Youtube destroyed my life...? 💔
This is my recap of my year 2025 as a YouTube creator. And I'm a small 3d Animator..
At the start of this year, I used to work on multiple channels where I worked hard to create animated videos. I used to sit 12–15 hours a day, and it took 3–6 days to complete a single video.
Things were going well, and with my small team, we were working smoothly and were completely dependent on our hard work. We ran channels that had 1,500,000+, 1,000,000+, and a few other channels as well.
But after April, YouTube started removing monetization from animation channels using their AI, saying "Harmful content involving minors."
There are no minors or real humans involved in these channels only animals and fantasy characters used in animations. Firstly, there is a reason these videos are uploaded on YouTube and not YouTube Kids. Also, in every video, there is a disclaimer stating intended for 13+ age, and that no real humans are involved and everything is fantasy and for entertainment purposes only.
This was devastating and heartbreaking to me 💔 because not just one channel, but 3–4 channels were affected for the same reason. These were not small channels some had more than a million subscribers like 1.5M+, 1.06M+, 700K+, and so on.
All this happened in April and May, in just 2 months of 2025 💔. Years of work, time, and revenue were gone everything was gone (YouTube does not want to give monetization to these channels).
After that, I tried to recover myself✌️and started working with other channels. In June 2025, one of my channels was hacked. I thought I had lost everything, but @TeamYouTube support really helped me and recovered my channel and gave it back within 5 days.
Later, things were going good…
Until September, when one of our channels was terminated on September 12 for SPAM/SCAM. I don’t even know what that was or why our channel was terminated for spam/scam. I appealed and contacted support, and they told me to wait. I waited, and on the 8th day, I contacted support again. Another support agent told me the review was done and the termination was correct all of this was done in 10 minutes 🙂 (This is automated).
Later, on the 10th day, YouTube actually did a human review and reinstated my channel on September 22 (this was before the @edermanch@deephumor wave, and they actually gave real human reviews back then).
Me and my brothers were recovering ❤️🩹 from this, and I thought @YouTube would not unfairly terminate innocent creators or punish them all it takes is a human reviewer in these cases.
But 💔 on November 13, another channel was terminated (this was in the same animated niche as the previously terminated channel), but things were different this time. No human review. Reasons kept changing. All we received were automated email templates and DMs. They said a human review was taking place, but we got rejections within 2 minutes. (same channel which was hacked and recovered)
I’m already broken and unable to understand or sleep anxiety depression has broken me to the core….
And on December 5th, the channel that was terminated and reinstated was demonetized 💔😑.
They removed monetization again, saying "Harmful content involving minors," even though there are no minors fully animated videos with game characters and brainrot characters only.
This is how I’m ending my year with broken memories. And I chose YouTube instead of an actual job 🙃.
And I love @YouTube ❤️.
@TeamYouTube hello my channel was terminated , and i received email with reason “circumvention policy”, i checked all devices of my family and no one has terminated channel. I believe this. Is mistake
youtube.com/channel/UC9sl0…
@TeamYouTube@TeamYouTube I do NOT own or have access to the channel with copyright strikes.
This is a false association. Please review my channel independently.
Hi @TeamYouTube,
My channel @ffbdgamingx" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@ffbdgamingx
was terminated for “linked channel violations,” and my appeal was rejected. I have ZERO connection to any violating channels. This appears to be a false enforcement. Requesting immediate escalation and a manual human review.
@TeamYouTube can you give name and termination date of channel linked to mine youtube.com/channel/UC9sl0…? I believe that this is fail on automated systems, since no one of my family have terminated channels.
@m28ib You have one year to submit an appeal through YouTube Studio. Since we review only one appeal per termination, we recommend reviewing our policies and including any and all relevant context during the review process: goo.gle/4uieNsf
@TeamYouTube You didn't even watch my video appeal and rejected it. There was 1 view on my video when I uploaded it and watched it immediately. That was on 6.03, and the appeal response came on 7.03 and there was still only 1 view,which means that my video appeal was not watched
@YouTube and @TeamYouTube are lying if you cannot get resolution on a suspended channel or a real answer its because the channel was deleted, not banned, YouTube was hacked and rather than admit it they just said the accounts were banned. See reply for more.
@TeamYouTube hello my channel was terminated , and i received email with reason “circumvention policy”, I would like to know which channels the root, since I don’t have any removed on channels list. Even my brothers said that they don’t have terminated
m.youtube.com/channel/UC9sl0…
Congrats to my friend @prox30511 on getting reinstated.
This brought hope back into me. @TeamYouTube my channel was falsely terminated for 53 days now with no answers on why it's terminated. Please dm as im ready to provide details regarding my channel
Day 300+ since my channel was terminated.
I’m asking again for a manual re-review of my case.
This channel was previously restored after a successful appeal and human review, then later terminated again for the same reason — with no new explanation or evidence provided.
If a human review fixed it once, why won’t one be done again?
@TeamYouTube@YouTubeCreators@YouTubeInsider@nealmohan@sundarpichai
I am very thankful today and would like to express my utmost gratitude to @TeamYouTube since today my Channel was finally given a proper review and they were able to confirm that the decision was made in error and they have reinstated my channel today. I wish the best for others.
💔 It has been 60 days since my channel was terminated.
I built my trend and documentary channel from nothing, starting with zero subscribers and a clear dream. Just as I finally reached monetization after months of hard work and sacrifice, at the exact moment things were about to turn around, my channel was terminated for violations I never committed.
Termination reason? Spam, deceptive practices and scam.
No warning. No specific explanation. Just gone.
But I NEVER used:
❌ External suspicious links
❌ Fake engagement tactics
❌ Misleading clickbait - My titles, thumbnails, and descriptions were perfectly aligned with my content.
✅I grew my channel organically, one subscriber at a time. From 0 to 40,000 real people who genuinely connected with my content and eagerly waited for more. Every single day, I worked 8+ hours researching, editing, and creating content that people truly loved.
This has to be a mistake or a glitch. There is no other explanation.
I've never violated your guidelines. I've built something real from absolute nothing.
Please, help me understand what happened and give me a chance for human review and reinstatement.
I need your help. Please retweet, like, and tag TeamYouTube so this case can reach the right people at YouTube who can actually fix this mistake.
Thank you 🤍
@YouTube@TeamYouTube@YouTubeCreators@UpdatesFromYT#youtubeaiwrongedcreators
@CakeDD264402@medeadly This is the reply I got, the channel was deleted on 11-27-2025, and the termination was only in studio and never came to any email address, the appeal email is all I have, I found the form and tried. apparently I can make a new account and thats okay even though its not?
Hey guys, if you can reshare this video, it would mean a lot.
My channel, which I made on April 6, 2006 (on my birthday), got terminated on December 4 at 10:20 PM. That day, I remember releasing 9 short videos. I’ve been doing original content way before A.I was even a thing, back when you actually had to be funny or figure it out yourself.
YouTube sent me a message saying:
“We have reviewed your content and found severe or repeated violations of our spam, deceptive practices, and scams policy. Because of this, we have removed your channel from YouTube.”
I know there was no spam or scam going on. Even when I dropped 9 videos, they were not posted at the same time. I might use the same tags sometimes, like #youtubeshort or #deadlyx, but a lot of YouTubers do that. I also make sure when I upload daily, the content is different and not the same. I don’t like reuploading content.
All I’m asking is for YouTube to have a real person actually check this. I reached out to @TeamYouTube , and they said it was already reviewed, but people make mistakes all the time, and I believe this is one of them.
It’s not fair seeing tweets of other people getting passes while a channel from 2006 with over 1k+ videos gets terminated that fast. I had a good-standing account and everything.
If you can please share this tweet, it would mean a lot. I’m basically writing this every day until I get my channel back. I’ll still be uploading my content on TikTok and Instagram in the meantime.
Thanks 🙏