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YouTubers have known for a long time that certain topics and keywords will get your videos penalized. There is a popular legal channel that refers to the virus as the "My Sharona Cyrus" in order to avoid being flagged. YouTube has been engaged in social engineering for years, and yet there are still people out there who refuse to believe it, or believe it is OK because it agrees with their world view.

Then there is a whole other discussion about how capricious they are in what they decide to promote, demote, and leave alone. You can go binge watch ISIS recruitement videos as much as you want, but try to post a video criticizing Islam, gay/trans issues, etc. See what happens.



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