What took place to VFAB's YouTube channel?

If you’re a typical viewer of VFAB’s YouTube channel, you could have currently observed the channel has been offline because Sunday, July 24. So what took place, and when is the channel coming back again? Here’s what we can share so far.

From what we can establish, the channel went down because of to a chain-of-ownership snafu. We feel a person who performs for VFAB’s mum or dad company was trying to consolidate e-mail databases, and in that approach brought on a series of events whereby VFAB misplaced ownership of the channel. Main possession is right attached to a solitary e mail tackle, and lacking any most important owner, we think YouTube’s automated system marked the channel for deletion.

Considering that the channel went down on Sunday, we’ve been working an all-palms effort to correct the error. We’ve had some minimal dialogue with YouTube aid, and we’re executing our most effective to escalate the issue as a result of YouTube’s chain-of-command. So far, we haven’t achieved an particular person with the means to help us get our channel back.

If absolutely nothing else, this episode reminds us that YouTube has a extremely asymmetric romantic relationship with its creators—which may make perception when you think about its aid infrastructure should assist an estimated 51 million channels, with much more than 29,000 of these channels serving far more than 1 million subscribers. VFAB’s channel has much more than 290,000 subscribers, and we’re hoping YouTube can reconnect us to our incredibly passionate and loyal followers as quickly as probable.

We’ll share updates on VFAB’s Twitter as the situation develops.