To our creators & users–I’m sorry for the frustration & hurt that we caused with our new approach to verification. While trying to make improvements, we missed the mark. As I write this, we're working to address your concerns & we’ll have more updates soon.
Thanks for the tag – do report the video with these steps: https://yt.be/help/report-content …. We have teams reviewing flagged content 24x7 and when inappropriate content is brought to our attention, we work quickly to fix it.