Can’t get any screenshots right now, but I left a comment on the recent Onion video about the white house trans alarm, just a funny little bit about how republicans can’t decide what bathroom trans people should be using.
It stayed up for a while, then just suddenly vanished. I tested a combination of words to see what triggered it. Any comments that I used the word “cis” in were instantaneously shadow banned. Additionally, when trying to let people know about that, I discovered merely referring to a shadow ban also gets your comment shadow banned, presumably to keep people from talking about the practice.
Just to be safe, I control-F’d and searched the entire comment section for the word cis. It was a video about trans people. It’s a straight up inevitability that it’d be used at least once. But nope, not a single reference to the word anywhere in the comments. That settles it in my mind.
I don’t know why I expected YouTube to be better than that.
I’m pretty sure I’ve only ever once used the word cis on any other occasion, but I can’t even find the video it was a comment on anymore to check if my comment is still there. It was a short about trying to explain to cis people why cis wasn’t a slur. I don’t know if I’m blind or it’s genuinely gone.
You might be right though. Albeit I’d find it odd for the Onion to be blocking trans related words in a video explicitly about trans people, but it could explain why my first comment was up for 10 minutes or so before vanishing. But the first time it wasn’t shadow banned, it was completely gone, even on my end, so I suspect it was manually removed.