I came across a YouTube short of a monkey being “saved” and opened the account. There are many more videos like it, and it looks like one of those fake rescue channels where the animal is harmed beforehand.
If you go into the comments on the recent shorts you can see people talking about the problem.
Link: youtube.com/@bestquotes8114
Piped link: piped.video/@bestquotes8114?tab=shorts
The only reporting options I had were harassment and bullying, privacy, impersonation,
The channel should be shut down. Given that these channels are an ongoing problem, shouldn’t it be easier to report them? Is there a different place I should be looking?
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Spam and scam, and if there is a optional comment section, explain the situation as you see it there. YouTube will handle it from there, though I am not sure how effective that will be.
You cannot catch them all, so long as you report it then you have done all you realistically can do. Sure, you can stalk the user and confront them (dangerous, and probably illegal so don’t do that) or harass YouTube via email (annoying and causes unnecessary strain on their employees trying to do other work), but the best thing you can do is report it and leave it up to YouTube. At that point if they choose to do nothing, you did your best and the blame for enabling that kind of behavior is entirely on YouTube.
THE_ANON@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
You forgot looking up if they have other accounts other than youtube and calling them out.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 9 months ago
See: stalking them and confronting them