An update on the demonetization saga. A brief rundown on what happened. I was demonetized for reused content. Youtube told me the only way to get this channel remonetized is to delete all the videos that violated this term. Note that they say delete, not privated, not unlisted, DELETE. And worse, is they will not specify which specific videos those are.I already have deleted over 200 of my videos, mainly those that contain singing, has little editing, or overlapped with another clipper who clipped the same moment and has gotten over 20,000 views from it. So yes, as regrettable as it was, I had to delete precious moments like almost every clips I made of Watame, Weather Hackers, Amamya's Diamond City Lights and several Roberu NightMea clips.The only ones I did not delete were the clips that really were big pillars to this channel, ie, Nijisanji EN Metal Gear Rising and my biggest Roberu NightMea clips, which I hope you understand why I hesitated to delete those.So other than those, I am pretty confident all the clips right now should be the only EN translated clips of those moments on the entire site, yet when I sent a reappeal for remonetization yesterday, the appeal was rejected within 6 hours, they sent a rejection email claiming, in their specific words "We carefully reviewed your channel, Oboretai Writing ch.. Unfortunately, we found that your channel is not in line with the YouTube channel monetization policies so we cannot approve your application at this time."
Again, I blame all of this on the utter incompetence of the Youtube AI being arbitrary. Not that the humans at Youtube are any better. I have emailed Youtube support over this issue and this was how it went(Note that every time Youtube support replies, they claim they are a different person answering):
1) I explain to them the issue as politely as possible, what clippers contribute to streamers and their communities. That I know the demonetization claim was done by an AI that do not understand the purpose of subtitles, and that this was happening to many of us.I explained that Youtube asked me to send in a video explaining why I should be remonetized so that a human can review it. I did and submitted it, yet my application for remonetization is rejected while the video still sits at 0 views, so I have high doubts that a human actually watched it.
2) They reply with the usual stock script. How they were thankful of my hard work, but they already have humans checked my channel and that video, and that they(Youtube Support) do not have the authority to overturn this decision.
3) I ask in return if I may have proof that a human has checked it, that the very video they asked me to make still has 0 views, and if they can specify which video violated the terms so I may delete them. And if it is possible for Youtube Support to let me talk with someone else up higher who is more equipped to handle this problem. I tell them it is unreasonable that they allow a Youtube AI to destroy a content creator's livelihood and hard work on the drop of a hat like this.
4) They refuse to give me evidence or hand the talk over to someone else who can, while continuing to claim that a human has indeed manually checked my channel. They did not try to explain why the appeal for remonetization video still has 0 views.
5) I press on with the same claims that it is unreasonable that while the humans working at Youtube says they understand the purpose of subtitled clips and how it contributes to the Youtube community, they will choose to side with an AI so flawed even if it means losing their content creators while they can't even explain the 0 views thing.
6) A Youtube support person flat out tells me "I hope you can go find success elsewhere outside of Youtube", essentially business speak that I should GTFO at this point.
7) I point out that sort of response was extremely rude and only shows how little Youtube cares for its content creators and how up to this point, none of the 3 Youtube support people even attempted to defend against my claim that the Youtube AI is flawed, incompetent, and unreasonably harsh or was able to provide even the slightest proof a human was actually involved in the actual decision to demonetize my channel.
8) They continue to send in the same stock response that they do care and if I want to get remonetized, I should just delete the videos that violated their terms.
9) I press on again that while they claim they care, they would not even tell me which videos I need to delete or provide proof against my entire claim that an AI was behind all of this and it could have been entirely avoided if the AI wasn't so incompetent OR Youtube actually sent a human to review my channel as they claimed.
10) They send me the EXACT same copypasted response from the previous point, how I should just delete my videos to get remonetized.
11) I asked them in return if they really did just send a copypasted response, in this exact same conversation where I was blaming Youtube personnels for not caring and leaving the decision making to flawed AIs.
12) They send in the exact same copypasted response again. I believe a human would understand the hypocrisy of pulling a stunt like this, so at this point I'm convinced that with all the irony in the world, they're using a bot to reply to my emails.
So yeah, this entire deal just proved all my points. That Youtube AI is utterly incompetent, arbitrary, and harsh, and that the humans at Youtube also don't give a shit and can't even defend that their AI isn't utter garbage.I have currently gathered 8 other clippers also faced with similar issues with Youtube support, getting 0 views on the remonetization appeal videos, and not knowing which video they should be deleting. So if you are or know a clipper who faced a similar issue, I am always still open for more suggestions. I do still have 5 other clippers that I reached out to but has not received any responses.But otherwise I am going to start bringing this issue to team Youtube on Twitter, and I will greatly appreciate if the you the viewers give us support there. I will also be making a video version of this post since I do recognize that many of my viewers do not see my posts.Again, if this all fails again then I will really have to delete almost everything on this channel and reupload them to my 2nd channel on:
Oboretai Clip Channel and this time I do mean everything, including Metal Gear Rising and Roberu NightMea.
In all honesty, I do not want to have to do this. Obviously I knew starting a new channel will mean a massive drop in traction and searchability of my contents, but most clips I uploaded on the 2nd channels do not even get the same amount of views in a whole week than clips on this channel usually get in 3 hours, so it has been quite demoralizing.