Joe Reframe retweeted
Youtubes AI decided to completely demonetize my main channel for "misleading family content". My videos have never been put as "made for kids" nor do I advertise my channel as such. I've seen this happen with animation channels before, but I literally SHOW MY FACE in my videos. I've had my channel for over 9 years and I've rarely even had age restrictions or videos taken down.
What's odd about this is I've even had partner managers in the past I've communicated with. I've met partner managers IN REAL LIFE at creator cons and events. My channel clearly does not advertise to young minors intentionally or unintentionally for "sexual content or violence" like wtf😭?
I am asking youtube to please have a Human Reviewer check this clear false demonetization @TeamYouTube @YouTubeCreators @YouTube
Joe Reframe retweeted
The problem is, YouTube's current detection system is exceptionally flawed, thousands of creators such as myself lost everything because these detection systems falsely flagged content as mass-produced and you don't give us a chance to prove it wrong.
Joe Reframe retweeted
We are going to sue YouTube
But before we do, our lawyer is currently in the process of sending a letter to YouTube.
Over 2 weeks ago our channel youtube.com/@UnderSparked was falsely demonetized under the "inauthentic content" policy.
Demonetized doesn't mean no ads though, all it means is YouTube will still run ads on the videos. But they pocket all the revenue, essentially stripping all the revenue from us.
We don't claim to be the pinnacle of quality content standards, but the following things do cause us to scratch our heads in confusion
1. All of the bigger channels in the same niche as us are monetized with no issues
2. We literally voice act, edit, etc, all our own videos while 100s of AI storytelling channels are still monetized
3. YouTube is fine with running ads on the videos, pocketing all the revenue. We assume if YouTube had such a big problem with the content, why still serve it to your advertisers?
4. 100s of reaction channels still stay monetized
Some examples of bigger monetized channels that are in the same niche as us are:
rSlash: youtube.com/@rSlash
DarkFluff: youtube.com/@DarkFluff
Oz's Vault: youtube.com/channel/UCoJ1Anu…
We support these channels, the reason we are providing these channels as examples is to showcase how it feels like we're being targeted.
This has caused extreme distress for my team and I. Many of our livelihoods and families rely on this channel. Our community relies on the UnderSparked channel.
Many people support the UnderSparked channel because in a time of nonstop AI channels, we stepped up and used real voice actors to cater to that connection and community that viewers on YouTube crave.
We truly believe this demonetization was done in error, all we want is a real human specialist to help us fix the issue.
We're tired of constantly receiving only copy and pasted templated responses, constantly neglecting/dismissing our attempts at fixing the false demonetization.
We're kindly requesting for a representative from @TeamYouTube to help us fix this demonetization issue with our channel.
We don't want to send letters, or sue, or anything! We simply just want to go back to producing content for our community.