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I really need some advice or help to escalate this because I am completely losing my mind right now. My 2 years of extreme hard work is dying and no human is even looking at it.

I run a history/mythology documentary channel called 'Daily Decoding' with over 500k subscribers. We are NOT a 1-click AI slop channel. My team and I literally spend 11 full days doing heavy manual editing in After Effects just to make ONE single video.

A few days ago, the YouTube algorithm completely demonetized/flagged my channel for "Inauthentic Content / Mass-Produced". This is a 100% false positive.

I followed the rules and submitted my video appeal. In the appeal, I literally screen-recorded my massive After Effects timeline showing all the layers, key frames, and the pure human effort that goes into the craft.

Here is the nightmare part: It has been 12 days, and my appeal video still has exactly ZERO views.

Not a single human at YouTube has even pressed play on my proof. Email Creator Support is completely ghosting me. I reached out to u/TeamYouTube on Twitter, they finally DM'd me only to say "continue the conversation with email support". BUT EMAIL SUPPORT IS DEAD SILENT.

I am stuck in a loop of automated bot replies. I have a small team who depends on this channel, and I feel completely helpless.

I have screen-recorded my 11-day After Effects timeline to prove my manual work. I will put the link to the video in the comments below.

Has anyone actually survived this "Inauthentic Content" trap recently? How do I force a REAL human to just look at my editing timeline? If a human sees it for 10 seconds, they will know it's not mass-produced.

Please, any advice on how to escalate this would be a lifesaver right now. Thanks.

I've literally spent the last 3 days trying to fix this and just nothing changes and I'm so down about it I feel like I've tried everything

I want my 1080 videos to not look like 480p

I've tried rendering them in 4k, I've tried h.265 with 80-100k bitrate

I've tried av1 I've tried pretty much every encoder setting, each time consisting of re rendering and re uploading

I've let the video process on youtube fully before looking at the quality

I have good hardware

I have good internet speeds

I've tried pretty much every recommended OBS setting to record with

No matter what I do the result is always the same - it looks like ass, I'm now on day 4 of relentlessly trying to find the solution and I feel like giving up

I've also done side by sides of other tiny creators making the exact same content and all of them look amazing in 1080 even the ones who didn't upload in 4k, compared to my muddy pixilated mess

I've put a lot of effort in to these videos and it's quite disheartening, appreciate any help or advice! Thank you

I hope this is allowed, as I'm looking to invest in a better microphone for my voiceovers, but I am a bit torn as there are so many options, so if anyone has recommendations that work for them ( that aren't too expensive) I'd greatly appreciate it. I'm honestly not looking for anything crazy, but I do need something decent since my content mainly revolves around me talking.

Thanks in advance!

I'm seriously planning on starting a YouTube channel where I'll be talking and addressing the audience,

So naturally i will want to get myself a camera for a high-quality recordings.

My requirements:

1. Most importantly, the screen can be turned for a selfie video

2. Decent camera, not anything

3. Is that it meets my budget (500 max)

Please if you're knowledgeable about this topic, don't hesitate to help me out 🙏🏼

Hi guys

This question might seem basic , "well cause I like the topic/ things I create content about" absolutely and it's the reason I was a content creator for years, in my case also as someone who appreciates high quality visuals, I enjoyed working on photo editing and sharing my work,

however there came a time when I asked myself, I'm putting a lot of time, effort and hours into my hobby, my craft, and although I'm not expecting to get anything like money or fame from it, what exactly is the reason behind continuing to do this if it's not benefitting me in any way? When there are thousands, millions of accounts doing similar, so it's not like I'm sharing a new discovery, you love what you showcase and share, but ...

serious side is I am unemployed also, so I ask you all wholeheartedly, what is the reason outside of interest that causes each of you , and so many others to wish to be content creators? I'm a collector should I invest in turning my platform into a business? a shop? But I don't wish to sell the items I own...

and when it comes to follower numbers , what does having X followers actually give us? I had a few thousand and felt indifferent, cause although again, I liked what I created and shared, how was it adding to my life? just sharing this and happy to hear yr answers 🙂

Heyo. I am a fairly new YouTuber who has been on and off creating fun Magic: The Gathering content for the past 6 months. I make comedy videos on deck techs in flashy, "jumpcutty" videos that are around 5 minutes long. I was not taking the YouTube thing seriously as I did at first. Really just wanted to do it for fun. But now I want to take more initiative in growing my channel. I know at some point with persistence, I will hit 1000 Subscribers. Not looking for a "get rich quick," growth. I genuinely have one major question that I would love some help answering. (and then any constructive feedback in general would also be great.)

THE ALGORITHM. If anyone goes to my YouTube channel, my first two videos exploded when I launched them. For some context, I had less than 10 subs, and on day four, I was close to 10K views per video. Honestly, it was such a rush, but I have never seemed to capture remotely close to those numbers. I tried releasing at the same time as the other videos on the same days. I tried to give the correct hashtags to get more previews to certain folks. I've researched the best time to go live with Magic content to catch the wave of people looking up Magic: The Gathering content. At this point, I am a little stumped. Maybe I am doing something wrong?

I did have to step away for health reasons, and because of moving, so I know my current numbers on my latest content don't reflect the consistency piece that I believe would be important to viewer retention. Any advice here would be great. If my content just sucks.....I can live with that. 😛

I'm trying to find vloggers. Actual vlogs. Each time I search for vlogs I see hundreds and HUNDREDS of videos reviewing cameras or giving thoughts on new tech and I can't see to escape this bubble. If i type for example "Tokyo vlog" it brings up hundreds of videos of people testing cameras in tokyo (not just vlogging). Can't seem to escape this cycle. Can anyone recommend any current interesting Youtubers that vlog using action cams or stuff like the Osmo? Thanks

In one of my videos (around 2 hours length), a nipple appears briefly for 5–10 seconds. I know YouTube Studio offers a blur/censor tool, but I’m worried that blurring it might make the video look suspicious to the algorithm or get it flagged. Would it be better to leave it unedited or apply the blur anyway?

Not sure if this belongs here or not seeing as im incredibly small (only 300) but I figure ld I'd shoot my shot and see if I can get help

When I first started I was able to bring in thousands of veiws

My most was 50k second most was 40k

Somehow I never gained a single follow from either of them

Now I cant even pass 20 views

Altho I didn't use a microphone back then and now I do

I upload everything Saturday

That's 4 videos a month

With Google says shouod be great

Yet I dont grow at all

Should it be more?

am I just not funny enough?

Any insites appericeated

Trying to upload and keep running into a red triangle with an exclamation mark and the message saying "We encountered unexpected problems PROCESSING ABANDONED" around the 50-80% mark. Everything has been recorded as normal and it's just the usual kinda content I ususally upload (Let's Play content) Never had this issue before, so assuming it's something on YouTubes end. Is this a problem others are experiencing?

All, I ran a successful channel till it got taken down earlier this year due to copyright. I know what I did not (music) and have learned from it.

Recently, I started two more channels (completely separate). I noticed I could get traction from the first 5-10 shorts but after that, I see that the views go down to almost 0.

Anyone else had this issue? What do you recommend?

I currently have a Blue Yeti X, and although the sound quality is good, I often hear tapping, popping and static sounds when I play back audio. It’s been driving me crazy and forces me to redo some takes.

Anyways, I’m looking to upgrade. Any suggestions? Something with clean sound that doesn’t catch background noise and does a good job filtering plosive sounds.

I've met the other requirements, but only have 2 videos in the last 90 days. Now I've got to upload a lousy low effort FaceCam video (which will annoy my subscribers who expect higher quality videos) so I can apply.

Seems silly when you can easily just upload a 30 second FaceCam video to meet the requirement. So why have it at all?

Edit: just got monetised!

This multi billion dollar company wont even bother to show you which video offended their guidelines after removing your channel. This is stupid on so many levels. It would at the very least give me something to base my appeal around instead of having to try and guess what piece of content offending the rules.

so i recently go into murder drones and i like crazy mario bros [Which is a mario plush youtuber who suddenly e posting] so serached for any murder drone push channels then i found a youtuber by the name of funtrap8670 then i clicked on video of their then i noticed how they sound way to alike then i checked the their most recent post 1d cmbs post 1 year ago so can someone tell me if this is a coincidence or i they are the same person.

I’ve been testing different thumbnail styles for shorts lately and noticed something weird.

My more “designed” thumbnails (multiple elements, text, effects) tend to get ignored.

But when I simplify everything:

• one subject
• strong contrast
• almost no text

they seem to perform better.

Nothing crazy, but more consistent.

I’m still very early so I might be wrong, but it feels like:

if the idea isn’t clear instantly, people just scroll

Is this something you’ve experienced too?

Or am I overthinking it?

I mean every type of these videos, that someone made x amount of money in a short period of time, someone made viral videos in a new channel, someone proved it's not luck, etc. Also videos like ,,Do this to have more views" or ,,Try this to have viral videos". Are they a scam? Are they even worth watching? What if they actually show the channel and that they made a lot of money in short time (basically what is the title of the video)?

I currently run a YouTube channel with 5.84k subscribers and 6.1M+ total views. Most of my growth came from K-pop piano “guess the song” shorts/reels, especially around groups like Stray Kids and BLACKPINK. Over time, the channel became very strongly tied to that audience and niche.

The issue is that now I want to branch out into broader music content like western pop songs, vocal covers, guitar, songwriting-related content, more artist-focused stuff instead of only K-pop piano quizzes. But whenever I post non-K-pop content, even if they are in the same format (like guess the pop song), my existing audience usually skips them quickly, so the videos die early and never seem to reach the actual audience that would care about them.

What makes this confusing is that all my current momentum, subscribers, and reach came from one specific niche, so I’m worried that trying to expand too aggressively might hurt the channel overall. At the same time, I also don’t want to stay permanently locked into only one type of content when my long-term goal is to grow more as a musician/artist and not just a K-pop quiz page.

I really need help from some experienced people who can tell me how to manage this situation.

I already have a lot of good material, but I would love to hear directly from people. Please share your stories, because for my own personal experience, I have just been experimenting on pushing and learning about their system and then why it flags, why it doesn't. For my data, there's definitely a huge problem with inaccuracies. It's pretty chaotic, but I'd like to learn more.

I'll try to summarize. Basically, I have a faceless channel with over 200k subscribers where I used to make short videos in English, but YouTube demonetized it, so I can no longer create that content. There's a really cool game related to my content and audience, and I'm embarrassed to appear on camera, so I'm going to have my brother, who speaks fluent Spanish, do the live streams.

Now, the problem is, I don't know if I should do the live streams in English or Spanish because my brother isn't fluent in English. He's super funny and entertaining, but I don't think he could be as funny in English, you know? Because there are many things he doesn't know how to say. So, what do you think? Since my audience speaks English, should I do the streams in English? Or could I do them in Spanish so my brother can make them better and more entertaining?

I suppose the audience should be the priority, but at the same time I know the videos won't be as good quality if he speaks in English, because his main language is Spanish. This is messed up.