Balatro videos are currently being age restricted by the automatic moderation systems in Youtube. This move is clearly happening due to these bots identifying the content as gambling despite it not being gambling at all. Meanwhile, a bunch of channels that do promote gambling are constantly being promoted by the Youtube algorithm to children. This duality of the system proves that Youtube is a dying platform with no future. Creator of Balatro, LocalThunk, is upset for this unfair treatment that his game is getting by some rogue bots. We at Infinite Start will cover potential solutions that need to happen.
Balatro videos are harmless
While the gameplay of the game is undeniably addictive, no real money is involved in it. Meanwhile, a plethora of games like FIFA and other kusoge gacha applications are being publicized en masse to underage users. These ones are actually harmful, yet, its the most watched content on the platform, since it makes people spend a lot. Youtube is money driven first, and they do not care about the security of their users, there has been many cases of bad moderation already.
If Youtube really cared, they would enforce a blanket ban to other sort of harmful content on the site, but they do not. Balatro videos are just recorded gameplay by people who have been playing the game for quite a while now. Doing this sort of restrictions prevents newer players from joining in, due to lack of visibility.
Companies are terribly focused on crushing visibility of artists and indie developers, with the rise of “AI”, it has become even more apparent these years. The only way to prevent these age restrictions, is to use services like Invidious, which provide way better solutions for watching unrestricted videos on video players that work. This is the only way to ask for a change, make Youtube bleed money, until Balatro videos come back.
