4. Community’s viewpoint on the flagging system on YouTube

In the previous chapter we could already read the issues that flagging is trying to prohibit, but now we’ll take a look at the issues that are experienced with the flagging itself by the community.

4.1. Methodology

Because the YouTube community addresses each other through videos and comments, I went ahead and looked up videos that addressed ‘flagging’ on YouTube, which I found to be very self-reflexive. Both the system/company as well as the community is criticized for its use of the flagging system. And by analyzing the text of both the videos as well as the comments I came to the different issues they seem to have in regard to the way flagging works or rather how it does not work.