He Exposed YouTube's Open Secret 

love checking in on this channel every couple of days like im reading the morning paper

I think if on multiple occasions your team has to DOUBLE backtrack its a sign that theres no firm guidlines, they just kind of do what they want without consistency

you left out the most important part of the Cory situation. The only times that he’s ever been scrutinized or age restricted is whenever he comes back to the platform and gets #1 trending for multiple days in a row.

Cory is like the most advertiser friendly dude on the platform. Hes funny, responsible, he doesnt swear, he makes somewhat family friendly content, hes a man of god, and on top of all that, hes honestly hands down one of THE BEST most wholesome youtubers on here. Love you cory!

Tbh I feel like Cory is one of the more advertiser friendly RU-vidrs. He censors all curse words and rarely curses himself. He's also probably one of the most positive personalities on this site. The only problem is that he takes 9 month breaks every now and then. It's really weird how he gets treated differently by RU-vid.

I've seen some people blaming Mark for this situation, even two years ago with Charlie too, can't believe how dumb some people can be It's obvious he's on the favourite side but it's not his fault for being seen as a more monetizeable figure by RU-vid RU-vid has been on this way since 2016 and as far as I can tell, no change will come to the platform as long as they view some of their creators as obstacles for total monetization

Props to Mark for not just staying silent and not standing for this "special treatment"

3:15 RU-vid: "wait a minute! Your right! MARK'S ASIAN" *Age-Restricts*

I remember Charlie getting that strike, but forgot it was specifically him and when you were talking about Cory that exactly came to mind in a different and similar way. That was the first time I believe that Mark ever got striked in his whole career. Mark did not mind his channel struck since he does know he is well liked and probably could of made sense why Cory did Mark's video since he would understand what he meant. RU-vid has some serious issues with just understanding context of videos and cultures as to name a few. Just terrible and hope one day that RU-vid can fix this stuff.

mark is such an amazing guy for what he did during the moist strike and what i’m sure he’ll do about this new issue (if it swings back to the favoritism side of things over racism side)

RU-vid really needs to do better. I’ve been watching Cory for about three years now and he is one of the most popular and unproblematic creators on this platform. Seeing this just disappoints me.

The fact that Corey has said things like this has happened many times when he was doing good on the platform as well!

I’m glad that you’re addressing Cory’s video.

Never thought that the ludbuds and samurai would crossover.

The crazy thing is that even thought I understand the favoritism from youtube, since I believe creators can build reputations of not being controversial or rule breakers, but what I just can't understand why Cory is not on that list, he's a kid friendly youtuber, that censors his swearing and stays abiding the rules, while getting millions of views, so why is he not getting the same treatment as Mark, Jack, Mr Beast etc...

I let my son watch him. Hes wholesome af, we love him together. His treatment is disgusting.

RU-vid demonetizing videos after being called out for inconsistency is so fucking petty and childish. It's like the moderation team _enjoys_ asserting their absolute power!

no shit youtube plays favorite towards markiplier. dude has so many connections with youtube and is the epitome of what youtube wants their platform to be. ad friendly but not too much to where they’re pandering to kids. no disrespect to mark, he makes great content and works his ass off, but he def gets favoritism

Cory is exactly what youtube needs. For being in a good position on youtuber having a very big fanbase, its really nice having someone thats very mainstream to talk about problems and really get things out there

Cory: "Can you prove this isn't racism?" RU-vid: "I think.. No. We can demonetise mark smile."

ever since the Act Man drama earlier this year, i’ve lost a lot of faith in youtube as a company. Act was off the platform for a few months & none of us had any idea if he was coming back, meanwhile the homophobe who literally called his Act’s mom & threatened her was allowed to continue posting… absolute absurdity that youtube banned someone who was calling out bullshit in the community.

I enjoy Coreyxkenshin a lot, my kid got me into watching him and now we like watching his playthroughs together. He’s never been crazy obnoxious or anything wild like that.

I definitely believe Corey. Mark's humor is def more adult-oriented even though he does censor straight up nudity in post. I've still been surprised by even some of his thumbnails that get let through too lmao. No shade to Mark, he's hilarious, and I'm sure he'll be an upstanding guy through this. Mark also isn't fully white, he's mixed Korean. But anti-black racism can be really specific even to the point where other non-white people of color won't get targeted as hard.

Coryxkenshin has been my favorite RU-vidr for 4 years now. He is the most family friendly RU-vidr and he gets age restricted good job RU-vid.

the balls of this man to sign a legal contract with a company and still constructively shit on them.

Love cory’s content, and honestly I believe his claims, I have no doubt RU-vid 100% has favourites, I mean pewdiepie fell from good graces (I’ll admit for different circumstances but still)

Thank you for covering this!

This is why I love mogul mail - a quick, to the point and detailed synopsis of the event

thankyou for sticking up for cory he’s such an amazing dedicated creator who has done so much for this shitty platform and they’re still doing this to him it’s appalling behaviour u can’t blame him at all for thinking his identity plays a part what other reason is there at this point it’s happened SO many times now laughable

The moderation behind platforms like RU-vid and twitch have been inconsistent for such a long time

It’s actually amazing to me that Lud was just straight up like “RU-vid does play favorites” like finally someone said it. And it is even more interesting that he brought up who some of those favorites are. There are plenty of instances where it’s just people who are super advertiser friendly and pull in these huge numbers with every upload like Mr. Beast and it is crystal clear why youtube would want him front page, it’s a business move on their part, the ad revenue they generate from those videos has to be absolutely absurd. And then you have people like himself and Mark who although they don’t have the most ad-friendly videos, they managed to strike these big deals with youtube where youtube is still coming out on top from them being front page even if their content is more risqué. Then he talks about people like Charlie (who we have watched youtube actively put the smack down on and if it wasn’t for him actively getting in youtube’s face and calling them out I think they would’ve already silenced him) and even Cold Ones who are the polar opposite of ad-friendly, who don’t get any help from youtube or the algorithm but manage to stay afloat due to just an amazingly dedicated fan base and luckily making great friends on youtube who promote them even when youtube themselves won’t do it. The thing with Cory is that he is quite possibly one of the most ad-friendly people on the platform, pulling in huge numbers, has built a great fan base, but youtube doesn’t want him front page, and they attack him any time he ends up there.

I love how Ludwig isn't afraid to call out these kids of situations.

Ludwig quickly becoming your internet news source

Markiplier is what RU-vid wanted Pewdiepie to be. A brand friendly high level creator

Glad your bringing attention to this. If RU-vid seeks to better itself as a whole whether it be through streaming or regular offline vids, it needs to fix it's moderation and policies before it can even hope to stay out of drama.

Casual reminder that Mark himself wasn’t on the favourite side until he blew up back around 2016, around or before that time his channel got deleted for some reason, so now his current channel is actually his second

Been a cory sub since he was at 100k. Sad to see this happening to him

honestly want to see if this video gets demonetized like his was. if it isn’t it’ll only speak even louder on how they stand when it comes to even the biggest black creators.

As soon as I saw Corey’s video I knew you’d make a mogul mail. Very glad to see this in my feed

Bald boy was here

I think it’s awesome that Ludwig puts his career in the line to make his platform a better place.

If that's bad.. I'd suggest looking up "why I'm suing RU-vid" it's a very long video, but very informative, while being slightly political it's INSANE what he uncovered.

I 100% agree with Corey, RU-vid has AI which uses datasets that cam be influenced by human biases. It has been known on multiple occasions for ai to convey human biases and this is just another example of that

More inclined to believe in Favoritism and there is a lot of evidence of it over the years. I think there are a lot of employees with internal bias at all of these companies that affects these platforms and the polices and how they are unevenly applied. Solid video Ludwig.

Mark: "Hey RU-vid, where's my strike?" RU-vid: "Owh our boy wants a strike, guys quick do what he says!" Everyone: "Wtf RU-vid! That's not the solution!" RU-vid: "Ohh shit, we did something wrong, do the reverse strategy!"

I do think it’s ridiculous that somewhere in RU-vid there’s some kind of spite striking any time anyone calls them out for their decisions, but I don’t think that it looks bad when they go back on that decision as Lud says - The fact that they did it is bad, but going back on it shows a level of integrity where they don’t engage in cognitive dissonance and refuse to admit that any dumb thing they do is wrong and make the site worse without listening to its user base. Definitely it shouldn’t happen in the first place, but I don’t think Lud should admonish them being able to say “we were wrong”. I’m curious to hear what other people think on this view though!

youtube saying "were not gonna die on this hill" is really fucking funny

So glad to see another mogul mail today. This vid honestly made my day!

What’s up luddy

Very insightful video! Watched it all the way through.

Just wanted to say I am here for all the Mogul Mails. I love this media format and can’t get enough.

Sooo glad you made a video on this!

I would like if you covered the keffals/kiwifarms situation to shine a bigger light on the subject.

5:35 you should never stay quiet when it comes to things like that. In my opinion you should always stand up for what's right over profit

Probably not racism, the reason markiplier video wasn't age restricted is because he is a managed partner, so all the decisions on his acc has a manual eye look over it. Instead of automated systems.

Ludwigs contract with youtube makes me feel a lot more comfortable with staying on this platform. To accept a form of critique openly, especially in a contract, at least shows good will.

Fun fact: I am subscribed to dunkey. I watch every one of his videos on release and i have never had a single one of his vids on my recommendations page

I get what you’re saying, but Cory also keeps his channel VERY family friendly which is probably the only reason he suggested racism at all. Otherwise he would’ve only claimed favoritism.

Meanwhile Mortuary Assistant getting all the exposure : EZ Clap

It's insane how much of this could be solved by RU-vid just communicating with people. They never tell anybody anything and then act shocked when people are left with no choice but to speculate one what the problem could be.

Thank you for speaking on this. I feel many larger youtubers that agree with you, that RU-vid does have favorites, but they're scared to speak out on this topic because of RU-vids' action against those who have talked about this issue. I hope large scale growth occurs at some point, but a restructuring of RU-vid may be needed for this to occur.

Thank you for talking about this. I hope this gets spread everywhere, and I hope Mark speaks on this as well. This isn't okay, and something needs to be done.

I’m so glad he brought up the mascot gate 😂

RU-vid shot themselves in the foot by removing it then add it back.

LETS GO LUD, Im so glad youre bringing this further into the light

It’s the classic saying, “don’t assume malevolence where ignorance is sufficient”

Mark just going "Strike me you cowards!" What a gigachad

Love how well mogul mails popping off, good job lud

Thanks for addressing this, Lud. I was watching Cory’s video last night and was hoping other creators would back him up

RU-vid is so wrong for this. To demonize Cory is insane. When he’s like the most kid friendly RU-vid gamer I know. Smh they better smarten up

I love this channel. So chill and to the point.

I would 100% understand that youtube loves Mark. Dude literally made low budget movies with heist and in space

At this point Mogul Mail is just my news source and I honestly love it. Ludwig usually sweeps in with a good summary and a pretty all around reasonable/based take on things while still leaving the door open for criticism and comments. I never have any complaints but it’s nice that he never props himself or opinions on a pedestal. We’re all human yknow. Never wanna put all your faith parasocially or otherwise into one person, good to see him acknowledge it.

Huh? Not sure how anyone can think this is caused by racism when QuantumTV didn't get any punishments. This seems so clearly to me just another example of RU-vid being incredibly inconsistent and useless and disjointed. One reviewer might think those things were dodgy because they're not trained well and it's not clear, not "oh he's black".

Hey Lud! Just wanted to let you know that your script / speech-patterns on this channel specifically have been really improving. I find myself getting more interested in each video. Keep up the great work man, it’s easy to tell that you are trying to be the best person you can possibly and I wouldn’t want anyone else in front of the RU-vid CEO.

A ONE TAKER?? You love to see it

It just doesn’t make sense because Cory is one of the most ad-friendly RU-vidrs out there. He doesn’t curse and also edits out cursing in games he plays. It has to be something more than just “playing favorites” because he has a huge channel.

I only disagree with the Charlie point based off Cory’s video, unlike the yard for example where the language is unhinged, he beeps his out, so ya you can argue heavy favoritism depending on the creator but he’s right that if his content is either the same or possibly better for all ages then someone else I’m with Cory where this leads to something beyond just personal bias at RU-vid

Thanks Lud for backing up my favorite youtubers! Your one of my favorite as well!

I better not see a single person attacking my dear markimoo.

Can u cover Business Casual’s law suit with RU-vid

Great video… clearly there needs to be more eyes on these decisions and emails to avoid all this back and forth. Tik tok is succeeding because of how generous they are to new content creators and personal algorithms… but it has its insane flaws that scar people too. End of the day…. It’s the internet…. You can’t safety cushion the whole platform.

bro this channel is so good

I think Mark outwardly owning up to a strike is the sort of behaviour content creators have to do to force these companies to be more consistent with their monitorisation

Thanks for the hard work, dude.

Lmao how fucked is the mod system if the dudes partner manager was just "pretty sure" it was for the specific SH moment? Like the fuckers at RU-vid don't know why RU-vid be handing out strikes?

Big respect to you and the other creators, who have slid past RU-vid strikes / demonetization, to call them out for the greater good of the platform and creators.

Shout out to Franconia, NH. Long live Cannon Mountain. RIP the Old Man.

I think you should bring back the reading emails videos

Cory’s always been a huge influence on RU-vid. It would be a shame if he left due to reasons totally unrelated to RU-vid demonetization bias. Godspeed, Cory. Maybe something will finally be done about RU-vid’s awful censorship, bias, and fucking COMMENT BOTS

4:35 thank you for this.

They're so brain dead that they don't think about going after all your videos because you pointed out they showed you favoritism just made them look super guilty

cory is fr a goat, love his community (when they behave lmaoo) and he's funny asf, genuinely an awesome dude

AHHHHH YES CORY FINALLY GETS RECOGNIZED

Glad to see one take jake back, pretty cool guy.

“Maybe I should’ve just kept quiet” That’s how they’ll keep getting away with it

Cory's video is the sentiment of a lot of black and poc creators have been feeling for years. RU-vid seems to know these issues but they are being wishy-washy with their solutions.

Nothing new, it is the same favoritism as you see on Twitch when some streamers break TOS and get a mild slap on the wrist (short ban) and smaller streamers get banned for day up on days for something laughable.

Yeah youtube definitely picks and choose who to restrict when there are way worse youtubers with disrespectful content.

this has quickly become my favorite channel