A German-speaking YouTuber about Destiny 2 is currently experiencing a roller coaster of emotions. After being brought into the spotlight by Bungie worldwide, he is now facing major issues on YouTube. It is suspected that a jealous person might be behind this.
This YouTuber is: AndyEdition is responsible for the story and background of the game in the German-speaking Destiny community. He takes on the role of “Lore Explanator” for the German community, a role filled by “My Name is Byf” in the English-speaking community. We at MeinMMO have also featured his videos on the story of Destiny 2.
How it went up: With this concept, he is increasingly successful. From small beginnings at the end of 2016, his channel has grown significantly in recent weeks. In September 2018, he had his strongest month so far with “Forsaken.” With nearly 750,000 views and over 5,000 new subscribers, the hard work is slowly paying off.
The rise of Destiny 2 with Forsaken is also affecting content creators.
The highlight seemed to have been reached when Bungie, the developer of Destiny 2, took notice of AndyEdition. On October 24, community manager Cozmo introduced the YouTuber to a large audience as part of the “Community Focus.”
The article about Andy appeared on the Bungie homepage and from there it spread around the world.
That was the shock: But he could only enjoy the success for a few days.
As Andy says in a conversation with MeinMMO, everything was different by Saturday. When he logged into YouTube there, everything was suddenly red and covered with warning messages.
In a short time, two strikes appeared on his account. YouTube informed him that he may have violated “community guidelines.” However, no exact details were provided.
Appeals against the strikes were also unsuccessful.
AndyEdition feels powerless and cannot find a contact person at YouTube who can explain to him what he may have done wrong.
Now the deletion of the channel is imminent
This is the situation now: The channel is banned for three weeks. During that time, AndyEdition cannot upload any new videos.
And even worse: If a third strike occurs, deletion is imminent. As Andy communicates via Facebook, more of his videos have been reported and he expects the worst.
At the moment, the YouTuber cannot explain what exactly has happened. AndyEdition insists on his innocence. He has watched the videos that have been reported multiple times and cannot explain what he may have done wrong.
His community is concerned. It is suspected that there may be jealous individuals who are angry that it is not they who were highlighted in the community focus of Bungie, but rather an “other.”
MeinMMO thinks: If Bungie itself considers AndyEdition’s content to be so good that they bring him into the spotlight, it raises the question of what on earth could be YouTube’s problem with the content?
In any case, this shows how difficult the situation is for content creators when opaque mechanisms and denunciation can cause so much trouble. Recently, we reported on a case where someone was banned on Twitter for a poem about fictional aliens.
Unfortunately, it seems possible for anonymous reports to sabotage years of work. It is alarming how much power large platforms like YouTube have and how difficult it is to contact them and present one’s perspective.
We wish AndyEdition the best of luck in this situation and hope that perhaps the problem will resolve itself favorably, although it does not look that way at the moment.
A year ago, the German YouTube duo “ziro.tv” got into trouble with the community. We reported extensively on this:
