During the fourth quarter of 2024, around 1.25 billion comments on YouTube videos were removed due to violations of the platform's community guidelines. This represents a slight decrease compared to the previous quarter, when the number of comments removed from the platform were approximately 1.29 billion comments. The majority of removed comments were first detected through automated flagging.
Number of YouTube video comments removed worldwide from 3rd quarter 2018 to 4th quarter 2024
(in millions)
The data does not include comments removed when YouTube disables the comment section on a video. It also does not include comments taken down when a video itself is removed (individually or through a channel-level suspension), when a commenter’s account is terminated, or when a user chooses to remove certain comments or hold them for review."
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