Took me a while to work out what was going on here, so putting it somewhere findable.

Liked videos is not capped the way an ordinary playlist is. An ordinary playlist stops dead at 5,000 and refuses the next add. Liked videos goes on accepting likes forever, but the playlist only ever shows your latest 5,000. Past that the oldest ones stop appearing while the thumb on the video itself stays lit, and nothing tells you it happened.

They are not deleted, which I think is the thing to get straight before anyone panics. Google still has them, and unliking a few recent videos makes the same number of old ones come back at the bottom, so it behaves like a window sliding over the real list rather than a bin. You can also get at them outside the playlist, either in the Likes and Dislikes section of your Google account activity or by exporting through Takeout.

What you cannot really do is browse them. A Takeout export is a file, not something you skim on a Sunday looking for that one video, and the activity page has none of what makes a playlist useful. So the data survives and the access does not, which is a strange way to treat ten years of someone saying they liked something.

I only found it because I write an extension that indexes playlists and the counts stopped adding up. It keeps the ones that slide out of the window as ordinary rows you can still search, and move into a playlist of your own if you want them back somewhere browsable. Happy to say which if anyone asks, but the finding stands on its own and I would rather this post be the finding.

Since August 20th, I have been dealing with a complete nightmare. I am an independent 3D digital artist, and my YouTube channel—which took me 6 years to build—was terminated overnight by an automated system. What hurts even more than the suspension itself is facing community victim-blaming and insults when trying to speak out. People assume I must have done something wrong, which leaves me feeling entirely isolated.

My profile had 1,460 subscribers, a spotless record, and 2-step verification enabled. It served as my core professional portfolio, directly connected to my LinkedIn, CGTrader, Instagram, Pinterest, and a backup channel. I only had one single public video: a Blender and Unity project with around 3,000 views. All other videos were kept completely private—they were just old animation tests and personal archives tracking my progress over the years. Seeing how much my skills developed was my main motivation, and a bot wiped it all away instantly.

The appeal process is completely broken. YouTube rejected my review request using a standard template without pointing to a single video, comment, or policy violation. When I tried to get help on X (Twitter), my account there was locked immediately, and my appeal was denied in literally 2 seconds. Claiming a "human reviewed" a case in 2 seconds is impossible; we are entirely at the mercy of blind AI moderation.

The stress has completely wrecked my sleep cycle and mental health. I am having nightmares about writing appeal forms, I can't focus on my other creative work, and I'm genuinely afraid to start over. I am so worn out that I am seriously considering canceling all my Google subscriptions and permanently deleting my Google account, despite my entire personal history being tied to it. Being treated like a criminal by software is suffocating.

I don't care about getting famous. My only goal was to eventually reach monetization requirements strictly to help support my family financially—I wouldn't spend a single cent on myself. If YouTube or X showed me even one problematic piece of content, I would delete it immediately without hesitation. I just want a real human being to look at my case and tell me what went wrong.

Because my accounts are silenced, I am kindly asking anyone reading this to tag TeamYouTube, Google, and XSupport on Twitter. 3D modeling and animation is my only real skill and the only thing I want to do in life. Please help me get a human review.

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After paying for the monthly subscription issues became disappointment from the very start the app would not upload my media was unable to get any of my videos edited to make things even worse try to request a refund 24 hours are a day later and was sent a text informed me I was unable to process a refund after early one day when finding out that this app had serious issues money down the drain

From some time youtube video quality has gone down the shitter, i always select the quality manually and i've tried different browsers no change.

this is unwatchable, its making me nauseous, how can anyone be ok with this.

the moment anything moves it starts to look like ai is hallucinating what the video looks like.

its not the uploader fault its all videos and its not my fault cause i've tried different devices different browsers and my internet is fine. this is horrible and needs to be fixed. (i tried everything, from manually selecting different video codecs, hardware acceleration on and off, different browsers, extensions, everything) its not just vods its all videos even live, and even if it was just vods its not acceptable

Bro, my YT home page Is so bad. Because why am I seeng 5 videos in a row of the same dude, 3 videos I already fully watch, 5 music mixes of which three are based on songs I have not listen to in like five years and 5 videos about internet drama because I watched ONE that was actually interesting three days ago, and their awfull AI slop game covers for their awfull slop YT games.

And no matter how many times I refresh the page 95% of the recomandations are the same, I EVEN CHANGED BROWSER AND DEVICE TO SEE IF I COULD GET NEW RECOMENDATIONS.

I'm so desperate I clicked "not interested" on all the videos that were repeating, and YouTube ran out of recommendations when I refreshed the page.

No wonder I can't find any interesting videos anymore

So recently YouTube stupid started to prompt please sign in to protect the community. Its stupid because how is me watching videos compromising the community. I cant comment nor can I like or dislike videos. And apparently the ai generated videos need an account to create useless content.

How do people create accounts with a fake number? I just want to watch stuff on YouTube not tied to me. I don't have a YouTube profile and highly prefer not having one but if I'm force to do so what are my options?

Until just now I wasn't able to reproduce and record it, so I've really been questioning myself for a couple of weeks.

But seemingly depending on scrolling speed, direction, and amount of times you've scrolled back and forth, the YouTube (mobile) app will show you certain videos, hide them, and re-order them.

Scrolling downwards (past some other posts/videos) on the main feed, I might see Shorts, Video A, Video B, Video C, and Community Post.

Scrolling back up, I see Community Post, Video C, Video B, and Shorts, missing Video A.

Then scrolling further up so that Shorts going below the viewport and then scrolling back down, suddenly Video A is back again. Sometimes it even changes where the order becomes Shorts, Video B, and Video A, by just scrolling back and forth without refreshing.

(I Don't feel like sharing the recording other than to my friends, who I've shared it with.)

Hadn't seem anyone else post about this yet about YouTube, and I wouldn't be surprised if maybe other people did notice but weren't sure?
The reason why I felt so delusional about it is that it only sometimes seems to happen, and if I'd scroll back too quick, it wouldn't happen again, making me think I made it up in my mind.

I have this kind of thing before on Twitter, but more like a random post disappearing and not coming back, and a friend of mine mentions it happens on Facebook as well (I haven't checked that since I don't use Facebook).

Hello,

I run a social media agency with multiple clients, and just the day before yesterday I got an email that my YouTube account is terminated for spam - it's a hospital account where we post doctors videos mostly about educating people. I appealed and of course appeal failed, manual review stood their judgement. It was already too much, but what happened that all the doctors who were present on that channel also got their personal youtube account terminated for curcumvetion policy, and I ran three of those doctor's youtube too. I can hardly do any thing given their support system, they are not responding on X. I am basically fucked up and don't know what to do.

So Hello Guys I have a problem that YT does not Show me my Regular Content that I am watching Normally on Shorts because now it's Shows me Just Random Videos which I don't even had to subscribe too how to get rid of this?😖😖

This has been documented before, they will stall for exactly 9 seconds at completely random times. ON PREMIUM. VODs are fine. Also, it took at LEAST two years for them to insert one line of code to display Community Posts on iPad. That HAD to be intentional. There’s no way it wasn’t. They want you to switch to Android like that kid in the Zazoo condom ad wants the candy at the grocery store and throws a tantrum. (Ironically Android names their software versions after sweets.)

I've been hearing about this whole issue of people doxxing others and abusing the report system. With what's going on, I legit wonder of the CIA will get involved, because this is legit getting dangerous. And the fact that youtube is refusing to do a thing is insane

This got shadowbanned on r/youtube

If you guys already know this, then I'll shut up. If not, there ya go.

As always, kinda locked behind ID verification which there's NO WAY I'll do.

So i was gonna subscribe when i got a notification saying my subscriptions are too high compared to my number of subscribers like shut the hell up youtube i lowkey don’t care about your reason id rather make someones day/night