YPP Revoked

Just yesterday, I warned that YouTube dislikes AI content and forces you to show your face in your videos before it will grant you any traffic.

Today—true to form—they revoked my YPP (YouTube Partner Program) status.

YouTube is insidious; they specifically target and bully ordinary creators who put genuine effort into editing their videos, while turning a blind eye to “gray area” industries and opportunistic, trashy content.

Outwardly, they claim that “valuable and meaningful” videos are worthy of recommendation; yet, in reality, if a channel doesn’t generate revenue for them, they kick it to the curb immediately.

It’s just like in the workplace: the honest, capable employees who show up and do their jobs diligently get laid off, while the sycophantic scumbags—who do nothing but suck up to the boss—end up with higher salaries, skate by effortlessly, and never break a sweat.

YouTube is absolute garbage—a dumpster fire run by human reviewers whose decisions depend entirely on whatever mood they happen to be in that day.

I previously advised creators to check the box indicating that their videos contain AI-generated content, thinking YouTube might be a little more lenient if we were upfront about it.

In reality, that turned out to be a fucking trap. The moment you check that box, they come sniffing around like bloodhounds. You’ve essentially handed them your location on a silver platter; they don’t actually conduct a fair review, nor do they cut you any slack just because you were honest about using AI.

That checkbox exists solely to make you voluntarily expose your channel to them. Once YouTube swoops in, they shut you down—often without offering any valid reason.

They can fabricate any excuse they want—claiming your videos lack substance, aren’t entertaining, or are somehow “inadequate”—but ultimately, it all boils down to one thing: they ban you.

It is truly insidious. The red box in the image serves as a warning: “You want to appeal? Fine. But you’d better be prepared to have all your other channels banned as well.” It’s nothing short of a fucking threat.

You are completely powerless against them.

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Don’t rely on YouTube.

Just treat it as a cloud drive—a place to store your videos. If you happen to get some traffic, great; if not, whatever.

To hell with YouTube.

I created my blog specifically so that if my social media accounts ever get banned—even if my site hasn’t been indexed by search engines—it would still remain accessible.

Even if my domain name becomes invalid, expires, or runs into other issues, I can still access my blog simply by switching to a different domain or IP address—because the data remains firmly in my hands, and the website itself remains under my complete control.