 So team keep it clean what's going on is engraving here with another video and I wanted to Wanted to give you an update just a clear Detailed update on everything that's going on everything that's been going on I ain't just want to leave y'all in the dark or whatnot and I feel like Really over the years so many of y'all have been Transparent with me. I feel like I've been transparent with y'all as well with different things that have gone on in our lives and whatnot So I just felt like y'all still deserve that to continue And like we family We family so team team keep it clean is like one one big family So I felt like y'all deserve to know everything that's going on. So, um I don't know how long I got because uh, I got a dentist appointment in a little bit. But anyway, um Bottom line youtube, uh disabled my monetization So the way that I my income they took it away. They disabled it. Um, they did that on february 21st uh, so that was Wow Those seven days ago. Oh, yeah seven days ago. Yeah, so it's been a week. Um, Initially when they did it, I thought that they Because I got an email I got an email on february 21st at 11 48 a.m And that email was like, oh your channel's been uh, it's the monetization has been disabled and I was like Oh, I was looking at the email. I was like, oh, it's gotta be for my old channel Because obviously I don't use my old channel anymore. I don't upload. I don't do anything on my old channel anymore So it's gotta be for that but I open the email and it was for this channel and I was like, well, what? like what's what's going on and The reason that they gave uh was for for reuse content and I was like Reuse content like what is that? Um, so I looked it up. Um, I reached out to youtube I talked to their chat support and One of the reasons I was so frustrated about the whole thing one because that's how I make my money That's how I take care of me my family my wife and son. That's how I take care of everything Um, but then on top of that I was so frustrated and and I'm in a much better place now That's why I'm able to talk about it like this Uh, so I'm I am feeling a lot better. Um, and real quick special shout out to my guy jason from huddle up films I talked to him a lot about it. Um, shout out to my guy nitro Talked to him just yesterday about everything going on and just talking to those two. Um, they really like Put me in such A better spirit about the whole thing. They really did so a special shout out to those two I know other people have reached out. Um, other YouTubers and stuff like shout out to to raven c shout out to to coach evans. Uh, shout out to my guy j Um, a lot of people have reached out a shout out to bobby trusted He reached out as well shout out to everybody that reached out and all the team keep it clean and reached out I appreciate all of y'all man, uh for real. Um, because it's Like it hit me man. It hit me and it it hurt me. Uh, it worried me. It had me stressed out It had me just anxious. It had me all type of negative feelings And i'm still dealing with it now, which i'm gonna explain to y'all in a little bit, but I'm just i'm in a better place now Uh, than I was a couple days ago even just yesterday. Um, but anyway, uh, so got the email your channel's been disabled for monetization And uh for reused content. So I looked at what what is reused content and they were like it's when you Safe instance you you upload a clip or you upload a video But you don't add anything to it. You don't put your own spin on it You don't put your own narrative on it. You don't make it funny. You don't you don't add anything up to You don't add anything to you just upload a clip and that's it And i'm thinking like hold up now. I um, this is another reason why I was so frustrated with everything Because i'm like anytime that we upload a clip whether it's from like esp in an NFL network Or any any one of these things talking about mostly the ravens or whatnot Anytime we upload a clip we always talk about it. We always talk about it and tell why we feel where we agree We disagree we talk about different points whether it's a clip whether it's an article whatever and we of course give credit as well um But so with that I was like wow What's the problem with that because that falls in line with what you can do on youtube I've been doing that for years and whatnot and there hasn't been any problems So the way that I felt i'm like man, I felt like I had been done wrong And been done wrong in such a major way Especially with it being monetization like and when they first um sent me the email like oh your channel's been disabled for monetization um They said oh you you can appeal you can do an appeal And I was like, okay. Well, yeah, let me do this appeal right away And I did the appeal the same day that I got the email that it was disabled for monetization I did the appeal a couple hours later because i'm like look this gotta be a mistake I'm trying to fix this asap. I'm like I gotta get this taken care of because it's my money um So I did the appeal and in the instructions for the appeal. They were like, okay, we will review it within 14 days But make sure in the appeal you include your video. I mean your youtube channel's url Within the first 30 seconds of the video. They said the video can't be no more than five minutes Uh, you should and the reason I think they do that the reason I think they want a video appeal Instead of just a type one or you feel out of form is because there's a lot of channels that are automated channels So they are not really run by real people. They're just based off of automations and stuff and they um They'll download and upload content from other channels and stuff like that So I think they wanted to make sure it was a real person behind this account. I'm like, okay cool I do the video appeal. So I did it and I said my uh channel's url within the first 30 seconds of the video I said it 17 seconds into the appeal video And I submitted it. I'm like, all right. I did that now. I just gotta wait and they were like, all right We're gonna review it within 14 days and if we of course accept the appeal Then monetization will be turned back on. Um, but if we don't accept the appeal then you have to wait 30 days to apply For monetization again And so it's not even a guarantee that you get it back. You have to wait 30 days to apply For some like, oh boy, here we go. But I'm like, all right. Let me so I'm gonna send this appeal and let's go but Even when I sent the appeal I'm still upset because I'm like, man Any money that I lost Any money that I lose While doing this whole appeal process What I was I was frustrated about this too is because I can't get it back It's not retroactive. It's just it's lost It's lost even if you to turn around and be like, hey We are apologies. We were wrong. We disabled your content I mean, excuse me. We did we disable monetization But we made a mistake even if they would have done that anything that I lost It would just be a loss And that hurt me too because I'm like, wow I was like really upset Really really upset about that whole thing Um, and just really this whole thing, uh, but so I did my appeal And they reviewed it like within a day And I was like, oh, okay. Wow, let's go. They reviewed it like within 24 hours less than 24 hours So I looked at the email and they're like, oh your appeal's been denied And I was like, oh Because oh that that like that that hurt because I'm like really like they They denied it and I looked to see what the reason was that they denied it And they said because you didn't include your channels you are ill within the first 30 seconds And I'm I'm like, I literally did that though I literally did that I read the rules on what I needed to do to include in the video and I did that But they said I didn't include it in the first 30 seconds And I was like, wow I was that's when like the pain got worse because I did what was asked of me to do And I still I didn't I didn't get the appeal. I didn't win the appeal So I was super super frustrated. Um that like that added on top of the frustration So then um I would Be I talked to youtube that the chat support because you know youtube like talking to a real person It's pretty much impossible But I talked to their chat support talked to them. Um, I talked to like over the past A couple of days I probably talked to like five six different chat support people just trying to get something Because what I asked them like hey, what are the videos? That's that's called that caused this problem So I can know what to do and I can know what not to do so I can fix it So I can work towards a resolution, but literally every single time every single person that I talked to or chatted with Every single person they would do the same thing They say, oh, is this your channel? They will confirm that this the channel. Say yes, that's the channel cool. So then They would only send me links Like hey, here's a link to our policies Here's a link to our guidelines, but they would never send me specifics like oh They wouldn't tell me oh, is this video is that video is that and that made it so much more frustrating because i'm like, man You're telling me that I did something wrong But you're not telling me what I did wrong or where I did it wrong at So that was even more frustrating on top of everything and the fact that I just I was not getting any answers at all. It just made the whole situation that much more frustrating So i'm like man like i'm i'm asking for answers, but i'm not getting nothing nothing There was one time like I think it was the the day after the day after I um got the email that channel was disabled for monetization and then um And then I got it was the day that I got the uh The email saying that my appeal was denied So I would have to wait 30 days just to apply. I sat down in this chair right here Sat down in this chair right here and I was getting ready to record The video about the ravens hiring willy tag and Turn the lights on set up set down And then everything just really hit me and I just started crying I just started crying because it hit me because it hurt like man like because the way that it felt um, it's like It felt like something that you've been working very hard for Um, something that you've been working very hard for for years It felt like in a second it was It was all taken away And while it it hasn't all been taken away because obviously still have my channel, but To be able to have this as my job um And that temporarily at least for now, hopefully it's just temporarily um because again It's up in the air right now It is for that to be taken away just it hurt It really really hurt Um, so it was just it like I said it was stressful It was it really upset me a lot and what made it worse is that me. I'm somebody who There's a problem. There's an issue. I like to address it head on. I like to think about the um The solutions All right, this is the issue. All right Let's let's figure out the solution. Let's figure out what we need to do to reach a solution That's how I like to think about stuff, but with this I wasn't given anything so then um after Really like thinking about it and really again going over all these policies and guidelines and do's and don'ts About what they said that I did I'm like, all right, what could it be and the only other thing that I I felt like it could be the only other thing that changed With youtube recently was shorts It was a youtube shorts and on february 1st youtube came out They said you can uh, you can monetize shorts now so you can make money off of youtube shorts um, so obviously and youtube has been really pushing shorts Recently, um, and that's just a little back background or whatever. Um, and I'm sure anybody any youtubers that may be watching this Y'all know about this already, but youtube has really been pushing shorts recently And I think they just really want youtube is um They've really been wanting to compete with instagram That's why they added youtube stories a while back And now they know tiktok's been taking over so they added youtube shorts So they want to compete with tiktok too. They want it's like all these social media platforms. They compete with each other Obviously, y'all y'all know that um, but youtube they all want to be a one-stop shop They are they wanted to be where you can come to this platform and you stay on this platform And you can get you can get the same thing that you would have to go to tiktok for Quick story for go to instagram and go watch somebody's story or tiktok for a quick video YouTube once you all to do that do that all in one. So they've been pushing shorts heavy. They've been focusing on shorts heavy so That's the only thing that I could think of that it could be because since their focus has been so much on shorts They monetize shorts. I'm sure they paying more attention to shorts So I figured you know what I do have some shorts that I uploaded Where it was only like strictly videos of Something else and I didn't commentate on it at all So that's what I felt like it it must have been um, and I'm so we're working on that um, just trying to change that up, but um, so yeah now so basically these next uh To at least march 20 could march 20th is the first day that I can apply Uh to be back uh in the youtube Partner program to get monetized again march 20th is the first day that I can reapply for that So it's not a given that I'm accepted. I hopefully will be so we can get back on track But um, so that that's why it was so stressful because everything is up in the air right now um And then because I reached out to to the youtube the chat support I reached out to them on twitter I just I reached out to them as many ways as I could and just it was nothing I got nothing I continued to get just the run around and just nothing direct And I just that that just killed me man. It really did it. It had killed me. It had just Made me so like hurt like sad And because it was tough man um, so Yeah, that's where we are now. So basically, um, this next about for this next month, um Working for free so Anything that we do on here. That's what I talked about in yesterday's video that uh, It sucks for for youtube channel members Um, anybody who's a channel member that's disabled They they they took that away um, so Because in any sort of monetization they they they took it away took it away from the channel So youtube people who are channel members. I'm sorry um Super chats in live streams are disabled. I mean I ain't playing on doing any live streams But you know, sometimes we might do a random live stream here and there that's disabled um Yeah, so and from any video that we make We're still going to continue to make videos because y'all deserve that. Um, but we just we're not getting paid for it So that's that's that's the bottom line. We're not getting paid for anything That we're doing via youtube for For this next like a little less than a month now since we already it's already been seven days um But it was just frustrating man. It was frustrating because it's uh Again when when it was taken away and then um, if I would have got it back and anything that I would have lost I wouldn't I wouldn't it's not retroactive. I wouldn't got it back. So that was frustrating And then when it was official when it became official like all right. Hey, we denied your appeal You're done At least for the next 30 days. I was like, oh It was tough. So That was that so I just wanted to um let y'all know um get y'all updated on everything um So, yeah, just so y'all know, uh So special shout out uh Especially a big shout out to uh, the team cubiclean patrons, especially this one It's gonna help a lot as I appreciate it. Um Yeah, man, so I yeah, that's that man So thank you um for everything. Thank you to y'all for still supporting the channel, of course. Thank y'all for uh Just helping just being there. Um for really emotional support too. Um again every single message and everything and text and email and DM and all that I appreciate it. Like I said, um Whole situation. It sucks. It sucks really really bad It really really does it sucks really bad But like I said, I am in a much better place now than I was before So I gotta take the good With the bad. Um, so much love to y'all. Uh, thank you And that's that man. So, um, it really, uh Took away a lot of my motivation. Um, it really took away a lot of my Uh joy, um because again, this is something that we do Excuse me We do every single day something that we did every single day something that we work on every single day um And I mean there's days that we take off, of course. Um, but you'll you'll see videos every single day um But it just when the whole thing happened it's just like Like really like It was tough man. I mean it's still tough now. Um, but like I said, we're in a just in a better place, man Um mentally we're in a much better place than we were Yesterday then we were two days ago then we were three days much better place Um, so yeah, man. I just felt like y'all deserved Transparency with this whole thing. So y'all know what's going on. Y'all wouldn't be left in the dark So I love y'all. I appreciate y'all Uh, and now I'm about to head over to my uh Dennis appointment so I can Keep my teeth clean just like the channel. We out