Terminated YT: TastyPaperclips

I’m making a full (very long thread) with my full experience with YouTube. Buckle up because the way @TeamYouTube has denied every appeal I made is just ridiculous. Initially on March 24th, I changed my username to TastyPaperclips and profile picture to Clippy.

@fresno_the @_Ochacon24 x.com/s0ul_priv/stat… Your context

Okay so I retract everything I said here

@natecurtiss_yt Another new feature they implement instead of helping all the channels @TeamYouTube’s ai falsely terminated / demonetized- lovely. x.com/tastypaperclip…

YouTube is rolling out a crazy new update this year. YouTube is rolling out Shows, and it changes how your content sits on your channel. Here is what it does and why the channels that ignore it lose a year of watch timeL A playlist groups a batch of videos together with no structure. A viewer who wanted to follow your series in order had to search through the list themselves. YouTube admits this was cumbersome. Shows fix it. You convert a playlist into a show, your videos become numbered episodes inside seasons, and YouTube builds a full show page with the artwork you upload. Then it recommends that show across the app. This was built for the TV, not your phone. TV is the fastest growing place people watch YouTube, and the old channel layout never matched how people watch on a TV. For many people, especially young viewers, YouTube already is TV. The connected TV experience never reflected that. Revenue from TV viewing jumped 30 percent in one year. Shows copy the layout people already know from Netflix and Prime. Finish one episode and the next plays automatically. The Continue watching row holds their place. That is how one viewer becomes a full season of watch time instead of a single view. YouTube copied this from the streaming services on its own platform. The show pages you are about to get are the same ones YouTube built for Paramount+ and Showtime. YouTube built these show pages for PrimeTime Channels, its paid streaming bundle inside the app. Their product lead said they realized they should bring the same product to channels, because so many channels already make high quality shows. So you get the same page a paid streaming service gets, for free, on your own channel. YouTube is not making the shows. You are. YouTube shut down its own studio and handed the entire opportunity to channels. YouTube Originals launched in 2015, greenlit Cobra Kai in 2018, lost the show to Netflix in 2020, and shut down in 2022. YouTube now says it has no plans to restart it. Their words: their expertise is helping others create and distribute, not making the media themselves. That is the whole point. YouTube will not compete with you for the slot. It will promote you into it. The placement is open to channels now. Set this up now or hand the placement to someone else The channels that build shows this year get the recommended placement. The rest stay a list of separate videos nobody finishes. Pick serial when people watch your story in order. Pick non-serial when people drop into a topic anywhere. Upload real artwork, the texted poster, the backdrop, and the title treatment, because YouTube puts that art on browse pages across the app. Number your seasons. Design thumbnails that read on a 55 inch screen, not just a phone. Do this before your competitors do, because the early shows get the recommendations.

@YouTube @Eifreke Are you going to help all the creators your ai falsely terminated @TeamYouTube @YouTube? x.com/tastypaperclip…

@YouTube @amanhostednft You guys at @YouTube @TeamYouTube will respond to ANYTHING but the actual problems your website has at hand. There are dozens of people including myself trying to get human reviews for their falsely punished channels that support just ignores. x.com/tastypaperclip…

@YouTube @IlianTopch19102 Is your terrible ai moderation going to be permanent as well @TeamYouTube @YouTube? x.com/tastypaperclip…

@IlianTopch19102 class is permanent

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@amanhostednft straight facts

@Eifreke he's built different

@thetomska Good luck Mister ska

Still wanna point out how crazy this is

@Aya_0N1 Funny how @TeamYouTube loves to add new features people don’t care about while refusing to fix the pre-existing issues on their platform. x.com/tastypaperclip…

Hey so uh.. YouTube decided to add the dumbest hidden feature alive and now attaches your username to shared video links! So here’s how to disable it.

@StrainShow @TeamYouTube @YouTubeCreators YouTube’s system is genuinely awful. They rely on ai to do anything & it’s making their systems crumble. My channel TastyPaperclips was also falsely terminated, had all the appeals rejected & I have to keep mass mentioning @TeamYouTube for a reply. x.com/hihellothere05…

@daviddoel Typical of @TeamYouTube and their stupid ai. x.com/tastypaperclip…

YouTube's 'Ask Studio' AI for creators basically admitted that they're now suppressing my reach to new viewers lol. Then won't tell me why.

@0xAbhiii Do we really expect YouTuber to actually do things that would improve their experience? Look at their ai moderation & support, they’re completely useless. The reason they didn’t make shorts a separate app is probably because less people would use it. x.com/tastypaperclip…

Shorts should’ve been a separate app. Every search is flooded with Shorts now , It’s ruined the YouTube experience .

@DiscussingFish Holy fuck, @ChazingtonYT

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@vidIQ They should also have a feature where you get actual support for you falsely terminated channels: x.com/tastypaperclip…

Think you lost subscribers? Maybe not. YouTube Studio's AI can show you exactly why your subscriber count dropped: • Closed accounts YouTube removed • Actual unsubscribes • The videos viewers were watching when they left Most creators never check this, and it completely changes how they interpret subscriber loss. Ask Studio AI: "Why did I lose subscribers?" Did you know this feature existed? 👇

@_TheSpecter @TeamYouTube Thank you and same for you too!

@TastyPaperclips @TeamYouTube Best of luck thats a mess! I read your thread. Hoping the best for you.

@TeamYouTube My channel was demonetized April 6 under the mass-produced policy, but it's original full-cast horror audio drama with credited voice actors and my own scripts. The AI misread a run of Shorts. Requesting a manual re-review, details in DMs. youtube.com/twistedtranqui…

@YouTube Cool, are you going to reinstate our falsely terminated channels @TeamYouTube or what? x.com/tastypaperclip…

@YouTube Bad ai moderation + bad support + @TeamYouTube = falsely terminated / demonetized channels x.com/tastypaperclip…