I came across a YouTube short of a monkey being “saved” and opened the account. There are many more videos like it, and it looks like one of those fake rescue channels where the animal is harmed before the video starts

If you go into the comments on the recent shorts you can see people talking about the problem.

Link: https://youtube.com/@bestquotes8114

Piped link: https://piped.video/@bestquotes8114?tab=shorts

The only reporting options I had were harassment and bullying, privacy, impersonation, violent threat, child endangerment, hate speech against protected group, spam and scams.

This channel should be shut down. Given that these channels are an ongoing problem, shouldn’t it be easier to report them? Is there a different place I should be looking?

  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    10 months ago

    Spam and scam, and if there is an optional comment section, explain the situation as you see it there. YouTube will handle it from there, though I am not sure how effective that will be.

    You cannot catch them all, so long as you report it then you have done all you realistically can do. Sure, you can stalk the user and confront them (dangerous, and probably illegal, so don’t do that) or harass YouTube via email (annoying and causes unnecessary strain on their employees trying to do other work so don’t do that either), but the best thing you can do is report it and leave it up to YouTube. At that point if they choose to do nothing, you did your best and the blame for enabling that kind of behavior is entirely on YouTube.

  • dimath@ttrpg.network
    121·
    10 months ago

    You probably want to report the person to authorities, not the video to YouTube.

    • Otter@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      4·
      10 months ago

      Unfortunately I couldn’t figure out where the video was from, or who the creator might be. Others are welcome to try though and it’s possible I missed details

    • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
      244·
      10 months ago

      Encouraging such a dangerous action is irresponsible. Innocent people have died because law enforcement went to the wrong address. Please, do not SWAT people, or encourage it.

      • vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        205·
        10 months ago

        This is 100% a police problem. Over here, if you send police at my door, we are going to have a chat. It might be unpleasant, but the odds of weapons being drawn is very small.

        You can’t blame 4chan for the fact that you have a militarized police force staffed by traumatized COIN veterans using military tactics to respond to unsubstantiated anonymous calls.

          • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.worldEnglish
            9·
            10 months ago

            SWAT is an American special police force, so the discussion would naturally involve America.

            The French equivalent would probably be sending in GIGN with a false call. The German equivalent would be GSG9. Australia would be I think SPS. UK has PSU. You get the idea.

            Regardless, “SWATing” is massively overkill and far more dangerous to innocent people than just calling regular law enforcement to report potential animal abuse. Not to mention that it is also illegal.

      • Garbanzo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        82·
        10 months ago

        I disagree. We should be SWATting each other left and right until enough toddlers get flash banged that we are forced to rethink the entire concept. Apparently two toddlers isn’t enough, gotta pump those numbers UP!