The Musings of Jaime David
The Musings of Jaime David
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  • May 17, 2026 Update: No Word On Anything, UnderSparked Is Suing YouTube, And I’ve Been Taking A Break

    May 17, 2026 Update: No Word On Anything, UnderSparked Is Suing YouTube, And I’ve Been Taking A Break

    It’s May 17, 2026.

    And honestly? I almost didn’t write this post. Because this month, the month of May, I just have not been feeling like posting on any of my blogs. Not this one. Not my music blog. Not any of them. I’ve been busy. I’ve been burnt out. I’ve been needing a break from all of this. And I’ve been taking that break, or at least trying to. Because this entire situation with YouTube and Google has stressed me out in ways I didn’t fully anticipate when this all started back in early February. And on top of all of that, there’s everything else happening in this country and the world right now, which I’m not going to get into in this post, but which has added its own weight to everything. It’s just been a lot. All of it together has been a lot.

    But I’m writing this post anyway. Because there are updates. Because things have happened that I need to document and share. Because UnderSparked, a channel I care about and have been following through their own YouTube nightmare, just dropped a video that changed the entire landscape of this conversation. And because even when I’m burnt out and stressed and taking a break, I’m not willing to let this situation go undocumented. I’m not willing to let Google and YouTube off the hook just because I needed some time to breathe.

    So let me catch everyone up on everything, starting from the beginning for anyone who’s just finding this, and then getting into what’s new.

    The Full Background: Months of Discrimination and Silence

    Back in late January or early February 2026, YouTube terminated my manager channels overnight without warning. These were completely inactive administrative accounts with zero content, zero videos, zero posts, zero activity of any kind. They existed purely to give me backend access to manage my actual content channels. YouTube claimed they violated spam, deceptive practices, and scams policies. The claim was logically impossible from the moment I read it. You cannot post spam on a channel with no content. You cannot deceive anyone through an account that has never publicly done anything. YouTube’s automated AI system flagged my inactive accounts as suspicious, terminated them without human oversight, and when I filed appeals, rejected those appeals within approximately five hours with generic template responses that provided zero evidence, zero specifics, and zero real reasoning. Five hours of claimed careful review that was clearly nothing more than automated rubber stamping.

    The consequence of losing my manager channels was losing access to my actual content channels. My Luffymonkey0327 meme and mashup channel with over 500 subscribers is still live right now at https://youtube.com/@luffymonkey0327?si=H64a-BY4Spu4Cdb6. Anyone can visit it. Anyone can see the content I created. But I cannot access it. I cannot upload new videos. I cannot respond to my subscribers’ comments. I cannot check analytics. I cannot manage my own work. YouTube is hosting my content, potentially benefiting from any traffic it generates, while locking me out of managing it. That’s theft. That’s discrimination.

    After I filed a formal Better Business Bureau complaint documenting everything, YouTube deleted my JaimeDavid327 author channel under their circumvention policy. The circular logic was staggering: because my manager channels had been terminated, having content channels constituted circumvention of that termination. YouTube punished me for their own wrongful decision by making more wrongful decisions based on that first wrongful decision. My professional identity as a Hispanic writer, my author platform, my connection to readers, erased. Gone.

    Running parallel to all of this, Google has been rejecting my AdSense application for my Jaime David Music blog on Blogger repeatedly with the same vague determination: low value content. No specifics. No examples. No actionable feedback. Just the same copy paste rejection over and over for a blog that has been running for almost a year with nearly 200 essay style posts about music. I’ve demanded an actual human review my application. I’ve refused to change anything because there is nothing wrong with my blog. And I’ve gotten nothing but the same automated rejection every time.

    Throughout all of this, I’ve addressed YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Google President Ruth Porat, and Google Senior Vice President James Manyika directly and by name across multiple detailed posts. I’ve filed formal complaints. I’ve called on major YouTubers including Smosh, PewDiePie, Markiplier, SomeOrdinaryGamers, ReviewTechUSA, Amazing Atheist, Secular Talk, Humanist Report, MrBeast, Jacksepticeye, Nexpo, Vaush, HasanAbi, and Hank Green to amplify my story. I’ve documented discrimination, harassment, retaliation, and systematic targeting of a Hispanic creator across Google’s entire ecosystem. And I’ve received from YouTube and Google: complete and total silence. For months. Not one word. Not one acknowledgment. Not one human being reaching out to say they were looking into anything.

    I also previously wrote about how I submitted a fresh appeal for my JaimeDavid327 channel, asking YouTube to actually have a live human being sit down and review my case rather than another automated system producing another automated rejection. That appeal is still out there somewhere in YouTube’s system. Whether any human being has actually looked at it, I have no idea. Whether it will result in anything different from every other appeal I’ve filed, I don’t know. I submitted it. I documented it. And I’m still waiting.

    The Current Status: Still No Word on Anything

    As of today, May 17, 2026, here is where everything stands.

    No word from Google about monetizing my Jaime David Music blog. No AdSense approval. No human communication. No specific feedback about what the actual problem is. Nothing. The blog is still there. The nearly 200 posts are still there. The almost year of work is still there. And Google is still apparently either not looking at it or looking at it and deciding through some automated process that it’s low value content without ever telling me what that actually means or how to address it.

    No word from YouTube about restoring my channels. My manager channels remain terminated. My JaimeDavid327 author channel remains deleted. My access to Luffymonkey0327 at https://youtube.com/@luffymonkey0327?si=H64a-BY4Spu4Cdb6 remains blocked. The appeal I submitted remains unanswered or at least unresolved in any meaningful way. Months have passed. The situation is exactly as it was when it started. YouTube terminating channels based on automated false accusations and maintaining those terminations through silence and inaction.

    And no word from YouTube about restoring monetization for UnderSparked.

    Which brings me to the biggest update in this post.

    UnderSparked Is Suing YouTube

    A few weeks ago I wrote about UnderSparked, a YouTube channel that had been demonetized by YouTube’s automated systems in a situation that had deeply familiar characteristics to my own. YouTube’s AI flagged their content as not having value, stripped their monetization, and left them dealing with the financial consequences and the frustrating inadequacy of YouTube’s appeals and review processes. I wrote about their situation because it illustrated that what was happening to me wasn’t isolated. It was part of a systemic pattern of YouTube’s automated systems making consequential decisions about creators without adequate human oversight, without fair process, without transparent communication.

    Well. UnderSparked has now made a new video. And they’re suing YouTube.

    Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/yrDUrttm0GA?si=6LAmHLiKts1cdO9a

    I want to let that sink in for a moment. UnderSparked is taking YouTube to court. They’re not just filing complaints. They’re not just making videos about their situation. They’re pursuing legal action against one of the most powerful platforms on the internet because YouTube’s automated systems wrongfully demonetized them and YouTube apparently failed to provide adequate resolution through their internal processes.

    I’m not going to pretend this doesn’t affect me emotionally. Because UnderSparked is a channel I like. A channel I’ve been following. A channel I’ve been watching go through their own version of the nightmare I’ve been living. And to see them reach the point where legal action feels like the necessary next step, that hits differently than just reading about someone else’s YouTube problems abstractly. This is a creator I care about, going through something I understand intimately, and taking a step that speaks to just how badly YouTube has failed them.

    And I want to be honest about what seeing UnderSparked’s situation reach this point does to my feelings about my own situation. It feels like triple getting screwed over by Google and YouTube. Because here’s a channel I follow, a creator whose work I value, dealing with YouTube’s broken systems and discriminatory automated decisions, and they’re getting nowhere through normal channels just like I’m getting nowhere. And meanwhile I still have no access to my own channels. I still have no AdSense approval for my music blog. I still have no response from anyone at YouTube or Google with actual authority to fix any of this. And now I’m watching a creator I care about have to resort to legal action because that’s apparently what it takes to get YouTube to actually pay attention.

    If you haven’t watched UnderSparked’s video yet, please do. https://youtu.be/yrDUrttm0GA?si=6LAmHLiKts1cdO9a. Share it. Talk about it. Because this is significant. A creator suing YouTube over wrongful demonetization is not a small thing. It’s the kind of action that should make everyone at YouTube and Google sit up and pay attention. It’s the kind of action that could set precedent for how platforms are held accountable for the harm their automated systems cause to creators.

    I’ve Been Burnt Out and Taking a Break

    I want to be real with you about something. This month, May 2026, I have barely posted anything on any of my blogs. Not here. Not my music blog. Not anywhere. And it’s not because nothing has been happening. It’s because I’ve needed a break. Because I’ve been busy with life things that have nothing to do with YouTube or Google. And because honestly, this entire situation has taken a toll on me that I don’t think I fully acknowledged until I found myself just not wanting to write anything for weeks.

    Being locked out of your own creative work for months is demoralizing in a way that’s hard to fully articulate. Building something, investing time and energy and creativity into channels and a blog and an audience, and then having it taken away through automated discrimination and having no meaningful recourse to get it back, that wears on you. It accumulates. It becomes background stress that colors everything else. And when you add to that everything else happening in this country and this world right now, which I’m not going to get into specifically because that’s a whole other conversation, it just becomes a lot. All of it together becomes a lot.

    So I took a break. I stepped back from posting. I gave myself permission to not write about this every single day or even every single week. I let myself breathe a little. And I don’t regret that. I needed it. I think any creator who’s been fighting a battle like this for months without resolution would need it at some point.

    But I’m back now. Not because everything is fixed. Nothing is fixed. Not because I’m feeling refreshed and energized and ready to fight with full intensity again. I’m still tired honestly. But because UnderSparked’s lawsuit video reminded me why this matters. Why documenting this matters. Why keeping the pressure on matters even when it feels futile.

    Because YouTube suing UnderSparked, sorry, UnderSparked suing YouTube, that’s what happens when creators stop getting nowhere through official channels and take things to the next level. And while I haven’t reached that specific step yet, watching it happen to a creator I care about reminded me that giving up entirely and going silent is exactly what YouTube and Google want from creators they’ve wronged. They want you to get tired. They want you to stop posting. They want you to eventually just disappear so they never have to deal with the mess their automated systems created.

    I’m not disappearing.

    A Direct Message to Everyone Who Has the Power to Fix This

    Neal Mohan, YouTube CEO. It has been months. My channels are still terminated. My access is still blocked. My appeal is still unresolved. UnderSparked is now suing YouTube. Is this the direction you want things to continue going? More creators reaching the point where legal action is the only option because YouTube’s internal processes have failed them completely? Or would you like to actually address these situations with the human review and transparent communication that should have happened from the beginning?

    Sundar Pichai, Google CEO. Your subsidiary has been discriminating against me as a Hispanic creator for months. Your AdSense system has been rejecting my music blog application with vague copy paste responses for almost as long. A creator who was demonetized by YouTube’s automated systems is now taking legal action against your company. At what point does this become something that requires your direct attention and intervention?

    Ruth Porat, Google President. James Manyika, Google Senior Vice President. Everything I’ve been saying for months about broken automated systems, inadequate human oversight, discriminatory patterns of treatment, those aren’t abstract complaints anymore. They’re documented across months of posts. They’re reflected in UnderSparked’s lawsuit. They’re part of a growing body of evidence that YouTube and Google’s approach to creator moderation and monetization is fundamentally broken and causing real harm to real people.

    Smosh, PewDiePie, Markiplier, SomeOrdinaryGamers, ReviewTechUSA, Amazing Atheist, Secular Talk, Humanist Report, MrBeast, Jacksepticeye, Nexpo, Vaush, HasanAbi, Hank Green. Please watch UnderSparked’s lawsuit video at https://youtu.be/yrDUrttm0GA?si=6LAmHLiKts1cdO9a. Please share it. Please add your voices to this conversation. Because if a creator can be demonetized without adequate recourse and have to resort to legal action to get YouTube’s attention, that vulnerability exists for every creator on this platform. Including all of you.

    Where I Go From Here

    Honestly? I don’t entirely know. I’m still burnt out. I’m still tired. I’m still dealing with months of accumulated stress from this situation. I’m still watching UnderSparked’s story unfold and feeling the weight of knowing that YouTube’s failures aren’t just affecting me, they’re affecting creators I care about, creators whose work I value, creators who deserve so much better than what YouTube’s broken automated systems have done to them.

    But I’m still here. Still documenting. Still refusing to let Google and YouTube maintain their discrimination in silence. My Luffymonkey0327 channel is still out there at https://youtube.com/@luffymonkey0327?si=H64a-BY4Spu4Cdb6, still inaccessible to me, still hosting my content without giving me management access. My JaimeDavid327 author channel is still deleted. My AdSense application is still rejected. My appeal is still unresolved. Everything is still exactly the wrong kind of the same.

    And UnderSparked is now suing YouTube. Watch that video. Share it. Because that’s what the end of the road with YouTube’s broken processes looks like. That’s what happens when a creator exhausts every other option. And nobody, not me, not UnderSparked, not any creator, should have to get to that point just to be treated fairly by a platform they’ve invested in.

    I’ll keep writing. Maybe not every day. Maybe not even every week. But I’ll keep writing. Because this story isn’t over. And I’m not letting it be buried.

  • YouTube’s AI Is Destroying Creators: UnderSparked’s Demonetization Story Sounds Familiar

    YouTube’s AI Is Destroying Creators: UnderSparked’s Demonetization Story Sounds Familiar

    It’s May 1, 2026. And I want to talk about something that happened just a few days ago that caught my attention because it hit close to home. A YouTube channel called UnderSparked posted a video about how YouTube demonetized them, how YouTube’s automated systems flagged their content as not having value, and how this could seriously impact them financially. You can watch their video here: https://youtu.be/OB_5dzU0W_w?si=t7FNm8mRw6CdD2iK

    Before I get into UnderSparked’s situation and why it resonated with me so deeply, let me give you the full picture of where I’m coming from. Because this isn’t the first time I’ve talked about YouTube’s broken systems, and it won’t be the last. My name is Jaime David. I’m a Hispanic creator. And for months now, I’ve been on the receiving end of YouTube and Google’s discriminatory, automated, broken moderation systems. My story and UnderSparked’s story aren’t identical, but there’s enough overlap that I feel compelled to speak up, to add my voice to the conversation, and to point out what I believe is a systemic problem affecting creators of all sizes across YouTube’s platform.

    Let me summarize what’s been happening to me because it’s important context. Back in late January or early February 2026, YouTube terminated my manager channels without warning. These were completely inactive administrative accounts with zero content, zero videos, zero community posts, zero anything. They existed purely to give me access to manage my actual content channels. YouTube claimed they violated their spam, deceptive practices, and scams policy. They provided zero evidence of any actual violation. They rejected my appeals within five hours with generic template responses. Shortly after I filed a Better Business Bureau complaint documenting their discrimination, YouTube deleted my JaimeDavid327 author channel under their circumvention policy, claiming that having content channels after they wrongfully terminated my manager channels was somehow circumvention. My Luffymonkey0327 meme and mashup channel with over 500 subscribers is still live at https://youtube.com/@luffymonkey0327?si=H64a-BY4Spu4Cdb6 but I cannot access or manage it because my manager channel remains terminated. I’ve been locked out of my own content for months. YouTube is hosting my work and potentially benefiting from any traffic it generates while denying me the ability to manage it. That’s discrimination. That’s theft. And beyond YouTube, Google has been rejecting my AdSense applications for my Jaime David Music blog on Blogger, citing “low value content” despite the blog having nearly 200 essay-style posts and almost a year of activity. The pattern of discrimination against me across Google’s entire ecosystem is clear and documented.

    I’ve called out YouTube CEO Neal Mohan, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Google President Ruth Porat, and Google Senior Vice President James Manyika by name multiple times. I’ve filed formal BBB complaints. I’ve documented everything publicly. I’ve asked major YouTubers including Smosh, PewDiePie, Markiplier, SomeOrdinaryGamers, ReviewTechUSA, Amazing Atheist, Secular Talk, Humanist Report, MrBeast, Jacksepticeye, Nexpo, Vaush, HasanAbi, and Hank Green to amplify my story. And I’ve gotten essentially nothing in return except continued silence, continued discrimination, continued lockout from my own work.

    That’s my situation. Now let me talk about UnderSparked.

    A few days ago, UnderSparked posted a video explaining that YouTube had demonetized their channel. YouTube’s automated systems flagged their content as not having value, essentially labeling it as spam or low quality content not worthy of monetization. This has real financial consequences for UnderSparked. Monetization isn’t just a nice bonus for creators who make YouTube videos as a hobby. For many creators, it’s income. It’s how they sustain themselves, fund their content creation, pay for equipment and software and time invested. When YouTube’s automated systems arbitrarily strip that away, it’s not just an inconvenience. It’s a financial hit that can threaten a creator’s ability to keep making content at all.

    Now I want to be careful here because I’m not trying to shoehorn myself into UnderSparked’s situation. Their circumstances aren’t exactly the same as mine. They were demonetized, which is serious and damaging. My channels were terminated, which is a different and arguably more severe action. They still have their channel. I don’t have access to mine. The specifics differ. But the underlying mechanism, the root cause, the fundamental problem is exactly the same: YouTube’s automated AI systems making consequential decisions about creators’ channels without adequate human oversight, without proper review, without fair process, and without meaningful recourse.

    YouTube’s system flagged UnderSparked’s content as not having value. YouTube’s system flagged my inactive manager channels as spam. Different labels, different specific outcomes, but the same broken AI making the same kind of arbitrary, unjustified decision about a creator’s channel based on automated pattern recognition that clearly lacks the context and nuance to make fair determinations. And in both cases, the result is a creator being harmed by YouTube’s platform while having limited ability to fight back or get meaningful human review of the decision.

    This is the pattern I’ve been talking about for months. This is the systemic problem that goes way beyond my personal situation. YouTube has built automated systems that have enormous power over creators’ livelihoods, their channels, their income, their ability to reach audiences. And those systems are clearly making mistakes. They’re flagging content incorrectly. They’re demonetizing channels that don’t deserve demonetization. They’re terminating accounts based on faulty pattern recognition. They’re applying labels like “spam” and “low value” and “no value” to content and channels that clearly don’t fit those descriptions, without any adequate human oversight to catch and correct the errors.

    UnderSparked having their channel flagged as not having value is exactly the kind of decision that should require human review before it goes into effect. A real person should be watching the content, assessing whether it genuinely lacks value, and making a judgment call based on actual analysis rather than automated detection. But YouTube doesn’t do that. They let the AI make the call, and then when creators try to appeal, the appeals often go through similarly automated or inadequately resourced review processes that don’t provide meaningful reassessment.

    I remember when YouTube’s automated system rejected my appeals in approximately five hours. Five hours to “carefully review” my channels and determine definitively that they violated policies. That’s not careful review. That’s automated rubber-stamping. And I’d bet that UnderSparked’s experience with appealing or challenging their demonetization involves similarly inadequate review processes. Because that’s how YouTube handles these things. They let the AI decide, and then they create the illusion of an appeals process without actually providing meaningful human assessment.

    What makes UnderSparked’s situation particularly resonant for me is the “not having value” framing. Because that’s essentially what YouTube said about my channels too, just in different language. My manager channels were deemed to be “spam” which in YouTube’s framework means they’re not providing legitimate value to the platform. My JaimeDavid327 author channel was terminated for “circumvention” which is their way of saying I was trying to get around their system rather than engaging with it legitimately. And separately, Google’s AdSense has been telling me my music blog has “low value content.” Value, or the alleged lack of it, keeps coming up across all of YouTube and Google’s automated determinations about me and my work.

    And now YouTube is telling UnderSparked the same thing. That their content doesn’t have value. That it doesn’t meet the bar for monetization. That YouTube’s AI has assessed their channel and determined it doesn’t deserve the same monetization opportunities that other channels have access to. Without adequate human review. Without transparent explanation of what specific criteria they’re failing to meet. Without meaningful process for challenging the determination.

    This is what YouTube’s AI does. It makes sweeping judgments about value, about legitimacy, about whether creators and their content deserve access to the platform’s features and monetization. And it makes those judgments at scale, automatically, without the nuance and context that fair human assessment would require. Sometimes those judgments are probably correct. But clearly, sometimes they’re catastrophically wrong. And the problem is that the appeals and review processes aren’t robust enough to catch and correct the errors, so creators end up stuck with unjust outcomes that harm them financially and professionally.

    I want to say directly to UnderSparked: I see you. I hear you. What’s happening to you is wrong. YouTube’s automated systems making decisions about your channel without proper human oversight and fair process is wrong. The financial impact of arbitrary demonetization is real and serious and shouldn’t be dismissed or minimized. And I hope you fight it. I hope you appeal, document everything, make noise about it, and demand the human review and transparent explanation that you deserve.

    Your situation isn’t exactly mine, but it comes from the same place. The same broken systems. The same inadequate oversight. The same YouTube that decides through automated means that a creator’s work doesn’t have value, doesn’t deserve monetization, doesn’t merit the same opportunities other channels have. And that YouTube needs to be held accountable. Not just for what they did to me. Not just for what they’re doing to you. But for the pattern of automated injustice they’re perpetrating against creators across their platform.

    Because here’s what I know after months of dealing with YouTube’s broken systems: this isn’t going to stop on its own. YouTube isn’t going to wake up one day and decide to implement better human oversight, more transparent processes, fairer appeals systems. They’re going to keep running automated AI across billions of pieces of content and billions of channels and making consequential decisions without adequate review until they’re forced to do better. Either through regulatory pressure, through government oversight, through massive public accountability campaigns, or through some combination of all of the above.

    And that’s why it matters that UnderSparked made their video. That’s why it matters that I’ve been documenting my situation for months. That’s why it matters when creators speak up about how YouTube’s systems have failed them. Every story adds to the body of evidence that these aren’t isolated incidents. These are systemic failures. These are patterns of behavior from a platform that has too much power over creators and too little accountability for how it exercises that power.

    Neal Mohan, YouTube CEO, are you watching UnderSparked’s video? Are you aware that your platform’s automated systems are demonetizing creators who don’t deserve demonetization? Are you paying attention to the pattern of harm your AI is causing to creators who depend on YouTube for their livelihoods? And while you’re at it, are you aware that you’ve been locking me out of my Luffymonkey0327 channel at https://youtube.com/@luffymonkey0327?si=H64a-BY4Spu4Cdb6 for months based on the same kind of automated, unjustified determination?

    Sundar Pichai, Google CEO, this is your company. YouTube is your subsidiary. The AI systems making these unjust determinations about creators are your responsibility. UnderSparked being demonetized for supposedly lacking value. Me being terminated for supposedly being spam. These are outcomes of systems built and maintained under your leadership. When are you going to take responsibility for fixing them?

    Ruth Porat, Google President, and James Manyika, Google Senior Vice President, these questions apply to you too. How many more creators have to document YouTube’s AI making harmful, unjustified decisions about their channels before someone in a position of leadership at Google and YouTube decides that enough is enough, that better oversight is needed, that creators deserve fairer treatment and more transparent processes?

    To Smosh, PewDiePie, Markiplier, SomeOrdinaryGamers, ReviewTechUSA, Amazing Atheist, Secular Talk, Humanist Report, MrBeast, Jacksepticeye, Nexpo, Vaush, HasanAbi, and Hank Green, please watch UnderSparked’s video. Please share it. Please add your voices to the conversation about YouTube’s automated systems and the harm they’re doing to creators. Because you have platforms that can make this impossible for YouTube to ignore. You have audiences that care about creator rights. And the more voices that join this conversation, the harder it becomes for YouTube to pretend these are isolated incidents rather than systemic failures.

    UnderSparked being demonetized matters. Me being locked out of my channels matters. Every creator whose channel has been wrongfully flagged, demonetized, or terminated by YouTube’s AI matters. And it’s going to keep mattering, it’s going to keep happening, until YouTube builds systems worthy of the trust creators place in them by building their work on this platform. Go watch UnderSparked’s video at https://youtu.be/OB_5dzU0W_w?si=t7FNm8mRw6CdD2iK and share it. Make noise. Demand better. Because YouTube’s AI is broken and creators are paying the price.

  • Who Cares If Mutahar Lied About Being an Engineer? Seriously.

    Who Cares If Mutahar Lied About Being an Engineer? Seriously.

    Let’s cut through the noise: Mutahar, aka SomeOrdinaryGamers, got “exposed” for not actually being a licensed computer engineer after years of calling himself one online. And the internet, true to form, immediately exploded with outrage, memes, and finger-pointing. But here’s the thing—

    A scene from an animated show depicting a character, Peter, in a classroom raising his hand and expressing indifference with the phrase 'Who the hell cares?' while surrounded by fellow students.

    This isn’t some scammer who conned people out of thousands with fake credentials. This isn’t someone operating on people’s brains without a medical license. Mutahar isn’t building bridges or managing nuclear plants. He’s a content creator on YouTube talking about tech, games, deep web oddities, and digital privacy. At worst, he’s guilty of résumé fluffing — the kind of thing half the internet does every day.

    Yes, in Ontario, calling yourself an “engineer” without a license is technically a legal issue. But that’s not the same as lying to exploit people. This isn’t a criminal fraud case. This is just a guy who oversimplified or exaggerated his background to lend credibility to his commentary. And the reason anyone believed him wasn’t because of the title — it was because his work and knowledge backed it up.

    And that’s the key here: Mutahar has never faked his skills.

    Over the years, he’s proven time and again that he knows what he’s talking about. From breaking down malware and cybersecurity risks to calling out shady behavior in the tech world, his track record of solid, insightful content speaks for itself. Whether he learned that from a job, college, a bootcamp, or his basement — who cares? The results are there. His audience didn’t stick around because he said “engineer” — they stuck around because he delivers.

    And let’s go further: if Mutahar did teach himself everything a computer engineer would know, and he’s consistently demonstrated that skill set — well, then guess what? He is one.

    No, not by government certification. But in practice? If it walks like a computer engineer, talks like one, solves technical problems like one, and helps others like one… it probably is one. The only difference is a piece of paper and a license number. The internet isn’t full of licensed experts — it’s full of people who do the work, and Mutahar’s been doing the work for years.

    Now, some people — like TheArchfiend — are comparing him to creators like Boogie2988, who faked having cancer to manipulate his audience. Let’s be crystal clear: that is not the same. Boogie lied to gain emotional support and financial aid. That was exploitation. Mutahar exaggerated a job title, and nothing more. He didn’t scam anyone. He didn’t manipulate his fans. He didn’t take money under false pretenses.

    Same goes for people saying he’s a hypocrite for calling out MamaMax. Mutahar criticized MamaMax for content ethics and self-image — not for credentials. That’s an entirely different conversation than whether someone’s background lines up perfectly with what they claimed.

    Let’s not fall into false equivalency just because the word “lied” is involved. Context matters. Intent matters. Impact matters.

    So yeah, Mutahar shouldn’t have called himself an engineer if he wasn’t officially licensed. But the outrage is disproportionate, and the comparisons to actual grifters are ridiculous.

    You want to cancel someone for a serious offense? Go after the people who exploit their audiences emotionally, financially, or psychologically. Not the guy who gives you tech advice and malware breakdowns — and happens to know what he’s talking about.

    This isn’t the exposé people think it is.

    Let it go. Move on.