Hi King Pokémon,
Last September, we announced a series of changes that we’d be making to better protect kids and their privacy on YouTube, and to address the concerns raised to us by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
Specifically, that all creators would be required to designate their content as made for kids or not made for kids in YouTube Studio, and that personal information from anyone watching a video designated as made for kids would be treated as coming from a child, regardless of the age of the user.
Starting today, we will no longer serve personalized ads or support features such as comments, Stories, live chat, notification bell, and others on videos designated made for kids.
We know these changes may have significant impact on creators making kids content, so we’re committed to helping them navigate this new landscape. We continue to engage on this issue, including by participating in the FTC’s open comment period. We know many creators have provided valuable feedback as well.
If you haven’t already, please ensure you have set your channel (or individual videos) as made for kids or not, as this will ultimately determine how your content is treated on YouTube.
Creators know their content best, and should set the designation themselves. We also use machine learning to help us identify this content, and creators can update a designation made by our systems if they believe it is incorrect. We will only override a change if abuse or error is detected.
Potential Audience Settings
So basically YouTube screws up and then dumps the responsibility solely on their creators.
I feel like all the this sums up to being better parents out there and don’t let your kid watch whatever or limit what they can watch making the parent be the filter but that’s my 2 cents.
No ads and no COMMENTS either?? This is getting to be a little much. Many creators turn to audience funding (like Patreon and the like) when their ads get removed, but PokeTubers have a much weaker opportunity there as I doubt their audience has the money to support creators. Hopefully a competitor emerges, like BitChute. Or government intervention (even though it seems this problem emerged due to government intervention–it is needed in the other direction). Otherwise, Pokemon is really going to lose its luster on YouTube. This hurts the hobby and future value of cards, perhaps not by much, but definitely hurts.
As terrible as this sounds, the silver lining in this is hopefully this cuts down on the number of pack opening videos now since people won’t be able to open them solely based on YouTube revenue.
The eternal optimist.
Turning lemons into lemonade lol.
“We continue to engage on this issue, including by participating in the FTC’s open comment period.”
Lol mhm, aka we bent over and took the fine and now are screwing our creators
Has any channel actually been limited by the new rule yet? Curious to hear from one that was affected.
Based on the message it just went into affect today so I guess we’ll see.
I don’t understand why I continue to see blame directed towards YouTube / Google rather than the FTC / the government.
What’s more, I guarantee you many of the people who are now upset about this were against companies like Google collecting large swaths of people’s personal data, especially when it comes to kids.
But people often don’t think about the other side of the coin and the unintended consequences. There’s a downside to everything.
Having said that, yeah, this whole thing *is* stupid, but putting all the blame on YouTube / Google really doesn’t make any sense.
Good point. Too many dimwits want the government to raise our children cause they’re too lazy to raise their own family’s.
oh, so that’s why that famous youtuber quit? derium?
I didn’t realise he had quit. Had to go and check his page out. Hasn’t uploaded in a little while, rip.
Guess I better go back and review all my settings then 
I don’t think it will be as bad as people make it sound. If you’re not Blippi and not streaming reruns of Peppa Pig, most likely you will be unaffected
Easy workaround. After you open each pack just say the f word. Your move FTC
Isn’t it all a massive grey area regarding what can be actually classed as for kids compared to what kids so happen to watch? If content creators are able to see the demographic age range of their viewers and lets say most are between 18-25 years old, then will this class as being for kids, even if it’s a fun colourful exciting pokemon card pack opening?
For anyone thinking about marking their channel/video as for children only, today I noticed on a video I just watched it limits all kind of YouTube functionality… You are for example no longer able to leave comments; the video can no longer be added to Watch later, Favorite, or other playlists; etc… (Click the MORE INFO link below for the full list of limitations.)
I barely upload videos, but because of these limitations I would personally choose adult over children for all my videos tbh…
I noticed it just yet when I saw a good video I wanted to add to my Favorites playlist, and noticed I couldn’t because it was marked as for children… The Save button (for playlists) is grayed out, and when I click on it, a notification message “This action is disabled for content that is targeted towards children. MORE INFO” pops up (my notification was in Dutch, so the actual English text might be slightly different)… 
Greetz,
Quuador
Except it’s not that easy.
On the iPad, I put on a child friendly show and a minute later they are swiping around and watching other things. Youtube algorithm’s can be super weird too. Strange shows will frequently autoplay or show up in the recommended videos.
I routinely check on and listen to what is being watched, but it’s impossible to see and know everything.
It’s about time they took action and attempted to make content more child friendly for those who want it.
So inviting the government into your home as a third parent is better for your family? I’d prefer a little random swiping and keep the dimwit politicians out of our home.
Have you tried YouTube kids?