All over the FB groups people are reporting their shirts are going back into Processing and when they come out the Youth size option has been removed.
Originally it looked like it was just happening in non 'kid-friendly' niches but more and more reports are coming in that it is also happening on totally generic niches.
Elizabeth@Amazon Can you please provide an update on why this is happening.
Thank You!
It should be noted there are adults who BUY the youth sizes. Note everyone is made the same size. You shouldn't remove youth sizes for adult only niche shirts as it's discriminating against smaller adults.
discriminating until you're the one footing the bill for the extra blanks that never sell due to limited demand. smaller tees are more expensive usually
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We are aware that some content creators may have recently seen live designs going back into “Processing” status with youth fit options removed. In order to ensure that all designs offered through Merch by Amazon are compliant with Amazon policies on products available for children. To help update your listings to be compliant with this policy, we are in the process of making these updates for you. Products will briefly go back into “Processing” status while the updates are made, then moved back into “Live” status without youth fit option. We plan to launch a policy update for content published on youth sized products in the near future. In the meantime, any designs requiring updates will not adversely affect your overall account health.
As you upload new designs, you must not publish content on youth sized products which contains any of the following:
1) Sexually suggestive (this includes sexual innuendos, scantily clad models and sex jokes)
2) Violence (content that implies inflicting physical harm to others, promoting the use of armed weapons and depictions of blood and gore)
3) Vulgarity or profanity
4) Drug or alcohol use
i m a little bit confuse, regardeless of sizes are not all these themes banned in any case ?
Would love some communication about this. If this is about "adult" content, I think the filters are too broad. BBQ shirts that are about "smoking" meat, are being affected for example. But as others have posted, this is excluding a large group of adults who wear youth sizes.
Youth sizes are being removed from designs that are geared towards kids and were recently selling. It is obvious that such designs are "G rated" and kid friendly.
If this is NOT a glitch, it's very disappointing that there was no communication about this as well as no option given for us to edit whatever keywords are being flagged as "no longer kid friendly".
This is the worst possible time for something like this to be happening, right as we get into Q4. Merch knows we put in an incredible amount of work to prepare for this time of year, which is why none of this makes any sense...
I fear that Krampus the Christmas Demon has possessed the Merch Gods :::sigh::::
I have a bunch of cancer awareness shirts also being auto changed. Very frustrating since some of the designs are specific "wearing pink for mom". These need to be manually reviewed at a minimum, not bot searched for keywords, I assume breast in this instance.
Mine are being removed too!!! There are some hallowing listings that contain the words drinking or pub... I can understand this but would rather the option to edit! But I have completely safe child friendly shirts and listings being processed for youth removal!! Amazon - what are you doing???
I have a ton in processing from several LGBT niches. You know, cause kids can't be gay or bi or trans or ... sigh. And I agree with the above, there are tons of adults that are petite and prefer kids sizes or little people that wear smaller sizes.
I had reported earlier that only one of my shirts was in processing. Now it’s four and the’ve all got the word “coffee” in them. Maybe this glitch has to do with food related words?
I have some with no child shirt selected. I have on with a bunny on it, one about farmer. I may have pick kids for those but it is a farmer shirt and a bunny shirt.
It appears that the youth size removal is totally random. In my case, only one of four very similar designs (design colors being the only difference) went into processing all of a sudden. The link is still active while it is processing and when I click on it, the youth size does not appear.
OF COURSE Amazon is weeding out the pages upon pages of "childrens" shirts about drinking, smoking, and getting laid. Have any of you tried shopping for actual kid's clothing on Amazon recently? It's a sea of ugly, boxy, men's black t-shirts, with adult themes. Even if all of the designs aren't inappropriate per se, how many 8 year old boys and girls are King of the Grill? There isn't a single store that sells these types of items for children, except for dedicated PODs that don't have to integrate the t-shirts into a traditional online clothing shopping experience. A really small adult could buy your shirt on TS, Etsy, or Redbubble.
I guess the issue is people adding 'youth' to everything! I can see this point of view perfectly, especially as a mum to two boys! I'm miffed because the listings that have been targeted of mine, are genuine kids halloween shirts.. I don't add youth to anything that isn't targeted at children.. shame the majority don't think the same way :(
That's what we originally thought but then it turned out to be way beyond that. For example when beer is flagged for a children's "root beer" shirt.
The problem is that it's too extreme. I'm glad there are people who aren't as affected by this but we should all be supportive of each other.
And BTW the southern states will absolutely buy a "king of the grill" shirt for boys. As well as fishing, and other things that are a key part of southern culture.
It's a good thing that there isn't a single store selling these designs, if that were the case none of us would be here.
I accidentally added youth shirts to many of my uploaded designs and now I have a ton of shirts in processing. Is that Amazon's fault? Nope. It's mine because I was so zippy in my upload process that I didn't notice that youth sizes were being selected. Are my shirts too risky for children? Nope... but I don't think that any kid would wear one of my shirts with those designs.
The good news is that even though those shirts are in processing, they still show up in search and many of them have sold. The only downside is that I was just about to change the brand names on many of my designs... but now I must wait. I'm okay with that.
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