Age Restricted Videos/ Trying to get rid of unwanted subscribers

[guest22811]

So I'm beginning to make videos that are slightly more violent in nature. Only problem is that the majority of my audience are people who aren't interested and are sensitive to this content. I really do not want to move channels as I have gained quite some attention on my current one and I want to keep it.


One of my videos already got flagged then age restricted, which really flips me off because 1) it cuts views from people who are interested however aren't of suitable age and 2) many other videos that are similar to mine (stickfights) are not age restricted, and are sometimes even more violent than mine.


I really have no idea what to do.
However, I do have a few ideas.


One of them is to slowly shift my content, and eventually the uninterested subscribers will kinda fade off.
Another one is to make a video announcing this (What I am currently doing) to hopefully shout out a warning.


Any other ideas? I'm getting very sick of it.


This is the video in question;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu_h3uOypLg

[Ventus Fall]

Isn't it possible for yourself to apply a content warning on your videos?

In either case, I think it's always good to include an extra video to explain you want to delve into other interests with regards to animating. That way people can follow and understand where you're going to.
Then -if you can- you could always select the content warning to be placed on your videos anyways. Or let YT do it either way

[guest22811]

Yeah, it is. I can apply content warnings to the title indeed, and that's what I've been doing. I'm just trying to deter ghosting/unwanted audiences.


It still pisses me off that the age restriction is on my video though. I filed a re evaluation thing and said that I added a disclaimer in the title, hopefully YouTube may remove it.


Thanks for advice!

[Malina]

A lot of YouTube is broken and will probably never be fixed. One of those ways is how the age restrictions work, and the sad thing is that you'll just have to deal with it for now
One way that tomska gets around this is to put content warnings at the start of the videos so if anyone is sensitive to a little blood they can click away before it starts. It's not a lot but it may work
Good luck !

[guest22811]

Yeah ughhhhhhh :'^)
I think I'll just mention the violence in the title n' stuff, and if that's not enough, I'm gonna need to put disclaimers in the video itself.


I swear if YouTube was very strict with their violence guidelines every single video would be 18+

[Malach1te -- Marauder]

Well, you could pull an Onision for a while and put a little disclaimer in front of every video till the subscriber base shoves off. I think a video explaining what your 'new' channel is going to be doing will be good, and perhaps making it your intro video for a bit would help.


YouTube guidelines and enforcements are like weather, sometimes sh!tty and sometimes good.