I hate YouTube sometimes. Dickheads.
While scrolling through YouTube on my phone earlier today, I encountered an old video made by an absolutely incredible fanfic writer. I watched it, and forgot how much I loved this writer's videos, and how much I hated YT for deleting his channel.
The channel in question was Mega Blaziken (AKA Rex). I first found this guy in 2019 shortly after I completed my binge watch of Pokemon XY on Netflix. I loved this guy's content. Especially his Kalos High series.
Unfortunately, his original channel was deleted months ago by YouTube because of "spam/deceiving content". I think what really happened was that his comment sections on his videos were infested by those stupid scam bots. I think some people fell for one bit of the scam, believing it was actually Rex, when it wasn't.
However, the damage was done, and his channel and HUNDREDS of videos and fanfiction was deleted, much like so many others.
This is one of the reasons I despise YouTube and other companies. They take down innocent channels for no reason, or allow problems on their sites to persist. YouTube needs to stop focusing on people using 3rd party ad blockers and focus on fixing their copyright system and actually punish guilty channels who actually break their ToS and guidelines.