 YouTube is suspending channels for their thumbnails now. We've seen two suspensions this channel and This channel that were recently YPP suspended which means demonetized You can't make any money on YouTube because of the thumbnails now We'll go into details this thumbnail looks a little scary to me and these are looking gloomy But I believe they are still fine. So let me show you the details YouTube said as of January 15th Unrelated or missing thumbnail images designed to increase views as the reason for the YPP suspension for Ruta dill silencio, which is the second channel you just saw To be clear they said the channel is out of compliance due to these thumbnails designed to increase views now Let's see what they mean by misleading or racy thumbnails. This is the link that it takes you to Metadata refers to any and all Additional information on a video like titles tags descriptions and thumbnails The reason we have metadata so you can add additional Contextual information about your videos, please do not use these features to game or trick our search algorithms That means don't put tags into your description Don't repeat keywords in your description thinking that will get you more views what it'll get you is a YPP suspension Or it'll at best Just lower your video in the search results when YouTube Detects that you're gaming the system. No tag stuffing guys. It's not worth it It has the opposite effect of what you would think all metadata metadata should be representative of the content contained in your video. Okay, so this is the key You know select a reasonable number of tags use only tags in the tag section not the video description of the video and Adding additional tags to the description of your video may constitute spam and can result in the removal of your video and the YPP Suspension of your channel. All right, let's take a look at these channels in more detail This was the Indonesian channel that has news videos now it's in Indonesian so you won't be able to understand it unless you happen to speak Indonesian But in my opinion these thumbnails are relevant each video is the thumbnail is talking about this person or about that object Or about this animal, so I think they're relevant and we did argue the point. Let me show you our our Response We said we carefully reviewed this channel and feel the thumbnails are appropriate for the content. This is us challenging YouTube suspension asking them to re-review based on our feedback, so oh And this is some thumbnails are gloomy, but those are very relevant to the videos which explore spooky areas at night so this was the Argument we made on behalf of this channel Ruta del silencio, which was also YPP suspended for thumbnails and as I said this one thumbnail I would change right away. Like how is that relevant? There's no text. It's just a big eyeball staring at me Yeah, that's in my opinion a bad thumbnail and the channel owner should replace it, but these other ones I believe are Appropriate for the content because let me show you this video here this una Experianza Terrorifica here's the video. Let me play a clip the pilas de gallero no las encontraba pero encendí la interna de mi celular y put That's Spanish Las coloque nuevamente y otra vez muy rápido las escaleras So he's basically exploring a spooky house and the thumbnail is well I mean it's a spooky cat, but I don't believe it's crossing the line So again, we argued the point for this channel that we honestly believe the thumbnails are Good and not misleading designed to increase views given this context Can we request a second review human review by the internal YouTube team? And so we'll see what they say I'm still waiting for their response and I'll update you in the next video based on that But guys, what do you think about this new emphasis on thumbnails these two particular channels? I'm sure there will be other channels. We have not heard of these are the channels in our network that were affected and We have 3,000 channels and freedom and there's probably a billion channels on YouTube So it's gonna be a lot more than just our two channels that experience this have you experienced this Do you have friends that were suspended? Due to their thumbnails share down there in the comments below your experiences so we can all help each other grow together and better understand YouTube's rules about thumbnails now YouTube did publish some new rules recently and I will show them to you right here that there is an announcement that this of Strengthening the enforcement of our community guidelines where they do talk about custom thumbnails that all custom images must follow our community guide guidelines and selecting thumbnails That violate them Can now result in community guidelines strikes, but they don't talk about why pp suspensions as a Punishment just strikes even if the video does not violate the policies the thumbnail can now get you a community guidelines strike and The other key point which we haven't discussed and I'll discuss in future videos But since it's here. Let's just talk about it external links All external sites you link to have to follow YouTube's community guidelines do not link to gambling sites or Pornography or direct downloads for piracy because by doing so you're now violating this new strong strengthening of enforcement Where you can get strikes just for linking to sites that are against YouTube's policies and the other important one Which you may not be aware of is Here about dangerous challenges or pranks look even if the victims believe They're in physical danger, but they never actually are that's enough to Trigger this policy and give you a strike meaning you can't make people think they're going to get hurt Even though afterwards you'll say oh, yeah, there was never a chance look like the gun was a toy or something like that You know that itself can now get you strikes So that's for all you prank channels out there Just make sure your pranks are safe and and don't cause any belief in danger as well as never cause Children to experience emotional distress of any kind, but I think this is common sense guys You obviously, you know treat kids like they are their own are your own right? You don't want your own kids just be scared witless so The important thing is because this is a new action that YouTube is offering a grace period to allow Time to review the updates and make changes to your content I don't know how long this grace period will last so if you're reading this or hearing about this for the first time Go to your channel check all your channels thumbnails remove anything like this In my opinion and make sure that YouTube won't Assume you are trying to game the system. What was their wording here that the channel? That they don't think that you're using misleading thumbnail images just to increase views like don't show boobs in your video Unless you're making videos about breastfeeding. All right, that's the idea Okay, so what do you guys think about all this tell me down there in the comments below I'd love to hear your input and Regarding this whole KYC series click that I to see the playlist of all the videos I made about know your channel This is the 17th video. There's a lot But they all are important to keep your channel safe So you know your channel and you know what's allowed and what's not allowed. Hopefully that'll help you avoid a YPP suspension or a channel termination and I also want to bring up this FAQ the custom thumbnail policy enforcement update and The question was what is changing with how YouTube enforces custom thumbnail violations? Apparently nothing is changing But now the result could be a community guidelines strike or as we've discovered a YPP suspension and This link talks about an FAQ. What is egregious? What happens? When will I lose my custom thumbnail privileges? 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