YouTube Bans xQc, Demonetizes Videos
Popular Twitch streamers have been known to post clips, montages, and unique videos on separate YouTube channels to ensure that audience members of multiple platforms have access to their content. Frequent Twitch stats leader Felix «xQc» Lengyel maintains a healthy following on his YouTube channel as well, but he has been banned and demonetized there as of yesterday.
Many YouTube content creators have been hit with copyright and community guidelines strikes over the years, with tons of them debating the accuracy to the claims as they appeal to what's hindering their channels from generating revenue. Other big YouTube channels that have received similar strikes in recent memory include TheActMan, H3H3, and Ludwig, with the cause varying depending on the channel. XQc has the latest banned YouTube account due to questionable community guidelines strikes against his account, and his videos have been demonetized as a result.
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After being hit by the YouTube ban and the demonetization of his videos, xQc took to Twitter to tell YouTube Creators that his videos were unjustifiably struck for violating the community guidelines. He's been critical in the past of YouTube removing public dislikes, but xQc's tweet confirms a lot of his videos have been «unnecessarily demonetized lately,» and that this ban prevents him from posting new videos for two weeks. Although he may have gone through YouTube's private channels to appeal the ban, xQc also asked for a manual review of his account so that it could be reinstated.
When he's done with a livestream, xQc gets portions of it formatted and uploaded to YouTube for a crowd of 2.1 million subscribers, which still
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