Huh... This actually seems like not a bad way to ensure that Google is aware of the problem. A sufficiently large reddit community could probably knock a lot of big fish off of youtube with this approach
It took him weeks of messaging YouTube to even get to a human being, and even then it was another month for his channel to come back. They know the system is bad, they just don't care.
YouTube is completely and utterly broken for anyone smaller than “I make tens/hundreds of thousands for google and have a management team to handle my YouTube issues”