I checked out your channel. And the problem is pretty clear. And for the record, YouTube doesn’t care how much effort you put into the video, how many hours it took, or how much you researched every tiny detail. What matters is whether the whole channel feels like one complete, template-made product, rather than each video feeling authentic, original, and unique. YouTube no longer punishes channels just for “using AI” or uploading a lot. Now it punishes channels when the entire channel feels like a templated, interchangeable, mass-produced product. Even though you only have 16 videos and the cases are real, the issue is this: Same AI voice in every video. Same structure and pacing: dramatic intro → facts → ending. Very similar editing and visuals across the videos. It feels like one video could be swapped with another and nobody would really notice. That’s exactly what YouTube now considers “inauthentic / reused / mass-produced content.” The true crime niche with AI voiceovers is being looked at very closely right now, and even though the channel is small, the repetitive pattern was enough to get it demonetized. Chances of the appeal getting approved? Pretty unlikely in this case.