🚨Update on the Youtube situation 🚨
This morning shortly after I started my stream, Youtube suddenly unbanned my commentary on the Joe Rogan clip, where I was banned because Nikki in Joe's clip said the word "K*NK DOT COM". I found out about this from my own livestream chat because there was zero communication from Youtube.
No email, no DM, no twitter response, no dashboard notification - nothing. Not even a smoke signal.
Now this is great, however... My channel still has a strike, I still was not able to upload content until the 7 day ban ended (3 hours later).
The video that initially got me the strike for was... violent or graphic content (mosquitos getting squished) is still banned by Youtube and my channel still has a strike as a result of this.
There is a real possibility where I will have to discontinue reacting to or looking at any short form or clip content, because it feels like Youtube is targeting me with extreme prejudice.
The vast majority of warnings, or strikes, or community guideline violations that I get are almost always posted somewhere else on Youtube or on someone else's channel - but for some reason me reacting to it is deemed unacceptable. Then I have to go through this song and dance of begging for them to look into it by complaining on twitter for it to MAYBE get resolved after days or weeks.
That Joe Rogan clip? I obviously tried to appeal it and was instantly denied. It takes me begging them to look into it on a third party platform to even have a chance of their mistake being corrected - which is so unfair in my eyes since most creators don't even have half the reach I do.
Hello @TeamYouTube
Recently the creator @SmugAlana had multiple videos unfairly struck down for community guideline violations. This situation needs a look from a human reviewer to correct these obvious mistakes.
In the first video SmugAlana is reacting to a video of someone dispatching mosquitoes and she was struck for "violent content". Meanwhile there are hundreds, if not thousands, of viral videos gassing, burning, and dispatching mosquitoes that are not only untouched, but are viral.
In the second video, SmugAlana is reacting to a video from the Joe Rogan Experience clip channel, where a woman mentions an adult website she frequents and SmugAlana was struck for "sharing links to adult websites". It's very clear that in her reaction video, SmugAlana did not share any links. Worse yet, the video she reacted to is still up with 5 million views.
Not only did @SmugAlana not break the rules she was struck for, but there's also an incredible level of hypocrisy regarding the inconsistent application of YouTube's terms of service.
This situation needs to be resolved and will be with a quick look at her situation by a human reviewer. Another look would be greatly appreciated.
Link to her channel: https://t.co/t8TPkXcAqE
could you imagine if they banned @joerogan's clip from 5 years ago just because of this
hahahaha they wouldn't do that just to keep an anime girl banned right lol
🚨I GOT BANNED OFF YOUTUBE FOR 7 DAYS OVER THIS 🚨
YouTube struck & deleted my video for ‘violent graphic content’ over watching a dude kill mosquitoes
Hundreds of insect flamethrower & killing videos stay up fine. Appeal rejected immediately because AI moderation is horrible.
@SmugAlana I worry about where things are going for content creators these days, But i still hope youtube and other platforms start doing better. hope you do have better fortune as well ^
going to bed soon, wish it wasent so late, thinking about if i ll be around at all on my birthday, i have alot to do with my pc and some other things after this weekeend. thinking about all the stuff im going to do with streaming. time goes too fast but will try to live enough