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There is too much content on youtube for it all to be feasibly reviewed and hand-curated by google.

AFAIK:

It gets passed through an algorithm which can identify nudity, copyrighted content, certain words that suggest hate speech or other prohibited speech, and probably other prohibited content. It either flags it automatically or passes that content to a human to review.

There is also probably an algorithm for determining which reports need to be looked at. If one single person flags a video, it probably won't get reviewed, especially if the video has a lot of views. They analyze trends of reports and respond to the videos that are most likely to be genuinely rule-breaking based on the pattern of the reports. It also probably has a lower threshold for reports for videos that it thinks are likely to be rule-breaking based on the preliminary analysis

I talked once with somebody who worked nearby a team of people who have to review the videos. They have to filter out so much awful content including child pornography and other distressing content, he said it is a very difficult job mentally.

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Talking about video games? it's ok to just disagree with each other on the internet. No point getting hostile or snide about it