YouTube apologizes after shutting down 24\/7 LoFi Hip-Hop stream YouTube \/ ChilledCowYouTube have issued an apology to popular YouTube channel \u2018ChilledCow\u2019 for accidentally shutting down their 24\/7 LoFi Hip-Hop stream. YouTube has a storied past of receiving backlash for its demonetization algorithm, which has led to plenty of creators facing financial difficulty when creating and posting videos is their primary source of income. The Google-owned platform has also been subjected to plenty of criticism for wrongfully terminating channels \u2014 some of which boasted millions of subscribers. And the story remains much the same for ChilledCow, a popular music channel which has amassed over 4.3 million subscribers. After streaming \u2018lofi hip hop radio \u2013 beats to relax\/study to\u2019 for almost 549 days straight, YouTube cut the famous Study Girl\u2019s antics short by shutting down the broadcast abruptly. With thousands watching at any given moment, ChilledCow alerted YouTube almost immediately. Over 24 hours later, the social media team responded stating: \u201cThanks for flagging this to us! Our teams confirmed that this was a mistake on our side and your channel has now been reinstated.\u201d Thanks for flagging this to us! Our teams confirmed that this was a mistake on our side and your channel has now been reinstated. We\u2019re sorry this happened! We’ve shared feedback with our review team to prevent similar errors from happening in the future. \u2014 TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) February 23, 2020 In response to YouTube\u2019s Tweet, one user even raised the question of whether YouTube could \u201coutline what exactly those steps are going to be\u201d to ensure a similar event doesn\u2019t occur in the future. Ultimately, this would require YouTube to be transparent with how ChilledCow\u2019s video was deemed to have breached their Terms of Service\u2026 Information which probably won\u2019t see the light of day, as YouTubers have faced algorithm issues for years now. A more pressing matter, however, was raised by their second question of: \u201cWhat recourse do smaller channels without as much help and outcry if they\u2019re caught in your \u201cmistakes?\u201d Having received a flood of likes, the Twitter user\u2019s questions appear to be reflective of ChilledCow\u2019s community. Can you please clearly communicate how this issue happened in the first place, and outline what exactly those steps are going to be to prevent this from happening? What recourse do smaller channels without as much help and outcry if they\u2019re caught in your \u201cmistakes?\u201d \u2014 Jason\u2122 (@yuusharo) February 23, 2020 In light of the events that transpired, ChilledCow reached out to their community to thank them for the stream of endless support. \u201cThank you from the bottom of my heart for the tremendous support,\u201d the message began. \u201cI\u2019m grateful to have such an amazing community.\u201d My account has been unbanned, thank you from the bottom of my heart for the tremendous support, I’m grateful to have such an amazing community\ud83e\udde1I will launch the stream again as soon as possible pic.twitter.com\/hcAKB5wXWb \u2014 Lofi Girl (@lofigirl) February 22, 2020 At the time of writing, YouTube is yet to release an official statement in response to how and why the stream was terminated. Nonetheless, Study Girl is back up and running on ChilledCow\u2019s YouTube channel for those wanting to listen to some LoFi beats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
YouTube apologizes after shutting down 24\/7 LoFi Hip-Hop stream YouTube \/ ChilledCowYouTube have issued an apology to popular YouTube channel \u2018ChilledCow\u2019 for accidentally shutting down their 24\/7 LoFi Hip-Hop stream. YouTube has a storied past of receiving backlash for its demonetization algorithm, which has led to plenty of creators facing financial difficulty when creating and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}