[Free Special Lecture] The Day My Channel Was Deleted Overnight — YouTube Circumvention Policies · AI-Generated Content Labels and a Record of Distribution Beyond YouTube

This is a firsthand account of a Shorts channel that reached 1,000 subscribers and 1.03 million total views just 21 days after launch, then was permanently deleted under the “Circumvention policy” despite having zero warnings. Alongside primary-source screenshots, it reveals person-level restrictions and three major taboos confirmed directly with support teams at Google One, YouTube, and Google Ads; conflicts involving AI labels and scheduled posts encountered while uploading to Reels, TikTok, Threads, and X; and a self-hosted main-channel setup that brought 84 videos back online with a one-line switch (`player.json`) just 18 minutes after an appeal was rejected.