YouTube Accidentally Bans Accounts and Deletes Channels Under ‘Spam’ Policy

YouTube mistakenly banned accounts and deleted numerous channels because of its spam, deceptive practices, and scams policy in the past few hours. However, many affected users had never uploaded a video suggesting that a bug may have been the root cause of the issue.

This error had an impact on the accounts of creators and normal consumers of YouTube, as well as YouTube TV, YouTube Premium, and YouTube Music.

Users were unable to access their accounts to view videos, listen to music, or even save items like playlists because of the channel removals. Several users, including those who are subscribed to YouTube Premium, also reported disruptions; their libraries and subscriptions were temporarily unavailable.

Users with affected accounts were informed of their account suspension via email, and reports from the affected regions, including the United States, Europe, and Asia, were widely shared on social media.

In response, this behavior of YouTube was admitted by the company since the users were assured of efforts to regain the removed channels, accounts, and other items like playlists. They pointed out that the affected accounts probably did not infringe upon the platform’s policies significantly or frequently and said it was a temporary problem.

Some of the users were able to reverse the bans and get their accounts restored, but others complained of several days of delay in getting their playlists and saved contents back. Some others, however, had their content restored right after the appeal process had been completed. YouTube still deals with the problem, requesting users to be patient as they sort out other problems.

Some users still have issues, particularly those who use the platform with large playlists and music libraries, but most are optimistic that everything will be restored without the need to do anything.