The Industrial Polluters: 20 Channels = 21% of Odysee's Flagged Content

Our scanner has identified 9,769 flagged items across Odysee. Of those, exactly 2,025 — 20.7% of the entire flagged dataset — come from just 20 channels. Removing those 20 channels would reduce the visible problem by more than a fifth. A competent trust-and-safety team could action all 20 in a single working day. Odysee has actioned zero.

The 20-Channel Table

The following channels represent the highest-volume contributors to Odysee's flagged-content dataset. Flagged videos and LBC staked are drawn from scanner data as of April 2026.

The total flagged-video count for all 20 channels is 2,025. Total flagged items in the full dataset: 9,769. That is 20.7% of the entire problem concentrated in 20 named channels.

What Removal Looks Like

Each channel removal on Odysee is a manual action: flag the channel, pull the content from the LBRY index, and issue a documented notice. For a trained trust-and-safety analyst, a single channel takes 15 to 30 minutes to review and document. At that rate, a two-person team working one full day could process all 20 channels.

The 2,025 flagged videos in these 20 channels include: Alex Jones conspiracy content, Jeff Berwick's "CoVAIDS" vaccine denialism, James Corbett's 9/11 and pandemic conspiracy library, Mark Collett's white-nationalist commentary, Red Ice TV's explicitly ethnonationalist content, Eric Dubay's flat-earth antisemitism, and MGTOW content from @SandmanMGTOW. The ideological spread is wide. The common thread is that every one of these channels has been documented by outside researchers — SPLC, ISD, GNET — as producing harmful content.

Odysee has documentation of all of them. Our reports have been filed. The SPLC documented this ecosystem in its 2023 Digital Threat Report. Not one channel has been removed.

Three Caveats

This report discloses three channels in the top 20 where scanner false-positive risk is real or where the data is subject to alternative interpretation.

@UpperEchelonGamers (140 flagged videos, 82,629 LBC) is a gaming commentary channel. Our scanner caught high volumes of video-game titles containing the word "kill" — kill counts, kill cams, kill streaks — which is standard gaming terminology. This channel is almost certainly a false positive from the scanner's keyword filter. We are not asserting that @UpperEchelonGamers produces harmful content. We include it in this table because the raw count is in the dataset and we do not selectively omit data, but we flag it explicitly as a likely scanner artifact.

@rossmanngroup (82 flagged videos, 32,842 LBC) is Louis Rossmann's consumer rights and right-to-repair channel. Rossmann is a well-documented, legitimate creator whose content is not harmful. His channel appears in our dataset almost certainly because of keyword combinations in titles that describe broken, defective, or aggressive corporate behavior. We have added @rossmanngroup to our blocklist queue as a known false positive and will exclude it from future aggregations. We include it here for data transparency.

@Porn (69 videos) is the subject of a separate, dedicated investigation published on this site. See "Odysee's Brand-Branded Porn Network" for the full analysis.

The Weekend Problem

Here is the operational reality. Setting aside @UpperEchelonGamers and @rossmanngroup as false positives, there are 17 channels in this list whose presence in the dataset is unambiguous. Together they account for roughly 1,803 flagged items. Removing them — running the documented review process, issuing takedowns, publishing removal notices as EU DSA Article 17 requires — is a task that a two-person trust-and-safety team could complete in a long weekend.

The moderation infrastructure required to do this weekend of work does not exist at Odysee. There is no trust-and-safety team. There are four total employees. None of them, as far as any public record shows, have trust-and-safety as a job function. The 17 channels have been live, growing, and earning 5% platform fees on their tips for years.

The aggregate LBC staked across all 20 channels is over 1.2 million. At the 5% platform rate on tips and top-up stakes, Odysee has earned real money on this catalogue. Every week those channels remain live is another week of 5% commission on the hate, the conspiracy content, the medical misinformation, and the white-nationalist commentary.

The Takeaway

20 channels. 20.7% of all flagged content. A weekend of work. Zero removals.

The standard objection to content moderation on "free speech" platforms is that the problem is too large to address without censoring legitimate content at scale. This data dissolves that objection. The top 20 channels alone account for more than a fifth of the entire problem. The remaining 79.3% is distributed across thousands of smaller channels — but the distribution is so concentrated at the top that removing the industrial-scale producers would materially change the shape of the problem before a single difficult editorial judgment had to be made.

Odysee chose not to do that. The choice is visible in the data. The data is public. The channels are still there.