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by codewithcheese 4020 days ago
Maybe because their algorithms to organize the videos by game and type have only been optimized for English US and UK submissions.
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Unlikely. Many european gamers from various countries game exclusively in english, since that is the original language for almost all games. Heck, the most famous game streamer is a Swede and all of his content is in (horribly squeaky) english.
Only AAA titles are translated into anything but English, and even those are just translated into a handful of languages.

I know people from all over Europe, they all expect gaming content to be English.

I'm Norwegian, but I run all my software in English. Linux distributions are the only ones having trouble with my 'strage' locale and language setup, but that's fully due to incompetent devs.

this would explain why there are only submissions in english. But not why those submissions are blocked in other countries.