I would love to not vent about this stuff on Twitter but after going through @YouTube's official channels I've found nothing but roadblocks and unhelpfulness. Right now I feel like @TeamYouTube is stealing from me and I'll explain how in this thread.
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manual review process they suggested uploading early as unlisted and getting it reviewed before publishing. That made things harder on me because I had to finish videos faster, but I understood and complied. I did what they wanted and for a while it was fine. But now their own
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suggested practice is broken and, again, it really feels like I'm having the payment for all my work stolen from me. And the worst part is there doesn't seem to be any way to trigger that yellow sign so I can request a manual review. I even tried adding stuff like "Nazi" to the
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tags of the video to get a yellow dollar sign so I could request a review. Nothing. It stayed green until the moment I published it, at which point the football was pulled away from me. I've talked to
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that they can only manually review videos that are yellow. When I tell them not even "Nazi" in the tags will turn a video yellow now, I get a shrug in response. Obviously I love making these videos but right now they're also my primary source of income. If
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to cheat me out of revenue by making their rules arbitrary and impossible to follow, I really don't know what to do. I just really don't know. I hope this insanely long thread made sense and please, PLEASE don't tweet rude things at
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reason for anyone to be uncivil about this. I'm just hoping that this might catch a human being at
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Update: I FINALLY GOT AN UPLOAD TO TURN YELLOW. All it took was naming it and tagging it as such (and it still took an hour to turn yellow):pic.twitter.com/RgFzYc1k2g
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