The Silent Cull: Why YouTube's AI Is Deleting Honest Creator Videos

Recently, a wave of fear has hit the creator community. Popular channels like Satish Bhai (with 35 videos removed at once) and even larger international creators are losing their content, sometimes dozens of videos at a time, with zero warning or clear explanation from YouTube.

This isn't just happening to new creators; big players are suffering too, leading some, like the famous AI Guy channel, to private all their videos and restart from scratch.

What’s the reason behind this sudden attack? The creators in this discussion believe the core issue is not a policy change, but an aggressive AI system now enforcing YouTube's rules.

1. The Policy that is Hurting: Digital Security

The official reason for these removals is YouTube's "Dangerous and Harmful Content Policy," specifically the part related to Digital Security (Scams and Financial Fraud).

This section targets things like:

• Fake financial guarantees ("Make $1000 a day!").
• Phishing and collecting personal data.
• Promoting pyramid schemes or "pump and dump" crypto.
• Teaching how to get cracked software or free access to paid services (like Netflix).

The creators agree these rules are fair. The problem is not the rule, but how it is being enforced now.

2. The AI Takeover: No More Human Review

The core hypothesis is that YouTube has drastically reduced human video reviewers and has integrated a powerful, but flawed, Artificial Intelligence (AI) system to monitor content.

The older human review system could usually understand the intent of a video—was the creator genuinely teaching something, or was it a scam?

The new AI system cannot see intent. It is simply trained on a few dangerous keywords.

3. The Keyword Trap: Being Judged by Your Title

The major flaw discovered by the affected creators is that YouTube’s new AI is judging videos almost entirely on keywords in the Title, Description, and Thumbnails, not the video’s actual content.

The AI is treating common finance terms as red flags:

• Money Keywords: Phrases like "Make Money," "Earn Money," "How to get Rich," or "Financial Freedom."
• Dollar Amounts: Even having a dollar amount like "$5,000" visible on a thumbnail is enough to trigger an automatic removal.

For example, a creator mentioned their video, "How to become Rich as a Teenager," was instantly removed. When they simply changed the title to avoid those trigger words and re-uploaded it, the video was approved.

The takeaway is simple: If your content has the potential to be a scam, the AI will automatically detect it as a scam, even if you are providing genuine advice.

4. How Creators Are Fighting Back

The creators have developed a simple 3-step strategy to try and protect their channels from this overly aggressive AI:

A. Pre-Review Your Content with AI

Before you publish, use a VidTube AI Studio to analyze your Title, Thumbnail, Description, and Script for any keywords that could be mistakenly flagged as "scam" by YouTube's AI. This helps you catch mistakes before you even upload the video.

B. Do Not Publish Immediately

Always upload your video as Private or Unlisted first. Give the AI time to scan and flag it. If it gets removed, only your channel team knows about it, and your audience trust isn't damaged. If the video stays up after a few hours, you can then safely publish it.

C. (Bonus Tip) Show Your Face

One creator shared a personal observation: YouTube seems to target faceless channels more often than those with a person speaking on camera. While this is not an official rule, adding a "trust factor" by appearing on camera might offer a small layer of protection against the faceless AI.

The Call to Action

Right now, no creator is completely safe. The problem is not just with "Make Money" videos; some creators are reporting removals even for unboxing videos.

Creators are now urging the community to raise this issue on social media, tagging official @YouTube and @YouTubeIndia accounts. The goal is to make the problem so big that YouTube is forced to fix its AI-driven content enforcement system before more valuable channels are wiped out.