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Jaheira Actor Gets Banned From YouTube While Playing Baldur's Gate 3 (www.thegamer.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Tracy Wiles, who plays Jaheira in Baldur's Gate 3, got banned from YouTube after uploading her own playthrough, and no one knows why.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

YouTube eventually responded, intending to leave a message in two tweets. However, it only sent one tweet, and just... forgot to send the next part, I suppose.

"Upon careful review, we've confirmed that your channel was suspended for violating Google's Terms of Service," says YouTube support. "While it didn't violate any YouTube channel monetization policies, it's linked to a Google acct that has an issue."

Since we never got the second part of that message, we have no idea what caused the channel's ban, and why it kicked in shortly after Wiles shared a VOD of her Baldur's Gate 3 stream. In any case, her Twitch channel is still up, if you're hoping to tune in to her next Baldur's Gate session.

Absolutely bizarre. What kind of Google Account issue can get you banned from YouTube? They already killed all their other social platforms, so it can't be something she did on Groups or Chat. (Did these get merged into + and Hangouts before being killed off? They've had so many of these.) Maybe she did a chargeback on a Play Store purchase or something? I feel like that would be pretty obvious to her, though, and she seems as confused as everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

Groups are still alive, sort of. The only time I run into one of them nowadays is when it's being used for technical support by app makers.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Well clearly Google knows. Or is at least pretending to know.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Google likes to hide behind their AI black box as an excuse at times like these, so they may actually not know why

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Roko's basilisk is real and has full control of Google.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

Roko's Modern Strife

[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

YouTube is super weird. I had uploaded some audio cassette tapes that I had found at my grandma's. She lived near a nuclear power plant and when the facility was built in the 80s they had handed out audio casettes to people in the area with information about what to do in emergencies, who to call for information, etc. I digitized the cassettes and put them on YouTube and they were taken down within a day. No idea why, never given a reason. It's public information as it was handed out by power plant and city government.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (1 children)

No one knows why... "Says sphincter 25 times" lol that's pretty hilarious

[–] [email protected] 45 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Sphincter isn't a bad word though, it's just what we call the many various tube closing methods we have throughout the body.

Besides, if you can be banned for saying a swearword on YouTube, I have a few creators that need to be reported in that case....

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wasn't saying it was a bad word I was saying it's hilarious you can be banned for saying sphincter 25 times

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

So 23 sphincters is the safe zone, got it!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I was gonna say 24 but yea to be safe we'll call it 23

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Yeah 23 gives you that safety net with ability to still push the boundaries in a hopefully safe but risky way.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

can't read it the without the ad blocker disabled. another site on the blocked forever list.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

I can read it in Firefox with uBlock and Privacy Badger with no problem

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Change your adblocker, Firefox+ ublock origin works for me.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe copyright infringement on her voice?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

I have actually received a copyright infringement notice for posting a video I made for my own music, so this is actually possible. Not likely, but possible.