1.4 Stars, 99.9% Token Crash, and a Platform Nobody Can Use
Published April 20, 2026 · OdyseeWatchdog Investigative Team
Odysee doesn't just have a moderation problem. It has an everything problem. Users rate it 1.4 out of 5 on Trustpilot. Its cryptocurrency has lost 99.9% of its value. Its apps crash constantly. And the users who built the platform are calling it a "pure scam."
1.4 Stars: What Users Actually Think
Odysee's Trustpilot page tells the real story — 137 reviews averaging 1.4 out of 5 stars. Here's what real users say:
"Odysee systematically practices censorship by deleting all your channels without notice or warning and without reason as well as by no longer recognizing your e-mail for connection. PURE SCAM."
— Nordine D. (Portugal), January 2023
"Need to do something about the extremist content and comment section... people spreading dangerous conspiracy theory and encouraging people to attack groups such as race, LGBTQ, and people with different political beliefs."
— JOvain P. (Netherlands), September 2022
Other users report having to reload pages 50-100 times to get videos to load, harassment being reported and going unaddressed for days, and support that either doesn't respond or provides solutions that don't work.
For a platform that claims to champion "censorship resistance," the irony is sharp: users report having their channels deleted without notice while extremist content flourishes untouched.
The 99.9% Token Crash: Your Earnings Are Worthless
Odysee's entire monetization system was built on LBC (LBRY Credits) — the cryptocurrency creators earned for their content. Here is the price history:
To put this in perspective: a creator who earned 10,000 LBC in 2021 (when LBRY was aggressively recruiting content creators with token rewards) had about $250. Today, those same 10,000 LBC are worth $5. And that assumes they can even sell them — daily LBC trading volume is under $8.
The SEC ruled that LBC tokens were unregistered securities — meaning LBRY illegally sold $11 million worth of tokens to investors and creators. The company that created LBC is now bankrupt. The new owners (Forward Research/Arweave) are migrating away from LBC entirely. Creators who were promised a "decentralized monetization revolution" were given worthless tokens by a company that knew it was facing an SEC lawsuit.
The Apps: A Graveyard of Bug Reports
Odysee's mobile apps on both iOS and Android are consistently described as broken:
- Videos won't play: Constant buffering, blank screens, and audio that cuts out and doesn't return even after restarting the app.
- Apps crash on basic actions: Following a new channel crashes the iOS app. Playing videos in background crashes Android.
- Navigation is broken: Returning to the home screen from a video gets stuck, requiring a full app restart.
- White screen on startup: Android users report a persistent white screen that survives uninstall/reinstall.
- Overheating: The iOS app causes phones to overheat from excessive resource usage.
These aren't edge cases — they are the dominant experience described in app store reviews. With 4 employees and no dedicated QA team, the platform simply cannot maintain functional software across web, iOS, and Android simultaneously.
The Censorship Paradox: Delete Creators, Keep Nazis
Perhaps the most damning pattern in user reviews is this: Odysee deletes channels belonging to ordinary creators without notice — while extremist content with hundreds of thousands of views remains untouched.
One reviewer described having all their channels deleted "without notice or warning and without reason" and their accumulated LBRY tokens confiscated. Meanwhile, our scanner found 4,711 items violating Odysee's own Community Guidelines — with a 0% removal rate.
The platform appears to apply rules selectively: strict enforcement against ordinary users (who may have done nothing wrong), and zero enforcement against extremist channels that generate tips (and platform fees). This is not inconsistent moderation — it is a business decision.
The Verdict: A Platform in Permanent Decline
Every metric tells the same story:
Odysee is a platform where the cryptocurrency is worthless, the apps don't work, extremist content flourishes, legitimate creators get deleted, the CEO's leaked email says Nazis aren't grounds for removal, the founder was visited by the FBI for threatening a political figure, and the parent company was found guilty of selling unregistered securities before going bankrupt.
This is not a platform in transition. It is a platform in permanent decline — kept alive only by the extremist ecosystem that has nowhere else to go.
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