 Hey, I'm Anthony Johnson, founder of 21 Studios. I appreciate your time and attention today. I'll be narrating our appeal video. Make sure you hit like and subscribe, and I'll see you soon. 21 Studios is a channel nearly as old as YouTube itself, created by me fresh out of high school in July of 2007 at 18 years old as a student at the University of Central Florida in Orlando. Our first video is an event trailer from the Under 21 convention that I created in 2007, a self-improvement event for young men from around the world. Reporters from my school newspaper would go on to interview me and report on these early 21 conventions held each summer. In 2010, I took a chance and dropped out of college to focus on my YouTube channel, taking the big step of turning a hobby into a full-time business and expanding our events across the world. As the college dropped out and with only enough money for a one-way plane ticket, I took a chance and expanded our convention to Stockholm, Sweden that year. In the early years, our channel videos were popular with young men looking for mentorship, guidance, and how-to advice for relationships, health, and fitness. I favored the TED Talks model of all speeches published free to the world to help millions of men improve their lives. Last year, we celebrated the 15-year anniversary of these events, which have been organized since 2006 around the world, including our founding city of Orlando, as well as Tampa, Miami, Florida, Austin, Texas, Stockholm, Sweden, London, England, Warsaw, Poland, and Melbourne, Australia. The videos from our events have been the main purpose and content of our channel since day one. Over 95% of our 2000-plus channel videos are from these conventions and newer events for fathers and women. In 2020, our videos and events hit the big time, making national headlines, including the New York Times, New York Post, Sky News, and my own 20-minute TV interview with Piers Morgan, a journalist who has interviewed world leaders like President Obama and President Trump, among many others. In front of over half a million people, I got to represent my own company and YouTube channel that they broadcast on live TV. Thanks to the news and social media, we reached over 100 million people in 2020. Our video production process has highly advanced for a channel this size. We have a professional film team to film and edit from over 200 terabytes of video. My admiration for Steve Jobs inspired me to pursue excellence in the quality of our videos and events. I was also inspired by my tour of YouTube Space LA for designing our studio and editing space. I believe our conference footage is some of the best and most beautiful of its kind on YouTube, even surpassing TED Talks and key aspects, with only a fraction of the funding and subscriber base. This includes filming three conventions simultaneously, plus an interview show all in 4K cinematic quality at multiple camera angles with professional audio, staging, lighting, and drones. At 21 Studios, we film and edit everything ourselves for max quality and authenticity. TED Talks publishes their speeches free to the world and inspired me to do the same. They have special events for women, but not men, creating a content gap on YouTube. We fill this gap with educational content, featuring over 170 professional speakers that include psychologists like Dr. Sean Smith and Dr. Robert Glover, medical doctors like Dr. Doug McGuff, FBI agents like Joe Navarro, attorneys like Melissa Isick, and Navy Seal veteran Rich Graham. We've also featured YouTube stars like JP Sears and fitness YouTuber Elliot Hulse. Elliot is a friend and mentor who has inspired me to work relentlessly hard on my channel and never give up. We've also worked well within the larger YouTube creator community. Over 95% of our videos are professional, original content. I believe these videos are fully compliant with all of YouTube's policies to the point that they are exemplary in this regard. All other content is always used with express written permission or on a fair use basis with a transformative nature to the video. Our videos and events promote open debate, free expression, and traditional family values. While not everyone will agree with our speakers, we believe transparent civil discourse is the best way to navigate ideas and push the conversation forward. In my mission to publish our videos free to the world, the Partner Program has been essential. We have steadily relied on it for monetization for our videos since 2011. Without the Partner Program, our ability to film, edit, and publish our videos free to the world, like Ted Talks, is significantly jeopardized. YouTube is always treated as fairly, and we have always worked to abide by the terms you set. To show for it, we have a perfect 14-year track record for zero community strikes and zero copyright strikes. This recent action to instantly remove our channel from the Partner Program with that warning came as a genuine shock and the generalized reason provided of reused content conflicts with YouTube's own human reviews of our content, including two fair use videos from December that fit this description. They were reviewed and fully approved for monetization by YouTube. These reviews informed my choices and led me to believe we were in full compliance with YouTube policy as always. Sincerely, I do not understand why the suspension has happened, especially given our long history of compliance with guidelines, copyright, and monetization policies. Thank you for your time and attention today. YouTube is a major part of my business and has been a daily part of my life since I was 18 years old. I hope that you accept their appeal and reinstate 21 Studios to the Partner Program. I believe this is the right decision due to the positive professional nature of our content and the long-term relationship our channel has with YouTube. Thanks again, and I hope to hear from you soon.