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<p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>A slew of YouTubers have been mistakenly demonetized in the past year, with the platform stripping their videos of the opportunity to make money, while still keeping them up on the site.</li><li>YouTubers with sizeable followings who rely on making money from the platform have vocally protested the phenomenon in order to regain monetization.</li><li>Three YouTubers who were mistakenly demonetized told Insider that when they were demonetized, they were given no options for immediate appeal and no options to recover lost profits - which can sometimes amount to thousands of dollars.&#xa0;</li><li><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/?hprecirc-bullet">Visit Business Insider's homepage for more stories.&#xa0;</a></li></ul><p>Jake Sandt is like any normal college kid in Ohio - going to class, eating at Panera, and maintaining an active presence on social media. But the 18-year-old stands apart from his peers with his successful YouTube channel JakeyonceTV, where he primarily makes videos recapping and "spilling tea" about the hit drag queen reality TV show "RuPaul's Drag Race."</p><p>Sandt's channel, which now has over 63,000 subscribers and more than 19,200,000 views, brought in enough money to support his pursuit of a college degree in journalism and buy occasional gifts for his family, he told Insider. But then the rare college financial security Sandt had created for himself through YouTube came crashing down in an instant.</p><p>Sandt, like many creators in recent months, found himself demonetized without warning, unable to continue to bring in the income he relied on from the content machine he had built. But Sandt wasn't dodging YouTube's rules or terms of service - he, along with others, was mistakenly demonetized for weeks with no option to recover lost profits.</p><h2>YouTubers' lives are being disrupted without warning, and there's little they can do to reach the company</h2><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><p>Sandt first learned that his channel was demonetized through an email.&#xa0;</p><p>"My heart dropped," he said.</p><p>According to Sandt, YouTube claimed that he was in violation of their policy that forbade re-using content already on their platform. The platform still kept his videos publicly listed on the site, despite the content regulations it claimed Sandt had violated. YouTube just took away his ability to make money off of them.</p><p><strong><em>Read more:&#xa0;</em></strong><em><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/t-series-interview-how-beat-pewdiepie-youtube-2019-8">Assassination, lawsuits, and devotional ringtones: How T-Series became the world's biggest YouTube channel and exploded PewDiePie's lead</a></em></p><p>Sandt, who often includes modified clips of "Drag Race" and other online shows in his commentary videos, says that all of his content is transformative and falls under Fair Use allowances under US law, but Sandt was given no option to appeal the decision issued by YouTube.</p><p>Unlike the three-strikes copyright system used to patrol copyright violations on the platform, YouTube's monetization system issued no warnings before suspending creators for 30 days before they could re-apply, stripping them of their ability to make money on the platform for a substantial period of time.&#xa0;</p><p>For Jake, the decision was near-catastrophic for his finances. "It changed everything," he said. "I felt like I had to hang onto everything - I wasn't going places, I wasn't really buying, my parents were helping me out a lot."&#xa0;</p><p>Other creators had similar experiences.</p><p>Alex Beckham, the creator behind "Man on the Internet," <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkWuZ0UvpVzJ2d9n11bQpmA">a channel</a> that puts lyrics to video game music, said he similarly was demonetized without warning. "It just kind of happened," he said. "I got emailed saying, 'Hey, you can't live stream anymore,' And 20 minutes later another email came to explain that 'Oh yeah, we took away monetization because of reused content.'"</p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">"That was a very stressful day where I didn't get very good sleep," Beckham recalled. "I was thinking 'Oh God, oh God, how am I going to pay the people who work with me on all these videos.' I'm not really a lone wolf, I've got a big cast and crew."</span></p><h2>Creators were left screaming into YouTube's void</h2><p></p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div><p><span style="font-weight: 400;">David Hoffman, a 78-year-old YouTuber, repurposes content from his decades-long film career into <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/allinaday">YouTube videos</a> that make up a third of his income. Like Sandt and Beckham, Hoffman was demonetized for what one email from YouTube Support called "duplication." He wrote physical letters, made calls, and emailed the company's support team repeatedly.&#xa0;</span></p><p><span>"I understand that you wanted to know more why your monetization on your channel has been disabled," a member of YouTube's Support Team wrote to Hoffman in an email. "Unfortunately, we cannot provide you specific details on what guideline your content has violated and also, we're not able to provide you where your channel does not comply with&#xa0;</span>YouTube's YouTube Partner Program term<span>s."</span></p><p><em><strong>Read more:</strong>&#xa0;</em><em><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/youtuber-finds-gun-changes-gaming-channel-videos-2019-8">When a gaming YouTuber found a gun while scuba diving, he decided to completely change his type of videos. Now he has 8.7 million subscribers.</a></em></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span>Despite the live person on the other end of the support team telling Hoffman he wasn't eligible for YouTube's Partner Program anymore, the entire decision was deemed to be a mistake over two months later, and Hoffman was finally monetized again without ever receiving any explanation.&#xa0;</span></span></p><p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><span>"I was depressed," Hoffman told Insider. "I didn't feel like doing it anymore. I felt that the enormous power of the network just came down on my head without any warning and with no recourse. Almost like you've been fired from your job and you've been removed from your office and you have no idea why and you can never talk to anybody."</span></span></p><h2><strong>Many YouTubers have felt that their only option to challenge demonetization is to go public with the problem</strong></h2><p><strong><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"></div><p></p></div></div></strong></p><p>Sandt and Beckham also found communications with YouTube around their demonetization to be confusing and opaque - leading both to turn to public cries for help.&#xa0;&#xa0;</p><p>"The only way to get any answer out of them is to go public about it, otherwise they don't respond," said Sandt, who spoke publicly about the incident on Instagram Live, YouTube, and Twitter, where he tagged @TeamYouTube - YouTube's paradoxical primary method of communication with aggrieved creators.&#xa0;&#xa0;</p><p>YouTube's only response was to point Sandt in the direction of the page that explained the decision.</p><p>Nearly three weeks later, YouTube tweeted at Sandt that the demonetization was a mistake.&#xa0;</p><p>Beckham similarly made a video explaining his situation and posted it on Twitter, also mentioning @TeamYouTube and emailing them. He was remonetized within 24 hours.</p><p>His high-profile tactics worked. "I don't recall any other time that monetization has gotten back that fast for a channel," Beckham said.</p><p>"I was expecting to batten down the hatches for a war of attrition with YouTube," Beckham, who has almost 280,000 subscribers, told Insider. He estimates he lost between $150 and $200 during his short suspension.</p><p>&#xa0;</p><h2>YouTubers haven't been given an option to recover money lost by mistaken demonetization</h2><p>Despite the slew of mishaps caused by Google and YouTube, creators haven't been given an option to recover lost funds.&#xa0;<span style="background-color: #ffff00;"><br /></span></p><p>A YouTube representative told Insider the company won't reimburse creators for the money they lost during a mistaken period of demonetization because it can't calculate the amount of revenue the channels would have made.</p><p>In a step made to attempt to address its admitted mistakes, YouTube has launched a new <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/13/20803418/youtube-demonetization-appeals-pilot-program-creators">pilot program</a> that will allow creators to submit an appeal video internally, in response to demonetization decisions, explaining their "creative process" and what their channel entails. The platform says it will get back to them within seven days.</p><p>Before the pilot, there was no specific means of appealing the demonetization decision outside of re-applying in 30 days, making a fuss and tagging @TeamYouTube, or contacting YouTube's general support email. YouTube's new program seemingly attempts to move the appeals that were already happening on the platform publicly, to an internal process.</p><p><strong><em>Read more: </em></strong><em><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ninja-tyler-blevins-twitch-subscribers-fortnite-drake-youtube-2018-3">This 28-year-old makes $500,000 every month playing 'Fortnite' - here's how he does it</a></em></p><p>YouTube wouldn't specify whether it uses an algorithm at any point in the demonetization process, but emphasized that at some point in the cycle, humans review the flagged accounts. For Sandt, Beckham, and Hoffman, a live person reviewed each account and mistakenly determined that they had reused content without putting an original spin on it, a YouTube representative told Insider.</p><p>Whether the mistake was algorithmic or not, Sandt, who says he lost at least over $1,000 during his demonitized period, says that the experience taught him a valuable lesson - "do not rely on of AdSense. Do not." In the wake of demonetization, Sandt has made an effort to diversify his revenue streams, creating a Patreon where users can pay to access his videos early.</p><p>"It doesn't matter how big that check is, 'cause they can just take it away," Sandt said. 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'Like you've been fired from your job': YouTubers have lost thousands of dollars after their channels were mistakenly demonetized for months

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"While 1¬1.5% net impact of demonetisation does not look huge, considering the size of the FMCG industry at Rs 2.56 lakh crore, this is a large drop in terms of absolute value," said Nielsen.<br />
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Data revealed also shows that retailers across the country are stocking less goods that earlier.<br />
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Purchase of personal care items such as toilet soaps, toothpaste and shampoo has seen the steepest decline by retailers. The fall in off-take is driven by urban India (-3.1% Nov vs Oct), while rural India has managed to stay flat at 0.4% mainly due to smaller packs, smaller currency transactions and a flourishing barter system. However chemists were relieved of this because they were allowed to take old notes and grew better in rural India.

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Large deposits made during Income Declaration Scheme (IDS) of the Modi govt is going to get hurt real bad. IDS more tricky and twisted than you can think. If you have unaccounted income, which you have deposited, you would be required to show all paperwork in support of it. Merely saying them as income from business or agriculture won’t really solve the issue.<br />
And if you can’t provide proof of the income or making false claims, it would be taxed upto 85%. Keeping in mind the likelihood of tight scrutiny and the penal tax rate of about 85%, chartered accountants said, it would be wise to come clean under the newly announced Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojana (PMGKY), 2016.<br />
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Under this scheme, the undeclared income would be taxes up to 50% and half of the amount would be locked for four years in interest-free fixed deposits. As there is no tax on incomes from agriculture, deposits made in this category will be scrutinised strictly.<br />
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The recently amended income tax Act requires all 'farmers' claiming exemption to produce mandi receipts for sale of their produce. To declare agricultural income, a person now needs to submit a certificate from the gram sevak and circle officer of their area stating the sowed acreage, purchase receipts of seeds and fertilisers, and also sale receipts. Businesses claiming a spurt in sales to explain their large deposits will also have to show higher sales tax and service tax payouts as evidence. If their documents are in order, they will need to pay tax at the usual rate of 35%. But all of these supporting documents are hard to get retrospectively, Vivek Jain, a senior chartered accountant told The Times of India.

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42 days after the demonetization announcement, and most of us are still struggling with the effects of cash-crunch.<br />
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According to the company, Walnut is seeing a huge surge in requests with more than 40 Million requests for ATM information.<br />
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