Hi there.

I have a small YouTube channel (less than 60 subscribers) where I would upload random video game gameplay videos, SFW memes, SFW speedpaints of my drawings, and occasionally unlisted SFW private videos of/for family and friends (one of which included a video of me proposing to my fiancé). Admittedly, I had not uploaded in a good while, but my friends and family would still re-watch my current videos for nostalgia and laughs.

Unfortunately, on Sunday February 28th 2021, I received an email that my channel had been removed from YouTube. I was confused and shocked, so I tried to log into my account, and found I was unable to. I went to my channel URL, and sure enough, it said "This account has been terminated", and no content on it was reachable or recoverable. 

"Why did YouTube terminate your account?" you may be wondering. Well, I'll tell you. The reasoning they've given for terminating my account/channel is "multiple or severe violations of YouTube's policy on nudity or sexual content." Yes, you read that right. YouTube terminated my completely SFW channel for having porn on it.

You may say "Well, surely that's a mistake! Try contacting them or submitting a form!" Don't worry, I have. I've submitted multiple forms through their account suspension appeal form, I've made posts on the community forum where others have tried to help me, and I even tweeted @TeamYouTube on twitter; all were met with the same robotic response of something similar to "Your account has been terminated due to repeated or severe violations of our Community Guidelines on Nudity and Sexual content. YouTube is not the place for nudity, pornography or other sexually provocative content."

The fact that YouTube has completely terminated my channel for an error on their part or because some malicious person wrongfully reported my channel for nudity or sexual content when I very clearly have nothing like that on my channel is absolutely absurd, and frankly disturbing. Why would I want to continue to use YouTube at all, knowing they don't listen to or care about their content creators unless they're raking in the cash? This needs to change! They need to listen to the people who use their platform.

Please help me to get YouTube to listen.