Update on Channel being deleted etc. (Patreon)

 Hey lads, its Dan. 

aaaand I'm still here! Contrary to what you might have heard. There's  been a little bit of chaos the last few days so I thought I'd just give  you an update about whats happening.   So, last week I received an email telling me that one of my videos (the  Jordan Peterson one) violated YouTubes terms of service for hatespeech  and has thus been removed in addition to my channel receiving a strike  (three strikes and you're out) for breaching community guidelines. At  first I thought it wasnt really a big deal since this happens to some of  my videos from time to time so I appealed the removal and made some  noise on twitter and after 1-2 days it got reinstated.

 Here's where we  get to the good part.  About 8 hours after the video being reinstated, I receive another email  from YouTube informing me that my entire channel has been removed from  the platform for breaching community guidelines. Very weird stuff. I  appealed it and again, took to twitter where a bunch of different  creators helped me boost the signal and I can't tell you how I grateful I  am for so many people helping me to get my channel back up. There has  been some speculation about what actually happend ranging from YouTube  mistaking me for a Antifa channel (???) to my videos being mass flagged  and honestly, your guess is as good as mine. 

All I got were a couple of  computer generated emails but not any kind of explanation. If I had to  guess I'd say no human being actually looked at my channel but that it  was just some kind of automatic process I got caught up in. Anyway the  channel is now back and the new video should be done some time next  week. I might keep the new video exclusive to Patrons for a bit longer  than usual since it features some pretty heavy subject matter and I dont  want any more attention from YouTubes algorithm at the moment. Again I'm insanely grateful for everyone who helped me boost the signal  and I'm not sure I would've gotten my channel back if there weren't so  many people sticking up for me. Also having you folks as my Patrons means I dont have to completely freak out when stuff like this happens because I'm not depending YouTube add revenue.

Thanks a bunch, you're all great, 

Dan