I woke up today to find my YouTube account had been reinstated. So… happy day? I still don’t know why it was terminated in the first place; YouTube’s e-mail only says something along the lines of “we reviewed your case and it turns out you’re not in violation”. Still, it was good to log in and see this:
So tomorrow we’ll be back to business as usual!
If nothing else, this whole ordeal has been a kick in the pants to evaluate my backup policies. I only had an embarrassingly small amount of video content stored locally, and had to rely on the amazing kindness of strangers to get most of it back. My current project to get my own archives up and running is still a priority over here, so next time this happens I’ll be ready for it.
This does mean there’s no reason to host torrents, though, unless that’s something people really want.
I have spent the last two weeks reading lots of stories like mine. It is still frustrating to me that I don’t know the reason my account was bitch-smacked in the first place. I’m glad to learn that neither LPs nor helpful Kickstarter plugs are against their community guidelines, I suppose, and I understand that I’m using their service for free in a world where nothing is free. I still think they could and should do a better job communicating with their users.
And there really needs to be something between “your account is in good standing” and “your account has been banned and you can never make a new one”. Personally speaking, the hardest part about these past two weeks hasn’t been the inability to upload videos, it’s been losing all my subscriptions and favorites and such. I watch YouTube like most people watch TV. Having to log out of Google and then log into an alt account every time I wanted to watch a video was taking a serious toll on my psyche.
Thanks to everyone who wrote nice notes and who helped get the bulk of my archives back. You are good folks! I’m glad so many good folks enjoy my nonsense.
Congratulations Brickroad! Nice to see someone overcome the odds of misfortune. I enjoy having the Shantae videos on my HD, but in the future I’ll try to rip them from YT.
Happy to see you back. Just watched through Shantae yesterday…oh well…guess I’ll rewatch my favourite LPs of RMN Bros and TT Bros to celebrate 🙂
Man, I was way happy when I hopped on YouTube a couple minutes ago and saw a new episode of Risky’s Revenge. Congratulations on (really doing nothing because it was out of your control but still) getting your channel back, dude! Here’s hoping you’re done dealing with bullshit roadblocks and the like. =D
Sweet
Winner winner, chicken dinner! Hmm, chicken. Welcome back Brickroad, was damn good to see you in my subs box again a few minutes ago, zipped over here fast as I could! Heheh.
Welcome back man! It’s good to see you. Will your old videos come back online soon? If so, usually favorite the hell out of all of them!
I still blame myself for this somehow – I spent a friday after a trial got called off with my feet on the desk and watching some of the LPs, and they vanished about 48 hours later.
Yeah! Gratz on getting back into the Youtube world! ^_^
I knew not deleting the bookmark for the old account would pay off someday 😉
I find it hard to believe that any of us would have deleted the bookmark. At the very least, it was something to help us hold onto hope during these harsh times.
It’s a relief. But just in case, for now on I’ll download every video you upload.
It’s sad to see YT do not say even a tiny apology; you should have some compensation of any kind for making you lose a few days of your life that will never come back again.
Anyway, welcome back and back to basis.
Some problems get solved by themselves.
IT’S CELEBRATORY STOCK IMAGE TIME!!!!!! http://us.123rf.com/400wm/400/400/logos/logos1108/logos110801993/10392452-portrait-of-young-victorious-business-man-celebrating-success-with-clenched-fist-over-white-backgrou.jpg
It seems like an actual human at Youtube finally got around to seeing what their machinery did to your account and realized they goofed up bigtime.
My days are a bit cooler now. Welcome back Brickroad!
This is some pretty sweet news to wake up to! Welcome back, man!
Welcome back, Brick!
So hey, you have a second account now, is there any chance vlogs can be coming back?
..no?
Damn.
See, when I hovered over the image, I misread what the URL was indicated to be.
It said “goodstanding.png,” but I read “godsend.png”.
How odd.
Yay!
Hey Scribbe, just happened to come across your site while trying/reading on ways that I can contact Youtube about my account termination as well. Might I ask what you did to get your account back? It’s just that Youtube doesn’t seem to have a direct way of reaching contact without me getting some automated response that isn’t relevant at all.
I didn’t do much of anything. I just went through the automated responses and then magic happened. I’m sorry but I don’t really have any advice for you. If you’re confident you aren’t in violation of any Terms of Service, the issue will probably get cleared up before too long. Best of luck, dude.