YouTube’s AI moderation is being blasted by all sorts of creators on the video platform and its latest questionable decision saw a streamer’s content demonetized… because of his laugh.
Throughout the end of 2025, creators were sounding the alarm over what they believed were sweeping AI moderation errors.
Tech creator Enderman saw multiple channels with hundreds of thousands of subscribers wiped out overnight, claiming the decisions came entirely from automated systems with no human check.
Another case went viral when YouTube reversed a ban against a creator who had been punished over a comment they posted on an alternate account at just 13 years old, fueling concerns that legacy data and automated flags were triggering unfair strikes.
In another situation, a Pokemon YouTuber was banned by AI even as another channel proceeded to steal their content. The situation was eventually fixed after widespread attention.
Now, Twitch streamer and self-proclaimed horror game enthusiast SpooknJukes is putting YouTube on blast for restricting his latest Dead By Daylight video because a clip of him laughing was deemed “graphic content.”
YouTuber slams AI moderation as a “pathetic dumpster fire”
On December 9, SpooknJukes shared footage of his YouTube dashboard where the platform labeled part of his video featuring a close-up of him laughing as “violent graphic content.”
The video in question was a series of clips of him playing Dead By Daylight, but the timestamp listed as being problematic was of the creator laughing.
“I tried to appeal but the automated system instantly declined it,” he explained.
The streamer addressed the situation in a video where he called the automatic system “incredibly flawed.”
“Actually, calling it flawed is an understatement. It is a giant, stinky, pathetic dumpster fire. Especially when you consider that YouTube is worth $500B.”
SpooknJukes explained that he was first under the impression that YouTube made a mistake and sent him the wrong timestamp of the “graphic content” and it was something to do with Dead By Daylight as it’s a rather bloody game.
So, the YouTuber put this to the test and edited the short section of him laughing and within 30 minutes, everything was fine, resulting in the video being fully monetized again.
“Get your f**king sh*t together,” he urged. “You have an automated system this terrible and you can’t even have the decency to have actual human beings review the appeals when they happen? No, we’re just going to have the automated system immediately decline any appeal that a content creator does.”
The streamer continued, pondering why the platform lets creators appeal to begin with, suggesting that it exists just to give people false hope.
SpooknJukes isn’t the only YouTuber to call out the platform. Notably, MoistCr1TiKaL hit out at the platform’s expanded use of AI in moderation tools after CEO Neal Mohan defended it.
The YouTube CEO has been adamant on expanding the use of AI moderation even as creators continue to rally against it.
“AI will make our ability to detect and enforce on violative content better, more precise, able to cope with scale,” Mohan said.
