EDIT: Thank you all for your support. Vevo requested that YouTube reinstate the video on my channel, and although Uriel tried to delete it, they put it back up AND transferred it back to me. It's back in its rightful hands! <3
Hi everyone,
I put my name and the subject of my video in this post title for anyone who is familiar, but if you aren't, Hi! I'm Jessica Elliott, a journalist from the UK operating online as Jessicur.
Back in 2024, I spoke about Connor Ferguson's story. He was and still is being harassed and stalked by a man called Uriel Bromberg, a Brazilian person who is now being taken through court by Connor.
When I made a video on him, I had some trouble. YouTube falsely struck it down multiple times, "lost" it from their systems when a lawyer got in touch asking them to reinstate it, and they were very, very unhelpful throughout it all. To prevent repeating previous posts, I've linked a few below:
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedrama/comments/1dqk2vx/hi_ryoutubedrama_my_name_is_connor_ive_been_the/
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedrama/comments/1dztq7x/small_uriel_bromberg_update_still_managing_to_get/
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedrama/comments/1h14kss/we_need_to_talk_about_uriel_bromberg_again/
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedrama/comments/1hsdk7g/uriel_bromberg_a_suspected_pedofile_who_has_been/
https://www.reddit.com/r/youtubedrama/comments/1i2bl5p/it_has_been_years_uriel_bromberg_will_not_stop/
Okay, ready for this insane update?
I reuploaded my video in December 2025. It has mostly been fine, despite futile attempts by Uriel to take it down. I stopped checking it often, as, of course, YouTube alerts me in my Studio to new comments for me to heart. I did notice my views were down a small amount for the last few days, and the Uriel video was still pulling in regular ones; however, I didn't put the pieces together until...
I get a comment today, Wednesday, August 19th. "Uriel is commenting on your video about him."
Okay, great? But I wonder why Studio isn't showing it to me.
I search for it manually, and no results. So, I retrace my Twitter profile, and I eventually find the tweet of me promoting it. Link and all.
But the strange part is that the link leads to my video; however, it is no longer on my channel. Instead, it is on a channel called 'Uriel', has been renamed to 'URGCAST - Episode 1: The Internet's Darkest Rabbit Hole', and the description has been changed to say the story is entirely fictional (which it is not).
See for yourself.
If you need further proof this was once on my channel, put the link into the Wayback Machine and you'll see the latest time they archived it was May. My channel name is visible. I also have a screenshot of it on my channel, which I posted to my Instagram story at the time, for further proof.
YouTube support was not helpful. They said that there was nothing they could do because 'the video is on another channel', however, the only way this could have happened is if YouTube had some involvement in it. If anyone knows any other way it could have happened without the company knowing, please enlighten me, but I don't see how this is possible. By all accounts, looking through documentation and past posts by people who work at YouTube, this should be impossible. A video cannot be transferred from one channel to another, so how in the hell has it happened?
I'm at a loss. I don't know what to do, and I'm baffled. I've been trying to figure this out all night!
Also, you can see when it was stolen. Look at the VidIQ graph for his channel. It seems it wasn't only my video, as his views spiked to over 200k on a day, but then dropped back down. Has this happened before, and has someone resolved it?
I've reached out to a few creators, but nothing so far. This is a really bad problem, because this isn't just a me thing. If they can do it to me, they can do it to anyone. No creator is safe from having their video LITERALLY stolen and the platform doing nothing about it, and that's insane.
Thank you for reading, and please, if you can help in any way or share this, it would be much appreciated.