DEMONETIZED
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A message to @YouTubeCreators @TeamYouTube @nealmohan @reneritchie and every YouTuber that suffers from "Inauthentic content". I'm a French comedian and YouTuber with over 12 years on the platform. I run 2 YouTube channels (714K and 350K subs) with more than 400 million views on long-form videos. I create comedy podcasts and gaming content, and I do everything myself: filming, editing, and appearing on camera. Overnight, both channels were demonetized. I made 2 appeal videos — zero views. Every appeal was rejected with the exact same copy-paste automated message. No human support from YouTube. After 12 years and building two big communities, this treatment is unacceptable. This broken system is destroying the lives (literally!) and careers of thousands of genuine, original creators. Please comment, share, and tag YouTube. This needs to stop. Congrats to @EternalMystYT @mansterzs @AydinPaladin and @siniviere for winning your battles. And a big thank you to @Nina7Infinity @verbalriotshow @thevivafrei @Kneon @MeganFoxWriter @hunleyeric @bear_ing @DisaffectedPod @Thatumbrellaguy @GoodLionTV for your support to our community and for helping creators. #youtube #inauthentic #AI
Several days ago, YouTube demonetized our channel @UnderSparked" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@UnderSparked
for “inauthentic content.” This recent situation has created tremendous stress for us, as a channel in the age of AI hype. We are proud to be actual voice actors that offer our own unique commentary and narration to the videos we serve to our community. Our content is not automated. It is not mass-produced. It is not a slideshow with no value. We have actual voice actors, actual editors, and literally an actual person on payroll that we pay just to record gameplay. This channel supports my family and the team who help make it possible. Many of the team members apart of this channel make their livelihood through this. We submitted an appeal video showing our production process and workflow, but that got denied without being watched at all. We've reached out numerous times but unfortunately all of our attempts to reach out just keep getting denied by what we suspect is an AI or just copy and pasted templated responses. Instead of receiving a specific explanation, we've repeatedly received generic template responses saying the channel is “inauthentic” without identifying what videos, facts, or patterns caused that decision. If our channel is truly "inauthentic", how are we supposed to even know what to fix if we can't even be told specifically what the issues are? We're not asking for special treatment. We're asking for just one actual real human support/specialist to look at the channel and give it a proper review. And if an actual real human finds it to be "inauthentic". We would like to be told in specific what about the channel is violating the "inauthentic content" policy without receiving a copy and pasted template of examples of what "inauthentic content" is. All we want is for one real human at YouTube to look at the actual evidence. Public explanation video: youtube.com/watch?v=OB_5dz… Please help us, we're confident the demonetization was done through error. Many of the people apart of the UnderSparked team rely on this for their livelihoods. @TeamYouTube @YouTubeCreators
A message to @YouTubeCreators @TeamYouTube @nealmohan @reneritchie and every YouTuber that suffers from "Inauthentic content". I'm a French comedian and YouTuber with over 12 years on the platform. I run 2 YouTube channels (714K and 350K subs) with more than 400 million views on long-form videos. I create comedy podcasts and gaming content, and I do everything myself: filming, editing, and appearing on camera. Overnight, both channels were demonetized. I made 2 appeal videos — zero views. Every appeal was rejected with the exact same copy-paste automated message. No human support from YouTube. After 12 years and building two big communities, this treatment is unacceptable. This broken system is destroying the lives (literally!) and careers of thousands of genuine, original creators. Please comment, share, and tag YouTube. This needs to stop. Congrats to @EternalMystYT @mansterzs @AydinPaladin and @siniviere for winning your battles. And a big thank you to @Nina7Infinity @verbalriotshow @thevivafrei @Kneon @MeganFoxWriter @hunleyeric @bear_ing @DisaffectedPod @Thatumbrellaguy @GoodLionTV for your support to our community and for helping creators. #youtube #inauthentic #AI
