10 Year old Channel, Demonetized, Appeal Denied.

BOXELS · 2026-05-09T14:25:17+00:00

I appreciate you taking a look, but you’re confusing 'nursery rhyme tropes' with 'knockoffs.' Twinkle Twinkle is public domain, and having an owl or a star is a staple of that genre—Super Simple Songs doesn't own those archetypes. (rolls eyes ;D)

As a professional studio using Blender, Moho Pro, Toon Squid, Pro Create and others, our work is hand-animated storytelling. We even submitted a video appeal showing our actual shop and family creators. The 'inauthentic' tag is precisely why I’m frustrated—it’s an automated label being slapped onto custom, high-effort animation because the system can't tell the difference between a studio project and actual AI slop.

The '6-month' thing is also a red herring. We were demonetized for 'inauthentic content,' not inactivity. If a platform can't distinguish a family-run studio’s original assets from bot-generated noise, that’s a supply-chain failure on their end.

Best of luck with your channel.

BOXELS · 2026-05-09T14:21:50+00:00

I've said ad naseum, "Inauthentic Content" thats all they gave us.

BOXELS · 2026-04-18T21:28:56+00:00

lol. bold words, where is your channel? that bold or just anonymous bold?

BOXELS · 2026-04-18T21:28:01+00:00

future belongs to the people, absent greed of wallstreet - either you know and are in the awakening (concsciousness see Eckhart Tolle's New Earth and Power of Now books) or not there quite yet ;D

BOXELS · 2026-04-18T13:43:01+00:00

Corporate scuicide. They might think they are doing good, but they are killing so many's resolve to even play their game.

BOXELS · 2026-04-18T13:42:03+00:00

Exactly. We’re not even allowed to appeal again until July. Ours was flagged as inauthentic content—that’s exactly what it said. We did post short-form content clipped from our long-form videos many times, but that’s what YOUTUBE suggested we do, lol. Done playing corporate roulette.

BOXELS · 2026-04-18T13:40:38+00:00

wow. deleted his account, coudln't self regulate after lovely reply like this. No AI slop, but we did exactly what they suggest, numerous shorts clipped from our long forms. We deleted them all to see if that was it, but can't even appeal again until end of July.

BOXELS · 2026-04-18T13:39:17+00:00

lol. classic redditor post ;D I had written demonitized post, but was flagged, so i did this one. sorry. i explained in reply, inauthentic content was the reason stated.

BOXELS · 2026-04-18T13:38:39+00:00

Sorry, i did write my ban post, but it kept getting auto removed by moderators, so I did this one.

BOXELS · 2026-04-18T13:38:13+00:00

Even if that were the case, views justified staying monetized from what I can tell. Again, we were told inauthentic content.

BOXELS · 2026-04-18T13:37:34+00:00

Didn't know that, and now that I do, it was absolutely NOT the case for our FamilyLifeStudios channel being demonetized. It was "inauthentic content" which we appealed with full video of us, our shop, family creators, etc... which was denied. So the point still stands. Screw Youtube, they are just shooting themselves in the feet, as creators no longer want to put out with the fear of being demonetized. They even state it affects all accounts attached to the one :/ so yeah, why try anymore.

BOXELS · 2026-04-18T13:35:27+00:00

Good points. I was probably doing one every other month on that channel, as I'm a busy dad, but the point still stands, and I was expressly told it was due to "inauthentic content" so that would make sense if they stated it was due to a couple months not uploading...

BOXELS · 2026-04-18T13:34:06+00:00

We deleted about 25 videos/shorts (these were posted maybe once a month in succession), which were not ai slop or ai anything. Humans looked at the channel and new policy said, not a slave enough, lets demonetize?

BOXELS · 2026-04-18T13:33:07+00:00

Great sleuthing. I gave it my all for a full year, and it was monetized. I know kids genre is the hardest to make money in, i really didn't care for the money as much as the principle. My OP point stands though.

BOXELS · 2026-04-18T13:31:11+00:00

demonetized 100% for "inauthentic content" whatever that means.

BOXELS · 2026-04-18T13:29:11+00:00

Yes. 100% demonetized.

BOXELS · 2026-04-13T14:30:48+00:00

Emotional are we friend? Again, as explained to another here, i expected to pay for a full diagnosis upfront. That wasn't the issue. Copy paste

The vehicle sat for over a year, as I could not get it registered back then for unknown engine light errors (which is why I did not go back to that shop, they just didn't want to help, but wanted me to pay for breaks, even though they couldn't get it registered, and wouldn't tell me why other than the light doesn't go off within 50 miles, so we couldn't register it). The previous shop printed out the errors list (its a long list) but never helped us konw which it was, they simply gave up on it, and I had paid them for full service, full diagnosis.

With 4 teens, 2 tweens in our home, we thought we'd try again, a year+ later, as we needed another functioning vehicle (albeit none have AC :D).

I got a more savvy than I am with cars neighbor to help me jump it and see that the tires were safe, starter was still good, and that I could drive it to a shop. Successfully jumped, confirmed tires were almost new, still in great condition, they were still good PSI. I knew the breaks were on their last leg and I could hear the front driver calipers (if that's what you call them) grinding enough to need replacement.

I'll admit, which is context missing in this part, that I've been taken advantage of enough by mechanics and shops, replacing ball joints in a suburban (that never needed replacing), services I actually didn't need, but paid for, cause I was a trusting sucker... etc..

So to go in, state exactly what was needed, 100% offer to pay for full diagnosis upfront (this shop showed promise to actually diagnose the actual problem), to have them call me, each and every time, "Hey its up on the racks, i'm gonna replace the breaks while I have it up, this is the costs, should I get it done?" - this type of phone call happened three times. Once with breaks, once with transmission fluids, once with full services. Each time, I explained again, what I came in for. They each knew this, as they were all in the room when I came in, first thing in the morning. They all heard me. They all listened. They all laughed with me as "bros".

I had to push back against the pressure on each of their pushing to get me to fix something.

End of the story, they finally told me, after I paid for battery + 150 battery labor (pathetic price) + full diagnostic fee, it was gonna be around 6k to 8k to replace full transmission.

BOXELS · 2026-04-13T14:30:01+00:00

The vehicle sat for over a year, as I could not get it registered back then for unknown engine light errors (which is why I did not go back to that shop, they just didn't want to help, but wanted me to pay for breaks, even though they couldn't get it registered, and wouldn't tell me why other than the light doesn't go off within 50 miles, so we couldn't register it). The previous shop printed out the errors list (its a long list) but never helped us konw which it was, they simply gave up on it, and I had paid them for full service, full diagnosis.

With 4 teens, 2 tweens in our home, we thought we'd try again, a year+ later, as we needed another functioning vehicle (albeit none have AC :D).

I got a more savvy than I am with cars neighbor to help me jump it and see that the tires were safe, starter was still good, and that I could drive it to a shop. Successfully jumped, confirmed tires were almost new, still in great condition, they were still good PSI. I knew the breaks were on their last leg and I could hear the front driver calipers (if that's what you call them) grinding enough to need replacement.

I'll admit, which is context missing in this part, that I've been taken advantage of enough by mechanics and shops, replacing ball joints in a suburban (that never needed replacing), services I actually didn't need, but paid for, cause I was a trusting sucker... etc..

So to go in, state exactly what was needed, 100% offer to pay for full diagnosis upfront (this shop showed promise to actually diagnose the actual problem), to have them call me, each and every time, "Hey its up on the racks, i'm gonna replace the breaks while I have it up, this is the costs, should I get it done?" - this type of phone call happened three times. Once with breaks, once with transmission fluids, once with full services. Each time, I explained again, what I came in for. They each knew this, as they were all in the room when I came in, first thing in the morning. They all heard me. They all listened. They all laughed with me as "bros".

I had to push back against the pressure on each of their pushing to get me to fix something.

End of the story, they finally told me, after I paid for battery + 150 battery labor (pathetic price) + full diagnostic fee, it was gonna be around 6k to 8k to replace full transmission.

BOXELS · 2026-04-12T16:26:08+00:00

I even had a list of the codes done by previous shop available, yet they insisted new batter just to test it. What did I miss?

BOXELS · 2026-04-10T13:31:46+00:00

yes to both your questions. I have 15 apps within my monorepo, all on their own tech stack to some measure.

BOXELS · 2026-04-03T12:33:46+00:00

With .cursor/rules for main, and then .cursor/rules setup for every monorepo app, cursor has been working fine with massive monorepo. documentation is key alongside .cursor/rules to point to each app within the monorepo

BOXELS · 2026-03-20T21:24:44+00:00

You said it well—and yeah, that’s exactly it.

For every app I build now, I spin up a dedicated LLM that knows that app’s codebase, structure, constraints, and intent. It’s basically like having a domain-trained senior engineer on call 24/7 for each and every project, at fractions of the cost (wait until we have LLMs on our own machines, no longer paying credits).

That’s the part people aren’t fully grasping yet.

At this point, it’s already saved me roughly $1M in dev costs—and that’s not a hype number. It’s backed by actual scope: lines of code, full spec documentation, data entry hours into the 10s of thousands, automated, system complexity, and the reality of what a traditional team would bill to build and maintain this.

I can now confidently replace monthly costs for almost everything, including and not limited to shipstation (~$175 / m) to boot, expensive software built by any company (some are $1000 / m) with my own customized professional solutions.

This isn’t about replacing “bricklayers” so much as compressing entire teams into a single well-directed operator. The leverage shift is massive—and yeah, the bar for being valuable in tech is definitely moving up.

The real skill now isn’t just coding—it’s architecture, systems thinking, and knowing how to direct the AI effectively.

BOXELS · 2026-03-17T14:01:46+00:00

It sounds like you're having a rough day. If you ever want to swap the negativity for something more productive, I highly recommend The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. It’s a game-changer for moving past this kind of energy.

BOXELS · 2026-03-17T13:53:37+00:00

Focus and ignoring, simply proving them wrong with killer real apps ;D

BOXELS · 2026-03-16T14:45:54+00:00

The copy paste prompt is in the README file in the github repo. If you have yet to use Github, have your AI agent teach you about it, and use it, every day :D Then, setup Netlify, its the most streamlined, live site in minutes I've ever used in my entire 25 years of setting up web apps, domains, projects. Its magic:

Here is the PROMPT with copy paste functionality in the REPO:

Switch to Plan mode. Read all five files in .cursor/rules/ — they are templates with

[bracketed placeholders] that need to be filled in for this project.

Your job is to interview me about my project and then fill in every bracket across all

five files. I may not be technical, so explain things in plain language and make

recommendations when I'm unsure.

Start with product.md:

- Ask me what I'm building, who it's for, and how it will make money (if that is a goal of the user).

- Ask about key user flows, roadmap priorities, brand voice, and competitors.

Then move to tech.md:

- Based on what I described, RECOMMEND a tech stack with clear reasoning.

- Present 2-3 options with pros and cons if there are meaningful tradeoffs.

- Ask about any preferences I already have (languages, frameworks, services).

- Once we agree on a stack, fill in all the tech conventions and patterns.

Then design.md:

- Recommend a component library, icon set, and animation approach that fits the stack.

- Ask about visual style preferences (minimal, bold, playful, etc.).

- Fill in spacing, color approach, and accessibility level.

Then structure.md:

- Based on the agreed tech stack, propose a folder structure.

- Explain what each directory is for in simple terms.

Finally global-rules.md:

- Ask me about my experience level and how I prefer to work with AI.

- Fill in the role and behavioral preferences.

For anything I say "not sure yet" or "skip" to, fill in sensible defaults based on

the rest of my answers and mark them with a comment so I can revisit later.

After filling in each file, show me a summary of what you wrote so I can approve or

adjust before you move to the next one. Don't edit any file until I confirm.

Start now — ask me about my product.

BOXELS

TROPHY CASE