Slurpy retweeted
YouTube is stealing $200,000 from me every single month!
Over the last year, my team and I built a gaming channel network that generated over 100 million long-form views every month.
Then overnight, my two best performing channels were removed.
Not demonetized. Completely removed off the platform.
For the last 3 months, I've been in constant contact with YouTube trying to understand why.
One person told me it was circumvention.
Another said it was spam and deceptive practices.
Two different explanations.
One situation.
Not one clear answer.
How are creators supposed to learn from mistakes when the platform itself can't consistently explain what the mistake even was?
That's the real issue.
Complete lack of transparency.
Somewhere along the way, YouTube's automated moderation systems became the judge, jury, and executioner.
A channel gets flagged.
A decision gets made.
Years of work disappear overnight.
And the people affected are left with little more than an automated email and a generic appeal process.
This used to be a platform where creators could focus on entertaining audiences and building communities.
Now many creators live in fear, wondering when a random demonetization, restriction, or termination might hit their channel next.
And this isn't just a hobby anymore.
This pays mortgages.
This feeds families.
This supports my team of 25+ people.
Editors.
Designers.
Actors.
Real people who have spent the last 3 months waiting for answers alongside me.
Instead, we've received automated responses and copy-and-paste emails.
Creators wait weeks for a real human, and when we finally get one, the answers often raise more questions than they solve.
Nobody should have to gamble their livelihood on vague policy enforcement and automated support systems.
Nobody should spend months trying to decode conflicting answers from different representatives.
And nobody should lose years of work without receiving a clear explanation why.
I know I'm not alone in this.
If you've been demonetized, shadowbanned, age-restricted, suspended, or terminated without a real explanation, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
We're forced to play guessing games with appeals because YouTube refuses to communicate clearly.
Making this post is my last resort.
Not because I want sympathy.
Because I want answers.
And because thousands of other creators are dealing with the exact same problem.
If you've experienced something similar, tag @TeamYouTube.
Because creators deserve answers!
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Slurpy retweeted
@TeamYouTube @YouTube this is actual insanity. 2 of my channels fully demonetized out of the blue for "harmful content involving minors" are we serious I literally play roblox with face cam and commentate over it that's LITERALLY IT. I DONT even SWEAR In my videos..
Im not even upset about losing the money, I have people who work for me who NEED to get paid and who depend on me. without monetization there's no work for them and they cant get paid. currently paying the team out of pocket because its not there fault but this is absolutely unacceptable how my literal livelihood can be destroyed by some youtube AI software garbage.
if someone at youtube can help me with this I would be very grateful!
Slurpy retweeted
@TeamYouTube two of my channels have been wrongfully kicked out of the YouTuber Partner Program for a rule I didn't even break and have been chatting with youtube support for over 3 days now with zero help at all. using this as a last chance to get someone to help fix this.
Slurpy retweeted
Can you explain why my channel got demonitized for harmful content when there is no content at all on it? Literally no videos, shorts, livestreams, posts, nothing but it got demonitized for having harmful content when there is nothing there.
By the way this happened once again so that is 3 channels with zero content tjat got demonitized for harmful content.
Slurpy retweeted
How many tweets is it gonna take for @YouTube to change something about this?
This is like a next level of insane. About 1-2 months ago I started getting demonetized for Harmful Content involving minors on my Sonic YouTube channels. Now because there was NO minors at all involved, I was able to get the first one back after deleting some videos for "policy violations"
Then about 2 weeks later, 3 other of my channels under the same branding got demonetized for the same reason and the YouTube safety team told me I was expected to know what content was Harmful Content when they literally couldn't tell me themselves. So I once again deleted some content that I had to try and guess was "violative". So I worked on getting those back through my partner manager.
But while those were in the process, 3 more channels on the same day all got demonetized with the reasoning being, "Suspended due to related channel".
One of them was not even related to Sonic and to my understanding from the YouTube Team and what they have told is all Sonic content is now misleading kids content and myself and many others were getting demonetized so I figured its just the Sonic stuff so now I can continue YouTube without doing Sonic stuff. Well no because now I was completely suspended from the partner program so anything new I was trying to start regardless of it not being Sonic was denied from monetization.
So in order to get reinstated and continue doing YouTube (not Sonic related) I had to delete ALL of my videos since they were "violative content". Once I deleted 1,000+ videos across all the Sonic channels I got reinstated.
I thought everything was good even though it made no sense and I could move on, but now I was just demonetized for the SAME REASON "Harmful Content involving Minors" when there is NO CONTENT AT ALL on the channel since I literally deleted EVERYTHING.
make it make sense @TeamYouTube
Attached are the screenshots of the EMPTY channels with ZERO content that got demonetized just now.
This is like a next level of insane. About 1-2 months ago I started getting demonetized for Harmful Content involving minors on my Sonic YouTube channels. Now because there was NO minors at all involved, I was able to get the first one back after deleting some videos for "policy violations"
Then about 2 weeks later, 3 other of my channels under the same branding got demonetized for the same reason and the YouTube safety team told me I was expected to know what content was Harmful Content when they literally couldn't tell me themselves. So I once again deleted some content that I had to try and guess was "violative". So I worked on getting those back through my partner manager.
But while those were in the process, 3 more channels on the same day all got demonetized with the reasoning being, "Suspended due to related channel".
One of them was not even related to Sonic and to my understanding from the YouTube Team and what they have told is all Sonic content is now misleading kids content and myself and many others were getting demonetized so I figured its just the Sonic stuff so now I can continue YouTube without doing Sonic stuff. Well no because now I was completely suspended from the partner program so anything new I was trying to start regardless of it not being Sonic was denied from monetization.
So in order to get reinstated and continue doing YouTube (not Sonic related) I had to delete ALL of my videos since they were "violative content". Once I deleted 1,000+ videos across all the Sonic channels I got reinstated.
I thought everything was good even though it made no sense and I could move on, but now I was just demonetized for the SAME REASON "Harmful Content involving Minors" when there is NO CONTENT AT ALL on the channel since I literally deleted EVERYTHING.
make it make sense @TeamYouTube
Attached are the screenshots of the EMPTY channels with ZERO content that got demonetized just now.