🚨 If you are a terminated YouTube creator, please stop and read this.
Look how unfair YouTube really is.
There’s a creator who had multiple terminations in 2024 and 2025. Then in 2026 more of his accounts got terminated for Circumvention, and YouTube kept down the 4 of his original terminations in 2024, 3 of his Circumvention accounts that got hit in 2025, and restored the 3 Circumvention accounts he got in 2026.
Look at the screenshots below for proof.
How is this fair to the rest of us?
Real creators who made one mistake or were falsely terminated are still waiting with zero human review, while people with multiple bans and repeated Circumvention flags are getting accounts back.
YouTube, you keep saying you terminate channels “to keep YouTube safe.”
You are doing the complete opposite.
You are hurting real creators and real communities while giving second, third, and fourth chances to people who have repeatedly manipulated or broken your policies.
Smaller creators make one tiny mistake and we’re gone, no real review, no reinstatement, just gone.
If you are a terminated creator, please comment below with your story and why you were terminated. Let’s show YouTube how many of us are affected.
Here’s my story:
On May 13th during a documented YouTube upload outage, I was trying to upload one Short from 5:40 AM to 6:00 AM. Uploads were failing across the platform, videos were freezing and showing as “Untitled.” I kept deleting and retrying the same video like any normal creator would. At 6:01 AM, literally one minute later, my entire 40K channel was terminated for “Circumvention.”
My channel had 0 violations. It was completely clean. I built it from 0 to 40,000 subscribers in just 5 months with over 10 million views doing original Roblox trolling content. Real fans. Real community. Real growth.
Yet after 62 days I still haven’t received a real human review.
I even contacted YouTube Creator Support and submitted new evidence I couldn’t include in my original appeal, including the documented May 13 outage, screenshots, and a complete timeline. Support keeps telling me my case was already reviewed by a human and that my content, not my account, violated the Circumvention Policy. I understand that’s YouTube’s position. However, the only reason those repeated upload attempts happened was because YouTube’s own systems were experiencing the documented May 13 upload outage. I didn’t know the platform was malfunctioning. On any normal day it would have been one upload and nothing more. My appeal was denied in about 10 minutes. How can a 40,000 subscriber channel with over 1,100 uploads receive a meaningful human review in that amount of time?
@TeamYouTube@YouTubeCreators@nealmohan
Please give my case, and the cases of other creators who were falsely removed or made a mistake on accident, a proper human review.
Stop hiding behind “keeping YouTube safe” while real creators with real communities are left with nothing.
Like, repost, and @TeamYouTube. We need to be heard.
#YouTubeOutage #May13Outage #CreatorAppeal
@TeamYouTube Please help. Almost 2 years growing my channel and Im hit with this. I had edited my content everyday and yet im still perceived as spam and deceptive practice despite working on my content. Going through recording process, editing.
Hello
@TeamYouTube
my channel with 84K subscribers was removed for Circumvention policy. My appeal was rejected but I strictly create high-quality educational content and No Circumvention policy were used. Please human review my case
https://t.co/h4eS9VEnI1
@TeamYouTube My channel was falsely terminated for Spam, but it's my sole income and I have full proof I never broke TOS. Support email keeps giving me automated rejections. Please help me escalate this to a human specialist! Channel Link:https://t.co/VGiW4ZLiAF
Hi @TeamYouTube , my channel Gorndol GMOD (50K+ subscribers) is wrongfully terminated for spam, scam and deceptive practices despite creating my own original content, with no spam nor scam or any deceptive practice. Could you please escalate my case to Trust & Safety for an independent manual review? Thank you. #youtube
Hi @TeamYouTube, my channel “Gorndol GMOD" was terminated for "Spam/Scam". My appeal got rejected. I only make Garry’s Mod animation and skit and recorded & edited the gameplay myself. I never spammed or scammed. Please review manually. URL: https://t.co/GMZYC3t5zz
Hi @TeamYouTube, my channel was suspended for "scams policy". My appeal was auto-rejected, but I didn't violate any guidelines. My content is original (Garry’s mod Animation). Please escalate this to a human reviewer for a manual check.
Link: https://t.co/iQKdT4Iy0z
@TeamYouTube@TeamYouTube@YouTubeIndia My appeal got rejected, I’m requesting a human review for this channel as I believe this is a mistake since I never spammed nor scam and do any deceptive practice
@TeamYouTube Hi Youtube, I’m still waiting for a dm waiting for your response after my appeal got rejected. I believe my termination is a mistake and needs to be resolved with human reviews. Thank you