It was the first thing most people assumed was the culprit, as it silently enabled Restricted Mode, but since the biggest difference came from Computer views, despite the age verification happening on all platforms, that is strong evidence against that having any impact
Didn’t age verification - also recently implemented - cause youtube views to drop?
Here’s a case of it very well explained.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDPUzfwa4u0
It was the first thing most people assumed was the culprit, as it silently enabled Restricted Mode, but since the biggest difference came from Computer views, despite the age verification happening on all platforms, that is strong evidence against that having any impact
Not to mention most didn’t see a corresponding drop in revenue from views.
No. It’s false news. Just someone panicked looking for a cheap reason.