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@arnasst @TeamYouTube Please don't ignore, this issue is important for whole platform and creators
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@arnasst @TeamYouTube Friends of mine are facing the same problem. It's very disappointing that things like this can happen on the Youtube platform...

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A throwaway Gmail is deleting entire YouTube channels with fake copyright strikes, no real rightsholder, no proof, zero consequences for the filer. @TeamYouTube this is fraud, and right now your system rewards it.

The receipts: the "rightsholder" is an anonymous Gmail.
The channel they claim to represent doesn't exist. The claim covers a whole video, not a clip. Multiple creators in my community got identical strikes from the same address within days. That's not a copyright dispute, it's a coordinated attack.

And it's working as designed. One channel that pulled thousands per upload now gets ~100 views overnight. Strike a competitor, their channel goes dark, the traffic moves. Some filers even demand payment to "withdraw" the claim, so the strike is just leverage. Pay up or die on the third one.

This isn't new. In 2023 Google SUED two people for this exact scam, 65 accounts, 117,000 fake takedowns to bury competitors and won a permanent ban against them. Google's own legal team already calls this fraud.

So why does it still work? Because a false claim costs the filer nothing and the creator everything.

@TeamYouTube I'm asking for three things: manually review and reinstate the falsely struck channels, investigate this filer across every account it's hit, and put a real penalty on fraudulent claims.

Hit by a fake strike from an anonymous email? Quote this. The more cases in one place, the harder it is to ignore.

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