Recently dozens of videos have been released on Youtube with claims of the company’s favoritism, racial motivation, or a mix of both. This topic has recently risen into relevance when famous youtuber CoryxKenshin made a video that explained recent events that caused a previous gaming video to be age restricted. When he had asked Youtube to explain the reasons behind the age restriction, when others made a video on the same game, YouTube was unresponsive and continued their age restriction on the video. When CoryxKenshin’s YouTube representative suggested a clip that possibly caused the age restriction, he sent Youtube the clip from a video by Markiplier Youtube lifted the age restriction. CoryxKenshin in response emailed the company with the following questions:

1. Was the initial restriction automated or human reviewed 
2. Who was the human reviewer that rejected human reviewer that rejected the appeal and why
3. Why did it take Markiplier’s clip to reverse the decision

   After this email YouTube re-age restricted both CoryxKenshin and Markiplier’s video. CoryxKenshin explains that this was an attempt by YouTube to appease him and show equality in its enforcement of its guidelines. CoryxKenshin explains that while he cannot with certainty say that YouTube has racial motivation, it comes across as such. At the end of his video CoryxKenshin says that he felt that this video was a thought out action that he believed had to be done— to call YouTube out and to bring light to their actions.

   Other creators have responded to CoryxKenshins video. Creators like Ludwig, Jacksepticeye, Kubz Scouts, MoistCr1tical, and more have spoken on the topic. One common agreement was YouTube’s inconsistent enforcement of its own policies.

   As of Aug. 31 YouTube has not made a response and many creators have continued to speak out of their own quarrels with the company.