YouTube's Demonetization Algorithm and Missing Videos

A couple of months back, Tyler the Antenna Man (who I follow on YouTube) posted about his channel being demonitized. That's been a thing going around. A lot of good YouTube channels that focus on streaming are being demonitized. Lon Seidman of Lon.TV, Michael Timmermann of Michael Saves, and Tyler the Antenna Man are three that come to mind.

I wasn't sure what the impact might be, until recently I looked an an older post here and found that the video from Tyler was no longer available. Apparently, that was one of the videos that was part of the demonitizaiton of his channel. Those impacted YouTube channels are removing the posts that YouTube has flagged for demonitizing the entire channel. Here's Tyler talking about it a couple of months ago:

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I know that many people will try to game the system. Years ago, I was approached by a blogger wanting to game the system by trading clicks on each others blogs. We both had pay per click ads, and he wanted to get paid though illegitimate means. I didn't play along, of course, but I saw early on that people will try to game the system. I don't believe Tyler, Michael, or Lon have been gaming the system. However, YouTube has some nefarious algorithm that says they are, and won't cooperate with them on resolving it.

YouTube (and Google, who hosts this Website by the way) are very difficult to deal with when it comes to resolving issues such as this. I don't know if the Google Ads I run on this Website will be penalized by my posting about this. Probably not, as I only make pennies from the ads. My Streaming Life enjoys good content from knowlegeable and helpful people. I hate that some flaw in some algorithm is hurting them.