Why was Enderman’s YouTube channel removed? Understating why platform is deleting creators’ accounts

On November 3, 2025, YouTuber Enderman bid farewell to his channel of nine years. His account, which had about 380,000 subscribers, was terminated after the platform's AI "wrongfully concluded" that his channel was associated with a Japanese channel that was terminated for three copyright strikes. Before he was removed from the platform, he released a video detailing his experience.

Enderman is not the only creator that YouTube's algorithm deemed to be associated with the Japanese channel in question. YouTuber Scrachit Gaming took to X and expressed a similar concern:

"Hey @TeamYoutube my channel (https://youtube.com/@scrachitgaming) was terminated as well as @endermanch @4096RED and many others for the same reason - we were never linked to this Japanese channel! Help me plz recover my channel - 402k subscribers panic and don't understand what's happening!"

The YouTube team responded about three hours later, saying that they would investigate:

"Hi, we want to take a closer look & investigate further with the right teams! We've sent you a DM."

Enderman elaborated on his case, mentioning that YouTube's AI channel recognition is flawed:

"I had no idea such drastic measures as channel termination were allowed to be processed by AI and AI only."

On X, he looked back at his career fondly, saying:

"2016-2025. These 9 years will always remain dear to me. All the connections I've made, all the fun I've had making the videos. This is not going down the drain. The only hope for this YouTube channel is a divine human intervention amidst all the AI business."

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Enderman speaks about the first time his channel was on the verge of termination

Before his main channel was terminated, the YouTuber's alternate account was removed for similar reasons. Before that, in 2023, the YouTuber received three "false" community strikes that almost caused the end of his channel:

"In 2023, when my channel was on the verge of being terminated for three false community strikes. Almost no one helped me back then. It wasn't made popular. The big problem was that there was no exposure."

He expressed that the issue was not taken seriously back then, since there was a lack of "exposure."

Another member of the YouTube tech community, Face Dev, reacted to his fellow platform member's termination and called out YouTube's content moderation system:

"YouTube terminating somebody's 9 year work without reason is absolutely unacceptable I've been hearing about Enderman's work since I was a kid, back when I'd sit by the window secretly using my neighbors' Wi-Fi on my mom's phone to watch Romanian YouTubers trying viruses. To see somebody go out like this is saddening, and I really hope Enderman's channel can finally get stopped from being relentlessly bullied by YouTube's content moderation system."

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In other news, KSI revealed that he was operating his recent YouTube videos at a loss, stating that despite the effort, he was not making returns.

Edited by Vishnu Menon