#freenoble

This time YouTube has gone way beyond of their jurisdiction, banning and terminating an innocent channel without clear evidence and fair warning in advance. Noble of Lost Pause has lost his channel.

First of, if you read this Noble. We got your back, no matter what you do… we like it. Stay the awesome and cool person you always have and don’t let YouTube ruin what you have established, you still retain it and we fans won’t let anybody, especially YouTube. take it from you.

To those who have been wondering what happened, this is the deal. There are NO copyright infringements involved in this matter. YouTube is simply a derp and terminated Noble’s channel for… let me cite: “...violating YouTube’s policy on nudity or sexual content” on a MMD (MikuMikuDance) Animation of Lily the Fox Mechanic. The video is completely harmless and meets every single requirement to be allowed on YouTube. It does not contain any nudity nor sexual content - in short, it doesn’t violate the Community Guidelines.

Before the termination, his channel already got a strike for a Katawa Shoujo (visual novel) video, that contained the famous anal scene, which was completely censored. To top it of, we are speaking of a video, that Noble posted in 2014! It took two years for YouTube to decide: “You know what guys? Let’s fuck up this dude’s channel with a video that we had no problems with for 2 years.”

This kind of behaviour is unacceptable from YouTube’s side. There are so many other channels and videos that clearly violate the Community Guidelines, have far worse content, yet YouTube does nothing. They instead go and ban an innocent channel with a big community and think they can get away with this?! NO! THEY CANNOT!

We will fight to the bitter end. If YouTube will not show some respect towards its content creators, neither will we the consumers.

Dear Susan Wojcicki,

My name is FrantACs and I am writing you this open letter to shine light upon a very serious topic that has recently hit me and many other YouTubers.

Recently I considered making a living of YouTube, making vlogs, gameplay videos, Q&As, etc. I never was a type of person that liked to be in the spotlight. I had many phobias and still have many today, that I have failed to conquer yet. But something like that didn’t hold me back from mustering my courage and finally step up and start my own show. I really wanted to, but the way YouTube works nowadays, it makes it really hard on us content creators.

Many YouTubers under the protection of Fair Use, following the YouTube Community Guidelines have been punished and received strikes unjustly, without warning. On the other hand many YouTubers seem to get away with explicit content till this very day, even though it is evident that they are not following the guidelines. I believe this is a very unjust and ridiculously unfair behaviour from your side and consider it as an insult to those who do follow the rules and yet still get flagged.

YouTube has become a hostile enviroment for us Content Creators. We no longer feel safe. For every video, no matter how original the content, there is still a chance your video will get flagged for the most ridiculous things. (For example, I had a video of my little ducklings and accidentally there was a box with a brand name on it. My video got flagged by a company that had nothing to do with the actual content and purpose of the video.)

Violence vs. Sexual content: It is okay to behead a woman in the most drastic and disgusting way and show it YouTube, but showing a bit of skin or a picture with boobs completely censored is too much...

You are being rediculous, sir YouTube. You used to be such a wonderful site, where people were free to create and entertain. Now all I see is doom and gloom.

THIS HAS TO CHANGE! The guidelines and rules need to be revised and it has to be clear what you can and cannot upload. Before enforcing rules and/or restricting ones Channel, give at least a 3-4 days warning, rather than taking action immediately.