One Day Later: YouTube’s Silence Feels Like Discrimination and Harassment

*Note: I wrote this a few days ago, but I figured I would share it now.

It’s been a full day since YouTube terminated my channels without warning. A full day since I woke up at 6 AM to discover my manager channels had been deleted overnight. A full day since I received that insulting, generic appeal decision that claimed they’d “carefully reviewed” my case in less than five hours and determined my inactive manager channels violated spam, deceptive practices, and scams policies.

Twenty-four hours of silence from YouTube. Twenty-four hours of being locked out of my own work. Twenty-four hours of feeling completely powerless against a faceless, automated system that has destroyed my access to content I created and audiences I built.

And you know what? After a full day of this bullshit, after a full day of screaming into the void and getting nothing but automated template responses, after a full day of watching my content channels remain live while I’m locked out of managing them—it’s starting to feel like discrimination. It’s starting to feel like harassment. It’s starting to feel like YouTube and Google are specifically targeting me.

Why Does This Feel Personal?

I know what some people might be thinking: “Jaime, this is probably just YouTube’s broken automated systems affecting everyone equally. Don’t make it about discrimination.”

But here’s the thing—when a massive tech company terminates your accounts without explanation, refuses to provide evidence of wrongdoing, rejects your appeals with generic template responses, ignores your public calls for help, and leaves you completely without recourse—it starts to feel personal. It starts to feel targeted. It starts to feel like there’s something about you specifically that made you vulnerable to this treatment.

And I can’t help but wonder: Is this because I’m Hispanic?

Is that why my channels got flagged when countless other inactive manager channels probably exist on YouTube without issue? Is that why my appeals were rejected so quickly without actual human review? Is that why I’m being ignored when I make public posts calling for accountability?

Am I being discriminated against because of who I am?

I don’t want to believe that. I don’t want to think that in 2026, a major tech company would treat creators differently based on their ethnicity. But when you’re on the receiving end of treatment that makes no logical sense, when you’re being punished for violations you didn’t commit, when your voice is being systematically silenced—you start looking for reasons why this is happening to you specifically.

And my ethnicity is part of who I am. My name—Jaime David—clearly indicates my Hispanic heritage. My author channel at https://youtube.com/@jaimedavid327?si=xYEqLy9tgg-3NfYX represents my work as a Hispanic creator. My identity isn’t hidden or obscured.

So I have to ask: Is that why YouTube is treating me this way?

This Feels Like Harassment

Let’s be clear about what’s happened over the past day:

• YouTube terminated my channels without warning
• YouTube provided no specific evidence of policy violations
• YouTube rejected my appeal in less than five hours with a generic template
• YouTube has ignored every public call I’ve made for actual human review
• YouTube has left me locked out of my own content while keeping those content channels live
• YouTube has given me absolutely no meaningful recourse or path to resolution

That’s not just a system failure. That’s harassment.

When a company with YouTube’s power and resources treats a creator this way—destroying their work, denying them access, refusing to communicate meaningfully, providing no avenue for justice—that’s harassment. It doesn’t matter if it’s intentional or if it’s the result of broken automation. The effect is the same: I’m being systematically denied my rights as a creator, and I’m powerless to stop it.

YouTube is harassing me by refusing to fix their mistake.

Google is harassing me by allowing their subsidiary to treat creators this way.

And the silence—the complete and utter silence from anyone with actual decision-making power—makes it feel deliberate. Makes it feel targeted. Makes it feel like they simply don’t care what happens to me because I’m not important enough to matter.

Direct Appeal to Everyone Who Has the Power to Stop This

I’m going to name names again, because I need every single person and entity with the power to fix this to understand that their silence is contributing to what feels like discrimination and harassment.

Neal Mohan, YouTube CEO: Your platform has terminated my channels without cause and is now harassing me by refusing to meaningfully review my case. Is this the YouTube you want to lead? One that discriminates against small creators and ignores their calls for help?

Sundar Pichai, Google CEO: Your company owns YouTube. You have the power to ensure fair treatment of all users regardless of their size, reach, or ethnicity. Are you okay with Google being complicit in what feels like discriminatory harassment?

Ruth Porat, Google President: Does Google’s commitment to diversity and inclusion extend to ensuring that Hispanic creators aren’t discriminated against by YouTube’s automated systems and appeal processes?

James Manyika, Google Senior Vice President: You oversee technology and society issues. Does this situation—a Hispanic creator being systematically denied recourse and feeling targeted by automated systems—align with responsible AI governance and equitable treatment?

YouTube Support: Your template responses and refusal to provide actual human review make it feel like you’re deliberately ignoring me. Is that your job? To make creators feel harassed and discriminated against?

Google Support: Same question. Are you going to help, or are you going to continue being complicit in this harassment?

I need all of you to understand: Your silence makes this feel intentional. Your inaction makes this feel like discrimination. Your refusal to help makes this feel like harassment.

To the Big YouTubers Who Know This System Is Broken

I’m calling on you again, because your voices matter more than mine:

Smosh, PewDiePie, Markiplier, SomeOrdinaryGamers, ReviewTechUSA, Amazing Atheist, Secular Talk, Humanist Report, MrBeast, Jacksepticeye, Nexpo, Vaush, HasanAbi, Hank Green—you’ve all dealt with YouTube’s broken systems. You’ve all experienced the frustration of fighting against algorithmic decisions and inadequate support.

But have you ever wondered if your size, your reach, your influence protected you from the worst of it? Have you ever considered that smaller creators—especially creators of color, especially Hispanic creators like me—might face even worse treatment because we don’t have the platforms or audiences to fight back effectively?

I’m asking you to amplify this not just as a story about broken systems, but as a potential story about discrimination and harassment.

If you see this post, if this reaches you, please consider: what would it feel like if this happened to you and nobody with power cared enough to help? What would it feel like if you couldn’t shake the suspicion that your ethnicity played a role in how you were being treated?

Please share this. Please help me make enough noise that YouTube and Google can’t ignore this anymore.

My Channels Are Still There—But I Can’t Access Them

Here’s the cruel irony that makes this feel even more like targeted harassment:

My content channels are still live. You can visit them right now:

Luffymonkey0327 (my meme/mashup channel): https://youtube.com/@luffymonkey0327?si=H64a-BY4Spu4Cdb6

JaimeDavid327 (my author channel): https://youtube.com/@jaimedavid327?si=xYEqLy9tgg-3NfYX

Both channels are up. Both are publicly accessible. Both apparently comply with YouTube’s policies perfectly fine—otherwise YouTube would have terminated them too, right?

But I can’t access them. I can’t upload new content. I can’t respond to comments. I can’t manage my own channels because the manager accounts that controlled them have been terminated.

YouTube is allowing my content to exist on their platform while denying me access to manage it.

How is that not harassment? How is that not discriminatory treatment? They’re benefiting from my content remaining on their platform (even if it’s minimal benefit from my small channels) while simultaneously punishing me by locking me out of those channels.

It’s like they’re saying: “Your content is fine for our platform, but you personally aren’t welcome to manage it.”

What am I supposed to think except that this is personal? That this is targeted? That this is discriminatory?

This Isn’t Just About Me Anymore

I know I keep saying this is about systemic issues affecting all creators, but after a full day of being ignored, after a full day of feeling powerless, after a full day of wondering why this is happening specifically to me—I need to acknowledge that this feels personal.

This feels like YouTube and Google looked at Jaime David, looked at my small channels, looked at my Hispanic name and identity, and decided I wasn’t worth the effort of actual human review. Decided I wasn’t important enough to deserve real answers. Decided I wasn’t valuable enough to treat with dignity and fairness.

And if that’s what happened—if any part of this treatment is because of who I am rather than what I supposedly did—then this is discrimination. Plain and simple.

I don’t want to be dramatic. I don’t want to play the discrimination card if it’s not warranted. But I also can’t ignore how this feels. I can’t ignore the pattern of being dismissed, ignored, and denied recourse. I can’t ignore that my ethnicity is visible in my name and my identity as a creator.

So I’m calling it what it feels like: discrimination and harassment.

What I’m Demanding

After a full day of this bullshit, here’s what I’m demanding from YouTube and Google:

1. Actual human review of my case – Not an automated system rubber-stamping a decision in five hours. Real human beings looking at what happened and recognizing the mistake.
2. Transparency about why my channels were targeted – What specific actions triggered the terminations? Why were inactive manager channels flagged while active content channels weren’t? Was there any bias in how my channels were evaluated?
3. Reinstatement of my manager channels – Immediately. With full access restored to my content channels.
4. An explanation and apology – Not a template response. A real acknowledgment that this was handled poorly and that I deserve better treatment.
5. Assurance that discrimination played no role – I need to know that my ethnicity, my name, my identity as a Hispanic creator had nothing to do with how my case was handled. Because right now, it feels like it might have.

To Everyone Reading This

If you’ve made it this far, you understand why this feels like more than just a technical glitch or system error. This feels like discrimination. This feels like harassment. This feels like a major tech company targeting a small Hispanic creator and hoping I’ll just go away quietly.

I’m not going away quietly.

Share this post. Amplify this message. Help me make enough noise that YouTube and Google have to respond.

Tag Smosh, PewDiePie, Markiplier, SomeOrdinaryGamers, ReviewTechUSA, Amazing Atheist, Secular Talk, Humanist Report, MrBeast, Jacksepticeye, Nexpo, Vaush, HasanAbi, Hank Green and anyone else who might care about creator rights and fair treatment on platforms.

Share it in communities that care about discrimination in tech. Share it with people who understand that small creators deserve the same respect and fair treatment as large ones. Share it with anyone who believes that ethnicity should never be a factor in how platforms treat their users.

YouTube and Google: You have my contact information. You can find me on my blog sites. You can reach me on social media. You know where I am.

Stop discriminating against me. Stop harassing me with your silence and inaction. Fix your mistake and restore my channels.

I’m Hispanic. I’m a creator. I’m a human being who deserves fair treatment.

And I’m not backing down until this is made right.

One day has passed. How many more days of discrimination and harassment will you allow to continue?

The world is watching now. Fix this.