Hello @TeamYouTube, my channel teaches step-by-step homemade DIY projects, like “How to Make a Cricket Ball at Home,” and every video features a different original project. However, your automated system marked my channel as “inauthentic content.” link: https://t.co/UrwhYTdqFC
PLEASE REPOST MY STORY
It's been 25 days since I got demonitized.
I'm a biochemist with a degree in nutritional biochemistry. I built Senior Insight from nothing and reached 23k subscribers, my videos stood out because of the value behind each one where I made folks actually LEARN how their body works and not just apply the advice.
Every single video starts with me personally reading clinical studies. Every word of every script is mine. Every video has over 150 manually edited scenes. I reply to my senior community every single day answering their health questions.
@TeamYouTube demonetized my channel for inauthentic content 25 days ago.
My first appeal was rejected in hours. Nobody watched my evidence video. Nobody read my research. Nobody looked at my edit timelines. An automated system made a decision about my entire livelihood and nobody questioned it. Wasn't the research in each description and replies to EVERY comment not proof that I'm authentic and love my community?
I submitted a second appeal with an unlisted video of me in my lab coat walking through my research papers, my clinical sources, my script drafts, and my full editing timeline scene by scene and It was never watched.
@TeamYouTube then reached out personally, confirmed my case was escalated for manual review, and told me they were still looking into it.
That was 10 days ago. I'm still waiting.
I haven't slept properly in 25 days. My physical health has suffered. My masters exams are coming. My family depends on me and this channel is my entire livelihood and it was taken away without a single human being actually looking at it.
I'm not asking for sympathy. I'm asking for one thing, a real human to open my channel, watch my welcome video, read my channel description, and look at the work I have done.
@TeamYouTube@YouTubeCreators@YouTube@nealmohan@reneritchie you confirmed this review yourselves. Please finish it.
To every creator who has supported me through this @Nina7Infinity @Thatumbrellaguy @annaellis_net@MovieTalkNOW1@soulmatereading@RightSandy thank you from the bottom of my heart. You gave a stranger your voice when I needed it the most.
@AydinPaladin as a fellow researcher and someone who went through the same issue, it's my dream to get a PhD and all of the revenue I make goes into my savings for it, so it will mean the world to me if you can share my story once more, Rebecca.
And to every creator who their battle, please help me win mine cause you know how hard is all of this @adamfrancisco_@DarkGiftComics@real_Monumental@ridethetiamat@HakariAltAcc@TemplarsRoar@Sugar_Tits_Bear@siniviere
If you believe creators deserve fair treatment, please repost this.
✅Remonetization Breakdown for “Misleading Family Content” violation.
Here’s exactly what I did to get remonetized.
I run a dinosaur gaming channel. Removed 150+ videos, reworked thumbnails, rewrote titles — and it worked. If your channel got flagged, this is for you:
✅ Delete violent content
Removed 150+ videos — dino vs human, battle compilationss, anything aggressive. (Same applies for channels running GTA, BeamNG, RDR or other action oriented games)
✅ Blur or cut sensitive footage
Blood, animal vs NPC scenes — blur everything.
✅ Rewrite titles
Avoid words like: Animation · Hunting · Death · Kill · Brutal
✅ Add a disclaimer
Include one in every video (template in the first comment, please customize it, don’t copy-paste).
✅ Redo thumbnails
No blood, no hunting, no explosions, no horror characters like Zombies, etc., — keep it clean but engaging.
✅ Clean up tags
Follow the same keyword rules as titles.
✅ Update channel branding
Revise logo + About section. Add a channel-level disclaimer.
Do all 7 — your chances improve significantly. I spent my entire 90 days doing all the quality changes and it worked out. I hope it works out for you as well, stay positive and stay strong.
Like and Retweet to help others facing this issue. Thank you.
#YouTubeMonetization #CreatorTips #GamingYouTube #YTDemonetization
YouTube deleted my 270k+ gaming channel AGAIN AFTER RESTORING IT! @TeamYouTube
Here is what happened:
March 4. My channel was demonetized for “Harmful content involving minors.” My appeal was rejected.
About a month later, the reason suddenly changed to “Misleading family content.” Support could not explain how or why this happened.
April 8. My channel was permanently removed for “spam, fraud, and deception policies.” My appeal was rejected and the decision was said to be final.
I want to be clear: I did not engage in spam, fraud, or deceptive practices.
My channel was focused on animation and gaming content based on a popular music game. I created original animations, character content, Scratch mods, and gameplay videos.
According to YouTube’s policies, violations include misleading users, spam, scams, or manipulation.
None of this applies to my content. I truly believe this is a mistake.
April 15. After contacting support, my channel was restored.
April 20. My channel was removed AGAIN for the same reason.
Honestly, I don’t understand how this is possible.
Why restore a channel and then delete it again?
What is happening to the platform?
I respectfully ask @TeamYouTube to manually review my channel and this situation.
URL: https://t.co/GPdohzNtBA
⚠️IMPORTANT READ: If YouTube doesn’t solve its AI problem quickly, we won’t have many human creators left. (+ research insights)
If you’re wondering why it feels like you’re seeing more AI content, and why human creators seem to be disappearing, here are the numbers from a real study by Goldberg and Lam. They analyzed what happened to the stock image market after generative AI was introduced. I’ve added an image showing what the data looked like month by month.
Every single month after AI entered the market, 1 in 4 creators exited because the economics stopped working for them.
Now, it wasn’t bad for everyone.
Total consumption on the platform went up by 39% per month. But sales of human-made content dropped every month.
The platform won.
The buyers won.
The human creators… didn’t.
Think about what that would look like on YouTube.
AI can already generate scripts, voiceovers, thumbnails, talking-head videos, and entire channels at a fraction of the cost and time it takes a human creator to produce a single video. The algorithm doesn’t care whether a video was made by a person who spent three days filming and editing or by a system that generated it in 20 minutes.
This isn’t about being anti-AI. AI helps a lot of creators improve their output.
But it is about protecting the type of content people actually want to watch.
And I’m not just talking about removing AI slop.
I’m talking about making sure human-driven channels are protected and prioritized over AI-driven content.
The stock image market already ran the experiment that YouTube hasn’t fully felt yet. Don't ignore that.
Here’s my ask to one person: @nealmohan
I know you’ve seen some of my work (algorithm, platform changes, etc). I respect what you’re doing for the platform, but this is your moment to stand for human creators. It’s time to put public effort into protecting them.
Not just AI labeling or low-lift solutions, they don't solve the problem in a meaningful way. No, we need a genuine, real, and public effort to preserve what YouTube was built on.
You’re one of the few people in a position to set a precedent for every platform.
Let’s talk.
For those interested in the actual research, check out Samuel G. Goldberg and H. Tai Lam's paper called "Generative AI In Equilibrium: Evidence From A Creative Goods Marketplace"
What I did was contact YouTube Help Support, and I really pushed them to turn my monetization back on. Because there are even channels that clearly have example videos violating the rules, yet their monetization suddenly got turned back on even though they didn’t delete those violating videos.
I kept pushing until they brought in someone they called a “support specialist supervisor.” And because I kept insisting, they eventually ended my chat support session with them. But after that, I received an email from that supervisor saying that I had to wait 90 days. However, this time, at the bottom of the email, there was a note saying:
“We’ve shared some helpful resources with you, and we really encourage you to take a look at those.”
Not long after that, I got a DM from the YouTube team on X. The message said:
“Misleading family content is content that, intentionally or unintentionally, could attract young minors and families but contains mature themes such as sexual content or violence. An example of this is content that takes characters that children know and love (animated or live action).”
Then they gave me two of my videos that violated the policy. After I checked, both videos were from a game called Stupidella, which contains characters like Teletubbies and Masha and the Bear.
So my conclusion is that the videos causing our channels to get demonetized are those that contain characters loved by children, or videos that are considered appealing to kids. That’s probably why many animation channels are getting demonetized.
I don’t know exactly how it works, but I suggest you delete videos that contain children’s characters like SpongeBob, Peppa Pig, Rainbow Friends, Mickey Mouse, etc. I even deleted Roblox and Sprunki videos because I was worried they might be considered appealing to kids. I also removed games with mascot horror characters like Garten of Banban and Poppy Playtime.
If you can’t delete them, at least check your descriptions, titles, and tags. Make sure there are no cartoon character names or anything that could attract children.
My advice for animation channels: avoid making characters that are too cute or have overly cute voices but honestly, I’m not too sure about animation channels.
Thank you so much for all your support. I hope all of our channels’ monetization can return as soon as possible.
Thank you everyone for your support i got remonetized
IDK what helped but heres everything i did
Posted everyday for 22 days on twitter (no human reply)
Gac complaint (still under process)
Direct emails (got bot rejections)
Video appeal (rejected)
Deleted 60% videos