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Visual Description: A woman faces the camera. She has brown hair worn down. She wears blue-rimmed eyeglasses that help her to see, and a blue t-shirt that says "yeah, I'm a gamer, I play fashion fever" on it in all-caps; the text on the t-shirt is mirrored, as this video was filmed in selfie mode. She uses her vocal intonations, facial expressions, and hand movements to express her frustration. There's a dark-coloured cabinet in the background.

Description: I want to express my frustration with the "blocked words" moderation featured under the community tab of the settings in the YouTube Studio. I've been dealing with sexual harassment (which, unfortunately, is something that many women on the internet face), and so I decided to add a text emoji for breasts to the blocked words list. The problem was, that when I added it to the list, perfectly innocuous phrases were being blocked. It was flagging the letter "y" when it was used as a word by itself. This lead to the phrase "x or y" being held for review, despite it being used in a perfectly innocuous manner. This is infuriating, as I wanted to block a specific text emoji, not the letter "y" when used as a word. Because of how overzealous that the "blocked words" feature is, it's functionally useless for me as a content moderation feature. It makes moderation harder, rather than easier.

I wish that YouTube would provide better moderation features for its content creators. I choose "Basic Hold potentially inappropriate comments" as my comment moderation setting on videos, yet sexual harassing comments get through fairly often. I want to be able to stop sexually harassing comments without legitimate dialogue being blocked.