Duyo

I have gone down every avenue that is available to get my channel back, but I’m sorry to say it is gone forever. Ultimately, it was my fault. A combination of a bunch of odd circumstances coming together that caused the termination. It was caused by a 9-day old YouTube channel I made for personal friends to enjoy live music I shared. Unfortunately a major online music magazine discovered my channel, liked it, and put it in a news story. One of the performers I posted was Billy Strings who is on a European tour. The videos I posted of him (from the magazine’s article brining attention) got over 10,000 views overnight. The film crew who filmed the live music performances I posted of him caught wind and filed copyright infringement to YouTube. As a result, all channels connected to my email have been terminated and I’m never allowed to have a YouTube channel again. It was a terrible mistake and I lost almost four years of work and 1000’s of hours of footage. My son lost both his YouTube channels and a lot of his handmade animations that we don’t have copies of. I put a lot of my own money into my channel that I never earned back and chose many weekends not enjoying sun and hiking and building relationships just to make Star Atlas videos. All gone. I’m in a pretty dark place and might take some time to myself to reflect.