I got targeted and I need your help
I already explained this on twitter and instagram but I want to explain everything clearly to you. First thing you need to know is that my youtube channel was targeted, I don’t know why but my biggest bet is that it was because it was a pro lgbtq+ channel. Read until the end so you’ll understand.
One thing you need to know is that in US there is something called fair use. Fair use means people can use any sort of copyrighted materials limitedly and transformatively to comment about it or criticize it. As you know I’m an analyzer so this is literally what I do, commenting and criticizing things in a limited way so it means all my videos are under fair use and legally I’m not doing anything wrong.
But a company (Naver) started giving me strikes since more than a month ago. Every time I got my videos back because they were under fair use, they couldn’t claim the video but the first sign of it all became clear to me when they gave me 5 strikes over 22 different videos. They never do it this aggressively, they were making sure I would get enough strikes to close my channel.
The thing is that the copy rights were given from Naver on vlive:
But if you are a subscriber you’ll know that some of these videos are not even vlive contents, hence they were striking me even on things that weren’t even theirs.
As you can see in the picture it says “your account will be disabled soon unless they (strikes) are resolved.”which means if I prove that the strikes were made by error, nothing should happen to my channel. As you can see youtube gave me 7 days to fill a notification counter and save my channel. The first time I tried they denied it quickly for no reason, then a lot of people started tweeting and emailing them until they finally forwarded my notification counter. They gave naver 10 business days to prove their side and meanwhile I had to wait, I couldn’t even upload any videos.
They had until 11th but I got no response until that day. On 12th this morning I got an email saying their time was up and all my videos were restored and back, which means my channel has no strike anymore.
So that should mean my channel should be safe right? Well wrong because right after this email my channel got terminated, I didn’t even get any emails about it.
You might ask why, no one knows. There is a way to tell youtube they deleted a channel by error by fill an appeal, this is what youtube team on twitter tells everyone and I did it and within 3 minutes they refused to continue the process, saying because I have more than 3 strikes which is not true, the email they gave me clearly says the strikes are gone.
So they terminated my channel for literally nothing and refused to help so I asked my subscribers on twitter to tweet to them and help me get their attention. The just passed me around and asked me to email copyright@youtube.com to get help.
Since then me and a lot of other people sent them over 200 emails and none of us got any answers over why it happened. That’s when I told people on twitter that I have a second youtube account, half an hour later both of my other channel that had no copyrights or weren’t even related much also got terminated.
So let me patch things up, someone gives me a lot of strikes to close my channel unfairly while I didn’t violate any youtube terms, when I try to fix it at first they deny then accept when it gets out of hand, then they admit that my videos were released and safe and still terminate my channel and stop me from doing anything about it everywhere and as soon as I talk about having more channels they terminate them too to shut me out even more. Not just that, as you can see from above it says “You are prohibited from accessing, processing or creating any other youtube accounts.” So I can’t even run or make any other channels. technically they are taking away every way I have to speak myself to shut me up.One of the channels they disabled was called “love yourself project” and was just a channel helping people to love themselves, how is that problematic?I didn’t get any new strikes either, they literally did all these for nothing. I’m just a normal pro lgbtq+ taekook analyzer, those of you who know me knows I never violated any terms and was always respectful.
Now how you can help in case you can is to send an email to copyright@youtube.com and explain how the termination was made by an error and ask them to look more into it and also signal boost this post so this won’t happen again on any other creators. I thought we had freedom of speech and as long as we’d go on with their rules we were protected but this just proved how unsafe we all are and how easily they take away people’s life and hard work over nothing.