How would you react if you were suspended from social media?
Keep reading to find out the bad news and the good news about my daughter's video accounts and how this has impacted her mental health.
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Suspended from Social Media
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After two weeks of sending messages back and forth and waiting patiently, we received bad news about my daughter's video channel.
I had been hopeful that they would reinstate her account since she did not intentionally post spam or do anything deceptive on her channel.
Her videos were all of her cat doing silly things.
We received word that there is nothing more they can help us with and that her account was removed for spam policy violation.
I was provided a link and a "thx for understanding" statement.
I replied back, "Your link is not helpful at all. Please give an explanation from a human for what guidelines were broken. My teen daughter did nothing different than other video creators and we would like an explanation please."
I actually don't even know if I have been talking to a person or artificial intelligence.
It doesn't matter because now I am being ignored.
My daughter was extremely upset and felt like she was worthless and no good at her animations and drawings.
I tried to encourage her and find new platforms for her to utilize while we tried to figure things out.
We filed a second appeal to see if that would work.
Appeals are only able to be filed every two weeks.
The second appeal was denied.
At this point I think the cat's channel is gone.
My daughter is still upset but I think she's finally ready to move onto other things.
I'm afraid to keep pushing the issue because everyone in my family has video channels.
What if I make them mad and they delete all of us?
I just don't know.
There is some good news though!
We watched some videos and learned how to recover my daughter's other accounts.
The other accounts were actually way more important because she worked very hard on her animations and music videos.
She wrote two original songs on her other channel and it would have been a shame to lose that.
We were able to add a different email and also add managers to her other accounts.
Let me tell you there were happy tears when we were able to log into her other accounts.
But still, there is sadness that the cat's channel is gone.
It had been doing well and gaining subscribers and we don't even know what community guidelines were broken.
We have a few guesses, but since we can't get an official answer, we will never truly know.
We're not even sure if we'll be able to file another appeal since I've seen others say there is a limit to the number of appeals that can be filed.
So here are some thoughts about what may have gone wrong.
On every video, she posted that her cat wanted to get 1M subscribers before her hooman (cat talking here, not me). She saw others doing this and thought it was okay to do but maybe not?
Possible overuse of hashtags or use of trademarked/brand name hashtags which may not have been allowed.
Posting comments from her cat's channel onto her other channels. Maybe cross posting is not allowed?
Posting too many videos at a time.
Posting videos that were only a few seconds in length.
Posting videos that appeared similar to each other. I mean, how many different videos can you post of a cat?
I don't think we will ever know.
What I do know is that we do not have control over our social media accounts.
They can suspend anyone at any time for any reason.
All our hard work could be gone in an instant.
This has affected our whole household since we are all creators.
It has really made us stop and think about backing up our work and trying out other platforms, even though that isn't a guarantee either.
It's frustrating, but we have to keep going and stay positive.
We cannot let these social media platforms define us and destroy our mental health.
We are creative and strong!
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