【Report YouTube Video】Step by Step Guide ▷ 2022

The online video and streaming platform has amazing statistics. Per monthmore than one billion nine hundred million users. For each After an hour, more than four hundred videos are uploaded to the site. And as for the visualizationsmore than billion a dayonly from mobile devices.

For this reason, it’s not surprising that the company’s moderators can’t keep up, but YouTube appeals to the collaboration of members to report inappropriate content. Through them it is easier to control the videos uploaded to the platform.

Taking the amount of traffic the site has, the inappropriate scenes are very common but do not represent the majority. We will show you how to report them.

How do reporting work on YouTube? Can you close the channel involved?

There are different reasons why YouTube decides to remove a video. The same cling to common sensegood conduct and peaceful customs. Reports can be made for any reason, but will only be considered if they violate these rules:

• Nudity or sexual content. It does not matter if it is from your own body, the site will remove content that shows impudent body parts or images with a high sexual impact. It is important to say that YT collaborates with the authorities in the fight against child abuse.
• Hateful content. Videos that promote xenophobia, homophobia or any type of message against ethnic groups, race, disability, sex, age or religion, among others, are not allowed.
• harassment or . Even comments can be deleted, even those from live broadcasts. Any content that becomes a malicious attack may be removed from the site.
• threats. Incitement, blackmail, or aggressive behavior towards a particular user is grounds for expulsion of the offending user.
• Privacy. If you appear in a video and you did not authorize said action. You can ask YouTube to remove that content.
• safety of minors. Any content that violates the rights of minors will be removed, followed by the corresponding legal actions.
• Harmful or dangerous content. Videos that encourage other users to perform actions that put their health at risk.
• Graphic violence content. Bloody content outside of the informational, documentary, or educational purpose will be considered inappropriate.
• and scams. Videos with fraudulent objectives are not allowed. Repeating content without segmentation will be considered spam.
• Copyright. It is not allowed to reupload videos of other users without the corresponding authorization. Neither is using content whose rights belong to others. This includes sound tracks.
• Identity fraud. If the goal of a video or channel is to impersonate another user, it will have broken the rules and will be removed.

As for the channel, it can be terminated if it repeatedly falls into the aforementioned infractions. Also if you have, even a single case of serious abuse, for example: spam.

Steps to report a YouTube video for being inappropriate easy and fast.

If you come across any video that violates the rules, We will show you how you should act to tell YouTube to remove said content:

in a video

• If you are not in it, enter the video.
• To the right of the icon “Save” the menu is found. Click on it.
• When doing so, a small window will be displayed, at the top you will find the button “Report”. Click there.
• Once this is done, you will need to choose the reason or violation.
• When you’re done, select “Following”.
• As chosen, you will have to specify.
• In the next window you must write a description of the complaint as well as the exact moment in which the offense was committed.
  to finish press “Report”.

a whole channel

• Enter the channel you need to report.
• Next to the magnifying glass icon (Search) is the tab “More information” either “About”. Enter there.
• Here you will find the channel description, details and statistics. It is under the latter that the flag is a symbol of denouncing.
• Within the menu that will be displayed when pressing this icon, you must choose “Report user”. The other options are to block the user, report the header or the profile photo.
• A window similar to the one in the previous case will appear, you must select the option that describes the channel problem.
• To finish, press “Report”.

In the same way that you can request the removal of a video and a channel, there are those to report other elements. Among them we can find:

• Report a playlist: Although it is satisfied by videos of different users.
• A thumbnail: The frame that appears as a preview of a clip.
• A comment: As we mentioned above, it can be for different reasons.
• A live chat message: Like comments, they can be reported by the broadcaster or by any viewer.