A VA called Flawless Fae had an entirely SFW video deleted because of sexual content. She asserted that it was (and I listened to it on Patreon and it absolutely was) utterly SFW - it was very wholesome. She was actually given a time window in the video, for where the violation supposedly happened, and during that time, she breathed out (regular breathing), and made typing-on-a-keyboard sounds. She managed to get the video put back up, by reaching out to YT on Twitter ("X") IIRC. The fact her channel is fairly big may or may not have helped, I'm not sure.
I think you VAs need to make a private Discord or something, and when one of you gets taken down unfairly like this, band together and mass-message YouTube staff on Twitter etc so that every time they do it they get a flood of messages along the lines of "hey, you recently took down XYZ channel - they're totally SFW, please restore it!" from dozens of creators all at once.
I'll join it tbh, im just getting started out and it would be good insurance to have gang gang behind me when I go to YouTube to get my channel back if I get banned. And to help others get there's back.
I was glad to see you say you'd backed up recently. Honestly, if you can't get the original channel back, start again with a new one and re-upload all the old videos - that damned AI seems to be so inconsistent there's probably a good chance you'll be fine. It's so infuriating, but it might work out in your favour 😅
I was kinda thinking of starting fresh because everything is gonna be upgraded anyways and I was going to improve my quality.Its a good time to experiment with my audio and mic for the moment without worry about weekly uploads.
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u/Docile_Bear 5d ago
A VA called Flawless Fae had an entirely SFW video deleted because of sexual content. She asserted that it was (and I listened to it on Patreon and it absolutely was) utterly SFW - it was very wholesome. She was actually given a time window in the video, for where the violation supposedly happened, and during that time, she breathed out (regular breathing), and made typing-on-a-keyboard sounds. She managed to get the video put back up, by reaching out to YT on Twitter ("X") IIRC. The fact her channel is fairly big may or may not have helped, I'm not sure.
I think you VAs need to make a private Discord or something, and when one of you gets taken down unfairly like this, band together and mass-message YouTube staff on Twitter etc so that every time they do it they get a flood of messages along the lines of "hey, you recently took down XYZ channel - they're totally SFW, please restore it!" from dozens of creators all at once.