YouTube Terminated My 35,050 + Videos And Destroyed My Livelihood For No Reason

[Tarmack]

This is why I automatically assume people with "weird punishments" are cheating the system and lying to us about it in hopes we have some magic pill that will get their cheat scheme back on track.

 

[TGNDireGaming]

35,000 videos sounded very peculiar (I mean it isn't physically possible for one person to make that many real videos) so I did a bit of digging and found one of your other channels:


"DireTheHomeLess" -

(there is your TGNDireGaming username and referral codes in the description - that's how I found it)



And on that channel, in the last 24 hours alone, you have uploaded over 40 near-identical silent videos about "vegan food" All of the videos are monetized:

It looks like you're spam posting to fill up the Search pages with your videos. Coming back to your 35,000 videos on your other channel. - I guess that was what you were doing on that channel too and that's why it was terminated.


Edit:

And I found another of your channels doing the same thing - spam posting the same video over and over with slightly different durations:

If you create videos short in length (2-3 minutes in length), record videos for 2-3 hours each day, and neglect to edit your videos then you can potentially spawn at least sixty videos on a daily basis. By creating a bare minimum of 60 videos every single day for a duration of two years, it is possible to create well over 35,00 in a two year time span (730 x 60 = 43,800). My healthy vegan food being eaten in real life videos are unedited and are an original work since they showcase different experiences that transpired within my life as I was consuming healthy vegan food. Although the experiences associated with eating food for hours on end each day might seem akin to one another, they are different from one another since no 3 minute experience of yourself eating food is the exact same as any other 3 minute experience within your life of yourself eating food just like how no 3 minute gaming experience showcased within an uncut Let's Play video, with cut scenes omitted from the video, is the exact same as another 3 minute gaming experience, that transpired within an individual's life, showcased within another one of their uncut Let's Play videos which has the cut scenes omitted from the video. Since people typically have a propensity to watch videos for a very short duration, I typically spawn videos short in length. By eating healthy vegan food for at least two hours every day, I can procure the opportunity to spawn at least 40 uncut videos each day of myself consuming healthy vegan food in real life which can each be about 3 minutes in length. Ultimately, content creators should not be confined to uploading only long videos and should have the autonomy to upload their original works to video sharing websites.

 

[Jaguar550]

^^ Don't be so weak man.

Your channel was shutdown for spam or gaming youtube's search pages. Crown's post literary nailed it.

 

[babyteeth4]

Hello everyone. Earlier YouTube issued two false community guidelines against my account. I sent YouTube the following message appealing the decision to retain issuing the false community guideline strikes against my account.


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Hello YouTube.


My whole TGNDireGaming YouTube Account was recently suspended due to 2 of my videos being falsely flagged for spam, scams, and commercially deceptive content. I have reviewed the community guidelines and I do not see how my videos violate them in anyway. According to YouTube's emails, the penalties associated with receiving two community guideline strikes against my account were related to the two videos below:


"My Little Pony Rainbow Dash's Rainboom Game Let's Play / PlayThrough / WalkThrough Part"

"Tutorial For How To Turn Off The Xbox 360 In Halo 3 On The Xbox 360"


I could not agree with the reason for these penalties, because the videos that were falsely flagged for spam, scams, and commercially deceptive content are in compliance with YouTube's terms of service for the following reasons:


First 1. The "My Little Pony Rainbow Dash's Rainboom Game Let's Play / PlayThrough / WalkThrough Part" video and the "Tutorial For How To Turn Off The Xbox 360 In Halo 3 On The Xbox 360" video do not contain any spam in the video or in the comment section so it does not violate the spam polices. The "My Little Pony Rainbow Dash's Rainboom Game Let's Play / PlayThrough / WalkThrough Part" was purely part of a Walkthrough / Let's Play / PlayThrough of the My Little Pony Rainbow Dash's Rainboom Game. The "Tutorial For How To Turn Off The Xbox 360 In Halo 3 On The Xbox 360" Video was a purely a "Tutorial For How To Turn Off The Xbox 360 In Halo 3 On The Xbox 360" as the title of the video directly indicates. Therefore, the videos are not spam in anyway shape or form.


2. My videos do not utilize services that increase traffic artificially.


3. The videos do not contain misleading metadata. The videos contain metadata relevant to the content of the video.


4. The videos do not contain any misleading thumbnails.


5. The video content or metadata is not a scam. The videos are not created to trick people for financial gain.



All in all, my videos were not scamming, misleading, or inappropriate in anyway shape or form and are not in violation of YouTube's policies. Therefore, individuals most likely flagged my videos mistakenly.


Please consider reviewing my videos and reinstating my accounts by removing both false community guideline strikes against my account since my videos are not spam and are in compliance with YouTube's Community Guidelines.

I have created over 35,050 videos and I have earned 27,200 subscribers on my YouTube channel. These accomplishments represent my years of hard work and they really mean a lot to me and my community of subscribers on YouTube. I really do hope to get my account back in order to be able to do what I love to do on my TGNDireGaming YouTube channel.


Thank you very much for your consideration.

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To my dismay, my appeal message to have my YouTube account become reinstated by having the false community guideline strikes against my account removed was rejected. My response from the Google response team stated the following:

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"Our specialist team has reviewed your channel and it has been decided, unfortunately that the channel will not be reinstated due to the fact that it has misleading metadata".

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My subsequent response to the Google response team entailed the following:

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I would greatly appreciate it if you could let me know what specific metadata that your specialist team considered misleading on my 2 videos falsely flagged for spam, scams, and commercially deceptive content.

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The Google response team of course never responded back to inform me, from their subjective perspective, exactly what specific metadata their specialist team considered misleading on my 2 videos falsely flagged for spam, scams, and commercially deceptive content.


After not receiving a response to this inquiry, I sent the all mighty sole judge, YouTube, the corporation whom neglects to allow any third parties whom are competent in understanding how meta data can be relevant to the content of certain videos, determine whether or not content falsely flagged is in compliance with their community guidelines; a final message imploring for YouTube to reinstate my TGNDireGaming YouTube Channel if I were to institute changes, in any possible way as they see fit, in order to rectify anything they feel is an issue on my YouTube Channel .



The subsequent message sent to the Google response team stated the following:



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Hello YouTube.


Earlier I sent a message to YouTube Partner Support appealing the decision to have my TGNDireGaming YouTube Channel, comprised of over 35,050 videos I created, remain suspended. To my dismay, my appeal message to have my YouTube account become unsuspended was rejected.

I would like to know if my TGNDireGaming YouTube Channel could be reinstated if I were to institute changes, in any possible way as you see fit, in order to rectify anything you feel is an issue on my YouTube Channel . It would be a major loss on the behalves of myself, my 27,200 + subscribers, and on the behalf of the YouTube community as whole if all of my 35,050 + YouTube videos, that I sacrificed years out of my finite life to create, were to remain deleted forever. Without having my TGNDireGaming YouTube Channel active, it will be much more difficult for me to ever become financially stable. Please consider reinstating my TGNDireGaming YouTube Channel so that my livelihood is not completely destroyed.


Thank you.

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As expected from YouTube's partner support track record to neglect to provide partner support, I still have not received a response from a Google / YouTube specialist team to this request.

Recently, another one of my YouTube channels, likely comprised of over 180+ videos, had all its' videos terminated after I received one false community guideline strike against my account. I will most likely file another appeal since I once again could not agree with the reason for these penalties, because the video that was falsely flagged for spam, scams, and commercially deceptive content is in compliance with YouTube's terms of service.

It is unfortunate that YouTube employees have the autonomy to shut down any YouTube channel once they deemed any metadata which is relevant to the content of the video as misleading from their subjective perspective. YouTube should ideally leverage impartial, rational, logical, and knowledgeable employees who are competent in understanding the content of falsely flagged videos so that they can explicitly understand how certain keywords can be constituted as relevant metadata to the videos falsely flagged. When employees lack an understanding of the content of the falsely flagged videos, they may deem the metadata relevant to the content of the video as misleading. This is a major issue primary because your YouTube channel can get terminated at any moment if it contains metadata relevant to the content of your videos since YouTube employees have the autonomy to potentially deem any metadata relevant to the content of your videos as misleading and subsequently terminate your channel. Unfortunately, competent employees from third party companies who understand the content of the videos are not judges in determining whether the metadata, relevant to the content of your videos, is relevant to the videos falsely flagged.

To my dismay, I have no recourse in being able to get my 35,050 + videos restored since my content was uploaded to YouTube's domain and not my own. When you utilize another company's platform, you relinquish control of your own intellectual property by forgoing the opportunity to always be able perpetually retain your intellectual property since it is embedded onto another company's website.

To hedge against having YouTube deem your metadata relevant to the content of your videos as misleading from the subjective perspective, you may want to consider deleting all your metadata from your video and just titling your videos "video" without any description or tags. The issue with omitting to include any metadata from your videos is that it prevents your target market from being able to locate your content with ease. Without your videos containing any metadata, YouTube employees most likely cannot constitute your videos as having misleading metadata. Another option is to upload your videos to another video sharing site who leverage competent employees that understand the content of the videos as judges to preside over determining whether the relevant metadata is relevant to the videos falsely flagged.

Ultimately, my livelihood is completely decimated. From this abysmal experience I have learned to minimize your dependence on utilizing other company's website or platforms, where you have absolutely no recourse to regain your content if said company's terminates all your content. Since other companies that provide stellar platforms for their users to upload their content onto are not always fair, impartial, reasonable, logical, rational, and shrewd, it is within your best long term interests to establish your own website to host your content onto so that you have recourse in being able to protect your intellectual property. After forever losing all my 35,050 + YouTube videos, 27,200 + subscribers, and my TGNDireGaming YouTube channel which earned over 30.5 million video views, that I scarified years out of my finite life to create, I have decided that I will continue to pursue worthwhile endeavors where I can preside over my content without relinquishing control of my valuableintellectual property to other companies by formulating my own website to host my content onto.



Lastly, I would like to know if anyone has any advice to deal with this calamity?

Why not seek legal advice? An entertainment lawyer can give you a consultation and if they think you have a case they will take you on as a client. If this is costing you dollars and cents and you feel you've been wronged, then you can sue for damages.

 

[Tarmack]

Why not seek legal advice? An entertainment lawyer can give you a consultation and if they think you have a case they will take you on as a client. If this is costing you dollars and cents and you feel you've been wronged, then you can sue for damages.

The YouTube TOS essentially enables YouTube to take your content down because the sky was blue that day if they want.

 

[markkaz]

35,000 videos sounded very peculiar...

This was the red flag for me. In looking at the tags of one video, they are definitely spammy. Lots of keywords which may be related to 'Healthy Vegan Food' but the content of the video doesn't actually address them.

You're sitting there with headphones, not speaking, eating something that we can't even discern what you're consuming.

 

[Crown]

If you create videos short in length (2-3 minutes in length), record videos for 2-3 hours each day, and neglect to edit your videos then you can potentially spawn at least sixty videos on a daily basis. By creating a bare minimum of 60 videos every single day for a duration of two years, it is possible to create well over 35,00 in a two year time span (730 x 60 = 43,800). My healthy vegan food being eaten in real life videos are unedited and are an original work since they showcase different experiences that transpired within my life as I was consuming healthy vegan food. Although the experiences associated with eating food for hours on end each day might seem akin to one another, they are different from one another since no 3 minute experience of yourself eating food is the exact same as any other 3 minute experience within your life of yourself eating food just like how no 3 minute gaming experience showcased within an uncut Let's Play video, with cut scenes omitted from the video, is the exact same as another 3 minute gaming experience, that transpired within an individual's life, showcased within another one of their uncut Let's Play videos which has the cut scenes omitted from the video. Since people typically have a propensity to watch videos for a very short duration, I typically spawn videos short in length. By eating healthy vegan food for at least two hours every day, I can procure the opportunity to spawn at least 40 uncut videos each day of myself consuming healthy vegan food in real life which can each be about 3 minutes in length. Ultimately, content creators should not be confined to uploading only long videos and should have the autonomy to upload their original works to video sharing websites.

You're spamming. You got caught. I can't believe you're still trying to defend yourself. No sympathy here.

 

[CoolMoo5]

Why would you make 35,000 videos? Seems a little weird to me? I guess my question is what is your reason for making so many videos?[DOUBLEPOST=1409158367,1409157098][/DOUBLEPOST]

By eating healthy vegan food for at least two hours every day, I can procure the opportunity to spawn at least 40 uncut videos each day of myself consuming healthy vegan food in real life which can each be about 3 minutes in length.

Why would anyone want to watch someone eat vegan food for 3 minutes 40 times day?[DOUBLEPOST=1409158508][/DOUBLEPOST]Even Machinma who has been on YouTube for more then 7 years only has 24,000 videos. Your number of videos really leads me to believe you are spamming.

 

[sammek]

This was the red flag for me. In looking at the tags of one video, they are definitely spammy. Lots of keywords which may be related to 'Healthy Vegan Food' but the content of the video doesn't actually address them.

You're sitting there with headphones, not speaking, eating something that we can't even discern what you're consuming.

Mark, how did you extract those keywords from the video?

 

[Jaguar550]

Mark, how did you extract those keywords from the video?

He use VidIQ. A Chrome Extension.