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Recent and perplexing ordeal with YouTube (self.chat)
submitted 11 months ago by remington to c/chat
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I worked for many years (hundreds of hours) locating, remastering and uploading content for a fan-based YouTube channel named 'R.E.M. Archive'. I did 99% of the work and was happy to do this for the huge fan base. I believe the channel existed for about 6 years or so.

I had to use the Wayback Machine in order to find an example screenshot of a video description.

A few weeks ago, I checked the email address associated with the channel and found this email from YouTube.

I followed a link, provided in that email, to fill out an appeal form. I, simply, stated that I'd be willing to make any/all adjustments to make the channel compliant with their policy.

And this was the response I received.

I'm not even mad. I will not fight them. This is utter horse shit.

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[–] Melody@lemmy.one 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can appeal this bogus appeal outcome; but prepare to go to battle on Twitter with TeamYoutube and don't expect to win...unless you can prove your channel was either "more official", "not claiming to be official", or "Not Official, not claiming to be, and you started your channel before they started theirs.

Most of the time it's not worth the effort unless you have overwhelming evidence.

[–] remington 4 points 11 months ago

Most of the time it’s not worth the effort unless you have overwhelming evidence.

I completely agree. Hence why I will not be fighting this.