Explanation Point

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@G0ffThew Ah, yes. The Big Day. I can't wait for The Big Day.

Every day I wake up and wonder if someone’s done it yet

Hey, @TeamYouTube ! Sorry to bother you again, but you never gave me that email address we talked about. Think I could trouble you for it?

You're thanking me for understanding when I very specifically don't understand. That's the issue. Please explain it to me.

Or are you trying to tell me that this decision was "thoughtfully made" by AI and there's nothing you can do to explain it because you don't know how it works?

You aren't capable of explaining how your other two decisions on this exact same video were thoughtless? Why are you only now making thoughtful decisions? I would've appreciated it if you'd been thoughtful the first time this video was brought to your attention.

@TeamYouTube Like, it would be one thing if it were one I just uploaded. But I don't understand how you all can repeatedly tell me (explicitly) that there's nothing wrong with the video for nearly a decade and now decide that it's strike-worthy when nothing has changed.

@TeamYouTube You mean this explanation that says nothing other than "after seven years, a million views, and two different manual reviews saying it's fine, we've decided THIS time that your video violates our terms." The video hasn't changed. Why was it fine before? Why did THIS appeal fail?

Hey, @TeamYouTube. Who do I contact about removing community guidelines strikes when you arbitrarily decide that a video that's been on your website for seven years, which you "manually reviewed" and found "suitable for all advertisers" promotes child sexualization?

@TeamYouTube Sure thing! Thanks for the prompt response. Here you go: youtube.com/watch?v=Z58thY…

@ExPoint140 Totally understand how important this is for you. Mind sharing the vid URL in q, so we can take a closer look?

Anyway, just let me know who to email. Have a good one. Screenshots attached.

Are you now saying that *both* of those decisions were wrong? And not only wrong, so egregiously wrong that, instead of reinstating the video, you should've given me a strike and made me take sensitivity training, as you're now doing?

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@MangaScrub I'm one of those "everything starts at a 5" guys. A five is a perfect "this is a show that exists and is on my screen" score. I can't even remember the last thing that got a five. Solo Leveling if it weren't pretty, I guess.

@ExPoint140 5 and below needs serious, experience breaking problems. 6 and up are always good -> best. Kaiju’s absolute worst sin is being derivative; 7 was a fair score for it. I’d even say 8 for the manga personally. Imo Seven Deadly Sins would be the quintessential 4/5

I wound up rating Kaiju No. 8('s first season) a 7/10, and I've had people tell me that that's *way* too high, just like a 6/10 for Solo Leveling's first season is way too high, and just. . . I think these people severely underestimate how bad anime can get.

@Tcoren1 Seriously!

@ExPoint140 Kaiju no. 8 is not like, amazing, but putting it in the same sentence as solo leveling is high key disrespectful

@blizzic36 I counted two big ones, but yeah. It could've done Janitors Think About Life, or it could've been the new Gurren Lagann. But it chose to be what it is, instead.

@ExPoint140 There are like 8 or 9 different alternate paths that Kaiju No 8 could have followed that would have been awesome and instead it quadrupled down on being the most generic shonen thing ever

Unironically the show I wish Kaiju No. 8 had been.