A channel with over a million subscribers can’t get a clear explanation after eight months.
Imagine what options are left for the thousands of smaller creators.
YouTube sat on my appeal for 75 days.
Then I had a legal letter delivered to Google’s office in Dublin, and they answered within a week.
Their answer: my channel takes “someone else’s content” and makes “minimal changes.”
The video I showed them was written by us, presented on camera by our own host and edited by our team. No third party clips used. They couldn’t point to one video that breaks their rules.
1M+ subscribers, 8 months without monetization, and this is the review we get.
Imagine what would happen to smaller channels...
@TeamYouTube @YouTubeLiaison @nealmohan @YouTubeCreators @DigitalEU please fix this.
Another Dive retweeted
I honestly don’t know what else I can do anymore. I’m exhausted, emotionally drained, and even my family is starting to feel disappointed and worried about what happened to my channel.
For two years, I’ve dedicated so much of my time, effort, and passion to creating content on YouTube. I started with a dream, kept learning, improved my editing skills, and worked hard to build something of my own. Every video, every edit, and every milestone meant something to me. My channel wasn’t just a hobby or a source of income. It was something I built with my own hands, and a huge part of my life.
What makes this situation even more confusing is that my channel has had a clean record for years, with no copyright strikes or known Community Guidelines violations. I’ve been creating content and continuously improving my editing style, adding my own creative input, commentary, and transformative elements. I’ve always tried to follow YouTube’s policies, and this is the first time I’ve experienced something like this.
On October 9, my YPP appeal for reused content was approved, and my monetization was restored. More importantly, YouTube specifically instructed me NOT to delete my appeal video because it would be referenced in future channel reviews. I followed that instruction and kept the video, trusting that it would be useful if my channel ever faced another review.
But on October 24, my channel was demonetized again for reused content. I submitted the SAME appeal video that YouTube had previously instructed me to keep for future reviews, yet this time my appeal was rejected. I honestly cannot understand what changed between those two decisions. Was my previous appeal video actually considered? What exactly was found to be reused? Why was my appeal approved before but rejected this time?
It feels like the two years I spent building my channel disappeared overnight. This income also helped me support my family and contribute to my grandmother’s medical expenses. That’s why this situation affects more than just me. I’m worried about the people who depend on the income I worked so hard to earn.
I’ve repeatedly tried reaching out to YouTube and asking for clarification. TeamYouTube even created a case for me, #9-5624000041966, and promised an email update within 24–48 hours. However, I’ve been waiting for days without receiving the promised update. This uncertainty has affected my motivation and ability to create content. My viewers are waiting for new uploads, but I’m struggling to continue while this situation remains unresolved.
@TeamYouTube @YouTube, I’m sincerely asking you to please consider my situation. I am not asking for special treatment or asking anyone to ignore YouTube’s policies. I just want my actual content, editing process, previous appeal approval, and the improvements I’ve made to be properly considered through a genuine human review.
Please explain what happened between October 9 and October 24. Please clarify whether my previous appeal video was referenced, and if possible, identify which videos caused the reused-content decision. I also hope someone can finally provide an update on my existing case.
Behind this channel is a real person who spent two years working, sacrificing time, and trying to build a better future for his family. I don’t want everything I’ve worked for to be dismissed without a clear explanation.
To everyone who has supported me, watched my videos, and stayed with me throughout this journey, thank you. I’m still hoping someone will hear my concerns and give my channel the fair consideration it deserves. ❤️
Big or small, no channel is immune to termination.
The difference is what happens afterward.
okay @YouTube @YouTubeCreators
WHAT is happening?
My channel was wrongfully taken down a few days ago for apparently violating this same exact policy
I appealed and you reinstated it
And now you took my whole channel down AGAIN?
WHY?
This is really messing with my business.
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A creator is being told to find the evidence against himself!
except the evidence has been removed.
This is where we are with the appeals now.
In order to proceed further, @TeamYouTube is requiring me to provide the URLs for the videos in question that violated their policies
As a reminder, YouTube never told me what video(s) even triggered this (see photo #2)
YouTube is requiring me to provide nonexistent URLs (since my whole channel is nuked and no URL goes anywhere) and nonexistent videos (since they never said what video violated their policy)
I don’t even know what to do at this point
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What exactly is being reviewed here?
There is another twist to the story. The email I received today didn't even have the correct case number. YouTube DMed me and assigned a new number code to my case, saying they will stay in touch via email. Then they sent me the message below with my previous case's number code.
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Make it make sense, indeed!
🚨 Exposing YouTube's double standards.
Honestly YouTube is getting ridiculous at this point.
Creators are losing their channels over alleged policy violations without even being told exactly what went wrong. No proper explanation. No chance to fix things. Just a termination email and that's it.
But somehow YouTube can keep promoting gambling ads and questionable apps on its own platform?
So creators have to follow every single rule or risk losing years of hard work but YouTube gets to do whatever it wants?
Make it make sense.
YouTube needs to stop ignoring creators and start taking accountability for its own actions.
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Creators deserve proper reviews not generic responses. Hope @TeamYouTube looks into this.
In case you guys were wondering what the DM was.
Another automated response.
What bothers me is they didn't even check my channel or my situation.
The solution cannot be "just apply again after 90 days"
I ALREADY DID THAT
THERE IS NOTHING LEFT FOR ME TO DELETE IN MY CHANNEL!!!!
@TeamYouTube Take a proper look into my channel and dont give me an automated response!!!!
Another Dive retweeted
Hello @teamyoutube, it's been 115 days since you unfairly closed my channel, even though you continue to ignore my messages. With my limited resources, I will keep trying to get my channel reinstated. Regards. @YouTube
I’m back.
After almost a year, Another Dive is finally back on YouTube.
The nightmare is finally over.
Thank you to everyone who supported me, liked, reposted, shared and stood with me. It meant more than you know.
If you’re going through something similar: keep fighting.
🤖 Made with AI
Another Dive retweeted
Creators have been complaining for a long time, and their concerns have finally reached federal authorities.
YouTube has been terminating creators’ accounts with little to no explanation and seemingly no reliable system for resolving mistakes.
Now, the FTC is reportedly preparing a lawsuit against YouTube over allegations that the platform misled users about its content policies before suspending their accounts.
Meta also recently lost a multibillion-dollar lawsuit. No matter how you feel about Trump, his administration appears serious about holding Big Tech accountable when these companies allegedly mistreat their users.
What do you think about this?
Another Dive retweeted
.@TeamYouTube in fact uses a fake "human here" public persona to drag creators into DMs & hide broken bugs. A real human analyst doesn't drop identical public & private rejections at the exact same second, nor do they conduct "final audits" at 3:43 AM. Stop the automated theater.
ALT Screenshots showing a public TeamYouTube tweet and a private DM rejection arriving at the exact same minute at 3:43 AM, exposing an automated script loop.
ALT Screenshots showing a public TeamYouTube reply and a private DM rejection arriving at the exact same minute at 12:04 AM, proving simultaneous macro automation.
ALT Side-by-side comparison of a YouTube termination email citing a Community Guidelines violation versus an app homepage citing a conflicting Terms of Service violation.
ALT Blue infographic titled Case for Manual Escalation detailing the channel URL for NavEditz, DSA Case ID 20260405-00001, and a 3-hour automated rejection error.
Another Dive retweeted
Hi, @TeamYouTube. It looks like my YouTube career is over.
More than 2 months ago, my gaming channel with 270k subscribers was removed for “spam, fraud, and deception policies,” even though my content consisted of reviews and comparisons of mods for a popular music game.
After my first contacts with support, the channel was restored, only to be removed again by YouTube’s AI system 5 days later for the exact same reason. Today, support informed me that there is nothing more they can do.
For 2 years, I uploaded content every day, built an audience of 270k subscribers, and earned thousands of dollars through the platform. All of that disappeared in a single day.
I still hope for a miracle, but right now it feels like this story has come to an end. Thank you to everyone who was part of this journey. I never thought it would end like this, bye.
Flagging bad channels is necessary.
But first the detection system needs to be accurate. (Which it isn’t )
Then a real human should be involved before a channel is terminated. (Which there isn’t )
And if mistakes still happen, creators need access to actual human support, not endless automated replies. (Most don’t get that either )
I’ve spent 8 months fighting my termination.
Why would I do that if I knew I had posted scam links, spam, or deceptive content?
I ran a small documentary channel for 2.5 years and was perfectly happy doing so.
I wanted nothing more than my small subscribers. I loved that small audience.
YouTube shouldn’t be like this!
Every creator must get the same chance, from big to small.
All I'm asking for is the chance to have my case looked at by an actual person who can review and make a fair decision.
@TeamYouTube @YouTube @YouTubeCreators @nealmohan @reneritchie
Another Dive retweeted
🚨 YouTube Creator Support is completely broken.
Creators don’t contact support because they want policy links or template responses.
They contact support because they need answers.
Instead, creators are often left with vague responses, conflicting information, and no real explanation when something goes wrong.
And when those answers turn out to be wrong, the creator pays the price.
I know because it happened to me.
I reached out to Creator Support multiple times before creating my account and relied on the guidance I was given.
Months later, my channel was terminated.
What makes this even harder to understand is that I wasn’t terminated on some random day. My channel was terminated during the May 13th YouTube outage while I was repeatedly trying to upload content.
Since then, I’ve tried to find out whether my termination was related to the outage, a mistake, or something else entirely.
I’ve never received a clear answer.
How can creators rely on Creator Support if they can’t rely on the answers they’re given?
I’m asking @TeamYouTube to review the support conversations, screenshots, and timeline surrounding my case.
For the past 238 days I’ve been fighting to get my YouTube channel “Another Dive” back after it was terminated for “Spam” policy.
It was a small documentary channel about history.
Everything on it was made by me.
researched, written, edited, and narrated by me.
I never uploaded spam, scams, reused content, or anything meant to deceive people.
Since the termination I’ve done everything I can. Appeals, support, TeamYouTube, reports, explanations, even a DSA complaint. Nothing has changed.
The hardest part is that after termination everything becomes automated. Every reply, every email. No real explanation, no real person to talk to.
I just want a real human review of the case and an explanation of what actually happened.
If you think small creators deserve that, please help me spread this and tag @TeamYouTube in the comments.
@MoistCr1TiKaL @DeepHumor @Asmongold @jacksfilms @jason_koebler @endermanch
@TeamYouTube @YouTube @reneritchie @nealmohan
I’m asking for help from anyone willing to listen.
For the past 8 months I’ve been fighting to get my YouTube channel back after it was terminated for “spam, deceptive practices and scams policy.”
My channel “Another Dive” was a small documentary channel focused on History.
Every video was researched, written, edited, and narrated by me.
I never uploaded spam, scams, reused content, or anything designed to deceive viewers.
Since the termination, I’ve done everything YouTube asks creators to do. I’ve submitted appeals, contacted TeamYouTube, spoken with support, filed reports, provided explanations, gathered evidence and even filed a DSA complaint with Platform Control.
Nothing worked.
What makes this harder is that after suspension everything becomes automated. Every reply, every email. Everything.
There’s no real person to talk to, no clarification, just generic responses while the actual reason for the termination is never properly explained.
Eight months is a long time to leave a creator in limbo.
My channel was the result of years of work and thousands of hours spent researching, writing, editing, and building an audience.
If you believe small creators deserve fair reviews as much as big creators please help me spread the word.
I only want a genuine human review. Nothing more.
Please tag @TeamYouTube in the comments, that would help a lot.
@jaypeters @CaseyNewton @ZoeSchiffer @StarFire2258 @tomwarren @kyliebytes @TaylorLorenz @reckless @DeepHumor
@TeamYouTube @YouTube @reneritchie @nealmohan
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It’s been 44 days since my complaint was marked admissible under the DSA process and there has been no update since then.
Right now I have no visibility on what stage the review is at or when I can expect any resolution.
Please provide a proper status update on my complaint. @TeamYouTube
Day 232 of my YouTube channel being terminated.
And honestly it’s been draining in ways that are hard to explain.
For months now, I haven’t really been able to sleep properly.
Waiting, checking, hoping for some kind of update that never comes.
You don’t just lose a channel like that and move on when it’s something you’ve built and put everything into.
I still can’t believe YouTube is getting away with this level of silence and lack of real support.
I’ve tried every possible way to get this reviewed properly. Emails, appeals, escalation attempts everything just leads back to the same automated responses or no response at all.
Day 232, and I’m still here waiting.
@TeamYouTube @YouTube @YouTubeCreators @nealmohan @reneritchie
Another Dive retweeted
@TeamYouTube 336 days have passed since my channel was falsely terminated for spam. I have tagged you so many times asking for help only for you to ignore me or reply with automated responses. This has to stop. I want fairness. I want a human to manually review my channel.
Day 223.
Despite months of appeals, emails, and public posts @TeamYouTube continues to ignore my case.
They completely shut down any form of reviews and appeals.