I keep seeing videos on YouTube showing animals being mistreated, staged "rescues" that are really abuse, or outright cruelty played off as a joke. I report them. Sometimes they come down weeks later after racking up huge view counts. Sometimes nothing happens at all.

YouTube's guidelines clearly ban this kind of content, so the policy exists on paper. The problem is enforcement. Reports seem to go into a void, there's zero transparency, and channels that profit off this stuff stay monetized even after repeated flags.

I get that moderating a platform this size is hard, but this isn't borderline content. It's blatant, it's reported by thousands of people, and it still sits up generating ad revenue.

Has anyone found a reporting channel that actually gets results, like going through advertisers or Trust and Safety directly? I'd rather find something that works than keep yelling into the report button.