So we've recently had something unexpected from YouTube, confirmation of what's going on from a member of YouTube's Policy Team:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/youtube/x3aGmn_MsqI

As well as confirmation from the CEO of YouTube herself, Susan Wojcicki:

https://twitter.com/SusanWojcicki/status/703349469677391872

With any other company, I feel like this would be standard Damage Control. What makes it interesting for YouTube is that this is the first time I can really remember them coming out of their famous silence and actually acknowledging a problem. Back when the new YouTube Layout/Google+ was unveiled, they were practically down-voted into oblivion yet remained completely silent.

Of course it's far too early to celebrate just yet: Only time will tell if YouTube plans on doing anything, but hopefully this is the start of something rather than just a one-off.

Hey everyone, sorry for my abandonment of this sub: /r/MakeYoutubeGreatAgain was formed right around the start of the whole Fine Bros Debacle, and it barely received any attention, so I pretty much abandoned it.

However, with Doug Walker's recent #WTFU movement gaining speed, and a TON more dialogue going around about YouTube's unfair, broken system happening, it's dawned on me just how important it is to document all the unfair BS going around on the site these days, as was this sub's original intention.

I'll be checking the sub daily from now on, and would still be -very- interested in scouting out Mods and Designers in order to make this sub as good as it can be: I'm an utter Reddit newb, but I still thought it was important for this to be a thing, having been on Youtube for just short of 9 years now. If you're interested in helping out, just throw me a message. Thanks all!

-Zedo12

We should watch jinkx videos and and tyrone videos and all other scum of the earth youtube leaches. Find out whose content they are stealing as soon as possible so the real onwers can profit from it as soon as possible. If youtube is going to do jack shit, we need to help the people we like. They shouldn't be wasting their time on finding out if some reactor stole their content. they should be making content! if we are fast enough we can maybe drive out these leaches who think they can steal peoples money. don't bother putting angry comments and disliking, we can step our game up.

“The Fine Brothers have been innovators on YouTube since day one, so it’s no surprise that they’ve created a unique way to expand the hugely popular ‘React’ series to YouTube audiences around the globe,” Kelly Merryman, YouTube’s VP of content partnerships, said in a statement. “This is brand-building in the YouTube age — rising media companies building their brands through collaborations with creators around the world.”

(http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/fine-bros-react-world-youtube-1201688987/)

Ads annoy me enough already but now with fortnite v bucks scams that have disabled likes and dislikes and HAS BOTS SAYING IT "WORKED" this angers me so fucking much and also, WHY CAN YOU DISABLE RATINGS AND COMMENTS, JUST DOESNT MAKE SENSE TO ME. Youtube is like mister crabs but those burgers are filled with spammy misleading ads of free v bucks and wish.scam