Important Update for All Creators: Complying with COPPA

Important Update for All Creators: Complying with COPPA is an infamous YouTube video uploaded by the YouTube Creators channel.

Why It Sucks

 * 1) In case you don't know, COPPA stands for "Children's Online Privacy Protection Act." Yes, this means that a group of soccermoms are going to make sure YouTube stays "kid-friendly" all because most of the videos have swearing, sexual content, and graphic violence, and are not like those stupid Easter Egg videos or those horrid "kids" cartoons on YouTube. That's what made YouTube great in the first place, people!
 * 2) Because of this, people are now fearing that their channels will be terminated all because they aren't considered "kid-friendly."
 * 3) It just comes to show that YouTube has pretty much overstayed its welcome, just like YouTube Heroes and YouTube Rewind 2018.
 * 4) As a matter of fact, Lauren, the speaker of this video, also seems worried about the future of YouTube just by her expression and her voice.
 * 5) This is nothing but a load of hypocrisy. It's basically the parents fault for having their children watch inappropiate content on YouTube, but yet are blind towards this and decide to blame YouTube for having their children watch inappropiate content.
 * 6) The infamous "mark your video as 'made for kids or not'" update.
 * 7) Lauren also claims that you know your videos and audience best, which is not true for everyone. In fact, every YouTuber always have subscribers they never knew they existed.
 * 8) The whole thing is basically going to have users abuse the whole "it's made for kids" excuse to dismiss criticism.
 * 9) To make this far worse, YouTube can set the audience rating for you, if you don't mark your video.
 * 10) * Ironically, they admitted that this kind of stuff is flawed.
 * 11) One of the things that will mark your video for kids is if one of the actors are kids. This would not be true for videos like Magical Dream Bed and Naptime! considering those actors have kids, but yet contains graphic content (spoiler alert: all of the kids in these said videos actually die or get injured, so basically, YouTube didn't think this through.)
 * 12) If you mark your video for kids, then comments, ratings, intro cards, and end screens will not be allowed, making the "kid-friendly" video very unoriginal and bland. But that's what kids want, right?
 * 13) * Similarly, "kid-friendly" channels won't have stories, community tabs, notifications, and the ability to save videos to playlists (the last of which makes no sense, as playlists are useful if you only want your child to watch kid-friendly videos,)
 * 14) This video could've simply be a short slideshow about the update, but it contains Lauren putting a bunch of nonsense filler for no reason at all.

Reception
The announcement of the COPPA policy has been heavily slammed by users, finding this to be the death of YouTube, with over 136 thousand dislikes over 54 thousand likes.

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