Jonathan Van Fleet aka "apestyles" removed from YouTube, entire Google account deleted

https://twitter.com/apestyles/status...37758515388417

poker.org article: https://www.poker.org/jonathan-apest...ount-deletion/

Jonathan had thousands of hours of play and instructional material on that YouTube channel. The odd thing is that the account was apparently deleted -- not banned, yet he can't get any answers from YouTube.

Was he hacked? Did a YouTube insider do it? Did a YouTube bot find something it didn't like about his channel, and kill it?

The odd thing is that this was listed as a manual deletion, meaning that it was NOT a content violation removal!

One of apestyles' followers claimed the same thing happened to his daughter, and she never got it resolved:

https://twitter.com/apestyles/status...35775189602305


YouTube is a very fickle place, and it is very difficult to get to a human being to talk to there. That's why innocent channels like Apestyles go down with no explanation, yet scammers like Christopher Mitchell stubbornly remain on the platform, despite hundreds or thousands of complaints.

Due to its size, influence, and monopolistic status, YouTube/Google really should be required by law to have humans receive and adjudicate these type of issues.