Help? My YouTube channel was suspended
This morning I woke up to find my channel suspended.
My channel has one video, a walk through how to use a command-line tool I built in python. I have no idea why this would trigger a suspension.
Has this ever happened to you?
Is a link to pypi.org considered a "Links to websites or apps that install malware" that violates YouTube's external links policy
My guess would be because you're giving people a way to rip off YouTube content but more specifically because you do so in the video at approx 2:05. They're not massive fans of youtube-dl either which wont help, looks like you're using that to rip the vids under the hood.
Best guess, no actual clue.
What does the command-line tool do? It could be the reason.
Try contacting YouTube, or having the python script be hosted somewhere else. Also, what is up with people here completely ignoring the question so they can say something different?
Unless you have a decent Twitter following you're out of luck. Backup anything important in any connected Google accounts.
Update: upon submitting an appeal to YouTube I got a response within 24 hours saying "We have re-reviewed your account and have concluded that it is not in violation of our Terms of Service. Therefore, we have unsuspended your account."
So now you can watch the video :)
https://youtu.be/HBk-0wRGqHY
Thank you all for the tips
I think this is like the 20th time I have said that YouTube doesn't care about the small creators and only appeals to the channels and accounts used by corporations, media giants and some of the largest creators on the platform.
As for smaller creators, good luck getting YouTube to change its ways. They will never change and it will only get much worse.
Consider moving your video to odysee.com , especially if you have no plans to make video creation a source of income.
Can you repost the pypi.org link here?
Have your considered just surrendering to the algorithmic overlords and accept that they decide your fate and you don't have, and never will have, agency or control within their realm?
Edit: I accept the downvotes on this, but its honestly how I feel most times when dealing with tech companies, ISPs, my bank, and so on. They win by the sheer brute force of their apathy.
Why is this on the front page of HN? Do we really want to encourage these sorts of glorified customer service requests? Every time someone is confused by Google's opaque moderation practices, vote it to the top?
This one isn't even interesting.