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I’m on the brink of homelessness after @TeamYouTube wrongfully terminated my channel, Blingmcqueen, taking away my only source of income overnight. I haven’t received my final month’s earnings, I’m behind on rent, and I’m facing eviction. I’ve spent weeks begging for a human review, only to receive automated responses. I’m losing my home over something I didn’t do. I’m forced to spend my last few dollars promoting this post just to be heard. I genuinely don’t know what else to do.
Hello, my name is blingmcqueen and I’m the owner of the monetized YouTube channel “blingmcqueen” which had over 30,000 subscribers On October 8th, 2026, my channel was wrongfully terminated by what seems to be a targeted attack by my detractors using mass reporting or a false AI driven ban. I immediately submitted an appeal but it was denied within an hour. The ban came right after I uploaded a video titled “Roblox Ageplayers are Disgusting 2.” Said video exposing Roblox’s ageplay community which used various groups to target children with illegal intent. I documented several of the groups, showed the players residing in the group, and showed the material present on their accounts such as their bios. Everything shown followed the community guidelines and any potentially inappropriate material was blurred or censored. It’s obvious that the videos takedown was the result of YouTube’s AI since, I uploaded the video at around 7:00 AM and it was subsequently taken down at 7:18 AM. The video was 20+ minutes long so how could it be properly assessed in that time? I didn’t receive a strike or even a warning for the videos takedown, rather, it was just removed without any consequence. On October 8th, 2026 at exactly 8:15 AM, my channel was entirely removed for supposedly violating YouTube’s child safety policy. They specifically said “It looks like this account has content that involves a child being sexually abused or exploited.” This, obviously, isn’t the case as my videos exposed predators attempting to prey on children. My videos advocated for these spaces to be shutdown which my coverage always resulted in. After my channels deletion, I submitted an appeal explaining everything but it was immediately rejected without reason. My content fully complies with YouTube’s policies I do not engage in behavior that endangers children. Rather, my work has resulted in better safety for them. I follow the same standards and formats as others in the Roblox YouTube community. I respectfully request a thorough manual review of my channels and a reconsideration of their termination. This channel represents years of dedication, creativity, and community building, and I believe this action was taken in error. Attached is my video takedown email, my channel termination email, and my appeal rejection email.
#YouTube
@YouTube
@TeamYouTube
@YouTubeCreators
Blingmcqueen retweeted
Replying to @TeamYouTube
@TeamYouTube My channel was incorrectly terminated for child safety violations even though my content is fully compliant with your rules. My appeal was immediately rejected. Please open DMs so I can plead my case
Thats great. Now can you resolve the thousands of channels you've wrongfully terminated in the past month like mine?
Update: This is now resolved! If you're still seeing a "Server Error 400" message on Android, please update the YouTube app to the latest version and open the app again. Thanks so much for hanging in there with us ❤️🩹
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Blingmcqueen retweeted
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@TeamYouTube
My channel of 30,000+ subs, blingmcqueen, was terminated AGAIN under the Child Safety Policy. This is an obvious mistake by your AI. The termination came immediately after a video of mine was wrongfully taken down. Please look into this
"Here we go again. Time to wrongfully ban another account and make irrelevant posts about some celebrities instead of improving our platform"
“We’re always here for you”
That’s nice. Now how about the hundreds of accounts you wrongfully terminate with your AI moderation?
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Hello, my name is blingmcqueen and I’m the owner of the monetized YouTube channel “blingmcqueen” which had over 30,000 subscribers
On October 8th, 2026, my channel was wrongfully terminated by what seems to be a targeted attack by my detractors using mass reporting or a false AI driven ban. I immediately submitted an appeal but it was denied within an hour.
The ban came right after I uploaded a video titled “Roblox Ageplayers are Disgusting 2.” Said video exposing Roblox’s ageplay community which used various groups to target children with illegal intent. I documented several of the groups, showed the players residing in the group, and showed the material present on their accounts such as their bios. Everything shown followed the community guidelines and any potentially inappropriate material was blurred or censored. It’s obvious that the videos takedown was the result of YouTube’s AI since, I uploaded the video at around 7:00 AM and it was subsequently taken down at 7:18 AM. The video was 20+ minutes long so how could it be properly assessed in that time?
I didn’t receive a strike or even a warning for the videos takedown, rather, it was just removed without any consequence.
On October 8th, 2026 at exactly 8:15 AM, my channel was entirely removed for supposedly violating YouTube’s child safety policy. They specifically said “It looks like this account has content that involves a child being sexually abused or exploited.” This, obviously, isn’t the case as my videos exposed predators attempting to prey on children. My videos advocated for these spaces to be shutdown which my coverage always resulted in.
After my channels deletion, I submitted an appeal explaining everything but it was immediately rejected without reason.
My content fully complies with YouTube’s policies I do not engage in behavior that endangers children. Rather, my work has resulted in better safety for them. I follow the same standards and formats as others in the Roblox YouTube community.
I respectfully request a thorough manual review of my channels and a reconsideration of their termination. This channel represents years of dedication, creativity, and community building, and I believe this action was taken in error. Attached is my video takedown email, my channel termination email, and my appeal rejection email.
#YouTube
@YouTube
@TeamYouTube
@YouTubeCreators
What further shows that this is a wrongful takedown is that it actually happened once before but, at that time, the decision was rightfully reversed. On June 19th, 2026 at exactly 5:43 AM, my channel was terminated for the same reason as right now - child safety violations. They specifically stated, “We have zero tolerance for predatory behavior on YouTube. Content involving the sexualization of minors is not allowed on YouTube.” This, once again, is entirely false as my content literally exposes predators who would engage in this behavior. I immediately appealed this decision and my channel was rightfully reinstated on the same day. This shows that this recent termination is YouTube’s AI wrongfully targeting me again. Attached is the old termination email and old reinstatement email.
#YouTube
@YouTube
@TeamYouTube
@YouTubeCreators
You can see the positive influence of my work just by my one video documenting Roblox’s school shooting community. Released in 2025, the video resulted in the ADL using my work and Speaker of the Texas House Dustin Burrows using it to advocate for better child safety online. If I was endangering children like YouTube is accusing me of, why am I being cited by those who advocate for better child safety?
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Lol. Wrongfully banning your creators and entirely relying on AI moderation really shows how thankful you are for us
Imagine losing everything you built overnight because an AI thought it was your time to go
okay @YouTube @YouTubeCreators
WHAT is happening?
My channel was wrongfully taken down a few days ago for apparently violating this same exact policy
I appealed and you reinstated it
And now you took my whole channel down AGAIN?
WHY?
This is really messing with my business.
Wtf is happening w yt
Hi @TeamYouTube.
My channel was suddenly demonetized after over 11 years of creating videos. I do not make or target my videos at children.
Please have a human being correct this mistake.
Hi
@TeamYouTube @YouTube
This is an obvious mistake. My channel, blingmcqueen, was reviewed and reinstated on June 19th, 2026. This channel was wrongfully suspended again. Please pass this to a human agent for a MANUAL review, not an auto-reply. Thank you.
YouTube finally responded, but keeps repeating that my ban is final instead of acknowledging my work advocating for child safety on platforms like Roblox. How is this fair? I exposed these issues so better enforcements can be made to make children safer.
YouTube terminated my channel despite my work documenting harmful activity on Roblox. My reporting has even been referenced in legal proceedings, yet my attempts to resolve this have gone nowhere. Investigative journalism shouldn’t be mistaken for promoting the issues it exposes.
Hi @TeamYouTube
Dear YouTube Support Team,
I am writing to you with a humble request to please help me recover my YouTube channel, blingmcqueen, which has been wrongfully terminated.
I am very upset and worried about losing my channel. My channel means a lot to me.
Replying to @TeamYouTube
@TeamYouTube My channel of 30,000+ subs was terminated AGAIN under the Child Safety Policy. I, once again, believe this was an error. My channel represents years of work and my primary source of income. I document harmful content for awareness so they can be taken down
@TeamYouTube I sent you a DM regarding the situation but haven’t heard back. Please reach out to me as soon as possible
Blingmcqueen retweeted
For some reason @Roblox released an AI slop version of the coaster background that was from my game Roblox Point.
This feels pretty weird that 1 they decided to not involve us in it, and also compete with our sales as we already released a background for the game.




























