Jeffrey Mills

[Jeffrey Mills @jeffreymillss]

🚨 Got suspended from YouTube for “Inauthentic Content”?

I did too.

After going through the appeal process myself, I learned some hard lessons that every creator should know BEFORE submitting an appeal.

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[Jeffrey Mills @jeffreymillss]

Damn🔥🔥

[Jeffrey Mills @jeffreymillss]

@Manu_Sisti @TommiPedruzzi Ok lemme follow you

[Mario Joos @MarioJoos]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: YouTube is finally tackling its massive low-effort content issue!

As of a few days ago, YouTube has updated its new monetization guidelines to aggressively go after certain types of channels with their new “unsatisfying or off-putting content” policy.

What does the policy say?

In their policy, they define unsatisfying or off-putting content as content that relies heavily on manipulative formulas, mimic formats, and stories where the video feels interchangeable, or content designed purely to shock or surprise viewers for the sole purpose of getting views.

This is massive because this isn’t a clear rule where they say “you cannot do XYZ.” This is the type of policy where judgment comes into play.

But what kind of content will lose its footing?

The policy clearly states that it’s trying to reward channels that offer original and satisfying content.

For example, if you’re making a piece of content that uses tools such as AI to create a truly unique piece of content with a creative narrative, you’ll be fine.

However, if you’re just creating the most generic videos (think bodycam, reddit stories, etc) where your sole purpose in making those videos is to get views through their shock factor, you seem to be out of luck. Because the policy clearly states that content that heavily relies on generic templates or emotionally manipulative themes violates the guidelines.

Initially, YouTube seemed to have referred to this policy as inauthentic content, but that term is rather vague and had a lot of people confused about what that even means.

In my eyes, this is probably the first step of many for YouTube to become the platform again that we once used to love so much because of the amount of high-value content.

[Sufiyaan @_Sufiyaan]

The man behind MrBeast's thumbnails sat down with YouTube's algorithm team.

47 minutes. One conversation.

Here are the 5 lessons that will change how you think about thumbnails. 🧵

[Jeffrey Mills @jeffreymillss]

Hi @TeamYouTube kindly explain to me why “inauthentic content” has changed to “unsatisfying or off-putting content” this is nothing near to what I was flagged for, I’ve deleted tons of videos and made significant changes, I’ll be reapplying on 17th so kindly clarify this thanks

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

“bro so busy trying to not die he forgot how to live”

I’m told hundreds of times a day that I need to live a little. That I’m so busy trying to not die that I’ve forgotten to live.

The psychology powering this sentiment is the most interesting phenomenon happening on earth right now.

Every individual constructs a persona, a character to present to the world. It’s a compromise between what they are and what society demands of them. In current culture, its characteristics are the appearance of living fully, productivity, busyness, enjoying life, pleasure, spontaneity, and being unafraid.

It’s carefully constructed to shield the wearer from the terror of their inevitable death. To make this irreconcilable pain invisible to themselves, they dissolve themselves into the group and enact its rituals.

Sleep under your desk, have a drink, pull the vape, grab a fast food meal, gamble a little, stay up late to watch your favorite show, splurge some, chill out…live a little.

They are living.

At the cellular level, metabolic debt accumulates and repair mechanisms are traded for short term dopamine spikes.

But it’s done together, so it’s normal, and even desirable. No one will die alone if everyone is dying together and all agree to call it living.

The group moves in unison, comforted by the rhythmic movement. When someone declines to participate in their shared rituals, they experience it as an insult and a threat that must be attacked, discredited and mocked.

Subconsciously, they know their rituals are performative and masking something that must be suppressed. But it’s been buried so deep that it’s only a faint whisper, easily silenced by a swipe at the offender.

But then the whisper becomes a quiet voice and asks if they’re afraid. They attack the mirror because they cannot bear the reflection.

In pre-modern societies, death rituals were explicit and honest. They held a funeral, kept a mourning period, washed the body, prayed for the dead and observed burial customs. They faced death and created community rituals to metabolize the grief, fear and loss.

We no longer have death rituals. As explicit customs eroded, consumer culture monetized the void, driving our existential anxieties underground. Thanksgiving debauchery, New Year drunkenness, Halloween indulgence, the wedding open bar, the treat, splurge and cheat day. They are commercialized, camouflaged celebrations staged as group rituals to dull the shared death anxiety.

We previously faced the fear and now we gluttonize on it. Group rituals that name and face death can metabolize it. Rituals that hide from it accumulate the debt and are owned by their creditors.

When I abstain from societal death rituals, I break the spell. The anesthesia only works if everyone does it together. One abstainer reveals to the room that they are drunk.

This is the source of the anger. It’s not my decisions. It’s their reflection in the mirror.

Predictably, the collective seeks to pathologize my non-conformity. They will claim that systematic discipline is just another defense mechanism; a frantic obsession with control to escape the same existential dread. They will argue that preserving the biological vessel is a sterile exercise, a perpetual preparation for a game I refuse to play.

They misunderstand the objective.

Control is maintaining the status quo. I seek an evolutionary jailbreak. Natural selection stops maintaining us once reproduction is done. Accepting that automated slide into decrepitude isn't ‘living’, it’s passive submission to a blind algorithmic process.

I am not opposed to pleasure. I am opposed to the counterfeit. I say no to the dying ritual so that I can say yes to the full offering of consciousness: a vibrant physiological state, cognitive clarity, and deep emotional coloring. Vitality is mastery, not abuse dressed up as freedom.

The reward is a clearer lens, the ability to see what is currently invisible. High resolution consciousness allows for depths of thought, creativity, and experiential variance that are far harder to reach when the brain and body are chronically inflamed, degraded, and sedated. I want to expand the boundaries of the human experience.

On offer in this new future are things that no human has ever tasted before. I’m not deprived by the lack of participating in the rituals, I’m pointing to a joy that the human mind has not yet imagined.

I don’t intend to live a little. I intend to live more than any human who has yet lived and invite you to join me.

[Jeffrey Mills @jeffreymillss]

Congratulations bro 😎

[Zyrex Insights @ZyrexInsight]

After 92 days of doubt, stress, and depression... the game is over.

🎉 We are finally back in YouTube monetization!

First of all, thank You, God, for giving me the strength to never give up.

To everyone who supported me, encouraged me, shared my posts, and stood by me during the hardest days—thank you from the bottom of my heart.

A very special thank you to @MovieTalkNOW1 . You helped me improve my channel and never stopped believing in me. I truly appreciate everything you did.

And thank you, @TeamYouTube , for taking the time to review my channel and helping us through this journey.

The game is over.
The wait is over.

This is a new beginning. ❤️

And thank you guys @mirondo19315 @Meowbananacat @MakeJokeBazigar

[Jeffrey Mills @jeffreymillss]

@ZyrexInsight @DEV__STK Fr, I’ve been making drastic changes to mine too

[Jeffrey Mills @jeffreymillss]

@ZyrexInsight Damn, 92 days?? Sure you just had to wait to reapply right?? Congrats btw 🥳

[Jeffrey Mills @jeffreymillss]

@luna_and16 @TeamYouTube Congratulations, pls say; did you reapplied??

[Jeffrey Mills @jeffreymillss]

6/ Hard truth:

Not every suspension is a mistake.

Sometimes the channel genuinely needs improvement.

The creators who learn from the experience often come back stronger.💪

[Jeffrey Mills @jeffreymillss]

🚨 Got suspended from YouTube for “Inauthentic Content”?

I did too.

After going through the appeal process myself, I learned some hard lessons that every creator should know BEFORE submitting an appeal.

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[Jeffrey Mills @jeffreymillss]

5/ The goal isn’t to beat YouTube.

The goal is to help a reviewer understand your content creation process.

Huge difference.

Try to understand things from their perspective.. they are fighting something way bigger

[Jeffrey Mills @jeffreymillss]

@TrollFootball “SLEEP CAN WAIT” ???😂😂