There has been a surge in Youtube content creators having their channels deleted due to false copyright claims. Popular channels like "I Hate Everything" and "Channel Awesome" have been affected by this recent issue. Fortunately, most have been able to get the channels unbanned and have the issues resolved to an extent, but this issue is showing no signs of stopping. In the past months, it's become apparent that Youtube's system of copyright claims and strikes is flawed.

Some youtubers depend on compensation they receive from Youtube's monetization system, and when their channels are deleted, that income could potentially disappear. In the event that they don't get their channels back, their livelihood could be destroyed. And the issue doesn't stop with those who produce Youtube videos for a living. Small and upcoming channels are often affected, but don't have the following or platform to make the issue known, and subsequently resolved. Changes need to be made to Youtube to prevent the aforementioned issues from occurring.

As previously mentioned, the user "I Hate Everything" was affected by Youtube's flawed system. He describes his incident in great detail in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH-8PqS84qA

The process in which Youtube decides whether action needs to be taken against a channel needs to be more stringent. It's understandable that Youtube has millions, if not billions of users and personally dealing with every copyright strike is unrealistic, but when channels upwards of 100,000 subscribers, or even small channels that actually produce content can't just be deleted on a whim due to a false copyright claim. The lack of communication is also an issue. Channel Awesome highlighted this in a video regarding in incident they were faced with.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC3NIdiZF_E

Youtube, a change needs to be made.