Originally posted by Jornada nos Retrogames:

Analyses of games posted with links to TikTok videos are being automatically classified as harmful content!

I am a TikTok content creator and I am doing game analysis on Steam. When I put the link to the video of my analysis, which is from TikTok, the system considers my content potentially dangerous and hides the link to the game analysis. This does not happen with YouTube, only with TikTok videos. Please consider the standard link format for TikTok videos as safe and stop automatically hiding the links.

Your reviews show the links correctly.

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by Jornada nos Retrogames:

Analyses of games posted with links to TikTok videos are being automatically classified as harmful content!

I am a TikTok content creator and I am doing game analysis on Steam. When I put the link to the video of my analysis, which is from TikTok, the system considers my content potentially dangerous and hides the link to the game analysis. This does not happen with YouTube, only with TikTok videos. Please consider the standard link format for TikTok videos as safe and stop automatically hiding the links.

Your reviews show the links correctly.

:nkCool:

Look at the analysis of the game Town of City. The problem appeared in this analysis with the link.

Considering how awful tiktok is, it sounds like valve is making the right call.

Originally posted by Abigail From Sexy Salmon Dept.:

Considering how awful tiktok is, it sounds like valve is making the right call.

I was about to say exactly this. There is no reason to go with TikTok for game analysis. Are you trying to pretend you do an in depth review in under a few minutes..?

Originally posted by Jornada nos Retrogames:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Your reviews show the links correctly.

Look at the analysis of the game Town of City. The problem appeared in this analysis with the link.

I still see the links in the review itself but the vast majority of non-Steam related or features that link externally (YouTube is part of a Steam feature) have that warning for leaving Steam when you click on them.

Originally posted by Eagle_of_Fire:

Originally posted by Abigail From Sexy Salmon Dept.:

Considering how awful tiktok is, it sounds like valve is making the right call.

I was about to say exactly this. There is no reason to go with TikTok for game analysis. Are you trying to pretend you do an in depth review in under a few minutes..?

On TikTok we have videos longer than one minute, you must be used to comparing YouTube Shorts with TikTok videos. Just as YouTube has long videos, TikTok also has them and they are suitable for the audience in portrait format. Both platforms compete with each other. And in my case, I chose TikTok as my main platform for game videos and livestreams.

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

Originally posted by Jornada nos Retrogames:

Look at the analysis of the game Town of City. The problem appeared in this analysis with the link.

I still see the links in the review itself but the vast majority of non-Steam related or features that link externally (YouTube is part of a Steam feature) have that warning for leaving Steam when you click on them.

:nkCool:

Thank you for the feedback. I went to check my analysis, and that message about a potentially harmful link disappeared from my analysis. I think Valve's system rechecked it and saw that it was just a link to a TikTok video and removed the link hiding warning. But it would be interesting if Valve did the same for TikTok videos as it does for YouTube videos.

Originally posted by Jornada nos Retrogames:

Originally posted by Eagle_of_Fire:

I was about to say exactly this. There is no reason to go with TikTok for game analysis. Are you trying to pretend you do an in depth review in under a few minutes..?

On TikTok we have videos longer than one minute, you must be used to comparing YouTube Shorts with TikTok videos. Just as YouTube has long videos, TikTok also has them and they are suitable for the audience in portrait format. Both platforms compete with each other. And in my case, I chose TikTok as my main platform for game videos and livestreams.

Oh no! Not a whole minute..?

No, I don't compare "Youtube Short" to anything. I don't watch any of that either. My dude, promo material video found on any game page on Steam is commonly longer than 5 to 10 minutes. And that's hardly, if even, showing any game material.

I'm never going to consider seriously anybody who has an "analysis" or a "review" of a game in video form if it is only a few minutes long. Might as well give me that information in written form because why would I waste my time watch something so short that is not going to tell me anything I want to know about the game to begin with? Anything short of 20 minutes is going to get an automatic pass from me...

I am a TikTok content creator

Well, there's your problem.

Originally posted by Jornada nos Retrogames:

Originally posted by cSg|mc-Hotsauce:

I still see the links in the review itself but the vast majority of non-Steam related or features that link externally (YouTube is part of a Steam feature) have that warning for leaving Steam when you click on them.

Thank you for the feedback. I went to check my analysis, and that message about a potentially harmful link disappeared from my analysis. I think Valve's system rechecked it and saw that it was just a link to a TikTok video and removed the link hiding warning. But it would be interesting if Valve did the same for TikTok videos as it does for YouTube videos.

Valve does regularly mess with the link filter and warning page. We also had seen server issues happen last night, an unscheduled downtime that could have made thing a bit wonky.