I have been working on building it for 16 years now, things were flowing smoothly,, I felt proud about the content produced for it and the amount and quality of subscribers and today out of nowhere a Cryptocurrency scam called MicroStrategy took control of it and started running a live video, I stopped it as soon as I could, changed passwords and all that stuff, and then out of nothing I got a mail from Youtube telling me the live video was against their policy and I had a YT channel no more, I already appealed it but I have found on Reddit and Google that it seems to have happened to a lot of YT channels and no one got their channels back, some say this hack comes from malware from downloading pirated content but that is not the case with me. I am posting this here as a warning, check you have a complex password, try to secure your account as much as possible. As video creators we invest a lot of time on YT channels, so this sucks and I would hate for those kind of scammers applying something like this to lots of other YT channels, also feels kind of better to talk about the experience.
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Sorry that this happened, Isaac. Thanks for the advice.
That's... wow. And all the viewing history with it, too? That's insane!
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Hey Isaac, this is Karen from the Stage 32 team. I just wanted to let you know I moved your post from Anything Goes to Distribution, as it fits much better there. Let me know if you have any questions, and all the best to you!
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Hi Isaac, please dm me details on the youtube url. I'd like to help in any way. I'd like to see how we can escalate this issue to Youtube.
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Thanks Uchenna, I just DMed you. And sure Kay, thanks for moving it. It is indeed a Distribution issue. Cheers everyone!
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So sorry that happened to you, Isaac.
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You are all very kind. It was annoying and a bit frustrating, but now that some days have passed I realized I have been using YT as a tool to get known as a visual creator, but having lost it, seems like there might be better ways of doing that without the need of youtube. It even might be a blessing in disguise. Thanks for your nice comment. It feels good to be part of this community.