YouTube's "Invalid Traffic" Glitch Killed Our Channel (YouTube GHOSTED Us)
Please go follow the new channel @ChillwithHannahB for our ASMR content, but Chili B is not going away and older videos will either live here on the channel or be transferred over to the new one. We will never remove a video without re-uploading it. I'll share the playlist as soon as it has one video in it.
The "help" page I was sent to 10x from YouTube support: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10285842?hl
Since recording this video, I've been connected with multiple other creators encountering the same issue. It all seemed to start around beginning of March. Maybe that was when the algorithm that pulls these invalid traffic notifications changed. No one I've talked to has any reason to suspect the traffic isn't legitimate, and no one has heard back from YouTube despite multiple reach outs.
My hope is that this video will garner some attention and YouTube can see how badly it's affecting creators. So that they can put more manpower behind it.
There's a few more tips I've been given to basically restart the channel, which I will continue to try and you'll be the first to know if this channel is coming back.
Lastly, I can't express how sad this makes me. I said to Jeremy it feels like a death. This channel that has been so important to me, and pulled me out of such hard times, just gets killed due to a technical problem and there's nothing I can do. Well, I'm doing what I can do. Starting over. Love you all.
0:00 - our channel backstory
0:50 - where our videos are going
1:10 - what is the problem
1:46 - our first invalid traffic notification
3:33 - ads not appearing on the channel
4:30 - Youtube's response
5:21 - continued notifications
6:28 - last attempt with YouTube support
7:01 - how do they determine invalid traffic
8:14 - why you can't appeal or see data
9:26 - our solution
11:23 - anymore information?
11:51 - what to expect from our new channel
13:08 - why YouTube WONT help
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