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YouTube Just Killed My Channel

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The speaker describes a severe crisis where YouTube's automated systems falsely targeted him and hundreds of other anime reaction channels with mass copyright strikes and demonetization. Initially, he believed his channel was safe because it only received 13 strikes compared to others that faced termination, but the situation escalated when his AdSense account was rejected due to alleged "misleading family content" issues. This specific accusation arose despite the creator explicitly marking his videos as not made for children and showing his face in mature content, leading to a complete loss of revenue for both of his channels which are linked to the same payment account. The speaker expresses deep frustration that resolving these false flags required his video about the issue to go viral with millions of views before YouTube would even acknowledge the problem or reverse the decisions. The core argument presented is that YouTube's AI algorithms are flawed and disproportionately affecting creators in the animation and anime niches, often flagging innocent content as inappropriate for families simply because it features characters like Bugs Bunny or SpongeBob. The speaker highlights the absurdity of the platform's response, noting that even when he provided proof of false claims—such as a video titled with the word "bleach" being wrongly flagged against a cleaning product—he received no help from human reviewers. Instead, YouTube only responded after public pressure mounted, offering generic articles rather than direct assistance, which the creator compares to wrestling Hulk Hogan for approval. He points out that many other large channels have suffered similar fates, with some receiving plaques while their channels were simultaneously taken down by the same automated system. Beyond the technical failures, the video emphasizes the devastating human impact of these policies on creators who rely on YouTube as their primary source of income to support their families. The speaker shares personal details about his struggles, including sleepless nights and mental exhaustion, while criticizing Google's massive revenue generation against the backdrop of creators being treated like "peasants" with no direct line to a human being. He argues that the lack of transparency and the inability to contact real people for appeals is essentially torture for those whose livelihoods are at stake, especially given that Alphabet generated hundreds of billions in revenue while these individuals face existential threats to their careers. The narrative concludes with a threat of legal action if his channel is not remonetized by a specific date, as he refuses to accept the current treatment and demands respect and a fair review process from the platform.
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You thought it was over, huh? Nothing is over. It only got worse. As you can see over here, I went to war with YouTube for the past 12 days. It all started with my channel will be deleted in 7 days. Dear YouTube. And then my channel will be deleted today, which was the one that kind of went viral. And yes, I used those channels in the thumbnail as clickbait. [ __ ] deal with it. By the way, I just want to say one channel specifically in that picture still hasn't said a single thing about this entire situation. It's not Flexi Jay. It's not Rice and Ginger. And it's not your boy Roshi, it's someone else. But maybe I'll save that for another time. Hundreds of reaction channels, mostly if not all, were in the anime niche. They were all targeted with mass false copyright strike takedowns by an AI. Some channels getting hundreds of strikes. Others getting lucky like myself only getting 13 strikes. Yeah, guys, only 13. You know what that's like? Saying, "A nuke didn't destroy my city. It only destroyed my town." No big deal. We'll be fine. And for those that still don't notice, all you need is three strikes and you're out. But because my video over here went viral, 1.4 million views, massive channels like Moist Critical picking it up, it's safe to say for now the reaction channels are fine. Whether you like it or not, everybody that got a strike, it was removed or it will be removed. Remember this channel right here, Rice and Ginger? Their channel was supposed to be terminated, but because the whole situation got viral and I made a video about it, they're back to uploading as if nothing happened. With all of these wins, I was ready to run through my house butt ass naked, my balls bouncing all over the place with sparklers in my mouth. And then I get a lovely email saying this. Your AdSense account wasn't approved. You need to fix some issues before you can use AdSense. Oh, I'll give you something to fix. So, you know what that means, guys? Nicholas Light TV. I'm no longer monetized on this platform for both of my channels. So, let me take you back for a little bit to give you the context of the situation and why it might have happened or why I initially thought it happened when this whole false copyright strike situation was happening. I'm not going to lie, guys. Believe it or not, I was panicking. Who wouldn't? I have two channels both connected to the same AdSense account. And if you don't know what AdSense is, it's how YouTubers get paid. It's how we run ads on our videos. So if one channel goes down, they both go down. And my channel, Nicholas Dark TV, was the channel with 13 strikes. If that channel got terminated, Nicholas Light TV, the channel you're watching this on right now, would be gone, too. So in a panic, I unlin AdSense account from Nicholas Light TV. I wanted to create a new one, a separate one that's not linked to my other channel. Let's just say I wish I could go back in time, smash that [ __ ] laptop in half that I was using and smack myself in the face with my own [ __ ] because oh boy, what do you know? This process is near impossible. You would have a better chance wrestling Hulk Hogan tonight than getting approved for this process. I waited a week for this process just to get this email saying I wasn't approved. Oh, and by the way, YouTube wasn't really replying to me to help me with the situation. You know what they were doing? They were sending me articles. How about you tell me what the [ __ ] problem is? Anyways, with all that aside, I originally thought it was because I had duplicate AdSense accounts, but I WAS TOLD LATER ON, a week later, that if that was the problem, they would have told me. So, you know what I did before I learned that information through chat GPT? I deleted my other AdSense account on my second channel. I said, you know what? I'm just going to put both channels on this new AdSense. There's only one AdSense with my name now. Let's just use this new one. Let's just start over. Whatever. If one channel gets terminated, both get terminated. Well, I just want I just want to get paid. So, now both accounts got rejected. Right now, I'm not earning any money on any of my content. There are no ads on my videos. And by the way, this is my job if you did not know that. Still, to this day, right now, as I'm making this video, 8:00 a.m. on September 13th, 2026, I have still not been helped. It's been almost 2 weeks. You know why? Because I'm not Mr. Beast. There is no direct contact with this [ __ ] platform. You'd have a better chance getting in contact with Jesus Christ himself. Getting him to collab with you on a video than talking to a real person that can actually help on YouTube. And when you finally get a response from YouTube 24 hours later, nothing they say helps. Unironically, y'all are not going to believe this. Chad GPT helps me out more with these problems than YouTube themselves. And what do you know? I'm not the only one going through this. I want you to take a look at this channel right over here. Tommy NFG with a banner that says Tommy is fine. Tommy is not fine. Almost 900,000 subscribers. And if you look right here, he's been making content for almost 10 years. Come on, guys. Play this game with me. What do you think happened to good old Tommy? YouTube's AI is targeting me. I HAVE PROOF. OH, WOW. WHAT IS THAT IN THE BACKGROUND? YouTube sent him a plaque while they're using AI to take down his channel. It's almost as if they don't know what the [ __ ] they're doing. Huh? [sighs] Ladies and gentlemen, my channel has been fully demonetized and has lost all monetization [music] status. And out of all days to do it, you do it on 9/11. YouTube >> on 9/11. Well, that makes sense when this guy over here is monetized. Well, what do you know? YouTube's AI is back at it again, baby. Like [ __ ] Team Rocket. You just can't get rid of it. YouTube's 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 take down. So, I just want to note this real quick. This channel played by all the rules. Never got detention, A+ 100s on every test student, and he's still dealing with this [ __ ] [ __ ] 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. Wow. So, there's actual human beings that work there. My channel clearly does not advertise to young miners intentionally or unintentionally for sexual content or violence. I am asking YouTube to please have a human review [laughter] human reviewer. Come on, bro. Check this clear false demonetization. And oh, wait, wait a minute. LOOK, YOUTUBE RESPONDED. OH [ __ ] OH MY GOSH. WOW. GOLLY, they're going to help little Tommy over here. If you think your channel was removed from the YouTube partner program by mistake, you could check the earn tab in YouTube Studio and follow the instructions on how to appeal. That's like saying if you want to go outside, go outside. Totally understand how important it is to get your monetization back up and running. You don't understand, [ __ ] You could find more info here article. You could take that article and shove it up your [ __ ] ass. So, as you can see right here, Tommy links this picture. Your channel is not currently able to earn. And it actually gave him a reason, believe it or not. misleading family content. So, you know when you upload a video, you have to click a bunch of boxes and do a bunch of [ __ ] in order to get that video up. There's a setting you're hit with right away that asks you if your content is made for kids or it's not made for kids. Me, Tommy, most likely all of the channels watching this, we all have that no box checked. Meaning, our content is not specifically made for children. When you get demonetized or taken down for misleading family content, it doesn't make any [ __ ] sense whatsoever. Content that targets young minors and families, but contains sexual themes, violence, obscene, or other mature themes not suitable for young audiences, is not allowed on YouTube. In addition to your titles, description, and tags, ensure your audience selection matches the audience your content is suitable for. They're telling you if you want to avoid that whole misleading family content tag. If you want to avoid demonetization, make sure you mark your video as such. But it LOOKS LIKE THAT'S NOT ENOUGH because YouTube's AI recognizes this channel and many other animation, anime, cartoon channels. YouTube sees Bugs Bunny over here, Spongebob. They think this is all goooo gaga [ __ ] and their AI system automatically flags it, which makes no sense at all because none of this content was marked for children. And if you clicked on any of these videos and actually watch the content like YouTube's terms of service requires you to do in order to demonetize a channel or to take down a video, you would see that this is all mature content and it wasn't marked for kids. This is why it was like pulling teeth trying to get a response from YouTube to help all of the reaction channels out. For us, an AI system was taking down all of our videos just because the word bleach was in the title. It took down a disc cleaner website named Bleach Bit. It took down a Clorox video on YouTube. And guess what? When we showed proof of this, YouTube still agreed with the claimant and said the strikes were valid. But because my video went viral, they had no other choice but to fix the [ __ ] problem. So why would this situation be any different when they're using an AI system to take down channels themselves? I wouldn't be surprised if they hired Eric Green from Remove Your Media themselves. MAKE HIM THE [ __ ] CEO at this point. You see this guy right here? That's the CEO of YouTube. I bet he's not even a REAL PERSON. HEY, GROCK, MAKE A [ __ ] IDIOT. And there you go. You got the CEO of YouTube. Wait a minute. You thought it stopped there? Look at this tweet that was sent out on August 8th. YouTube AI is demonetizing animators, anime content creators, and more. [music] >> [music] >> These are just channels that I found within 10 minutes of research that got taken down because of this AI system. Olamasama, which makes videos similar to Tommy. His channel got demonetized. I would appreciate any repost, likes, shares, or anything really. I'm tired of tweeting about this stuff. Team YouTube, I am still requesting a human to review my channel manually. My channel does not fall under misleading family content. So, as you can see, he got his channel demonetized for the same reason Tommy got demonetized. Misleading family content when he checks the box saying, "No, this is not for kids." Oh, but guess what? He only has 124 likes on his tweet. And this was tweeted almost a month ago. Yeah, YouTube doesn't give a [ __ ] You [ __ ] peasant. This channel right here with almost 900,000 subscribers, too. Codeame super. YouTube's AI system continues to mishandle my appeal. They are objectively incorrect. Proof. Since September 2nd, this guy was tweeting out all of his problems with YouTube, not helping him at all. And what do you see right there? Misleading family content. YouTube not responding or helping him out whatso [ __ ] ever. Day five and I still never got my appeal review feedback through Studio and I can keep applying. There's no way I'm getting an actual human. We are officially on day seven. Video up. Hopefully, we can get a human over at YouTube to look at this in its entirety. Yeah, YouTube. You know, the creators that you're sending your 100,000 subscriber plaques to, maybe you should have a human help him out. Over a week passed and guess what? I got news today. Someone at YouTube finally has probably reviewed my channel and I've gotten remonetized. Wow. It only took almost 10 [ __ ] days. It's almost as if it was all [ __ ] to begin with. And by the way, like I said, these were only a few channels that I found in 10 minutes. If you search the word demonetized or YouTube AI, it's like an endless list of channels that were affected by this [ __ ] I got to take this hoodie off for what I'm about to say. [ __ ] sweating dick in this room, man. So, just like my viral video was a call to action to YouTube and we actually saw some change. This video is a call to action to YouTube. Respect your creators. When we have a problem, you need to give us a direct line of contact with a human reviewer. We shouldn't have to make a viral [ __ ] video for you to fix our issues. What about the videos or the tweets with two likes? I Googled how much Google makes and what do you know? Google gave me an AI overview. In the most recent full fiscal year, Google's parent company, Alphabet, GENERATED A HISTORIC 402 BILLION IN ANNUAL REVENUE. Hey YouTube, guess what? A lot of my haters, they need jobs. How about you hire them? Hire more people. I don't know if you noticed, but YouTube for many of us is our job. It's how we take care of our families. You have a YouTuber over here named Darnell Bradley. He has a six-year-old son and you can't even give him the [ __ ] respect to give him a human review when this is his life. This is his channel. This is his job. This is how he feeds his six-year-old son. This is evil. It's demonic. It's wrong. You're just waiting for the day creators start showing up at your doorstep at your headquarters. But I bet if we all showed up, it would look like this [ __ ] picture. Either that or a [ __ ] Walmart parking lot. If you know, you know. You know what? Google AI also tells me YouTube has approximately 26,500 employees worldwide. Well, I know that's a [ __ ] lie. You know what YouTube feels like? Game of Thrones. We're living in flea bottom. We are the pores. YouTube, they're in the [ __ ] castle. They don't give a damn what happens on the outside. We shouldn't have to wait and wait and wait for a response from a human reviewer. And then when we finally get a response, there's no help. There's no explanation. I'm going to be honest with you guys. This is torture. It's mental draining. Yesterday, my wife went out to see her family. I was home alone and I'm not going to lie, for probably 20 minutes, I was screaming. I finally got in contact with YouTube live support. And as I was typing, they closed the [ __ ] chat on me and they even took my ability to chat with them again away from me. I'm not going to lie, guys. It was 9/11. Let's just say I was thinking 9/11 things. What the [ __ ] is going on? What is this [ __ ] I've never heard of this in my life. So, here's what I'm going to say. If my channel is not remonetized by October 13th, that's a month from now, I'll be taking legal action. Just like I dealt with the whole copyright strike situation and I brought all of these channels justice, whether they want to admit it or not, because they're enslaved by their communities and they're afraid to say my name. You know, I find it funny the second I start calling YouTube out, I start running into problems with my monetization. It's almost as if they're teaching me a lesson. Well, I'm going to teach you a lesson right back. Don't [ __ ] with my money or anybody else's money. You need to give us a valid reason why. You need to help us out. And trust me, you're going to help me out. Before I go, I just want to have a quick little conversation with my audience. I see a lot of people asking me, "When am I going to get back to normal? When am I going to upload my reactions again?" I'm going to be honest with you guys. I just don't give a [ __ ] right now. This has really been affecting me. I feel like I haven't slept in two [ __ ] weeks. When I fix one problem, another 10 problems pop up. If you want to support me, check out my Patreon. Hopefully, there's something on there that you enjoy. I post on there daily. That's honestly the only way you guys can help me out personally. I mean, it's the only way I'm getting paid right now. And if you don't want to help me out financially, your support on videos like this by liking it, commenting on it, it really helps because it gets the message out there even more. Right now, I'm struggling. I'm not going to lie. I'm not going to lie. Through all of this [ __ ] these commentary videos where I'm just talking [ __ ] and ranting and letting out my rage, it's been really helping me, especially during these times. So, if you don't see a reaction from me in a week or two weeks or a month, like y'all just going to have to deal with it at this point. I have thousands upon thousands of reaction videos on my channel. Times are different right now and I need to change with the times. I have to adapt and overcome. I will not perish. And yeah, that's pretty much it. I'm sure there's going to be follow-up videos to this just like the last situation. I love you guys. Scionata.