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Shortly after posting my walkthrough of an itch.io game by the name of “Unlikely”, I just noticed an additional option was added to the options of posting a video.

The option in question asks whether a video was created through altered content such as an alteration of footage of an event that occurred, making someone say or do something that they didn’t do or generating a scene that never occurred at all.

In other words, because of some new policy YouTube is pushing, that makes everyone using the platform have to jump through an additional hoop before a video is released to the public eye.

Like many of the things before it, this option is somewhat of a double edged sword.

On the one hand, it may be a necessary tool to reduce the large amounts of deepfakes or misinformation circulating around the internet.

However, on the other hand, it will be flawed and not everyone is going to welcome this option with open arms. Matter of factly, a lot of people may see it as an additional headache for them and trying to get by on the platform.

I mean we already have instances of the copyright checks system getting abused from time to time, what’s to say the new system won’t go through the same phase of mislabeling a video as something that it isn’t?

And what about those who had to make edits for a video either because they wanted to make a compilation of highlights from something or because they had to alter the music or cut out the sound where the original music was due to getting copyright claimed? Yeah, I feel like this whole “altered content” option may make things a bit more harder for them.

Of course then again, I’m still trying to get used to something new being introduced and I don’t 100 percent know how everyone else will react to it.

But hey, that’s just how trying to get by on social media (especially that of YouTube) works… Things change, but that doesn’t mean everyone will like the changes.