Did Google obliterate another channel? (www.youtube.com/c/learnelectronics)

[6gv5]

I noticed this channel ceased to exist a while ago, probably between mid July and early August. It was a nice hobby electronics channel, nothing advanced or top notch, still interesting to follow, and it really stinks that Google can nuke someone's work without leaving traces and sometimes neither allowing effective appeal, especially since the guy had a physical condition that I believe made him dependent on the channel revenue.
Does anyone have any details on the subject and if the guy managed to open another channel?
Note that there are some similarly named channels, which of course aren't the one which I indicated in the subj that now points to nothing.

[ataradov]

What makes you think it was Google and not the channel's owner?

[pdenisowski]

Wow - 166K subscribers and gone.  I'd be curious to know why as well.

[ataradov]

I'm not familiar with the channel. How long ago was the last known activity?

Google has inactive account reminder/deletion feature. I have it set to delete all my data after multiple reminders and attempts to contact me and trusted contacts after  a year of inactivity.

I presume this is how it would look like. YT may be worth keeping for public good, but there is not a way to select what gets deleted and what is kept.

[thm_w]

Yeah don't know if you can find last upload date: https://socialblade.com/youtube/c/learnelectronics/monthly

[edpalmer42]

The last capture by the Internet Archive is from July 5.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240705121733/https://20240705121733/c/learnelectronics

It looks like they've got a twitter account:  https://twitter.com/learnelectr

Does it say anything interesting?  I don't have and don't want a twitter account!

[ataradov]

So, the channel was active. The July 5th archive has the last upload 2 days ago. So, it would not be an automated inactive account deletion

[tszaboo]

So, the channel was active. The July 5th archive has the last upload 2 days ago. So, it would not be an automated inactive account deletion

Google doesn't delete youtube channels due to inactivity.
Only if you are breaking community rules, copyright strikes, or you are a conservative and it's election year in the USA.

[ataradov]

They do if you requested it, as I described earlier. It is not inactivity of the channel, but generally Google account inactivity. You have an option to delete all your data that Google holds. This includes YT.

[johnboxall]

No mention or news on their x page. Some people wake up one day and check out. Sometimes you no longer have an intrinsic satisfaction for doing something, so you stop.

[edpalmer42]

No mention or news on their x page. Some people wake up one day and check out. Sometimes you no longer have an intrinsic satisfaction for doing something, so you stop.

I can understand losing interest and just walking away, but deleting your account and therefore all 1600+ videos is surprising - not to mention walking away without a goodbye message or video.

[coppercone2]

I keep thinking this has something to do with a government

Or a lawyer. Like a crazy company lawyer + social media, i.e. if your employment got threatened.

Keep in mind though, Russia nuked youtube. And their payment things were being attacked.

Was this that serbian guy?

But there is something to be said about the realization that "I spent a big part of my life making loops for little electron balls to go around in a circle in". That can be scary. But it can be said for everything lol, music is just being obessed with making vibration noises and money is kind of like being obsessed with reputation. People usually take a break, just abruptly getting rid of something indicates there is a imminent problem involved

[pdenisowski]

I can understand losing interest and just walking away, but deleting your account and therefore all 1600+ videos is surprising - not to mention walking away without a goodbye message or video.

About 25 years ago I started what is now the largest Chinese-English dictionary project on the internet (CC-EDICT) and after a few years I became so burnt-out with it and busy with other things that I simply walked away (also without a goodbye message). 

Fortunately, a friend of mine (Jim Breen, whose Japanese-English dictionary project was the inspiration for my project), convinced me to release the dictionary into the public domain and it has continued to flourish since then.

https://cc-cedict.org/wiki/

Assuming it was in fact a voluntary departure, I can easily imagine why someone might just walk away from something they spent years building. 

[tszaboo]

Assuming it was in fact a voluntary departure, I can easily imagine why someone might just walk away from something they spent years building.

Sure but a large enough YT channel will generate income, even if you don't upload anything, for years.

[slavoy]

There’s no certainty whether the channel was deleted or hidden, or for what reason. From what I remember, the autor had some heart problems and often complained about poor collaborations and not getting paid.

[madsbarnkob]

Assuming it was in fact a voluntary departure, I can easily imagine why someone might just walk away from something they spent years building.

Sure but a large enough YT channel will generate income, even if you don't upload anything, for years.

Based on these predictions ( https://socialblade.com/youtube/c/learnelectronics/monthly ) and my own experience from my own youtube channel, he would be making about 3-6$ a day at best. socialblades minimum payment seems to correspond to be times 3 for my channel, but it varies a lot from day to day, due to advertisement seasons etc.

[Nucleonics]

Looks like he took the channel down, something about not getting paid and a class action lawsuit involving RHEI/BBTV. I don't have social media but part of his Instagram is accessible.

Here is the post: https://www.instagram.com/arduino0169/reel/C-U7puDOB6T/

I haven't found anything else online about the channel going down, so I decided to stop lurking and post it here in case someone finds it useful.

[coppercone2]

ah ok,

i see a crime robot of some kind, run by RHEI is to blame

[tunk]

He's back:
https://www.youtube.com/@learnelectronics/videos

[6gv5]

Just noticed that. No new videos though; quite strange. Hope he's well.