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Creators are, and always will be, at the core of everything we do. They are the new stars and studios, redefining entertainment and building next-generation media companies. At last week’s @YouTube Creator Summit in Ojai, we brought our creator community together to share ideas, learn from each other, and talk about the future of the creator economy. Thank you to every creator who joined us and to the YouTube team who pulled together an inspiring summit.

April showers bring more than just flowers. Here’s a look at our @youtube updates over the past month: 🚀Joined 79M global viewers for @NASA’s historic Artemis II mission broadcast. 🎡Live streamed two epic weekends of #Coachella. 🌟Celebrated News & Documentary Emmy Award nominations for @johnnywharris and @jorgeramosnews. 🏛️Connected with @youtubecreators at the White House Easter Egg Roll and @whca weekend. ⚙️Expanded likeness detection to the entertainment industry and introduced new ways for @youtubecreators to earn on livestreams. Plus, rolled out our Shorts timer across Europe, made Picture-in-Picture available globally for our YouTube users and launched customizable multiview on @youtubetv. 🥳@nealmohan hit the #TIME100 and YouTube was also named a TIME Industry Leader in Entertainment.

YouTube demonetized my channel for "Inauthentic content" a few days ago. I want to tell you my full story because I think people need to hear it. I run a history and education channel on YouTube. Every single video starts with hours of academic research. I pull from real scholarly sources, primary historical records, and published academic works. I write every script completely from scratch. I physically film everything myself. I appear on camera in every single video. I manually edit every cut. I hand design every thumbnail. This is not automated content. This is not mass produced. This is me, showing up, doing the work, every single time. YouTube demonetized my channel for "Inauthentic content" and removed $5,000 from me. Money I needed. Gone overnight with no warning and no real explanation. I made an appeal video walking through my entire creation process step by step. It was never watched. An AI rejected it before a single human ever saw it. The response I received was a copy paste message that thousands of other creators got word for word. I have reached out. I have followed the process. I have done everything they asked. And I keep getting the same automated wall. All I am asking for is one real person at YouTube to actually look at my channel. @TeamYouTube @YouTubeCreators @YouTube Please do the right thing. If you believe creators deserve to be treated fairly, please repost this. youtu.be/PIW7Qu9Qsj8

Creators are, and always will be, at the core of everything we do. They are the new stars and studios, redefining entertainment and building next-generation media companies. At last week’s @YouTube Creator Summit in Ojai, we brought our creator community together to share ideas, learn from each other, and talk about the future of the creator economy. Thank you to every creator who joined us and to the YouTube team who pulled together an inspiring summit.

Creators are, and always will be, at the core of everything we do. They are the new stars and studios, redefining entertainment and building next-generation media companies. At last week’s @YouTube Creator Summit in Ojai, we brought our creator community together to share ideas, learn from each other, and talk about the future of the creator economy. Thank you to every creator who joined us and to the YouTube team who pulled together an inspiring summit.

Creators are, and always will be, at the core of everything we do. They are the new stars and studios, redefining entertainment and building next-generation media companies. At last week’s @YouTube Creator Summit in Ojai, we brought our creator community together to share ideas, learn from each other, and talk about the future of the creator economy. Thank you to every creator who joined us and to the YouTube team who pulled together an inspiring summit.

This is my average editing timeline on a channel YouTube claims is "inauthentic." @TeamYouTube demonetized my channel for "inauthentic content." As seen in the second screenshot from their own website, that applies to videos that are mass-produced and repetitive. I post once every 30 days at the most. I spend 500+ hours on each video. There is nothing in this timeline that violates a single line of their inauthentic content policy. Every time I ask them about it through support, they send one templated reply, then go silent. Every time I tweet about it, they message me once asking for my channel URL, then go silent again. I'm a human creator. I write every script. I record every voiceover in my own voice. I edit every video. My team puts real human labor into every project. I even recorded an appeal video walking through my entire production process, and not a single human from YouTube's team has watched it despite claims that they would. I just want a human to actually look at this. I believe an innocent creator has been caught in the crossfire.