So yeah hey everyone I have just saw the bullshit that is Twitter’s new update and I may as well tear off the dangling limb and say that I’m move to Bluesky and if y’all wanna follow me there here is a image of my profile and a link to it: https://t.co/MhzlYEzak1
20-year-old-director Kane Parsons and 14-year-old animator Preston Mutanga are going to fight.
Kane is 20. Preston is still 14.
Their battle will be legendary.
(Source: @DEADLINE)
Pinned post concerning the future of Knight Valfodr:
Hello everyone. As you may have known since the beginning of April, the YouTube channel Knight Valfodr has been terminated for violating one of the site's community guidelines, specifically for impersonating another channel. This came about because of an April's Fool joke gone wrong. I had appealed in a hurry (in the middle of the night and with only a few hours before starting an early work shift) and without providing the full context, so my appeal got rejected.
The full context is that I had prepared a video for April's Fool, but then I went to sleep early (pulled an all-nighter for its editing) and left it to slowly upload on YouTube Studio with a scheduled publication time. I would never have imagined that my brother, with whom I often discuss content creation and turn to for community post counsel (many of my channel's community posts are verbose and carefully written precisely because of his advice), decided to be influenced by some video comments claiming that the April's Fool would be more believable if it was from a facsimile channel. Because of that, while I was asleep, he changed some of my channel's display to closely resemble the official Ace Combat YT channel, causing YouTube to rightfully flag it for impersonation.
Some of you may not believe this story, and I'm aware of that, because on all accounts, the act was perpetrated on my own computer and cannot even be classified as hacking by a third party, on top of my history of having my April 1st video uploads contain deceptive titles / descriptions and me hardly ever sharing anything about my family. I admit that for last year's April's Fool (2025), I had considered changing my channel name to "ACE COMBAT channel (parody)", but that year my video upload was published very late into April 1st Eastern Time; this year was the same, so it wouldn't make sense to change credentials with only a measly 8 hours remaining to April 1st my time.
Regardless of how things came to be, the fact remains that I'm now at a potential dead end. YouTube's support team is infamously automated and almost never looks back once they reject an appeal, and even if I convince them that it wasn't my own initiative and the perpetrator was only doing it for a limited-time prank, the violation was still done on my account. I will keep trying to contact YouTube's support team, but the prospects are very bleak. At best, I may get a human reviewer to understand that I, the channel's rightful owner (email, AdSense and all that), was mainly guilty of neglect and maybe be allowed to revert the mess my brother made; at worst, I will lose every piece of content I did not save on my hard drives (YT streams and older VODs I didn't care enough to keep while cleaning up space), with the only sliver of hope being that I may recreate my channel from scratch one year after the termination if I become eligible for YouTube's Second Chance program.
The worst case scenario is now a very real outcome, as it would mean I cannot create new channels due to their termination circumvention policy, and I may even be barred from their Second Chance program since impersonation is a serious violation.
The channel generated a decent amount of passive income in the decade it was monetized, but above all it was a passion project that kept me motivated throughout the years. I'll admit that I wasted a lot of good opportunities by not keeping up a consistent upload schedule, but that's now beside the point.
So what should I do now, you ask? Aside from continuing to contact YouTube's support team until they either relent or ask me to stop pestering them, I have no choice but to branch out to other social media in the meantime. I am currently considering posting videos here on X, then TikTok and Instagram for added exposure and Patreon for preservation, with maybe a Facebook page in the future. It's not going to be easy trying to rebuild the 23k subscribers and 15 million views I had on YouTube before termination, but for the sake of the content I made for over a decade, I will keep on going, even if my former following is now dispersed.
Until the day I return to YouTube, I wil have to hold on to the hope that things will get better for me.
Thank you for reading,
Knight Valfodr