Thread by @Hbomberguy

Ok so one of the blocked drafts of the video magically became unblocked but monetized by rooster teeth after a little while, without me having to do anything. What's happening there and can you do that again for my new draft please

I might - MIGHT - be down to just one thing that needs correcting. However, the content ID system might suddenly explode on me. Let's see

Edit: it exploded
Uploading a full version of a video which, in parts, all were fine, suddenly triggers new content id

i am currently watching youtube process the third version of the full version, each previous time the full version came back with 2 content id violations and no others.
remember: in 20 minute chunks, the video was fine.

this third version is also blocked, but this time with one, and only one, content id. hilariously, it's a joke i'd cut and then my producer said i should put back in because it was funny. I hope it was worth it @lolkat
Let's see if altering the footage ends all this.

i play a competitive round of csgo whenever i have to render something for this video. I'm somehow silver 4 now

just pulled out a pretty clutch win just as the video stopped rendering. i hope thats a good sign. also the game isnt fun any more because i'm playing against people who are actually good, and running around with the worst weapons for a joke isn't working any more

FALSE
two more content id claims.

Just to repeat: I've uploaded this video in short segments. no claims. repeatedly uploaded fixed versions correcting all the claims. just got a version with only 1 claim. fixing it has caused 2 more to appear.

There are so many things about this process which appear deliberately designed to create frustration and dread. Every time I fix one of the two things it points me at each time, It takes hours to render and upload and process only to find the next 1 or 2 things.

If YouTube could just give me an itemised list of the things it wants me to change, I could handle that. it's the fact it's 2 or 3 at a time at most, and the same video had 0 claims when it was in 20-minute chunks. This is like high-concept torture.

my producer and i are documenting this entire process very carefully because there's a video in how disastrous this system has been at this point

I can't stress this enough: The first hour of the video, on its own, is fine. The second hour of the video, in 20 minute segments, is fine.
Uploaded as one file, it suddenly instant-blocks the video in all countries, and will only tell me why in groups of two at a time.

I woke up at 3 am because I cannot sleep properly with this hanging over me, looked at my phone, saw the test upload i'd set when i went to sleep had 2 more new content id violations, and fell asleep again. I'm so exhausted I almost slept a full night for the first time in a week

Normally I wouldn't be so worried about this. What pains me is that I had intended to donate all the ad revenue from this video to a bail fund. Watching youtube's automated system go 'this video belongs to rooster teeth actually,' is ultra-demoralising.

One of the parts that just got content-id claimed is in the segment where i say 'hey this show has dealt with racism so poorly that the only way to address it is to donate the proceeds of this video to someone who needs it'. the irony would be funny if i wasn't so tired