than you think You mean the ones you don't mark as specifically for children.

So glad to see improvement for once! Hopefully we can get the appeal policy changed too.

LETS GOOOOOO THIS IS WHAT I CALL A YOUTUBE MOMENT Don't get me wrong I know there's still lots of issues but hey, this is certainly a step in the right direction, let's just hope it keeps going

watching these videos makes me feel a bit like a part of world history in a weird little way, it's awesome

This is a step in a longer fight, but it is still a big one. We got them to admit they were wrong and we can do it again! Thank you for proving this fight possible!

There's actually so much symbolic subtlety here, you're spot on. I couldn't help noticing that he's even using different weapons, the long barrel of a sniper rifle in Solitary Clone and a single handed pistol in The Outpost...good vid!

Let's gooo, this is such a YouTube moment

hey. watch the language please

​@The Nook be quiet youtube

@The Nook maybe he is using the word as a compliment

From destroying the metaverse to changing YouTube’s policy. Dan is becoming more of a YouTube every second. I’m not sure if this is the end of YouTube being a swear, but I want that to continue. Hopefully we get to fix the editing of videos side of YouTube soon. Keep being a YouTube Dan.

You're a real YouTube, RT. Really hoping we continue to see more steps in the right direction from the YouTubes over at YouTube.

Glad this is happening, especially given what else has happened these days. I feel it's important to realize that at this point Youtube's just flailing wildly at everyone, not just creators. I got a warning on my account for some video(s) in a playlist I have. For the record, I have made 1 video EVER. It is an unlisted video of a bug in a game to send to the company to help fix it. Every video in a playlist on my account is a collection of other's videos that I just want to have a list to access from. I DO NOT lay claim to any of them. Yet, for some reason, Youtube still thinks I deserve a warning for someone else's video(s). I don't know what's going on with Youtube themselves, but something's clearly going haywire up there. It is a big deal that there's still someone there who can see the wrongs and is working to help fix them. Sorry you have to do this, but please keep it up RTGame. We can't let these horrible policies tear down this normally wonderful place of community and art.

I'm so glad this happened! I love your videos and I'm glad youtube has begun to look at improving their policies.

Really happy for this update dan! Hope we can see more positive in the future too

If it wasn’t people like Moist Critical, Mutahar, Pyrocynical and many others big content creator and streamers spreading the message around, these changes would probably still be around. *Thanks for being such a great YouTube!*

Stickmaster, you're one of the most Youtube members of the community

love how you conveniently left out RT in that list 😂

@stormcloudsabound To be fair, RTGame was the canary in the coal mine, he could only send the message that the mine was unsafe so far, from their it was up to others to pick up the message and carry on. Everyone really deserves their share in the credit. RT for lighting the beacon, his community for carrying the warning to others so that they could light their own beacons, and those other Youtubers who saw RT's message and lit their own beacons.

Not giving the man who actually did the effort any credit? Instead you list two youtubers I've never heard of and one overrated "asuh dude" bro

@This is Citrus wtf is up with the vitriol The dude was listing people who talked about RT’s problem, we all know RT started this message

You go Daniel!! I dont have much access to twitch but me and my husband love to watch your streams together afterwork. Im really looking forward to come back to more stream highlights. You should also try bug snax dlc if you haven't i wouldnt know i dont have twitch but it was real sweet! :)

YEAHHHHH I’m so happy for you, man. We made a difference!

This man single handedly destroyed the metaverse and changed the minds of a complete you tube

Great job dude. Hopefully there's a more equitable future for creators.

honestly, this also speaks really good on the new head of YouTube as well and really brings hope that the site is starting to move back in a creator friendly direction

At this point, YouTube’s appeal system is like a Noble Phantasm: it reverses causality to guarantee your video getting demonetized

A weeb of culture I see.

That’s quite the stretch reference 😂

“youtube is like the gae bolg” not the take i expected to see today

There are dozens of us. DOZENS!

Your request is extremely reasonable and simple. Its in the best interest of everyone, including YouTube itself. I really hope someone over there sees this, because once they do, its impossible to reject.

RT changing the entire landscape of content creation on YouTube by shedding light on a terrible thing they did is amazing. He made waves across multiple platforms because of this issue. Twitch streamers, other YouTube content creators, even people on Twitter called YouTube on the bs and they’ve completely changed it entirely with RT there to lead the charge. Massive win for content creators

Dude is taking the number 1 spot in the Irish youtuber board purely because he actually got YouTube to change

hell yeah!! we youtubed all over those youtubes and look how much we did :) so glad there’s been improvement, here’s to continuing to push for better policy!

This is a certified Youtube moment for Youtube. Daniel was a real Youtube with this video, and finally transformed Youtube to be less of Youtube!

Remember how during the first week where the new cryptobro ceo took over, they removed the “skip ad” and replaced it with “next ad”? They changed it back within a week. Glad you finally got one small victory RT, you earned it

that sounds kinda similar to what happened to a certain bird app.

Honestly, an entire platform that is only ads seems like a thing some corporate idiots would do.

That was a thing before him, I had it for about 2 months under Susan. They selectively enable it on people's accounts.

big thank you to RT for scoring the first youtube union win

It took this much to FORCE them to use logic! We may lose to their stupidity this time. But congrats to all of us, for we made a significant change.

So glad to see this! You’re a great dude - you deserve the world and more. 🥰

Dan is such a YouTube of a man to have fixed such a YouTube of a YouTube system.

I love him more every day. What a lad

I never once expected a YouTuber to be able to influence YouTube policy. But of all the people to do it it's awsome to see that you were the one leading the charge and brining massive change to the community!

Its so sad that the most influential content creators on the platform have had little to no input on the platform until recently

Markiplier and Jacksepticeye have done a couple videos throughout the years calling out YouTube's bull policies. I want to say some animation channels have been able to as well. Though it's probably still only able to be counted on 1, maybe 2 hands of all the times a YouTuber has been able to influence stuff

This is a certified YouTube moment on Dan's part :3

What a YouTube moment! Let's hope that YouTube doesn't pull another YouTube and starts being a bit more YouTube

The celebration will rage on for years to come. Thank you RT

Officially this is a YouTube moment. It's very YouTube of them to have done this, and they have shown they really are YouTube.

Let's hope YouTube decides to be less of a YouTube about content editing, then! But congrats on the first win. 🎉 A great YouTube moment to witness.

I understand that they probably don’t want people sending their videos for appeal a whole mess of times but in that case I think the least they could do is inform you what the offending problem is when the video is flagged. Then creators have the chance to fix it and still only need to send it in for review once it’s a win/win

Honestly, even if it was one review only this would work. The main issue is we are only told what's wrong AFTER submitting a video. At which point it's too late to change anything

​@RTGame I think for this to work long-term, the review counter needs to be reset after policy changes too. If YouTube changed their policy to mean a video that you successfully edited & had re-reviewed in the past is now no longer compliant, then even if they tell you what's wrong you have no recourse. You need to be able to request a re-review after a policy change so new edits can be evaluated.

@Dusk Banks  or better yet, do what they do on TV, I've seen older shows that where made before modern beliefs & standards and they still air as long as they begin with a warning stating "this content was made before modern policies", problem solved!

@Dusk Banks I believe it could be once for each time a video is flagged. For example, a video has violated Policy A, and has been flagged as such. The creator now can edit the video to follow Policy A, and submit it for review. A while later, Policy B comes out, and the same video is now violating Policy B. The video has been flagged again, and now the creator has another chance to edit and submit it.

Congrats RTGame, your a great creator and you really pushed Youtube in the right direction which is extremely hard to do, you deserve some major respect for this.

*yuore’re

What had gotten me was that for a time last year or so there were actual ads on YouTube that had swearing in them (uncensored) during this policy, was one of the craziest things that they had limited the creators and forgot about the advertisements

very youtube of you, rtgame!! glad your content is taking a w. that’s such a youtube move from youtube!

As soon as we got to the halfway point in the vid I said, out loud, "This is still an issue?!?!" I'm shocked at how thick-skulled YouTube is as a company.

I think its because its more labor intensive. They probably have to have people check what the bot flagged after you appeal. If they hire more people to do this and to tell you what's wrong multiple times per video, letting you edit each time, then they would lose a ton of money to be able to cover all the costs... But they could at least let you hear what the bot thinks is wrong, and let you edit it after the appeal, etc.