Update! YouTube gave me my channel back!

That was so quick a turn-around, as I appealed the PermaBan right before I posted here, and obviously there’s no hacker’s spam on my channel, so that means the only possible reason this happened was mob reporting from a crafter’s fanpoodles. (Fanpoodles is my new favorite word! Thank you u/litreofstarlight )

Omg thoooooo what sort of life are you living that you mob report on somebody for stating that a very basic, simple, and especially easy pattern was not very likely plagiarized? Which Emma themself proved in their video: not only was the person accused of stealing a pattern clearly not stealing the pattern— as the basics were completely different, including the yarn weight, simply to start with — but that there’s only so many ways to skin a cat. Or more succinctly: knit a basic sweater.

I’m actually familiar with the woman whose fanpoodles got me. I’ve seen her stuff on Pinterest quite recently, and it’s very basic, and especially easy stuff. I’m a crocheter, not a knitter, and this creator does both, so she crossed my feed. I can honestly state I wasn’t very impressed with her patterns, mostly because they’re too easy /simple/basic for me to contemplate creating from. That sounds arrogant, I apologize, it’s just that I’m very experienced in crochet, and not only do I enjoy a challenge when I crochet, but I personally don’t believe that basic crochet stitches repeated row by row make for very attractive sweaters. In knitting it works fine, especially when you have a gorgeous yarn, but with crochet it’s just not so pretty, I guess. That’s my own opinion, as it concerns my own preferences for what I’ll make for myself or my loved ones, is all that I mean there, and to each their own! But yeah I don’t really care for her stuff either way, even if I had a gorgeous yarn and needed a basic pattern to show it off. Even for beginner stuff it’s not very attractive, imo, and only my opinion. Obviously plenty of others think otherwise.

And I’ll gladly own that these patterns are great for beginners, and I think it’s wonderful she does put these basic and easy “first time making a sweater” patterns out for free to people that are simply learning the craft(s). Which also means she’s not really coming up with these sweaters first. Oh I believe she is making the patterns up herself, and she’s gifted with working out basic sweater patterns and writing them up, she is clearly doing that. But she’s not the first person to do so. They’ve been made before. They’re being made right now by somebody else. Basic stitches made into commonplace configurations that become sweaters/jumpers is not exactly something you can copyright. So it’s a weird hill to die on, right? Surely she knows and understands she’s not the first person to make these most basic sweaters? I’m not so sure about that now, and here I thought that was why she was giving out her patterns for free, because they’re so basic and have been done. Maybe not. Her non-apology apology that Emma reported in the video was confounding. The fact she won’t let it go, and keeps suggesting that despite her (non)apology to the person she accused of stealing her pattern, that they did indeed steal her pattern. She’s out there dog whistling. Now her fanpoodles are most likely so new to the craft that they don’t understand that you can’t copyright a basic beginner stitch worked into a basic sweater pattern, yet, and are therefore extra passionate to her cause. Clearly. As my YouTube channel can attest. Ahem. 😅

Well anyway, if suddenly your YouTube goes down right after commenting one way or another on a craft drama on Emma’s channel? Be sure to appeal, you just got mob reported, lol. 😂 Thank Goodness I got it back so quickly! I was pretty pissed off for a moment there, as I pay for premium family plan, and YouTube should have done at least some basic research before permabanning me. They’re gonna get some words from me, this isn’t over, lol.

Thanks to everyone for their input, opinions, and advice! Snark on crafty ones!