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YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Re: YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Post by Barrin92 »

Seems completely understandable that YouTube removed it. For people who didn't watch it, the guy made a prank title "drinking hydroxic acid" (which is water) but I can completely understand why youtube doesn't want anything with "drinking acid" in a video title that even vaguely resembles actual acids.

Plenty of youtube viewers are literal 12 year old children who don't even bother to read the description. "nobody will do anything stupid" doesn't really seem plausible to me when we have adults killing themselves with fish tank cleaner because they confuse it for anti-viral meds

Re: YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Post by ergocoder »

Barrin92 wrote: post #2

Seems completely understandable that YouTube removed it. For people who didn't watch it, the guy made a prank title "drinking hydroxic acid" (which is water) but I can completely understand why youtube doesn't want anything with "drinking acid" in a video title that even vaguely resembles actual acids. Plenty of youtube viewers are literal 12 year old children who don't even bother to read the description. "nobody wi…

But drinking hydroxic acid is not stupid. I wish people drink more hydroxic acid. Would have been healthier.

So, YouTube now bans a scientifically accurate video?

Re: YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Post by snypher »

ergocoder wrote: post #4
Barrin92 wrote: post #2

Seems completely understandable that YouTube removed it. For people who didn't watch it, the guy made a prank title "drinking hydroxic acid" (which is water) but I can completely understand why youtube doesn't want anything with "drinking acid" in a video title that even vaguely resembles actual acids. Plenty of youtube viewers are literal 12 year old children who don't even bother to read the description. "nobody wi…

But drinking hydroxic acid is not stupid. I wish people drink more hydroxic acid. Would have been healthier. So, YouTube now bans a scientifically accurate video?

Please understand that a 'science prank' can be dangerous to someone not educated in that field. In this case the prank is only intended to 'work' on someone who didn't know it was water. So where does that leave the viewer; hopefully they do not take this new knowledge as advice to drink other acids.

Re: YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Post by Barrin92 »

ergocoder wrote: post #4
Barrin92 wrote: post #2

Seems completely understandable that YouTube removed it. For people who didn't watch it, the guy made a prank title "drinking hydroxic acid" (which is water) but I can completely understand why youtube doesn't want anything with "drinking acid" in a video title that even vaguely resembles actual acids. Plenty of youtube viewers are literal 12 year old children who don't even bother to read the description. "nobody wi…

But drinking hydroxic acid is not stupid. I wish people drink more hydroxic acid. Would have been healthier. So, YouTube now bans a scientifically accurate video?

Youtube bans video titles which if misinterpreted might make people do harmful things, like say, confusing hydroxic acid with hydrochloric acid. They're not a scientific journal, they're a video platform serving a general audience.

Please tell me you're just intentionally being obtuse and don't actually struggle with that point because this is a response I expect on reddit and not HN

Re: YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Post by [deleted] »

Barrin92 wrote: post #6
ergocoder wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But drinking hydroxic acid is not stupid. I wish people drink more hydroxic acid. Would have been healthier. So, YouTube now bans a scientifically accurate video?

Youtube bans video titles which if misinterpreted might make people do harmful things, like say, confusing hydroxic acid with hydrochloric acid. They're not a scientific journal, they're a video platform serving a general audience. Please tell me you're just intentionally being obtuse and don't actually struggle with that point because this is a response I expect on reddit and not HN

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Re: YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Post by barbacoa »

Another history channel I follow had their videos mass de-monetized and age restricted. It was purely educational nothing about the channel is remotely controversial.

I am convinced YT is deliberately doing this to push out small content creators and replace them with corporate content creators that are fleeing the sinking ship that is cable TV.

Re: YouTube removed a vid of me drinking water because “it's dangerous”. I'm done

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Post by eatmoarchikin »

Barrin92 wrote: post #6
ergocoder wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But drinking hydroxic acid is not stupid. I wish people drink more hydroxic acid. Would have been healthier. So, YouTube now bans a scientifically accurate video?

Youtube bans video titles which if misinterpreted might make people do harmful things, like say, confusing hydroxic acid with hydrochloric acid. They're not a scientific journal, they're a video platform serving a general audience. Please tell me you're just intentionally being obtuse and don't actually struggle with that point because this is a response I expect on reddit and not HN

Let natural selection do it’s job if they’re that stupid to drink hydrochloric acid or anything else that’s not supposed to be ingested. Seriously, why do we continually have to be responsible for other people’s (referring to people old enough to know better here) stupidity or and/or lack of common sense? It’s too simple NOT to do something because some else did it. Looking at you Tide Pod idiots. Can we please stop coddling the world now.
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