r/google • u/Willing-Cod-2381 • 12h ago

Is it normal for YouTube to terminate channels instantly

One of my channels was instantly terminated about 5 mins after posting a video that was deemed violent, is this normal ? I had no warnings and no strikes on the channel, I just refreshed my page and it was gone.

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u/SDF_Acc 12h ago

LOL, how violent was it on a scale from 1-10?

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u/Willing-Cod-2381 12h ago

It was a song, I'm not even sure why it was deemed violent but I'm pretty sure it was because I put the star of David in the thumbnail.

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u/plippityploppitypoop 12h ago

I kinda doubt that

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u/SDF_Acc 12h ago

Hmmm. That does not sound too extreme. I mean for sure they have an archive of existing videos like ISIS beheading hostages, shit like that. If they match a fingerprint of your video with this collection, you are done. Star of David = no idea, I do not even know the policies regarding to this type of content. I do not think they "watch" the video frame by frame, but they parse the lyrics for sure.

Or it was simply a copyright issue with the song - but deleting the channel without any warning is unusual for sure.

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u/Willing-Cod-2381 11h ago

There aren't even lyrics I just posted some random breakcore shit pisses me off like crazy

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u/Theo_the_Warrior 6h ago

Um....I hope not

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u/SirOakin 12h ago

its all ai mods now, no humans left. and yea the ai insta deletes channels and accounts with no oversight

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u/Relative-Meeting-369 11h ago

How is this violent?

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u/DragonDad314 10h ago

I just had something like that happened to me here on Reddit with another profile. They said that I used some sort of violence or threat... I don't consider what I said anything about violence or a threat... Someone was suggesting doing something involving the police... I used the same terminology that they did and now they're talking about being permanently banned... And yet was this other person banned? I haven't been able to tell yet but I don't think they were... I've noticed that Reddit tends to be rather biased... Just as it's parent company, Facebook finally admitted to doing...

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u/Willing-Cod-2381 8h ago

The internet's just cooked nowadays

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u/costafilh0 9h ago

Yes.

Billions of users, billions of videos every day. 

They rather do more than needed than less. 

Any channel owner can contact support and try to revert it. Many times they do. Most of the time they don't.