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1.000.000.000+ long-form views

[EXPERT @expertqq]

My monthly losses from the disabled monetization feature amount to approximately $40,000-$50,000.

Not to mention the frozen funds ($40,000+) that YouTube is holding and will most likely not return to me. Since, two weeks later, not a single real person has contacted me.

I still have to pay salaries, and I'll keep paying them because I'm not going to destroy everything I've spent so long building. We'll get through this somehow.

Most channels have been active for over 3-4 years without a single violation, yet YouTube can disable monetization without warning and even take away a whole month's worth of honestly earned money.

Thanks, guys, for the excellent service and how you treat your creators. This is exactly the level of communication you'd expect from a corporation with $60 billion in annual revenue.

@TeamYouTube @YouTubeInsider

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@SacredBricks they said me about "couple of days" and I'm still waiting (more than 1 month)

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@SacredBricks @TeamYouTube yo @TeamYouTube

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@ReallyJobless same

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@SacredBricks @TeamYouTube how they disabled your channel wtf...

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@stevenyjsong Congrats!! Finally!

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@ReallyJobless same

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@stevenyjsong same lmao

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YouTube is breaking insane revenue records for 2025 - $60 billion..

But instead of making creators lives easier or rolling out useful updates, they're leaving the platform to a broken AI moderation system, turning our lives into a nightmare.

This "Inauthentic Content" wave must stop.

[EXPERT @expertqq]

@javilopen when will they stop this ai-moderation madness...

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@ecom_mkt It's much harder than it seems

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If anyone is interested in an update on my situation regarding "Inauthentic Content" and the demonetization of 8 channels:

All channels are still without monetization, except for one where the appeal was accepted.

Keep in mind that the first channel was disabled back on March 26. My losses from this whole situation amount to approximately $100,000.

I still haven't received any response from YouTube, and my MCN hasn't received a response from YouTube either. YouTube support basically ignoring us.

By the way, TeamYouTube messaged me on X 3 weeks ago and said they'd opened a case for me - but in the end, I was told that I already had another case open and that I needed to wait for a response to that one. Do I even need to mention that I've been waiting for a response to that other case for a month now?

@TeamYouTube @YouTubeCreators

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@zdy2vf Hang in there, we'll get through this

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@byreOG I reposted it on another channel

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@FrameBlockYT That's too bad to hear, because I understand that animation is one of the most challenging types of content out there. I hope you manage to get your monetization back

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@Abdikad478850 I don't want to leave..

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@urban_studio_yt yep, we need to fight

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@Extfsss almost impossible

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I appreciate the detailed feedback, but I have to disagree with the premises here.

1. You claim YouTube is losing money because of retention hacking, yet 2025 showed record-breaking revenues ($60B+). If the audience were truly leaving due to retention hacking, we wouldn't see such aggressive growth.

2. What you call retention hacking is simply professional production value. 99% of top creators, from MrBeast to Airrack, use these exact pacing and editing techniques. To penalize some for it while celebrating others is the definition of a double standard.

3. Criticizing Minecraft content for fake moments is like criticizing Pixar for using scripts. Channels like Aphmau or Maizen (with tens of millions of subs) or Cash and Nico or Milo and Chop have proven that this is the established storytelling format for this audience.

4. If YouTube is funding its own AI-generated kids content, then the Inauthentic content isn't about quality or smth. Why is it innovation when a corporation does it, but slop when an independent studio uses the same tools to provide for a team of 30? YouTube simply wants to boost its profits even further and tap into one of the most lucrative niches - kids content.

[EXPERT @expertqq]

I get the skepticism towards automation, but there's a massive gap between AI-generated slop and our production.

My team is 30+ real people: artists, minecraft content-creators (blockbuster mod), scriptwriters, and editors. We build every video from scratch. In a niche where it's often tempting to chase views with horror-bait or weird romantic themes, we've made a conscious choice to stick to family-friendly videos.

Calling manual creative labor inauthentic just because it's optimized for a format is a joke. Where does this gatekeeping end? It's easy to judge from the sidelines, but dismissing a legitimate business model just because it doesn't fit your aesthetic is pure elitism. We're talking about Minecraft and SHORTS.

Also, can we stop labeling everyone with multiple channels as an automation owner? If managing a large team and a complex pipeline is automation, then every animation studio in Hollywood is an automation business. There's no slop in providing jobs for 30 people and grinding every day.

[Oliver Gilpin @oligilpin]

Inauthentic is, it seems, YouTube's phrase for demonetizing slop.

To automation channel owners:
Try to serve your viewers instead of to get views. That may help prevent you wasting your life building a channel that gets demonetized.

Putting you back to desperate entrepreneur square one.

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@stevenyjsong really great video, my full support here

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@ErnieC3_ @KreekCraft @DaRealMiniToon @CWA congratss!!