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> If the YouTube algorithm nukes your account and all your videos, you should be ready to upload them to a new account. Same with anything else digital. Do you

> If the YouTube algorithm nukes your account and all your videos, you should be ready to upload them to a new account. Same with anything else digital. Do you know if this is a common occurrence? Also, I'm only a YouTube viewer and am not familiar with all the creator tools, problems, communities, etc. But would a creator really re-upload all their back-catalog if deleted? Just to try to get back to views and things?

ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago
I remember someone posting an agonized screed, some time ago, about YT deleting their channel, and all the videos. Apparently, they had not kept the source/rendered originals of the videos, so it actually clobbered their business. I am a scarred, limping old coot, and have learned [the hard way] that backups are goooood.
- tomcam 4y ago
  > I am a scarred, limping old coot That is a delightfully evocative phrase
tpxl 4y ago
A few weeks ago, youtube changed their swearword policy. A creator I follow basically had to delete half their channel or risk termination.
- patmcc 4y ago
  They're not banning channels based on swearwords (yet, anyway). They are demonetizing videos with swearing - in the first bit, if too much, maybe other rules, but nobody is getting banned from saying 'shit'.
  - Marsymars 4y ago
    If you don't want monetization, is swearing in your videos to avoid your subscribers having to watch ads a viable strategy? (To get around this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/18/youtube-will-now-show-ads-on-all-videos-even-if-creators-dont-want-them/?sh=1cac35874913 https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/18/youtube...)
- zxcvbn4038 4y ago
  Battlestar Galactica did it right - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrYdQnz8vJg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrYdQnz8vJg
- mgdlbp 4y ago
  Huh, that probably explains... I was in a youtube rabbit hole right around then when some videos suddenly wouldn't load, turned out that I might've been the final viewer of the (small) channel that had had been banned at that moment. I was wondering what the chances were. edit: Seems like it. The channel[1] name probably raised some new flag, and Google did its thing. Seems fair, it's not like a reasonable moderator would know of a concept of a second chance or anything. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20181123103308/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcDfv0bFBkxJsTIr7VejNRA https://web.archive.org/web/20181123103308/https://www.youtu... https://web.archive.org/web/20220624154617/https://www.youtube.com/c/SyncFag https://web.archive.org/web/20220624154617/https://www.youtu... // Ah, that channel was a pretty interesting part of the rabbithole of net culture-related parody too - rare to see collaboration like that
MonkeyMalarky 4y ago
There were a whole bunch of artist and genre specific mixes I used to listen to on yt that are gone now. The uploaders accounts have all been nuked too. The sad thing is I can listen to it all on Spotify but it's not the same.. the creator's did not insignificant work to mix the songs together.
chipsa 4y ago
Maybe not on YouTube, but the gunTubers are having issues with YouTube changing their interpretation of the rules and instantly issuing 3 strikes against them for rule violations. And so, it'd be good to have a back catalog to upload to a different service to keep that older material available.

ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago

I remember someone posting an agonized screed, some time ago, about YT deleting their channel, and all the videos. Apparently, they had not kept the source/rendered originals of the videos, so it actually clobbered their business. I am a scarred, limping old coot, and have learned [the hard way] that backups are goooood.

tomcam 4y ago
> I am a scarred, limping old coot That is a delightfully evocative phrase

tpxl 4y ago

A few weeks ago, youtube changed their swearword policy. A creator I follow basically had to delete half their channel or risk termination.

patmcc 4y ago
They're not banning channels based on swearwords (yet, anyway). They are demonetizing videos with swearing - in the first bit, if too much, maybe other rules, but nobody is getting banned from saying 'shit'.
- Marsymars 4y ago
  If you don't want monetization, is swearing in your videos to avoid your subscribers having to watch ads a viable strategy? (To get around this: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/18/youtube-will-now-show-ads-on-all-videos-even-if-creators-dont-want-them/?sh=1cac35874913 https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/11/18/youtube...)
zxcvbn4038 4y ago
Battlestar Galactica did it right - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrYdQnz8vJg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrYdQnz8vJg
mgdlbp 4y ago
Huh, that probably explains... I was in a youtube rabbit hole right around then when some videos suddenly wouldn't load, turned out that I might've been the final viewer of the (small) channel that had had been banned at that moment. I was wondering what the chances were. edit: Seems like it. The channel[1] name probably raised some new flag, and Google did its thing. Seems fair, it's not like a reasonable moderator would know of a concept of a second chance or anything. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20181123103308/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcDfv0bFBkxJsTIr7VejNRA https://web.archive.org/web/20181123103308/https://www.youtu... https://web.archive.org/web/20220624154617/https://www.youtube.com/c/SyncFag https://web.archive.org/web/20220624154617/https://www.youtu... // Ah, that channel was a pretty interesting part of the rabbithole of net culture-related parody too - rare to see collaboration like that

MonkeyMalarky 4y ago

There were a whole bunch of artist and genre specific mixes I used to listen to on yt that are gone now. The uploaders accounts have all been nuked too. The sad thing is I can listen to it all on Spotify but it's not the same.. the creator's did not insignificant work to mix the songs together.

chipsa 4y ago

Maybe not on YouTube, but the gunTubers are having issues with YouTube changing their interpretation of the rules and instantly issuing 3 strikes against them for rule violations. And so, it'd be good to have a back catalog to upload to a different service to keep that older material available.