Curious Reason

Creating science education videos for 8 years about geography, geology, human anatomy, and history.

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Hey @TeamYouTube I need your help. After I got my monetization, Adsense asked me an ID. So I submitted my National ID. I also have an international passport/ID which my last name is legally different, only 1 letter is omitted in my International ID. The problem is, my tax form I submitted is on my international ID. Today I got an email about it from Adsense how my names are different in docs. I submitted in the missing documents sections that Adsense asked my international ID, now its on review. But my Adsense profile has changed to my national ID after recent verification. Should I submit a new tax form based on my national ID?

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@Mejra666 @TeamYouTube Yeah, I got several of the “unfortunately we can’t appeal” stuff. But you gotta play smart and leave them no room to reply with excuses or referrals to old cases. DM me if you need any help

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@kandagar322 @TeamYouTube Незачто! Они могут отказать но не верь им, они все равно вернут. Не теряй надежду))

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@KleinDoina @NYCMayor This is how Vlads head served to Mehmed II and rotted on a spike at the walls of Istanbul. Cope joo

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@LailaS77458 @TeamYouTube Congratulations!

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FINALLY, after 36 days! I got my monetization BACK! THANK YOU everyone who supported by reposting and liking my posts!
I have religiously studied YouTube Support and Team YouTube here on X, taking notes, bookmarks etc, I will leave a word of advice to creators down below 👇

Thank you, @TeamYouTube, for letting a human review my channel. I greatly appreciate it. 🙏

Just a productive feedback: Appeal system needs an OVERHAUL. As a software engineer myself, I know systems can make mistakes with flagging, but the appeal process should be more comprehensive, because it seems like someone vibe-coded it, and genuine creators are suffering in beg-fest here on X. I hope it won't happen again.🙏

If you are a genuine creator struggling with demonetization, DON'T GIVE UP.
Some say you have to show your face, some say this and that... but in my experience and researching so many channels, NONE OF THAT WORKS.

For a month, I have been following Team YouTube, observing who they are replying to, the frequency of their replies, timings, and everything. I have seen them approving remonetization of absolute slop channels in 2 days, 4 days, 10 days, and I have seen genuine creators who shows their faces and record themselves or 100% Blender animators stuck demonetized for 2 months - REMONETIZATION IS 90% RANDOM and 10% are the ones who have a big following here or got backing of a political blogger's reposting and boosting the post. Most people are getting their appeal looked at in 30-40 day period, just like it was with mine.
Also, they reply so randomly, its very common for them to reply to a 1-month-old tweet or even 2-month-old tweets and remonetize your channel based on that tweet.
You also have to know how Team YouTube works; they use a CMS tool. Once they reject you, there has to be some cooldown period where they don't reply to you at all because your case is shelved. After 3-4 days, if you tag them, then there is a higher chance of them replying, this is tested - they won't reply to me but they reply to a fresh account of my vector artist who never tagged them. This is all from my experience and observation, not a fact, please keep this in mind. They most likely will reply to one of your old posts and take it from there.

My personal rule of thumb for "genuine creators" is: If someone reuploads your video and you are in a position to copyright strike them, and even ready to go to court- you are a genuine creator. But I am no judge, but if you are a clipper, like reposting big-name streamers' vids or posting AI stories, fictional stories and stuff like that, I think you need to change your content because it will be harder and harder for you.

Karma is such a bitch, I was talking crap about some genuine creators who got demonetized (who post brainrot imo but still genuine) before my own demonetization because my recent uploads went from 350k average views (all long form) to 2k-3k views, and I was a little bitter because I spent hundreds of hours on a single video. But I learnt a lot during this 36-day demonetization process, to be kinder, to be less judgemental. I hope I came out of this whole ordeal a better person, and maybe it was a needed lesson. Everything is for the better!

(And the reason for my sudden drop is views, especially on new uploads, is probably me getting hacked in October last year and briefly getting banned for 4 hours to be specific, which may have led trust score plunging OR coincidence of YouTube changing the homepage, favoring shorts, or my own highly inconsistent posting schedule.)

Now back to drawing, keyframes, animation, and editing!

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Youtubers on X after getting monetization back.

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@ThomHopprs Thank you!

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@LailaS77458 I didn’t get anything, not email, no dms, no post reply, just a prompt window in Youtube studio.

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@Nina7Infinity Thank you! And thank you for your support and empathy towards content creators who got unfairly demonetized. It speaks volumes about your character. Also, your opinions, especially political ones are BASED! Our twitter timeline/algorithm is probably the same, lol.

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@Emperorovoyt Thank you !

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@Pranishb_ You have to explicitly say in your post about how you are not in contact with them and how long it was when you last talked to them. Don't lose hope. I am smelling this week you will get it. :)

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@Pranishb_ Thank you! You should also try with another account, just as it was with my artist's account. The probability of getting reviewed doubles.

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@MovieTalkNOW1 Big man with a big heart himself here! Thank you David, you are awesome :)

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@ajgodinho they might auto reject or whatnot, but don't give up!

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@shankywestside Thank you! :)

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@Mejra666 Don't lose hope! My DM is open if you need any advice.

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@1Skilaw Thank you! can you dm me?

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@i3zai_ I can't say anything to be honest. I have seen them remonetizing similar channels like yours, but also keeping them demonetized after a true manual review.