Ever since I unexpectedly got myself in violation of YouTube's community guidelines, this has been on my mind. For those who are unaware, and because I am unable to post on my channel's community page, it is difficult to spread the information. This strike was started by an uncut highlight video from a livestream that I did on January 7, 2022 (during my Dakki VTuber phase), when my buddies and I talked about DOSBox at the start of the video. It appears that it was taken down because it broke the "hate speech" guideline.
This is the second strike I've received; the first came about because of an idiotic YouTube Poop video I made ages ago that was found to contain "hateful content" and happened on August 22, 2021. In order to avoid strike 2 and increase the likelihood that my channel would be shut down, I had to go through my older material and remove some of it. Fortunately, the first strike had already expired.
In a state of panic, and to prevent another strike from taking place. I had to private all of my BaratusLive streams and erase the majority (if not all) of my unedited highlight streams from 2021 to shortly after my debut as Akage Megane on April 8, 2022. After that, I'm left wondering how I'm going to deal with this issue in the future, because after nearly ten years, I'm finally building a fan base, and I don't want to lose it all because of something stupid.
It really stinks that this happened because I was going to make a video sometime after I finally built my new PC, only to wake up to a community guidelines strike over a conversation about a game emulator. It boggles my mind that YouTube's moderation has been going after the wrong people for ridiculous reasons, especially when there is far worse content out there in the wild.
When my new PC is finished and I am ready to post again, I will do a channel update video explaining everything I said in this article and potentially including additional things I haven't said as time passes. And then I'll go back to my initial plan, which was to make a video detailing a puzzle game that many people would remember.
The game we'll talk about is Bejeweled. A match-three game that helped create PopCap. Anyway, expect the video to be out sometime next week.
