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[LadyCass]

I doubt this has anything to do with Bioware. YouTube has done this many times. Typically it's some random angry viewer who spam reports. I can tell you from experience they don't actually read/verify the claims, if they see a sufficient amount they swing the ban hammer and then ask questions later. What's unfortunate is that this may result in the loss of every video on Fluffy's channel, which is nothing short of ridiculous. 

 

It doesn't have to have anything to do with Bioware. However, their endorsement of the channel would give FluffyNinjaLlama the legal and corporate push they need to proceed, and succeed on keeping their channel up permanently. I'm hoping YouTube have some kind of system in place for this as otherwise, any troll could try to take down videos when they are actually hosted by the copyright owner.

 

Thank you so much guys, I'm going through hell right now. I don't know what to do, pretty much out of options since I can't even access my channel, it looks like it's been deleted. Does anyone have any idea on how to solve this?

 

FluffyNinjaLlama, I'm afraid that at this point, you will need to do some contact work. If you want to go straight to the source, then I suggest you ring YouTube on +1 650-253-0000. Otherwise, if you think that it was the Dragon Age: Inquisition videos which caused this, then contact Bioware on their email address: contact@bioware.com and explain the situation to them. I suggest that you link them to this thread also as it shows that your channel is popular and a positive influence, and worth keeping around.

 

Once you have their endorsement, you, or even better, your contact at Bioware, can contact Google with all of the relevant information and formally request that your channel be reinstated and future claims on the same basis be ignored.

 

If YouTube refuse to reconsider and Bioware won't give you any sort of support, whether official or unofficial, then I'm afraid your next recourse is probably legal, and based on "reasonable use" of content. 

[FluffyNinjaLlama]

Knowing what some other YouTubers have been through, this seems bad. They have no rights to ban you, after all you have done nothing wrong and actually make the fandom bigger thanks to your work (<--I persuaded my friend bought the DA:I with your videos)

 

What I know the best way for you is try to contact BioWare or/and YouTube, and maybe even some bigger youtube names like Angry Joe or Total Biscuit. Those guys know how to fight these fights and they have helped other YouTubers before.

 

Edit// Also to me it says you have been banned because of "repeated or severe violations of YouTube's spam-, gambling or misleading practices or the content term violations". What the actual **** now Youtube...

The only contact I found for YouTube is their form to ask for more information about the ban and I'm still waiting for a reply. I'm not sure how to contact Bioware, anyone knows? Is it true that Angry Joe and Total Biscuit helped youtubers before?

[FluffyNinjaLlama]

It doesn't have to have anything to do with Bioware. However, their endorsement of the channel would give FluffyNinjaLlama the legal and corporate push they need to proceed, and succeed on keeping their channel up permanently. I'm hoping YouTube have some kind of system in place for this as otherwise, any troll could try to take down videos when they are actually hosted by the copyright owner.

 

 

FluffyNinjaLlama, I'm afraid that at this point, you will need to do some contact work. If you want to go straight to the source, then I suggest you ring YouTube on +1 650-253-0000. Otherwise, if you think that it was the Dragon Age: Inquisition videos which caused this, then contact Bioware on their email address: contact@bioware.com and explain the situation to them. I suggest that you link them to this thread also as it shows that your channel is popular and a positive influence, and worth keeping around.

 

Once you have their endorsement, you, or even better, your contact at Bioware, can contact Google with all of the relevant information and formally request that your channel be reinstated and future claims on the same basis be ignored.

 

If YouTube refuse to reconsider and Bioware won't give you any sort of support, whether official or unofficial, then I'm afraid your next recourse is probably legal, and based on "reasonable use" of content. 

Thank you I'll try contacting Bioware asap. I called youtube but they just send you back to their website.

[Serenade]

Did you get any strikes before getting banned? Was it through copyright infringement? You can try contacting Youtube's copyright information here: https://support.goog...f_topic=2778544

Never mind, guess you already tried.

[FluffyNinjaLlama]

Did you get any strikes before getting banned? Was it through copyright infringement? You can try contacting Youtube's copyright information here: https://support.goog...f_topic=2778544

Never mind, guess you already tried.

No strikes before that, perfect standing.

[ambie630]

Hi Fluffy, I'm so sorry about your account!

 

I don't know if these email addresses still work or not, or if you've already tried them, but you can try sending emails to account-appeal@youtube.com and legal@support.youtube.com explaining that you believe your account was wrongly banned.

 

You can also post in the YouTube forums, but I don't know how much help they are going to be. It looks like Google support is terrible at monitoring the support forums: https://productforum...tors/my-account

 

I hope you get this resolved soon  

[lewis251]

Hope you get your channel back Fluffy

[onakita]

I found out in YT forum that a lot of accounts were deleted recently becouse of included tags and info in the descriptions, they consider a lot amount of tags and info in description as spam and violations of YouTube's policy against spam. 

[Kantr]

Bioware's community Manager should definitely contact youtube to restore the channel. This seems like something in his job description

[FluffyNinjaLlama]

Bioware are out of office until January 5th

[DragonRacer]

The only contact I found for YouTube is their form to ask for more information about the ban and I'm still waiting for a reply. I'm not sure how to contact Bioware, anyone knows? Is it true that Angry Joe and Total Biscuit helped youtubers before?

 

You may want to tweet David Hulegaard. He's BioWare's community manager and, I think, a good start for who could help on their end: @HulegaardBooks

[KneeTheCap]

What I find odd is that according to Llama here, s/he has no strikes or claims and suddenly his/her channel gets removed. There wasn't even a warning or anything?

[BammBamm]

hmm try to contact him https://www.youtube....RXfmVin0W_NWZVQ

 

he is the (nice) guy replied in the pc concerns thread a while back and works for bioware in the qa as far as i know. maybe he knows some contacts

[StrangeStrategy]

What I find odd is that according to Llama here, s/he has no strikes or claims and suddenly his/her channel gets removed. There wasn't even a warning or anything?

 

You'd think so. When I went to the channel, it was banned for spam / misleading titles. I find it difficult to believe that a channel can be perma-banned and wiped clean for that... It makes no sense. Now, if there were some random Copyright reports I could understand that perhaps, but as it is, it isn't right.

Stay calm Llama, we'll keep this thread bumped until Bioware can hopefully look into it. They must have more pressing concerns, but surely it'd be worth it to save the channel that entertains and gathers new DA fans alike... Without channels like yours, there would be so much content I miss.

[Emu8207]

This is terrible, another example of Youtube's broken copyright system, smh.

[BammBamm]

#freedomforfluffyninjallama

 

let the flood begin^^

[DragonRacer]

#freedomforfluffyninjallama

 

let the flood begin^^

 

#freefluffy

[LolaLei]

Llama: I dunno if it helps, but EA and BioWare have given there full support for YouTubers to record Dragon Age Inquisition/BioWare games in general, so if YouTube give you any trouble for using footage with commentary I can put you in contact with who you'd need to speak to from BioWare to get written permission to send to YT, that's what I've had to do a few times when I've had problems.

That aside, are you networked/partnered? If so it'll be worth contacting them? Also do you monetise your vids?

[LolaLei]

Aha, done some asking around.

Apparently a lot of channels that uploaded raw footage and soundtracks with no commentary/editing/etc are at risk of being shut down, it seems YouTube have started deleting these channels already without giving fair warning.

[ollyollyoxenfree]

That's dumb, I like Fluffy's videos BECAUSE it has no commentary. The moment I hear somebody's voice in a video I usually navigate away. 

[DragonRacer]

Aha, done some asking around.

Apparently a lot of channels that uploaded raw footage and soundtracks with no commentary/editing/etc are at risk of being shut down, it seems YouTube have started deleting these channels already without giving fair warning.

 

Hmmm...

 

I wonder if a super-cheesy way around that would be to record a few seconds of commentary at the very beginning stating "this is a scene you get if you make Dorian hate you" or whatever and then just let the thing play like normal.

 

It would be goofy and stupid to have to do, but that could help bypass the whole "raw footage" thing since it technically has introductory commentary now?

[LolaLei]

That's dumb, I like Fluffy's videos BECAUSE it has no commentary. The moment I hear somebody's voice in a video I usually navigate away.

It's ridiculous, isn't it. So long as the raw footage isn't monetised I don't see the problem. YouTube is still such a grey area still in terms of copyright and stuff. They could've at least given the channels a chance to remove the videos.

Maybe BioWare should upload all the raw footage themselves on their channel if they don't want fans doing it.

[noxpanda]

I just found out about this, such a shame, im a huge fan of your channel, you do great vids! Can we do something noisy like start a petition or some such?

[LolaLei]

Hmmm...

I wonder if a super-cheesy way around that would be to record a few seconds of commentary at the very beginning stating "this is a scene you get if you make Dorian hate you" or whatever and then just let the thing play like normal.

It would be goofy and stupid to have to do, but that could help bypass the whole "raw footage" thing since it technically has introductory commentary now?

Naw, they'd just screw you for the rest of the unedited stuff, lol.

[LolaLei]

I just found out about this, such a shame, im a huge fan of your channel, you do great vids! Can we do something noisy like start a petition or some such?

Depends how much noise can be made. I knew of a channel that was about 100k strong getting deleted by YT once, but she had a big enough following to make enough noise for the YT elite to get involved. Sadly, unless you're partnered with Polaris or the other YT genres equivalents you don't stand a cat in hells chance.