Youtube is fucked. They set themselves up as a legitimate way to make a living but then allow your monetization to be taken away by something as simple as some disgruntled fan reporting all your videos then give you no way to talk to a real person about the issue. Idk how there hasn't been a massive lawsuit brought against them.
Amber was given plenty of time to correct this issue. Back in fall 2024 when she was squatting at Emily's house, Amber had a couple of videos pulled for violating their TOS (rotisserie chicken mukbang and I ate 5,000 calories or whatever). That was her opportunity to clear up her backlog but she didn't because... entitled. That was much more of a chance than most other creators have gotten before getting yeeted.
But otherwise, yes, I agree with your sentiments about how terrible YouTube is.
As much as it pains me to say this, I’ll give Amber some credit for going straight to “hustling” for Cameos instead of opening a GoFundMe grift. Not that it’s saying much, but at least she’s somewhat working for that money.
I think she knows that if she sets up a GoFundMe, her audience will make $1 donations to spam the page about her bedbugs and fleas, or her lack of showering, her history of cats "exploring too hard", etc. And it might be easier for them to chargeback the donation on GFM than on Cameo. So she probably sees GFM as having to sit there and have pennies thrown at her as they make fun of her. It's a shame, because watching that happen would be funny.
Gorlicbread explained how it works when you try and get your monetisation back
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I saw his video and HOLY SHIT! If he's not exaggerating, it's far worse for her than I originally thought:
According to Gorlic, the second you lose monetization, EVERYTHING that you've earned gets held by YouTube. So NOTHING would be paid out to her today, and nothing on the 21st of December, meaning that she has to make due with whatever was already in her bank account. I know her views were dreadfully low during the times for these checks, but she had memberships and superchats (which I think are currently her bread and butter, er, doordash and laygos) and all of that will be held back by YouTube as well.
Good thing she has all of those stuffed money envelopes, right?
It looks like more vids are being cut:
Hopefully for her sake, this is Amber purging offending content and not YouTube continuing to search her channel and finding the TOS breaking vids themselves. And, hopefully for her sake, she didn't panic and immediately submit an appeal the second she realized she lost monitization earlier this week. If so, Ambo won't be seeing any kinda dosh until at least the last third of February. Well, I'm sure she'll find it funny; she did find it funny and "tea" that someone she knew was losing weight because they couldn't afford food, so this should be HILARIOUS to her.
It'll be interesting to see if she gets special treatment from YouTube and gets her channel reinstated in time for at least the tail end of Vlogmas, because the only thing thicker than Ambo's plot armour is her blubber.
More of the song is required!

"In my unpaid livestream I saw,
Ten thousand haydurz, maybe more.
Haydurz 'ccusing me of not showereeeen.
Haydurz blaming me for killing Rariteeee.
Haydurz laughing that my shekels are locked in YouTube's Vault,
THIS IS BECKY'S FAULT!
That they've taken... my Adsense Licence."
(And, no, to me this will NEVER be not funny).
(Edit: typos... holy shit so many types)