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this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2026
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Dang, 190k subscribers and his source of income? That's pretty awful.
Poor guy, fuck these people
Guy made an assumption about the rules and lost his account, no different from posting on any other website. If you are going to base your career on an online account you had better be 100% fucking sure about the rules before you post anything publicly to that account.
Generally true, but I have the impression YouTube has a history of being inconsistent with rules and punishing innocent creators, which would make it difficult to have any idea what the rules are.
Which is why a user who relies on YouTube so much should be taking the most conservative interpretation of the rules possible. There are several pages (reachable from the upload wizard) that talk about what may or may not constitute age-restricted content. Implied sexuality is on that list and if the video he uploaded contained even a censored version a sex scene in Hellraiser then that should have been a red flag for him.
I upload rarely enough that the upload wizard looks different pretty much every time I use it but the not-for-kids and age-restriction options are pretty prominent and both have links to gotcha pages that list how they should be used.
You are completely correct in your position here, I absolutely cannot comprehend the level of delusional pushback.
And I'm not talking out my ass, I was rocking over a million views a month at one point.
The channel owner even outright admits he just thought he could get away with consciously breaking the terms. After already having received two previous strikes. Well whoops-a-daisy, he didn't get away with it.
It is inarguable that this person brought this on themselves.
I don't really need to hear everybody's side-grievances about big businesses and enshittification as those are a complete red herring; The person deserved it and he shot himself in the foot.
Empathy for the loss. ZERO sympathy.
We all break tons of rules at work all the time. It would make sense to take down the one video he screwed up, not ruin him.
Agreed, and before terminating an account above some threshold size (say top 5%) there should be a human review or confirmation. But this is not surprising or even unexpected behaviour from YouTube. There are loads of horror stories from users who get their account shut down for 'minor' or accidental infractions. If a user is going to rely on a service with a history of unsympathetic and unpredictable enforcement then they should always take the most cautious approach when uploading.