What you can and cannot remove in comments
You cannot remove comments on someone else's video just because they mention your name negatively. YouTube gives video owners control over their comment sections, not the people being discussed. If the harassment is happening on another creator's upload, your options are reporting individual comments for policy violations.
Comments containing doxxing, credible threats, hate speech, or sustained personal attacks can be reported and removed by YouTube. Generic insults and negative opinions usually stay. The line is narrower than most people want it to be.
Reporting comment harassment effectively
Screenshot every harassing comment with the URL and timestamp before reporting. Comments get deleted by moderators or the commenter, and you lose evidence. We batch-report coordinated harassment campaigns with documentation showing the pattern across multiple videos and accounts.
When comment harassment is part of a broader campaign including dedicated attack videos, we address the whole pattern through our YouTube Video Removal service rather than fighting comment by comment. That approach gets channel-level attention from trust and safety faster.
When the whole video needs to go
Sometimes the video exists primarily to host harassment in the comments, or the video creator pins defamatory comments and encourages pile-ons. That shifts the case from comment reporting to video-level policy complaints.
Comment harassment rarely resolves itself. If it is affecting your reputation or ranking in search, book a free confidential consultation. We handle Google search cleanup and negative content removal services when the damage extends past YouTube.