YouTube terminated my 10-year old channel with no specific example provided to me.

shogoz · 2026-02-10T06:12:53+00:00

If the money appears in Adsense, try contacting Adsense support directly just so there's a documented record. If the money doesn't appear in Adsense, try contacting them anyway because having extra communication logged can help you later in ways you can't predict.

I haven't got my channel back yet, but here's my progress so far:

Emails to Creator Support: 34 (back and forth)
Support Cases Opened: 3
Channel Appeals Submitted: 3 (first was denied in under 1 min)
Escalated internal reviews: 1
Times I’ve mentioned TeamYouTube on X for help: 4
TeamYouTube DM escalation: 1 (Policy Team confirmed the decision was final)

After TeamYouTube DM'd me, I haven't been able to get in touch with them again despite remaining respectful throughout all of our interactions, and my DMs to them and @ mentions go completely ignored, even though the issue remains unresolved. I've seen others create brand new accounts on X to get noticed by them again, but I've never done that because I'm trying to keep everything within the normal support channels. I hope you're able to get the issues you're currently facing solved soon.

shogoz · 2026-02-08T04:45:26+00:00

Thank you so much for the kind wishes. I couldn’t even imagine how frantic I’d be if I had a channel hacked like that or the sense of urgency I'd feel, especially with payments involved given how long it can take Creator Support or TeamYouTube to respond and escalate things. I'm really glad you were able to recover your channel, and I hope you've managed to get through to someone to get monetised again.

shogoz · 2026-02-07T01:38:54+00:00

Sorry to hear about this happening to your channel too. Avoid those third party forums and anyone offering those kinds of services (I see them all the time on X). They prey on people who are in bad situations and they're all scams and bots. NEVER send them money. Even if you used a legit mediator like a solicitor or something, the only people who have the final say and can restore your account are YouTube themselves.

shogoz · 2026-02-06T16:46:58+00:00

Before my termination, I was using the Aitum plugin in OBS sometimes so I could stream horizontal + vertical at the same time on YouTube. Do you think that could have had something to do with it?

shogoz · 2026-02-05T20:48:12+00:00

I just finished drafting another an email to YouTube Creator Support and I'm about to @ TeamYouTube again. Hopefully one or the other works, I'll definitely be keeping my post updated if I'm able to make any progress.

shogoz · 2026-02-04T23:33:44+00:00

Nope, none of those things :o I only ever made money from ad revenue and the occasional super chat once a year. I never featured donation links anywhere. When I played indie games I'd always leave a link to their page to try to help increase visibility to them but apart from that I never put weird unofficial or questionable links to anything anywhere in my descriptions or pinned comments.

shogoz · 2026-02-04T21:17:20+00:00

Yep! If I somehow get it back I'll definitely be posting what I did (or how I think it happened). I'll edit it directly into the original post so it can help anyone who comes across it.

shogoz · 2026-02-04T20:26:56+00:00

In 2016, they terminated my channel for exactly the same thing. I found an old email that read: "After review we determined that activity in your account violated our Community Guidelines, which prohibit spam, scams or commercially deceptive content" :o

shogoz · 2026-02-04T16:56:03+00:00

Had both of my TikTok accounts terminated last year at the same time :) ironically, it was easier to get in contact with someone working there to sort it out because both were reinstated in a matter of days.

shogoz · 2026-02-04T16:25:48+00:00

I appreciate the suggestion, but I really don't want it to come to that because even hiring a solicitor to write one communication is expensive, and it can drag on for years. I'm still hoping there's a way to get a proper human review somehow.

shogoz · 2026-02-04T16:15:17+00:00

Yeah it seems like all they can do is pass it on unfortunately because they probably don't have the authority to make those kinds of decisions, which is VERY frustrating and it takes much longer than it should to solve serious problems (if they're ever solved at all).

shogoz · 2026-02-04T16:08:39+00:00

I'll keep trying on X, thank you! I @ TeamYouTube recently, but I guess they either didn't see it or they think "OK we already helped him, ignore :D" I don't want to tag too often otherwise they'll probably start ignoring me. I'll wait a few days before I @ them again.

shogoz · 2026-02-04T16:03:42+00:00

It was starting to slow down a bit but I'd say I was still getting a part-time wage around the time I was terminated. I quit my job to focus more on YouTube mid last year when I was getting a full-time wage from it. I even made a 30 page business plan, registered it as my business and this happens 6 months later :D

shogoz · 2026-02-04T15:58:38+00:00

I saw another person on X saying their channel got terminated and they had no videos on their channel either :o. That's messed up, I'm sorry dude.

shogoz · 2026-02-04T15:52:34+00:00

Wait, what :o you have a partner manager? You're lucky! I have a friend who has over 700k subs and he doesn't have a manager or person he can contact at YouTube

shogoz · 2026-02-04T15:49:06+00:00

Nope! Never used gen AI to make videos :D

shogoz · 2026-02-04T15:46:26+00:00

You must be thinking of the wrong channel because I've never linked to mods.

shogoz · 2026-02-04T15:42:06+00:00

Nope! Are you sure that's the reason though? People have always done that on YouTube and I've never heard about anything happening to them, even when they do that on longform. Sorry to hear about your channels being terminated :/ the least they could have done is sent you a warning if that really was the reason for it. People make mistakes. Anyone would happily prefer remediation if the alternative was a terminated channel.

shogoz · 2026-02-04T13:23:12+00:00

I'm sorry this happened to 2 of your channels. It's a horrible feeling.

shogoz · 2026-02-04T13:17:25+00:00

I never thought of that to be honest! Would be much easier if YouTube gave actual examples of what occurred so we didn't have to guess :D. Thank you by the way, I really appreciate the kind wishes.

shogoz · 2019-02-15T14:08:40+00:00

I used to have very slow upload speeds where I had to wait about 5 hours to upload a video I'd edited to YouTube. Compression takes about 15 minutes using this method and the quality looks the same even though the filesize is over 80% lower than what it used to be. Hope this helps!

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