YouTube has been called out by members of the video game industry and LGBT community after a number of content creators noticed their videos were being hidden by the platform’s restricted mode algorithm.
So my best guess is that restricted mode has hidden videos about games that have mature or violent content, like Doom, Deus Ex, BioShock, and Hitman.”
“The stuff on my channel is mostly programming things and Arduino stuff, but my entire channel is hidden from YouTube’s restricted mode search.
For its part, YouTube has been open about the system’s flaws in the past, and never claimed restricted mode filtering would be 100 percent accurate.