The Austrian YouTuber Andy Edition is facing the deletion of his channel about Destiny 2 by YouTube. He believes he sees the culprit in the USA and not among German competitors. To prove his innocence, he shows the videos that received strikes.
This is the backstory: The YouTuber Andy Edition has painstakingly made a name for himself with videos on the story and lore of Destiny 2. Now in September, with Forsaken, success came.
The channel grew. The YouTuber himself was invited to be the Community Focus of Bungie, a global showcase for content creators.
However, this also marked the beginning of the trouble. Someone has anonymously reported Andy Edition’s videos on YouTube. The reports brought him two strikes due to violations of community guidelines.
The YouTuber, however, asserts his innocence and cannot explain which guidelines he supposedly violated.
This is the current status: Andy’s channel cannot currently be filled with new videos. There is an active ban. If a third video receives a strike, his channel is threatened with deletion.
Fans have started a petition to show their support. It has now gathered 3840 votes.
This is what fans suspect: Among fans, a search for the “culprit” has erupted.
German-speaking players think it might have been envious competitors. This leads to suspicions and brings a bad mood to the community. Old rivalries and biases are surfacing.
I am quite sure that it wasn’t anyone from the German community
This is what Andy Edition says: He reached out to his fans in a live stream. There he explicitly rules out for himself that it could be a German-speaking competitor.
Andy says he has collaborated with many, speaks to many daily, and gets along well with them. It is impossible that someone reported him.
Andy believes the reports are coming from the USA. There, people from the English-speaking community might be upset that a German-speaking YouTuber with only 30,000 subscribers has made it to the community focus of Bungie – while large YouTubers with 300,000 or 400,000 subscribers have not.
Therefore, he might have been reported by several people.
Andy Edition still cannot explain how exactly his videos violated community guidelines.
In a live stream, he showed the videos so that everyone could see that everything seems to be in order with them.
This is how it will continue: For the moment, Andy Edition has moved to Facebook and writes there in longer postings what he would otherwise have packed into lore videos. He seems to have no choice but to wait until the ban expires or something else happens.
Contacting YouTube has so far failed.
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