LoFi hip hop radio – YouTube channel suspended, then restored

The channel has been restored. https://twitter.com/ChilledCow/status/1231302926611644421

This is another case where having a large, supportive audience is one of the only ways of getting Google's attention.

A little background on this particular channel:

ChilledCow is the user who had a stream named "Lofi hip hop, music to relax/study to". The channel was undoubtedly the most popular lofi music live stream on youtube, and has been around for a few years at least (pretty sure). The channel just streamed a playlist of lofi music as a pseudo radio station. Nothing nefarious in my opinion, but I speculate the argument could be this user is making youtube ad money playing other people's music (with or without permission from the artist)? But again, it's basically a radio station (really no different from analog FM/AM things).

Really interesting to even see this posted on HN. I was looking for ChilledCow's channel while I was cooking lunch today, couldn't find it, and wasn't sure why.

It's increasingly difficult to have "business" with the big tech. I lived many years anxious with my Google AdSense account. Recently it a was a Facebook Ads account banned without any clear reason, and a 5yr old Pinterest account too. When the algorithm decides, you are terminated. It just don't matter if you follow all the "TOS" rules.

Already outdated.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ChilledCow/status/123130292661164...

The electronic music community in general has zero interest in preventing their music from being spread far and wide, with attribution. Remixing another producers work, for example, is just part of the culture. No one gets DCMA'd for it. Quite the opposite. It's encouraged. It's one of the things I love about this community.

Is moving to PeerTube a viable alternative?

I hate YouTube. I wish there was any legitimate competitor out there.

I marked the post with outdated because YT channel has been restored.