The common thread that they are trying to raise awareness about is that Google at any time, for any reason, can lock you out of your account with no way for you

The common thread that they are trying to raise awareness about is that Google at any time, for any reason, can lock you out of your account with no way for you to actually find out why or what's happened. Yes it's probally against YouTube's ToS to get people to pay for content in unlisted videos, but the terms of service doesn't explicitly talk about using YouTube to host paid-for content - it is covered in a border statement though in their ToS [0] But they should still at least be able to talk to a real human about it and get told the actual reason "Your account was terminated for commercial use of unlisted videos" instead of automated email bot responses/Or have been given some warning "This is against our ToS, your account will be terminated in 7 days" [0] https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/38348285?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/38348285?hl=en