I guess my letter did its job.
If your channel got hit by inauthentic content, check your email or your channel right now.
A lot of creators woke up today to find their monetization restored after months of fighting appeals.
Sometimes pushing back actually works.
Keep the pressure on.
Day 39 since YouTube flagged my 200K+ 3D animation channel as “inauthentic content.”
@TeamYouTube@YouTube@UpdatesFromYT@YouTubeCreators
I see several other Fellow animators getting help from YouTube in the past few days...
I am definitely happy for them, they surely deserved it...
but that happiness quickly fades away when I come back and look at my channel.
Especially when I think about the countless hours I spent animating, the sleepless nights, the back pain I got from sitting in my chair for too long because I was too deep into the work, and the eye strain I get after a 5-hour-long session...
I thought that was rewarded by YouTube, and that YouTube appreciates the hard work. I thought YouTube saw me and my struggles.
But at this moment, remembering all those moments I poured into building this channel, I feel really discouraged thinking maybe it never mattered to YouTube, maybe my work doesn't matter, and maybe I don't matter to YouTube. 😔
Dear YouTube,
We need to talk.
For the last 15 years, we built this platform with you.
We woke up at 3 AM to upload videos. We funneled our savings into cameras, mics, editors, and thumbnails.
We sacrificed birthdays, weddings, and weekends to ship one more upload. We turned our living rooms into studios.
We turned our voices into livelihoods. We turned strangers into communities of millions because you told us this was the future.
And now we are watching that future get taken from us, one channel at a time.
The recent AdSense wave is the worst it has ever been. Real creators with real audiences and real businesses are watching everything disappear overnight.
People who never broke a single rule. People who poured a decade of their lives into building something honest.
The email comes in and the entire business is gone. No appeal that actually works. No human to talk to. No path back.
Some of these creators have 6 channels under one AdSense. All 6 die in the same notification.
Years of work erased in a single algorithm decision nobody at YouTube can even explain.
The support is broken. The "creator chat" is a script reading bot pretending to listen.
The appeal forms feel like sending letters into the void. Real questions get template responses.
Real evidence gets ignored. Real businesses get crushed and nobody at the company seems to care.
We are not asking for charity. We are asking for basic respect.
We built this platform for you. We brought you the billions of hours of attention you sell to advertisers.
We attracted the audiences you monetize. We are the reason YouTube is one of the largest companies on the internet.
Every single dollar of that value passed through someone who set up a camera in their bedroom and hit upload.
And the way you treat us back is to ban us by mistake, ignore our appeals, and tell us the algorithm decided.
This is not how you treat the people who built your empire.
We are not the enemy. We are the product.
And right now, we are tired, hurt, and watching friends lose everything they built because nobody at YouTube cares enough to pick up the phone.
Do better.
The creators you forgot.
@boomerrbryan No warning either just flat out removal
It's an honor tho 🎖
Getting banned from YouTube,
My AI content went to hard for em, they was like oh snap this that fire 🔥 this to hot for the masses, lol
Nah, but no more effort on part messin with YouTube, they like Disney now 🤷♂️
@boomerrbryan I appealed and they said nope, final.
So not only i lost my channel I had for years but I lost all my favorites, my playlist, people I was following, content I had too for many years that collected no views but it was there for me or my family to look back on, GONE🚫
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@WyldeChyldeRec There's many AI closet creators creating for there own personal use, avoiding this anti AI crowd...
If they want an AI banned then contact your local governments till then people are using it every second, call it slop but its slopping all over the internet as we speak 🤷♂️
@XStrangeHistory At this point f youtube, they removing channels, that banned me for life, they don't want me on there platform. F em. They need to pay me to come back and use the app. F youtube