Review & reply to comments

Interacting with comments is a great way to maintain a healthy community on your channel. Learn more about how to moderate comments.

Manage comments

Sign in to YouTube Studio.
From the left menu, select Community .
Choose the tab that you’d like to review:
- Published: Comments that everyone can see.
- Held: Comments that are held based on your settings and comments that are automatically held by YouTube as likely spam.

You can use the filter bar at the top of each tab to filter the comments you see. You can filter by search, questions, response status, and more.

Eligible creators will see "Comments & Mentions" in Studio on their computer. Learn more about mentions eligibility.

Reply & react to published comments

From the Published tab, you can:

Reply: Select REPLY to respond to a comment directly. Learn more about replying with comment reply suggestions.
Heart: Select the heart beneath a comment to show appreciation.
Like: Select thumbs up to like a comment.
Dislike: Select thumbs down to dislike a comment.
Pin: Select More Pin to highlight a comment at the top of your video’s watch page. This option only appears when viewing comments for an individual video.

Tip: To help you learn more about who’s commenting, badges will show up next to commenters’ names in YouTube Studio. For example, there are badges for top commenters

, channel members

, and publicly subscribed commenters

FAQ

Are viewers told when I heart, like, dislike, pin, or reply to their comment?

If you heart, pin, or reply to a comment, the commenter may get a notification that you responded, depending on their notification settings.

Likes and dislikes are anonymous. If you like a comment, the commenter may get a notification that says, “Someone liked your comment." Viewers don’t get a notification when you dislike their comment.

How do I unpin a comment?

If you pinned a comment to the top of the watch page, but don’t want it there anymore, you can unpin it. Next to the comment, select More

Unpin.

You can also pin a different comment, which will unpin the previous one.

How are comment topics summarized, and can I moderate them?

Comment topics use Google-owned AI models to organize and summarize comments, without human review, on YouTube videos with large comment sections. Topics are only created when there are enough comments to represent a theme.

There isn’t an option to opt out of comment topics. If you remove the comments that show up under a specific topic, the topic will be removed.

Topics won’t be created from comments that are held, contain blocked words, or are from hidden users.