What happens when you get a Youtube strike?
Youtube is one of the biggest video-sharing platforms that helps you to pour your heart out through video content.
Whether you want to share your life, your hobbies, your passion, or want to educate someone, Youtube is an excellent platform.
But there is a serious aspect of Youtube that many users skip, and that is a Youtube strike.
Youtube is very rigorous when it comes to its community guidelines and their violations, so you should learn about them rather than regret them later.
What is a strike on Youtube?
A strike on Youtube is a policy practiced by Youtube, to manage the community’s infringement and abide by the rules and regulations related to the digital medium. A Youtube strike affects your entire channel and not just a single video.
But how do you exactly get a Youtube strike?
A Youtube strike is generally received if the video uploaded on your channel contains certain elements which violate the copyright guidelines of Youtube.
The copyright guideline is not only restricted to videos but can also apply to music, images, or any element you have used in the video.
What happens when you get a strike?
When you get a strike on Youtube, you are informed through email.
However, you can choose to have notifications through your mobile in your channel settings. In that strike email, Youtube also tells you why you have got the strike. For example, which video has been removed from your channel?
Which policies were violated by you? How can the strike affect your channel, and what is the next step that you can take?
If your content falls in violation categories, you may get a strike from Youtube.
Here are some of the detailed steps taken by Youtube when you violate the community guidelines:
#Warning
Youtube understands that humans are prone to mistakes, which can happen to anyone.
You don’t intentionally want to violate the policies, which is the reason why on the first violation, you receive a warning letter from Youtube.
Warning from them is a crucial notice and should not be taken lightly.
Even after the warning, if your content seems to violate the community guidelines, then you will get a strike.
In addition, even a single report of severe abuse can lead to the termination of your channel without any warning.
#First Strike
Once you have received a warning from Youtube and still you continue to violate their community guidelines, then you will get a strike from them.
Once you have received the strike, it restricts you from uploading videos, stories, and live streams or scheduling a live stream for a week.
In addition, you are also restricted from scheduling a video in public, creating, editing, or adding any collaborators to the playlist, adding or removing videos from the watchlist playlist, and creating custom thumbnails and community posts.
This time frame is known as the penalty period, and you can reschedule your public content after the due period.
Once the penalty period of 1 week is over, full privileges are automatically restored to your channel, but the strike continues for 90 days on your channel.
#Second Strike
After receiving the first strike, if your content still violates the guidelines of Youtube and you receive the second strike within the coupled 90 days period, then you will be restricted from posting content on your channel for around 2 weeks.
During this time, Youtube analyses your content and checks whether there are still issues with your content or not.
If there is no such issue, you are automatically retrieved to full privileges after 2 weeks.
But each strike continues to persist for a period of 90 days each.
What happens when you get 3 strikes on Youtube?
Consecutive three strikes on youtube are quite detrimental. It is either this end or that end situation.
If you receive the 3rd strike on Youtube within 90 days, then it will result in the permanent removal of your Youtube channel. However, each strike will remain intact for a period of 90 days.
One question that is asked often by the users is whether deleting content from your channel will remove the strike or not. Well, it won’t. Community guidelines are still issued on deleted content. Users can learn more about the deleted content in the privacy policy of Youtube.
If you have an official artist channel on youtube and you get a strike on your channel, then according to the policy, your channel will be suspended and will become a standard channel.
Summing it up
Youtube strikes may seem scary in the beginning, but it is essential for you to get accustomed to the rules and regulations governing the strike. We hope you have gathered useful insights on the Youtube strike through this blog.
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