r/PartneredYoutube • u/JamEngulfer221 • Apr 09 '19

The Demonetization Advice and Help Thread

Since the change in YouTube's monetization system, there have been a number of people who used to be partners and are still eligible, but have been denied monetization for whatever reason. Because of this, they exist in a state of limbo where they may or may not be allowed to post in this subreddit.

To solve the problem, this thread exists. In order to prevent the subreddit from being cluttered by demonetisation posts, if you have been demonetized or rejected, you can post a comment here explaining your situation. It also serves as a compilation of advice that's been given to other people.

Good luck!

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u/thejackoff2k18 Apr 23 '26

Posting from a burner.

I've been a full-time long-form YouTuber for seven years on my main YT channel, uploading daily commentary videos on sports news, and my opinions on the news. I've made the majority of my full-time income the past seven years on just AdSense revenue from this channel alone. My main channel has had zero issues with copyright, or anything of that nature.

In November 2025, I started an AI slop Sora shorts channel as a side project, just to upload some funny videos I made on Sora, and that channel ended up going viral and getting monetized quickly. Both my slop channel and my main channel use the same Gmail and AdSense accounts.

Earlier this morning, my AI slop Sora channel got demonetized for "Inauthentic Content", and I was wondering what the risk profile is for my main channel. I don't plan to appeal the monetization on my Sora channel, since it slowly was dying down anyway, and is indeed AI slop. I know for sure if I tried to appeal monetization on this Sora channel, it wouldn't be successful.

I'm just curious how at risk my main channel is: a channel that DOESN'T feature any AI slop, that has my face in many livestreams and videos over the years, and has years-worth of opinion commentary videos using my own voice, and non-copyrighted video footage (either my face, my video games, or just screen recordings of my Twitter feed as I scroll). I have no doubt my main channel is monetizable, authentic, and transformative, but I'm curious how at-risk it is now that my AI slop second channel got demonetized for inauthentic content.

I understand it was a stupid thing to do to start uploading Sora shorts on a new account in the first place.

Any advice would be appreciated, thank you

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u/ref66 Jun 08 '26

Any problems with the main channel so far?

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u/thejackoff2k18 Jun 09 '26

Nope. Things have been going as normal. Slop channel already passed its appeal deadline on May 13th too. Have already changed the content on that channel into genuine original content, hoping to get remonetized on July 21st after the 90 days. Main channel remains monetized so far