Number of removed YouTube video comments 2023

During the third quarter of 2023, around 843 million comments on YouTube videos were removed due to violations of the platform's community guidelines. This represents an increase compared to the previous quarter, when the amount of comments removed from the platform were approximately 767 million comments. The majority of removed comments were first detected through automated flagging.

Number of YouTube video comments removed worldwide from 3rd quarter 2018 to 3rd quarter 2023 (in millions)

Characteristic	Number of removed comments in millions
Q3 2023	842.83
Q2 2023	767.48
Q1 2023	853.28
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

December 2023

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Worldwide

Survey time period

Q3 2018 to Q3 2023

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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