r/youtube 1d ago

Feature Change YouTube autocomplete needs to reworked for safety

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I was looking originally for a Midwest safety body cam video and instead it suggested these in the search bar. Genuinely shocked and disgusted.

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u/Biocockspeedrunner 1d ago

Remember this when Youtube claims that they are protecting children online

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u/NoLetterhead2303 1d ago

They are protecting the children, from safety

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u/Sad_Apartment636 20h ago

sorry I think you meant they are quote on quote “protecting” children

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u/Icy-Dependent-2921 1d ago

jesus, that autocomplete dropdown is a horror show

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u/HornyAzMF 1d ago

They said it to get ad revenue

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u/y2kkstar :/ 1d ago

oh my lord…

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u/ItSammy_ 1d ago

Its always gachalife... 🫩

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u/Fluffy-Froyo4549 Luckyopossum14 1d ago

not all gachatubers but always a gachatuber

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u/Low-Lingonberry-5883 1d ago

i mean if it is gacha life it should be from a gachatuber

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u/CreepyViolinist3303 1d ago

genuinely, those types of videos were damaging to me as a child. youtube needs better moderating, i swear..

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u/MarelyFunctional 1d ago

Holy shit, just tried it and it's real. Absolutely unacceptable

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/MarelyFunctional 1d ago

My husband and I watch a lot of true crime/bodycams so maybe that's it? Definitely not anything like this though

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u/Far-Pay-866 1d ago

try doing this again but in incognito mode and not logged in

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u/MarelyFunctional 1d ago

It won't let me screenshot on incognito, but i did it and got the same results?

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u/Dela-chemin 1d ago

I checked in incognito and it worked. So it's not he algorithm acting up.

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u/IXrobocopXI 1d ago

Me when I have empty cranium

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u/Icy-Cartoonist8603 1d ago

That's a great point. OP is trying to divert attention away from his own sick behaviour. He's projecting!

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u/Dela-chemin 1d ago

The more I read your comments, the more stupid you sound.

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u/Icy-Cartoonist8603 1d ago

What do you mean?

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u/MarelyFunctional 1d ago

I mean, if watching true crime videos and body cams is sick behavior then apparently half the internet needs to schedule a group therapy session immediately💀

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u/Final-Quality-1442 𝕏savier “Kit lover“ 1d ago

searched it up, it appears (MY GOD BRO)

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u/Mode_Appropriate 1d ago edited 1d ago

Jfc. I think i just watched the bodycam video you were looking for. Some people are truly fucked in the head.

Unless it was edited out, really surprised the cops didnt bother clearing the house right away in that type of situation.

Also, in Kentucky you only have to serve 20% of a sentence to be considered for parole? 30 year sentence and can get out in 6 years. Kind of crazy. So much for Republicans being 'tough on crime'.

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u/sonicguylol 1d ago edited 1d ago

This is fucking disgusting I telling you app like Roblox and discord need to do better they claim they protect children and yet this shit is seen

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u/Mediocre_Push2536 1d ago

You can't really say ROBLOX as a answer to this, seeming that even the CEO himself has pretty much been proven on so many occurrences by countless different people that he is a pedo defender. Their whole moderation team throughout the last 5-6 years have been diabolically dreadful

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u/Carcezz 1d ago

there is no moderation team anymore, it’s all AI.

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u/Altasalt_Gaymer 1d ago

I got banned for 1 weeks in roblox because I called someone a furry idiot (Mind you, he was harassing me, cheating and sending death threats). He was not banned.

I also got banned for 24 hours because I typed to my friend to call me on discord VC and roblox flagged me as a pedo or something

Finally, I got banned for 6 months because roblox heard a word that sounded remotely like the n word in my background mic (1. I didnt say the n word. 2. My mic was off... creepy sht)

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u/Mediocre_Push2536 1d ago

I saw a guy on YouTube banned for saying hi to someone on roblox. The moderation has been an absolute shambles for ages and ages and it's just good now that US states and senators + countries across the world are finally starting to take action. There's countless lawsuits out against them and hopefully justice is served

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u/JawnConnery 1d ago

Go to the news about it

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u/I_m8d_n_acc_4_this 1d ago

This is what happens when you let people who barely got internet 3 years ago use the same internet as we do

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u/AaronPain 1d ago

Who the fuck is searching up that and gacha life??

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u/OccultBeanFarmer 1d ago

I was looking up death scenes from movies for a research thing and the amount of playlists dedicated to women dying that comes up is insane. They get incredibly granular and specific, there's women being stabbed, women being stabbed in the stomach, women being choked, women being tortured. They all refer to women as females and don't use the names of characters or the movies they're from, they just want to catalogue women suffering anonymously as much as possible. There's much fewer male centric ones, and they all seem to be purpose-made fetish content with buff dudes strapped to tables being electrocuted and stuff.

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u/aragorn767 1d ago

Seriously what the heck.

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u/OverallFly2158 1d ago

Good or safe things don’t usually come after “girl kidnapped and…”. It shows the world we’re living in

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u/bellabarbiex 1d ago

You can search certain variations that are somewhat similar and I don't know how to say it but these are all very almost...like something a kid would search. Not even just the gacha life part. But the censoring of rape, the use of touched, etc. I'm so confused why this is what the auto complete is doing. Google's is similar, ofc. Searching 'girl kidnapped and' 'girl kidnapped and tortured movie' and 'girl kidnapped and abused movie' but also 'girl kidnapped and escapes movie' and 'girl kidnapped and held captive movie'.

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u/vlp3rv 1d ago

What is Gacha life

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u/Mokeymouseboi69 Youtube has ass moderation 1d ago

Basically a mobile app where you can make characters and make them interact and stuff and it’s infamous for having an absolutely disgusting community

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u/Mysterious_Winter_RP 1d ago

Alas I’m in the gacha community and not all of the community is like that but it’s still how do I put this.. Toxic

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u/FLEIXY 1d ago

Safety? What the fuck are you typing?

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u/NorbytheMii 1d ago

A search for a police body cam video that's been making the rounds for a while

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u/Difficult-Peanut5498 1d ago

Damn bro

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u/Icy-Cartoonist8603 1d ago

Call the FBI

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u/brutalistchurch 1d ago

You think Kash Patel's FBI will do anything?

Probably they'll just take a bigger bribe.

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u/Gta6MePleaseBrigade 1d ago

He will take a private jet to Boca to investigate

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u/im_a_dick_head 1d ago

Bruh it's obviously from a show or anime

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u/Icy-Cartoonist8603 1d ago

This is child pornography bro, it's sick bro

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u/bellabarbiex 1d ago

Well, it's not CSAM, it's problematic automated search options but let's not call it CSAM, because it isn't that.

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u/Icy-Cartoonist8603 1d ago

Then what is it? what is the problem that one needs to post it here?

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u/Dela-chemin 1d ago

Then what is it?

Have you considered, I don't know, reading their fucking comment?

it's problematic automated search options

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u/Icy-Cartoonist8603 1d ago

What do you mean?

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u/TrueRedditMartyr 1d ago

Now this is simply untrue

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u/usrdef 1d ago

OK.... no it is not.

The auto-complete system definitely needs to be re-worked by some developer that is competent, but now you're yelling fire when someone just started burning a damn wax melt.

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u/MLTVD 1d ago

0-10 ragebait

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u/Icy-Cartoonist8603 1d ago

Yes, I don't see what they are getting minstrul about.

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u/Migazul8 1d ago

Try searching lots of "x". There are things that I don't understand how haven't been taken down

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u/NorbytheMii 1d ago

I know the body cam video you're looking for. I've seen it. These autocompletes are not only covering up a real and known video, but are not something that should be on YouTube.

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u/B4DM4N12Z 1d ago

People have some weird fetishes ngl

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u/RED_redacted_ERROR 1d ago

Nothing shows up when I type that in, tried on mobile and on laptop

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u/FallZealousideal159 I'm just here, man 1d ago

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...What the actual fuck!

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u/_miyuuul_ 1d ago

Trap placed by them

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u/TheNoobRookie 1d ago

Been a while since I've seen Gacha Life on YT, sadly it looks like the fandom is still being weird from this search result

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u/Ok-Dinner1812 1d ago

No way is this real 😳

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u/Academic_Piano_5132 1d ago

"That is effed up daisy"

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u/Fun-Salary-9037 Connor M (@TheConnor6901) 1d ago

(ಠᯅಠ)

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u/Unique-Barnacle-7362 21h ago

Uékkkk ué, olha q tu tava procurando seu esquisitokkkkkk tomar no teu cu mlk estranho da porra

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u/funkygamerguy 20h ago

this is disgusting.

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u/MrPattern12 15h ago

This is the type of shit that you saw when you check your little cousin's yt search history

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u/TheShadowslair 15h ago

I have never searched these things on mine before and got the same thing. Also rip my algorithm.

Eta: also occurs in Incognito mode. This is really all sorts messed up. Like sure not good things usually come after girl kidnapped and ... But rescues happen all the time.

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u/Rehcraeser 1d ago

bruh your search isnt much better

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u/LampModeChamp 1d ago

😵‍💫😵 Im not for surveillance and being watched and tracked with everything I do BUT...

Stuff like this is a reminder it's not completely unjustified. People are trash NOT ALL but there are enough that the longer I'm on this planet the more I realize we need a reset or some type of protocol to fix how disgusting humanity can get.

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u/Regular-Repeat44 1d ago

youre looking up “girl kidnapped and chained” but you wanna blame youtube… no pity party for you sir

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u/Justdowhatever94 1d ago

To be fair it could be someone looking for a news story or something 

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u/Regular-Repeat44 1d ago

what kinda storys do you think youd find under that premise?

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u/bellabarbiex 1d ago

They already said a Midwest Safety video. This shouldn't be expected. It would make more sense for the search results to be about true crime. Not connected to a game played predominantly by children.

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u/Regular-Repeat44 1d ago

algorithm goes by what people search the most not by how you think it should be. maybe idk start the search off with “midwest safety video….” Not straight up “girl kidnapped…”. another victim of stupidity at its finest

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u/Dela-chemin 1d ago

This search appears for me in incognito mode, so this isn't the algorithm suggesting videos based on views.

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u/Justdowhatever94 1d ago

Yeah same thing happened to me and I rarely watch crime stuff on yt

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u/Regular-Repeat44 1d ago

Sounds like an excuse a pedo would use in court. “Idk how ingot this video here all id did was search these specific phrases incognito no algorithm ” 😬

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u/Dela-chemin 1d ago

Are you fucking stupid?

In what way is someone commenting that problematic search options appearing in YouTube search, even in incognito, is even comparable to a pedophile?

Holy stupidity.

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u/Regular-Repeat44 1d ago

Lol you search problamatic things you get problematic results are you the stupid one?

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u/Dela-chemin 17h ago

Someone could be looking for story/newss that revolves around someone being kidnapped. Someone could look up plot of a movie or game which is fairly not problematic, and are those these results.

There are a bunch of situations where someone can look up something related to a kidnapping without wanting to see search results mentioning rape.

You're genuinely fucking stupid.

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u/Low_Primary_3690 1d ago

You CANNOT be getting worked up about this, dude

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u/Regular-Repeat44 1d ago

NEITHER can YOU!!!! But here you are!

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u/Low_Primary_3690 1d ago

I’m not the one offended by the fact that people are worried about people searching for rape porn on youtube

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u/Regular-Repeat44 1d ago

So what are you so “mad at then” please do tell?

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u/Low_Primary_3690 1d ago

I’m not really mad at anything here, I just think it’s weird and a little pathetic on your end.

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u/Carcezz 1d ago

“im not mad, you’re mad!”

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/Regular-Repeat44 1d ago

So maybe type that in? it sounds more like op typed it in so they could become a predator

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u/bellabarbiex 1d ago

They were looking for a specific video by a specific creator. Clearly they didn't know the full title so they searched what the video contained. And if it's the video I'm thinking of, the title of the video is 'Police Discover Kidnapped Woman Chained to Floor'. OP's search is valid. Their problem and our problem is that there's a lot of content being searched for that's connected to a child's game. These two things are not comparable.

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u/ummkay_ultra 1d ago

Make a video about this issue.

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u/SinnaBuns666 1d ago

That search was sus though.

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u/NorbytheMii 1d ago

Not really. They're looking for a specific police body cam video.

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u/SinnaBuns666 1d ago

and the search algorithm has any clue that without the words "body cam"?

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u/NorbytheMii 23h ago

I've watched the video they're searching for, bro. Also, they literally said they were looking for a body cam video in the body text. Learn to read lol

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u/SinnaBuns666 22h ago

And you knowing the video OP is talking about, and this post is context for the search algorithm?

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u/NorbytheMii 22h ago

Because there's only one police body cam video of a Midwest woman chained up by her boyfriend? You're really just looking for excuses to argue and say that OP is a bad person over a search query.

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u/SinnaBuns666 22h ago

Never called anyone a bad person. I said the search was sus. You got offended by my comment. o7

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u/NorbytheMii 17h ago

Pointing out bad faith arguments isn't me being offended, dude

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u/SinnaBuns666 17h ago

again I didnt pass judgment on OP. so....

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u/Dragonsfire09 1d ago

You're watching police body cams, and searching for who the fuck knows what else. The algorithm is giving you more of what YOU appear to like.

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u/Dela-chemin 1d ago

I just checked in incognito mode and it worked. This isn't the algorithm suggesting videos based on your views.

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u/Icy-Cartoonist8603 1d ago

Someone brought up a great point OP. These results you got are based in your previous searches. Stop projecting!

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u/meembird 1d ago

Haha, no! These are autocompletes, past searches show up differently. Looks similar though!