I'm not going to say I don't know what I did, because I do know exactly what I did to be permanently banned from YouTube, and they even removed my channel, which had a few wonderful videos of Faith and about 30 videos of Laura training horses. I'd say I'm beaten up and upset about it, but I'm not. I mean, sure, I'd love to have those videos, but she doesn't train anymore, and I have other copies of Faith's videos.
The reason YouTube gave for permanently banning me was that I was spamming, which I was. However, the way I was doing it was one video at a time on their shorts, and I had seen multiple others do the same damn thing! They're still there, I checked today. I was banned. You'll never convince me that it isn't politically motivated. It is, and they don't care. (You know what, neither do I)
I have an alt account - I'll just use it. I won't spam again, no, I won't do that. What I was doing could be considered wrong, but hey, here's a thought: give me a warning! What I did was put a link to my website in the comments sections of many different videos. I've seen it done, and I thought yeah, that's a good way to get it out there - apparently it's not. OK, so warn me! If I gave a damn about YouTube, it would mean more.
I will now use my alt account if I want to subscribe to a channel, and if I don't, I won't. The thing is, I was subscribed to over 200 channels and now I'm not. OK...will I cry tonight over it? Nope. If I can remember who I was subscribed to, I may join them on the alt, but then again, I may not. I can watch from the old account, but I can't comment, and I can't subscribe. I don't need to.
If YouTube thinks it can control people, they haven't met many people. We find ways around them. We have and we always will. I have several alternative accounts. Most people do. I'll not miss a single video or short because they want to flex their muscles -- I'll just not have people come to my personal channel, which I think the last time someone visited it was 2021; so yeah, I'm not heartbroken. I'll survive this and many other things.
Oh, and I tried to do their whole appeal thing - but intentionally (in my opinion), they don't allow the appeal to go through. You can't reply to them, you can't email them. You have to use their appeal link, and yeah, it's not working. I wonder if it ever has. Bastards. I say that with all my heart, too. They deserve what they get - and if they think they'll stop any of us, they're dumber than a box of rocks.
I wonder if they'd do that to someone who voted the same as they did? I don't know, but I won't compromise my standards to meet theirs. They think they own that space - they don't. I'm still there...but the good news is, I can't be bothered. They took my name off -- no one will ever know when I'm on now, or what I'm viewing. Sucks to be big tech! We little guys have friends too, and they tell us how to get what we need.
BYE YOUTUBE!!!
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