>>1227384To me it all seems like a mistake on Youtube's part, not that they're willingly hostile (unless I missed something).
Youtube's clients aren't their users. Their clients are advertisers, and they're hostile to channels who displease them. Like channels about fringe politics who nobody with something to sell want to associate with. But that doesn't seem to be Cover's case, they get advertising deals all the time.
Nobody here knows exactly why Kiara's videos got deleted. What Youtube does is automatically flag videos based on a bunch of parameters. I'm guessing mostly keyword matching and manual user reports. And their system is overzealous because in the case something actually offensive slips through the cracks, they don't want to deal with the public/advertiser backlash.
But anyway, hostile or not, the result is the same, and I don't believe they're going to fix it. I still think it's not worth it to move to a self-hosted platform. Let's be honest, Yagoo knows more about this than us and he would have made the move already if he thought he had something to gain out of it.
