Hey @TeamYouTube My channel has been demonetized for "Harmful content involving minors," but this is clearly an Al error - I have zero. violations, my content isn't for kids, and I fully respect your policies. I need a manual review by a human.
Youtube destroyed my life...? ๐
This is my recap of my year 2025 as a YouTube creator. And I'm a small 3d Animator..
At the start of this year, I used to work on multiple channels where I worked hard to create animated videos. I used to sit 12โ15 hours a day, and it took 3โ6 days to complete a single video.
Things were going well, and with my small team, we were working smoothly and were completely dependent on our hard work. We ran channels that had 1,500,000+, 1,000,000+, and a few other channels as well.
But after April, YouTube started removing monetization from animation channels using their AI, saying "Harmful content involving minors."
There are no minors or real humans involved in these channels only animals and fantasy characters used in animations. Firstly, there is a reason these videos are uploaded on YouTube and not YouTube Kids. Also, in every video, there is a disclaimer stating intended for 13+ age, and that no real humans are involved and everything is fantasy and for entertainment purposes only.
This was devastating and heartbreaking to me ๐ because not just one channel, but 3โ4 channels were affected for the same reason. These were not small channels some had more than a million subscribers like 1.5M+, 1.06M+, 700K+, and so on.
All this happened in April and May, in just 2 months of 2025 ๐. Years of work, time, and revenue were gone everything was gone (YouTube does not want to give monetization to these channels).
After that, I tried to recover myselfโ๏ธand started working with other channels. In June 2025, one of my channels was hacked. I thought I had lost everything, but @TeamYouTube support really helped me and recovered my channel and gave it back within 5 days.
Later, things were going goodโฆ
Until September, when one of our channels was terminated on September 12 for SPAM/SCAM. I donโt even know what that was or why our channel was terminated for spam/scam. I appealed and contacted support, and they told me to wait. I waited, and on the 8th day, I contacted support again. Another support agent told me the review was done and the termination was correct all of this was done in 10 minutes ๐ (This is automated).
Later, on the 10th day, YouTube actually did a human review and reinstated my channel on September 22 (this was before the @edermanch @deephumor wave, and they actually gave real human reviews back then).
Me and my brothers were recovering โค๏ธโ๐ฉน from this, and I thought @YouTube would not unfairly terminate innocent creators or punish them all it takes is a human reviewer in these cases.
But ๐ on November 13, another channel was terminated (this was in the same animated niche as the previously terminated channel), but things were different this time. No human review. Reasons kept changing. All we received were automated email templates and DMs. They said a human review was taking place, but we got rejections within 2 minutes. (same channel which was hacked and recovered)
Iโm already broken and unable to understand or sleep anxiety depression has broken me to the coreโฆ.
And on December 5th, the channel that was terminated and reinstated was demonetized ๐๐.
They removed monetization again, saying "Harmful content involving minors," even though there are no minors fully animated videos with game characters and brainrot characters only.
This is how Iโm ending my year with broken memories. And I chose YouTube instead of an actual job ๐.
And I love @YouTube โค๏ธ.
@TeamYouTube I have already submitted my appeal through YouTube Studio.
I kindly request you to please check it and proceed with a manual review.
I believe this action was taken in error, as my channel does not contain harmful content.
Channel analytics show 98% adult viewers
Hey @TeamYouTube My channel has been demonetized for "Harmful content involving minors," but this is clearly an Al error - I have zero. violations, my content isn't for kids, and I fully respect your policies. I need a manual review by a human.
@TeamYouTube I appealed through YouTube Studio two days ago.
My content is original and policy-compliant.
I do not upload harmful content.
Channel analytics show 98% adult viewers.
Please consider a manual review.
YouTube's AI Moderation has started demonetizing a lot of Roblox and Minecraft channels.
A bunch of creators in the space got hit overnight. Everyone from large to small creators completely losing all monetization.
Any word on what's going on? @nealmohan
Hi @TeamYouTube
My channel focuses on GTA5 gameplay content. I've carefully reviewed my videos and thumbnails and made updates to ensure full compliance with YouTube policies.
I kindly request a re-review of my channel.
Thank you for your time and support
@KreekCraft
Hey @TeamYouTube! My channel has been demonetized for "Harmful content involving minors," but this is clearly an Al error - I have zero violations, my content isn't for kids, and I fully respect your policies. I need a manual review by a human. @KreekCraft
Hey @TeamYouTube My content is GTA5 mods gameplays, No real people, or minors doing dangerous activities appear in my videos
I've been creating this type of content for more than a year and also my friends do
please do a manual human review
https://t.co/0bkX3chEKG