This is a certain topic about my channel and the future. Unlike my previous progress posts, this one is the most important one about my YouTube channel.

Well, I like making MMD videos and making models. I enjoy seeing good comments get notified to me, and seeing the positivity on my videos, even the ones that turned out okay. I always stay non-profit because I don’t see my channel or myself get involved with monetizing my videos. It’s just a hobby. I’d get part time job to handle my life than letting YouTube do it. However, one huge thing is putting my channel at risk. There’s COPPA that protects children on the internet, and FTC enforcing the law to apply on the internet. YouTube plans to add a rating system for individual channels and videos. You can decide to choose if your channel and/or video are “made for kids” or “not made for kids” to have your videos put on the right audience. Since my videos and channel are really appropriate for kids under the age of 13, only having animation, you would think it’s a good idea. There’s a bad news if you decide to label all your videos and your own channel as “made for kids”. If that is made that way, your videos won’t get comment sections anymore. Not only that, but your ad revenue can go lower than half amount, won’t get notified, even if you are over 13 or over 18, and you won’t see the community tab on my channel, even though I don’t use it. The only thing that is a red flag for me is Comments will be deleted for videos that are made for kids. This is what makes this a hard decision for me since I have all videos for general audiences and kid appropriate. Also, I have to be honest to the rating system that YouTube will have, and the deadline is in the beginning of 2020. If you decide to have your channel as “not made for kids” and same with your videos just to have the comment section and notifications for other viewers, and if they are found to be made for kids, then you can get in trouble. FTC and posts claims they can give a fine of $42,000 for mislabeling. I also got told that FTC can’t do all that work, so YouTube may just simply change your video to “made for kids” and it will remove the comment section. Not sure why it has to be applied to every YouTube version. Browser, App, and even YouTube Kids is a thing. YouTube Kids existed since 2012/2013 for parents to be fine for kids watching YouTube videos. Back to the fine, it can happen, and it may occur if you purposely mislabel your video as “not made for kids” multiple times and have YouTube’s machine learning detect it. Their AI is also a high concern. The worst part is we gotta make sure our video has to be accurate to the label. I know I can do kid friendly content, and saying it, I know that it means I won’t get the comment section.

I know comment sections can be harsh on some videos and calm on others. In my case, my comments are pretty tamed. They enjoy seeing my videos and love their favorite part about it. It is a sad thing because I get to see suggestions for my videos and seeing my subscribers enjoying it. That’s how I met CN100eg and Moviemaker X. They both watch my videos for a long time. I also have Zaxon Kaito who also watches my videos, and he did reaction videos on quite a few of them. They are pretty interesting subscribers, and they aren’t big channels. My channel doesn’t need to be big, but it matters for being enjoyable for what content I have. With all that, it’s gonna be different once we reach a deadline for the FTC’s COPPA policy on YouTube. Having comment section is what makes uploading video interesting. I already said that bad comments do exists, but most of my comments are pretty fine and some are funny. I just don’t want to lose all the great comments. I know I can do a snapshot, but I just want to leave it so everyone can see. Even if I set my videos as “not made for kids” and if I don’t get in trouble at all, I would also get less views because they won’t appear for kids, especially on YouTube Kids app. Some content can easily be attached the demographic of being kids, like Lego videos and stuff, but mine are for general audience.

In the end, I have to put my videos and my own channel as “made for kids” and be honest about it, so they can at least stay in public. I know comments are gonna be gone, and I don’t want to get ediger and add curse words or anything because those aren’t my thing. My video like Iris Goes to Court is the most insane video ever made by me and all the violence Iris caused are all cartoon violence. YouTube’s term of violence for this new rule is mature violence like gore and a lot of direct violence like Family Guy or Mortal Kombat. Of course, I do have Kim laughing at violent images in Miraculous Ladybug Alteration and two behind the scenes videos and I may set those videos as not made for kids, but I’m still not sure because Google relies on their algorithm and AIs very much. This is the worst news I got so far about my channel’s risk. I want to make videos for everybody to see. I am also deciding to find an alternative video website to upload my videos as a backup and anyone can watch those videos. I was considering websites like Vimeo, Peertube, BitChute, and Niconico, but I have to make my final decision for which one is better suited for re-uploading my videos incase if something happens to my YouTube channel. It’s always important to keep your video file and backups so you can re-upload it on a new channel or another video sharing website. I do hope YouTube and FTC changes the rules so we can at least keep the comments and have many channels be free from this mess.

In the meantime, I am gonna continue doing my next video on Miraculous Ladybug, and let’s see if I can manage to get some comments before the deadline or something better.