An entire series on my channel is gone

Okay, so I literally just turned on the camera sat down at this desk and I just want to talk about something that happened over the past few days and You may or may not have noticed But I just want to make a video on it because I just want to let people know because you know you all are my people so as much as I let you all know stuff I then we're all on the same page if that makes sense.So I always got to let you all know things that are going on because you know, I don't really make posts on Instagram.

I don't really make posts on Twitter.I don't really make posts on YouTube besides the videos.I try to be consistent with that because I love doing this stuff.I don't want to get carried away about, you know, me talking about that.

So I'm just going to talk about what this video is about and I'm going to try to one take Jay this, but there's a lot of stuff going through my mind with this whole situation.So if I start rambling, I apologize.But what do I even mean?So you may or may not have noticed but an entire series is gone from the channel.

When I had to take down the videos, I remember exactly where I was when I was getting ready to record those games, and it was such a big part of the channel, and I'm always gonna be grateful for that game giving me exposure and the start.Like, I've been so lucky to be able to do this, and, you know, me playing that game at the time it came out, that actually was just pure luck.It was pure luck, and I'm just grateful that I was at the right place at the right time.And I can't say anything bad about that.But in 2023, I stopped playing the game due to the actions of the developer.And it wasn't a matter of like, oh, maybe I can still play this.

It was a matter of what's right and what's wrong.I already mentioned it back in 2023.I wasn't going to upload any more videos.I wasn't going to talk about that game no more.I just want to move past it.And I stopped uploading content on it from that point forward.

Like I it's been a while.three years.I think September or October was the last time I uploaded a video on that game, September or October of 2023.

And honestly, when I stopped playing it, it felt like a huge weight off my shoulders, believe it or not, because I started playing the game like excited about the updates because there was cool stuff like I loved seeing what kind of things we can do to like break the game or like little myths that everybody had and um You know, I just was curious.I think that's a word that I had.I was curious about what direction that game was going to go in.So I was genuinely excited for like every single update.And it does make me sad because like I said, I put so many years playing that game and I'd actually thought that I had a lot more videos on that game.But over the course of nine years, I had maybe like 400 ish maybe i don't even know if that's like the the over i might have had like 300 something to like 400 videos i don't know for sure because i didn't actually count them all but i thought i would have close to like 800 or something like 700 800 but now that I think about it now that I look back if I recorded like an update it would be like one or two videos per update and then the game used to update like a couple times a month so that'd be like four or five or six videos a month with like the myth videos that I would do so I didn't upload like that much or I didn't upload that many videos of that game as much as I thought I did.

And then as the years went on, it kind of slowing down because the update started slowing down.So I was just like, Oh, it's okay.I mean, I have a lot more series that I was interested in doing to like free random games, try to make me laugh, scary animation reactions, collabing, like with Cassie and stuff.and 60 seconds, and just any other game that I could find.

I was super excited to try out those other series, but before I talk about why I took them down, I just wanna talk about how it made me feel.It's sad because I know a lot of people enjoyed the series, and that's what I feel bad about the most.

I just remember being excited, and then when I had to take down the videos, I was looking at, just like those videos and I was like, man, like I remember every single one.And I remember like my mindset and like what I was thinking and like the genuine excitement.And then it's funny, because as the years, you know, went on, I was like, I remember this.I remember how frustrated I was with this.Oh, I remember how buggy this was.I remember I was getting tired of like trying this out because it would take forever or this made no sense or I don't like the direction this game is going and things like that.

So it's funny how it went from like me being super excited to me just being like, man, like, please be good.Please be a good update, you know?So it was trippy, like, seeing all those videos as I was scrolling and knowing where I was, like, in my mindset at that time.And I remember one video specifically, I got my wisdom teeth taken out, and there was an update for the game, and I could barely talk.And every time I started talking, drool and blood would be coming out of my mouth.And I was like, you know what?

I still want to get this up.because I really love doing this shit and I love this series and I know people are looking forward to it and it was just that genuine excitement and it got lost along the way and you know the fact that the developer did what he did and you know admitted to doing that I just couldn't support it no matter what I couldn't make another video on it but I wanted to at least leave the video

that I had up for the fans.Like, it was strictly for the fans.because I was completely done with it, completely done with that game.

I was never even going to mention it.This is actually probably, I will say I'm like 99 .9 % sure this is the first time that I'm mentioning this game since 2023 when I was done with the game.So I really meant what I said.And I'm not a person who gets involved with like drama or look for drama or things like that.I, do things based on right or wrong and not like my opinion on things.And if somebody does something wrong, then, you know, I don't let anybody else influence me to keep doing something that I know is not right to do.

So I told myself I'm going to stop.And the last thing I'll say about that, when I stopped, it did feel good, but it was also at the time the most popular series on the channel.

So it was a little scary.

It was a little scary, and that's why I have to say thank you to all of you, because, like, if you look at what happened to the channel after that, I feel like some of the best moments, the best memories, people sending me, like, clips of things that I've said, like, in games, they've all come after that.They've all come after that series, like, people will say, oh, this was so funny, like, this is, like, an iconic moment on the channel, and it's, like, something from a game that I played, like, a scary game, or, like, Resident Evil or a funny game, you know, so it makes me feel good that you know people still stuck around and I'm super grateful And like I said, I got really lucky Just uploading that at the time that I did and you know, I feel lucky and I feel blessed and thank you all so much for all supporting me even when I was done with the series, I feel like the channel isin a healthier state than it's ever been.And that's why I had to make the decision that I had to make.So basically, I'm gonna start talking about what exactly happened.So basically, on June 11th, shout out to my boy, Raiden.

That was his birthday, he would have been 16 years old.Rest in peace, miss him every single day.June 11th, I woke up and I went on YouTube.

and I get like a notification it wasn't just like a notification that you see like on like the bell or anything like that it was like in my face it said uh community guidelines violation and I was just like like keep in mind I just woke up like maybe 20 minutes so I was kind of like what the fuck what is this so I look and yeah it says community guidelines violation And I click on it because you can click on the details of what the violation is.And it was a yandere simulator video from 2015.I don't remember exactly when it was because they took down the video, but it was June or either July or June of 2015, 11 years ago, like 11 years ago, they decided to give me a community guidelines violation.

You know, they said it was because of violent criminal organizations.Let me actually see the actual word violent criminal organizations policies.And it is a violation of the community guidelines.So yeah, they gave me that.

And I was like, Whoa, there are things that you could have played 11 years ago, said 11 years ago, you know, just had an opinion on 11 years ago, that you don't have in the present day, like 11 years ago is a lifetime ago, it is literally more than a decade ago.And and they decided to go after that video and take it down.

you know they didn't just like age restrict or anything they straight up took it down and you just see this big red mark on the video saying that it violates you know the guidelines due to like the violent um criminal organizations.

I keep forgetting what it's called.So the next thing that I do is I go to my email and I don't actually have a YouTube partner manager anymore.

I used to, but they emailed me saying that YouTube is going to go more like AI oriented.So if you have any questions, you can go through that.But I mean, we all know how good that is.

So I didn't agree with that.I remember, um, when it happened, I was like, no, like, please don't leave me.You know what I mean?I never went back and forth and emailed my partner manager for anything because I was always in my own world.I always feel like I'm the easiest person to work with because I don't ask for much.

I never ask anybody to do something that I can't do myself.So I always try to just do my own research and figure things out my own way.

I literally had no way of contacting YouTube, because you can't just contact YouTube.Like, I don't know if people who watch YouTube think that, like, I could just call them and be like, hey, YouTube, yo, what the fuck, man?No, like, if something happens, you really have no way of contacting them unless you, one, submit an appeal, or two, you have a partner manager, which I used to have.So I was like, there's no way I'm gonna talk to AI.

I'm going to email my old YouTube partner manager.So I went through my emails and I found his email and I emailed him and I was like, Hey bro, um, I got this community guidelines violation and if I get three of them, my channel gets taken down.

So YouTube goes off like a strike system and if you get three strikes, your channel is completely gone.

And that is probably gonna be one of the toughest things to get put back on YouTube Because it is so hard to get in contact with anybody because a lot of things these days I don't know exactly how YouTube works, but in my opinion.I think that you know it's It's mostly just AI stuff.So you, you're basically just talking to AI.So if your channel gets taken down, you might have to like go through just AI stuff and then you might get automatically rejected.

So, um, anyway, I emailed my guy and I told him, Hey man, I got this community guidelines violation of a video that was 11 years ago.And if I get three, then the channel is going to be taken down.I'm not trying to have my channel taken down.

You know, off stuff that was from a long time ago.And he was like, Oh, just submit an appeal.And then once you submit the appeal, maybe I can take a deeper look into it and I can figure out what's going on.So I submitted an appeal.

And when you submit an appeal, basically you're asking for the video to be reinstated.But for me on my end, I just wanted like to know why I wanted to know like why that video from a long time ago, when these policies weren't in effect, I'm getting punished for videos that were.Like on YouTube for years and years and years, but now it's getting punished for that policy It's kind of like if you're doing something, um, and then you know, you post it and then years later You know, there's a new rule and then they punish you for something.That wasn't a rule before I want to know what I can do So I don't get any more strikes on the channel because that's the most important thing to me Like I stopped playing this game years ago, and I'm fine with that.But I just want to know what it is specifically.So I can, you know, handle that.

So like I said, this all happened on June 11.And then a couple days pass, and then I finally get the notification that the appeal got rejected.Andkinda assumed that it was going to, because if they took it down, and I didn't change anything about the video because they took it down, then they're gonna reject it again because they saw something in it that made them take it down in the first place.

I don't even know what I'm trying to say.But yeah, I told my old YouTube partner manager that they rejected it, and he said he was waiting for a response.

you know, when he got back to me, there was no response, no response.And that's when I decided to take matters into my own hands.And before I say the next part, a year ago, I got a copyright strike for an animation that I reacted to by David Romero, never gonna forget that name.

Shout out to my boy David Romero.And um, Asked my partner manager.It was a different guy.

It was a different guy I emailed a guy that used to be my partner manager But then I had a second partner manager who was helping me at the time with the copyright strike thing So the guy that I'm emailing about the yandere stuff is not the same guy that I'm about to talk about right now so I had another partner manager and I told him, hey, I got a copyright strike, but the animation was made by a guy named David Romero.But this guy said that this is his animation and he gave me a copyright strike.

And I don't believe that because I know the guy who animated this is not the guy that copyright strike me.And the only response that I got was that if that happened, then that must be right.That must be legit.And you're just going to have to take that copyright strike like a man basically that wasn't like word for word that was me summarizing it you basically just have to take this copyright strike and let it expire after 90 days andbeing the person that I am, I was like, fuck no.I know I'm right.

I know I'm right here.There's no way.And I don't know if you all followed along, cause I made a video or I made two videos talking about it.I think I was not just going to let that shit slide because I know right from wrong.

And I know that guy was not the one who created that animation.Um, he basically said that, um, he.He made that video and it was under a different name and it was like at a film festival or something like that.And I messaged David Romero and I said, bro, this is your animation, right?And he said, yeah.And then he even had like the pictures and like the sketches.

And he said that that guy copyright striked his shit.And I was like, this is not right, man. I'm going to make this right.I promise you.I told him that I told him I'm going to make this right.If nobody got your back, I got your back, bro.Just let me do some research and I'll figure this shit out.

So.

I did research, I actually found out a lot more than I was expecting to.Like I said, I made a whole video on this, and I posted it on YouTube, and this is why you all are the best.

And I'll always be forever grateful, and that's why I'm making this video right now, because I just wanted to let you all know what's going on.When I posted that video with the animation and the copyright strike, you all had my back so hard.You all knew right from wrong too.

you all made that video go viral and it went viral enough because I think it got over like a million views and it got so much support so many comments so many likes people adding YouTube that YouTube themselves responded and they looked into it and they were like you're right like that guy is not the true owner of that animation David Romero is so he took off the strike off my channel he took the strike off David's channel and they put the animation back on David's channel and that was

one of the highlights of my YouTube career that I got to help out David and restore his animation back on YouTube and his rightful work.And I'm always gonna be proud of that.That's always gonna be a memory for me because it wasn't just like removing the strike from my channel David had his animation and his work Removed just because somebody did it for whatever reason I'll never know the reason why that person did that but I'm glad that you know right overcame wrong and You know we were able to celebrate that and that's always gonna be like a memory of YouTube for me Helping out David and the fact that this community had my back David's back and help me like there was no way I was gonna be able to get that video back up or get the copyright striker move Without the help of you guys, so thank you all so much, and I love you all for that and I'm always gonna be grateful for that and That she's actually getting me emotional because you know I didn't think that we would get a community that would um go this hard for me man like like I just I just think about like all the years that I put I Into into this like I said like the fact that just years and years of work is just gone And I'll never get that time back.I'll never get like that's literally hundreds of hours back to the video like I Like I said, I just turned on the camera.I didn't know where I was going with this I didn't know how I was gonna like talk about this and Shit's going on here 30 minutes now.I need to restart the camera.

Sorry.Okay.I'm back.

Um, so anyway, uh, where was I uh, I emailed The guy that used to be not the guy that I emailed about the copyright strike a previous partner manager that I had a long time ago.

He's the guy that I emailed.He said that there was no response and I decided to takematters into my own hands.So I did a little bit of research.And I found out that a lot of yandere simulator content, people who post content like that specifically, they were getting taken down.And my fucking heart stopped beating for a second because I was like, any second now, YouTube could be like, boom, boom, boom, strike, strike, strike, gone, gone, gone, no more channel.

That channel you worked 12 years for?Fuck you.That's what it would have felt like, you know?That channel you would post almost every single day for 12 straight years of your life?Yeah, that's gone.You know what I mean?

Like, that's what it felt like.My heart literally stopped.Nobody is ever gonna love the channel more than me.

There are people who love the channel, and love the content on it, and like how it makes them feel.And trust me, I get it, like, I have favorite content creators too, and I'll always go back to old videos to make me feel comforted inside, you know?Something that just makes you feel good and I get that like that's why I left that series up for years even after I stopped playing it even when I didn't want to be associated with that game or the actions of the developer at all like I kept that up for the people like I wanted you all to enjoy like the old videos because that series for me It was over and I was never gonna go back to that series And I was never gonna talk about that series ever again, and I'm never gonna talk about it ever again after this but there were people still going back to those old videos.Maybe you fall asleep to it.Maybe you eat food watching it.And those are the people.

that I feel bad for because I do the same thing.Like I go back to old videos of content creators that I love since I was younger and I put their videos on for comfort.

Sometimes I even say the lines along with them.You know what I mean?I'm going way off track, but just give me some grace everybody.Cause like I said, I'm only making this video once, so I'm only going to talk about it once.And yeah, um, like I said, once I found out the information, my heart dropped and I had to make a timely decision.

because they gave me the violation on the 11th.

The weekend rolls around.One thing I know about YouTube, for some reason, their systems, I don't know if they like turn it off or some shit, but over the weekend, you never get any type of response, no matter what.Like I said, I've been doing this shit for 12 years.I've always noticed on the weekend, people who work for YouTube or YouTube itself, the weekend is almost like a free -for -all.Like there is no, rules no order no nothing like i'll never get a response over the weekend i know for sure i'll get responses on monday tuesday wednesday thursday maybe friday but saturday sunday no like come on i have a better chance at winning the lottery than getting a response and i have a better chance at winning the lottery even if i don't play the lottery than getting a response over the weekend from youtube so i thought about it all day all night like this shit was genuinely stressing me out everybody like i was so stressed out because i was like i don't want to lose this channel like i love this channel so much i've been uploading every single day like it's become such a daily routine of my life like i don't take sponsorships i don't do brand deals i've only released two merch my entire career like i've only launched merch twice in my entire 12 years of doing thisI have some ideas, but I was like, you know But yeah, you know, I don't do anything.

I don't promote like crypto shit.I don't Do any of that stuff.I don't refer you all to like shady websites.I just upload videos.I don't even have an editor I don't even have somebody giving me advice on thumbnails like I have the same dog shit thumbnails that I've had Since 2014 I taught myself how to make thumbnails just watching tutorials I taught myself how to edit watching tutorials like I get so many emails like not just from like Potential like sponsorships or brand deals or like things like that, but like people who are like I want to edit your videos I want to edit your thumbnails, or I want to make your thumbnails, and I'm like no This is my baby like I love doing this.

I love every single part of the process I really do like I genuinely love this shit I probably sound like I'm just saying shit just to say it, but I genuinely love this shit You're not gonna find too many people that really love doing this as much as me That's why I upload almost every single day because it makes me happy like if this wasn't making me happy anymore I wouldn't do it And the fact that I had this thing lingering over my head, I was not happy.I was stressed.And how do you deal with stress?You solve the problem.You solve the issue.You confront it face on.

You don't run from it.You don't hide from it.You don't wait.You figure out, how can I solve this and figure this all out so this stress isn't on me anymore?

How can I get to a peaceful solution to this?And there was only one thing that I could think of.because they took down one of my videos already and I already read online that they have been taking down channels and some people don't even know what specifically is being targeted but the general idea the bottom line is that it all relatesto the game.Channels that are showing gameplay of the game are getting taken down.So if there's a common denominator in all this, I'm like, well, I'm not going to play the guessing game.

I had to take down every single video and that shit fucking hurt.It genuinely fucking hurt.It didn't hurt as much as if I did it in like 2023.Cause like I said, I was still making content of the game, but I'm like three years removed from that game.The channel is completely different now, and I love where the channel is right now.I love the support I love that I can play anything like that's what makes me emotional too is that I can record and play anything and That's what every content creator dreams of and I couldn't imagine that it would happen to me. I really didn't Every content creator doesn't want to be put in a box every content creator wants the freedom to do whatever they want to do and still have people genuinely supporting them and I'm so glad that you all supported me.

And it really means a lot to me.So thank you all.Thank you all for that.Thank you all for giving me a chance, even when I had to take down the most popular series on the channel by either stop playing it or taking down the videos, which is what I had to do just now.So thank you all so much.I've always done whatever the fuck I want to do.

And that's the kind of mindset I've always had.I've always wanted to do what I want to do.And I'm just glad that people were very supportive.in all my decisions.I just want to let any other content creator friend, even if you're just watching this because you're curious, if you have that type of content on your channel, I don't think it's a matter of if they're going to come for you.I think it's just a matter of when, because this policy got changed in the beginning of the month because it said new updates

june policy 2026 so not even 11 days after june started they got me well they didn't get me but they you know pretty much like took down the video and um gave me a violation for it and if you get enough violations three of them your channel's gone i'm not trying to say this to scare anybody like that has that type of content on there but just know that like i think it's just a matter of time I think it's a matter of time and it would be such a shame because there's so many content creator friends that I have that don't even play that game either but they've had it like years ago, years ago on the channel and you know, it's just the type of content that's in that game that is gonna get flagged.We're just gonna have to suffer it by getting like strikes and violations and channels getting taken down, videos removed, years and years of work just gone because they decide maybe three videos They don't want that type of content on there.All it takes is three videos, everybody.So I don't have any more content associated with that game on the channel.And honestly, I'm relieved.The stress went away.

It did.You know how I said I was stressed once I figured out what I was going to do?As soon as I did it, like besides me being sad about the time that I invested in it, I was relieved.

I was relieved.I really was.And I started thinking about the people that enjoyed that series, and it made me feel bad.It really did.

it made me it made me feel so bad because my my goal was to always try to upload the best videos i could and entertain people and do video be there for people that needed like to distract themselves from the real world or just needed like that video on in the background sofeel like somebody's there.Because I know how it is, like when I was a kid, my parents were in the military, gone all the time.I was alone a lot.I would always have the TV on, the computer on, playing a video, just so it felt like somebody was there.And like for some people, they would have that series on in the background.

Somebody out there just lost their favorite series.And I feel bad about that.But I mentioned earlier in the video that nobody is going to love this channel as much as me.And if YouTube, was gonna take down my channel because of that, it was not worth it for me.

It was not worth it for me, and I would make that choice a million times out of a million.And I know everybody would do the same if you were in my shoes, because it was not worth it for me.It was not worth losing my channel over to have a game on the channel that I didn't even play for three years.For a long time, I haven't even spoken about that game.I haven't even thought about that game.

And then June 11, my dog's birthday, who passed away a couple months ago, I get that notification from YouTube and I'm like, out of all days?Like, come on, man.Couldn't have done it on like June 12th or June 10th.But yeah, I get that notification and I was like, okay, I know that just like the copyright situation, I was gonna have to figure this out for myself.

And I know I made the right decision because YouTube was not gonna stop and they're not gonna stop.They're not gonna stop trying to come for that game.Because it violates their policies.That's why I'm warning all my other content creator friends that have that game on their channel I'm not telling you what to do.I'm just letting you all know what I did and what meant more to me and It's funny cuz I I've been talking about this forand I almost don't want to end the video because like I said, it's the last time I'm ever going to talk about this, but it's the end of that series.

Thank you all to anybody who found me from that series.I really do appreciate you.Really do.And that game genuinely helped me get discovered.And I'm so lucky.I'm so grateful.

If anybody just even saw like one video on that channel and it was that one and they were like, eh, like not my thing.

Thank you still.

because at least you gave me a chance at least you were like maybe you know maybe i might like it or maybe not so thank you i really do appreciate and the people who have still stuck by me ever since i stopped playing that game three years ago thank you so much too this just actually motivates me even more because yeah an entire series gone just like that all those memories gone just like that but there's a lot more good memories i promise you all a lot more good memories and i'm gonna see you all in the next video