Start peppering your responses with archaic terms and slang.... Confuse the hell out of them
this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2025
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They'll be counting the wrinkies on my asshole.
When you log into YouTube, a patented recog device does read your anus to confirm your identity. Its CCDs convert light into text-based codes, which represent your unique fingerprint of anal terrain.
And y'all made fun of me for putting sunscreen on my asshole!
This is one of the dumbest ideas I have ever heard in my life.
In particular if I am online and neurotypical toxic people are thrown off by my ADHD, the VERY FIRST THING they do in their intellectual laziness is assume I am a kid.
The idea that this isn't considered an explicit oppression of neurodivergent adults is laughable to me. These systems will police for neurodivergence, not age. The obvious response from the center will be "just don't act like a kid then" and I would like to send a pre-emptive "go fuck yourself you are destroying everything" to those people.
I am autistic and like 60% of my watchtime is Minecraft smp.
I no longer have an account to proof my age, i download subscriptions using yt-dlp
I hope all the advanced science videos i am downloading somehow balance it out.
chuckles i am in line to get oppressed.
If I were an AI guessing your age based on this comment... I would estimate your age to be somewhere in the 25-35 range.
If I were an AI guessing your age based on this comment... I would estimate your age to be somewhere in the 9-9000 range.
Good thing I'm a potato then. Good luck guessing my age!
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The highly sophisticated and clever AI has already brilliantly identified several underaged people who have youtube or associated gmail accounts that are older than the minimum age.
Nah, google accounts are a recent thing, no way can that be a thing... Can it?
Oh hell I'm old...
My Gmail account is old enough to buy drinks in a bar in the US (21)
I assume they already did this for advertising purposes, just like every other platform trying to guess your demographics to sell you more useless shit.
And that's not just a win for companies. The fact that my metadata is out there is great for me as a user. Like with targeted ads -- I get tons of coupons from cool restaurants.
Accounts used by multiple people enter the room.
By kids often use my account on our shared family TV. We have adults in 30s/40s, early teens, and toddlers all using YouTube for different things.
This is a stupid idea.
I don't think big corp wants you account sharing. "Violates ToS" they say.
I don’t want ScreamingMinecraftYoutuber67 on my watch history, and yet, it’ll be there tomorrow morning.
/s
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How long before a certain orange moron starts complaining that it keeps thinking he's 13 for some reason?
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Youtube doesn't have the best history for this. One channel makes stop motion animations and showcases Transformers. It got marked as a children's channel. The channel went on to showcase Transformers doing lewd acts.
It annoys the shit out of me that they never made the "kids" section of youtube an entirely separate thing.
Like TV, they could curate the hell out of it and not just allow anyone to upload, but no, they instead made way too much money from elsagate videos and videos of kids swimming. Now that that's gone, it's now making money off of kids from AI slop.
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I remember when they first rolled out the “made for kids” video designation, “Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared” (a horror video) was labeled as children’s content by the AI until enough actual users had pointed out the error on Twitter.
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YouTube popup: What is Tik Tok?
User: A song by Kesha.
YouTube: Alright, let ‘em through.
False, that song is clearly by Ke*$*ha
Pfft, everyone knows it the Ukrainian entry in Moscow Eurovision (the one with the hamster wheel).
Cool, they poison their own tracking data.
I've never made a single comment or video post so good luck.
I watch a lot of gun videos on YouTube so they will probably assume I'm in high school.
Oof!
They will base it on the stuff you consume. Like 90% of people online lurk and don't comment anything
I am almost 70 and my wife and have a great time confusing the AI targeted ads. I get tampon ads she gets men’s diaper ads. We never know what we are going to get since we are always feeding misinformation into our phones.
Same same but different here. This algorithm was meant to know my wants better than me but all I get is ads for credit cards, adult diapers & hoodies.
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The have been thoroughly unable to guess my age for the last 18 years.
I mean, I've heard of other sites using info like having a saved payment card in your own name, or the age of the account itself to know that the user is over 18 without needing ID.
But this is Google, they want to flex their analytics and get as much additional info on everyone as they can.
This was literally the first thing that came to mind. So many people have android phones with cards already linked to google, paying for YouTube premium would do the same thing. But nope, Skynet is the better way to do it
What if you just play a bunch of home repair videos on the background? 🤔
I think my account is around 18 years old so let's see what the AI thinks.
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I watch plenty of penguinz0, This Old House, Smosh, and lawn care videos. Can’t wait to find out what YouTube makes of that.
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I always knew my fascination with redstone would come back to bite me
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Is this why Google sent me an email saying they changed my settings and I can scan in my ID if I want to change them back?
They already do this. There was a way to check and there may still be. When I checked like 10 years ago it was wrong about everything. Age, hobbies, everything
So good luck yt I guess
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They wouldn't restrict access to information based on your perceived age, would they?
I am guessing this is a rethorical question, but, they already forcibly flag videos as "made for kids" against the creators' will (and despite very clear audience statistics proving it's not).
So yeah, they are totally using their magic 8-ball to restrict your content.
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