SNEAKO - SNEAKO Reacts To Youtube Racism and Favoritism

00:00:00.000 Okay, this is Corey Kenshin, YouTube racism and favoritism.

00:00:04.280 Great segue.

00:00:05.300 All right, cool, cool, cool.

00:00:06.200 And oh my God.

00:00:07.140 I'm going to try my best to articulate this video as thoroughly, as plainly, as eloquently

00:00:14.800 as possible.

00:00:16.120 I don't want there to be any lost context.

00:00:18.440 I don't want to just look like I'm coming out of nowhere, having a temper tantrum because

00:00:22.260 these things are happening.

00:00:23.540 The allegations I am levying towards YouTube are extremely serious and I'm taking this

00:00:28.840 video extremely seriously.

00:00:31.020 Uh-oh.

00:00:32.380 YouTube. 0.97

00:00:34.020 You guys either play favorites, you are racist, or it's a mix of the two. 0.95

00:00:41.760 Okay.

00:00:42.140 These are the three options, YouTube.

00:00:43.540 Talk to me.

00:00:44.220 Which one is it?

00:00:45.140 Here's my proof.

00:00:47.240 I've been doing YouTube a long time, okay?

00:00:49.620 I never want to be that guy, oh, it's because I'm black. 0.92

00:00:53.280 Oh, these issues are happening because I'm black.

00:00:55.000 There have been certain situations that I looked at kind of funny.

00:00:59.280 I said, hmm, it could be because of that, but nah, I ain't going to, I'm not trying to

00:01:04.800 press that.

00:01:05.420 I don't want to build that narrative around my YouTube channel.

00:01:08.560 This time, I can no longer let it slide.

00:01:12.620 This is the situation.

00:01:14.180 August 18th, I uploaded the mortuary assistant.

00:01:17.260 A lot of you would know it got age restricted because the following video I did, I let you

00:01:22.500 guys know it got age restricted, YouTube didn't tell me why, I saw that all these other YouTubers

00:01:27.580 were playing the mortuary assistant and only my video seemed to be age restricted and I

00:01:32.840 looked.

00:01:33.380 Chat, me too, I'm getting mad emails every day, another four videos from season two, from

00:01:37.760 season one, so many of my stream clips are getting age restricted.

00:01:40.840 For like an hour, two hours, I was scrolling all different types of people's video.

00:01:45.860 So, no one else's was age restricted.

00:01:48.760 So, I appealed the restriction.

00:01:50.840 Hey guys, I'm not sure why mine got age restricted.

00:01:53.920 Could you look into this?

00:01:55.400 Appeal rejected.

00:01:57.100 They doubled down.

00:01:58.180 The policy team said, no, Corey, your video is restricted for good reason.

00:02:03.440 We're not going to tell you why, but it's restricted.

00:02:05.960 That's our final decision.

00:02:07.440 I said, hmm, okay.

00:02:09.280 I get with my YouTube rep.

00:02:10.740 I sent him an email.

00:02:11.880 Hey, could you look at this?

00:02:13.040 This is some weird stuff going on, only my video got age restricted.

00:02:16.820 My YouTube rep, who isn't on the policy team, he looked at my video and he said, hey, it

00:02:21.600 could possibly be this part at the end where the woman was battling some depression and

00:02:27.320 I'm just going to leave it there, lest this video also get age restricted just because

00:02:30.640 I'm talking about it.

00:02:31.420 So, I looked at that part.

00:02:33.300 The first thing I did was try to find other YouTubers who had that part or at least a

00:02:38.500 part similar.

00:02:39.340 And every whitey had that part, huh? 0.87

00:02:40.600 Now, Markiplier, I don't know if you'll ever see this, but I just want you to know I have

00:02:45.660 a lot of respect for you and I didn't mean to drag you into the middle of this.

00:02:49.440 But he didn't get age restricted, huh?

00:02:50.940 This.

00:02:51.460 Your channel just happens to be a great reference point because A, you're a really big YouTuber

00:02:57.380 and B, you're not black.

00:03:00.320 Another, oh yeah, green hair, whitey. 0.99

00:03:02.640 So, I can look at your channel and then I can look at my channel or look at anyone else's

00:03:06.700 channel and make sure that the things and the games that you play all that they're enforcing

00:03:12.240 the rules equally to everybody.

00:03:14.060 So, I go to Markiplier's mortuary assistant part three and he had the same situation going

00:03:21.100 on and his video wasn't age restricted.

00:03:23.480 So, I send the video to my YouTube rep.

00:03:26.160 I say, hey, Markiplier has this situation in his video, but his isn't age restricted.

00:03:33.360 Could you send that to the policy team and see what they say about that?

00:03:36.640 He said, wow, Corey, that's some astute detective work.

00:03:40.180 Let me send this to them and see what they say.

00:03:43.160 What do you think happened after that?

00:03:45.120 I'll give you a second.

00:03:47.660 They came back and they removed my age restriction.

00:03:51.660 They took it off after they already rejected my appeal.

00:03:56.640 I sent them the clip of Markiplier's video that has the same thing and they removed it.

00:04:04.600 Now, my YouTube rep, he was excited.

00:04:06.520 He was, oh, great.

00:04:07.700 This is awesome.

00:04:08.720 Look, Corey, they took the age restriction off.

00:04:11.000 I said, why?

00:04:13.200 I expected them to triple down and give Markiplier an age restriction too.

00:04:18.000 But they looked at Mark's video and they used that to verify my innocence.

00:04:25.060 So, I send my YouTube rep a lengthy email detailing my feelings about this.

00:04:31.940 Why the hell do you just get a YouTube rep?

00:04:33.800 Can I have one?

00:04:35.340 Is there someone watching?

00:04:36.780 Can I get a rep?

00:04:37.880 I'll be a good boy.

00:04:39.180 I'll take an antidepressant if I have to.

00:04:41.360 Hey, I will shake hands with the decline.

00:04:45.680 Anything.

00:04:45.980 The entire situation feeling like there was some favoritism at play.

00:04:51.000 There was either that or some racism at play.

00:04:53.400 And that I would like to sit down with the policy team and figure out why my video was

00:04:58.000 flagged in the first place.

00:04:59.640 Actually, number one, was it automated or was it a human that age restricted in in the first

00:05:05.360 place?

00:05:06.240 Number two, who was the human reviewer?

00:05:09.180 Because it's a human reviewer once you submit it. 0.99

00:05:12.120 It's a fat, blue-haired lesbian behind the scenes. 1.00

00:05:14.460 Hey, I know you're watching. 0.99

00:05:15.760 Ah, can you green mark this video?

00:05:17.520 I've been getting so many yellows.

00:05:19.100 Can you just green mark this one for once?

00:05:21.760 Come on.

00:05:22.840 I'm trying to get my millionaire party with Tristan.

00:05:24.820 You already bent.

00:05:25.580 Hey, let me get a couple greens, blue-haired dyke. 1.00

00:05:27.940 Please, come on.

00:05:29.100 Susan.

00:05:29.940 Hey, Susan. 1.00

00:05:31.420 You know, suck my dick, Susan P. 1.00

00:05:32.960 Anthony and my crap. 1.00

00:05:33.660 But please, can I get a green? 0.99

00:05:36.100 Let your boy get a green? 0.64

00:05:37.060 An appeal.

00:05:38.920 Who was the human reviewer that doubled down and rejected my appeal?

00:05:44.220 Number three, why did it take Markiplier's clip in order for them to reverse the decision?

00:05:50.840 My YouTube rep gets back with me.

00:05:52.700 He wants to hop on a call.

00:05:54.020 We get on the phone for about 10, 15 minutes and I tell him, I've been feeling like this

00:05:59.360 for a long time.

00:06:00.300 I've been feeling like every single time that I come back to YouTube, I'm number one trending

00:06:05.760 for a few days and then they...

00:06:07.500 Chat, I've been doing YouTube for nine years.

00:06:10.660 I've never been on trending.

00:06:12.740 Even Destiny has posted...

00:06:14.460 And maybe this is that race thing going on.

00:06:16.380 I'm jacking it right now.

00:06:18.040 Destiny posted my panel that I hosted on his channel and got trending on gaming.

00:06:24.120 I posted, which it was my panel, my recording, not on trending.

00:06:28.580 The same exact panel.

00:06:32.280 I have never been on trending.

00:06:34.720 Bro, I've gained 350,000 subs in the past 28 days. 0.99

00:06:38.860 My shit is bumping right now. 0.99

00:06:41.540 Bro, I'm gaining like 10,000 subs a day. 0.99

00:06:44.880 And I'm still never trending, but the same exact debate posted on a white streamer's channel.

00:06:52.680 Hey, watch this one.

00:06:54.480 Click this one. 1.00

00:06:56.500 Fuck. 1.00

00:06:57.800 Susan, come on. 1.00

00:06:59.360 I know this is going to get demonetized because I said dykey, but can you just put me on trending once in a while? 0.98

00:07:04.960 Once?

00:07:05.620 I got the milli plaque.

00:07:07.180 What else I got to do? 1.00

00:07:08.880 Whose dick I got to suck? 1.00

00:07:12.300 Ethan, can you tell me which dick I got to suck to get that favoritism? 1.00

00:07:15.580 They find some arbitrary issue. 1.00

00:07:19.540 They nitpick and they try and find something that they can incriminate me for and try to push me down.

00:07:25.580 You don't believe me?

00:07:26.680 What happened the last time I came back and I was number one trending for like a week?

00:07:30.240 They copyright strike me for a video that was in 2000.

00:07:33.580 Why do you complain?

00:07:35.140 At least you get out trending number one. 1.00

00:07:37.840 Like damn, bro. 1.00

00:07:38.700 19 or something like that. 0.99

00:07:40.160 Why don't these issues ever crop up when I'm not uploading?

00:07:43.900 I mean, I'm not on YouTube like nine months out of the year.

00:07:47.740 Nothing ever happens until I come back and I start uploading again and I'm getting my numbers.

00:07:53.280 They're climbing.

00:07:54.000 They're exploding.

00:07:55.120 I'm number one trending.

00:07:56.340 And then they're like, hey, we need to stop him.

00:07:58.920 We need to. 0.92

00:07:59.520 This black man, he's getting too many views. 0.89

00:08:01.360 He's getting too much exposure, too much activity. 0.95

00:08:04.340 Hold that, Bob.

00:08:05.620 Let's get back to the current situation.

00:08:07.560 So my YouTube rep assures me he's going to continue this dialogue with the policy team

00:08:12.100 and try to get some answers to those three questions that I had.

00:08:16.040 Yo, Ice Cold JT, you wildin' right now.

00:08:17.700 I'm talking about Susan.

00:08:18.580 I'm not talking to you.

00:08:19.180 Don't say, yo, chat, stop saying A-O. 1.00

00:08:21.080 I want to suck Susan's dick, no homo. 1.00

00:08:23.360 In Minecraft, Susan B. Anthony. 1.00

00:08:24.840 Another day, another two days go by.

00:08:27.440 And what do you know?

00:08:28.540 They re-age-restricted the video.

00:08:33.260 What the?

00:08:35.040 They re-age-restricted the video.

00:08:37.880 I say, no way did they do that.

00:08:40.600 I go to Markiplier's video now, and now his video is age-restricted.

00:08:45.680 They got caught with their pants down.

00:08:48.680 Whoa! 0.71

00:08:49.940 You got him!

00:08:50.820 Hey, you know, by saying this, Corey, catch it.

00:08:52.820 You ain't never getting on number one trending again.

00:08:54.800 They got called out, and then they had to go back and say, oh, whoa, whoa, whoa.

00:08:59.260 Okay, we see the narrative that he's kind of pushing here.

00:09:02.540 We need to take some steps back.

00:09:04.320 We need to just age-restrict them both and be done with it. 0.88

00:09:06.960 You thought that I wasn't gonna, like, talk about this, make a video about it?

00:09:10.560 You realize how bad this looks for you, YouTube?

00:09:14.100 You realize how unfair this comes across?

00:09:19.240 I, in all my years, have never seen a video get age-restricted, de-age-restricted.

00:09:25.920 And re-age-restricted, because Whitey didn't. 1.00

00:09:28.440 And then age-restricted again.

00:09:29.900 Have any of you ever seen that happen before?

00:09:32.500 They just found a flaw in their system.

00:09:34.380 You found...

00:09:34.980 Yo, this is a good video.

00:09:35.900 They saw that I saw that there was some unfair stuff going on.

00:09:40.080 Scary Black Man Pays Scary Game? 1.00

00:09:41.880 So then they tried to appease me by de-age-restricting the video.

00:09:46.400 I say, wait, why are you doing that?

00:09:48.380 Because I sent Markiplier's clip.

00:09:50.640 And then they say, oh, okay, well, let's just age-restrict them both.

00:09:53.660 Why is my channel so much more heavily scrutinized than my...

00:09:58.600 Because you're a rapper.

00:10:01.040 Appears.

00:10:01.900 Because it's not...

00:10:03.520 It's nothing to do with your race. 1.00

00:10:04.640 You're just a thug. 1.00

00:10:06.000 You look like a rapper. 1.00

00:10:08.200 Rapper.

00:10:09.140 My peers.

00:10:10.100 And when I say peers, I mean people...

00:10:11.880 Around my level.

00:10:13.380 Around my view count.

00:10:14.580 Just to keep it simple.

00:10:16.040 Why is my channel so much more thoroughly scrutinized?

00:10:19.840 Especially so when I've been number one trending multiple days in a row.

00:10:25.400 Which I've done multiple times.

00:10:27.820 And every single time...

00:10:28.980 I haven't even been 87 on trending.

00:10:31.260 Never.

00:10:31.920 I start to get...

00:10:32.820 Everybody I know.

00:10:34.000 Literally every YouTuber I know with similar subscribers has been on trending.

00:10:37.180 Every single channel.

00:10:39.100 And you go say that censorship isn't real.

00:10:40.960 Just give me one.

00:10:42.640 Just give me a 59.

00:10:44.960 I'll take gaming.

00:10:46.280 Give me gaming trending.

00:10:47.720 28.

00:10:48.620 Something.

00:10:49.780 Never.

00:10:50.460 Never.

00:10:51.420 Since 2013 I've had Sneeko.

00:10:53.480 Get an uptick in traction.

00:10:55.780 An uptick in activity.

00:10:57.880 Here comes YouTube.

00:10:59.100 Coming through.

00:10:59.980 Hey.

00:11:01.960 Let's get him for that video from 2019.

00:11:03.900 Yeah.

00:11:04.160 You see this Corey?

00:11:05.540 No.

00:11:05.820 This is bad.

00:11:06.600 It wasn't bad the nine months that I was off the platform.

00:11:10.140 It was only bad when I got back and I was number one trending.

00:11:14.880 This situation was only bad because I've been number one trending since I got back.

00:11:21.400 Every other YouTuber has uploaded the mortuary assistant.

00:11:26.000 And now they're about to start putting in some aid restrictions because I called them out on some unfair behavior.

00:11:31.860 Now I realize that when you call someone a racist that's a very very serious accusation.

00:11:39.300 And for that matter how do you expressly prove that someone is a racist?

00:11:44.400 I mean unless they're spamming the n-word in the chat.

00:11:47.780 How do you really know?

00:11:49.460 And admittedly I cannot 100% prove that race had everything to do with this.

00:11:55.320 But I can tell you the people on that policy team, those shadow people that are anonymous and get to enact their will however they see fit. 0.57

00:12:06.880 How can we be sure that they take a black person's video and a white person's video and it can be the same exact video and they restrict the black person's video but not the white person's video?

00:12:20.560 I feel I've been mistreated for a long time.

00:12:23.820 I mean even when we hit 10 million subscribers and I was...

00:12:27.560 It's crazy how big YouTube is because I never heard of Kory Kenshin in my life before.

00:12:31.320 The dude has 14 million subs.

00:12:33.020 I always forget how big this platform was.

00:12:35.140 I used to have every Millie sub channel memorized.

00:12:37.740 I've never heard of him before.

00:12:39.080 And I'm not trying to be disrespectful.

00:12:40.740 I'm just not really in the gaming world.

00:12:42.220 That's brazy.

00:12:43.480 Supposed to get my diamond play button and there was no correspondence.

00:12:47.320 These situations always coincide with an uptick of growth. 0.82

00:12:54.840 And it always just comes off like we can't let this black guy get too high up. 0.99

00:13:01.340 I mean if I'm wrong, I'm wrong. 0.73

00:13:03.900 I'm telling you.

00:13:05.120 That's how it comes off.

00:13:06.400 I don't see any other YouTuber that gets number one trending many times and then all of a sudden

00:13:14.220 they're getting age restricted and they're getting copyright strikes and all of that.

00:13:18.300 If I'm wrong, I'm wrong.

00:13:19.540 Point them out.

00:13:20.080 I want to see them.

00:13:21.200 I'll retract this entire video.

00:13:23.860 I'll make a public apology to YouTube.

00:13:26.280 I have no problem.

00:13:27.440 My dad taught me if you make a mistake, be a man and address it and apologize.

00:13:32.220 I will do that, no problem.

00:13:34.820 But to me, you know what it comes off?

00:13:37.140 It comes off whenever Corey Kenshin starts doing some crazy numbers or getting on trending

00:13:43.220 too much.

00:13:43.980 We got to find something.

00:13:45.500 We got to get him for something.

00:13:47.300 He's got to have done something.

00:13:49.340 I mean, I bleep out cuss words in video games.

00:13:53.060 Like, I literally.

00:13:56.600 This is the YouTuber that you want to have smoke with and have problems with.

00:14:01.900 I believe there is some racism involved within the policy team and YouTube in general really 0.98

00:14:08.780 doesn't care about black people like that. 0.74

00:14:11.840 They got their favorite creators, you know. 1.00

00:14:16.240 YouTube doesn't care about black people. 0.96

00:14:19.940 Log out of YouTube. 0.99

00:14:21.620 Log out and go to YouTube.

00:14:23.340 You'll see the people on the front page every single day.

00:14:26.480 You'll see the favorites.

00:14:28.120 You think he's dragging the chat?

00:14:29.420 Like, maybe he's dragging it a little bit. 0.78

00:14:32.580 Count how many are black. 0.91

00:14:33.720 Count how many are of people of color.

00:14:35.880 So then what does YouTube try and do?

00:14:37.660 They try and peddle YouTube black.

00:14:40.080 They try and give us a spotlight.

00:14:42.480 And do you know how condescending and patronizing that is?

00:14:46.520 So then what do you want them to do?

00:14:48.180 If you're saying that there's an agenda against you and then they have an agenda for you,

00:14:51.460 which one, I mean, like, which one do you want?

00:14:53.180 Oh, yeah.

00:14:53.800 Let's give a spotlight to these black creators because we're all about diversity. 0.98

00:14:58.100 All this communicates is black people aren't good enough on their own skill, on their own 1.00

00:15:02.920 merits, on their own talent. 0.98

00:15:04.460 So we got to give them a spotlight.

00:15:05.960 We got to come down and raise them up so they can get some spotlight action. 0.91

00:15:09.500 Well, how about you save all that YouTube black, all that fake patronage, all that fake pandering 0.98

00:15:16.960 that you guys do?

00:15:18.180 Then what you want them?

00:15:19.300 And when you have a black creator coming to you repeatedly saying, why am I being treated

00:15:24.940 differently than other creators? 0.82

00:15:26.840 And then you come back and, oh, we got to de-age restricted.

00:15:30.800 And then, oh, no, we got to, we got to, he's on to us.

00:15:34.020 Okay, we got to age restrict them both.

00:15:37.080 Fake!

00:15:38.200 It's fake!

00:15:38.980 That's what it is.

00:15:40.280 I am deeply sorry that this came off as a rant.

00:15:45.740 You know, in the beginning, I wanted to keep my emotions out of it.

00:15:49.640 I wanted to stay logical, stay on the things that I could prove.

00:15:55.360 I gave you the facts, but it also turned into me venting the emotions that I've had built

00:16:04.100 up around YouTube.

00:16:05.620 Ironic that I have to upload this on YouTube.

00:16:09.160 Yeah, I understand where you're coming from.

00:16:11.260 But at the same time, you know that the trending page is handpicked and you've been on number

00:16:15.340 one trending many times.

00:16:16.740 So either there's an agenda against black people or there isn't, because if they handpicking

00:16:20.620 you to be number one trending, then there are people in the scene that are for you.

00:16:25.260 Maybe the whole thing isn't racist.

00:16:27.380 Maybe the employee who age restricted that one video was racist.

00:16:31.080 But to claim the whole thing is against it is a little bit too victim mentality for me.

00:16:38.520 But that one employee could have been, for sure.

00:16:42.620 YouTube, but where else am I going to upload it?

00:16:45.280 You know, I worked hard.

00:16:46.700 I built this community from the ground.

00:16:49.940 It's taken me over a decade to do.

00:16:53.440 And I would have just hoped that the playing field was fair and that, hey, if I did something

00:17:01.500 bad, then everybody else who also did that thing should get punished too.

00:17:05.980 Is that unreasonable?

00:17:07.540 Okay, you're dragging it out.

00:17:08.980 I have no problem being punished.

00:17:11.340 I have no problem if I break a rule that I get punished for it and I learn.

00:17:16.200 But when you start like, when it's targeted, when you're doing things only because I'm like

00:17:22.000 getting bigger or I don't know how it always seems to coincide with that situation.

00:17:27.340 But that's just what it is.

00:17:28.800 Now, if my YouTube channel gets shadow banned or they like, you know, they start like not

00:17:34.140 sending my videos out to my subscribers or, or, you know, a couple months from now, y'all

00:17:39.480 just stop seeing my videos.

00:17:41.660 We know why.

00:17:43.160 We know why.

00:17:44.060 I mean, those shadows behind the scenes, they control it all.

00:17:48.040 They control all of it.

00:17:49.780 If they don't want, if this is not victim mentality, this happens to him many times.

00:17:53.380 Well, he's also been number one trending many times, which they handpicked.

00:17:56.400 There's no algorithm for trending.

00:17:58.280 So at the same time, there's a bit of favoritism.

00:18:02.120 If you've been repeatedly put on number one trending, that's like, I will never be there.

00:18:06.440 And I don't think it has anything to do with race.

00:18:08.420 I think that's just because of my message.

00:18:09.960 They don't want my channel.

00:18:11.120 They could terminate it right now.

00:18:12.860 They could hide my videos.

00:18:14.740 They could shadow ban me, not send my videos out to anybody.

00:18:18.340 That's why I thought long and hard before I recorded this, but as one of the biggest black

00:18:26.420 creators on the platform, that's brazy because I genuinely not trying to, I know this is when

00:18:31.640 YouTubers like say that. 0.92

00:18:32.600 I've never heard of you.

00:18:33.560 I really haven't.

00:18:34.740 I really haven't.

00:18:36.200 I want you to hear it from my mouth, but I'll keep myself.

00:18:39.020 I'll keep tuned in.

00:18:39.600 I like this video that there is some shady business going on behind us.

00:18:43.640 That's a fact scenes at YouTube.

00:18:46.600 Okay, cool.

00:18:48.340 Okay, next video, I got to go turn on the AC.

00:18:51.420 You see me like wiping my sweat.

00:18:52.580 Just let me turn the stronger.

00:18:56.800 Hey, like the video.

00:18:57.700 We got 14K here.

00:18:58.740 I want to see some likes up.

00:18:59.720 What are you talking about?

00:19:00.300 How many likes is in here? 0.61

00:19:01.220 How many viewers is in here?

00:19:02.300 14K, let's get the likes up. 0.87

00:19:03.500 Hold up.

00:19:09.320 That's it.

00:19:09.740 Is this your job?

00:19:10.320 Yeah.

00:19:11.000 So, I'm gonna give it to you.

SNEAKO - August 25, 2022

SNEAKO Reacts To Youtube Racism and Favoritism

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