YOUTUBE IS TREATING CREATORS LIKE CRIMINALS. WE ARE CREATORS. NOT PRISONERS. Creators should not lose their entire YouTube presence overnight because of ONE MISTAKE. NO WARNING. NO STRIKE. NO REAL CHANCE TO CORRECT IT. The CIRCUMVENTION POLICY can turn one channel’s termination into a domino effect, taking down other channels connected to that creator. ONE CHANNEL GOES DOWN. THEN THE OTHERS FOLLOW. That is a real problem for creators. THAT HAPPENED TO ME. MY ORIGINAL CHANNEL 25K SUBSCRIBERS. 4–5 MILLION VIEWS. Steal a Brainrot content on Roblox. MORE THAN 75% OF THAT CHANNEL WAS REGULAR CONTENT. Then came those 5 DAYS OF HEAVY CTA SHORTS during the event. Across those Shorts, I told viewers to LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, DROP A COMMENT, AND FOLLOW ME ON ROBLOX for help with the event. The channel jumped from 7K TO 25K SUBSCRIBERS in 5 days. The game was averaging 15–20 MILLION USERS at the time. WITHOUT THAT MASSIVE GROWTH SPIKE DURING THOSE INCENTIVE SHORTS, I DON’T THINK MY CHANNEL WOULD’VE BEEN INSTANTLY TERMINATED. I GAINED 18K SUBSCRIBERS IN JUST 5 DAYS BECAUSE OF THOSE SHORTS, AND I BELIEVE THAT MASSIVE SPIKE IS WHAT GOT ME FLAGGED. I KNOW NOW THOSE SHORTS WERE INCENTIVE ENGAGEMENT. I DIDN’T KNOW THAT AT THE TIME. BUT BECAUSE OF THOSE 5 DAYS OF CTA SHORTS AND THAT MASSIVE GROWTH, I WENT STRAIGHT FROM NO WARNING/STRIKE TO INSTANT TERMINATION AND A LIFETIME BAN. THE VERY NEXT DAY AFTER THE EVENT WAS OVER. MY SECOND CHANNEL 40K SUBSCRIBERS. 10 MILLION VIEWS IN 5 MONTHS. Fight in a School content on Roblox. 1,100+ VIDEOS. ZERO VIOLATIONS. 6 MONTHS LATER, THIS CHANNEL WAS HIT TOO. It was removed because of the original channel’s termination. MY THIRD CHANNEL 2K SUBSCRIBERS. 300K VIEWS IN 2 WEEKS. Fight in a School backup channel. A MONTH LATER, THIS CHANNEL WAS HIT TOO. Then my other channels including ones I barely or never used were removed as well. EVERYTHING GONE. My original channel has been gone 9 MONTHS. My second has been gone 4 MONTHS. My other channels have been gone 2 MONTHS. ONE MISTAKE. MULTIPLE CHANNELS GONE. WE ARE CREATORS. NOT CRIMINALS. WE ARE CREATORS. NOT PRISONERS. #ReinstateIslandneofr ✅ REPOST — this needs to reach more creators. ✅ LIKE — help spread the message. ✅ TAG @TeamYouTube & creators who should see this.

YOUTUBE, LISTEN. CREATORS NEED WARNINGS. You are not keeping YOUTUBE safe by removing channels every day like you claim. Instead, you’re destroying communities and removing the people who make the PLATFORM WATCHABLE. You say you want creators who keep viewers watching yet you can permanently remove those same creators over a mistake without giving them a chance to learn from it. If someone makes a mistake that does not AFFECT a user in any way, GIVE THEM A DAMN WARNING and a chance to fix it. Everyone on YouTube has made mistakes. Some get warnings. Some get strikes. Others get PERMANENTLY REMOVED on a first violation and are basically told to fuck off and never come back because of the circumvention policy. WHY? In my case, I understand the violation came from the 5 days when I posted a shit ton of CTA Shorts telling viewers they could follow me on Roblox for help. I genuinely had NO CLUE that doing that could violate YouTube’s rules. But I also had a completely CLEAN 11-MONTH HISTORY. NO WARNING. NO STRIKE. NO COMMUNITY GUIDELINES VIOLATIONS. Then those 5 days of CTA Shorts got me BANNED FOR LIFE over something MINOR. MY SECOND CHANNEL SHOWS EXACTLY WHY A WARNING WOULD HAVE FIXED MY MISTAKE IMMEDIATELY. If YouTube had warned me on my first channel, I would have stopped posting those CTA Shorts or removed them immediately. Instead, I was terminated right away and never got that chance. If you never give people a chance to correct their mistakes, then what’s the point of pointing creators to the Community Guidelines after they’ve already been punished? HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO LEARN IF YOU NEVER GIVE US A CHANCE TO FIX WHAT WE DID WRONG? And there’s another part of this that makes the situation even worse. I had NO IDEA my second channel was violating the circumvention policy. I had previously contacted YouTube Support and received information that led me to believe I could continue building that channel. If YouTube Support itself gives creators incorrect or incomplete information about its own policies, how are creators supposed to understand what they’re actually allowed to do? That information led me to keep building my second channel only for YouTube to eventually REMOVE THAT CHANNEL TOO. And everything I’m saying about my case, I HAVE PROOF OF. Screenshots. Messages. Emails. Everything. But for some reason, I still can’t get an actual HUMAN to look at my case. I have the evidence. I have the history. I have the explanations. I JUST NEED SOMEONE TO ACTUALLY LOOK AT IT. So why wasn’t there a warning? Why wasn’t there a strike? Why weren’t the CTA Shorts simply removed? Why not Advanced Features removal or even a temporary suspension? Why did it go straight to “GET OFF YOUTUBE” permanently and then result in EVERYTHING I BUILT being taken away? The event is LONG OVER. Those CTA videos are DEAD. I’m not doing that anymore. I didn’t force anyone to leave YouTube. I didn’t scam anyone. I didn’t deceive anyone. My viewers were simply being told they could follow me on Roblox for help. HOW does telling someone to follow me on Roblox make my channel UNSAFE to users? I know YouTube has the right to enforce its policies. I understand that. But if someone isn’t doing something that is SEVERELY UNSAFE for users, why are they being banned for LIFE? Creators need a chance to LEARN from their mistakes. A warning could have taught me the rule without destroying YEARS of work. Give creators a chance to understand the rules BEFORE you destroy everything they’ve built. If you believe creators deserve a fairer system: ✅ REPOST — this needs to reach more creators. ✅ LIKE — help spread the message. ✅ TAG @TeamYouTube & creators who should see this.