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In this video I called out the narcissist, Harley Johnstone, for filing a false copyright claim on my previous video [Harley Johnstone + Victoria Barry = Frauds](lbry://harleyjohnstonevictoriabarryfrauds#656449dd052fa50344e321518fa89377eee21bd2). A video that shows how Harley violates other people's copyrighted work for a profit. Despite proving that Harley is violating YouTube's Terms of Service, I was the one who received a strike and had my video taken down. Harley's response was to file another false copyright claim on this video. Even though there's no content from Harley in the video, YouTube once again took it down and put a second strike on my channel.  Obviously I submitted another counter notification. As I show in the video, the claimant has 10 days to provide proof of a court action or the video will be reinstated.  Well, 10 days passed from the first counter notification I submitted and nothing happened. I knew that Harley wasn't going to take me to court for content that wasn't even his, so why wasn't my video going back up? I had two strikes on my channel and I knew Harley was doing everything he could to get my channel down, so I obviously wanted YouTube to process the counter notifications so the strikes could be removed from my channel. Then I received this email from YouTube:  Okay? So I contacted YouTube support and asked what was going on. After multiple messages they would not give me any specifics other than that I had violated their community guidelines. I could only assume that Harley had continued to file false copyright complaints on my other videos, so I appealed on that assumption. Well, that couldn't be it because the conclusion they came to was this:  >“We have decided to keep your account suspended based on our Community Guidelines and Terms of Service.” That made absolutely no sense, so I tried to get some more information without much luck. Then I received this email:  It's in Norwegian, so allow me to translate: >Hello NorVegan! >We have completed processing your counter notification. >The following videos have been restored unless you have already deleted them: >* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ-csl4Pyd4](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ-csl4Pyd4) > >-The YouTube Group I told you Harley wouldn't take me to court for content he has stolen, didn't I? I didn't call the video 'All Bark, No Bite' for no reason! So they reinstated one of the videos that was the basis of suspending my channel... or so I thought. Let me explain. Naturally I contacted YouTube support yet again, and told them how I now have proof that my channel was suspended on false grounds. They reinstated my video after finalizing the review of my counter notification. That means the strikes on my channel were invalid, right?! Well, not so fast, because then I got this reply:  Thanks Frank! I'd asked YouTube support about five times for specifics on why my channel was suspended only to get no specifics in return. Now it made sense that my appeal had been rejected, I had based the appeal on copyright violations, or more accurately false claims of copyright violations, but my channel had been suspended for "spam practices". What's so ridiculous about this is that I had already notified YouTube about Harley spamming my channel with dislike bots and they did nothing, then they suspend my channel for "spam practices". It should be pretty obvious that I'm not spamming my own videos with dislike bots! Anyway, now that I knew why my channel had been suspended I could make a proper appeal and told Frank that I would do so.  Frank replied and told me that it's not possible to appeal twice:  >“Also, you will not have an option to appeal for the second time as the channel will be reviewed thoroughly in the first instance.” Reviewed thoroughly? What a joke. First they refused to give me any specifics on why I got suspended, so I had to make the appeal based on my best guess. Then when they finally let me know the specifics so I could make a proper appeal, they wouldn't let me. Of course I have no specifics on what kind of spam practices I'm supposedly guilty of, so I can only assume it's the paid dislikes Harley attacked my channel with, as shown in the video [Harley Johnstone + Victoria Barry = Frauds](lbry://harleyjohnstonevictoriabarryfrauds#656449dd052fa50344e321518fa89377eee21bd2). Needless to say, I haven't used any bots or spam practices what so ever. So I sent Mr. Frank another longer email explaining the situation. Not that I hadn't tried to tell YouTube before, but maybe they would listen this time... It didn't really matter at that point though, as I told my patreons at the time: >“I've come up with a new plan and I'll follow through with this plan whether my channel goes back up or not.” The plan was to move over to the decentralized and censorship resistant platform LBRY ;)  You know what Frank did? Just closed the ticket. Can't do much other than laugh about the level of incompetence, especially when the automated email you get when a ticket is closed is this:  >“As a YouTube partner, you're important to us and we'd like to make sure we're meeting your expectations.” Right. So that's how I got banned from YouTube. The person who was exposed for severely violating the community guidelines, violated them even more to get the evidence of it removed.  --- **THE UNMASKING - Table of Contents** |#|Title|Duration| | -------- | -------- | -------- | |1|[THE UNMASKING, Part 1: The Narcissist](lbry://theunmasking-part1-thenarcissist)|75 min| |2|[THE UNMASKING, Part 2: The "Scam Artist"](lbry://theunmasking-part2-thescamartist)|56 min| |3|[THE UNMASKING, Part 3: The Projections](lbry://theunmasking-part3-theprojections)|120 min| |4|[Supporting Bravery](lbry://supportingbravery)|5 min| |5|[Responding to Scam Accusations](lbry://respondingtoscamaccusations)|22 min| |6|[Fighting Fire with Fire](lbry://fightingfirewithfire)|32 min| |7|[What Goes Around, Comes Around](lbry://whatgoesaroundcomesaround)|4 min| |8|[Destroying the Crazy](lbry://destroyingthecrazy)|80 min| |9|[THE UNMASKING, Part 4: The Narcissistic Injury](lbry://theunmasking-part4-thenarcissisticinjury)|78 min| |10|[An Update from the YouTube HQ](lbry://anupdatefromtheyoutubehq)|4 min| |11|[Harley Johnstone + Victoria Barry = Frauds](lbry://harleyjohnstonevictoriabarryfrauds)|112 min| |12|All Bark, No Bite|3 min| |13|[THE UNMASKING, Part 5: The Sexual Assaults](lbry://theunmasking-part5-thesexualassaults)|194 min|