YouTube confirmed Friday that a bug that mistakenly removed possibly thousands of accounts wrongly marked as sharing spam and deceptive content was finally fixed.
The problem started Thursday afternoon, 9to5Google reported, when non-content creators, including paid subscribers, complained that they had lost access to YouTube content. YouTube eventually confirmed the issue in a support thread, promising that teams were “continuing to work on reinstating all removed channels” and “access to paid subscriptions” like YouTube TV, YouTube Premium, and YouTube Music. In the thread, YouTube also clarified that the bug was similarly affecting playlists, which weren’t always being reinstated when accounts were restored. Users commenting begged YouTube to also investigate videos that had been removed. But for nearly 24 hours, all YouTube could offer were reassurances that fixes were on the way.
“If your channel was incorrectly removed and reinstated, you might notice some content, such as playlists, might be missing,” YouTube’s support thread said. “Don’t worry—this is just a delay and all your content will soon be restored.”
While many YouTubers were left in limbo, comments claimed that directions that YouTube sent weren’t helpful, with one user claiming there seemed to be no way to appeal. Another user claimed that some of their community posts were also removed.
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