Why YouTube Disabled My Comments (and Millions of Others)

Hey, for those of you beloved commenters, family, friends, I'm sorry. Well, I can't be sorry, it's not my fault. I woke up this morning to an email from YouTube, my YouTube representative, letting me know that comments featuring minors have been disabled. It's nothing we've done, it's nothing— actually, this is across the YouTube platform, it's nothing they've done in particularly I'll read— I think I can sum it up with one sentence from our representative. It says, YouTube— this is talking about YouTube— we have disabled comments on tens of millions of videos that include minors. That would be people 18 years and under. That would certainly be most, a vast majority of our videos. And pose a risk to our community due to predatory comments. So it's about the comments, guys. I don't— I haven't noticed any of those kind of comments on our show. YouTube is doing this across the board, whether it's happened or not, whether, whether there's been those kinds of comments on the content or not. YouTube has disabled comments. I think I could go in there and reverse that, but could lose all our content if Somehow it happened. So right now we're on a— it's— it's— the comments are disabled, and I'm so sorry. That's a big part of what makes this great, is it's what makes it better than network TV or something, is that there's community there for those commenting. Now the commenters are actually a vast minority, so— but you're a very important part of it, so I think the best thing I can come up with right now is to get on— what I'll do every video I post, I'll post the thumbnail, the image of that video on my Instagram. So if you guys want to make a comment about that video, just go to my Instagram. It's called The Justin Rhodes Show. So go to Instagram, get on that @thejustinrhodeshow. I'll leave a link to that down in the description. And that way we can keep the conversation going for those that want to. So it seemed like it was a temporary fix. That was the wording until YouTube can, I guess, get more automated protection against this kind of stuff. So I'm— in a ways it seems like something, something not good was happening somewhere on the internet. So maybe it's a good thing, but it does stink that we can't communicate like we have in the past. So Check us out on Instagram. Maybe that'll be a great solution for you guys and me. So, okay. Talk to you later.