Number of removed YouTube video comments 2022

During the fourth quarter of 2022, almost two billion comments on YouTube videos were removed due to violations of the platform's community guidelines. This represents a staggering increase compared to the previous quarter, when the amount of comments removed from the platform were approximately 737.5 million. 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 2022 (in millions)

Characteristic	Number of removed comments in millions
Q4 2022	1,932.42
Q3 2022	737.51
Q2 2022	754.35
Q1 2022	943.57
Q4 2021	1,260.54
Q3 2021	1,101.4
Q2 2021	1,162.15
Q1 2021	1,032.37
Q4 2020	906.2
Q3 2020	1,140.28
Q2 2020	2,132.37
Q1 2020	693.58
Q4 2019	540.2
Q3 2019	516.89
Q2 2019	537.76
Q1 2019	278.28
Q4 2018	189.79
Q3 2018	166.37

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Release date

April 2023

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Worldwide

Survey time period

Q3 2018 to Q4 2022

Supplementary notes

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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