I’m genuinely trying to understand this.
My channel got terminated for “spam/deceptive practices”, but when I actually read YouTube’s policies, it just doesn’t line up.
I wasn’t mass uploading, just 1 video per day. Everything was made manually — recording, editing, structuring — it took hours every day. No automation, no reused content, no misleading titles or thumbnails.
Yes, my videos followed a format, but I was constantly improving it. Different structures, different lengths, testing what worked. That’s literally how YouTube works — you iterate until something clicks.
The only thing someone could argue is that some elements were similar across videos, but that’s not spam. That’s consistency.
Also, I was at the best phase of my channel. I was getting around 5 million Shorts views per day and was literally 1 day away from monetization when the ban happened. That’s what makes this even harder to understand.
No warnings, no strikes — just straight termination. That doesn’t make sense unless it was something extreme, which it wasn’t.
I already reached out on Twitter, and they told me the case was forwarded to the review team on Saturday, but I haven’t heard anything back yet.
Has anyone here gone through something like this? Were you able to recover your channel? What should I do next, and how long does this kind of review usually take?