A long time back I shared a video of my experience at a demolition derby, set too the music of the band of a friend of mind. YouTube sent me a notice today that it had been taken down. Which I found odd because unlike some clips I have put up there was no question of copyright infringement. The video was mine, the music was my friend’s. Maybe, I thought, some algorithm had gotten confused?
But no, it’s… animal cruelty?
And apparently it wasn’t even an algorithm. Someone reported it, someone reportedly reviewed it, and cars running into one another was declared animal cruelty.
For the record, this is the video (sans the music):
Unfortunately, the likelihood that I still have the original in a place I can find is low. So it’s probably gone.
Maybe the cruelty to animals is that they were left out of the production.
Unemployment is a terrible thing.
Feels like there should be a warning before the video: “May or may not contain depictions of the deliberate infliction of animal suffering and/or the forcing of animals to fight. Viewer discretion is advised.”Report
Maybe one of them had TruckNutz and the reviewer got confused?Report
Was Herbie the Love Bug one of the contestants?Report
It is those mammals driving these cars who have been forced to fight, you monster.Report
This is how we get Death Race 2020.
[FTR Death Race 2000 is somehow not banned by the reported animal cruelty experts]Report
Maybe they think Cars was a documentary.Report
Well, there is a Fox-body Ford in there…Report
I watched it with my glasses off, and it kind of looked like a raccoon fight.Report
Do we, as a society, really want to allow animal cruelty videos to stay up?
Isn’t the occasional false positive a price worth paying if it means that we can avoid false negatives?Report
I think a lot of the violence we see on the African savanna can be traced back to Youtube clips taken from Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom and other nature shows. Young lions and cheetahs are watching that trash and getting bad ideas about eating gazelles.Report
Evidently it wasn’t just you. Apparently something about The Algorithm decided that “non-human entities engaged in arena combat” was cockfighting and put it in the auto-ban bin.
Which, on the one hand, ha ha that’s so funny and easily corrected, but on the other hand how did YT suddenly start banning thousands and thousands more videos than normal with tags completely unrelated to the supposed bannable activity and nobody running the shop noticed?Report
The lesson to be learned here is to shun EweTube for alternative sites such as bitchute which don’t deplatform people.Report