One of the most prominent poker content creators on the internet, Jaime Staples has raised some concerns on Twitter. Apparently, YouTube has deleted a number of poker videos from their website.
Another batch of strikes on Youtube Poker videos
1/8 A thread for @YouTube creators and #poker fans. Another batch of strikes are going around on poker channels on YouTube. I have spoken to 5 or 6 people that have had videos flagged and removed from YouTube in the last few weeks.
— Jaime Staples (@jaimestaples) December 13, 2019
Staples claims he had 11 of his videos taken down. His channel also got a strike – that is serious, since if he receives two more, his entire channel will be gone.
So far, it is unclear what the video sharing site’s issue is with his content. Jaime Staples says that they were flagged by the YouTube AI as “harmful”. Harmful is a very vague term.
YouTubers who create poker content are mindful not to put external links directing to gambling sites in their video descriptions. However, Staples claims he didn’t do that.
Earlier this year, in June, poker news outlets reported on something very similar. A number of poker videos were deleted off of YouTube.
Even the most subscribed poker channel, Daniel Negreanu “fell victim” of the summer purge. He had one of his popular World Series of Poker vlogs taken down.
Then, the online poker community started to worry about their favorite creators. However, it seemed that poker content on YouTube did not take such a hit as some have anticipated after all.
This new fear of poker content creators is all happening in the wake of the entire YouTube community as a whole having anxiety about having videos deleted.
Earlier this month, the Google-owned video sharing site enacted new anti-bullying and anti-harassment policies. From now on, users aren’t allowed to post demeaning content about another person, regardless of whether the target is a private individual or a public figure. Also, if the criticism or parody is recurrent, that might go against the new rules as well.
Even a YouTube star as big as Ian “iDubbbz” Carter was hit with a video removal due to this policy change.
Doug Polk Responds
Jaime Staples has tagged a number of major poker personalities in his Twitter thread for awareness. Doug Polk was one of them.
Polk has a YouTube channel dedicated to the world’s most popular card game with 281,000 subscribers, as of now. Recently, he’s announced that since he decided to retire from professional poker, he’d also stop making poker strategy videos.
Since his announcement, Polk hasn’t posted any videos. His last upload is from over a month ago. So this new YouTube purge may not affect him as much.
However, he has over a back catalog of over 400 poker videos. If he gets 3 strikes for those, his YouTube channel, which he uses as a promotional tool for his poker coaching site, can be gone.
Despite that, Doug Polk responded in a calm tone to Jaime Staples on Twitter.
I cant remember this ever happening to my channel. Never gotten a strike and I dont think I had any videos removed. Sucks though, hopefully YouTube fixes this issue. https://t.co/Ed9f6LNp9H
— Doug Polk (@DougPolkPoker) December 13, 2019
From his reply, it seems Polk doesn’t think it’s very likely that poker fans will have their favorite content creators see gone from YouTube.
He simply states the fact that his channel didn’t have issues with strikes and video deletion yet and expresses hope that the site will work the problem out, just like they did back in June. Let’s all hope that is what’s going to happen.
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