Rob retweeted
YouTube sat on my appeal for 75 days.
Then I had a legal letter delivered to Google’s office in Dublin, and they answered within a week.
Their answer: my channel takes “someone else’s content” and makes “minimal changes.”
The video I showed them was written by us, presented on camera by our own host and edited by our team. No third party clips used. They couldn’t point to one video that breaks their rules.
1M+ subscribers, 8 months without monetization, and this is the review we get.
Imagine what would happen to smaller channels...
@TeamYouTube @YouTubeLiaison @nealmohan @YouTubeCreators @DigitalEU please fix this.
Rob retweeted
🚨 @TeamYouTube
Neal Mohan publicly talks about YouTube making “record profits,” but forgets to mention where a huge part of that money suddenly came from.
Since the 2025 policy changes, YouTube didn’t introduce any revolutionary updates that massively increased platform value:
• No huge new audience influx
• No groundbreaking creator features
• No major innovations bringing record growth
Yet somehow profits exploded.
Why?
Because thousands of creators were demonetized while YouTube continued running ads on their videos and keeping 100% of the revenue.
That’s the part nobody wants to talk about.
The most absurd part is this:
The same content YouTube labels as “inauthentic” continues getting pushed by the algorithm.
➡️ It still gets recommended
➡️ Still finds new viewers
➡️ Still gets likes, comments, engagement
➡️ Still earns money for YouTube
So if the content is supposedly “bad,” “spam,” or “inauthentic,” then why does the algorithm continue promoting it?
And then creators are told:
“Wait 90 days and appeal again.”
But during those 90 days:
• The creator loses income
• The channel continues generating ad revenue
• YouTube keeps all the profit
• And by the time monetization MAYBE returns, the channel is often already exhausted by the algorithm
Meanwhile large creators with repetitive formats, repeated thumbnail structures, recycled series concepts, compilation channels, and mass-produced entertainment formats continue staying fully monetized without problems.
So where exactly is the line?
Why are smaller creators punished while massive creators doing extremely similar content structures remain protected?
And before anyone twists the point:
Most creators were never trying to replace humans completely. People simply used modern tools to improve editing, visuals, workflow, storytelling, thumbnails, or production quality.
That is still work.
That is still creativity.
That is still content creation.
So YouTube, what exactly are the real rules anymo
Rob retweeted
Apparently, YouTube is using AI to demonetize and suspend accounts.
Rumble will do the complete opposite.
We are building in a new process where an actual human will reach out when their is a ban or demonetization issue.
Authentic, human support is a priority.
Rob retweeted
After demonetizing a load of creators, YouTube sees a double-digit uptick in ad revenue in 2026, generating $9.88B of ad sales in Q1 (up 10.7% year over year).
The platform generated more than $60B in revenue in 2025, according to Alphabet, making it the industry’s biggest winner in terms of entertainment revenue.
Is this why they're nuking so many creators so they don't have to pay out?
Rob retweeted
Where are the opportunistic lawyers who see a class action lawsuit in what YouTube has done? They confiscated money creators ALREADY MADE including superchats given to them by the audience! How is this not fraud, theft, and deceptive practice? Can some lawyers comment on this please?
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
Rob retweeted
How Much Money did YouTube Steal over the past Month? seems like they might have taken advantage of this almost total purge of Channels, Hundreds of thousands of channels have been hit and even when you win the appeal YouTube holds back your money for an extra month..Does this rise to fraud? @CivilRights @FBIDirectorKash @FBIDDBongino @FBI
Rob retweeted
It seems like I am not the only one StoryBlocks took money from while having a valid license.
This is outrageous.
@StoryblocksCo
Wow, how can it takes weeks for YouTube to realize they’ve made a mistake and let their creators lose thousands in earnings? Something is not right
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Unbelievable @TeamYouTube Another 145k subs channel terminated without warning
Yes, my channel got taken down in the middle of the night and it's a very weird feeling. What you can do to help:
Just spam @TeamYouTube on here and tell them you think YouTube made a mistake with their decision and to use my channel name, thank you all!
youtube.com/channel/UCCP9kLH…
A few of many that have gotten terminated in the recent days:
teapaw.org/thevivekburman/status/…
teapaw.org/wannercashcow/status/1…
teapaw.org/kartik_verma17/status/…
teapaw.org/explainerstory/status/…
Replying to @TeamYouTube
@TeamYouTube @YouTubeIndia my channel (youtube.com/channel/UCSuXKe_…) was removed for spam, deceptive content.I have appealed and got rejection email within 6 mins,The channel had no prior strikes and monetized 2 months prior to the removal.I believe this is an error. Please help
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I have still not gotten a single response from YouTube after getting channels with +1M subscribers terminated, generating thousands per month in lost income without warnings. I will continue to fight for an answer and will not allow terminations of this size without any explanation, nor a chance to adapt your content to YouTube’s changing policies.
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This goes directly against the update they released 5 months ago, specifically highlighting the three strike policy and mentioning that they will make policies easier to understand.
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I’d like to add that creators doesn’t seem to receive the three strikes anymore (including me). They are terminated immediately without any warning. Three strikes has always been the rule according to YouTube’s policies which seem to no longer be the case. blog.youtube/inside-youtube/…
Will YouTube ever give us an update on what’s going on?
If you take a look at the replies of @TeamYouTube , you’ll see that there is a significant increase of people saying that their channel have gotten terminated or demonetized lately, which is a worrying trend that seems to get worse and worse by the day.
There are no updates or transparency on any policy changes from YouTube which would allow us creators to understand what’s happening and be able to adjust.
They are leaving their creators in the dark with their livelihood taken away in an instant.
I think now is a good time to give an update for creators to feel safe to continue creating content on the platform. @YouTubeLiaison
Rob retweeted
More evidence it’s a low effort bot is the fact that the circumvention appeal came back before the main appeal. A human would at the very least would be able to decipher the 2. This is why I doubt a human has any say in these processes
My tweet got almost 100k views, yet not response at all on what happened to my channels, which shows that youtube don’t really care about how big your channel is or how many are currently facing the same issue, they won’t be transparent on why they are removing your whole livelihood and what went wrong. This is simply unacceptable.
I’m sorry guys, but I do not recommend anyone to rely on YouTube as a platform and partner to grow your following.
At any time, they can remove what took you years to grow, without even taking the time to explain why.
. @YouTubeLiaison youtube is broken, I had +1M subscribers deleted within 24 hours..
I receive an email last Tuesday saying one of my biggest channels “This Happened” with 630k subscribers was removed due to spam, which is absolutely not true and I’ve explained in 3 page document of my appeal.
The next day, I received another email that two additional channels of mine (with 520k subscribers in total) were removed for “circumventing” or trying to bypass my initial termination, which is not true at all since I never used these channels after termination, nor are they in anyway similar to the initial channel.
I’ve built channels on youtube for over 5 years and have a total of 5 million subscribers, with offices and employees working on all these channels. We would really appreciate a response for the hours of work we’ve put into this platform.
The lack of transparency is something that is affecting tons of creators that I’ve been speaking to, and it’s becoming extremely uncertain to continue to make content on youtube without this transparency, especially when 1 million of subscribers is taken away from you without explanation or warnings like in my case (not to mention all the demonetizations)
I would really appreciate a response on what’s going on here and what went wrong, since my topics are similar to many others creators on the platform, and many are extremely worried the same thing will happen to them.
. @TeamYouTube I’ve still not gotten a response on the appeal of my main channel ”This Happened”, however I get a rejected appeal on ”PopJuice” which was removed for ”circumvention” or trying to bypass the termination of the main. How does this make sense? And how can you make that decision without checking the appeal of the main channel?
You obviously don’t have a review team that check these things carefully. I urge you again to check the 3 page appeal I submitted for ”This Happened”. @YouTubeLiaison
Rob retweeted
@YouTubeLiaison , still no response on my appeal nor an explanation on what exactly happened to my channels. I am losing out of thousands of dollars per day and have no way to pay my employees.
Is this really how YouTube will treat its creators who contributed hundreds of hours and investing thousands to the platform for seven years? It’s ridiculous. @TeamYouTube






















