diff --git a/files/helpers/regex.py b/files/helpers/regex.py
index b8d359ea3..24682b32b 100644
--- a/files/helpers/regex.py
+++ b/files/helpers/regex.py
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ imgur_regex = re.compile(f'(https:\/\/i\.imgur\.com\/[a-z0-9]+)\.({image_regex_e
 
 giphy_regex = re.compile('(https:\/\/media\.giphy\.com\/media\/[a-z0-9]+\/giphy)\.gif', flags=re.I|re.A)
 
-youtube_regex = re.compile('(<p>[^<]*)((https:\/\/)?youtube\.com\/watch\?[\w\-.#&/=?@%+]{7,})', flags=re.I|re.A)
+youtube_regex = re.compile('(<p>[^<]*)(https:\/\/youtube\.com\/watch\?[\w\-.#&/=?@%+]{7,})', flags=re.I|re.A)
 yt_id_regex = re.compile('[\w\-]{5,20}', flags=re.A)
 
 link_fix_regex = re.compile("(\[.*?\]\()(?!http|\/)(.*?\))(?!([^<]*<\/(code|pre|a)>|[^`]*`))", flags=re.A)
diff --git a/files/helpers/sanitize.py b/files/helpers/sanitize.py
index dcb3b5f01..fdb3e98b9 100644
--- a/files/helpers/sanitize.py
+++ b/files/helpers/sanitize.py
@@ -576,13 +576,12 @@ def filter_emojis_only(title, golden=True, count_emojis=False, graceful=False, s
 def normalize_url(url):
 	url = reddit_domain_regex.sub(r'\1https://old.reddit.com/\3/', url)
 
-	url = url.replace("youtu.be/", "youtube.com/watch?v=") \
-			 .replace("music.youtube.com/watch?v=", "youtube.com/watch?v=") \
-			 .replace("www.youtube.com", "youtube.com") \
-			 .replace("m.youtube.com", "youtube.com") \
-			 .replace("youtube.com/shorts/", "youtube.com/watch?v=") \
-			 .replace("youtube.com/v/", "youtube.com/watch?v=") \
-			\
+	url = url.replace("https://youtu.be/", "https://youtube.com/watch?v=") \
+			 .replace("https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=", "https://youtube.com/watch?v=") \
+			 .replace("https://www.youtube.com", "https://youtube.com") \
+			 .replace("https://m.youtube.com", "https://youtube.com") \
+			 .replace("https://youtube.com/shorts/", "https://youtube.com/watch?v=") \
+			 .replace("https://youtube.com/v/", "https://youtube.com/watch?v=") \
 			 .replace("https://mobile.twitter.com", "https://twitter.com") \
 			 .replace("https://m.facebook.com", "https://facebook.com") \
 			 .replace("https://m.wikipedia.org", "https://wikipedia.org") \