Markiplier slams YouTube over \u201chuge problem\u201d affecting his fans YouTube star Mark \u2018Markiplier\u2019 Fischbach has hit out at the video platform after claiming that a number of fans were banned for participating in his stream\u2019s chat. One of the biggest parts, for a lot of viewers of livestreams, is participating and interacting in one way or another. Be it helpful tips about completing a level in a game or joining in with some chat \u2018spam\u2019, the majority of viewers will play their part. However, the latter seems to have become a problem on YouTube, with Markiplier claiming that after a recent livestream, a number of his long-time supporters have completely lost their Google account by trying to participate in the chat. The popular content creator, who has over 25.5 million subscribers on the platform, revealed the problem in his \u2018YouTube has a huge problem\u2026\u2019 upload from November 8. During the video, Markiplier explained that during a stream on November 6, he was asking his viewers to spam either a red emote or green emote to help him on his way in a game when, a few moments later, a select number of viewers were struck down for doing so. The YouTuber noted that neither he or his moderators didn\u2019t realize that it was becoming an issue until around an hour and a half later, which he claimed was \u201cway too long\u201d to be a problem and that he didn\u2019t know how many people had been affected. Obviously, fans didn\u2019t stand idly by and appealed their suspensions, which have to go through YouTube\u2019s review process \u2013 however, not many revealed an unban. When some took to Twitter to quiz the support account there, they were informed that nothing could be done. \u201dI tell you, nothing pisses me off more than that \u2013 not a thing,\u201d said Markipiler on the tweets. \u201cIf they are lying saying that appeals are very carefully reviewed then they are just absolutely out of their mind lying.\u201d The YouTuber even stated that he had only recently sung the platform\u2019s praises and that making a video criticizing them may land him in hot water, but he also couldn\u2019t stand by any further. As Markiplier noted himself, a lot of YouTube\u2019s processes are automated because they don\u2019t have the manpower to deal with everything, so it very much remains to be seen if they are able to, and do, make a change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Markiplier slams YouTube over \u201chuge problem\u201d affecting his fans YouTube star Mark \u2018Markiplier\u2019 Fischbach has hit out at the video platform after claiming that a number of fans were banned for participating in his stream\u2019s chat. One of the biggest parts, for a lot of viewers of livestreams, is participating and interacting in one way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}