Fulltime YouTuber here. Just as one datapoint, I was recently [very] pleasantly surprised to learn that YouTube was able to restore a video that I had accidenta

Fulltime YouTuber here. Just as one datapoint, I was recently [very] pleasantly surprised to learn that YouTube was able to restore a video that I had accidentally deleted. It went back to being live as if nothing had happened—though my contacting support was admittedly right after the deletion happened.