Posted on 04/16/2022 7:52:53 AM PDT by Philo1962
Drop YouTube and move on with your life. You aren’t going to change the downward spiral this nation is in, no matter how many hours you speak into a video screen. Prepare yourself, and prepare for your family. It’s important ‘good heads’ survive what’s coming.
However, with the limited time you have (as we all have!) I recommend you use it for your son, your work, and your recovery.
Purely my opinion.
If it were me, and it’s not, I would let the videos rest until the kid thing is settled. No matter what, if you think it might muddle getting your kid, don’t take the risk. The attack on free speech and opinion is disgusting, but it is. Courts almost always seem to give children to the mothers, no matter what they do, so I wish you the best.
Rumble - don’t even bother with Youtube they won’t give you an answer.
Good advice.
“I’m trying to decide whether to restart the channel on YouTube”
“Doctor, every time I hit myself with a 2x4 it hurts. What should I do?”
Docktor: “Stop hitting yourself.”
If you didn’t get banned with three strikes, I say reupload it to YT and do Rumble at the same time. Hedge your bets, but I’d say don’t give up on YT just yet.
I’m launching a (non-political) YouTube project in the next month and I’m uploading it to Rumble as well and will probably be doing some Rumble exclusives to get YT subscribers to also subscribe on Rumble.
It isn’t going to happen overnight, but if YouTube continues down its current path, they are doomed. If you keep pushing your userbase bit by bit to other platforms, one day you’re going to wake up and find that you no longer have much of a userbase.
YouTube will drop you again or shadow ban you. I would not waste any more time with YouTube.
Overall, I would look to first settle issue with your health, ex-wife, and son.
As good as your content may be, from what you say, it seems you are unable to do everything, and also make Youtube content, all at once. I also doubt Youtube provides sufficient income to make that a priority, or at least that’s from what I have been told from other youtube content-providers.
Perhaps don’t give it up entirely - perhaps cut way back to one topic you are most knowledgeable and passionate about.
You have a need to teach and help others. That’s great.
Right now you need to help yourself. Get things right in your life with your son and your health and don’t let anything jeopardize that. Take the deletion of your YouTube channel as a sign to refocus away from it.
Good luck.
I think you’re asking in a difficult place. FR is great for a lot of things, but constructive advice on creative projects like this is not something many users here can or will provide. You’re more likely to hear this ‘get off youtube and do something useful’ crap, which is akin to the people who feel the need to one-up each other on how long it’s been since they’ve had a TV set in any thread about a TV show.
Move it to Rumble. There are people who need the knowledge you provide.
Upload them all to rumble. Good for posterity and you can always add more when you feel like it.
What is the link to the channel? Maybe someone can say what the violation was— but I’m guessing you discussed covid treatments. Did you use the word ivermectin or a pejorative for vaccine like clot shot? That will obviously do it.
(By the way, that sounds like a terrible case of covid. Hope you’re feeling better.)
You son is the important part of all of this.
But do keep a record of all your videos in case you need to "prove" something in court.
YouTube has "fact checked" a children's movie (Ice Age: The Meltdown) and a homesteader who was just talking about the article about how in 2030 "You will own nothing and like it" by the WEF. Mind you, he said nothing that was not admitted to in the article.
I would not call myself a video blogger, but I did put a little effort into it a few years ago. According to the video “analytics” on YouTube my channel has had 593,000 lifetime views. It is kind of amazing that so many people have wasted their time watching my videos. I was getting about a $100 a month from YouTube at one point after I “monetized” my channel. I didn’t put the videos up to make money, it was just something I did for fun. But it still irritated me when YouTube demonetized my channel when I was about $3 short of getting another $100 transferred to my checking account. So now I only upload videos for our friends.
If you still have all of your videos... it takes so little effort these days with high-speed internet, that I would just go ahead and reupload your favorites at least. Who knows why they ditched your channel? You could probably do a little digging and find out, or you could just start a new channel.
I feel for you. How sad. You met your wife on Free Republic, and she was a kindred spirit at that time. But then she changed and went liberal and the result was divorce. I’m sorry for your life’s issues, and your son sadly is in the middle of that.
Good luck.
What did you do that got YouTube to stop monetizing your channel?
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