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Coryxkenshin calls out Youtube for Racism

Coryxkenshin

Via Coryxkenshin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaHcnPDcUOE&t=4s

Coryxkenshin
Via Coryxkenshin, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaHcnPDcUOE&t=4s

Cory Devante Williams, known by his Youtube handle, Coryxkenshin, has amassed 14.2 million subscribers during his 10-year reign on Youtube. Throughout his career, he has shone a spotlight on many important matters, such as his fight with a rare genetic disorder ectodermal dysplasia, raising money for charity, and speaking on suicide.

“If you are contemplating suicide, and if you’re struggling going day to day keep fighting… I can assure you that there aren’t only dark days ahead.”

Coryxkenshin, via https://youtu.be/Fyo1t_u1L-Y

The video that started it all

On August 20, 2022, Cory uploaded a video covering the new video game The Mortuary Assistant made by Darkstone Digital. This video was actually a re-upload of the game, as Cory says: “I did upload this video yesterday, except youtube age restricted it” and not only that but, “they age restricted it around an hour after I uploaded it”.

“Why did it get age restricted? When 99,000 other YouTubers played this exact same game? I don’t know. We’re still having the problem, Youtube, of a lack of transparency.”

Coryxkenshin, via https://youtu.be/KZHmKPpWg2E

In addition, Youtube did not explain why the video got age-restricted, he just received an email that said he had violated community guidelines. The email did not give a timestamp of when this instance occurred or what it was.

Racism and Favoritism

On August 24, Cory uploaded a video titled, “Youtube: Racism and Favoritism“. He starts the video by saying he wants to take the video seriously, as the allegations he is levying are extremely serious. He then addresses Youtube and says they are either playing favorites, are racist, or both. Cory says he hasn’t spoken about Youtube giving him issues because he’s a person of color. He didn’t want to “build that narrative” around his channel.

Cory’s video on The Mortuary Assistant got age-restricted, however, all other creators did not have this restriction. He appealed to Youtube to take away the restriction. The appeal claimed that since other videos were not age-restricted then his video shouldn’t be either. The appeal was rejected by Youtube. The video remained age-restricted, and not legible to have ads.

Fellow gaming creator Markiplier with 33.4 million subscribers, also uploaded a video that contained the same elements from the video game as Cory’s video. In Markiplier’s part 3 of the game, he had the same content as Cory but it was not age-restricted. Cory then sent the video to his Youtube rep to contact the policy team. They then took away his age-restriction, and Markiplier’s age-restriction as well.

However, Cory felt that needing Markiplier to verify his innocence implies favoritism and/or racism by Youtube. He then sent his Youtube rep a long email expressing why he felt this way. Coupled with the fact he also wanted to discuss with the policy team why the video got flagged and age-restricted. Moreover, he wanted to know if it was a generated flag or a human reviewer. Coryxkenshin wants to know why it took Markiplier’s clip to make Youtube reverse the restriction.

“A: you’re a really big Youtuber and B: you’re not black. So I can look at your channel….and make sure that the things in the games that you play, all that, that they’re enforcing the rules equally to everybody.”

Coryxkenshin, via https://youtu.be/GaHcnPDcUOE

Youtube’s racism against Coryxkenshin

Cory, in recent times, does not post at an often rate. He often comes back to Youtube after lengths of time not posting, then Youtube flags him on arbitrary issues.

“The last time I came back I was #1 trending for like a week. They [then] copyright strike me for a video that was in 2019.”

Coryxkenshin, via https://youtu.be/GaHcnPDcUOE

Cory feels like when he is back on Youtube and trending again, Youtube tries to stop him. After taking away the age restriction on both videos, Youtube came back and applied the restriction to both Coryxkenshin and Markiplier’s videos. He addresses the company directly by saying, “You realize how bad this looks for you, Youtube”. He had never seen a video get age restricted, then have the restriction taken off. For Youtube to then re-apply it again and be done with it.

“Why is my channel so much more heavily scrutinized than my peers?”

Coryxkenshin, via https://youtu.be/GaHcnPDcUOE

Cory touches on how his content is more scrutinized and how he feels that has to do with his race. He said Youtube had very little correspondence with him back when he hit 10 million subscribers and was supposed to receive his coveted diamond play button. Additionally, he says that he understands it is a big accusation and that if he is wrong he will publicly apologize for it.

“I believe there is some racism involved within the policy team and Youtube, in general, really doesn’t care about black people.”

Coryxkenshin, via https://youtu.be/GaHcnPDcUOE

Cory ended the video by saying, “As one of the biggest black creators on the platform, I want you to hear it from my mouth. That there is some shady stuff going on behind the scenes at Youtube”. Youtube has been silencing its creators, especially people of color, for far too long.

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