🚨 YOUTUBE, Stop treating Creators like they don't matter ! @nealmohan@YouTube@TeamYouTube
Creators, was your channel terminated or demonetized without any prior warning, and you disagree with the decision? Like & repost so YouTube sees this. We want our channels back !
Same with me when I was just 16 years old, no idea about YouTube's guidelines, and my channel got removed. YouTube doesn't care whether the use is a minor or an adult, they only care for their guideliness.
Imagine being a child and YouTube banning you for life- your brain isn’t even fully developed yet and a major tech company has suddenly decided that you’re blocked forever from creating videos. Any career you might want as a presenter, journalist, creator - you can’t have it, because @YouTube’s circumvention policy states you can’t appear on any channel frequently for the rest of your life. THIS is why Youtube’s monopoly over long form content is a major issue. One tech company should not have this much power over your future.
Great decision. I also lost my channel due to unfair copyright strikes. Neither the claimant nor YouTube helped me. In fact, after striking down my content, the claimant deleted their email ID.
🚨 Did YouTube terminate your channel?
After losing 7 channels myself, I'm taking action.
I've launched the YouTube Channel Termination Registry through One Vivid World to organize affected creators and explore collective action.
🌎 https://t.co/ZuN8tA01QJ
#youtubecreators
Features are good, but the system is still corrupted. People are losing their channels for an unfair reason & appeals are rejected within a minute. No human review, just face an AI. Banning AI content is okay, but using AI for serious concerns is dangerous. Please don't do this.
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@NARMAK13 My channel was terminated 1 year ago due to copyright strikes, and I still haven't received any human who can properly review my case. The strike was unfair, but there was still no resolution. How can I reach out to a real human?
The issue is that while new features for creators keep being added, not enough attention is given to ensure our safety. AI has taken over the entire YouTube system, making manual reviews impossible until these concerns are adequately addressed.
🤬 ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS RIGHT NOW @TeamYouTube what the hell this I never did anything wrong no copyright strike no no strike no nothing ℹ official don’t care about YouTube anymore they need to fix there problem
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225 wrongful terminations now documented 👏
MASSIVE UPDATE: YouTube support has now acknowledged our spreadsheet and confirmed it’s being flagged internally.
Here’s what happened 👇
@sin_cama who was reinstated this week followed up with YouTube support. In that follow-up, he mentioned the spreadsheet, the documentation, and the high standards we’ve kept by excluding obvious policy-breakers.
The support rep (Katie D.) responded:
“It is genuinely impressive to see the community rally together like that… I’ve made a note of this feedback regarding the ‘False Positive’ trends… and will ensure the message behind this list, that high-effort creators are getting caught in the net, is highlighted in my reports.”
This is the first time we’ve seen direct signs of system-wide recognition from within YouTube itself! The sheet was seen. The message CAN move through the system.
We’re now at 230 documented creators, and today, for the first time, we know that what we’ve built is reaching the people who can escalate this issue properly.
Congrats to @p1asmaplays@Selacg@ShortyEditz@pscompany6149@443Allforo94805 for being added to the list today.
To everyone who helped build this: keep sharing. It's possible for YouTube to see it. 👊
Shoutout @sin_cama for sharing this email.
Read the exchange below 👇
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After 16 years, my @YouTube channel (GrimmGreen) was terminated today with no real explanation.
I’ve built my content around harm reduction, helping adult smokers quit, and advocating for science-based policies.
This feels like a huge mistake. If you believe in THR, free speech, and the mission we’ve been on, please help me get YouTube’s attention.
@TeamYouTube I’m asking for a real human to review my case.
I’ve never promoted anything illegal. I’ve never targeted youth. I’ve worked tirelessly to be a responsible voice in the vaping and harm reduction space. But like many creators in this space, it seems I’ve been swept up in an overly aggressive moderation wave.
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To any creator who’s still terminated and losing hope, please read this.
I was banned for HARASSMENT! one of the hardest policies to fight, and I still got reinstated because it turned out to be a genuine AI mistake.
I was down for 54 days (almost 2 months). No active appeal. No open case. No replies on my main account.
Then completely out of nowhere, YouTube replied to a post on my THIRD account i made for this situation (@pkilythe2nd), not my main, not my appeals, and reinstated my channel. No case number. No warning. Just a reversal. My appeals got denied 6 times.
I’m not exaggerating when I say I started crying when I saw the message.
If you’re at the 2–3 month mark and feel invisible, keep going. Reinstatements can happen randomly, quietly, and without notice. AI makes mistakes, and they do take forever to reply, and humans do step in sometimes eventually
Don’t give up. Your case might be next.
Support my channel: https://t.co/bK9kQZYUXQ
Hey @TeamYouTube, I have gone through the link on incentivization spam and tried to do some thorough research on these policies. I want to ask a few questions. These questions might help me and all the creators, so please try to address each and every one.
1. If incentivization spam refers to buying or requesting engagement, on what basis is a creator penalized when they have never purchased, requested, or encouraged engagement in any way?
2. When YouTube’s own system distributes a Short through the Shorts feed and recommendations, how can that organic reach later be reclassified as incentivization spam?
3. Why do many terminations seem to occur immediately after a viral spike, rather than triggering a deeper review to distinguish organic growth from artificial activity?
4. If fake engagement or bot activity originates from third parties without the creator’s knowledge or consent, why is the creator held accountable instead of being safeguarded?
5. What concrete, preventive steps can compliant creators take to ensure they are not mistakenly flagged for incentivization spam despite following all guidelines?
6. Is there actually a real human review involved in these cases, or are humans mainly rubber-stamping AI decisions after the fact? Is AI making the determination first and humans simply approving it without independently verifying the details?
7. What does “human review” truly mean in practice? If a real human had carefully reviewed my case and the context, it’s hard to understand how this decision could still be reached.
8. How much authority does a human reviewer actually have to challenge or overturn an AI decision when the facts don’t support a violation?
( I already tried reaching out through DMs, but I understand that you may have missed or ignored my message. Please answer these questions.
@TeamYouTube@YouTube@YouTubeInsider@reneritchie@UpdatesFromYT@YouTubeCreators )
When a famous creator gets a wrong claim, @TeamYouTube responds publicly, fixes the mistake, restores the video and even returns all the lost revenue.
When a small or unknown creator gets wrongly terminated?
Silence. Templates. Bots. Final decisions. No evidence. No transparency. No compensation.
So let’s be honest:
Are there two sets of rules on YouTube?
One for creators with power, influence, and PR value
and another for everyone else?
Because if policies are truly “applied equally,” then fame should not determine:
• who gets a human response
• who gets mistakes admitted
• who gets revenue back
• and who gets erased without explanation
This isn’t about one channel anymore
This is about systemic discrimination hidden behind “policy enforcement.”
If accountability only exists when the creator is famous
then this platform is not fair it’s selective.
And people are starting to see it.
🚨I have stayed silent long enough — and today, after more than 90 days of waiting in complete uncertainty, I need to say this clearly:
YouTube didn’t just terminate my main channel, it happened because of my small secondary channel on the device — a channel with only four videos, all 100% original, exclusive content that had never been published before, all fully scheduled, and none of them had any restrictions, warnings, or policy violations.
Not a single part of that secondary channel indicated “spam,” “automation,” or any violation whatsoever… yet it caused my main channel to be shut down without explanation.
What’s even more outrageous is that when I contacted YouTube support via email, I was told that the secondary channel had been reviewed and rejected. The strange thing is that this reply came within seconds, as if it had been immediately rejected.
At the same time, another support account told me the decision had already been made, while the first account said the review was still ongoing!
This is complete manipulation and confusion, with zero clarity or consistency in the support responses.
Here’s the most critical part: the main channel was monetized and linked to AdSense, and regularly receives messages from the YouTube Partner Support team for monetized accounts, yet YouTube support has been inconsistent, providing no clear answers, no evidence of any violation, and no opportunity to defend the accounts or the content.
Throughout this entire process, not a single piece of evidence was shown to me:
❌ Not one timestamp.
❌ Not one video link.
❌ Not one specific example.
❌ Not one detailed policy reference.
Just vague and contradictory labels thrown in different places:
“Spam,” “circumvention” — categories that don’t align with each other, don’t match my content, and don’t match what appears inside YouTube Studio.
My content was simple, clean, and policy-safe.
No AI spam.
No reused content.
No misleading practices.
Just basic educational content — the type YouTube encourages, focused on educational analysis of challenges and geopolitical decisions that change the course of events, explaining the challenges and providing examples from past events purely for educational purposes.
There are no links at all except for my channel link in the description, and it never encourages any spam.
I carefully reviewed the policies and have never been subject to any violation.
Yet somehow, a machine misjudged my work…
Then the same automated system was assigned to review the appeal that it had already misjudged, without any human oversight.
How is this a fair system?
Three months.
Two channels affected.
Zero evidence.
Zero transparency.
Zero chance to defend myself.
All I am asking for is the minimum any creator deserves:
➡ A real review by a real person.
➡ A consistent explanation instead of three different ones.
➡ One timestamped example — just one.
Creators should not lose their work because of an algorithmic mistake or the ambiguity of YouTube support, especially when monetized accounts linked to AdSense are involved.
And they should definitely not be forced to fight this battle alone.
@TeamYouTube please fix this.
@YouTube@YouTubeCreators@nealmohan
#HumanReviewNeeded #YouTubeAIWrongedCreators #CreatorsDeserveTransparency
I need your help! Creators, viewers, anyone reading this — RT this and share your story in the comments.
This is happening to too many of us.
@TeamYouTube, please make things right!
#YouTubeAIWrongedCreators @nealmohan@BrodyFoxx@FinalVerdictYT@bjr2730@90bluerose12@hemanta_rijal@thedarkarchive4@Saybiggaming@niokanal@niallniallyt
We need to talk about what’s happening to creators on YouTube 🤬.
Too many channels are being terminated by AI moderation with: 🤖
• No warnings
• No timestamps
• No examples
• Appeals rejected in minutes
This isn’t “policy enforcement.”
This is automation destroying livelihoods.
I’m one of those creators.
My channel, “Factomix,” was terminated for “Spam & Deceptive Practices”
even though I: • never used bots
• never bought views
• never reused content
• never ran another channel
And when I asked for the reason? Support gave me different explanations all contradicting each other.
If YouTube itself can’t clearly explain the violation,
how can a creator prove their innocence?
This isn’t just my problem anymore.
It’s a threat to every small and mid-size creator.
@TeamYouTube@YouTube@nealmohan
We need fairness, transparency, and real human review.
Channel: Factomix
🔗 https://t.co/1yNvczFEr0
If you believe creators deserve better, please like & repost.
#YouTubeAI
#WrongfulTermination
#CreatorsDeserveFairReview
#RestoreFactomix