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Why would a short video of a virtual character dancing be changed to private? It had no sensitive or personal info in it and neither did the channel, which privated all their other videos, too.

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The videos might have felt embarrassing to them, even though they contained nothing sensitive or personally identifying. Other reasons could be: they can't decide what the title and/or description of the videos should be; they can't decide if they should keep the videos or not; the videos contained copyrighted music; they might have even been shamed or bullied over them; they might have decided the videos don't suit their channel's theme anymore and are giving their channel a makeover, but they don't want to outright delete them in case they want to watch them again.

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How do you tell who uploaded a private video?

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You can't unless the uploader gave you special access to it via email, or if you remember the channel name when that video was public before being changed to private. When a private video is embedded or shared to another website, or in a public playlist, people who don't have special access to it will just see a blank photo with the title saying "Private Video" with no channel name revealed, and clicking on the link will just show a message saying "Video unavailable, this video is private" with no details about the video at all. If you commented on the video before it was changed to private, you can go to your History tab and click "comments," and your comment could give you a hint.

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Why does a YouTube channel info say it has 11 videos, but there are only 5 visible?

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Most likely either some of those videos are blocked for copyright issues or other violations, or the person recently changed them to private or unlisted, and it's taking some time for the site to update it.

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Why did someone change their video to private after I commented on it? I didn't say anything offensive.

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They're probably embarrassed about other people watching it and didn't realize that someone would find it.

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