Hello everyone, so, to the elephant in the room! A couple days ago whilst I was in the process of moving house I quickly checked my phone and saw that my account had been banned for ‘Hate Speech’. Previously all of my videos had been manually reviewed by YouTube and accepted for full monetization. It certainly wasn’t a particular video, and more than likely it was either a spur of the moment employee thing like has happened with some right wing figures on X recently or it was a well thought out political decision, presumably the latter. Either way, I have appealed but find it unlikely that anything will come of it. I’m not silly and obviously I knew I was in somewhat controversial waters, but that doesn’t make it any less annoying. It is, of course, a gigantic hit to me and my young family given that YouTube was my job for the past 2 and a half years, based my life around it and spent about ten hours a day doing it. I even have about 5 years’ worth of books here for all of my future videos and I was just about to hit 270,000 subscribers and obviously, as you’ll know from my lore, I had grown up always wanting to be a YouTuber and it was an absolute pleasure to do it. I loved it and I don’t have a bad word to say about YouTube and even if they don’t have me back on now, I hope they will one day when there is less censorship pressure. Anyway, presuming that my appeal will be denied, I will be carrying on and relocating to Rumble where I’ll be uploading a few of my old videos a day before posting my new ones. I will also, starting next week I reckon, begin streaming twice a week and writing regular substack articles. I am fully aware that going forwards things will be hard and I will need to be far more reliant on your extremely kind donations and subscriptions now in order to survive but already, without me even saying anything or making a statement yet, I’ve been blown away by the support in the past few days. If you have enjoyed my content in the past and have ever thought out becoming a member or donating then please do take a look at the post below, to be completely honest I need it right now and I can’t put how much I appreciate it into words. But yes, TL:DR, I will be continuing on Rumble, uploading all of my old videos (yes, to all of the 100s of messages, I still have them!), streaming twice a week and writing regularly on substack. Thank you to everyone who has supported me so far, it’s been quite a journey, and hello to those of you doing a victory lap right now, I don’t blame you! Please feel free to get in all of your abuse below, it’s part of the game.