Last night, I uploaded a video to YouTube titled "Something Strange is Happening to YouTube Celebrities", addressing the recent Logan Paul scandal. Logan Paul, a famous YouTuber, posted a video from his trip to Japan, wherein he and his friends traveled into the infamous suicide forest and discovered a dead body hanging from a tree, then proceeded to giggle, film, edit, and upload their experience, essentially turning suicide into clickbait that was then featured on the "trending" section of YouTube.
I suggested that YouTube was taking advantage of Logan Paul's actions as a means to roll out further censorship on their platform. It's the typical problem, reaction, solution pattern we've seen with the YouTube AdPocalypse, Elsagate, and now Logan Paul's suicide forest video.
My video was marked as age-restricted within hours, though it featured no graphic imagery or foul language. Of course, the act of age-restricting a video serves as a means to limit traffic to the video.
While I'm certainly glad that Steemit has their own video service where I can mirror the video, I do find it frustrating, yet not altogether surprising, that my YouTube channel and many others like it, are under 24-hour surveillance of the internet thought police.